Bad Gear - Boss Dr. Rhythm DR-110 

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This was my beginning as a drummer in the early 80's - plugged into an amp and strictly live finger drumming in my first band. Ha! I never even learned how to program it, but spent many hours tapping on it.

Fun fact, I've done an entire album with this as the drummer. I won't here a bad word against my band member. We've been through a lot.

I always make it through the week by counting the days until the next episode of Bad Gear.

I just discovered this show a few months ago and because of you I bought a synth. I blame you Bad Gear!

I spent various seconds laughing at "that was dirty as a Delta Air restroom", that came outta NOWHERE

Back at school (god, that was long ago!) My mate and I were hiding out in the music room at lunchtimes, cranking out what would now be classed as minimal techno, with a Dr110 and an SH101, via a tascam 4 track mixer/recorder: no MIDI, questionable timing and no real idea what we were doing. I haven’t thought about that for a long time - those were good times.

The 2nd jam with all the pedal FX was DOPE!! Puts me in a mood of like an arcade fighting game!

Wicked Show as ever mate. I've wanted this little cutie for my bad but good drum machine collection for years. Prices are rising very swiftly.

The trick with these is to run them through a resonant high-pass filter to boost the bass drum, I used to do it on a Yamaha CS-15 and it'll get you that big booming 808 sound without any problem. The snare and hats are serviceable as is and the claps are The Best Claps Ever anyway. Liked mine far more than the 606 I had even if it didn't have knobs for mixing.

" That's as dirty as a Delta Air restroom "... 😆 🤣 😂...love it.

OMG, that JHS Pedals reference was amazing 👏 👏👏 👏

I really love the way how they made a display on that machine - there's something beautiful about combination of printed grid and electronic dots. I think it would be cool to see something like this on a modern device.

"He has the Box!!!!" - great JHS reference

Friday, I’m in love.

Dude! These graphic puns are _killing_ me! 🤣 I have to keep rewinding to catch even half of them.

The JHS show reference brings together ny 2 never miss RU-vid shows. Made my week!

AudioPilz jams are the best! On a side note, you could never find these back in the day, at least our local music shops would not carry them. DR550's were everywhere and no one was talking about these. Way to highlight how under rated these are! The Dr-101 sounds so punchy on those jams! Well done!

the Ulysses 31 intro made my day...I love you

I have one, and I love it. Sure, the limits are there, but that forces interesting decisions. The sounds are pleasantly dirty.

We need "Ticking all the boxes" merch!

my first drum machine -given to me in 84-i played it in my bands Manic Opera and Hyacinthrash it was part of my Industrial arsenal !!

That is a remarkably good clap.

I guess in next months we will get a load of tracks with that clap 👏

Nice use of Ullysses 31 visual which has one of the most kick ass soundtracks of any cartoon series.

First time a device I had is mentioned. Oh boy, I feel proud now! 🤠

My first bit of tech, still have my red SH-101, I put a sample pack of this and a 606 into Zenbeats on my phone, it lives on, lovely.

Just goes to show if you know your art you can make anything sound good. You have proven this many times. As a guitarist I can get my sound from any source. Tubes, transistor, modeling makes no difference. Thanks, it's always a pleasure to see what you have in store for us.

that jhs show cameo was very appreciated

The Dr. is IN!!

Memories of My First Drum Machine!!

Been watching a lot of Bad Gear, and I'm pretty sure EVERYTHING checks all the boxes all the time.

Awesome video as usual! I absolutely love the clap on this unit, glad you showed off its full potential in that ending jam!

the JHS he has the box reference was A++

🎶 “It's Friday, Friday Gotta get down on Friday” 🎶

My first drum machine!

Haha the photo of the 707 as an MCB board!! 😊😊

Nice nod to JHS there 👍 It sounds pretty good, at least worth sampling for sure. I wonder how many of these & similar gear many of us came across in the 90’s+ when someone said to us “oh you can have that if you like, I don’t use it” & we said “naaaah” 😆🙁

I love this machine so much. It. just. looks. cool. I've seen so many pop up on craigslist for like $100 over the last 5 years and I've NEVER jumped on them. Now you're going to make sure that never happens again as you're right, they sound awesome!

I´m a big fan of this machine - mostly for nostalgic reasons. And you won´t find a better clap anywhere else. By the way: Your selection of memes are always great fun and I always look foreward to a new AudioPilz video.

Ulyseeeeeeeeeessss...Your intro's make me feel young again. Thanks.

Finally som real old gear dr rhytm 110 was our second drummachine we firtst had dr rhytm 55 so for us it was a big step I specially love that handclap it brings back memories from the early eighties. Thanx you made my friday complete once again. Peace and love from Gothenburg Sweden and TAO

Yesterday my friend blessed my porch with a Korg super drums and I thought of you sir. Thanks for making Fridays TGI again.

Accent track - Wolca Holy fuck that dexter meme has my sides in orbit another amazing video.

First time I've ever gotten a financial-advice disclaimer on a music gear review. :D

You absolutely killed me with The Fly insert! Brilliant, again!

That really is quite a crispy clap

Nice work! Definitely like the sound of the drums. Pretty classic really. And yes, that clap is very nice! Great job on that last jam. Very cool!

Love Bad Gear!! Your show and the actual bad gear. You seem to apparently be going through my whole personal collection. 😂

HOLY SHIT!!! It was my first drum machine back in 1984 !!❤

Your jamz are top notch my guy. I've always wanted one of these for the cuteness factor, but it has a tight snappy sound as well!

Thanks for yet another fab video - love my DR-110 for every reason you mention in the video, and that others have mentioned in the comments.

I like where you snuck the clap in the theme song redo

This is like a journey through my late 20’s in the late 90’s. It’s a bit naff but it does sample really well especially when your using lower sample rates. We had an X7000 (128k memory) for that

Florian in the TB-3 video: "To be clear, I still don't like the TB-3." Florian after using it in 30 other videos: "Perhaps I treated you too harshly." Great work as always! Keep up the good work!

My second drum machine after my Synsonics...man, I loved that little box! But I happily replaced it with a Drumulator. Ah...good times! Thanks for the memories!

No friday without this gold, have a great weekend!

I had to pause and LMAO at the "Dirty as a Delta Air restroom". I flew to South America in Delta and damn was that bathroom nasty.

That hand clap tho!!! I still have mine from high school and it still sounds great. Class of ‘88!!!

That last dirty jam is my favorite jam ever on this channel

great show, your use of Memes always is spot on. Well done...

Loving this channel

I had one of these back in the mid 1980s & virtually gave it away to get a shiny new Digital Roland TR 505 & later an R8 which I still have somewhere!!

As always the best!

That was CLAP-tastic!!! The snare is also good enough to cut through the mix ans easily surpasses more modern equivalent, like the snare of the Volca Drums and the Drum Brute. Good shit mate!

I'm starting to think Boss may be the new Boss of Bad Gear.

The Delta Air Bathroom pedal jam was dope. TGIF, I get a Bad Gear vid!

I used to have one of these! it was my drummer for a while when i was a teenager playing guitar in my mom's basement. great stuff as always!

This was the first drum machine I ever owned back around 1985 - Had a lot of fun with it then too :)

These videos really are very good.

Hello!!! I adore your channel and Bad Gear. Hands down you are my favorite youtuber and show!! I would Love to see the Korg R3 or the Zoom RhythmTrak RT-123 on the show! I really dig how you give such a thorough and earnest trial and description of all the gear you review. and your music is inspiring! Thanks for making a fantastic show

That clap... slaps :D Seems like cool device, especially for modding. Thanks for another meme-filled episode, as always happy weekend!

Now take that clap, run it through ur pod, use the treaadplate setting, crank the gain, reverb and compressor setting. Industrial magic.

well this saved my lunch break on a crappy Friday - cheers! 🔥

This was musically my favorite show by far. Just grimy AF ! I've subbed since the first ep and I'm blown away by level artistry you get outta these lovely throw away machines just to make demos for us normies. Bravo !

Found a free SFZ 110 sample pack that includes 38 round robins of the hand clap. I might finally get an applause...

My first drum machine.❤

A law should have been passed to make grids like the DR-110's display had mandatory on all drum machines. Nowadays I have a Kawai R-50 and a Yamaha RY20, and boy do I miss my Doctor!

So, could you cover the Wolca Modular? It's easily the most divisive Volca out there, and there's a lot to say about it.

"...it is still one of the cheapest" Reverb: Hold my beer

Those little pictures are nice.. it's like a cross between a crossword puzzle solver and a speak and spell.

Great show ! 👏👏🥁🔁

He has the box 🎶

I love my TR-06 because it adds the clap and built in distortion (and delay and reverb), adds TR909 and 808 kicks and snares and some variations to the toms. It really is the ultimate 606/110 plus mods in an “official” package.

I absolutely love the TR 606s hihat sounds. They stand out among all the classic drum machines of the time. Seems like the DR-110 hihat sounds quite similar. Cheers!

You plug that thing into a Tascam X15 and you have my first home recording studio. I loved it SO MUCH.

He has the box!

Hearing this, I can hear a lot of Miami 808 bass music made with this. That legendary hand clap gave it away 😅

Another pice of “Bad Gear” that I own! I. like the bass drum, just as it is already, and the clap is definitely awesome!

Nice, the display looks quite useful actually and the clap is really fantastic.

In 1986, as a callow 12 year-old, I ordered the BOSS handbooks through the post when I was first becoming acquainted with all things BOSS. BOSS sent me the 1984 edition and the 1986 edition. At the time, BOSS were so proud of the newly-digital DR220A/E machines that they more or less said (well, implied) of the DR110, ‘this is old and obsolete’, even in their sales pitch! Naturally, I saved up the pennies and plunged for the DR220A some years later. How I wish I’d gone for the ‘obsolete’ DR110 now. The whole of my musical life could have been different. I had no idea what a TR808 was but I knew I liked ‘that’ snare sound. If I’d known the DR110 could have given me something close, I’d have been smitten. But there was no internet then…and certainly no Bad Gear!

"there can be only one..." 🤘🏼

He Has the Box ®

Back in 1983 I used this drum machine to write a TV commercial!! Great fun back then.

9:09 video run time about a drum machine is *chef’s kiss*

Run this bad boy through Redux/Saturator in Ableton and you're going places

"He has The Box". And the coffee pot! :) Nice little machine, which will be unobtainable after this video. Wie immer, danke!

The snare rolls sounded nice.

So I purchased a Roland MC-505 way back in the early 90's and it was the centerpiece of the Metal/Electronic band I was in (Think Pitch Shifter meets Evanescence). And just yesterday I received one in the mail I purchased off craigslist. You need to do a video on it! It's one of the god fathers of the Groove Boxes and with the right programming and the super powerful JV sound engine/sequencer, it deserves a great video by you!!!

My first drum machine