Bad Gear - Boss DR-3 Dr. Rhythm - Doctor Getting Worse??? 

YT didn't let me put the link into one of the top right corner cards: www.musicradar.com/news/who-is-the-best-online-music-tech-personality-of-2020

Truly terrible, so absolutely perfect. You should definitely win the award. I'll wote for you.

You're definitely gonna win personality of the year!

Half the reason I watch this show is just to see what crazy sub-sub genre of electronic music he’s going to showcase... and he never lets me down 🤣

"There's a cowbell in it too" Sold.

The thing that this series made me want more than anything is not Bad Gear, but in fact the unified currency of dollareuropound. All hail the Global Union.

I gigged with this for over 10 years. It worked like a dream for this piano bar entertainer. More punchy and fat sounding than the Alesis SR-16/SR-18 . I did however mute the bass part and used the bass sounds on my Motif and Roland RD pianos. The song/user style section was good for making gig lists. I had structured it so that I had four sets of songs ready, and I had the first 3 user styles as general-purpose ones to be able to requests on the fly - even mid-song, which the fill to new style undocumented feature does amazingly.

Glad you voted for Nick, he was your only competition for my vote. Naturally I voted for you bro 👊

Definitely got my vote, my favourite new YT channel of the year.

Let me add, why I look forward to watching your episodes: I work with Covid-19 patients, I listen to them and yes, shit has hit the fan for many in many ways, losing their jobs and worse, losing their lives. So after a long day at work, I plug my 2013 Apple wired earplugs into my now ancient iPhone 6 and relax with your funny, educational and pleasing visually videos. Thank you my friend and I hope you win this contest!

I’m Dr Rhythm and my prescription is more preset basslines

We call it "Aldis" in Chicago. We add the S to every grocery store, I don't know why.

I loved that bass filter sweep.

I asked my wife to vote or she could listen to me (try to) explain how FM synthesis work... She promptly voted.

As an amateur guitarist and past open mic host, this little unit has served me well but I only ever used the drum function with the recommended dual footswitch. For that kind of use, the unit is absolutely fantastic and is still going strong after many years. Being able to trigger the fill while paying through the beat pattern transitions is a lot of fun and the unit sounds pretty acceptable through an amp. Great for guitarists and keyboard players. I feel that I've had my money's worth out of this little unit many times over. A great review though by a highly technical reviewer, which I found very interesting. Informative and a lot of fun to watch. Thank you for a great post.

This is a drum machine for the solo live performing musicians, it can’t be compared to modern drum machines since all of modern drum machines are mostly made for production or electronic music and not for live performance, this one is in its own category, I love having 3 variations with 3 fills at the touch of a button plus intro and and ending buttons, I own 2 and use them to play live, I play in bars and restaurants and this baby works awesome for that, I wish Roland made more advance version of this one that would allow me to save the data and transfer it to a second drum machine or to have a backup, to this date I have not seen another drum machine that would be this easy to use during a live performance sometimes improvising songs that the audience asks me to play if anyone knows of another please replay and let me know :-)

Cuts to clip of public lavatory, i am crying

A friend gave me this piece of gear. Although I can’t operate the Apollo 13 rocket, or a submarine by myself, I *do* know how to push the “start here” button.

The first rule of dawless jamming is to never stop talking about dawless jamming.

Thanks for another great video! These boxes really were so bad, bit I really want one of those, 'Press here to start!' stickers for some reason.

Congrats on the nomination. Your channel and Hainbach are two of my favorite channels. These are the two I watch as soon as I can.

Thanks for reminding me to vote for Nick, he really is great isn't he? Haha, not really. You're my very favourite Austrian music technology comedian on RU-vid ❤️

Congrats on the nomination!!! I say it is well deserved, and we're all pulling for you here!

This Doctor Mix is getting worse and worse

it sounds just GREAT!Powerful,punchy,mix-ready drums ..I only use the preset tones in my DAW for recording...so I don't have to fight with the menues etc. now the DR-880 is on the way...which is a monster! I love your demos...very creative and musical...and the DR-3 sounds fabulous in your set up!

Congratulations on being nominated my friend! Awesome content!

I hope you win! They should have a funniest category, you'd win that every year!

You should do a "best of" Bad Gear Easter eggs video. I know I miss a lot of them, so I'd love to have you point some of the best of them out.

This really is a bad gear; looks boring, hard-to-read screen, hard-to-use sequencer. I don't consider DR-550 series as a bad gear at all, but DR-3 is just so bad...

The best part of whatever day these are uploaded on!

Every week i am amazed again deeply by the amount of work you put into making this videos presenting the world (more or less) crappy gear. I am also very much looking forward every week to your next video

Finally... another Friday and some more bad gear.

Congrats on the nomination! Edit: holy cow that green screen footage channel is killer! Thanks for posting the link! Also that guitar tune was killer, super punchy sounds

I hope you win it mate there's a lot of great channels, yours being one but your sense of humour is unrivalled haha. I can't watch one of your videos without pissing myself at least once to something you've slipped in in the cleverest of ways. Haha keep it up amigo

Video outro features a cowbell. This channel is amazing

"... some air to breathe'... after showing a a public restroom... you nasty, naughty boy. Now we can make the channel spin-off: Bad Air! ;)

Let it be known - I LOVE THIS MAN’S VIDEOS

I put in my vote for ya! Gear suggestion. Ensoniq ASR-X. Great sampler, and effects. terrible terrible sequencing problems from midi lag to choking on fx changes. Love the vids. Keep up the good work.

I bet someone got a bonus for thinking of that "Press here to start" sticker pointing to the "START" button ... thanks for pointing it out!

Congratulations on your nomination! Well deserved!

Absolutely you deserve it. You put in the work congratulation 👏👍this channel is incredible for beat freaks & gear heads

Hahahaaaa Yo you had me with the "Animal Rights Advocacy" the "cow bell" hit was just OVERKILL !!!!! 😂 😂 😂

You are the only synths person I keep watching. You did so well mate.

Man you should win it. As much as I love Nick, you interact with your subscribers more than most others. You have my vote! ... but I digress. I actually prefer the nostalgic sound of the TR-505 over this.

I love the beneath the planet of the apes meme in the begging 👍🏼

Actually not sure if the good Dr qualifies as bad gear. It actually sounds pretty good!

Great Job on the nomination. Does that mean you've got the dough to review the Roland SH-32 now?

no other online music tech personality makes bad gear sound good. you got my vote! PS will you do another bad gear jam when you win?

i have my DR-3 here since 2015 or something and i just found out that TSC stands for total sonic corruption thanks!

The DR-3 rhythms and bass lines were found in a dumpster at Yamaha after they threw out the rejects from demo songs on their PortaSound "Christmas Gift" keyboards.

ok i died when i saw that high end yamaha djx groovebox

Great vid !! Hope to see a vid on The Yamaha SU200 ✌️😄

I use a DR-3 a fair bit. I set up my own user kit (you have to vol balance all the different samples as you mentioned) and a user 'soundshape' EQ and just control it via midi. I like a lot of the drum samples, and the bass samples can be fun for cheese and retro stuff.

At 1st i thought it was about the overly enthousiastic Dr Mix getting worse in his enthousiasm 😏 Great video editing.

Voted for you. There are some great channels in the list. If I want to learn the ins and outs of a particular synth right down to what it smells like and how many screws it has I visit Loopop. But if I want obscure 80s and 90s references that make me laugh my ass off your bad gear reviews never fail! Good luck.

Just wanted to let you know that I love LOVE all the details you put in your videos! like the toilet picture when mentioning reverb, the cowbell in ending and all the other gimmicks 😄 Hope you're doing well during the curfew! Also is the sound louder than usual? 🙃

Voted! These are the episodes I always look forward to watching

The black and white crowd cheering on the 20th century tv 👌👌👌 some classic video edits

This year you truly deserve to win this award. Community grows conservative, and needs something new, and your concept is amazing, funny, interesting and new. Like, in capital letters NEW and FRESH.

At first I had this mixed up with the Dr. Beat and was confused LOL That last track was really neat! Now I want to hear more of yall's music from your band!

Heck yes!!! Now you gotta do an episode on the Dr Samples (boss sp-202). The Doctors are in!

good video, as always! Always amazed how you get results with a maschine like this.. bravo! I have an old "Yamaha FB-01" sitting at home because I talked to a pretty known techno producer who used it in one of this more known tracks. I never figured out how to get a "evil and bleepy" techno sound out of it but maybe the FB-01 is a good device for BadGear because it is a programming nightmare (imo)..

Yup, I've got one and for a while video tutorials for this unit were the most viewed videos on my channels. Gigged with it couple of times. It was great, especially with the ability to switch patterns with a foot switch. Also I used to dump drum and bass parts from my daw to the dr3 via midi. That's simple. The only con I can come up with is the lack of electronic hats. Only acoustic ones and it sucks!

U have my vote bro I hope to see you win, this is the best gear channel in RU-vid

Thought this was the worst of the worst gear, but then I heard that bassline at 6:20 and fell in love. Kind of.

Glückwunsch zur Nominierung! This vid is amazing. Very cool FX. By the way: never heard of this machine before. :-)

I voted for you, because, even though I like the other performers on the list, your videos are the only ones for which i genuinely get excited.

I love my DR-3. Just got to learn how to use it. Great Video.

"Keep Power On !" was my signature on forums for years. It appeared on the MC-505.

Been waiting for the DR-3 :D knew it would come on this show

Well deserved nomination x up with big guns! Hope you win dude

You have way too much fun making these videos :)

Reeeeveeeeerbbbb... *shows toilet stalls*

Awesome video, as usual! You've got my vote.

"There's a cowbell in it too." Shut up and take my money!

@6:12 - great sounding jam!

Velocity sensitive pads? Ok I’m trading in my digitakt.

This one takes user unfriendliness to the punchintheface/kickinthenuts extreme. If you want to put someone off synthing for life, give them one of these and an MT32 for Xmas. Along with a 5pin din lead with only three random pins.

You have worked hard to earn that reward! Good luck!

I was loaned one when my SR-18 died and at first I thought that this was an unusable dumbed down POS. Then I revisited some tracks I'd recorded with the SR-18 and found that I got perfectly decent drum tracks by using the intro/fill/part buttons. The ambience actually helped the drums to sit in the mixes. But yeah, the UI is crap and you can't seem to tune the samples. I've been using Boss drum machines since the late 80's and this one has the worst sequencing of all of them. Nowadays I write MIDI drum parts directly into Reaper's MIDI editor and I've poached all of the sounds I could out of every drum machine available. That's the best of all worlds.

Back when I first was getting into synth hardware, I happened to see this thing sitting on a shelf in an antique shop with my mom for only $50. 15 year old me spending my mother's money didn't think this thing worth even that much money. I never thought about this damn thing again for YEARS until I discovered your video on it here lol. Glad to know it wasn't just my inexperience that made me think it was bad gear

Favorite RU-vid channel.

What about a video featuring the yamaha QY20? I had one, stolen in my studio in Africa, a long time ago... And also a video about the Yamaha SU700 (I still have it, maybe more difficult to steal...) and its almost infiniiiiiiiiiiiite loading time, either from floppies and from SCSI.

The opening shot was priceless 🤣. More, please.

congrats on the nomination, you definitely deserve it!

Another fun video. Great show. Perfect timings and setup, you have my vote. With a keyboard like Roland E-80 you had a fill down and more options, curious what you can do with this kind of models.

War zwar schwer, aber hab für dich gevotet. Weil ich finde, dein Kanal ist einfach eine super Idee

Ah it was a tough vote between you and Look Mum No Computer, but I went with you in the end

i already plugged the DR-5 and Better(?) Gear DR-660 last time and i want to mention them again, but more importantly i'd love to see you explore the alesis QS6/QS7 or another quadrasynth model. when i was 16 making industrial music, all the rich kids online had a kurzweil K2000/ensoniq ASR-10 while a lot of somewhat less affluent kids with supportive parents had the QS6/7. these completely avoided any recognizable musical relevance, yet at one time it seemed they were everywhere. i used one only briefly, but i had the impression that it was pretty legit for a 90s ROMpler. alesis also had the nanosynth and i've often thought about getting one, at least to sample any nice sounds and sell/donate.

Oh boy, had a Dr550 mkII, a Dr5, now am planning on this Dr3. The generations are such wonder

You are the best! Boss had some great products. Another item I want to see is the tiny handheld from Roland. The PM or PMA with numbers after it or something. It was a portable device to create midi tracks with built in sounds and a monochrome display (just like the Nintendo Game Boy) and it has a touch screen! All that back in 1996!!

That's hilarious, dude. I might pick 1 up because of you. UPDATE: one is on the way from JAPAN thanks to you!

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Congratulations on your nomination and I really hope you win 😁

You got my vote , don't make me regret it😊 keep that good content coming

Boss : Hey we have a line of drum machines that people have been using happily for years , how can we improve it Customers : Improve the sounds , add memory , maybe with USB Boss : How about instead we completely change the interface in a way that means days of menu diving and add seriously hokey basslines that sound terrible unless you're playing on a children's TV show .

Ay! Another Anrufbeantworter. With rubber knobs! Dat bass around 2:50 reminds me of Seinfeld. :) Voting done! Voted for my beloved Model:Cycle as well.

Finally you found something that isn't better though a moog filter, I ran a lousy instant coffee through it an it was a barista style espresso... Well you did it again....

I have to confess that as a Welsh man it pained me not to vote for our Queen Rachel K Collier, but I wouldn't even own a synth if it wasn't for AudioPilz, so I felt compelled. As for Mr Batt, well I don't want to start a beef in the comments section but I don't think I can see past the time he was taking a first look at the Volca NuBass and said to the Korg rep "But it's not a real vacuum tube is it?" the rep replied "of course" Nick then laid the immortal line "so, there's gas in there?". Without missing a beat the Korg Rep summoned every ounce of professionalism to say calmly and politely "...there's nothing in there..." - ok, we've all been there, but still... oh dear.

Great content, hopefully you win the award