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Lev Sergeyevich Termen Theremin, lead

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Contest: Lev Sergeyevich Termen Theremin played lead on Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys (1966)

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Settings

osc
1 sine, unison 1, detune 0 cents, sub none
filter
wide open, almost no filtering; the tone is pure and thin like the original tape-oscillator box
cutoff
12000 Hz
resonance
0
envelope
A 15 ms D 40 ms S 1 R 250 ms; none, the sound is entirely oscillator and glide; filter env amount 0
modulation
lfo sine 4.5 Hz to pitch, glide 350 ms, mono
effects
close-miked, subtle plate reverb, no other treatment, none
notes
The Electro-Theremin was a hand-slid tape-oscillator box, not a hand-waved theremin, so rebuild it as a pure sine lead in mono legato with a long, continuous glide between notes rather than any pitch quantising, a slow soft release, and just a hint of vibrato from the player's hand movement. Keep the filter wide open; the box had almost no timbral shaping of its own.

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  • Seedsystem