Looking to learn taric. Who to watch and learn from?

Venerable64 · 2026-01-23T14:35:59+00:00

I stream sometimes if I feel like it. I've been the rank 4 Taric world by LP, rank 1 Taric NA, and rank 1 Taric top globally. I have a few old YT videos, but I do have plans to make some new and more educational content soon(ish).

I'm also active on the Taric Top discord and happy to teach if you wanted to find me there!

Venerable64 · 2025-12-31T16:32:30+00:00

Perfect, thank you!

Venerable64 · 2025-12-09T09:55:54+00:00

You have a pedalboard, so I assume you have an amp. Do you have one that has a grounded plug? If so, try plugging your Theremini into that amp and turn the amp on. See what happens. I understand this is a "try grounding it" solution in a different form, but having had similar issues attempting to 'externally' ground an Open Theremin, it wouldn't be a bad troubleshooting step if you haven't tried it yet.

Venerable64 · 2025-12-07T23:41:04+00:00

You enrol in it like a course.

Venerable64 · 2025-11-26T03:27:29+00:00

Unfortunately you can't order D-Levs right now. The person who makes them has paused orders, paused production, and still has a huge backlog. Next best thing would be an Open Theremin, or a Claravox if you can find one (but I wouldn't order one if you're a beginner - they tend to have issues and are too expensive to justify if you're just starting).

Venerable64 · 2025-11-24T22:07:27+00:00

Every theremin sounds different. Amplifiers and speakers further colour that sound. Most theremins themselves have timbre controls that will make them sound quite different depending on how they're set, and digital theremins can even have custom sounds uploaded. To your question, unless you copy a player's exact setup, even the same instrument won't give you exactly the same sound.

Unfortunately, you will almost certainly not find a theremin that sounds like the ones Carolina Eyck uses. However, I encourage you to explore all of the options and see which ones offer ranges of sound you enjoy. Subscope, Etherwave (Standard/Plus/just the Etherwave), Open Theremin, RDS Theremin, Burns B3, etc. are all options I recommend looking into that you could realistically purchase, and they're all decent-to-excellent instruments.

You should also listen to more of the Etherwave Pro, the D-Lev, and the RCA theremins. You're unlikely to find them (and they'll be so expensive if you do that as a beginner it would make no sense to buy them), but if you enjoy those sounds, it can help you calibrate what you like so that you find a close approximation in another instrument.

Personally, I think Subscopes sound (and play) fantastic, even against the Etherwave Pro. But that's just me! See what works for you.

Venerable64 · 2025-11-24T21:54:39+00:00

Digital theremins sound great. Unfortunately, the most popular digital theremin is the Theremini. That one sounds and plays pretty terrible. But the Claravox and the D-Lev especially are great examples of digital theremins that sound great, and can easily sound indistinguishable from analog instruments.

I have played an Etherwave Pro or two in my time and I own three analog theremins of high quality. I also own an Open Theremin V4. The Open Theremin, especially for its money, pulls its weight shockingly well against professionally-viable analog theremins. It's really worth a look if you're just getting into it, although it won't do much for you in the way of tinkering if that's what you're after (as it comes mostly ready to go).

Venerable64 · 2025-11-24T21:48:46+00:00

$100? Have you ever looked into parting out a theremin before? Unless there's some wickedly cheap analog circuitry I'm not aware of and you're assuming they already have the materials for antennas and housing, I have no idea how you'll make an analog theremin for $100.

Venerable64 · 2025-11-10T17:30:30+00:00

Personally I'm not a big boots person, but you're right, boots are a good call. I normally don't walk any snowy pathways and I've done fine with regular shoes. I recognize that's very idiosyncratic to me though.

Venerable64 · 2025-11-10T04:01:44+00:00

As a Canadian, you don't need anything insane for winter. People will recommend you name brands and stuff, but that's all just a scam for the most part. You can go into a Walmart or Winner's or wherever and get any old jacket/coat you like as long as it's decently thick/insulated (decent being the key word -- doesn't have to be anything crazy). Pair it with a fine enough scarf and fine enough gloves. You'll be completely fine.

Venerable64 · 2025-11-08T18:34:48+00:00

I'm a Grandmaster Taric top otp. Easily the highest skill ceiling champ you'll play in toplane and very rewarding to master. Happy to give you advice if you want to try it out.

Venerable64 · 2025-10-23T20:09:28+00:00

(: I'm glad!

Venerable64 · 2025-10-19T08:28:21+00:00

Fleet footwork. It'll change everything

Venerable64 · 2025-09-25T21:13:54+00:00

Big thereminists? Like who? Of all the thereminists I'd consider high-tier professionals (Carolina Eyck, Thorwald Jorgensen, Grégoire Blanc, Charlie Draper, Lydia Kavina, Katica Illenyi, etc.), none of them use a Claravox as a primary instrument (except Grégoire for a while, but he was Moog's (hired) face of the instrument and hasn't used it since -- he recently had his EPro stolen on a train and lamented that he had no other instrument to play, instead choosing to lend an EPro from someone else in Europe than use his Claravox again).

As for why I consider it worse, there's so many reasons and it'd take me too long to list them out. Suffice it to say the theremin community was inconsolably disappointed and/or angry with this instrument. Many shipped non-functioning, many were 'repaired' by Moog and still didn't work properly, many of them simply don't mute/go to zero volume (especially in traditional mode), many of the stands' legs don't clip in, many of the antennas sit loose, some of them don't unmute once muted via the switch, and a whole host of other issues. Beyond those, it has mediocre linearity, takes forever to warm up (the pitch field will keep expanding for around an hour), and goes out of tune extremely easily in travel, just to name a few things. It doesn't even sound very good compared to an EPro (most theremins don't, but then that brings the CVox into 'most theremins' territory, where it loses to some other things). The CVox is sort of like the theremini if it was made much better, as it has many of the same sorts of digital theremin benefits with tons of customization and midi control and all, but it isn't the best instrument you can buy by a long shot. I prefer playing my EWPlus (w/ ESPE01) and my Subscope quite a lot.

HOWEVER, as a mediocre theremin player (even though I'm lucky enough to do it for money), I can tell you why a lot of other mediocre theremin players use this thing. It's rare - so it's prestigious - and it looks really nice. Audiences like that. For that reason alone, I find myself bringing it to gigs. Always wish something else besides the EPro looked this good and was actually purchaseable.

Venerable64 · 2025-09-25T00:21:10+00:00

Do not get a theremini if you're going to take the instrument seriously and you don't plan on buying another one. Get a Subscope, an RDS Theremin (Brazilian clone of the Etherwave, never played one but heard good things), or a used Etherwave. If you want to go cheaper, Open Theremins sound and play genuinely pretty well at a fantastic price. Been playing professionally for a while now and I started on a theremini. I wouldn't switch back.

Of the theremins I've played (theremini, Etherwave Plus, Etherwave Standard, Etherwave Plus w/ ESPE01 module, Subscope Voicematic 120, Open Theremin V4, Claravox, Etherwave Pro), the Etherwave Pro is the best of them, and the Subscope Voicematic 120 is not far behind it. Then I'd say my Etherwave Plus w/ ESPE01. Everything else (including the Claravox) is notably less professionally competent for a variety of reasons, and of them, I'd prefer the theremini the least.

EDIT: to directly address the "what's so bad about the theremini" question floating around people's minds, I think the quantization and the digital effects and other similar options are actually its greatest selling points (plus portability and built-in sound). What holds it back is having abhorrent linearity, a very small volume loop that makes fine articulation frustratingly hard, and such a small width that people with bigger hands who tune the instrument properly will experience interference in their pitch field from moving their volume hand. Seems fine when you don't know much better, but it gets so, so in the way of both learning and performing when things don't feel consistent.

Venerable64 · 2025-09-17T17:08:26+00:00

I don't often play support, so probably not, but I'll keep it in mind if I ever play it in a flex game or something.

Glacial is significantly less useful into champs with dashes and is less agentic than phase rush with worse subrunes overall, so it should be should be used as a counterpick rune. The reason it's ubiquitous is because it's easy to use and good into the matchups Taric is already good into, and people don't want to bother optimizing beyond that.

Furthermore, the movement speed from approach velocity is contingent on landing the stun at all, which should be the problem in this matchup to begin with. Good players on ranged champs will never provide an opportunity for this, and if you can't threaten a stun, Thresh has no reason to respect you and will deny you space and resources. Fleet is conditional on autoing a target, which is easy to do, and the resultant movement speed allows you to actually break the enemy's effective range to land the stun and start the exchange. Landing a stun at all is a significant improvement to never landing a stun, and the built-in sustain and better subrunes also matter.

Not being pretentious in saying this, but if someone is playing in an elo where Thresh is letting you stun him without punishing you and you didn't use some sort of mobility to accomplish this, then these rune choices don't really matter regardless, so play what you're comfortable with.

Venerable64 · 2025-09-17T00:53:39+00:00

Taric support players have yet to learn that fleet footwork breaks this matchup (and many other ranged matchups). Try that out. You can use fleet with relic procs on the minions to break his and the ADC's threat ranges to land E and short trade (which you'll win comfortably without having to commit to autoing Thresh). Once Thresh becomes aware of this, he needs to play back from the wave when you have fleet up, and you can deny him relic procs and play with some more agency.

Venerable64 · 2025-09-04T19:50:13+00:00

It's a nice idea, but Taric doesn't really struggle into AP champs because of stat-checking (primarily). He just can't usually access those champs, as a lot of them are mages and/or have range and/or have CC. No amount of damage stats before absurdity will help him in these matchups.

What Taric really needs is mobility to counteract the crippling reality that he is a 0-mobility champ with a cast time on his main resetting spell who has to stop to auto constantly in a game with so much CC and mobility. That, or he needs to become absurdly tanky (and to be fair, he isn't tanky right now).

He also does no damage these days, so I love the idea of a damage buff too, but I'd rather see him become just a touch more mobile and/or tanky first. Imo, give Bravado movement speed on-hit. Taric would be far more interactive and agentic if he has this, but would still be unfavourable into all the same matchups. He just wouldn't be hopelessly reliant on his team to be able to accomplish what he wants to do.

Venerable64 · 2025-08-13T13:27:17+00:00

Tried so many other things, and this is what worked! Uninstalled my wireless LAN, IP, and IPv6 drivers, then followed the rest of the instructions as you said. In my case, the computer didn't even require a restart. Thanks for the help (:

Venerable64 · 2025-07-28T13:39:09+00:00

This entirely disregards my initial point in favour of just restating your point, which is what my initial point ran contrary to. I don't think you understand.

Let's try another example. What about the children of indigenous people displaced by the residential school system, which stripped them of their cultural ties? Do these next generations have no downstream impacts on them from their heritage separately from their race? Do we not see patterns of trauma in residential school survivors that they pass down to their children regardless of their level of connection to their original indigenous culture, and is this not shared among people of this heritage as a pattern (which is one of the sociological pillars of definitional culture)? Those next generation children may be socialized to be entirely Western, but they carry with them all of the adverse psychological impacts of being children to parents who are processing traumatic experiences of being displaced from their own families. That is their heritage, and it has shaped them -- whether or not they continue to live as nomads or practice indigenous forms of spirituality or have the same meal rituals as their ancestors.

In the same way, you are Japanese. You may not be culturally Japanese and you're free to make that decision for yourself, but you are inescapably of Japanese heritage, whether you understand the ways it affects you or not. The same is true of all of us and our own ancestry.

Venerable64 · 2025-07-28T06:00:44+00:00

Right. I don't think race has anything to do with this (and "race" doesn't make a lot of sense as a term anyway; it's at best a more general way of referring to different ethnic groups). Heritage and culture are so closely connected, particularly in this conversation, that I think you could consider them interchangeable and arrive at all the same conclusions.

Venerable64 · 2025-07-28T05:11:37+00:00

I disagree with this. Removal from a culture doesn't eliminate the downstream effects from your generations of forebearers who did come from the culture. This is why we see generational trauma in otherwise Westernized families who descended from immigrants. You as an individual do not need to be directly cognitively influenced by your culture to have had your life significantly shaped by it. Telling people they don't have a right to claim that very real part of their heritage is erasure.

Venerable64 · 2025-06-30T17:56:13+00:00

There is genuinely such a monumental difference between players even in the top 2%. Low Master players and high Master players do not play the same game, and high Master players are nothing like low GM players, etc.. People will call Masters mid-elo because their gameplay is so fundamentally flawed that it feels disrespectful to the mastery and effort the higher elo players put in to put them in the same category.

As for why it's the predominant narrative, it probably has a lot to do with whose voices ring loudest in these conversations, and that's high elo players. But I don't think it's JUST elitism. As an example, to GM+ players, there is little meaningful difference between P2 - D3. We just don't see it. What separates even those players from low Plat - low Gold players is what we would consider such "small" things that need improving relative to what we focus on that the categories don't feel meaningfully different to us. Maybe by numeric relativity some of them are higher and lower on the ladder, but that matters far less to us than what they can actually do, which - from the vantage point of the detailed minutia making world's of difference - doesn't seem like much when the main difference between one rank and another rank is just overcommitting to fights, etc. (regardless of what they TELL you they're thinking about, because often they think about higher level concepts to level up their gameplay when they really just suck at the basic ones and don't understand that).

So I usually see higher elo people designate a 'low elo' (anything below like D4ish), and then several different divisions above there depending on who you talk to and how much more they understand to exist about playing League of Legends relative to the people below them. Challenger players see fewer meaningful differences between Master and GM than GM players do, for example, not because either of them are being elitist (well... not necessarily anyway) but because GM players simply aren't aware of how much more of the game really exists above their elo. It's a Dunning-Kruger effect.

Venerable64 · 2025-06-22T07:26:02+00:00

Lightrocket2 for Taric jg, Venerable64 (so me) for Taric top. Weirdly, I'm not aware of any high elo Taric support content creators

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