via this auction"Selling a VSM 201 Classic Sennheiser vocoder. It literally looks brand new OUT OF A TIME MACHINE.. and its more than 30 years old! i believe. This piece was worth more than 20k when it came out and they only made about 30 of them.
What is special about this unit is that this unit its serial number 11. Most of the units that came out to the public where serial number 13 up, therefore this unit is one of the original, It comes with a custom case. I had it checked by David Kulka las week and its all good to go. Look at the pictures and feel free to ask me any questions.
THIS IS SOME INFO I FOUND ONLINE ABOUT ITThis is the famous vocoder used for the robot voicesin the Grandmix intro's. It has several inputs of which the voice input and the carrier input are the most important.
What it does is this. It takes a carrier sound (synth waveformor any other sound containing sufficient harmonics) and articulatesthat sound with your voice, much in the same way as your mouth articulates the sound coming from your vocal chords. It achieves this by detecting frequencies in the voice section, andopening the corresponding frequencies in the carrier section.The more frequency bands used, the better is the resulting effect.The sennheiser uses 20 frequency bands. Many more than most other vocoders, making it one of the best vocoders ever built. There are only 3 copies of this model in Europe, one probably ownedby Kraftwerk. Other people using this model are Herbie Hancock, the Cylon robots in Battlestar Gallactica, and some droids in Star Wars."
$25,000. . . . .. Waaa Ha ha ha HA ! - Must be from mars if they think it's worth even half that amount !
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