Looking for a way to combine effects

[MattAnonymous]

I love the sounds of a light sensitive theremin I built, but wanted to know if there was a way to play the guitar into it and have the theremin sounds manipulate the guitar sound.  I guess it'd be something like a talkbox idea, but I don't know where to start.

[toneman]

if U play guitar w/2 hands, like i do,
that doesn't leave any hands 2 play the thermin :!:
Or do U have more than 2? :shock:
:idea:   if U played the guitar into a ringmodulator,
U could use the thermin output to modulate the RM(?)
Since it is an "optical" thermin, blocking/unblocking light with the
guitar or your body would change the thermin freq.
so,... U have hands 4 guitar, body for thermin,
what will U do with your feet?  :?:   bass pedals??? :roll:
think outside the fuzz
staytuned
tone  

[anyuser00]

From what I understand a theremin generates it's own sound so it's its own signal source.  If you wanted to play both at the same time I think it'd be pretty hard to sustain correct pitches since everytime you moved anything it'd change (Strumming chords).  

You could apply the same idea, optically, to current effects by replacing a pot with an LDR.  I've seen this for a wah I think.

Not sure this is any help but..

[smoguzbenjamin]

Well, use a ringmod and instead of a single pitch generator, use a light-dependent theremin. Should work, might be hard to sustain certain pitches though, and you'd never get the same sound out of it twice. But fun to toy around with!

[donald stringer]

I might be wrong but jimmy page may have used one in ...No quarter...If you have seen the movie ,he has a pole mounted on his guitar and I believe that actuated the theremin like sound[you will hear it in no quarter. The dogs of doom still howl and moan etc. You will see him wave his hand over it to produce different sound effects. This is 70 ish technology so it should not be brain surgery to work something out. I dont really remember any other artist using one like that, or an cello bow on an les paul for that matter.

[Paul Perry (Frostwave)]

Since it is an "optical" thermin, blocking/unblocking light with the
guitar or your body would change the thermin freq.
)

This is exactly what some people do with my "SpaceBeam" (a reflective infrared beam theremin). You can mount it on an amp say, so the beam is horizontal, and move the headstock past it.

[troubledtom]

have you ever heard of the ALPHAWAVE ?
- tom
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