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Lev Sergeyevich Termen Theremin, fx

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Contest: Lev Sergeyevich Termen Theremin played fx on Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin (1970)

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Settings

osc
1 sine, hand-swept, unison 1, detune 0 cents, sub none, noise 0.03
filter
resonant low-pass swept widely by hand/LFO
cutoff
2500 Hz
resonance
0.5, drive 0.2
envelope
A 50 ms D 300 ms S 0.7 R 600 ms; wide, slow sweeps up and down, mimicking a hand-controlled oscillator rather than a fixed envelope shape; filter env amount 0.6
modulation
lfo sh 0.6 Hz to pitch, glide 500 ms, mono
effects
backwards tape echo, heavy spring/plate reverb, hard-panned stereo sweeps left and right, none
notes
The 'theremin' effect here is really a sine oscillator swept and bent by hand rather than by keyboard, so use a long glide time and a slow, semi-random pitch LFO to mimic that unstable, hand-controlled wobble. The production is at least as important as the tone: backwards echo and hard stereo panning are what make the section iconic.

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  • Seedsystem