This Slide Guitar Is A Theremin?

My friend and pedal kit/component supplier moodysounds (shown last on this channel in 2016 I think, hehe) has made a pretty unique instrument that looks and plays kinda like a lapsteel but sounds just like a theremin! Preeeetty cool. He calls it the "Moodytron".
Here is the moodytron with more proper technical info: en.moodysounds.com/produkt/mo...
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[@SimonTheMagpie]

Meant to say only pedal parts shop in sweden. I naturally have no clue about internaaatioonaal shops and stuff😅 made it sound kinda grandiose.

[@blodpudding]

I've had a couple Moody's pedals and they're awesome ❤

[@aswarmofdeadinsects]

Speaking of pedals, it seems natural to pair this thing with a big passive volume pedal to have that extra expression but also to still have two hands free to play the knobs on the desk.

[@SimonTheMagpie]

Super smart!

[@beepbleepboop]

just like the with steel guitar!

[@echodelta9]

Even better put the volume as a lever or button on the end of a bar that you hold like a bottleneck slide. That's what I do with an electromagnet feedback slide guitar that I made. The only wire on the whole thing is from the slide bar to the head which along with a Digitech and amp speaker battery makes it portable Pink Floyd. Ditch the handle on the bar to get good control as well. If I did this potentiometer wire trick I'd use the "wiper" wire through the bar rather than the third rail along with volume.

[@aswarmofdeadinsects]

@@echodelta9 wow that's cool! Do you have demos?

[@dizzydial8081]

Gives me Mother 2 vibes. Funny thing is I was thinking this is kind of a more elaborate and more expensive slide whistle. You find the coolest gear with the most unique sounds.

[@bonemar66]

Straight out of Forbidden Planet.

[@alexgrunde6682]

It’s like a lofi version of Author & Punisher’s “slide” MIDI controller.

[@edgeeffect]

I'm getting huge Ondes Martenot or Trautonium vibes off of this as well as the slide whistle.

[@hellf.o]

Great!
Try E-Bow too 👍

[@elmo7sharp9]

The strings don't vibrate - they are a resistive divider controller. There's no application for an ebow, here...

[@butchlauer]

🕳two hands two slides
- a lengthwise cradle for the slide, no hands
- a looper to give the hands some space
-nice artwork to show a scale of frequency spacings

[@SynthAddict]

cool device, more like a dual Tannerin than a "Theremin"
Tannerin was the wired device used on the Beach Boys' Good Vibrations

[@ChllBlck]

I dont need drugs anymore

[@johntait5141]

This would be the perfect instrument for an adaptation/version of the song " Sleepwalk" by Santo & Johnny.

[@U014B]

Now you have to play "Sleepwalk” on it.

[@guitfidle]

Wow! What a crazy cool device!

[@duncan-rmi]

I played 'signal generator' in my first band. major flashbacks here. 😂🤘

[@MrzodiacBE]

And thats how the sound for The Clangers is made. hahaha.

[@orchestratedpassage9468]

agree with the ondes martenot vibes, you gonna make another run of the FBO?

[@SimonTheMagpie]

Yes 😁

[@BobcatWolfenstein]

The camera effects seemed quite appropriate

[@MrGREYMATTERS]

WOW!!!😃THIS is a BRILLIANT idea! My feeling is the “nakedness” of the design opens up a myriad of possibilities. Instruments such as this really shine when processed through effects (of course I’m reaching to the choir here). A template of fixed pitches that could be attached to the board would give you more control when playing. Think of it! You could do a standard twelve tone scale or explore a just intonation scale, or even 22 TET or Harry Partch’s 42 note scale. Oh the possibilities!

[@stephenparry6811]

The addition of effects pedals takes that to a whole other level hooking it up to your no input contraption would sound expensive

[@tigmil8116]

This has to be one of the most fascinating thing's ive seen you do.

[@krzysztofwaleska]

Reminds me experiments from pre-internet era. I didn't have information how exactly guitar pickup works. I experimented, mostly pushing current through strings. Results were sometimes crazy.

[@BigMuff520]

This looks like a blast to play with!

[@JoshSemans]

Glad to see the ondes Martenot being mentioned in the comments here! 🙂 Definitely getting ondes vibes from this instrument!

[@falkheintzscherfler]

need one of these for my space rock band. first I need to start my space rock band.

[@mjdbruyn]

So more like an ondes Martenot than a Theremin then. It has a keyboard mode but also a glissando mode which is controlled by moving a metal ring along a wire in front of the keyboard.

[@SimonTheMagpie]

Ooh! Didnt know 😁

[@geraldfriend256]

.. And most famous classic’theremin’parts are really the Ondes, namely Good Vibrations and theme from Star Trek.

[@JoshSemans]

@@geraldfriend256 I'm afraid neither of those are the ondes 😀 Though they are very frequently mis-attributed to both the Theremin and the ondes Martenot. Good Vibrations uses a 'Tannerin' or electro-theremin, and Star Trek theme sound is a vocalist.

[@denis_lengart]

Impressive!!! Amazingly!!!

[@MinorLG]

Lap-slide diatonic theremin, cool

[@jeffreylewis4767]

Put a tuner in line for display to play in scale?

[@Analoque444]

Cool. What happens if you play it with two hands and two of those things? Try it :D

[@reggiep75]

That is begging to be auto-tuned! Make the darkness cloak your soul!

[@dicard2010]

Sweet 😊

[@superactivitylad]

6:15 instantly reminded me of a song on the World of Horror OST

[@noveltycrusade]

Far out 🎉

[@binface9]

Gives me Clangers vibes 🤣

[@kaksikymmenta3]

Doesn't UralTone from Helsinki sell all that stuff?

[@pick_nark]

I want one.

[@virtuosomaximoso1]

Did you get alot of feedback..... on the organ

[@SimonTheMagpie]

Nice!

[@justklampfing1140]

add some distortion and make some doom/stoner

[@robriki2]

Guitheremin

[@Mockingbird650]

Um, sci-fi soundtrack anyone?

[@nomdeplore7604]

wish this video was 8 seconds shorter.

[@iamp3e]

stop looking at this comment

[@809gamerman]

naw

[@da_moune]

i do what i want

[@rodox_sk8]

Gotit

[@danbunge9787]

Then I won't write this comment!

[@SimonTheMagpie]

Nice 😆