5 Weird Tape Machines
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2020
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Is first of October happening this year? I figure not.
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I'm so disappointed that you did not use the cv out from the one tape loop to go into the marantz.
That dictaphone thing -- my late grandfather had a few of those, he had used them to take recordings of me singing and reciting nursery rhymes as a toddler.
I remember the sound quality being awful from him playing them for me over the years. He never threw them away. I'm sure there's still stashed somewhere in my grandparents house even though he passed away 7 years ago. I'd completely forgotten about them until now, and my heart just warmed right up the moment I saw you pull that out -- I suddenly see my granddad laughing while playing those childhood recordings of my voice for me :))) A visceral memory of a sight I've sorely missed. Miss you Dadun.
Awww, that's such a sweet story. I bet he's in a good place now.
@@michaeljfan9720 yes :))) the atoms that made up his body are still around, after all
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So true
To the tune of Weird Gear: "Weird Year"
Coronavirus !
This joke is so good it deserves a Weird Cheer
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Woah, I wasn't expecting it to get so Weird Here.
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So like the 2020's?
Hey lets call this year The Year that never Was
@@NSMITH8516 any time someone asks we can just say "never mind all that!"
Is that basically just the life of a music producer
@@obamagaming4166 eeh you say 2020's? Let's hope we can solve it soon tho, I'm getting bored
It’s great how you included the modded Walkman CV in not working as expected, part of the not so romanticized reality when working with old analog gear.
I used to use a dictaphone at work in the 1980s. It was to dictate stuff to be typed up by our typing pool. from what I remember of the time, the typical use was to do the same and also to leave instructions for a secretary.
baby tape
7:17 I imagine that lofi guitar part exploding into a math rock song
That would be sick.
Kero Kero shit
Boards of canada!
I could see ichika nito doing something like that
some elephant gym
You could basically solder a jack out to the speaker wires of the dictaphone and use it as an output! It should be ok from such a tiny machine
Simon the Magpie does it all the time, so I'm suuuuure it's fiiiiiiine :D
Eh, it can get a little impeded, but for a quick fix it’s completely fine.
8-bit keys says that'll work, but it may come off as a hot signal,
yeah this is stupid easy, did it all the time with circuit bent keyboards before I had any idea what I was doing and it always sounded at least drastically better than the built in speakers.
Also, microcassettes will fit in any other microcassette recorder and they're super easy to find. Many have outputs. Or if you wanted to get real freaky, the tape itself is the same size as standard cassette and write you could meticulously put it in a cassette casing.
@@ubergamer0198 Just add a resistor to drop the signal.
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Yes! Nice to see you work some magic on the Cassette Echo and put the CV to good use
I had a dictaphone as a kid and I pretended I was a detective with it
hahaha me too, but an investigative journalist
When I worked in an office back in the 80's some guy came in and asked if he could use my dictaphone. I told him "no, use your finger like everyone else."
@@Queer_Nerd_For_Human_Justice maybe thats your dream job?
3:00 I love literally everything about this sound
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You could probably hack that dictaphone with a crude output by simply ripping the speaker out and connecting the leads to a jack. The Magpie has a video about doing that to toys and stuff.
Would be nice to know the output level and impedance for attenuation and loading
Andrew you forgot to mention that the vocu vte 2000 also has a feature that no other tape echo I know of or can think of has.
You can hook up an expression pedal to it and make the echo a slave to your expression. Which is the main reason why you should even want to own one. Not even the roland space echo has that feature...Which makes it probably the most unique tape echo in the world...Just my two cents to add to this amazing review of awesome gear...Have a magnificent day...
6:20 wayback when my father who is a medical specialist used a dictaphone to record letters.They'd speak the letter onto a tape and the secretary would then type them out and add them to the patients file or send them to the general doctor of a patient etc. These medical secretaries would have to know a lot about medical terms and medicine in general, quite a profession.
To be able to listen back to those tapes while typing they used footcontrolled tape readers, some of which may have found their way onto a podium of a creative artist I guess.
YES with the tape stuff, todays sounds on tape is like a whole new experience 💙
You sir have just shown me how some of my favorite tracks are made. I thank you.
Seeing that dictaphone make me really want Teenage Engineering to make a Pocket Operator Tape which can turn either recorded in or pre set sounds into lofi sounds (even more than POs already do)
Your first Marantz creation deserves to be in the next big budget horror film. Truly unnerving and beautifully frightening.
For the dictaphone, you should look into getting an induction microphone. They used to be like $12 at RadioShack so I'm sure you can find a cheap one online.
But that would be the next best thing to recording from a line out as it essentially records the magnetic frequencies of the speaker and translates that back into audio.
Love that Scott Campbell Marantz. I have a Marantz pmd222 modded so that the speed controls work during playback meaning it can be used as an echo provided you have an external mixer. Which i love love love. But all integrated like that is dope
Such cool effects! I love the last one.
The last tape delay sounds so good. I love the character it adds to the sound.
Decades ago, early 80's, I was learning drums and I used to jam with a guitarist friend at his house. I used his entertainment system as a PA for my drums via the cassette deck, plugging in 2 microphones into the front of it. I placed the microphones in the general vicinity of the drums, pressed record/pause on the tape deck, creating a reverb effect. It made my drum kit sound really FAT !!! I loved it!
When can we get “Weird Gear” as a ring tone, I like it so much.
Audacity, my friend. Wouldn't be surprised if Andrew has a video on how to use it haha.
6:15 the Aesthetics on this are soo pleasing
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Such a great video and honestly, your production value is through the roof! You're one of my favorite content creators 👍
This was truly weird Gear for a even weirder time in human history.
I think that at this point, with his capacity of experimentation and sound design plus his musical knowledge, Andrew should just start scoring movies or videogames.
I've always had a strange fascination with tape and started experimenting with it in the early 90's. Love how the character changes as it ages and degrades. Had a dictaphone that I used for recording guitar ideas as well as a boombox with a built-in mic with variable speed playback lol.
this is so cool, i got excited watching this
Yes! My favorite show is back!
It's like you are reading my mind, i was thinking about getting a tape machine and there you go, you make a video. Much love!
I just randomly discovered your channel and I’m HOOKED. Keep up the good work!!
Imagine having all of Andrew's gear.. a dream come true.
I miss this series, amazing
At about 3:15 it starts getting real close to the Hyper Light Drifter Soundtrack by Disasterpeace. Very cool.
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I'm so inspired after watching your videos!
Weird gear!!!!! Welcome back, one of my most favorite youtube series.
The hand-crank one is cool, definitely some good scritchy-scratchy action, and I really dig the whole circuit board aesthetic, but there's something almost hypnotic about the VOCU with seeing the tape flail about yet never twist or fold on itself.
You gotta make more this is such an interesting series
Extra nice lighting and video quality on this vid I felt!
Drummer 45+ years infatuated with Mr.Huang, thank you for helping me get through the last 6 months ! Much love from Detroit MI.
Can't believe you actually got a Dictaphone in there. I used to do clerical work, typing doctor reports post clinic. The doctors used Dictaphones to record their patient assessments. The old cassette ones were being used up until 8 years ago when I left that job. We had special cassette players (much larger than the Dictaphone itself) for those small cassettes that would play the audio back, and had a foot pedal attached so you could pause, fast-forward and rewind easily while your hands were free to type audio you listened to through headphones: one of the worst things I did was accidentally erase a cassette full of doctor reports, when I accidentally switched cassettes and thought I was erasing an already typed set of reports: doctor was far from happy: the good old days.
Anyway It's probably all gone digital now so there are always at least two copies. The ones online and 'hopefully' the copy still on the digital Dictaphones. But, it's funny seeing one featured on your channel, the last place I would expect to see one of those.
I had a dictaphone as a kid, and we had so much fun with it. The thing was that you could tweak the playback speed by sliding the knob past play, but not all the way to FFW. It is a feature on most dictaphones, so that if you are transcribing an interwiew for instance, you can fast track back and forth through the recording without ever stopping the tape. By wiggling the knob, recorded speech would turn into the most hilarious garbled mess.
Well, hilarious to a 10-year old at least.
Btw, the same kind of tapes were often used in answering machines in the 80's
(that's a voice message machine that hooked up to your home telephone, to you kids out there)
Wow! Great single
Maaaaaan that gritty lofi beat at the end with the Marantz was killer. Could've listened to that a bit longer. Keep it up!
The video production on this one is really ace. Some really impressive shots at 10:48
Yay! Another episode:)
I still have three microcassette recorders from back in the day (i.e., late 1970s - 1986). Sony had some very nice ones. I used them for recording class lessons when I was in France and I could replay them to make sure I got all the material in the lectures.
you elevate these videos to art Andrew
Finally, we've got that amazing video!
Man, I missed this series so much!
oh boy oh boy this is awesome. this kinda content is totally why im subscribed
7:55 Why not delve into the world of modding and give it an output :) I’d definitely watch that.
I love tape delay. That VOCU looks so cool!
What a creative and interesting video - very nice job.
Please do more tape videos!! Anyways amazing job as always :)
you always have great content . glad I subscribed
I have one of those little mini tape dictaphones, they're great! Mine will play through as you fast-forward or rewind so you can kinda get that scratching effect.
This is Heinbach's specialty!!!
Yeah that's what I thought too
@@JuHoCH they should collab, they have different approach to using this technique.
It would be interesting to see them do something together
You were so close to losing your synthological credentials. 😲 Got in just in time, whew.
@@Monkeyshaman I don't know what you mean, and at this point I'm too afraid to ask
@Walter B he's amazing!
Tape machines have some of the best distortion I've heard, I started using tape machine effects and loving the sound.
YES ANDREW!!!
New Weird Gear for my birthday, thanks Andrew!
The spooky ambient part with the 5th tape thing was awesome :o
Really enjoyed the camera work 😄
Weird Gear is back!!!! WOOO!
Also, congrats on 2 mil!
The audio quality of your videos is miles above most albums I listen to so.... Well done.
11:08 gives me major Burial: Untrue vibes.. ... I’m here for it 100%
I want that last tape device, analog is sooo cool
I needed this video I was looking for some tape shit this is fantastic
Sooo cool !
Another one trick: cassette converter (for old car radiocassette) put this in walkman (or stereo deck with dolby) and use in realtime like a distortion box, lo-fi effect or Dolby NR reduction
Out converter-->cassette converter-->Walkman or deck in Play--> return in converter
That vocu is super nice and compact. I like it.
Yay weird gear is back!!
No idea how I missed this. Love the series! Some really cool stuff there, love tape. Btw, you and Hainbach should do a colab. THAT would be interesting! :)
it's quite hilarious that you find the Dictaphone so strange and archaic. These things were everywhere when I was in my teens. ( Not So long ago!! )
I still have My late Mother's and hers was usb with no cassette tape.
I need a VOCU, its def my favorite. Probably the visual tape got me hypnotized. Im scouring the internet now.
4:13 this sound like something I would hear off of Sung Tongs or something. I really dig it. I just immediately thought of songs like Kids on Holiday and Who Could Win A Rabbit.
It's been a weird year but I'm looking forward to hearing some weird gear.
You deserve all the success and more my dude. Your content is always top notch and inspiring. Keep it up bro!
I totally dozed off at 10:50 ,it was so peaceful. And the moment you started talking again scared the shit out of me🤣
YES THE DICTAPHONE!!! Yessss.
And your tape on repairing IBM machines in the modded Walkman. I see you.
I NEEDED THIS, I THOUGHT WEIRD GEAR WAS GONE FOR GOOD!
that last moment with the tape echo was so satisfying
Thanks Andrew.. you rock. I’ve missed you..;-)
Had a Sony dictaphone that used normal size cassettes, had a dial for changing the speed, and u could record half speed.
Best £25 I ever had! Also picked up a Watkins copycat at a car boot sale, love that thing!!!
The one note loop tape switch has built-in portamento because of how the speed changes. THAT'S SO COOL!
Yay, Weird Gear is back!
8:08, the tape that is playing is also used at the beginning of the song 'Dare to Tread' by Tall Dwarfs.
and Friquencies by K-otix. still trying to figure out where is it from.
I love you videos Andrew. I want to take your course so bad I just can't afford it right now.
That's a beautiful Intellijel set up. Trying to get into abit of Modular, really like these small compact units.
This is probably my favorite of your gear episodes.
Straight cosmic horror vibes with that end bit my dude. Sp00ky
Oh, that second Marantz sequence is great halloween music!!!