If you'd of been born in the 70s, we'd all be living in a different future. I'm 53 and I used to manipulate tape heads for speed and getting the left/right to play on all the head and stretch the tape. Or Betamax to look like cinema film. I once plugged a Walkman into the mains and for a 1000th of a second I heard God itself just before it caught fire and the copper in the wire I was holding melted. Beautiful times. Love your work my Man.
I had one of those cool toys that came with a long card with tape stuck to the bottom end and the machine would play the first part like "what is 5 + 5" and then it would pause for you to answer and you'd push a button to hear the answer. After some time it started sounding very demonic because the tape on the cards would get easily damaged so I started making my own cards with regular random bits of old tapes but the speed wasn't quite the same. Loads of fun nonetheless
@@ytsm5 speakers with 1 subwoofer is 5.1 surround; 16 speakers with 2 subwoofers would be 16.2 surround. it just depends on the number of speakers in the setup. I guess without any subs and each head wired to its own speaker this would be 16.0
Received wisdom; measure twice, cut once. LMNC wisdom; scribe a minimum of 16 non-matching arcs, then ignore and drill by eye. The latter results in a work of art with soul. Fantastic project.
The keyboard was bringing me back to elementary school, watching one of those things where the teacher would try to sync a slide show to an audio tape except the tape was like 20 years old at this point. "* warbly dissonant guitar chords * 'Why...are plants green?''"
This is an absolute beast of a delay - really amazing sound! The saturation and quality of sound is haunting and beautiful and feels both new and old. This could be the star of someone's studio!
I am in awe of your endless enthusiasm and ingenuity. Could watch you tinker for hours. Bonus points for the old school seventies punk safety pin earring. I genuinely hope that you get as much joy out of life as you give us. You+World=better place and all that. Cheers from Minnesota.
OMG - I heard you say "lovely doubly"... I heard that before from you, but love that and had to point it out for your audience! That is soooo you, and I've heard that from NO ONE ELSE ever!
Now there's a few things that popped into my mind: make the thing fully controllable via CV, integrate a huge spring reverb tank and add a second input to allow the tape heads to be individually switched to recording from either input 1 or 2.
A position in the research division of a tech company might conceivably keep you entertained, but I think you've found your calling. Hope to get across the pond and visit your museum someday.
I love math, and here you have invented something analogue that cannot be done digitally. (There are many numbers required to create the beautiful complexity here.)
You are and have been my gateway drug into DIY effects / synth building and electronics in general. This video and idea are another massive inspiration. It’s a rowdy journey but I’m totally in love with it. Thanks
In the 90s lots had these "cassette-interfaces" to 3,5mm to connect our new rio mp3 player to our car audio which was mostly cassette but has no 3,5mm input, later i had such, all evolved over time. Again what a genius, musical skills combined with engineering and invention skills, you dont see that often nowadays. Im listening electronic industrial since mid 1980s, and so very often in his shows i find the music i listen to again, the bands experimented alot too.
That is fucking beautiful, those rich harmonics. You are making such a positive contribution to society. Imagine how shit the world would be if people weren't doing things like this.
"Wow, mate, what a fantastic journey you've embarked upon with this COPICOPICOPICOPICAT project. It's like you've taken the essence of our tape experiments back in the day to an entirely new level. With six times as many tape heads, you're not just playing music; you're creating a whole new universe of sound. It's like watching an artist paint with soundwaves, blending them together to create something truly out of this world. This is the kind of innovation that pushes us forward, breaking the boundaries of what we thought was possible. Keep on dreaming and creating, for it's in these dreams that we find the music of tomorrow. Absolutely brilliant, mate!"
One cool ting that could be done with it is to build a sort of EQ. It turns out that when you are building an EQ in software, it's done by computing the output as the sum of a bunch of delayed and scaled (an possibly inverted) samples from the input. This is basically doing that in analog. To get that to work properly, you would almost certainly need *much* faster tape (the head-to-head delay needs to be close to some multiple of the inverse of the frequency and the delay between the write and the last read needs to be close to the response time you want). it would be interesting to try to build one out of a hard drive platter (using computer parts to do analog stuff would be kinda cool in an ironic way) or some other kind of magnetic media than tape.
OMG youtube why haven't I seen this until now? This is pure genius. This is the first I have seen of this. I subbed right away out of pure curiosity. Please keep this up. How many heads and tracks can you get up to? This is the best thing ever. Has this existed before now? I have so many questions.
This might be my new favorite of yours. Fantastic. This reminds me of an artist that put tape heads on the fingers of gloves then made flat sheets of tape that hung on a wall with the bits of tape all lined up together. You would play the piece by running your fingers across the tape. I wish I could find that artist. If anyone knows? This is prob at least 30 years ago.
I find you videos to be utterly facinating. I was first introduced to electronic/syntesizer music buy the music teacher when I was in 4th grade. I fell in loved with the sound of syntesizers. When I was around 13 years old, I purchased an album called "The Copperplated Integrated Circuit. I loved listening to it with my headphones on. I currently have a good size collection of synthesizer music, and I am always on the lookout for more. I was fortunate enought to find your RUclips page a couple years ago, and have enjoyed it ever since. Thank you for sharing your work and creations.
If you'd of been born in the 70s, we'd all be living in a different future.
I'm 53 and I used to manipulate tape heads for speed and getting the left/right to play on all the head and stretch the tape.
Or Betamax to look like cinema film.
I once plugged a Walkman into the mains and for a 1000th of a second I heard God itself just before it caught fire and the copper in the wire I was holding melted.
Beautiful times.
Love your work my Man.
Lmfao! You just sparked some old memories😂😂😂😂
This stuff was expensive back then and the internet didn’t exist so he couldn’t have gotten the money to do so much
I fucking LOLed
I had one of those cool toys that came with a long card with tape stuck to the bottom end and the machine would play the first part like "what is 5 + 5" and then it would pause for you to answer and you'd push a button to hear the answer. After some time it started sounding very demonic because the tape on the cards would get easily damaged so I started making my own cards with regular random bits of old tapes but the speed wasn't quite the same. Loads of fun nonetheless
Yes, use those outputs to each speaker, then place chair in the middle of room and let the sound circle around You just like tape goes around.
Oh I love this idea...
Would that be 16.1 or 18.1 surround sound?
@@ytsm5 speakers with 1 subwoofer is 5.1 surround; 16 speakers with 2 subwoofers would be 16.2 surround. it just depends on the number of speakers in the setup. I guess without any subs and each head wired to its own speaker this would be 16.0
I’m getting dizzy thinking about it
While on LSD
Received wisdom; measure twice, cut once.
LMNC wisdom; scribe a minimum of 16 non-matching arcs, then ignore and drill by eye.
The latter results in a work of art with soul.
Fantastic project.
The first few minutes of this is the most concise explanation of how analogue delay works I've ever seen. Perfect.
Don't worry about the length of the video, I would gladly listen to a full hour of jamming on that thing
He posted a 43 minute jam on Patreon today. About half the video uses the MS-10 as input, and the other half guitar.
Dude absolutely.
same
SAME!
@@jason3898thanks for enticing us:). Seriously.
This is a truly lovely channel. Creativity factory
That loud banging noise is just Heinbach trying to break your door down...
Who is Heinbach?
@unduloid Heinbach is another RUclipsr that collaberated with LMNC recently.
@@peterlarkin762
Never heard of Heinbach. Do you perhaps mean _Hainbach?_
@@unduloidHey friend, don't be a douche.
@@citrusface
Spelling matters, especially when it comes to names.
Your mind, man. I'm so glad you get to share this with us all. 🎉
Sweet hack to roundup the tape heads. Mod Man Sam.
💯
legendary. What a rich crunky dreamy sound.
Hes truly a genius of making crazy amazing noises!
This monstrosity just sounds amazing and as raw as it looks. Mad respect for coming up with this beauty. Cheers
Christ that thing sounds incredible.
Real dystopian sci-fi sounding thing. I adore it.
The keyboard was bringing me back to elementary school, watching one of those things where the teacher would try to sync a slide show to an audio tape except the tape was like 20 years old at this point.
"* warbly dissonant guitar chords * 'Why...are plants green?''"
'Why...are plants?
This is an absolute beast of a delay - really amazing sound! The saturation and quality of sound is haunting and beautiful and feels both new and old. This could be the star of someone's studio!
Hainbach will never leave now :)
First time I've been properly jealous rather than just intrigued and entertained! This is just great!
I am in awe of your endless enthusiasm and ingenuity. Could watch you tinker for hours. Bonus points for the old school seventies punk safety pin earring.
I genuinely hope that you get as much joy out of life as you give us. You+World=better place and all that. Cheers from Minnesota.
Dude you're an effin GENIUS IMHO
i can't believe i once had convinced myself this man was clickbait. Once again, thanks for letting me live my dreams through you vicariously. ❤
Oh, Hainbach is going to love this. Wow and flutter? We love wow and flutter!
this is so sick that saturation effect is nuts
OMG - I heard you say "lovely doubly"... I heard that before from you, but love that and had to point it out for your audience! That is soooo you, and I've heard that from NO ONE ELSE ever!
Now there's a few things that popped into my mind: make the thing fully controllable via CV, integrate a huge spring reverb tank and add a second input to allow the tape heads to be individually switched to recording from either input 1 or 2.
16 speaker surround sound with some of these demos would be an earth shattering experience
Imagine having each output on its own speaker, with the speakers arranged in a large circle with you in the center.
I like this thing!
A position in the research division of a tech company might conceivably keep you entertained, but I think you've found your calling. Hope to get across the pond and visit your museum someday.
In an ideal world focused on human needs, perhaps, but I have little doubt his soul would die if he had to work for any sort of extant corporation.
he is too much out of the box for most companies.
Don't be too sure. Some of the corporate R&D people I have worked with had similar traits. It comes down to what you're interested in.
A veritable one man radiophonics workshop. Still haven't forgiven them for shuttering it.
It's really amazing how many different devices have been invented with the goal of delaying a signal, and just how many uses there are for them.
That is a signature piece of kit. Amazing. Thanks for these great videos.
You never fail to blow my mind - like 1970s popular-electronics vision of the future, my pop would love it. He let us abuse a reel-to-reel ...
A REEL TO REEL **WHAT??**
I can imagine Rick Wright playing with this in the early 70s. Great job Sam.
That loop you did around 19:19 I could listen to in the background for an hour and get hyperfocused on a project. So much potential for this beauty!
I think this is something I'm going to have to try to make one of myself. This is the coolest delay ever made.
Mate, that's amazing. I love delays and reverbs, and this is one of the best I have seen. Awesome
I like the grit the sounds it makes has, very powerful
This is the best thing that I have seen on the Internet in several years , this makes all other delay pedals look somewhat dim!
LOL it sounds like The Andromeda strain soundtrack😂
I got that too!
If the BBC ever reinstated the Radiophonics Workshop, you would be the man in charge.
I always think of forbidden planet - but don't know if my memory is correct
Thanks for that demo of how tape delays work. I've always wondered exactly how they worked back in the day.
I love math, and here you have invented something analogue that cannot be done digitally. (There are many numbers required to create the beautiful complexity here.)
I think this may be the coolest thing I've seen you make. I love it.
Oh wow. This might be the best effect thing you made so far. It sounds amazing.
That's the sort of experimentation that led to so many cool soundscapes over the years.
You are and have been my gateway drug into DIY effects / synth building and electronics in general. This video and idea are another massive inspiration. It’s a rowdy journey but I’m totally in love with it. Thanks
Never imagined myself watching a video this long about something that I could never do or use. But this was amazing.
As is, that thing sounds amazing. There was something about the muddiness of the sound that absolutely spoke to me. So cool, man.
In the 90s lots had these "cassette-interfaces" to 3,5mm to connect our new rio mp3 player to our car audio which was mostly cassette but has no 3,5mm input, later i had such, all evolved over time.
Again what a genius, musical skills combined with engineering and invention skills, you dont see that often nowadays.
Im listening electronic industrial since mid 1980s, and so very often in his shows i find the music i listen to again, the bands experimented alot too.
The sanest crazy in the audio spectrum of channels.
This was a lovely build Sam! Love your work mate!
This thing sounds so filthy and I love everything about it.
that jam at the end was amazing. an ingenious and entertaining project yet again, sire!
That's absolutely ridiculous and I love it.
Sam you’re a mad man! And I love what you came up with. 👍
Love it! The shutdown sound is amazing.
Something tells me this is how Sir Brian’s delays began in the early glory days of Queen.
That is fucking beautiful, those rich harmonics. You are making such a positive contribution to society. Imagine how shit the world would be if people weren't doing things like this.
Damn... I'm sure the process itself had been used in recording / mixing equipment, but certainly not the method! *ACTUAL* innovation!!! Holy Shit!
I am -astounded- that I never knew of these tape loop things, every one of your vids, I learn some something new :)
"Wow, mate, what a fantastic journey you've embarked upon with this COPICOPICOPICOPICAT project. It's like you've taken the essence of our tape experiments back in the day to an entirely new level. With six times as many tape heads, you're not just playing music; you're creating a whole new universe of sound. It's like watching an artist paint with soundwaves, blending them together to create something truly out of this world. This is the kind of innovation that pushes us forward, breaking the boundaries of what we thought was possible. Keep on dreaming and creating, for it's in these dreams that we find the music of tomorrow. Absolutely brilliant, mate!"
You know what you’re doing. And great to use plain simple material and tools.
Dear gods... It's Beautiful !
Absolutely mental good!!! Fantastic! That sir, is a thing!
Wonderful saturation!
Killer project! one more for the bucket list. Been wanting to do this since 1979! Thanks for sharing mate.
I used to use the teac reel to reels for that effect..but you are way beyond everything.Well done.
13:00 coolest sounds I've ever heard
I'm sure the guy's at "That Pedal Show" would have a ball trying this out when you have it how you want it.
One cool ting that could be done with it is to build a sort of EQ. It turns out that when you are building an EQ in software, it's done by computing the output as the sum of a bunch of delayed and scaled (an possibly inverted) samples from the input. This is basically doing that in analog.
To get that to work properly, you would almost certainly need *much* faster tape (the head-to-head delay needs to be close to some multiple of the inverse of the frequency and the delay between the write and the last read needs to be close to the response time you want). it would be interesting to try to build one out of a hard drive platter (using computer parts to do analog stuff would be kinda cool in an ironic way) or some other kind of magnetic media than tape.
Dude this is one of the coolest things you’ve ever made
Don’t ever fucking change bro 🤙🏻 badass
Awesome build! That drum beat sounds like it's straight out of Amnesiac
Very complex and musical. Nice work!
What an awesome episode snd even more amazing Watkins Copycat ! But most amazing and lovely is Sams use if this and the sounds ylu create ❤
pretty organic sound effect, as listening music from tape used to be
The saturation sounds insane. I wouldn't change a thing.
that thing is soooo cool... beautiful delay
"Pretty cool" is an understatement!
Gonna need a beast of a 'Tape Head Cleaner' for that puppy!
That is beautiful.
This is an amazing instrument itself. I love it. Please come back to Düsseldorf for a life gig. Greets.
Dan over at That Pedal Show needs this!
Casually makes the biggest and sickest tape delay machine
This old Tony screwdriver still going strong!
I love the soundscapes this thing makes.
Amazing! Truly some mad science here. I'd suggest adding an expression pedal to the speed control so you can hands-free it while playing.
OMG youtube why haven't I seen this until now? This is pure genius. This is the first I have seen of this. I subbed right away out of pure curiosity. Please keep this up. How many heads and tracks can you get up to? This is the best thing ever. Has this existed before now? I have so many questions.
I'm so glad there are people like you in this world. You are what hope looks and sounds like brother.❤❤❤ the creative mind❤❤❤
Fantastic as always.
Absolutely terrific! I'm amazed at the magical dirty analogue sounds that this gadget produces. A masterful bit of engineering - I love it!
Simply incredible.
This might be my new favorite of yours. Fantastic. This reminds me of an artist that put tape heads on the fingers of gloves then made flat sheets of tape that hung on a wall with the bits of tape all lined up together. You would play the piece by running your fingers across the tape. I wish I could find that artist. If anyone knows? This is prob at least 30 years ago.
Someone get this man in touch with Hanz Zimmer for his next big retro sci-fi score.
The drums are really fantastic
This kid is the Einstein of synth.
I find you videos to be utterly facinating.
I was first introduced to electronic/syntesizer music buy the music teacher when I was in 4th grade.
I fell in loved with the sound of syntesizers.
When I was around 13 years old, I purchased an album called "The Copperplated Integrated Circuit.
I loved listening to it with my headphones on.
I currently have a good size collection of synthesizer music, and I am always on the lookout for more.
I was fortunate enought to find your RUclips page a couple years ago, and have enjoyed it ever since.
Thank you for sharing your work and creations.
this video inspired me to implement a "tape" delay in Supercollider! Amazing work thank you
This is one of these wonderful things that are just stupid enough to be brilliant, well done! This seems like a blast to play with.
Someone alert Trent Reznor, post haste! What a grungy, lovely thing!
So awesome. I've wanted to build this kind of things for a while. Very impressive
The sounds you get out of it really feel like 50s and 60s sci-fi soundtracks. Somewhere between Forbidden Planet and 2001
I'd love to hear what Fripp & Eno would do with this beast!
Sounds bloody awesome Sam. The panning is the cherry on the top. I wonder what the organ and megadrone combined would do. Something epic I reckon.
This Is sick !
The 16 output mod Is a must imo