Gear Top 7: My Personal Favorites In 2018 

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I really appreciate your approach to the bastl thyme. I feel similarly when working with the machine, that it is more of a collaboration and conversation than something which I dictate what it is to do.

Great video. My favourite new bit of gear this year is the Moog DFAM. Just so much fun.

I love your videos! You have a great welcoming personality. I always feel like I just arrived at your home for a visit with an old friend.

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When I first discovered the Koma EFK FX, I was blown away. It really got all I could have dreamed of and more. Past time I would use a 4 channel mixerboard with external LFO, Delay, Chorus and Stereo Imaging pedals. It works no question about it! But it also ate a lot of space and did lack main sync.

Thanks for your all your passionate and inspiring videos in 2018. I found your channel this year so I’m looking forward to seeing what you do in 2019. Have a good new year 🎉

Thank you for a great year of learning and inspiration, cheers to many more!

Lovely video! Was hoping you would release a top x of gear/instruments. Nice one

I love your work, and a lot of the gear you explore has influenced my effects chains with the gear o already own and in Ableton. Thanks again for so much food for thought. Happy new year.

Thanks for going ahead with making this video. Subscribed for outstanding editing on interesting stuff.

OMG these gadgets open MANY new worlds to me!!! Thank you soooo much!!!!

Thanks for all the great videos in 2018, I hope 2019 treats you well.

Thanks Hainbach, I'm still really tempted by the Thyme!

Great video! I’m going to be on the DFAM bandwagon for my favorite 2018 thing. Thinking about getting another.

Thanks for introducing us all to the gamelan strips! I like that you don't just promote "flavor of the month" stuff (Elektron, Moog, volcas, etc.), but rather gear that adds character and personality to a setup.

im starting to enjoy every second of your videos ...thanks Hainbach .. keep on the good work ...

I love when you explain your gear, it's so passionate. Great work!

I got hip to you a couple of months back - and you really inspired me! I have been working "inside the box" since the mid 90s (technically for many of the those years I was a gigging bassist). I recently walked away from the professional art world (I was doing sound design and composition for live theater after a couple of years beating my head against the walls the movie studios in Los Angeles). I have been trying to get back to making music, and sound art for myself again. Like I did back in the 90s.... back then I had next to nothing to make music - a cracked copy of acid pro - a tascam 4 track - a danelectro echo pedal (still the only one I have ever had - got it for 20 bucks used back in 98 - minimal but built like a tank - I didn't have a proper audio interface - plugging a Sure 56 D- dynamic mic into the back of my sound blaster card with a stereo mini plug adaptor was the only way I could "sample" or rip from CD. Then my uncle gave me an old Harmon Cardon stereo stuner amp and some kenwood speakers.... MONITORS!!! Since then I have gone to audio engineering school and been mentored by my personal sound design hero - Dane Davis - and worked on crazy stuff with "Top O The Line" gear. And I felt like I had made much more interesting music prior to music school and my audio training.... I wanted to get my-self a small smei-modular - like the Mother 32 - which is reasonably priced sure - but my wife and I are BROKE. So I cant justify spending money on the Koma Elektronik Field Kit FX (which I have been drooling over for at least a year - or the stuff over at Bastle if I could afford it Id buy the soft pop, bit ranger AND the .... hell Id buy em all! The sad part is, its all pretty damn affordable - then my wife got laid off - so forget it. It was at this point I stumbled across your channel. I have a couple of old hand held mono tape recorders - the kind students or reports use - that I had collected a couple of years ago to dirty up the single on something - basically just a reamping technique - I came across you making drones with hand helds - and it sent me scurrying into some dusty boxes in the studio. THANK YOU. It was just what I needed. I started working with sound - when I was little - before I knew what it was - I would play with it. This really brought back a sense of PLAY and discovery.... which is SO important - not just as an artist but a person. And now I make music for the joy of it again - I mean - Im learning too - if that makes sense - too many years in the trenches - to many bands - shitting clubs and disappointments - you dig? But now Im just grateful! Thanks man! Cheers! Consider me a new life long fan. For the record I love your demeanor on camera. You have a very dry sense of humor - but its obvious that your are a warm and authentic person. Either that or you are a brilliant actor.n Thanks for the inspiration - its in short supply around here (my here, small town USA... but frankly the US in general is having a time of it... dont know if you've heard...). Cheers!