Here's how my theremin sounds: http://www.mediafire.com/?qsdkkj0a4p2d8gw
Long story short, I inherited an Etherwave theremin. It's clearly quite old - legend has it that Dr. Moog gave it to the lady who gave it to me, but that's not relevant. It's in extremely good cosmetic condition and I'm reasonably sure it's never been used. I opened it once to make sure everything was there.
The issue is that I can't get any good sound out of it at all. It basically won't do anything but screech. I've tried a guitar amp, and got nothing more than a screeching tone. I decided to try the line in on my computer - same thing. The volume loop works just fine, and if I actually *touch* the antenna, it changes tone slightly. In the audio file, the silence is when I stick my hand into the volume loop, and the last three slight changes of tone are my grabbing of the antenna.
Is there something wrong with my theremin? I'd prefer to use my computer as my amplifier, how should I fix this?
Long story short, I inherited an Etherwave theremin. It's clearly quite old - legend has it that Dr. Moog gave it to the lady who gave it to me, but that's not relevant. It's in extremely good cosmetic condition and I'm reasonably sure it's never been used. I opened it once to make sure everything was there.
The issue is that I can't get any good sound out of it at all. It basically won't do anything but screech. I've tried a guitar amp, and got nothing more than a screeching tone. I decided to try the line in on my computer - same thing. The volume loop works just fine, and if I actually *touch* the antenna, it changes tone slightly. In the audio file, the silence is when I stick my hand into the volume loop, and the last three slight changes of tone are my grabbing of the antenna.
Is there something wrong with my theremin? I'd prefer to use my computer as my amplifier, how should I fix this?
