How to make a (really) lofi DIY tape delay.

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  • Опубликовано: 16 сен 2019
  • Instagram: / project_null0
    In this video, I will show you how I made my tape echo.
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  • @jimmy_jamesjams_a_lot4171
    @jimmy_jamesjams_a_lot4171 4 года назад +50

    I GIVE MUCH RESPECT FOR WHIPPING OUT THE 5$ SOLDERING IRON, TINNING YOUR TIP, THEN PROCEEDING TO DO A COMPLETE PROFESSIONAL DESOLDERING JOB!! We don’t need no Hakko. THANKS FOR SHARING THIS!!

    • @djSpinege
      @djSpinege 4 месяца назад +2

      I used cheap irons for like 20 years until i could afford a Hakko. It's nice but yeah, it's all the same
      if you take good care of your tips.

  • @MrStarbit
    @MrStarbit 4 года назад +67

    Great minds think alike I've done something similar myself. love the little touch of using the little pressure pad. Instead of sacrificing another cassette player I've bought a load of those adapters to plug an aux into a car cassette player. They're just tape heads attached to a aux cable I plug directly into so my mixer and add gain no soldering or sacrificing required :)

    • @tommychampion8483
      @tommychampion8483 4 года назад +7

      that sounds awesome - can you explain that process a little more in detail? Do you plug the cassette aux adapter into the line in of another tape player and then into the mixer? I am curious to try it myself

    • @MikePaldino
      @MikePaldino 4 года назад +2

      How does that work?! I have a bunch of them- would love to try it out!!

    • @singhjobim9719
      @singhjobim9719 3 года назад

      @@tommychampion8483 You'd have to see one , it is basically a cassette with a wire coming out of the back edge. you can insert into an automobile cassette player as use it as a way to amplify your cd player. www.ebay.com/i/353304566605?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-213727-13078-0&mkcid=2&itemid=353304566605&targetid=4580840328167961&device=c&mktype=&googleloc=&poi=&campaignid=403204656&mkgroupid=1235851284511226&rlsatarget=pla-4580840328167961&abcId=9300377&merchantid=51291&msclkid=ceb957ae9a541fd36266084f0499452f

    • @TALA-lu5ck
      @TALA-lu5ck 3 года назад +1

      don't u miss out on a lot of EQ'ing, amplification and biassing stuff skipping the walkman's own amplification circuit?

    • @grontti
      @grontti 2 года назад

      Do you rip out the tape head from the cassette adapter or how do you make delay out from it?

  • @axel_fagerberg
    @axel_fagerberg 4 года назад +11

    Beautiful!!! Love this approach, it's the simplest I've seen so far

  • @davejones5745
    @davejones5745 Год назад +1

    Everything done on analog tape machines. No computer interface, DAW ect...I like that!

  • @infinitesmall
    @infinitesmall 4 года назад +15

    This is amazing, thank you!!!!! The music during the assembly part was also very beautiful

  • @darthvader5701
    @darthvader5701 4 года назад +1

    This is brilliant, just what I was looking for, thank you for this solution that will save me hours of brainstorming.

  • @dr.baisakhi
    @dr.baisakhi 4 года назад +5

    The background music is very eerie and have feeling of emptiness...

  • @kanesmith8271
    @kanesmith8271 3 года назад +6

    This music makes me cry on the inside 😿 👍

  • @glenesis
    @glenesis 4 года назад +3

    Thanks! You are a madman. I appreciate it so much! I wish I'd thought of this in the 1980s when I was tearing tape decks and cassettes apart! I may buy a $15 Walkman and do this anyway. Nice kalimba playing!! Cheers :)

  • @JavierLN0
    @JavierLN0 4 года назад +1

    AMAZING!!! Soo beautiful! I will try it too! Thanks for sharing!!!

  • @j.wilcox3547
    @j.wilcox3547 2 года назад

    Cool video. Love the music playing while you are building the tape loop.

  • @SyncdAlien
    @SyncdAlien 4 года назад +2

    Insanely great! 😍 I love it! 😍

  • @User173
    @User173 4 года назад +1

    yessss!!! love it. I'm gonna try this.

  • @cadburrower3736
    @cadburrower3736 10 месяцев назад +1

    This inspires me to go to my local thrift store and start shoppin

  • @sennebaeyens8738
    @sennebaeyens8738 Месяц назад

    Love this!

  • @Oberheim2001
    @Oberheim2001 3 года назад

    This project is awesome my friend!!!! Really sick!!!

  • @laplantamichay
    @laplantamichay 4 месяца назад

    this is so cool!

  • @grahamdunning
    @grahamdunning 4 года назад +1

    Excellent! Works really well

  • @VintageMusicGearTV
    @VintageMusicGearTV 3 года назад

    Great idea presumably the head in the cassette is your delay head brilliant!

  • @stephend9756
    @stephend9756 4 года назад +1

    amazing job on this! Subscribed!

  • @andrebartels1690
    @andrebartels1690 4 года назад +4

    Such a great approach. No messing around with the precious speed-variable player, just a cassette that holds the read-head. Ingenious. I bet you could sell these things of you wanted.
    Remember these adaptor cassettes for your car stereo? They have a head and some mechanics in them. Maybe there is some playground in there, too. Just add some tape and some more fiddling. Just an idea.

  • @medbe4580
    @medbe4580 3 года назад

    Awesome!! Would love to give this a try!

  • @V3xxe
    @V3xxe 4 года назад +1

    I definitely need to do this. This is amazing.

    • @V3xxe
      @V3xxe 4 года назад

      @@projectnull Currently my music is on my channel VaultsOfExtoth, and on vaultsofextoth.bandcamp.com :)

  • @PrimitiveInTheExtreme
    @PrimitiveInTheExtreme 4 года назад +4

    ...very interesting, great job.

  • @jkennethking
    @jkennethking 9 месяцев назад

    I'm currently restoring an RCA SRT-301 reel-to-reel tape machine so that I can make super-long delay loops... hacking this into cassettes is super neat. Thanks for sharing!

    • @afk_hesh
      @afk_hesh 8 месяцев назад

      Is there a tutorial for creating reel to reel delays? I don't even have one yet but I'd love to see that process. Can't wait to get my first tape deck and start experimenting!!

  • @alien_brain
    @alien_brain 4 года назад +21

    this is f*****g awesome pardon my french

  • @V3xxe
    @V3xxe 4 года назад +2

    Just realised that the tape player I'm using for this is one of those Tape Grabber ones, so I can actually record the output of the tape echo via USB. That will come in handy!

    • @afk_hesh
      @afk_hesh 8 месяцев назад

      What make/model is it? I'd love to have that feature built into my first deck

  • @flapdance
    @flapdance 4 года назад +1

    I love the music in this video.

  • @magicalife3
    @magicalife3 7 месяцев назад

    the guitar riff is giving early Modest Mouse, love it

  • @Fu_kTheZeitgeist
    @Fu_kTheZeitgeist 4 года назад +2

    Awesome!!!

  • @ivorydunsty
    @ivorydunsty 4 года назад +1

    Awesome tutorial Nicolas, absolutely beautiful music my friend!!! I’ve always been interested to try this :-) Best wishes and hope you are well :-)

  • @avantlanuit
    @avantlanuit 5 месяцев назад

    Incroyable. Bravo

  • @futur_sunds
    @futur_sunds 3 года назад

    That's awesome.

  • @cjbcarr1
    @cjbcarr1 2 года назад

    damn that's cool. love all that pitch warble......sounds like you're playing a jazzmaster and yanking on the tremolo arm!

  • @copernicus808
    @copernicus808 3 года назад

    Quite clever, actually... thanks!

  • @DECIMA1
    @DECIMA1 2 года назад

    Wow this is awesome 👌

  • @DECIMA1
    @DECIMA1 3 года назад

    This is very awesome 👌

  • @southernpride2003
    @southernpride2003 5 месяцев назад

    I built one of These with my grandpa and we put it inside my Gibson ga5 reissue LP junior tube amp it sounds like an Echosonic now I forgot to Mention that we made it a little bigger and the first input jack on the amp is the slapback echo option and the second output is just dry/normal

  • @noelr8546
    @noelr8546 3 года назад

    I just copped a Walkman which I don’t intend to break lol but I love what you’re doing

  • @ostrol1590
    @ostrol1590 4 года назад +10

    Man I FEEL you on this. Been browsing ebay like a madman but 3-heads are outrageously expensive.. praying behringer makes a clone ehe until then! looks dope

    • @tristanwh9466
      @tristanwh9466 Год назад

      If you want to take a step up you can usually find lower end reel to reels for under $100, they almost all have three heads and can handle longer tape loops

  • @apachecou
    @apachecou 2 года назад

    that's really good!.. I'm wondering if more heads are added... but your DIY tape delay gave me good ideas!..thank you!!!

  • @marcussmithereens-smithert5409
    @marcussmithereens-smithert5409 4 года назад +36

    Hoooolyyyyy THIS IS INCREDIBLE.
    I really hope this doesn't stay in my watch later list, and I actually give it a shot... We'll see... 😁

  • @NatePerdomo
    @NatePerdomo 4 года назад +2

    very cool tutorial, but the music was honestly my fav part. 11/10 track.

  • @Mike-ry4ti
    @Mike-ry4ti 2 года назад

    Well done, if you wanted a very tidy design you could wire in the secondary head to the playback circuit and use the same amplifier as the primary in playback mode

  • @Wolf_K
    @Wolf_K 3 года назад

    Very interesting way of doing it. ;)

  • @therelaxafterrevision8073
    @therelaxafterrevision8073 3 года назад

    gorgeous

  • @luxbuster2087
    @luxbuster2087 3 года назад

    oh WOW all the methods ive seen use multi hundred dollar equpment. gonna try this with a couple of walkmans i got at the flea market! thanks for the idea!

  • @Aldoistaken
    @Aldoistaken 4 года назад +2

    Pretty damn cool!

    • @Aldoistaken
      @Aldoistaken 4 года назад

      Oh merci c'est cool! Tes performances sont vraiment superbes, ça me donne envie d'intégrer plus de tape loops dans mes vidéos. :)

  • @MaNi-cn7to
    @MaNi-cn7to 3 года назад

    Thx and nice!

  • @benringer5149
    @benringer5149 4 года назад

    Hey mate great video do you have any recommendations for soldering irons please?

  • @MarcosCine
    @MarcosCine 3 года назад

    How do you control Sony Pitch speed control during Recording? In the manual says that speed control only works at playback.

  • @kaffekrus2903
    @kaffekrus2903 4 года назад

    Hey man this is awesome! Would a 48 watt, 150-450 degrees celsius soldering station work for this? And how warm?

  • @Xtn1Insecticide
    @Xtn1Insecticide Месяц назад

    Lol i had the same idea but built one with the tape head nearer the record head and didn’t creat a loop but shorted the tape length to accommodate the head

  • @frankcoleman9005
    @frankcoleman9005 4 года назад +1

    If you swapped the player that you modified with the other one, wouldn't that enable you to control the speed of the delay?

  • @christiantorma2440
    @christiantorma2440 3 месяца назад

    Sehr sehr interessant 😊

  • @ralphk.j7809
    @ralphk.j7809 3 года назад

    What synths did you use for the background music

  • @ACURAOCULTA
    @ACURAOCULTA 3 года назад

    Very very good

  • @domenicojuniorgiordano3972
    @domenicojuniorgiordano3972 4 года назад

    I've just one of these but I've a lot of ground noise! Any suggestions?
    By the way thanks for the tutorial, it's awesome!

  • @carlosdelrio8309
    @carlosdelrio8309 4 года назад +2

    Hey this is great! I've been bending and playing a bit with cassette recorders and had a similar idea. Let me see if I get this clear: you're recording into the looped cassette with the non-opened Sony, but playing from the opened one? Because I was thinking in using a recorder that has "direct input monitoring" while recording, so that way you could use only 1 unit + the modded cassette inside, and get the live sound while recording + the sound from the read head inside the cassette (I don't know if this makes sense). What do you think?

    • @ReasonanceHead
      @ReasonanceHead 4 года назад +1

      Should work i think, just connect the play head to another player or amp and make sure the heads are aligned in the right order. Im gonna try this too because its damn hard to align an extra tape head in a cassette recorder

  • @PeteSasqwax
    @PeteSasqwax 4 года назад +2

    Man, I absolutely LOVE this. I have a couple of Sony TCM-20DV dictaphones that I was going to modify with jacks on the speed dial to control them via CV, but now I have to try this! Am I right in thinking that the 3rd head only needs to be a play head so an old (non-recording) Walkman would work?

    • @PeteSasqwax
      @PeteSasqwax 4 года назад +1

      @@projectnull thank you, man - I absolutely will do. I'm aiming to do it this weekend at the latest. If I can get it to work like this I like the idea of trying to find a way of varying the placement of the 3rd head to change the delay time.
      As for the CV control - it looks surprisingly simple (Chris Randall has shown how to do it on a video possible on his RUclips but maybe it's on the Audio Damage one). Although I don't have modular as such, I do have a Koma Elektronik Field Kit FX and also a MIDI to CV converter so I should hopefully be able to make some kind of weird lo-fi Mellotron... maybe!

  • @Jonas0Wahl
    @Jonas0Wahl 3 года назад

    I'm trying to achieve the same! Would it be possible with just a hitachi trq295 and a player?

  • @labrax.0
    @labrax.0 Год назад

    Wowee I have one of those pure gamma tapes

  • @lawrencethewolf
    @lawrencethewolf 2 года назад

    project null meets the caretaker

  • @martinmonaco600
    @martinmonaco600 4 месяца назад

    the sony output goes to the head inside the casette? The opened black walkman only is playing, right?

  • @256k_
    @256k_ 4 года назад +2

    oh man i really wanna make this. now where to find a cheap tape recorder or two...

  • @regular_rodro
    @regular_rodro 4 года назад

    This could be do it with a minidisc player?

  • @wurzel6857
    @wurzel6857 4 года назад +1

    instant submers

  • @beachdoggo7892
    @beachdoggo7892 4 года назад

    What’s the Sony tape player your using?

  • @ProfLuisHerrera
    @ProfLuisHerrera 3 года назад

    Analog ways are the best!

  • @theycallmedub
    @theycallmedub 4 года назад +2

    😌

  • @ShakyPr0ducti0n
    @ShakyPr0ducti0n 3 года назад

    You’ve sold it to me. I’m going to give it a try for sure. Potentially dumb question... Could you add a second head and wire it back to the same place as the first head? So you get a further delay?

  • @canalesqueleto2323
    @canalesqueleto2323 4 года назад

    Me podrias recomendar algun esquema de amplificador con 358??

  • @mewmew32
    @mewmew32 4 месяца назад

    I don't get it, if you're recording on the unmodified tape player, isn't the erase head still engaged?

  • @rabbitholereins6360
    @rabbitholereins6360 4 года назад

    Now I have to get a few walkmans

  • @sungkeh
    @sungkeh 3 года назад

    holly damn

  • @MatthewFraser1
    @MatthewFraser1 3 года назад

    Just waiting for Bob Pollard to start singing at any moment.

  • @seanh3479
    @seanh3479 4 года назад +6

    Whats the name of this song? I looked around at your bandcamp and couldn't find it!

    • @john-vg9lg
      @john-vg9lg 3 года назад

      Did yiu find it?

    • @seanh3479
      @seanh3479 3 года назад +1

      @@john-vg9lg Yeah it was titled 'Darude - Sandstorm'

    • @john-vg9lg
      @john-vg9lg 3 года назад

      @@seanh3479 XDDD

  • @DesertPunks
    @DesertPunks 2 года назад

    Is this one of your songs in the background?

  • @sebecksonidoshorribles7652
    @sebecksonidoshorribles7652 3 года назад +3

    5:59 🤤🤤

  • @upside-down6211
    @upside-down6211 Год назад

    Is it real time tape delay or just record?

  • @simonb1009
    @simonb1009 3 года назад

    Why do you use cheap recorder but no player?

  • @wordviruses
    @wordviruses 3 года назад

    I would kill to have this as a vst

  • @necrophage137
    @necrophage137 4 года назад +1

    That sound 😍
    what's the chords at 6:48?

  • @jasonb202020
    @jasonb202020 3 месяца назад

    kkkkkkkkkkkkk king of snake

  • @chaz1182
    @chaz1182 4 года назад

    mad man putting a tape head inside a cassette

  • @user-ou3gq1kd1i
    @user-ou3gq1kd1i Год назад

    ни чё не понял,но всё равно круто

  • @woosix7735
    @woosix7735 3 года назад

    You should have put the second head closer to the record head

  • @analog_music_lover
    @analog_music_lover 4 года назад

    tape is too short

    • @TheBaconWizard
      @TheBaconWizard 4 года назад +1

      No.

    • @zackhartmann
      @zackhartmann 3 года назад

      its the standard short loop length, easy to make. there are plenty of longer designs like the Chandler loop, or you can get creative and make your own. the tape doesnt even need to stay inside the cassette, you could string it across the room if you wanted

  • @davelordy
    @davelordy Год назад

    Great idea, terrible instructional video . . . the little parts we are meant to be paying attention to, how they are put together, where they go, how they are arranged - and so on - often take up less than 1/100th of the screen real estate . . . I'm not exaggerating here . . . very hard to see what you doing.