Battery Operated is an experimental sound and art project with circuit-bending as the main focus. inside a backyard workshop in a small town in England, we tinker away at any junk we can get our hands on hoping to find an unintended use.
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Air fryer probably demagnetized the tape cuz heat. I'm more interested in what it would be like if the degraded tapes were as a delay (or w/e) to add a real-time write-read mod, instead of post-recording damage, to see what that is like?
Please make a diy tape delay guitar pedal with the ability to have really long feedbacks for some cool time knob space ship noises please i love the sound but i dont have the money to buy a t-rex tape delay or any other tape delay
I used iso to clean mould off VHS tapes. Good experiment. I liked crumple the most. There is a technique for restoring old damaged audio/video tapes. Oven baking at a certain temperature. Obviously not 200c. 😂 The air fryer temp destroyed the magnetism on the tape. Once you go beyond the threshold for extended period. Magnetism gone.
Hey Guys, the amateur camera work really makes your videos close to unwatchable. Please do some research on this. It is no wonder you only have 3.18k subscribers. The ideas are great but ffs..
Comprehensive af! Im wondering, could you do destruction loops with magnets somehow or do magnets just suck the sounds right off the tape straight away?
Worth noting the reason that A10k pot had so much range until after about halfway/12 o’clock is that it is a logarithmic pot and so the last 1/3rd of the rotation contributes to about 70% of the actual change in resistance
Would be cool to see a video where you do, alternate weird treatments for printing noise on the tapes that are blank. Obviously, some kind of magnetism is required so repetitious magnetic ideas. For example. Take one of those drinks, stirring motorized sticks, and place a magnet glued to one side of the tip, and turn that little motor on, and put the tape somewhere in close proximity, and let the frequency of that magnet, spinning on the motor impact the tape. This is just something I think might work theoretically and if so, there’s probably a lot more ways to do interesting magnetic influence
I see vids on here talking throu recording tape loops and they always mention disabling the erase head with a bit of tape...is the erase head already disabled on this? am quite new to this but this machine is persuading me!
you guys should look into super glue activator, wood workers use it all the time for gluing router templates to their work. Its basically an aerosol spray and what you'd do it apply your glue to where you want your roller to go and then give the roller a quick spray with the activator and then once you press the roller to the glue its instantly adhered. Or do it the way you did in the video but once you have the placement correct spray it with the activator and it'll instantly dry/adhere.
Differernt oils, sparing use boys. Glycerin. Isopropy alcohol drying in the loop! Ambient headcleaner. Also some of the 'failed' attempts heat, stretching are worth trying with a gentle cycle. More trials with strategic ball placement :)
