The Quilcom HYPERBEAM: Have a Blast!!
Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2022 4:45 pmAs is often the case someone asked me to have a go at an instrument I’d never heard of before, in this case a “Blaster Beam”.
You can’t buy one for yourself so anyone who wants one has to make it. Craig Huxley’s is built on a 5 meter long girder and has 24 strings all tuned in unison. Electromagnetic pickups and contact mics are the sound source. Other people have made their own variations but the main use is for making deeply pitched and weird sound effects, as heard on Star Trek and other movies.
If you search for Blaster Beam on YouTube you’ll see and hear examples and because there are so many variations and methods of playing and expression I decided this would not be a “SIM”: It’s my personal take on the principle rather than a simulation.
Here’s the download:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n2uckev45agkt ... 0.zip?dl=0
And here’s the video:
https://youtu.be/1tKCcq4lnLs
You can’t buy one for yourself so anyone who wants one has to make it. Craig Huxley’s is built on a 5 meter long girder and has 24 strings all tuned in unison. Electromagnetic pickups and contact mics are the sound source. Other people have made their own variations but the main use is for making deeply pitched and weird sound effects, as heard on Star Trek and other movies.
If you search for Blaster Beam on YouTube you’ll see and hear examples and because there are so many variations and methods of playing and expression I decided this would not be a “SIM”: It’s my personal take on the principle rather than a simulation.
Here’s the download:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n2uckev45agkt ... 0.zip?dl=0
And here’s the video:
https://youtu.be/1tKCcq4lnLs
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