Has anyone come across one of these before? It’s basically a massive string instrument that, when you give it a good old whack, rips out an immense “gang-ang-ang-ang-ang-ang” (sorry, that’s as best as I can describe it). You usually hear it in space scenes in movies and music by Jerry Goldsmith/ John Barry etc.
Anyway… now I’m interested in finding this sampe aswell. Imagine the commercial possibilities. Just about any crap music would make you a fortune as long as you include a blaster beam sample.
Interesting link! I wanted the sample for something I’m working on, an intro sequence to an animation. I’m thinking I can get the same effect by sampling a regular guitar or piano string and then using SoundForge or something to lower the pitch, but keep the vibration rate the same. Alternatively… it may just end up sounding like a broken piano…
The current plan is to smuggle one into a nightclub* and secretly seduce scores of women at a time with my dulcet tones… a bit like the pied-piper I guess…
*(might be a problem getting a 20ft instrument past a bouncer)