Saturday, May 14, 2011

Star Trek Motion Picture: Blaster Beam revisited

Star Trek Motion Picture: Blaster Beam revisited
This is the film version with the Blaster Beam in it.  One thing I’ve noticed is the Blaster Beam has a different sound from CD to movie.  I’m guessing the instrument can’t play the notes exactly the same, which is the reason this track sounds different from CD to Film.  Some of the Blaster Beam notes from toward end of the track are different too.
Here are few other tracks…


Interestingly enough, Star Wars has a similar sound too.
John Lazelle first created the “blaster beam”.  It was originally built out of iron, but Craig Huxley built his out of Aluminum. 

Michael Stearns has a version of the Blaster Beam. 
And this is the guy that introduced it to Stearns.

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