Exploring A Forgotten Treasure: AMPEX AG 20 Reel-To-Reel

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  • Опубликовано: 4 янв 2025

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  • @Hainbach
    @Hainbach  3 месяца назад +16

    Get our EP "Ghosts" now: hainbach.bandcamp.com/album/ghosts
    It is name your price for a week

  • @LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER
    @LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER 3 месяца назад +76

    Sorry about the prank at the start hainbach haha, i still shudder in my sleep about the heartbreak hahaha

    • @rp8564
      @rp8564 3 месяца назад +2

      Haha you rotter 😂

    • @snoballuk
      @snoballuk 3 месяца назад +1

      I got genuinely excited for a second, because when I was working in a school about 25 years ago I found a tape recorder in the back of a cupboard that looked exactly like the one you pranked Hainbach with.😂

    • @MrStefanDittrich
      @MrStefanDittrich 2 месяца назад

      that was fün

  • @bricelory9534
    @bricelory9534 3 месяца назад +24

    I absolutely love the growing friendship and collaboration between you and Sam. Both of your experiences, skills, and tastes come together to really create something special! This was such a fun video!

    • @Hainbach
      @Hainbach  3 месяца назад +10

      Thank you Bryce! These collabs are truly fun to make, even if we are dead by the end

  • @jankrupic2223
    @jankrupic2223 2 месяца назад +1

    I rarely comment but I have to say I completely adore a Stefan and Same collaboration. It’s amazing to see two different people with the same love for their passion and it warms my heart to see your willingness to travel between borders to geek out and make inspiring music. These type of videos are by far my favourite kind. What a beautiful friendship you have

  • @Banquet...
    @Banquet... 3 месяца назад +13

    'The speaker has shaken itself loose... there's too much bass!!' Now there's an opening line to a killer track!

    • @JAMIEPHILLIPS-g3j
      @JAMIEPHILLIPS-g3j 3 месяца назад +2

      So, we decided to take our work underground, to stop it falling into the wrong hands,,,

  • @maneatingseas
    @maneatingseas 2 месяца назад

    thanks for bringing a great big smile, kids, you inveterate dreamers! Love

  • @kikkirow
    @kikkirow 2 месяца назад +1

    These collabs between you two are magical :)

  • @mikenoface
    @mikenoface 3 месяца назад +5

    When you get to the outdoor setup, it takes me back...to 1997 when there was very little portable gear available. My friend and I sat at the beach with a Dr. Sample Sp-202, a Casio CZ, and a Sharp mini-disc recorder.

  • @michaelkonomos
    @michaelkonomos 2 месяца назад

    What a great duo! Love seeing you all work together. What a great video and very cool music.

  • @paulcooper9943
    @paulcooper9943 2 месяца назад

    what a great collaboration, great video, love the work both of you do.

  • @Projacked1
    @Projacked1 3 месяца назад +1

    Woaaah.....sweeeeet distortions, our best friends .
    Old gear just takes you to places.

  • @dillipphunbar7924
    @dillipphunbar7924 3 месяца назад +1

    You guys are gr8..love your enthusiasm. Ants'n'gulls working title. Niche joy.

  • @duncan-rmi
    @duncan-rmi 3 месяца назад +2

    as an impetuous youth in the early 80s, I possessed an EMI L4S, a reasonably rare & barely competent three-head portable open-reel machine. probably more deserving of the "british nagra" epithet, given its ancestry. now long gone, can't remember if it was a matrnal purge when I left home or if I binned it myself. of course, full of regret now that I didn't hang onto it. piles of other recorders here- cassette & ¼" but I wish I still had that L4.

  • @guitfidle
    @guitfidle 2 месяца назад

    Well this looks like loads of fun! Watching you guys really inspires me to make exprimental music and instruments (I've made a few now). I'd love to meet you guys and just BS about music for a bit ❤😂

  • @hairypaulmm7wab195
    @hairypaulmm7wab195 2 месяца назад

    Excellent find. Simpson has been around for a long time, I have an old Simpson multi meter in the attic, good quality solid bit of kit that I have dragged around for years. It has outlived several modern meters and still going strong. Simpson Electric are still going. They produce a range of test meters, transformers, counters, encoders, sound and noise test instrumentation and specialist test gear. Might be worth You and Sam contacting them to see if You can get to play with some of their interesting kit. Keep on having fun with whatever You can get your hands on.

  • @DanielLinfield
    @DanielLinfield 3 месяца назад +7

    I like to see these creative maniacs together

  • @bricelory9534
    @bricelory9534 3 месяца назад

    I'm so glad I got to visit Ramsgate last year, even if Look Mum's No Computer wasn't open when I visited - it's just so lovely seeing the same beach I visited in creators' content I love!

  • @JimmyNuisance
    @JimmyNuisance 3 месяца назад +2

    The dynamic duo together again. Love it.

  • @MrStefanDittrich
    @MrStefanDittrich 2 месяца назад

    great setting in the woods

  • @IlBiggo
    @IlBiggo 3 месяца назад +2

    The lab I was working at in the early '80s made a portable broadcasting mixer in the same format as the Nagra's, as it was intended for multi-source recordings (e.g. conferences). Of course it had to be top quality, special pots, every connector gold-plated, near 0 tolerance components etc. It cost A LOT, around 5'000 CHF if I recall correctly. That would be almost $20K today.

  • @rp8564
    @rp8564 3 месяца назад +2

    Love it when you guys collaborate! Do you have a video on the small battery-operated test equipment?

    • @Hainbach
      @Hainbach  3 месяца назад

      Thanks! Basically that is the video on it

    • @rp8564
      @rp8564 3 месяца назад

      Oh nice, it's a much more manageable form factor in that size compared to the big stuff. Would be cool to see a Hainbach in-depth look ❤

  • @spinyuk
    @spinyuk 3 месяца назад +1

    Giving Clint Mansell a run for his money with the ant vs synth noises here :) do a Pi soundtrack remix :)

  • @DewtehDew
    @DewtehDew 3 месяца назад

    Love to collab videos, you guys are the best.

  • @mateuszgrzybek4419
    @mateuszgrzybek4419 3 месяца назад

    Man, such a shame that they produced so little of these machines, they look, and from what I can tell, work amazing. Would love to get my hands on one of these

  • @geenrecords6676
    @geenrecords6676 3 месяца назад +1

    Great thinking how to show the British flag ! Almost perfection with the saté prikker! ( the litle stick where you put meat on)

    • @Hainbach
      @Hainbach  3 месяца назад +1

      My daughter Ada made this for me ❤️

  • @SoundWaveSurfin
    @SoundWaveSurfin 3 месяца назад

    I love using gauss!!! That’s as close as I get to tape! Awesome app!!!!🤙

  • @ferrifet7267
    @ferrifet7267 3 месяца назад +1

    Tbf I'd say the actual british nagra would be the fi-cord 1A.
    Built by Erskine Laboratory in sunny ol Scarborough.
    Designed by stefan kudelski 😂

    • @Hainbach
      @Hainbach  3 месяца назад +2

      Did not know that one! But that was a license built Stellavox, not an original product

    • @ferrifet7267
      @ferrifet7267 3 месяца назад +1

      @@Hainbach aye that's a good point. Ya got me there 😂 I'd love to find one being a local!

  • @KosmoDeuz
    @KosmoDeuz 3 месяца назад

    Cool Video -guys🎉

  • @jameslambe9275
    @jameslambe9275 3 месяца назад

    CZ-101 in the wild! Yes 😊

  • @tigerjunge
    @tigerjunge 3 месяца назад

    Very inspirierend you both :)

  • @NicStage
    @NicStage 3 месяца назад

    Portable jam in the middle of forest? I'm solidly in your demographic on this one.

  • @b.slocumb7763
    @b.slocumb7763 3 месяца назад

    OMG the ants! That’s gonna haunt my dreams!

  • @DetroitMicroSound
    @DetroitMicroSound 3 месяца назад

    I wish ALL of your videos were this unscripted, and quicker paced! Also, cool seeing a CZ-101. I've had mine since the late 80's. It needs work, unfortunately.

  • @JAMIEPHILLIPS-g3j
    @JAMIEPHILLIPS-g3j 3 месяца назад

    Yo! Did I imagine it or did Sam have a Casio CZ101 in the forest, and,, lurking in the back of the museum studio? Ahh further along the video it is Clear! hahaha

  • @Macsimski2
    @Macsimski2 3 месяца назад

    looks more like a Uher report to me. push button control and even the power brick trick is the same. I wonder if they used uhers spindle drive.

    • @Hainbach
      @Hainbach  3 месяца назад +1

      While I am with you on the controls being similar and the power brick, this was made to compete with Nagra. It is way more solid and high quality than the Uher, especially note the three head system with tape monitoring, something that came to the Uher line only in the 80s.

    • @TorpidScorpionMusic
      @TorpidScorpionMusic Месяц назад

      Love my uhers, though.

  • @KaterKomPuter
    @KaterKomPuter 3 месяца назад

    You guys are hilarious ^^

  • @BiggoSuave
    @BiggoSuave 3 месяца назад +1

    Future emulation w/ @audiothing?

    • @Hainbach
      @Hainbach  3 месяца назад

      Well the phasing mechanism is interesting

    • @BiggoSuave
      @BiggoSuave 3 месяца назад

      @@Hainbach could be used as creative fx 4 sure

  • @johnkaplun9619
    @johnkaplun9619 2 месяца назад

    But isn't ampex from outside San Francisco?

    • @Hainbach
      @Hainbach  2 месяца назад

      Yes, but they had a branch in the UK that was developing on their own.

  • @metabeard3788
    @metabeard3788 3 месяца назад

    10 D batteries?! I've never seen anything with nearly that many

  • @tapeexperiments
    @tapeexperiments 3 месяца назад

    that day lookMum moved ants over to the equipment area.🐜🐜🐜🙃

  • @stuartchapman5171
    @stuartchapman5171 3 месяца назад +1

    I sincerely hope he never reveiws my go to open reel. I hope to be able to buy and run these for years. Nope don't ask, not telling lol.

  • @MrFlottgote
    @MrFlottgote 3 месяца назад

    This is as reel as it gets...

  • @b4chu5
    @b4chu5 2 месяца назад

    Daniel Craig's German voice actor wants his voice back 😉

  • @robnewton3368
    @robnewton3368 3 месяца назад

    Never mind the ants, that’s not the woods where they keep the bison ?

  • @MattyandtheMusic
    @MattyandtheMusic 3 месяца назад

    Where on earth are you guys? Does he just have a room full of teletubbies or is it a hallway? No complaints just wondering

    • @nov3c
      @nov3c 3 месяца назад +2

      They were at This Museum Is Not Obsolete, Sam's museum

    • @MattyandtheMusic
      @MattyandtheMusic 3 месяца назад +1

      @@nov3c Oh nice should visit one day

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 3 месяца назад

      @@MattyandtheMusic I desperately want to go and play about with all the stuff, but it’s a wee while away from Glasgow! Almost opposite side of the island…

  • @danosdotnl
    @danosdotnl 3 месяца назад

    use a contact mic to record ants!

  • @JAMIEPHILLIPS-g3j
    @JAMIEPHILLIPS-g3j 3 месяца назад

    Are They Flying Ants??

  • @curtishoffmann6956
    @curtishoffmann6956 3 месяца назад

    We are professionals. Ha.

  • @qwerty_studios
    @qwerty_studios 3 месяца назад

    reald

  • @BrunoWiebelt
    @BrunoWiebelt 3 месяца назад

    wie immer wumderbaum mit Gulaschduft

  • @peterlarkin762
    @peterlarkin762 3 месяца назад

    Bit of an anty climax.

  • @lofimat3856
    @lofimat3856 3 месяца назад

    Völlich Irree!!

  • @NullStaticVoid
    @NullStaticVoid 3 месяца назад

    Ampex was American, not British.

    • @Hainbach
      @Hainbach  3 месяца назад +1

      Yes, but they had a branch in England near Reading, where this was developed.

    • @NullStaticVoid
      @NullStaticVoid 3 месяца назад +1

      @@Hainbach yeah I gathered that from the later part of the video. So here I am with egg on my face.
      I used to work next to the original headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area, so I took it personally!