Spinning Guitar (with a motor) 

Mattias, lovely work and happy (belated) birthday!! Hope you are very proud of your creations and the joy they bring us

Ichika Nito;)

Oh my god, Ichika will do wonders with this.

Either Ichiko or Seiji.

Jimi Hendrix

O those poor hands and fingers.

it would be cool if a foot pedal controlled how fast it spun

that's a good one

Just picking right up with the natural rhythm of the spinning right away was so incredible, and syncing up with what Rob was doing really quickly. Just phenomenal talent and great musical chemistry.

It's things like this that make you appreciate how much the percussion adds to a tune.

You're right it's like a building for the instrument to live in

She makes my knees weak. I can't even explain how beautiful and talented I think she is.

¿Quién es Jessica Bordeaux?, ¿es la bateria?

It might be in a similar Family To something like a hurdygurdy

learning "curve" 😂😂😂

It could be classified as spinning phallic string instrument.

lmao spinning

Marcin you should make an acoustic one.

they aint motorized tho 😂

Ohh, fuck the guitar purist....Fuck anyone who's a "purest" at anything.

@@Beast_Hub With bike peddles to turn it instead of a motor?

Needs to be a logo with a green onion in it.

The eye of strange music turns its gaze upon the windy city

@@samsanimationcorner3820 There's no i in Rob Scallon though. Have you been misreading his name as Scallion?

​@@Z3DT I used to misread his name like that but if you think about it Its funny when you misread his name like that

​@@Z3DT: At night, he's the superhero Green Onion.

Man got a motor in it and they instantly started cooking.

Him and igorrr

98% IMHO, Hand it off the Blue Man Group, this thing screams open piano being played by a 2 handed mallet.

Check out what charles berthoud did with it

@@issacsparks3987was bout to mention Charles

For real, what a banger right out of the gate!

Didn't really like the PUBG PUBG PUBG sound, but the much more subtle spinning part later in the video sounded very promising. This needs careful fret selection and better tuning system.

Yes! Incredible drummer!

That’s Jessica Burdeaux, if you were curious at all! She tends to be Robs go-to session fill whenever he’s doing something weird and wild :)

She plays in the band Covet as well, really good stuff.

@@averin5193 thank you! Gotta look her up!

Hell yeah she did, totally tied it together. That guitar sounded too weird on its own.

You could say this video is revolutionary.

Yeah this performance was great all-around! love your channel charles, your performance on this was stunning.

I, personally, liked your take on this instrument way more creative and rich.

He can play whatever is in his hands, and thats what impresses me the most.

@@stanislavzrajaev1049 NGL, this video was a bit of a let down after seeing Chuck make it sing.

This is what I thought when I saw him start slapping was how else can this be tuned and or played

it's worth trying but i'm not confident the bow would be in contact with each string long enough to get the heimholtz resonance pattern happening. an e-bow might work better.

Aaah I see my thought wasn’t first!

@@famitorycircular clamp bow.

underrated comment

Squeaky chair song.

That’s Jessica Bordeaux, if you were curious at all! She tends to be Robs go-to session fill whenever he’s doing something weird and wild :)

@@averin5193 I will touch you inappropriately lil bro.

I feel like she could drum along to anything and suddenly it'd sound amazing and cohesive

Omg she's amazing I'm a drummer her style is similar to mine was so awesome to see her

that was the first thing i thought, she plays with covet shes prob used to crazy ass guitar

Dude its so impressive. Also insanely impressive how shes able to so quickly adapt when the spinning motor goes out of tempo if he puts too much pressure on it.

The drums made de video

That snare sounds fantastic, too.

Rob definitely made the right call to bring her along. They work so well together and the cyclical nature of the guitar really benefitted from the dynamics the drums brought in.

I love Rob's insistence on finding something unique to do, reminds me of Howard Roark designing the bridge with his new metal

And a cap for that gnarly end to wouldn't hurt lol and you could mount a strap to the end of the rod for the hand rest puting even less stress on the delicate bits

@@baconbliss4796 Yeah, that would be perfect!

Imagine your favorite band in concert and suddenly the lights focus on the guitarist and his guitar starts spinning. People would lose their minds.

But the fun moments are super duper rewarding. Maybe that's what keeps us engineers suffering through doing what we do again and again.

Spent 20 years as a mechanical designer, so I can certainly relate. lol The other 99% of the time is usually "How the hell am I gonna do THAT???" 🫣

I can't speak to mechanical engineering, but this is completely true for software engineering.

If engineering was easy, everyone would do it.

@@guarddog318 In my experience, most of my other 99% is usually "now, why is this not working the way I thought it would?".

It took decades to figure out all the ways we use electric guitars now.

Charles Berthoud is the only person on the planet who can use this invention :P

​@@LordDragox412Steve Vai

Life of an engineer

He did looks slightly baffled that, oh, this can be played, and not as a cruel and unusual punishment.

SERIOUSLY!!!! so much respect for the fact that this thing isn't constantly breaking down - nevermind the fact that he overclocked it lmfao

So casually, too. Love it.

As an electronics engineer myself, it isn't hard. More or less all motor drivers have configurable drive currents. Ie, how much holding torque they should have. So if one wants to "overclock" the holding torque, it is a simple configuration away. Oftentimes it is as simple as flipping a switch or two. Downside is that if one increases it enough, the motor burns up.

@@todayonthebench it's still cool though! Thanks for the explanation

"overclocked" puh-leeeeeeeeeeease

Real Dr. Frankenstein vibes

Average Swedish People Vibes.. Even Alfred Nobel hated his invention, the Dynamite... because well yeah, it could be used for bad things, hence why he set up the Nobel Prize.

lol. Check out some of his pianos. He hates them, too. 😂

watching him build it was great. get little moments of "wtf am I doing?" "Why am I doing this" and "I am too far into this project to stop"

​@@livedandletdieI think it's just a technical thing, most coders and engineers I've talked with hate the things they create, both because of the nightmarish nature of the thing, and because they KNOW that they could have done better, or at least quit while they were ahead. I think artists also have something similar, so I can only imagine mixing the fields would amplify the hatred...

So good, that beat at 12:00 was so nice. Simple but perfect, there's something about her style that's just so clean

She really is.

The goat

yeah, that was my takeaway from this video. i want to hear more of her improv

also post rock, dark folk and atmospheric black metal bands.

i hope so!

Sure if they can find engineers that want to go through all that trouble 😭😭

​@@trealexander5271 Lots of trouble, but for a passionate group, that is half of the fun. I can't say it will become mainstream by any means, but the idea AND the execution are already here, so it is a "short" step for new versions to show up with refined internals and cheaper production costs by optimizing the entire engineering side. They would still cost a lot, but hey, lots of quirky instruments in the past were sold for the same reason. Give it 5 years and I am sure some Chinese college startup will be selling similar stuff for a fraction of the cost on AliEx or TEMU.

why is the comment 20 hours ago on a 2 hour old video😭

Yeah, that would be a perfect recipe for short circuit or one hell of a toasted motor. What an imagination!

That’s Jessica Burdeaux, if you were curious at all! She tends to be Robs go-to session fill whenever he’s doing something weird and wild :)

@@SteveHarvey272 yeah, phrasing could’ve probably been better, i just meant robs general antics in the studio with weird instruments and the like

Make sure to see Charles Berthoud playing this "guitar", he absolutely killed it and made it sound actually nice.

@@averin5193 there must be some shadow banned comments in here. I don't see the person you're replying to.

@@Corkoth55 you are very correct on that one. Basically it was just someone pointing out that i probably could’ve worded myself better :)

She is the make it or break it X factor in most of robs videos she plays on IMHO

Happy birthday, lol

Certainly, the star of the rock genre is the drums, not the distorted guitar.

Now it just needs a brass skin model

it costs $400,000 to play this guitar for 12 seconds

Pew pew pew pew

I thought he looked incredibly satisfied and amazed at what was happening with his creation.

He actually did look nervous a bit I could tell it felt a little awkward

He is Swedish, give him a break, they dont go out as much :)

He was most likely jetlagged too

As a Swede myself, I can confirm this is just what we're like.

YES

A Krantz Guitling

This...

The...Gattar

The Guitling if you will

Abomination!

Only Charles Berthoud would be in market for it :P

Make sure to check Charles Berthoud playing it too!

@@LordDragox412 yooo. Thanks for the heads up!

I also love how nervous Mattias was the whole time lol. Poor Mattias 😅

@@4xdblack our boy has so much creator's anxiety, I completely identify. Like, I *feel* him, watching him go through this. It's both gutting and endearing all at once.

Or a live action Pacman thriller

FRRR

Without the drums, it wouldn't be as cool)))

Its

@@beastabuelos6421 Fixed, Mr. Grammar Ninja.

​@@stryfer1989 Whoa, that was a close one.

Not to mention the amazing performance from you and the dope drummer !!!!!

That's my thought too

Oh, Osmose? I've got that. Lovely instrument, very much the opposite of this. Osmose feels natural -- like it's something that keys should have always had. Whereas I don't think anyone ever thought that spinning guitar neck is natural.

are you referring to the Seaboard?

Your point stands about the power difference, but the US has been 120V since the late 60's. Which is why in the US vintage (60's and older anyhow) tube amps tend to sound "better" on a variac taking them back down towards 110V.

@@MondoJim Thanks for updating my knowledge. Yeah, there's line resistance, which lowers the end voltage you find in the electrical sockets. The more users on a section, the more current draw, the warmer the line gets, the more resistance and thus the lower the voltage. To ensure people get the nominal voltage (220V in Europe and other areas, 120V in the US, etc.), the electricity producers raised steadily voltage to higher values to compensate for the inevitable voltage drop at the end of the line.

The EU has a mains voltage of 230 volts nominal -6% to +10%. (216 to 253 volts. And countries not using 230 volts should continue on using whatever they use, and why actual mains voltage in the European union varies from country to country. It is harmonized on paper, and close enough in practice. Line resistance also doesn't meaningfully impact the mains voltage supplied, since line resistance is honestly very low.) Not that this really matters here. Now, I can't say that the motor stalls out easier or not on US vs EU voltage. (I weren't there to test myself, obviously.) But from a logical side of things, the motor isn't running directly on mains voltage, so it shouldn't have a direct impact. It is a fairly common NEMA(17, perhaps 23) stepper motor, these usually run on 12-72 volts DC feed from a stepper driver. That in turn needs to be powered by a power supply. (even if larger stepper drivers usually have that integrated, but that isn't the case here. Since the power pack is literally lying on the floor behind Rob's chair.) Now, it could be the plug pack providing the whole circuit with power that has issues with the lower mains voltage. Since a power supply is generally affected by mains voltage. (with a higher mains voltage one is further away from one's minimum operating voltage, and this allows the filter caps to discharge further before said minimum is reached, effectively ensuring that one can draw more energy from the supply in a given mains cycle. The higher frequency of US mains voltage however slightly reduces this issue since the filter cap gets recharged more frequently. In practice PSUs tends to only be 20-30% more "powerful" in the EU.) But I don't suspect that the plug pack were the issue. Since Mattias could increase the drive current of the stepper drive without having the plug pack complain. Something the power supply would do if it were the limit. (Most stepper drivers have configurable drive currents, both to not burn up the motor from idle power dissipation, but also to provide a torque limit for when such is a desired trait.) In the end. My own guess is that Mattias simply didn't accurately recall the amount of torque the motor had. (since judging torque is honestly fairly error prone and why torque wrenches are required in industry even for fairly wide torque specs. It is however a fun challenge to have people guess torque or weights, accuracy is often laughably poor.)

Pretty sure that's a stepper motor, it's driven by a stepper drive probably at 24VDC. The grid voltage shouldn't matter unless he used entirely the wrong system to drive it.

Yeah it used to be big problem on youtube but thankfully they ruled that that was stupid, no matter how bad of a rendition it was they would claim it

Also, wouldn't every time someone sung it be considered a cover and therefore not susceptible to copyright anyway (not that that ever stopped copyright striking on yt...)?

@@ZoidsNutYou can still claim based on the small rights to the song, which cover the written work and still must be licensed.

@@oldvlognewtricks Blech. I just poked my nose into ip and copyright information regarding cover songs. That's a lot to take in. I was so ignorant.

@@ZoidsNut Roughly: someone owns the recording, and someone owns the songwriter’s work - they don’t necessarily need to be the same people. There are also rights for things like use in advertising and movies or as part of a theatrical performance that can be separately owned or administrated. There’s too much money riding on publishing rights for it to be simple 😅

the guitarpeggiator… the guitarp… garp…

Of course he could, hes an engineer

Don’t ask Martin to build something like this.

@@roberttalada5196 Martin? as in Wintergaten Martin?

Make sure to check Charles Berthoud playing the guitar, he absolutely kills it!

As My Sitar Gently Spins

It sounds kind of like a sitar, but works like an inverted hurdy gurdy.

Tibetan prayer guitar

Why? I've used it. There's nothing wrong with it outside of the expense.

@@cinimatics Betterhelp is being exposed for allegedly scummy practices. Though BetterHelp may or may not legally be considered a scam, it has had a history of overcharging patients for subpar service, and is mostly sustained through the use of aggressive marketing through influencers. Many accounts have been told of the company simply charging people for services they didn't ask for, as therapists can mark down their clients for services without any confirmation. Additionally, cancelling from BetterHelp is an extremely difficult process, as the company will stall and stutter while still charging the client. Furthermore, the "licenses" therapists on BetterHelp claim to have vary widely in quality, from patients allegedly being assigned to anybody from crystal healers to homeopathy peddlers. Finally, BetterHelp also sells patient data to pharmaceutical companies and interest groups - without any regard or conscience, they will gladly sell your most privet, most sensitive data about your most private health issues.

​@@cinimaticsLiar

Rob Scallon plays a lot of weird instruments so when the spinning guitar was invented, only Rob Scallon would be the best guy to play it.

The rhythm section is what defines a band.

What's everyone's gripe with betterhelp? I had a good experience with it. My only problem was how much it cost.

​@@cinimaticsThey're currently in trouble with the Justice department for selling private user data to third parties.

@@cinimatics Not small data either, 'google it' and you will find. My question is how the heck a company is still standing after doing something this bad. Plus the aggressive ad push on here tell it all, every horrible company on this platform has done the same to bank as much before the end, well I hope they end to sell info like that is beyond anyone's understanding.

@@cinimatics I'm happy to hear you had a good experience with them, and I'm sure you are not rhe only one - but from personal experience and the experiences of my friends and others it was not positive. It is a gig economy version of therapy and its an extremely cynical company with little to no vetting of their therapists and no exit procedures in place at all if you are unable to continue treatment for financial reasons. Providers are paid poorly, and there is a retention problem. Providers cant communicate with one another and if you see multiple therapists during your time there the quality and care gap can be immense. Also as the other person mentioned, they are currently in trouble for selling user data.

🤷‍♂️ RU-vidrs are going to RU-vid.

Glad I'm not the only one who thought about bowing it.

Right !?!?!

Mattias tried that in his original video. It didn't work too well but someone else should definitely give it a go.