Ghostbusters · Tesla Light Show
by Ray Parker Jr.
Stabs on every "Ghostbusters!", a strutting bassline bounce between them, and just enough eerie flicker in the verses to earn the Halloween tag without losing the fun. Ray Parker Jr. cut the record in 1984 in a matter of days, and it carries the confidence of something nobody overthought. The show is tail-led and fires fast, with the middle stretch carrying the most light, and at four minutes it leaves room for both the sax and the chant. Bright enough for an early evening, silly enough for a porch full of eight-year-olds.
How this one is choreographed
This is a busy show. The lights re-fire about 1.0 times a second, near the top of what the catalog runs. The peak is in the middle third, where roughly 41% of the car is lit against 37% at the top, then it eases back for the finish. If you are filming, the fullest ten seconds start at 0:52, when about 43% of the car is lit at once. Most of the work falls on the tail lights, re-firing about 1.1 times a second, with the signature light bar and daytime running lights answering back at 1.1. The work is split close to evenly between the two ends, 48% front to 52% rear, so it plays from either end, or side-on from the curb. The quietest part of the car is the inner main beams, at about 0.8 re-fires a second. It runs 4:06 and averages 86 of 255 across the light channels, a bright show that stays close to full through its busiest passages. About 20% of the light values are partial, toward the top of the range for this catalog, so the show leans on swells and dimming as much as on hits. It never goes completely dark for long: the longest gap is 0.8 of a second, at 3:59.
Measured from the exported light sequence for this show, not estimated from the song.
Get it for your Tesla
This show downloads for every Tesla: Model 3, Model Y, Model S, Model X, and Cybertruck. Preview it on your model with the View-on picker above, add it to your library, and it re-tailors to your car's lights automatically.
How to play it on your car
- Open the show above and add it to your library (remix it in the builder first if you want).
- Add your own copy of the song: an MP3/WAV you own. We distribute only the light pattern, never audio.
- Export the
.fseqbuilt for your model, then place your song next to it (or let the one-click USB writer do both). - Put both files in a
LightShowfolder on a USB drive. Or skip the manual steps: in Chrome/Edge, click 🔌 Write it to my USB drive for me right after exporting and we do it all, verified byte-for-byte. Then plug in and start it from Toybox → Light Show. Full walkthrough in the setup guide.
Car says Light Show instead of Custom Light Show, or the drive is not detected at all? That is the USB format, the folder name, or filenames that do not match. If it plays but drifts out of time, that is the audio sample rate. Fix both here.
Running this on Halloween night? The Halloween guide covers timing it for trick-or-treaters, keeping the battery happy over a long evening, and what to do about the neighbours. Read the Halloween guide.
