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Professor Television's Photo Theremin |
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MY RATING:
SOLD |
| This comparatively cheesy homegrown contraption was a total blast to play with, great for late-night space-out sessions. It functioned just like a "real" (Moog) theremin: it generated a simple
tone, and the placement of your hand (or rather, the shadow of your hand) near the device affected pitch. This single-oscillator thingy sounded amazing once processed (sound sample has some very wet reverb and delay added)...sounds just like a '60s sci-fi movie. Plus it had knobs available for tweaking the pitch manually, and LFO rate and depth adjusters (an LED light blinked in time with the LFO modulation). Finally, the LFO could be switched between triangular (natural sounding vibrato; think of an American siren) or square (now think of a British siren). These effects were all monkeyed with in the sound sample. I got mine directly from "Professor Television" himself on eBay for around thirty bucks, which is the only option to track one of these rarities of a bygone age down, since his site has long since disappeared... |
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Copyright © 2005 David C. Lovelace