I just genuinely love how much fun you have making these... both from playing with the gear as well as the video editing... it's a fantastic work of art. Thank you for doing what you do!
This channel is so consistently good. I love learning about older pieces of hardware but sifting through articles is honestly boring. Your videos make that process fun and interesting. Keep up the great work, man!!
Me: Looks at prices of old drum machines, picks one and decides to buy one when I can afford it; Audiopilz: I am going to feature that on Bad Gear and make sure the price quadruples! You're welcome!
The orange Roland sequencer he featured was going for 50 dollars. I think I sold it for 60. Now it's 249. The key now is anticipating what he'll feature next!
@@AudioPilz No, your channel has become the "bible of gear nerds". And from a guy that "used" to make a living from turning obsolete gear, your reach has far exceeded your expectations. But still love it anyway.
By 1985, New Order had ceased using their Oberheim DMX on live performances, and instead only used the RX-11 live. They still used the Oberheim in the studio, however, kind of mixing the two drum machines.
For all these supposed "bad machines" you demo, you create some brief, but absolute BANGERS with them in your vids! I wouldn't mind owning an RX....I miss my old gear
That cowbell, pitched up three semitones in a sampler, was always popular in my house. We were suckers for the latin versions, so we usually had an RX21L slugging it out with a 727 on most of our neo-classical electro-wibblefunk tracks. You could find battered RX drum boxes for 25-30 euro beer tokens in all the second hand tech shops back then. They actually sounded ok with some Alesis X:tc reverb on them.
@@chriswareham Could you say a bit more about their use of it? The samples on this Yamaha unit don’t sound much like the drums on Paint Your Wagon and Nothing Wrong where the drums are clearly drum machines
This video had a lot of old computers in it.. The drumsounds of an Amiga Protracker module, The spectrum (love it, my first computer) the TR909 had "atari" written on it (...and teenage riot..) playstation when we heard the crash bandicoot . I actually really like those old 8bit sounds, and they can sound fantastic today with a bit of fx. Its a part of my childhood making music on an Amiga 500 with around 300kB 8bit samples and 4 channel audio. The cheapest sampler of its time :) Great songs you made with it as usual. Thanks for the video.
I have an RX-21 L. The L stands for "Latin". It has has only some bongos, congas, whistles and a tambourine. I think I bought it second hand for 15 DM in the 90s. Now I see it for over 100 EUR on ebay lol
Back in the day's our Bass player changed his Bass for a Yamaha RX11, Bass was to hard to play. He sold it 3 months later and got a tambourine . LOL, had so much fun in the 80"s with all that "bad" gear. Keep 'm coming, this is perfect GAS therapy.
nice vid, and great post punk Italo disco jam at the end the raw, sterile sounds of the RX-15 are familiar, they remind me of my old Casio MT-500 PCM drums :-)
Sound great man. I've always preferred the Linn/DMX/707 type drum machines over the 808/909 ones. Loved the acid jam. And the post punk gothodelic italo-disco synth pop workout needs an entire album.
Seeing the JHS pedal thumbnail at the end made me laugh. Another great video, & as much as I know you put a lot of thought into the fantastic humour in the script, I really appreciate how there might be a more fully featured version of the piece of gear in question, but you’ll choose the poor cousin version intentionally & discuss why - it makes for extremely insightful context. Brilliant jam as always!
Same, if I use drum samples, they're almost always from a Linn VST emulation. This machine would certainly do that same job for 80% for me at least. This is the only sound that I recognize as a drum machine :p
Yes! it's Friday again! Great episode. I had one of these, sampled it and sold it long, long ago. I'm still pulling for an episode on the Kawaii XD-5 drum synth. Also, if you ever want to do a better gear episode on the Sequential Prophet 600 there are a bunch of mods for it. I developed a mod that adds a noise source and I added features to the GliGli OS mod. Some other guys developed a mod that pans the 6 oscillators left and right, which really opens it up.
Fun fact: the Sisters had an earlier incarnation of Dr Avalanche in the back of the Monkee-mobile in the Black Planet video. The RX-5 would have been around the Floodland era, I presume?
I got an RX-5 from a pawn shop for $100, but the pack in expansion cartridge wasn't included and that alone goes for about as much as I paid for the machine. The RX family has super satisfying buttons. So clacky!
I love this thing! My favorite thing is how you can program different amounts of swing to each part, which really loosens up the feel of it when used lightly. Only wish the internal storage was bigger, I end up filling the pattern memory really fast. Never would have guessed it was only three years younger than the Linn though!
I had the Yamaha RX 21L , which was a cut down , low price off shoot ,and at the time on clearance sale. It was described as being able to play "Groovy tropical rythm's" , and in my opinion has the most comical Cuica sounds ever commited to sample.
Aw, no mention of TMBG's incredible use of it? They used it a LOT in their demos and used it almost exclusively for their first album! Every time I hear those classic sounds I'm always reminded of their songs.
@@PanHoover882 old comment, but i think Puppet Head from their self titled uses specifically the rx15 - there's a few tracks on the album that are identifiable as the rx11 though so it's not all 15 but they're similar machines iirc
Hell yeah. Another great piece of bad gear. As you said, it is a little spendy, but still a cool machine. I think at the price it goes for I would just get a Alesis HR-16 instead or a SR-16. Also, a HR-16 would be cool to see here. Or a Casio Rapman.
I copped an HR-16 from CL this summer (I’m in NYC) for about 90 bucks. Switched out the stock sounds with Linn Drum EPROMs and now it’s cooking. The good: you can pitch the sounds. The Bad: only two outs. Super easy to program. I saw another one on Craigslist for 100 a few weeks ago...
Yes, they sound and play similar, but I prefer that the HR-16 has more room for mods. I have a Casio Rapstation that's fun but I can't find any info on. I've got to replace the tape belt in that thing.
A long, long, long time ago, before the beginning of time: After exhausting the possibilities of the Yamaha porta sound my folks bought me for Xmas and a mate's Boss delay, I saved up for a used RX17 paired with a Casio CZ101 and CZ 1000 with an Arion delay/sampler. So many all night jams and angry neighbors. Thanks for the nostalgia hit.
I had the even crappier RX21 and think I blotted out every memory of it. Later in life I was given an RX5 which I gave away, in what was almost like a reverse mugging. In years to come, protesters will pull down statues of Yamaha drum machines and burn books that mention them.
As a person of the 80s, I remember taking my end-of-line, bargain-basement 909 round to a drummer friend's house and being totally underwhelmed by his shiny new RX15. It was as godawful then as it is now. I wouldn't give it house room today, and as I even give house room to a Kawai R-50 that's pretty damning! Of all the RX drum machines that Yamaha burped out only the RX5 is worth considering, and the underrated little RY20 is probably the best-value Yamaha drum machine on the used market.
I own a RY8...found it outside on a little "hill" of garbage. Fully working the display is a lttle blind. midi In/Out, Stereo.Are they from mid 90? Not so bad sounds!! 8 Kits i believe ..and Bass Notes if you will. And a input for guitar for a build in "GuitarSynthesizer". Its not bad when you havent enough inputs you can run an instrument throu without processing the signal. But this tiny box is no fun at all. Its worth a episode on this channel. Havent found so much Info about the RY8.
Your videos are what I look forward to the most on a Friday evening. Do you have plans to release the DAW-less jams? They're consistently super good and this one in particular is right up my alley.
Drums in the intro sound weaker than my grandma after a weekend of drinking booze Edit: I've been wondering for a while now, how many hours of work go into a typical episode of Bad Gear and which ones was the most work-intensive one so far? :) Thank you for your hard work, great tunes and funny memes as always. ;P Edit 2: Drums definitely sound a lot more head-bob inducing in the jams. :D
@@covett I doubt most people can produce all the segments and content bits needed for one of these in 4 hours, let alone fully edit the finished video in that timeframe.
I still have my RX11 I bought new back the year it came out - still have the manual and a memory cartridge. The multiple outs definitely added a lot more tweakability but one thing too which was cool is that you could change the MIDI note output assignment for each drum instrument, thus using it as a sequencer. I probably used it more in this context than any other. Nowadays I mostly use it as an overly large practice metronome.
Awesome video! Been working on a project to recreate the Halo Combat Evolved soundtrack with the original hardware, based on (so far!) a year of research and community collaboration. My travels have led me to the E-mu Procussion which is a very interesting beast. Curious if you've ever worked with one? They sound really powerful but have no FX and suffer from the first generation Proteus style interface. Having a lot of fun accidentally discovering Halo patches though!
I like the RX series drum machines. I have been on the hunt for an RX11 but every time I see one under $300 - I cant afford it at the time. Great vid as always!
Actually sounds great when driven and mixed in the DAW. I mean, that does demonstrate that you just need the samples and not the machine itself, bit still.
I got mine for 40€ a few years ago, and it's my favorite drum machine. Admittedly it sounds like the crappiest of the 80s, and I hated the sound back then when I owned my HR16, but when you get closer to retirement, some things may change... I love my little black bugger...
The Yamaha RX 11/15 is one of the best sounding 80's drum machine. I really love that sound. You can hear them on Erasure or New Order albums. The label "as 80's as you can get" is a compliment for the machine 😊! Looking forward to receiving mine in a few days!
@@AudioPilz I can get your point of course. It is a „poor man‘s toy“ 😅. But unfortunately my bank account refuses a LINN DRUM machine, so what can we poor analog junkies do in the price range under $500? I prefer the old ones from the 80‘s with all their limitations, that can push your creativity. I imagine myself sitting in front of my DAW with the full package of the Arturia synths/drums vst…I would be lost completely 😅. Too many options…
@@AudioPilz after my DDD-1 died I used the Matrixsynth samples to appalling effect on my most excellent new single here: ruclips.net/video/pkTntEpPeSk/видео.html - Enjoy!
Ah yes, the RX family was used in so many of my favorite italo-disco tracks (and even more garbage hungarian synthpop). I don't like them dry, but with some reverb and heavy EQ, they can sound really nice, just like the Drumulator or DMX (which are my preferred ones for the genre).
They take up all the room in the practicespace and tourvan, take hours setting up, are always in your way with those stands and they always hit their drums too freaking loud. And drink all your beer indeed. I know. I’m a drummer.
before we had a drummer, about 3 years ago, my bassist and i bought an rx21 off of reverb. one of the worst machines ive ever used in my entire life for programming and the noise floor is insane. i do use rx21 and rx5 samples in my solo music to this day, as well as the drums off my pss480 which are very similar
My and my friend had a linn drum at his house. We set it up next to his DAW; selected Linn Drum sounds; and there was no discernable difference. The moral of the story is: stop waiting for over-hyped gear, and start writing better songs with what you have.
I bought a RX15 a few weeks ago and I am realy happy with it. An equalizer is helpfull if you want to have a more powerfull sound. Its a really nice drum computer.
AudioPilz thank you, I will test this soon! Another idea of „bad gear“ is the Roland human rhythm composer R5 or R8. The price of this drum computer is similar to the price of a RX15 or RX11. I have one and don‘t know all of the functions, but it seems to be really cool. So maybe this is another idea for you :D
@@AudioPilz buy it or don't, Josh doesn't care ;) deep inside he probably does, he's been killing it on YT, is loved by the fans and this stunt added massively to the publicity of JHS. Watch the stream where he reads comments about the Reverb listing for an hour, hilarious AF.
I do agree that every engineer and musician should have an old school drum sampler in the toolbox. Mine is the Alesis SR-16 that this very channel turned me on to. Has become quite a regular in my setup.
Meh 🤷♂️, this thing should be sitting on blocks in the back yard surrounded by tractor tire planters. It’s pretty useless sounding and aging badly. Sorry Wendy 😂
I have a feeling that Behringer's Klark Teknik brand might be cloning one or at least I hope they do. They recently cloned the Roland Dimension D. I mean why not do the Space Echo we've all been waiting for right?
Yup, I love the sounds of these kinda limited 80s digital drum machines. Good 80s gated kicks, snares and toms go with everything. Cymbals, hihats and that stuff I let the analog machines handle. As you said, you don't need many of these things, but everybody should have one.
Like clothing fashion, production tastes cycle in long loops back to the older stuff. I love these old 12bit pcm units specifically for their dirty sound and limitations. They force you to get more creative with a limited palate.
Hey I just got an RX-5 a month ago! I love the sound of these machines, they are perfectly 80's for me. At least the RX-5, sits great in a modern mix with some processing.
I gotta say, I'm a big fan of the genre: post punk gothadelic italo disco synth pop.
Thanks!
Sounds like all my favourite genres in one. :)
I’m all about these sounds and he didn’t disappoint! It’s buy that on a cassette tape!
The accompanying video was nightmare fuel.
@@pcoccoli agreed and this was just the material I would dare putting on YT. 80s Italian daytime TV at its best;)
I just genuinely love how much fun you have making these... both from playing with the gear as well as the video editing... it's a fantastic work of art. Thank you for doing what you do!
Thanks for watching!!!! You keep me going!
This channel is so consistently good. I love learning about older pieces of hardware but sifting through articles is honestly boring. Your videos make that process fun and interesting. Keep up the great work, man!!
Thank you so much!
"How many untweakable vintage drum machines should be reviewed on this channel."
Yes.
Right answer!
who needs things like feel, and nuance, those things get lost in the mix anyway
"I believe my answer, as it will ever bis, is…at least one more my lady-I mean MY LIEGE-MY LIEGE!"
Me: Looks at prices of old drum machines, picks one and decides to buy one when I can afford it;
Audiopilz: I am going to feature that on Bad Gear and make sure the price quadruples! You're welcome!
I think you're overestimating the reach of this channel ;)
The orange Roland sequencer he featured was going for 50 dollars. I think I sold it for 60. Now it's 249. The key now is anticipating what he'll feature next!
@@AudioPilz No, your channel has become the "bible of gear nerds". And from a guy that "used" to make a living from turning obsolete gear, your reach has far exceeded your expectations. But still love it anyway.
@@billnetherlands The trick will be to make friends so you know ahead of time, buy low and sell high
@@JonasHamill I definitely have sellers remorse on a few items that I could actually use now that we have the key/beatstep and CTRLR. Oh well!
A+ for that crash animation man, a real touch of class
Bandicoot!!! THX!!!
Oh, an alternative to the LinnDrum at a fraction of the price? Dang. They almost had it. They got the fraction of the price part right, I guess.
It happens to the best ;)
Try the rx11 instead ;)
The RX11 is the second best Yamaha machine. The mighty RX5 is the governor. Best ever.
By 1985, New Order had ceased using their Oberheim DMX on live performances, and instead only used the RX-11 live. They still used the Oberheim in the studio, however, kind of mixing the two drum machines.
Thanks for posting!
@@AudioPilz Of course! I think it’s interesting how the RX-11 in particular was used by so many famous artists and yet, its not very valuable.
That Italo-Disco spoke straight to my soul. I got nothing else this week, man. Great sounds as always. Keep up the good work!
Thank you!
Loved the blue monday style jam
Thanks!
For all these supposed "bad machines" you demo, you create some brief, but absolute BANGERS with them in your vids! I wouldn't mind owning an RX....I miss my old gear
Thanks!
one of the few RUclips channels I look forward to seeing content from, love it man
Thank you so much!
That cowbell, pitched up three semitones in a sampler, was always popular in my house. We were suckers for the latin versions, so we usually had an RX21L slugging it out with a 727 on most of our neo-classical electro-wibblefunk tracks. You could find battered RX drum boxes for 25-30 euro beer tokens in all the second hand tech shops back then. They actually sounded ok with some Alesis X:tc reverb on them.
Damn, I want one of these X:tcs!!!
@@AudioPilz : lots of twiddly front panel knobs and buttons to play with, and delicious 12bit reverse reverb. Dub heaven.
The perfect drum machine for staying up late smoking cigarettes and practicing goth rock riffs over.
You're a man of style!
Used by Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, fellow Leeds based band and contemporaries of the Sisters of Mercy.
Literally what we would do with this exact machine back when I had a residency at Neo in Chicago
@@chriswareham great band.
@@chriswareham Could you say a bit more about their use of it? The samples on this Yamaha unit don’t sound much like the drums on Paint Your Wagon and Nothing Wrong where the drums are clearly drum machines
The intro with the Carpenter's "They live" !! very good
Great fan!
@@AudioPilz He who pays the Roddy Piper calls the tune.
Dude, every Friday gets better when I see your new video ♥️
Thank you, happy to hear that!
Very nice Acid jam there at 3:47! Now I feel inspired.
Thanks! Happy to hear that!
Loved that little nod at the end to the controversial JHS Klon Pedal Auction Saga!
Josh really knows his marketing stuff ;)
I've got an RX11 and RX5. To my ears, the RX11 is the box to get in this group. It sounds fantastic for what it is.
The multiple outpurs really make the difference
Discovered this channel by searching for all my gear i owned before... worth it.
That hardware fx collection is beginning to look like you mugged Hainbach.
Pssssss, don't tell him ;)
Video editing is sooooo on point. Thanks for all the laughs!
Thank you so much!
The streak of nice things today seems endless, come back home and Florian comes up with another cool made-up genre name. It's really Friday!;)
Always a pleasure! Thank god it's Friday!!!
Great episode! Me self bought an RX-11 earlier this fall, and I'm very satisfied with this drum machine!
This video had a lot of old computers in it.. The drumsounds of an Amiga Protracker module, The spectrum (love it, my first computer) the TR909 had "atari" written on it (...and teenage riot..) playstation when we heard the crash bandicoot . I actually really like those old 8bit sounds, and they can sound fantastic today with a bit of fx. Its a part of my childhood making music on an Amiga 500 with around 300kB 8bit samples and 4 channel audio. The cheapest sampler of its time :) Great songs you made with it as usual. Thanks for the video.
Thanks!
Those MIDI junkies did frak me up.
Octamed with 8 channels of audio and midi support became available on the Amiga 500 in 1991! One of the greatest trackers!
I love that Space Echo RE 201 you use. It reminds me of tube, ham radio rigs from the 1960s.
I have an RX-21 L. The L stands for "Latin". It has has only some bongos, congas, whistles and a tambourine. I think I bought it second hand for 15 DM in the 90s. Now I see it for over 100 EUR on ebay lol
Didn't know that one existed! Thanks for posting!
This is it. This is the best video thumbnail I've ever seen. Well done sir
Thanks!
Thank you Flo! You make lock-down Fridays the defining moment of my week!❤️❤️
Thanks for watching!
Back in the day's our Bass player changed his Bass for a Yamaha RX11, Bass was to hard to play. He sold it 3 months later and got a tambourine . LOL, had so much fun in the 80"s with all that "bad" gear. Keep 'm coming, this is perfect GAS therapy.
Good that Yoko Ono didn't have drum machines in the 60s ;)
nice vid, and great post punk Italo disco jam at the end
the raw, sterile sounds of the RX-15 are familiar, they remind me of my old Casio MT-500 PCM drums :-)
Thanks! Oh, the one with the honeycomb!!!
Sound great man. I've always preferred the Linn/DMX/707 type drum machines over the 808/909 ones. Loved the acid jam. And the post punk gothodelic italo-disco synth pop workout needs an entire album.
Thanks!
The era of 12 bit drummachines was short but glorious - with limited dynamic range the sounds blends well without much need for compression
True! I especially like the Akai S950 converters
Nowadays these videos are the only thing that reminds me that is friday. Keep it up man!
Thanks!
I am a simp for these 80's Drum Sounds - Not Going to Lie About it -KICK KICK CLLLLLAAAP
Aaaaaaaaand COWBELL!!!
Seeing the JHS pedal thumbnail at the end made me laugh. Another great video, & as much as I know you put a lot of thought into the fantastic humour in the script, I really appreciate how there might be a more fully featured version of the piece of gear in question, but you’ll choose the poor cousin version intentionally & discuss why - it makes for extremely insightful context. Brilliant jam as always!
Thank you so much!
Dude you make bad gear sound super duper awesome. Thanks for bringing the 80s back sonically
Thanks! 80s forever
Cool drum machine and well made tracks. Salude Bad Gear.
Thanks!
In the 80's it was shunned in the 2000's it's a lo fi dream machine.
True, with all that synthwave stuff around
Shunned? Why?
I always laugh at one of your word/image gags and the crash one got me this time
Thanks! Bandicoot!
Copped an RX5 for 99 quid , sampled it , sold it to a hipster for 300 quid . Now i can use the samples on my MPC's.
Ghetto style!!!
@@AudioPilz yup ! and add swing too ! great vidz ! thx!
I love you and your jams so much, that last gothy one is so so cool, I’m all about that sound. Oh yeah and great work for everything else too !
Thanks for watching!
What is wrong with me? I like the “cheesy” sound of it. Is it because I grew up in the 80’s?
Yeah, it burns itself into our brains ;)
Absolutly nothing is wrong. You are a chosen one.
I will take 80s drum machines over some of the suuuuper loud EDM drums any day.
It just sounds good
Same, if I use drum samples, they're almost always from a Linn VST emulation. This machine would certainly do that same job for 80% for me at least. This is the only sound that I recognize as a drum machine :p
What an awesome demo, your best so far! I have had the RX11 and it never sounded this good used by me.
Thanks! Some bus compression and saturation really help
Yes! it's Friday again! Great episode. I had one of these, sampled it and sold it long, long ago.
I'm still pulling for an episode on the Kawaii XD-5 drum synth. Also, if you ever want to do a better gear episode on the Sequential Prophet 600 there are a bunch of mods for it. I developed a mod that adds a noise source and I added features to the GliGli OS mod. Some other guys developed a mod that pans the 6 oscillators left and right, which really opens it up.
Oh yeah, that Kawai! I'll keep my eyes open for one
The Kawai may have been inscrutable to program but it had the best tablas!
@@davejames885 it was the first drum "synth" I ever owned. I made mostly "industrial" types of drums with it.
I hope you're over the cold soon - great video as always, great jams as always, nice mug. :)
Thank you!
RX5 is the monster. Sisters of Mercy had one: Dr. Avalanche!
True that, great feature set!
Fun fact: the Sisters had an earlier incarnation of Dr Avalanche in the back of the Monkee-mobile in the Black Planet video.
The RX-5 would have been around the Floodland era, I presume?
@@ringtangting RX-5 gang checking in. Have you got a Parasonic chip my guy?
Best song yet at the end. Love that post punk Itallo disco goth jam
Thank you!
I got an RX-5 from a pawn shop for $100, but the pack in expansion cartridge wasn't included and that alone goes for about as much as I paid for the machine. The RX family has super satisfying buttons. So clacky!
Yeah, the cartridge should be included...
I love this thing! My favorite thing is how you can program different amounts of swing to each part, which really loosens up the feel of it when used lightly. Only wish the internal storage was bigger, I end up filling the pattern memory really fast. Never would have guessed it was only three years younger than the Linn though!
Yeah, it got quite some groove!
I had the Yamaha RX 21L , which was a cut down , low price off shoot ,and at the time on clearance sale.
It was described as being able to play "Groovy tropical rythm's" , and in my opinion has the most comical Cuica sounds ever commited to sample.
Ah, that latin thing. Super interesting!
I have a few prehistoric drum machines sitting around. I think my favorite is the Akai XR10, so cool. Great watch as usual!
Thank you!
uploaded 32 seconds ago I'm in!
Notification squad
Earlybird!
It's got great shakers. The drums are good for some old school house and techno. Be great to have just to resample sounds.
Indeed, the shaker sits very well in the mix
Aw, no mention of TMBG's incredible use of it? They used it a LOT in their demos and used it almost exclusively for their first album! Every time I hear those classic sounds I'm always reminded of their songs.
Damn, I forgot about that. Please forgive me!
Any specific songs for me to look up?
@@PanHoover882 old comment, but i think Puppet Head from their self titled uses specifically the rx15 - there's a few tracks on the album that are identifiable as the rx11 though so it's not all 15 but they're similar machines iirc
Best movie intro to date. One of my favorite movies of all time.
Legend!
Hell yeah. Another great piece of bad gear. As you said, it is a little spendy, but still a cool machine. I think at the price it goes for I would just get a Alesis HR-16 instead or a SR-16.
Also, a HR-16 would be cool to see here. Or a Casio Rapman.
Casio Rapman!!! So hard to find around here
I copped an HR-16 from CL this summer (I’m in NYC) for about 90 bucks. Switched out the stock sounds with Linn Drum EPROMs and now it’s cooking. The good: you can pitch the sounds. The Bad: only two outs.
Super easy to program.
I saw another one on Craigslist for 100 a few weeks ago...
@@AudioPilz I have one, just missing the microphone. Depending on shipping, I could send it to you. I am in the US.
Yes, they sound and play similar, but I prefer that the HR-16 has more room for mods.
I have a Casio Rapstation that's fun but I can't find any info on. I've got to replace the tape belt in that thing.
A long, long, long time ago, before the beginning of time: After exhausting the possibilities of the Yamaha porta sound my folks bought me for Xmas and a mate's Boss delay, I saved up for a used RX17 paired with a Casio CZ101 and CZ 1000 with an Arion delay/sampler. So many all night jams and angry neighbors. Thanks for the nostalgia hit.
Pleasure! It's not good music if the neighbors don't complain!
I had the even crappier RX21 and think I blotted out every memory of it. Later in life I was given an RX5 which I gave away, in what was almost like a reverse mugging. In years to come, protesters will pull down statues of Yamaha drum machines and burn books that mention them.
...and we haven't even started talking about the QYs ;)
@@AudioPilz or the werld's best sampler, the SU 10.
@@AudioPilz Or the QX's.
@@AudioPilz RY9 "BigJam"
Glad you gave the RX-5 some love.
Great machine!
As a person of the 80s, I remember taking my end-of-line, bargain-basement 909 round to a drummer friend's house and being totally underwhelmed by his shiny new RX15. It was as godawful then as it is now. I wouldn't give it house room today, and as I even give house room to a Kawai R-50 that's pretty damning! Of all the RX drum machines that Yamaha burped out only the RX5 is worth considering, and the underrated little RY20 is probably the best-value Yamaha drum machine on the used market.
I really wanna have an RX5. Great features!
The RX15 *really* deserves the title "bad gear". And $200 is what it is going for now? Ridiculous.
I own a RY8...found it outside on a little "hill" of garbage. Fully working the display is a lttle blind. midi In/Out, Stereo.Are they from mid 90? Not so bad sounds!! 8 Kits i believe ..and Bass Notes if you will. And a input for guitar for a build in "GuitarSynthesizer". Its not bad when you havent enough inputs you can run an instrument throu without processing the signal. But this tiny box is no fun at all. Its worth a episode on this channel. Havent found so much Info about the RY8.
Your videos are what I look forward to the most on a Friday evening.
Do you have plans to release the DAW-less jams? They're consistently super good and this one in particular is right up my alley.
Thanks! Currently sorting out that stuff
Drums in the intro sound weaker than my grandma after a weekend of drinking booze
Edit: I've been wondering for a while now, how many hours of work go into a typical episode of Bad Gear and which ones was the most work-intensive one so far? :) Thank you for your hard work, great tunes and funny memes as always. ;P
Edit 2: Drums definitely sound a lot more head-bob inducing in the jams. :D
It depends on the gear and how disciplined I am. Sometimes I can even squeeze in a second episode ;)
@@AudioPilz seriously, how many hours? It would take me two week
@@covett well many of them have a song with a video montage...
@@covett I doubt most people can produce all the segments and content bits needed for one of these in 4 hours, let alone fully edit the finished video in that timeframe.
@@covett Can I challenge you to put your money where your mouth is? 😋 I'd love to see the process behind that for learning purposes.
I still have my RX11 I bought new back the year it came out - still have the manual and a memory cartridge. The multiple outs definitely added a lot more tweakability but one thing too which was cool is that you could change the MIDI note output assignment for each drum instrument, thus using it as a sequencer. I probably used it more in this context than any other. Nowadays I mostly use it as an overly large practice metronome.
The sequencer is indeed powerful. They even advertised it as a sequencer for the DX7 ;)
Awesome video!
Been working on a project to recreate the Halo Combat Evolved soundtrack with the original hardware, based on (so far!) a year of research and community collaboration. My travels have led me to the E-mu Procussion which is a very interesting beast. Curious if you've ever worked with one? They sound really powerful but have no FX and suffer from the first generation Proteus style interface. Having a lot of fun accidentally discovering Halo patches though!
Thanks! No, my life is extremely under-EMUed ;)
I like the RX series drum machines. I have been on the hunt for an RX11 but every time I see one under $300 - I cant afford it at the time. Great vid as always!
Thanks!
1:07 I thought for a second you said "Yer ma's answer to the Linndrum"
Still couldn't figure out how Japanese people pronounce it
Actually sounds great when driven and mixed in the DAW.
I mean, that does demonstrate that you just need the samples and not the machine itself, bit still.
The grooviness of the sequencer should not be underestimated ;)
@@AudioPilz Of course! 😉
I got mine for 40€ a few years ago, and it's my favorite drum machine. Admittedly it sounds like the crappiest of the 80s, and I hated the sound back then when I owned my HR16, but when you get closer to retirement, some things may change... I love my little black bugger...
It is more than usable
@@AudioPilz It's perfect as a drum machine when you play bass, and it fits nicely with the older kind of synths like Juno 106, DX7 and the sort...
The Yamaha RX 11/15 is one of the best sounding 80's drum machine. I really love that sound. You can hear them on Erasure or New Order albums.
The label "as 80's as you can get" is a compliment for the machine 😊!
Looking forward to receiving mine in a few days!
Nice!!!
@@AudioPilz I can get your point of course. It is a „poor man‘s toy“ 😅. But unfortunately my bank account refuses a LINN DRUM machine, so what can we poor analog junkies do in the price range under $500? I prefer the old ones from the 80‘s with all their limitations, that can push your creativity. I imagine myself sitting in front of my DAW with the full package of the Arturia synths/drums vst…I would be lost completely 😅. Too many options…
Now with the regular content I can start bugging about this regularly. Bad gear jam 2.0. Now!
I'm currently struggling with getting a proper location because of Winter and lockdown. Next jam is gonna come!
Boss DR-660. My first piece of electronic gear.
Still have it now.
That’s my one piece of vintage sample based drum in the household.
Nice one! Really liked the 550
I literally bought one of these on eBay this morning, to replace my dearly departed Korg DDD-1. Incidentally, you should cover the Korg DDD-1!
DDD-1 sounds interesting, I'll take a closer look!
@@AudioPilz after my DDD-1 died I used the Matrixsynth samples to appalling effect on my most excellent new single here: ruclips.net/video/pkTntEpPeSk/видео.html - Enjoy!
Is that an amp back there that looks like a shortwave radio?
Have the DDD-1. With one extension card. It holds 6 (!) new sounds! Awesome!
@@martinschroder1991 reminds me of how I feel about the 4 megs of extended memory my M1R has. The ram board takes up half the case
Gather your friends, family and colleagues- another bad gear-episode!
(And damn that second jam was slapping?!)
Thank you so much! All the best to all of them
I remember using these back in the 80's. Horrible user interface, but decent sounds - but dry dry dry, you needed lots of FX.
Dry as a bone, indeed
The Yamaha RX15 was heard in the video "Be Somebody… or Be Somebody's Fool!".
Ah yes, the RX family was used in so many of my favorite italo-disco tracks (and even more garbage hungarian synthpop). I don't like them dry, but with some reverb and heavy EQ, they can sound really nice, just like the Drumulator or DMX (which are my preferred ones for the genre).
Going down that Italo Disco rabbit hole was so much fun!!!
Hali! Én is kiváncsi vagyok 😀✌
Get me some of that Hungarian synthpop thx
Big fan of your show, I was excited about this one because I've owned this drum machine. Its fun with guitar peddles.
Thanks! True that, takes FX really well
What drummers did, so that the entire community wanted to replace them with machines?
Empty backstage fridge maybe?
They take up all the room in the practicespace and tourvan, take hours setting up, are always in your way with those stands and they always hit their drums too freaking loud. And drink all your beer indeed.
I know. I’m a drummer.
Moan moan moan moan why won’t you help me with this gear into the van? moan moan hey I’ve got a great idea for a song moan moan
@@CaptainAlbatross I am also a drummer.
@Randall Angel I am thinking about getting a drum machine, I also play different instruments,
Love that They Live intro, very entertaining as usual.
Thank you!
before we had a drummer, about 3 years ago, my bassist and i bought an rx21 off of reverb. one of the worst machines ive ever used in my entire life for programming and the noise floor is insane. i do use rx21 and rx5 samples in my solo music to this day, as well as the drums off my pss480 which are very similar
Nothing wrong with some Portasound goodness!
@@AudioPilz Agree, compared to a Casio it sounds terrible but when I realized you can tweak the FM synth... 😍
what a jam! incredible choice of genre as always
Thank you!
You cheat, everything sounds good thru a space echo and italo disco save the world!
Sometimes I have to reach for the big guns ;)
I always seem to hit the like button just right after the intros.
hope you are staying covid free 👍
Thanks! I hope for the best!
Ok...my new bucket list is a jam session with audiopilz using bad gear! Great video and jams! :)
Thanks!
My and my friend had a linn drum at his house. We set it up next to his DAW; selected Linn Drum sounds; and there was no discernable difference.
The moral of the story is: stop waiting for over-hyped gear, and start writing better songs with what you have.
I bought a RX15 a few weeks ago and I am realy happy with it. An equalizer is helpfull if you want to have a more powerfull sound. Its a really nice drum computer.
Compression helps too!
AudioPilz thank you, I will test this soon! Another idea of „bad gear“ is the Roland human rhythm composer R5 or R8. The price of this drum computer is similar to the price of a RX15 or RX11. I have one and don‘t know all of the functions, but it seems to be really cool. So maybe this is another idea for you :D
@@tomskley8864 had the R8m on the show. Great stuff!
Klon for 500k- "not a joke", well technically incorrect, it is a joke by Josh from JHS.
I would say it's all but a joke from a marketing perspective ;)
@@AudioPilz buy it or don't, Josh doesn't care ;) deep inside he probably does, he's been killing it on YT, is loved by the fans and this stunt added massively to the publicity of JHS. Watch the stream where he reads comments about the Reverb listing for an hour, hilarious AF.
I do agree that every engineer and musician should have an old school drum sampler in the toolbox. Mine is the Alesis SR-16 that this very channel turned me on to. Has become quite a regular in my setup.
Love the SR-16 for being so usable
The Uno Drum is probably the best sounding drum machine around at the moment. Very underated. I absolutely love mine. The sounds are so natural.
Good to know, I need to try one!
@@AudioPilz You will not be disappointed. I would love to see your thoughts and a review of it. I got mine from Amazon.
I had a DSR-2000 which seems to have had the same drum kit as this. It was truly horrible.
And yet I miss it greatly.
Nice one!
Meh 🤷♂️,
this thing should be sitting on blocks in the back yard surrounded by tractor tire planters. It’s pretty useless sounding and aging badly.
Sorry Wendy 😂
The words Wendy found for it can't be used on YT ;)
The RX5 was the first drum machine I learned to program we used to pair it with a ensoniq eps
That's a nice 80s setup!
That is the nicest space echo I've ever seen. Thanks for throwing that into the mix. 😉
❤️It's the family Space Echo serviced by the Moses of Space Echoes❤️
I have a feeling that Behringer's Klark Teknik brand might be cloning one or at least I hope they do. They recently cloned the Roland Dimension D. I mean why not do the Space Echo we've all been waiting for right?
@@187onasimp not sure if the Big B has the production facilities for tape equipment
The additional kicks and snares on the RX11 make it a solid choice for the Better Gear category, plus it's a perfect drum machine for blast beats!
Mmmmmmh, blast beats...
Yup, I love the sounds of these kinda limited 80s digital drum machines. Good 80s gated kicks, snares and toms go with everything. Cymbals, hihats and that stuff I let the analog machines handle. As you said, you don't need many of these things, but everybody should have one.
They are music production staples!
Like clothing fashion, production tastes cycle in long loops back to the older stuff. I love these old 12bit pcm units specifically for their dirty sound and limitations. They force you to get more creative with a limited palate.
Hey I just got an RX-5 a month ago! I love the sound of these machines, they are perfectly 80's for me. At least the RX-5, sits great in a modern mix with some processing.
Agreed! They are super usable in pro production
Ahh, to come home after a stressful day to find a new AudioPilz episode posted... That's good stuff!
Thanks for watching!
@@AudioPilz It's always a pleasure :)
I can't believe how entertaining these reviews are
Thank you!!!