… the sound of the Ray Gun …

I went back home a while ago and picked up a few of my old toy ray guns. These must be from around 1980-1985.

I had three that I can remember and I brought back two of them with me. I don’t know why I didn’t grab that third one!

These ran on batteries and were not of the friction and sparks variety, although I am sure I had a bunch of those too.

These old ray guns are cool because they are all analog in their design. No cheesy lo-fi sampled zap sounds here. These guns generated pure sine waves and all sorts of chaotic mayhem with discrete components. Ahhhh ………. the good ol’ days!

I plan on sampling all of their sounds and wrapping them into a virtual instrument somehow … tonal … ambient … I don’t know…

Coming this summer – Ray Gun VST

{Insert evil mad scientist laugh here}

Listen to the ray gun
[audio:raygunsound.mp3]