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Battery Operated
United Kingdom
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 4 มิ.ย. 2020
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Battery Operated is an experimental sound and art project with circuit-bending as the main focus. inside a backyard workshop in a small town in England, we tinker away at any junk we can get our hands on hoping to find an unintended use.
If you decide to follow us on any of our platforms expect to see:
Workshop Hangouts, Ambient Jam & other Jams, Tear-Downs, Tutorials, Repairs, Bootsale Hunting, Everything Circuit Bending, Sound-art, Vignettes and I'll stop now because we have too many ideas.... SUBSCRIBE
Battery Operated is an experimental sound and art project with circuit-bending as the main focus. inside a backyard workshop in a small town in England, we tinker away at any junk we can get our hands on hoping to find an unintended use.
If you decide to follow us on any of our platforms expect to see:
Workshop Hangouts, Ambient Jam & other Jams, Tear-Downs, Tutorials, Repairs, Bootsale Hunting, Everything Circuit Bending, Sound-art, Vignettes and I'll stop now because we have too many ideas.... SUBSCRIBE
How To Make Music Using Tapes in 2025
We're back with a beginners tutorial on making music with cassette tapes!
We are going to show everything along the way, starting from zero all the way to actually making music with tapes!
Get Yourself a Modded Player and Loops:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/BatteryOperated
More tips and tricks available on our Instagram:
battery_operated_
00:00 The Plan
01:13 Info about Tapes
01:58 Info about Players
04:56 What to record to tape
07:22 Making your first soundscape
10:22 Making a "gapless" loop
14:44 Your first set-up
15:49 Making a playable soundscape
19:29 Using tapes in an ensemble
20:44 Using a modded player as an instrument
22:44 Using tape samples in your DAW
26:24 "make a chune" hyperlapse
27:04 Tune finished, BREAD 🍞 👌
28:13 we out, gg, glhf✌️
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Battery Operated is an experimental sound and art project with circuit-bending as the main focus. Inside a backyard workshop in a small town in England; we tinker away at any junk we can get our hands on, hoping to find an unintended use.
If you decide to follow us on any of our platforms expect to see:
Workshop Hangouts, Ambient Jam & other Jams, Tear-Downs, Tutorials, Repairs, Bootsale Hunting, Everything Circuit Bending, Sound-art, Vignettes and I'll stop now because we have too many ideas....
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Etsy: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/BatteryOperated
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Instagram: battery_operated_
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Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/battery_operated
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Reddit: www.reddit.com/user/Battery-Operated
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Twitter: BattOperated
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Twitch: Coming VERY soon(tm)
We are going to show everything along the way, starting from zero all the way to actually making music with tapes!
Get Yourself a Modded Player and Loops:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/BatteryOperated
More tips and tricks available on our Instagram:
battery_operated_
00:00 The Plan
01:13 Info about Tapes
01:58 Info about Players
04:56 What to record to tape
07:22 Making your first soundscape
10:22 Making a "gapless" loop
14:44 Your first set-up
15:49 Making a playable soundscape
19:29 Using tapes in an ensemble
20:44 Using a modded player as an instrument
22:44 Using tape samples in your DAW
26:24 "make a chune" hyperlapse
27:04 Tune finished, BREAD 🍞 👌
28:13 we out, gg, glhf✌️
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
Battery Operated is an experimental sound and art project with circuit-bending as the main focus. Inside a backyard workshop in a small town in England; we tinker away at any junk we can get our hands on, hoping to find an unintended use.
If you decide to follow us on any of our platforms expect to see:
Workshop Hangouts, Ambient Jam & other Jams, Tear-Downs, Tutorials, Repairs, Bootsale Hunting, Everything Circuit Bending, Sound-art, Vignettes and I'll stop now because we have too many ideas....
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▼▼
LIKE, SHARE, SUBSCRIBE, RINSE, REPEAT.
▼
Etsy: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/BatteryOperated
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Instagram: battery_operated_
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Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/battery_operated
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Reddit: www.reddit.com/user/Battery-Operated
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Twitter: BattOperated
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Twitch: Coming VERY soon(tm)
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Finnaly the tape boys have returned i love the vids
@@kadenshoemaker6669 Thank you so much for watching! We're aiming to do more YT videos this year 😎👌
@BatteryOperated can you do video on circuit bending but you list parts you want to avoid that could damage the board i dont think many people talk about that they just say it it sparks leave it be but i want to be extra safe with a keyboard i wanna bend so some tips would be nice thanks also look into getting a cheap chinese keyboard from like idk temu or something and bend it as they're said to be unbendable and i wanna put you guys to the test and it sounds really funny
To clear the tapes, you can use an old tape demagnitizer like the ones sold by Radio Shack under the Realistic brand (they sold them from the 60's to the 90's).
@@Francois_L_7933 indeed, but if you live outside of USA or Japan; you're looking at a £80/£100 price tag 😵💫
electroplating? idk if the magnetic medium is conductive enough
well obviously microwave but i think it should be for like. 5 seconds. or until the first spark on the screws or some other hardware appears
less tiome actually do it for one second
Great video thanks y'all
Could you also just put the electric tape on the cassette directly to block the erasehead?
@SepiaOfficinalis-up5rl possibly, as long as the magnetic part is blocked you'll be good to go, be warned though you don't want any sticky parts touching the actual tape ribbon itself cus you'll never get it off 😅
Genuinely one of the best production vids and tape based videos iv ever seen. 10/10 lads.
@@fergisuzzz9190 thank you so much, glad to help!
That's what it's all about, having fun, looking forward to the next one. Thanks
I think ive found my tribe...lol
This was a great and educational watch! Using FL to make ambient jungle is WILD 😂
@@connorsol old habits die hard aha! ❤️
Briliant !!!Thnx a lot guys!!!!!
Cheers so much for doing this. Game changer.
WARM!!!! He said the word! Tbh ive been looking for the least painful way of making a tape echo. So it's good to know this stuff is being dealt with. I only have space for synths. Not a Hacking work shop. I have to say that tape loop sounds gorgeous. You guys should make those tape machines commercially.
@@rodnee2340 check out our etsy store 👌
Very cool. What recording speed do you recommend for lofi
Just make what you want, there no rules Its just you and what your ears like
You're from Oxford wicked! enjoyed the video.
Great video ! Happy to see you back !!
interesting. i’ve heard older cassette players are better quality, something refurbished would surely be better than a player built today
Well, that was far and away the best, most concise summary of tape usage in the modern age I've ever seen. My career as an ambient drone musician is now over. :P
Three minutes in, and already you guys are surpassing most DIY tape music making advice by far. Well done!
@@autaar thank you so much for the kind words! We are happy to help 😎👌
It's great to see a new video from you guys. It always looks so cold in your studio! How do you avoid sound on sound when making a gapless loop?
@@bill-sr1vd haha it probably seems cold because I'm one of them guys who just never takes their coat off... 😅 We avoid sound on sound by keeping an eye on where the recording started, if you can see the join where you stuck your tape loop together; that's the easiest bit to keep track of. Start your recording and keep your eye on one spot of the tape when the join passes by start playing 🎶, and when you seen the join pass by again, stop ✋️
Hey hello! So far the videos of you that I watched felt more like "two friends having fun together with inside jokes and stuff". Il liked that, but now, this is on another level, incredibly useful. Thank you so much!
@@stephpicher thanks for the kind words! We're stoked you like the content and we are beyond happy to help folks get started in their tape adventures 🙌
11:06 erase head muting tip ❤
Have you guys heard of 10-turn potentiometers? They give very fine control. One disadvantage is they take ages to go from one end to another but a bypass switch would help for speed.
@@stevesm2010 yes, rotary pots! Probably too fine of movement in them for a tape player, would be helpful when tuning to a synth but a nightmare for the DnB jam 😆
25:29 this is what heaven sounds like
0:48 actually produce a song? I thought I’d gear heads were just meant to salivate over our tools, not make stuff 😅😅😅😅 I joke if course - looking forward to sitting down to watch this whole thing😊
@@the_washington_monument_am9714 SALIVATION PROCRASTINATION RUMINATION ✌️😎 I'm here all week
@ PROCRASTINATION PROCLAMATION IN PERPETUITY.
Awesome stuff!
As a 50yr old dude with fond memories of riding my bike to my dishwashing job with my walkman-style tape deck jammin metal mix tapes and recording jam sessions with friends on models slightly larger, the irony of this video in 2024 is not lost on me. I must have owned ten different "Walkman" style tape players in my youth, but Im still young enough that, in my time they were all basically called, "Walkman"s" My favorite was a Seiko brand that my mom got me for Christmas one year, it took so much abuse and worked until the door fell off and I think I actually just lost it. Tapes are so nostalgic for me. It was all about the quality of headphone one used as to the listening experience though.
Waiting for mine in the mail now 🤘🏻
Ace work
Welcome back boys...missed you...👍 BTW - where do you get the antistatic plastic stuff? I'm using insulating tape over the erase head and it's not always successful...
@@n.k.turley2496 don't feel disheartened! it does take a bit of fiddling... we make it look like it works first time every time in this video 😅
Great video, although I don’t think I’ve got the patience to make my own tape loops. I think I’ll order one from you guys instead in the new year. 😊
Leave it out in the sun, drag it behind a skateboard, blanch it, put it in the dryer (no heat), put it in a dirty situation then use "tape cleaner," ribbon curling technique then respool, fold /crease it in a uniform pattern (every 1mm), mess it up first and then record it
All I want is this but with a high pass filter on it too, so I can run drones through throughout my performances (and I don’t wana use up a track on my Octatrack)
@@Tapepusher check out our Instagram... we have an upgraded version of this mod and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised 😅
Cool
Legendary
Nice!
When's this gonna be available boys...? 👍
Very dope!! I like it a lot.
Please tell me you people have a samplepack or something. These really remind me of zero-G's "ghost of the machine"
We have lots of tapeloop samples on our patreon, £1 entry! we also have a sample pack available on etsy but it's more drums than tapeloops...
Dude really said "👶"
will the DictaDroneSLiDE-FM V3 be back in stock soon?
@@pfft9363 very soon, before the end of the month 👍
I recently learned that the darker colored tape is higher quality than the lighter brown/rust colored tape.
@@codelicious6590 chrome tape is better quality, however some older players don't play nice with non ferric tape! Also lets not forget that we are hunting for the Lo-Fi 😁👌
Thx very helpful.
Quality content
I like the content, but this video could have been cut down to 50% of this lenghts. Who wants to watch someone taking his time, amlost falls asleep while speeking.
Im looking for a shoebox style old tape recorder with stereo outs so I can monkey around with modding and bending in Stereo!! Everybody seems to think they have priceless artifacts on ebay with these old tape decks though.
@@codelicious6590 where are you based?
What is the third pot wired into the 2399 board? I understood there were only two you coud hook up to it! 1-the one it comes with, the one that substitutes the r27 then..?
Amen Andrews meets Boards of Canada
JUST COMING!