The Analog Bit Crusher | PAR CR4-A
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- Опубликовано: 6 авг 2024
- In which I demo the wildest fuzzbox and analog bit destroyer, the PAR CR4-A. A wide-range science preamp for radio cosmology, nuclear research and laser science from the 1960s, this high end piece of the past is also a part of synthesizer history.
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This is the "dust" that Boards of Canada described some devices adding. Something that distorts but then turns into beautiful particles.
Beautiful info, thanks
Ha I missed my own premiere as I was poking around in the the PAR 113 that just arrived. Its broken sadly. Sorry everyone!
Hakuna Matata! The original analog delay- tardiness😂
Hopefully there is a technician in Germany who can repair these kind of things
@@mouldypretzel yeah I have one for tube stuff, now I need one for the test equipment that is transistor based
@@Hainbach That's what Poland does to stuff. Just ask my broken OSCar synthesizer.
Yeah, it's Polands fault. Totally not my fault at all. Nonono. Poland.
What was broken on it ? No output ? No power ?
I hear another VST in the far distance... .
A free one would be a blessing (i know its unlikely tho it's cool)
OH please
Surely there must be something like this already
Yessss
Awesome! I guess that’s what 80 dB of lab-grade gain (that would be x100,000,000) does for you. Even a minuscule audio signal is torturing a whole lot of amplifier stages that are getting visibly (audibly?) angry of being driven into saturation. They cut off and recover in really weird and unexpected ways, maybe going chaotic. I think what you hear is their natural suffering cry, as this region of operation was probably never engineered to behave in any particular way!
That sounds like poetry to me.
Yeah this thing is designed for sensitive experiments that some physics grad student or postdoc does in a basement lab at 2 AM during a holiday when there is nobody around and no cars on the roads nearby to vibrate anything (seriously). The "mod" is probably intended to be a damper of some sort they put in to prevent some sort of rattle that added noise to their system. Also they have all their cables and tubes around their experiment wrapped in foil to reduce EM noise and cryopump(s) located in another room. Maybe someone or multiple someones used this very instrument to enable taking data that fed their Ph.D. project.
If you do a Top 5 this year it should just be about sweaters.
So nice with these kind of promo-videos where nothing is for sale
glad to see everyone else wants this as a plugin, too; this is some seriously good fuzz
I love that crunchy dance track at the end. That crunched bass line would sound awesome with a clean signal from a 303 making it's most squoodgy main lines.
Hehe, I have an old Octaver pedal that basically does that. There's something wrong with it, so it just outputs square waves. I think it takes the input, makes a squarewave of it, and then divide it to make a sub-octave. But the mix will not mix between the original signal and the suboctave, but between the divided and undivided squarewave. :-)
I never had the idea to sing in it, or stick multiple instruments in at once! Thanks for that!
Hey, could u tell us what model is it ?
@@stenoff8148 Sure, It's a Sanox 15SX.
His voice just farted really LOUD
So this is how Hainbach will start his new death-metal band ....
Holy moly! Was enjoying the musical obliteration that offers when you dropped the Nexus / Pearlman bombshell! Double awesome.
I'll pass this over to the ARP Foundation.
Let's start a campaign asking Behringer to make a clone of this! They are going to run out of synths to clone soon surely!
Oh oh! Hainbach has been reduced to meowing into microphones... The PAR CR4-A broke Hainbach...
I appreciate that you are looking for new sounds. I'm envious that you do it professionally.
Yo that track has has heavy late NIN sounds. I love it.
very YEAR ZERO. seems it would turn any drum machine into a DFAM on crack.
that beat at the end was very stimulating
Your jumper game is really on point in this video
There goes the hope of me ever purchasing either model. Thanks Hainbach!
3:33: Hainbach’s teaser for his upcoming black metal album! Sounds good!
Really cool episode & amazing jam!
I've watched every single one of your videos. I do mean all of them. No technical/science equipment video you've ever done gave me gear lust. Except this one. Holy hell.
Deservedly so! it is utterly beautiful and near impossible to recreate today
I think I agree,@@Hainbach... the nonlinearity is amazing. Parts sound like some Retro Mechanical Devices fuzz boxes, others like the Starve circuit in Dwarfcraft pedals, but that flexibility and voicing in one box is pretty incredible.
would sell my soul for one of these, or half of my soul for a vst version
Dude, great video as always! Every song you make on here is amazing lol
I feel like this is the perfect case study for the kind of piece of test equipment that can be turned into a pedal or a eurorack module. Since it's battery operated it probably doesn't require crazy high amounts of voltage to run right?
That track at the end is utterly brilliant. I think I'm going to try putting a drum machine through the filters on my Behringer K2 and overdriving it to see if I can achieve a similar effect.
Death Grips secret weapon
Oh man, I *love* analog bit crushing and decimating. I've got an Alright Devices T-Wrex for my eurorack which I absolutely adore, even as someone who isn't an analog purist. Frequency Modulating the sample rate is just incredible.
sounds lovely!
Crazy cool stuff 🤘
You and Look Mum No Computer should do a crossover episode when the pandemic has wound down
Would love to see what crunchy madness you guys come up with
We have done three so far :)
That’s some beautiful distortion
hah love this! sounds a lot like my attempts at making a electret op amp, the mismatched impedance, and wrong capacitors and resistors made some crazy filters, time to plug the soldering iron!!
Super cool sound, interesting thx
this is how i feel when i use one of my synths into my electro fuzz custom distortion from retro mechanical labs into my valve amp .... lovely tones!
Reminds me of my dumb Behringer Tube Ultragain Mic200 when the signal was a tad too hot (plus the cable I used was probably already defective since it died a few months after getting it). I recorded chords on an old early 20th century piano like this and it sounded exactly like when you used your PAR with your piano.
Those teardrop knobs, though.
This lead me to discover the VXJunkie subreddit, which is amazing
This is so awesome! I keep dreaming I am going to come across all these gadgets at a yard sale for a few bucks. Just keeping the dream alive!
It can happen, much of this is stowed away in universities and never used anymore
I love this!
I knew you would!
Words cannot describe how dope AF that sound is
I think that If you made GOOD pictures of the insides we could try to clone it. It's 1960's tech so not "difficult" by any means by today's standards!
dear HAINBACH,
I love your channel and also general approach to music and sound - you're kind of "noise-connoisseur" if something like that exists. Also that "crazy professor's lab" aesthetic that you have here.
Only one thing could make it a little bit cooler IMHO: when jamming have an old analog oscilloscope in the background showing. Especially with this analog bitcrusher-thingy I would love to see what it actually does to the signal: the original signal (dry guitar or synth) on the x-axis and the output signal (output from the bitcrusher) on the y-axis could be very interesting.
you know you're super cool right ? those first 13 seconds got me like DAMN
Those noises make the Daleks in the Insane Parties of Planet Scaro. The Low-Noise Amplifier, was invented by Robert H. Dick of Princeton Applied Research (PAR) in 1963, who also invented the Lock-in amplifier in 1962. Analog Bit Crushers of today = Catalinbread Heliotrope, Bugbrand BugCrusher, Malekko Scrutator and others.
Awesome!
those crushed rhythms around minute 5.50+ are ace
It's like the last seven minutes of The Background World, isn't it?
Interesting!
Didn't know there is such thing as analog bits
It takes a lot to surprise me anymore. 🤣
I didn't either, though. 🤔
There really aren’t, but this is the sonic effect of the rather wild unique this scientific preamp works. It astounded me.
@@Hainbach Oh you! 😉
There isn’t
Nice video and harsh tunes, but i liked it. The guitar and rhodes sounds so gorgeous. There is IOS app called dystopia which sounds almost the same.
Beautiful indeed! Great demo! Digital bit crushers or fuzz pedals don’t even come close
It is possible to fairly closely replicate the effect with a waveshaper plugin by adding a point close to the zero point and move it to the right on the x axis while keeping it at or close to y=0. It makes the output signal gate in a similar manner. Some oversampling makes it sound much nicer as well.
I need it!!!!
Is there anything that could replicate this? There must be some kind of distortion pedal that could do something similar if it's just a square-waver with some filters. It would be a pretty harsh/broken-sounding fuzz, but it seems entirely feasible.
DIY guitar pedals.au do the unshaven fuzz, it's a little more of a traditional sound with a guitar through it, if you put other signals through it, they break up horribly.
I love a good Bit Crusher!
How could you not? 🤔
@@scramblesthedeathdealer indeed, but you can guarantee there's some bugger somewhere who hates them 😂
@@GavinskisTutorials I can live with that.
If someone wants to be wrong, then that's their choice. 😆😅🤣
oh my... that last track just beat the fucking shit out of me. well, well done.
so, now I have to ask... was this just a random improvisation or can I purchase this track somewhere? ❤️
Sounds like a bunch of the 60’s fuzz designs that people are sticking variable components in or adding dip switches to with various pre-wired “circuit bent” connections. Lots of those collapsing, gated signal sounds where tremolo like fluctuations become more pronounced with an increase in attack dynamics or on the backend as the sustain fades into decay. Regardless the circuit most likely has additional potential left to be discovered upon reanalysis within the more radical modern framework, that is provided its distinctly different than other ideas that have already been explored... as I don’t really know what’s going on under the hood here. Thanks for sharing!!!
This sounded awesome!!!!
I actually searched the net for analog bitcrushing module or VST and came across this demo.
I bought Wires some time ago and ❤️ it.
Do you think that this amp unit will see the light of day as a VST-FX?????
Developers, form a queue , to collaborate on a plugin.
Love you
really interesting how it doesnt have noise but the distortion is so intense, would be cool to run a compressor after it
Can you make a vst of this thing too pls?
Oh, you finally Got a pulsar 23 ! Curious about hearing how it sounds in your hands...
Camera looks sharp, and raw, and crisp. More or less like the sound of the PAR CR4-A.
I also cast my vote for making this into a plugin effect. Unique distortion plugins are rare (only Waves Abbey Road Saturator comes to mind) and guitar pedal distortion doesn't usually cut it for non-guitar sounds.
Yeah this would be a cool one.
When Hain Bach shows you some new gear you will never have 😖😭😫
I just want hear a TB-303 or TD-3 through that thing
Holy crap! YEAAAAHS !!!
The OG Analog Heat!
reminds me a bit of the zvex fuzz factory when you turn the gate up and stab down
Reminds me of my germanium big muff.
Is there a comparable unit that isn't so rare? i know you mentioned one you're waiting for from Poland, how's that? It's similar to the devi ever fuzz, which I've been using for years, it has a similar stuttery decay, but this thing is 1000 times that cool little pedal. I'll have to check out that reddit page, I'm interested in getting into test equipment but don't know where to start and am nervous to I'll blow up my gear. This unit is one of the coolest things I've ever seen!
The sounds remind me a LOT of my WMD Geiger counter Pedal.
I just got word that my Pulsar 23 is on it's way, you gotta do a vid on it.
this sounds similar to no imput mixing. Extreme abrasiveness!
Imagine Mick Gordon using one of these in his effects chain... 🔥🔥
It is a bit weird to call it an "Analog bit crusher", since bit crushing is technically per definition a digital process. But hey, it sounds epic!!
Very cool sound. If it could be harnessed into a pedal.
I talked to people, it is very difficult due to having to be all balanced. That would make it more of desktop effect.
I'm thinking this must be the only way to get an analog equivalent to a bit crusher
This thing fucks.
The next Hainbach VST?
0:03 Das Pulsar-34 in schwartz ist toll, viel besser als die gelbe oder rote flashy-miese modelle ;-)
Since this channel is into uniqe audio. Could a light bulb, like those 220v wolfram gas lamp, you know common house bulb, be used as a signal distortion? If you amplify a signal to 220v and then back again to low volt
Sure, that can work
Something along the lines of this? www.gamechangeraudio.com/plasma/
@@BWPT. yeah kinda does, i wasn't sure if amplify the signal would be "safe" or you should use a "weak" signal to modulate a strong signal , and then let the strong signal modulate a "weak" signal after it traveled trough a vintage bulb.
But i'm glad i feel less weird about asking this. thanks for the replay from you and Hainbach
I bet something like this could be built pretty simply out of a Schmidt trigger.
no news on the PAR 113?
Not repairable
Anyone have schematics? I'd love to clone this piece. And dear god...that track starting at 8:05...where do I get the full version? If there isn't one yet, there truly needs to be. Awesome!
Thank you, it is on Patreon.com/hainbach
I found the service manual for it and it has schematics if you are still looking…
How much did you have to clean up the audio with RX?
I did no cleanup, it adds no noise as say in the video.
@@Hainbach my bad i must've spaced out.
yo i bet this thing sounds badass with slide guitar. plz do this for me.
To anyone who considers this music to their ears... you are my kind of people!
Pssssst... Clone pedal or eurorack module.
I would honestly love to do a pedal of this
Sounds like this track calls for a proper release...
Its like decapitor with attitude
Damn, i dont even make music, and i want one of these. Can anyone make THIS into a plugin?
Its like a fuzzcrush
i smell a new plugin??? :)
Sounds like the kind of thing my friend Curtis Rochambeau (RMA Pedals) makes. You'd probably like ALL his noise toys!
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facebook.com/RMAgear
analog bit crusher.... hmmm, let's see it.
Fuck me sideways twice!! That was so dope!!!!
I like the experiments, but really just a few transistors...
I want to know this band used for effects! ruclips.net/video/G514pMAKtRo/видео.html
MAKE VST
Make this into a plugin plsss
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