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Author Topic: Need Help IDing Sound Effect Jeremy Weigel Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1062 From: Edmond, OK, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 10-19-2010 01:52 AM                     Hoping someone can help ID the back ground sound effect in the clip. It starts at 38sec and last til the 40sec point. Its a commonly used effect in many sci-fi films.  |  IP: Logged Rick Raskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1100 From: Manassas Virginia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 10-19-2010 07:42 AM                     It sounds like a varible oscillator being tuned and detuned. I used to play around with those things and get the same effect.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-19-2010 08:27 AM                     It's a theremin with some funky distortion added. A theremin is a variable oscillator that is tuned/detuned by waving your hands in front of a pair of metal antennas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin A professor, here, at Mercyhurst wrote a book about the theremin. Lydia Kavina, Lev Theremin's neice, came here to demonstrate and lecture on the theremin.  |  IP: Logged Christos Mitsakis Expert Film Handler Posts: 242 From: Ag.Paraskevi, ATHENS, GREECE Registered: Sep 1999 posted 10-19-2010 09:34 AM                     A classic theremin use: Spellbound trailer Miklos Rosza was one of the first, if not the first, to use Theremin. Also here: the Spellbound Concerto And a recent use by Elmer Bernstein: Gostbusters  |  IP: Logged

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