I Want to Break Free on FLOPPOTRON 3.0 

Perfectly said!

Pretty sure this is top comment on another one of the floppatron vids

Damn right, he would be

It’s not Freddie’s, it’s John’s.

This is quoted on so many Queen videos and each one is just as deserving as the last. I love this.

I think he did through the fire and flames in 2020 😶

Bonnie Tyler - Holding out for a hero, so many layers

I've got no strings?

As long as it doesn't start to play soul music it's fine.

@@timevers6525 country would be much worse I think 😂

and I know the one question burning inside your mind is how many power supply's does it take to power all that stuff to make the music work

@@raven4k998 probably alot however in theory all the floppy drives could run off only a few as they don't consume much power. What would be more scary is how many controllers all that hardware takes

@@terabyte1906 yeah but what I am getting at is that any psu only has so many floppy drive power connectors and the number of floppy drives he has in those stack and they are almost all powered based on the lights on them lighting up which is why I ask how many psu's dose he use to make them all run like that think about the engineering in there he must have a lot of custom stuff to make it run is what I am getting at

@@terabyte1906 yeah but if the psu is custom it might be a few as one custom psu powering them all cause when you think about it he has to have a custom driver card of some sort to control all those drives using one pc because the motherboards that did have floppy support were only meant to have at most two floppy drives I think connected to them maybe a few more but the point is there's no way he's controlling them all with a single computer without some sort of custom hardware made to do it

@@raven4k998 check out the intro video or the blog. I recall 2 power sources at peak 1.2 kW

Quite frankly the scanners do a way better Brian May than Freddy Mercury.

"Scanner solo" you mean....?

I was waiting for it. Brilliant

It's a synth solo, at least in the original studio version, which this one is based on. It was played on synth+guitar only during live shows.

and in the 90ies they never worked. always broken!

@@thechosenone82517 They still don't work. Printers in general are the crappiest thing ever made.

makes sense when you think about it, the point of an electric guitar is to heavily distort a signal electrically, this signal is distorted mechanically cos it wasn't exactly built for this purpose

In a video at the time, Brian May was seen with a "SynthAxe" guitar synthesiser, but I believe the solo was played by someone else, on a keyboard.

I want to break free doesn't have a guitar solo😉

As Mr Bean runs along the beach...

If we're going Vangelis, "I hear you now" would literally bring me to tears.

both propositions sounds epic

Yes. And how May-like it is in all its voice

I was just thinking of commenting the same thing. Version three is amazing, and I can’t wait to see more videos.

I wish for the return of "Through the fire and flames"

I'm just waiting for the day they collab with an oscilloscope. That one channel on YT with the epic mushroom song is the one I'm talking about. If you know, you know (but mostly because I forgot the name lol)

Big Floppa featuring Furbie Organ 😍

@@Sphendrana Jerobeam Fenderson is his YT name

I was like number 499! Dang my OCD!!!! Would someone PLEASE hit 500?!!

Freddie ? I knew him personally ! He hated floppy drives ! They got easily stuck ... (you know where😖)

absolutely. and this comes from a scanner!

I want this song ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zf0-hf_kUjM.html

Exactly what I've said to by gf right now. It would be so awesome

He built his own electronic scientific instruments for his PhD research, so he probably would.

For real… He would really appreciate this.

Agreed

Fr!!

Hell yes!

^

I second this.

The Star Wars themes in the last video give a subtle hint, given Holst's *Planets Suite* was used as the placeholder score while John Williams composed his own, and he included several nods to Holst in his score.

Instead of the original of Holst's Jupiter, the cover by Manfred Mann might be an even better fit. (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ThSIVW6eb58.html)

That is such a good suggestion!

😂👍

Skynet would like to know your location

Not to mention "I've fallen in love."

@@SaltpeterTaffy lmao exactly

In that context it's like a loveletter from GlaDOS

Freddie Mercury-Reed-Switch though...

I think he uses a lot of cameras and does al the moving in sodtware. If you would do 1 camera recording per time that would take feaking long.

@@firefly2472 Oh yeah for sure he uses multiple cameras but you can tell this was done in multiple takes to get all the angles otherwise he would be walking in front of cameras

@@welshtony1 Maybe for this one, yes. Some of them, like his Bohemian Rhapsody one, has moving things like smoke that stay consistent between shots though. My guess is it's a mix of potentially multiple takes, and a lot of cameras placed a further distance away so their not in each other's FOV. The audio itself is definitely from one take though. Stitching together the audio from multiple takes while hiding the stitches would be a nightmare.

​@@welshtony1wait what? Why he need to walk in front of the camera's? The camera's recording and when the song is over he can stop the camera's.

This is a legitimately interesting idea. Would suspending the scanner and resonator box also be better? Or is the weight of the scanner and the jarring movements of it's motor take away from the sound too much making this a bad idea?

@@Mac_Omegaly I think probably it would be best to leave the resonator sitting on the table so that the scanners don't move around. It would depend on how you design the resonators.

@@ScottGrammer How about mounting a passive woofer in the box, then placing some adhesive rubber feet on the bottom? 😂

Def think some acoustic tuning would be the cherry on top

I had to back it up after and make sure I wasn't imagining it. Very nice.

Took me a few videos to notice that too. The first few, I was thinking I should help source some more black face plates for him, because obviously they are getting harder to find if that's the setup he had to go with :D Nope, I was just being dumb.

Wow thanks i never realize that!

I was just scrolling the comments to see if I was the only one who missed that little detail. I'm glad to see that there are other people who are picking up on small details with each new video. I also couldn't help but notice the "beta" on the banner. That means that it's entirely possible that more changes will come about for this wonderful bit of kit.

Floppotron 3.0 is probably too close to being finished to radically change the design, but I really hope Floppotron 4.x is set up for going on tour. :D

Was thinking the same, imagine if you could hear ir physically! 👏👏👏

did you miss a zero, or do you not like it much...

​@@jocramkrispy305haha exactly what i was thinking

oh my gosh yes! I'd love a Floppotron Justice cover

Never seen a cd rom used for this but he already has used a 64k modem in bohemian rhapsody :D

I like you said "Floppotron" and not "The Floppotron" like it was our friend. :)

The 5" drive might, given the mechanism is similar to a 3.25" drive. Dunno about a CD ROM, since it doesn't use the track servo for fine adjustments, like a magnetic drive.

@@BilltheFifth but he is not our friend?

i'd love to revisit Still Alive.

Yeah that would be the point where we will know that it(he?) has achieved self-consiousness which (as I've wrote above) is the phase in its evolution it surely is heading to.

I second this request!

Looking forwards to the descent into Radiohead's "Fitter Happier".

And Mr. Blue Sky

Where is "you" french here? (perso je ne le vois pas des masses 🤣)

@@Brickolas94700 "pardon my french" is an English term commonly used as a preface to when you want to use profanities when talking 😆

@@ImperialEminence22 Thanks, every day it's a learning day!

@@Brickolas94700 no worries! Happy to help 😁

problem is, 5.25 are too expensive. Like 20-30x more than 3.5

@@warrax111 I remember when they were simply throwing them out as e-waste. I suppose if you want one from ebay that someone is trying to sell for $300 you are welcome to play their game, but where I live, you can still find piles of them in electronic surplus stores for $10. The interesting thing is because it would be used for just bass, he would only need 2-3 to make enough noise. The old full height ones are quite loud.

@@plektosgaming The average price here in auction and local auction groups, is around 25$-35$, according state. 3,5'' Floppies can be bought for 1-2$ in average. So it's 20x more expenisve.

Oohhh, FEZ is one of my favorite games and soundtracks

Nonono The next Floppotron will be called Floppotron NT, followed by 95 98 2000 XP Vista 7 8 10 11

I know what you mean, Floppotron 3.0 is almost too good.