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@andrewhuang 4 года назад

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@dylancampbell3531 4 года назад

Is there an age requirement?

@markfigueroa1251 4 года назад

Is first of October happening this year? I figure not.

@andrewhuang 4 года назад

no age requirement!

@andrewhuang 4 года назад

Travel between Canada and the US is restricted

@iamsushi1056 4 года назад

I'm so disappointed that you did not use the cv out from the one tape loop to go into the marantz.

@Visleave 4 года назад

To the tune of Weird Gear: "Weird Year"

@swim_ad 4 года назад

Coronavirus !

@electron8262 4 года назад

This joke is so good it deserves a Weird Cheer

@jjmeehan 4 года назад

@@electron8262 im slightly afraid of where this might be going. its a weird fear

@politesociety 4 года назад

That's it. Off to the local craft brewery for a Weird Beer.

@isweartofuckinggod 4 года назад

Woah, I wasn't expecting it to get so Weird Here.

@NahreSol 4 года назад

Watching your videos is so enjoyable and satisfying but dangerous because I start to want gear that I don't have much space or use for 🙈

@BeauTylerMakesMusic 4 года назад

For real! Samesies.

@5hyguy42 4 года назад

Never too late to get into music production 🤷🏻‍♂️ even if you’ve spent most of your life on a piano 😂

@andrewhuang 4 года назад

😄 can’t wait til we can play together again

@Geleivis 4 года назад

or money

@NightVisionOfficial 4 года назад

So true

@TiyasBMenon-td4ti 4 года назад

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.

@michaeljfan9720 3 года назад

Awww, that's such a sweet story. I bet he's in a good place now.

@TiyasBMenon-td4ti 3 года назад

@@michaeljfan9720 yes :))) the atoms that made up his body are still around, after all

@sealard9635 4 года назад

I had a dictaphone as a kid and I pretended I was a detective with it

@Queer_Nerd_For_Human_Justice 3 года назад

hahaha me too, but an investigative journalist

@roguedisruptor123 3 года назад

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."

@OTisnochOT 3 года назад

@@Queer_Nerd_For_Human_Justice maybe thats your dream job?

@beeszn 4 года назад

a year without weird gear is like a decade without food, water, and social interaction.

@obamagaming4166 4 года назад

So like the 2020's?

@NSMITH8516 4 года назад

Hey lets call this year The Year that never Was

@paperfishstudios3144 4 года назад

@@NSMITH8516 any time someone asks we can just say "never mind all that!"

@DJ-kt5bk 4 года назад

Is that basically just the life of a music producer

@ycrep1993 4 года назад

@@obamagaming4166 eeh you say 2020's? Let's hope we can solve it soon tho, I'm getting bored

@StingrayForLife 4 года назад

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

@subzeroelectronics3022 4 года назад

Eh, it can get a little impeded, but for a quick fix it’s completely fine.

@ubergamer0198 4 года назад

8-bit keys says that'll work, but it may come off as a hot signal,

@ufffd 4 года назад

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.

@connorlinden9938 3 года назад

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.

@God-yb2cg 3 года назад

@@ubergamer0198 Just add a resistor to drop the signal.

@crunchyfrog555 4 года назад

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.

@Grahzzyhardcore 4 года назад

baby tape

@MilesKeep 4 года назад

The editing and B roll shots on these videos is truly next level, and I haven't even mentioned the music yet!

@yeshevishman 4 года назад

Duh. It's Andrew. Always been pro with videos.

@connormars3473 4 года назад

would you like to the mention the music then

@earkittycat Год назад

@@connormars3473 remove the first the

@themandownstairs4765 4 года назад

"oh dear, it's been a whole year since we did an episode of weird gear" andrew i knew you were a rapper but i didn't know you had such BARS

@salmiano2094 4 года назад

ANDREW PLEASE DROP SKIN CARE ROUTINE

@andrewhuang 4 года назад

Drink water, wash face with water

@gauravkamat420 4 года назад

#820hydrate

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#820hydrate

@ryandunklee634 4 года назад

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@lazerrrrr 4 года назад

#820hydrate

@TheCamilocedeno 4 года назад

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.

@chuchetuma 4 года назад

7:17 I imagine that lofi guitar part exploding into a math rock song

@drpibisback7680 4 года назад

That would be sick.

@Sukaichae 4 года назад

Kero Kero shit

@oiseaubaladeur 4 года назад

Boards of canada!

@senza4591 3 года назад

I could see ichika nito doing something like that

@-1707 3 года назад

some elephant gym

@ambiention 4 года назад

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.

@EpicStuffMan1000 4 года назад

Would be nice to know the output level and impedance for attenuation and loading

@Lalaland.001 4 года назад

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...

@tikishark1 4 года назад

Your first Marantz creation deserves to be in the next big budget horror film. Truly unnerving and beautifully frightening.

@TinyMaths 2 года назад

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.

@theweirdbritishguy5035 4 года назад

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)

@radio_zero 4 года назад

The last tape delay sounds so good. I love the character it adds to the sound.

@somaticjet2717 4 года назад

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

@JacobCarlson 4 года назад

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.

@scttcmpbll 4 года назад

Yes! Nice to see you work some magic on the Cassette Echo and put the CV to good use

@PoubelleKansas 11 месяцев назад

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.

@jaderene 4 года назад

This was truly weird Gear for a even weirder time in human history.

@oldskoolGfunk 4 года назад

This is Heinbach's specialty!!!

@JuHoCH 4 года назад

Yeah that's what I thought too

@oldskoolGfunk 4 года назад

@@JuHoCH they should collab, they have different approach to using this technique. It would be interesting to see them do something together

@Monkeyshaman 4 года назад

You were so close to losing your synthological credentials. 😲 Got in just in time, whew.

@oldskoolGfunk 4 года назад

@@Monkeyshaman I don't know what you mean, and at this point I'm too afraid to ask

@oldskoolGfunk 4 года назад

@Walter B he's amazing!

@electricarchaic 4 года назад

YES with the tape stuff, todays sounds on tape is like a whole new experience 💙

@zachsoussi4698 3 года назад

5:55 my 12 year old humor kicked in here

@giant3dorangutanmodel89 4 года назад

Currently taking a level music, absolutely loving it Thank you Andrew for inspiring me to pursue music!

@donvenod412 4 года назад

Imagine having all of Andrew's gear.. a dream come true.

@balthezur 4 года назад

When can we get “Weird Gear” as a ring tone, I like it so much.

@ufffd 4 года назад

Audacity, my friend. Wouldn't be surprised if Andrew has a video on how to use it haha.

@ThunderousMuffin 4 года назад

7:55 Why not delve into the world of modding and give it an output :) I’d definitely watch that.

@AnduNinicu 4 года назад

You could hear the NHS secretaries from UK gasp at the sight if the Dictaphone

@MeriaDuck 4 года назад

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.

@ricky7690 4 года назад

I totally dozed off at 10:50 ,it was so peaceful. And the moment you started talking again scared the shit out of me🤣

@mikefire98 4 года назад

I really liked the riffs on that old recorder.

@dijjidog 4 года назад

YES ANDREW!!!

@tuxer8345 2 года назад

7:45 open it it up, and you can get a 1/4in mount online, connect cables from the speaker to the jack, and just find where to mount it

@finngibson7431 4 года назад

10:25 is just Black Moth Super Rainbow

@fergusmenner5806 4 года назад

8:08, the tape that is playing is also used at the beginning of the song 'Dare to Tread' by Tall Dwarfs.

@BreezeGolf89 3 года назад

and Friquencies by K-otix. still trying to figure out where is it from.

@pesterenan 4 года назад

The intellijel bit reminded me of Blade Runner.

@aninternetweirdo 4 года назад

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.

@Aksaarben 4 года назад

I want that last tape device, analog is sooo cool

@tim_rizzo 3 года назад

Voltage controlled Marantz into VOCU would have been nice to hear!

@RedFeatheredRaven 4 года назад

Yes! My favorite show is back!

@lazyfoxplays8503 4 года назад

YES THE DICTAPHONE!!! Yessss. And your tape on repairing IBM machines in the modded Walkman. I see you.

@mefca86 4 года назад

The audio quality of your videos is miles above most albums I listen to so.... Well done.

@termsofuniverse7251 4 года назад

Tape machines have some of the best distortion I've heard, I started using tape machine effects and loving the sound.

@noahwinson8780 4 года назад

Hey Andrew, how is your earing loss coming along?

@jailun6758 4 года назад

bracelet loss

@spoonify8137 4 года назад

Drip loss

@maltalented 4 года назад

neckloss braceloss ring loss floss

@achintya333 4 года назад

rick ross

@edannoble4116 4 года назад

He found it dw

@ChrisE72 4 года назад

The spooky ambient part with the 5th tape thing was awesome :o

@SyncrisisVideos 4 года назад

The video production on this one is really ace. Some really impressive shots at 10:48

@lunamcgrath3266 4 года назад

The song with the Marantz and the tape loop gave me Fobidden Planet vibes

@SewerTapes 4 года назад

"I wish it had a line out." Just take it apart and feed the wires for the internal speaker into a jack.

@hifijohn 3 года назад

if you want to create a very grungy sound, record on a cassette then record that onto another cassette player ,back and forth until you get the low fidelity sound you want.

@gorkemgulan 4 года назад

Omg the vocu box sounds and looks greaaaaaat

@Timbobs 4 года назад

That dictaphone is like an instant Bibio machine 👌

@Daphoid 4 года назад

Hainbach says it’s good to have you back.

@jadenschulz1004 4 года назад

Andrew, if you plugged the the CV out from the hand cranked machine into the CV input on the walkman could you create a hand-and-tape powered FM synth?

@SlyHikari03 4 года назад

You need to work at spectrasonics/Native instruments. The patches/soundscapes you would create would be sick.

@Discostu102 4 года назад

At about 3:15 it starts getting real close to the Hyper Light Drifter Soundtrack by Disasterpeace. Very cool.

@thiagocosta3953 4 года назад

yessssss

@dylanthemusicnerd8280 4 года назад

Please please please do more weird gear, I almost died waiting

@wang2194 4 года назад

oh boy oh boy this is awesome. this kinda content is totally why im subscribed

@nevaknowmanamesame5089 4 года назад

Wow! Great single

@blunderbass851 4 года назад

Straight cosmic horror vibes with that end bit my dude. Sp00ky

@elmolewis9123 4 года назад

What a creative and interesting video - very nice job.

@spoonify8137 4 года назад

3:00 I love literally everything about this sound

@mvsr990 4 года назад

Sold my Onde Magnetique to get a Korg tape echo - awesome in its own right but I miss the OM with the built in compressor.

@familycraftdad 4 года назад

Weird Gear is back!!!! WOOO! Also, congrats on 2 mil!

@Gainsforlife 3 года назад

Quality of actual tape isn’t what is used to be when demand was high. This results in faster sound quality reduction through time

@reggiep75 4 года назад

Andrew Hainbach! 3:46 - This is a pretty unique & entertaining device and if it had a few philip's screw heads you could drive it with an electric screwdriver.

@matteonolli 4 года назад

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

@razvanab 4 года назад

There is a video of Alessandro Cortini using a tape device to make his music. I think is from the channel Reverb .

@luispower1979 4 года назад

I'm sure there is a way to put a line out on that thing... check circuit bending or something like that! I'd love to watch you do that!

@afridifacebook 4 года назад

Me (a normal producer) watching Andrew's videos: THIS IS MAGIC.

@jpnavarromusic 4 года назад

First? (3:32 sounded incredible)

@ramluvah 4 года назад

Yeh

@Ailgadem 4 года назад

I guess

@ShoH 4 года назад

I wish I could sign up for your class!!! It's always open when I'm in school sigh. You would be a dream teacher. You've already taught me so much just with little tips in your videos - thank you so much!!!

@adamtwigger2110 2 года назад

That's a beautiful Intellijel set up. Trying to get into abit of Modular, really like these small compact units.

@greganderson5972 3 года назад

They’re called “capstans”. And that thing (Landscape HC/TT) is awesome. I want. And, oh, don’t forget to #usetheknob

@alexhauptmann298 4 года назад

Wow, I've got a knockoff dictaphone lying around somewhere that my dad ALSO gave to me as a teenager. There's a few recordings of me as a Very Tiny Child, then all of a sudden I hit puberty and start recording my terrible angsty demos on the same tape. That's just what you do with a dictaphone, record random noodling on a guitar. :)

@alexhauptmann298 4 года назад

Also for what it's worth, if you know anyone who knows anything about electronics and/or circuit bending, it shouldn't be TOO hard to add a 3.5mm output to the dictaphone. Mine has a very weird, non-standard mono output that is SMALLER than 3.5mm. The only other thing I had lying around with the corresponding connector ended with a couple of alligator clips, so I basically recorded that by putting each clip on the tip and ring of a guitar cable. Janky as hell, but you gotta do what you gotta do.

@nerdHerder44 4 года назад

That VOCU logo is incredible.

@LTGuitarist 4 года назад

What if you recorded ON to a cassette tape whilst modulating the play/record speed? Is that possible? You could get some crazy layers of pitch alteration there if so. DOUBLE MODULAR TM.

@Zukez 3 года назад

Is there any piece of gear or plugin that creates variable speed and pitch like the hand crankers on the HTCC or the knob on the Frankenstein Walkman, but doesn't require actual tape?

@maxxlofmer 3 года назад

Such a great video and honestly, your production value is through the roof! You're one of my favorite content creators 👍

@steveworrell 2 года назад

If you're looking for a VST that does the job of the vocu I recommend bloom by fx pansion. It's not exact but I hear a lot of similarities between what Andrew was producing and the bloom.

@KingDracSiege 2 года назад

andrew you can just take the speaker out of that little tape machine and solder an output in its stead

@tarquinnff3 4 года назад

2:17 (continued at 12:10) Full track please! Major early Autechre vibes. Great stuff.

@alfiekennedy1657 4 года назад

Hear me out okay... a weekly modular synth livestream! I just wanna see u jam on your spaceship! (modular mondays?)

@lyva 4 года назад

I've got a dictaphone with a line out. Layering that with my Rode sounds really interesting and... weird.

@no-rj5by 4 года назад

I NEEDED THIS, I THOUGHT WEIRD GEAR WAS GONE FOR GOOD!

@mikepluma7896 4 года назад

Have you tried a Contact Mic on the Dictaphone? That's almost like a line out, right?

@AverytheCubanAmerican 4 года назад

Ah the Deluge and Vocu are speaking the language of the gods

@clashclashbangbang 4 года назад

Deluge!

@PaulBoos 3 года назад

Neat stuff! The Dictaphone was surprisingly interesting to me. I half expected you to cover Scott's OM-1 and while it doesn't actually use tape, I kind of thought you might have gotten into Error Instruments Broken Tape Machine.

@bcomnes1 4 года назад

Hey it doesn't have any actual tape but the Bastl Thyme is a digital space echo with a whole lot of modulation controls , and if yo real need tape hiss or saturation there are a bunch of apps to add that touch

@ofootyeabicc201 4 года назад

You could probably ask LMNC for help with the busted ones/modding on a headphone jack for audio.

@FusionHowie 4 года назад

Drummer 45+ years infatuated with Mr.Huang, thank you for helping me get through the last 6 months ! Much love from Detroit MI.

@MrSuperiorTech 3 года назад

For any of these devices that have a speaker, you could always try cracking it open and soldering the speaker wires to some kind of output. Just do some research to see how the original speaker is amplified.

@Aharshreality9281 4 года назад

you always have great content . glad I subscribed

@mattbanka7236 4 года назад

Andrew, I wish I had a dictaphone so I could just solder a line out for you. It's seriously the FASTEST fix ever. Just remove the 2 wires to the speaker and attach them to a mono output and bam, easiest jank fix ever.