Bad Gear - Korg Volca Nubass - The Noobass
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Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world's most hated audio tools. Today we are going to talk about the Korg Volca Nubass. Does this Roland TB-303 - like analog synth based on Korg's Nutube technology bring anything new to the table or is it just another monophonic acid synth. Are Nutubes real Tubes/Valves? Is Korg aware of all the Volca memes - you know, Noobass (LOLZ, ROFL,...;)???
Big shoutout to / theno7er
The ultimate master of Volca photoshop stunts.
Check out the Knifonium:
• Knifonium demo
Chapters:
00:00 Intro tune
01:13 Overview Korg Volca Nubass
01:40 WTF are Nutubes???
02:50 Ladder Filter
03:03 Envelope, LFO
03:29 Drive
03:48 Sequencer, Accents, Slides, Additional Features, Pattern Chaining
04:34 What else??? Pricing
04:52 Hate
05:16 Jam 1 (Volca Setup)
06:06 Jam 2 (Mixed Setup)
06:58 Finale (Non 303-Sounds)
07:27 Verdict
08:17 Patreon Vocoder Shoutout 
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Just wanted to say, AudioPilz' "Bad Gear" is maybe the best Synth review show in existence. Honest, right amount of insight without too much details and good production quality for the sample songs too. Keep it up!
That's it! the final nail in the coffin. You've now covered every piece of gear I have lol!
Isn't that a good thing?;)
That is why I have this mildly-obscure FM synth to be save of that ever happening to me.
Same, and after he just made fun of my nts1 :( that's it, I'm building a modular.
The good thing is bad gear doesn't make bad music, bad musicians make bad music :)
Relatable, including all gear I ever planned to buy...
"I think I have a favorite Volca, and it's not the nu-bass." 😂😂
Kick FTW!!!
I have 2 kicks
Teenage engineering should develop a teenage kicks
@@Oljekrisen It'd either be a cheap circuit board with awful trimpots, or something that looks like a lego set and costs $2000. Flip a coin to decide which one?
@@technicalfool a 400$ black plastic device (similar design language as volca but two rows of keys like the perkons device with 2 volcas engines inside) a colab between teenage, korg, Erica synths and the Undertones
God damn the jams were absolutely off the deep end today! Dirty techno, acid and lots of mud I'll never grow tired of! :D
Thank you!!!
@@AudioPilz Thank you too!
LOVED seeing the Volca Kick getting some action. That thing is seriously one of the best in the entire line. So flexible and just absolutely MONSTROUS sounding.
Love the Kick!
oh no doubt- that thing (along with actually learning my instruments) saves my live sets.
You put a ton of work into these videos, keep it up legend!
Thank you so much!!!
This channel brings me great joy. Thank you.
Thank you!!!
I assembled a little volca rig for fun (modular, drum, nubass, keys, and the mixer). They are pretty little toys that let a classically trained musician like me pretend to know how to make techno (i'm not much of a step-sequencing kinda guy, i typically just play what i want to hear on keys, but this little rig is helping me learn the ropes.
Great approach!!!
One of the best channel of RUclips thank you AudioPilz🎉
Thank you so much!!!
I recognize the Prosoniq Orange vocoder anywhere ;) Thanks again for making my favorite Friday evening show!
Good ear!!!
As a proud owner of two famous "Bad Gear" labelled acid boxes, I just wanna say that the presence of NuBass just makes me appreciate TB-3 even more.
TB-3 is life!!!
Looking at the NuBass makes me appreciate my EA-1 even more. 😲
@@Plexyglazz lol yeah
The TB3 is amazing. Even if I didn't like the sound (I like a bunch of them) it has that great acid sequencer with midi output.
you are seriously so consistent it blows my mind, you're serious proof that any piece of equipment has its use if you're willing to look for it and i think that's what really sets apart someone with extreme skill
Thank you so much!!!
Amazing content as always! I was going to ask for this review and you read my mind :) keep up the great work
Thank you!!!
damn the jams went crazy in this one. nice work!
Thank you!!!
Have you ever thought about compiling your little jams into a continuous mix or a compilation? They're always so good. I would love to listen to them just as music.
There's supposed to be longer stuff/extended stuff on his Patreon.
Great idea, thanks!!!
Guess the real tb-303 would make a great candidate for a bad gear episode, too. Thanks for the great videos!
Grea suggestion! Maybe next April;)
Yeah cause of this terrible menu for editing.
@@sporn23 The 303 sequencer is the greatest sequencer on Earth that doesn’t use toggle switches.
After the Bad Gear Final Jam with this Nubass, the original 303 is bad gear. Silver painted plastic. YUCK!
Yes!! That was a superb example of the now classic Bad Gear format. Superb review, maximum snark, and some great grooves. I suppose at some point you are going to run outta gear to review, but until then long may this continue! Korg need to get you on their booth at the NAMM show, I would love to see a 20 minute “bad gear” live demo at Anaheim, who knows - special guest appearances from Nick Batt etc? Haha
I think RUclips is going to close its virtual doors before we are going to run out of Bad Gear;) NAMM here I come
It's going to take a LOOOOOOOOOOONG time to run out of bad gear. I have heaps of the stuff.
Everytime a treat. Thanks for being awesome!
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Each time, even with really bad gear, you give us nice tracks.... Thanks
Thank you so much!!!
Wie immer ein Festmahl :D Besten Dank !
Immer wieder gerne!
klingt beeindruckend. Noch beeindruckender sind die unzähligen Einblendungen, Memes und Clips hier. Wow. Das war viel Arbeit.
Vielen Dank!!!
Besides loving the way you make fun and fuzz about those "bad gear contestants" - man you really rock your videos! I love the jams, the knowledge and the laughs, but i think i never told you that your video editing is awesome as well! Thank you so much for making tgif a little more TGIF!
Thank you so much!!!
Great review as always! 👍
Thank you!!!
You make my fridays better! Happy friyay!
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I can't believe you got that thing to actually make listenable sounds. I bow to the King of Bad Gear!
Thank you!!!
Umm it isn't difficult. It's a very capable little synth. Don't blame the tools...........
Ich kanns nur immer wieder sagen. Best channel ever. Grüße aus 'schland! :)
Besten Dank!!!
Awesome episode as always! I own both the bass and the nubass and while the bass is able to produce more versatile sounds, the nubass has a much improved sequencer and a raw dirty quality to its sound that make it so much fun to play.
Thank you!!!
Still have my nubass, but the T-8 is what the nubass should have been.
Another cool video! Have a great weekend!
Have a nice one too!
wub'n'roll definitely deserves to be released. and thank you Florian, still favourite youtube show
Thank you so much! Shameless plug: there's a full track on my Patreon;)
You have never covered the gear I have yet but I always feel tempted to sell everything when I watch your show! 😊
Thank you but don't sell the gear;)
why?
Soooo you're saying I should find one for Black Friday? Great video as always my friend! Hope you're well! Awesome animation as well!!
If you like what you hear, go for it. Thanks!
"welcome to the dark side of the mono-synth disco-funk wub & roll" (proceeds to show FNAF dancing action figures)
i don't know where you found this sort of madness, but it is GLORIOUS, and im down for it. :D
Thank you!!! The internet can be a dark place;)
I do wish the two waveforms sounded a bit different but I do love that blue glow...
Same here;)
super, klasse...macht immer sehr viel Spass...
Vielen Dank!
Yes, your jams really stood out for me in this as I have zero interest in the Nu Bass, you really need to release a compilation as mentioned below!
Thank you!!!
I'm currently in Vienna for vacation and I visited the Klangfarbe round building things because of this show. They were nice. Thanks Bad Gear Man.
Nice!!!
Love the pseudo-breakbeat in that last jam. Oh and the NuBass was good too. Love the acid sound ever since I first heard it back in '88. This Nubass has a nice edge to it - familiar, but can be distinctly different if played right.
Thank you!
love the circuit, may get something else with it, Masterful jams, again
Thank you!!!
I hope you do this show for at least another 40 years!!
I hope so too! Thanks!
I was considering getting some storage/carrying cases for my volcas.
and I found the perfect cheap solution. plastic pencil cases during a back to school sale. They were a dollar each and just the right size.
Nice, didn't think of that!
Still sitting on One Bad Gear piece in my whole studio.
It's really lowering my self esteem.
It's an amazing channel.
Thank you so much!!!
@@AudioPilz It's near rock bottom. Thanks always.
@@harrisbeatsfrankou6304 It's not what you've got, it's what you do with it that counts.
I've hardly touched mine, but the NuBass is a nice addition to the volca lineup in isolation. The tube is a gimmick though. It does actually sound nice, different character than the other clones I have. Really it's the volca footprint that sells it though. It's doesn't play particularly nice with the Keys/Bass IMO, but it's great in combo w Kick and Drum. Actually really highlights the Kick since the Kick also always felt like it didn't belong. Now it has a friend. I'm keeping it.
Yeah, great in that combination!
Yep, I have the Kick, Drum, Nubass combo together with a Volca Mix in a stand
Deeply enjoyed the oversaturated audio in your sentence about how oversaturated the market is. You memed the voiceover audio, very meta 😂
Lol;)
Great video !!!! You should do the behringer TD-3
Great suggestion, thanks!
The funky jam sounds awesome !
Thanks!!!
We're having a "Roaring Twenties" end-of-year party here at my employer, in Lausanne, Switzerland. This was a perfect warm-up!
Cheers!!!
Ja der kleine NuBass hat es schon in sich.
Das Video hat echt Spaß gemacht, danke für den tollen Schnitt...🤣🤣
Vielen Dank!!!
I actually had that synth on backorder for almost half a year before I felt like I didn't need it, so I cancelled the order. After having seen this episode, I feel confident that I did the right thing. Seems like a neat synth if you're really going down that reflux route, but very limited if you're outside that very narrow path...
If you want acid sounds on the brink of destruction - look no further...
@@AudioPilz acid sounds for that aural heartburn...
Agreed. I get that some people just want that one sound and style of production. It's cool, I dig dancing to that dark squelchy shit at 3 AM as much as anyone. But for me it's just way too limited.
they say limitation breeds creativity..... but it can also breed another wookie uninspired formula goa track XD
@@inthefade if I had been "professional" or just more into making pure acid I might have considered it. As it is now, I am just an unskilled amateur making "music" for fun, and it results in general weirdness bereft of acid. And for my weirdness I need something with a few more strings to play...
Idk why but your "bad gear" videos always make me want it
Bad Gear GAS is a thing;)
@@AudioPilz I have this horrid habit of using mixing to fix bad gear and plugins so that probably is why I huff the bad gear gas
the vocoder shoutout was so cool. They always are
Also I tried very hard to do proper acid line with the NuBass but, the accent circuitry was a shame, no classic acid barks 😭
Thanks !
Yeah, it's more like acid on the brink of destruction;)
5:15 daaaaang! 😎 Actually all of what you did. I love it's sound. Not a 303, but a different, character-filled acid machine, for that low price.
😀😀😀😀😀
@@AudioPilz You should make an EP single with that thing! I'm not even kidding, either! I'd love to hear that thing going through a few modes on Hologram's Microcosm! There are a few modes that would really be excellent processing it.
"That's what I really hate about volcas"
I soldered a couple of thin wires onto the tracers under the memory button to an external switch on my Beats for that very reason. It's a tiny tracer but can be done with some patience. Now memory can be latched on, and one-finger pattern select is doable. Certainly made that crappy little box a little less crappy.
Nice solution!
0:27 listened to this while drinking a Weihenstephaner Festbier. Good timing, PROST!!
Also.. Was there 2 Smudge the Cat memes in this?
Well done Florian!!
Frölische Freitag!
Prost!!! Maybe a second one slipped in;)
Great video.
Thank you!!!
The kick sounds awesome!
Love it!
Well, it's not the Electribe EMX-1 review I was looking for, but these droids are right up my alley. Dammit.
I still have to find one of these around here!
Un générique original a chaque épisode, des plans de coupes de folies, du matériel torturé, une diction claire, un nouveau style de musique inventé à chaque essais.
Très bonne émission.
Merci beaucoup!!!
I'm surprised to see so little love for the nubass in the comments. I love mine! As an acid box, it offers something different from the 303 in terms of its sound, and it's also a lot easier to program. And you can get some cool results with the LFO!
Really liked the LFO too!
^^^ Finally Someone in the comments who actually gets it. Great little box. Engineered for acid. And it can do it too.
The TB-3 definitely needs a revisit.
Great suggestion, thanks!!!
Volca nu bass and the keys make a nice sound. Combining these into the sound of a bass station two is awesome.
Nice technique!!!
Haha. I lost it at the 'Super Fun Happy Slide' Simpsons clip
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Thanks for the video.
Dancing digital ragdolls... I'll go check if Hitchhiker has made any new tracks.
Thanks for watching!!!
I really enjoyed the p-n juction joke! And this episode
Thank you!!!
Okay. I especially enjoyed the outtakes at the end. And I still really hope some day you'll gain access to a Fairlight Voice Tracker for your vocoder shoutout.
Thanks!!! Fairlight Voice Tracker? I can't even find one on Reverb;)
@@AudioPilz Not surprising. They were rare when they were production. To understand what all it could do, look up The Art Of Noise live in 1986, particularly the song Instruments of Darkness. J.J. used one for the voice modulation effects.
2:17 - I was eating and looking away....I had to scroll back to see if it was a Letterkenny "allegedly"
Of course it was;)
Jam1 attacks my heart. So nice.
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For all the talk of nu tube technology being a “gimmick,” I’ve loved what I’ve heard from it. The Vox amps sound surprisingly big for their size, and that Volca distortion is distinct and sounds cool. I’m not an acid synth guy, but those baselines sounded good, to me.
I'm fascinated by that technology too
Illustrations at the top
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I really liked the wub and roll jam!
I do not currently own any Volcas, but if I did, the ones that appeal to me the most are the regular Volca Bass, the Volca Kick, and possibly the Volca Drums.
Kick is much recommended!!!
@@AudioPilz honestly never really considered it until you had it on your show.
Haha, I bought those coasters from Moog’s merch shop ages ago and they are still in use.
Nice!
I have a nutube vca in my modular ( plankton nutone). It does seem to contribute a bunch of, admittedly somewhat pleasant, thermal type hiss, and breaks up a little early/excessively as would be expected in a low voltage tube config, but it does really make things sound nice. I generally run it on a m'/s encoded bus to generate extra stereo info in the signal.
Wow, great stuff!
That 303 X-Ray is of my self modified TB-303. I took it the the School of Radiology University and asked if I could X-Ray it.
Wow, great stuff! Thanks for the picture!
You absolutely need to get a Casio VA-10 for the vocoder shout out alone
Great suggestion, thanks!!!
Good stuff. Here’s one for the algorithm.
Thanks! Much appreciated!!!
And the Sirius sounds friggin insane. thanks, now I have to find one.
These have become quite rare
how dare you release a great episode in the middle of the WC games? thanks for not quitting on us. happy black friday. usa! usa!
Black Friday World Cup of scoring the best deals;)
Now Korg needs to release the Nutkick
Lolz
when you hit those leads out of the way of that pedal that shit was dope
Way to go!!!
That intro sounded pretty deep and warm!
Very distinct tone
Extremely fair review of the NuBass. Sequencer is great, sonic sweet spots are narrow, tubes really just smooth over some the edge that you want for acid, but it's a refreshing variation on the theme and can be a really fun groove toy paired with a PO-12
Thank you!!!
always a pleasure to watch your videos. what do you do with all that bad gear once youre done reviewing it?
Thanks! A lot of it is borrowed, I do keep some of the one's that I like tho.
Jesus, your meme game has me cracking up all the time.
Thank you!!!
One thing you're missing is you're getting 303ish sounds without having to put up with the terrible 303 interface. thats worth something on its own.
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I usually use the TB-3 for that;)
@0:48 I love Sausage Fattener plugin. I use it loads. It makes things like a fatter sausage than before you used it. If you haven't got it...well, everyone should, it's great 🧡
Maybe it's worthy of a BG episode;)
I noticed the really early Moogs’ oscillators sound similar to each other in demos too. Yet both this and them, once they’re finally filtered and triggered, definitely have a certain juiciness to them.
Like, with each element taken alone I agree they’re lacking… but together it somehow works for me. The intro caught my attention in a way which doesn’t usually usually happen.
That’s especially interesting considering I was on team “tubes don’t sound different except for distortion and EQ”; but I think I REALLY like them in oscillators. Who knew?
Which, y’know, I just checked and Moog used transistors all along - perhaps he just used much slower response time ones than the oscillators of the 80s used! In which case maybe I _am_ on team “transistors can sound the same”, heh. If what I like is just a relatively long “slew time”.
Anyway yeah, a VFD is absolutely a type of vacuum tube just as a magnetron in a microwave is :) Just very flat ones. Honestly I wasn’t surprised at all to see you bring them up because I’d clocked them from the colour alone. That turquoise phosphor is _unmistakable._
The similarity to Moogs occured to me too
1:49 I would love that watch.
Looks so steampunk!
Yay! Another Volca episode. How about doing a volca only bad gear episode? I mean, how bad can they be when you put them together?
By the way, what's in the cup?
Great idea!!! 3 double espresso btw;)
Great video as usual 👍. Not sure I'd be trading my OG Volca Bass for one and I'd probably get a TD-3 in preference but if I saw a used one for a bargain price I'd consider it.
Thanks!
Audiopilz-ener, creating Nu musical genres every episode.
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Wow this is more acid than 303...I'm convinced, sound-wise
Definitely has a unique sound
built for acid :)
Outtakes - YAY!
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First time with headphones and I thought I was actually gonna teleport right into 4am with no face
1 water pleaze
Wow! What is going on with that green and orange cable connected by a spring (?!) looking thing at 6:33? I'm intrigued. Cheers!
Neutrik handed them out at Musikmesse 2010 and I took a hand full;)
how bout a minilogue xd episode id like to see you jam/talk on that, also good vid as always
Thanks! Great suggestion!
I think that the opening scene is a dream video for Bill Leeb and that early FLA-Delirium era aesthetics he so loved (me too).
Ah, a fellow Austrian!!!
@@AudioPilz Yeah he is isn’t he? I mean, yeah he is from Vancouver but he is Austrian. Haircut gives him away :p
When will Korg finally release an all analog and tube (umm, NuTube) driven full featured groovebox? They have been beating around the bush for so long that Roland might actually release something analog before them!
Yeah, all Volcas in one big case!
Two Volca's left to review: the Mix and Bass (similar sound to the Monologue)
True that!!! Moving up my list, thanks for the suggestions!
Jam 2 goes unreasonably hard for being in a parody show. Sounds like something Boris Brejcha would drop live. Great work!
Thank you!!!
Hey I've been thinking of getting this! I wasn't as big on the Volca FM as I expected (much more into the OpSix) but I have a Sample and a Drum and I love them both :P I wasn't sure whether to get this, the Volca Kick, or the Volca Bass, but I'd definitely like to have one of them lol
Totally get the Kick!!!
If you have the Sample you can load any kick sample on to it. The Kick is awesome but with the Bass or Nubass you get a tweakable standalone bass synth. The volcas are great, why not keep adding and have a complete dawless setup. If i didn't already have so much more capable gear i'd love to justify a volca-only rack of boxes!
I considered this thing back when. Can not remember why I struck it from my wishlist.
The hype faded rather quickly...