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Did you remove the spring from the container? Of did you just let the spring in the container and die petrol desolved al the old grease? This shloud be next level. Have a great day.

you said you have 2 roland 909s? im leaving

I have one of these (not same manufacturer, but I believe they were mass-produced to what was effectively an open-source or pirated design) and it's fine mechanically, but I need to restore the case. I thought you were going to do that! Still an interesting video though!

The saddles are the type used in the 60s

And I forgot to mention that the tuning pegs also look original, but again, there's nothing that can date it for sure.

Do you have any favorite guitars? Or are all my subscribers only into drum machines? 😀

just changed the dead battery in mine to the 3x AA mod. The trickeist part for me was putting it back together slotting the facia to the backside. Such a quirky design!

All three sound completely different. All three are usable. 😊

My Erica synths is the best

To even make a video like this is useless. Either you are rich and can afford a vintage mint TR-909, but the most are not, And ina mix with them as the differenses between the TR and RD is suttle it does not matter, It is stupid to compare and once again silently bullie and smear Uli Behringer, Also Swedes tend to smear othes more nowdays, "Det är lättare att se grandet i den andres öga än sitt eget,....The results i get from the RD-9 is great as i sold my crusty TR-909 in the 90's cheers <3

Good job 👍

I love mine. The secret is the run it off a 12v instead of 5 or 9. It sounds really tip top with it. Until i did it, it was meh. 🤷🏼‍♂️ (for me) It raises the noisefloor and puts more juice thru it

Tack för en toppenvideo ! Ska öppna min 909 för första gången nu vilket känns helt ok efter detta.

Due to the fact that there does seem to be a bit of confusion on the internet regarding whether the EL 6011 is a dynamic or crystal microphone I contacted Philips archives some years ago and asked them. They sent me the EL 6011 data sheet which clearly states that it is a moving coil dynamic microphone. Thank you for your wonderful video.

Isn’t their talk from Behringer of a PolyOscar, now? How is that, when they had to abandon making a copy if the original? Great vid! Cheers!

Thanks for sharing, good info!

RD-9 sounds better to my ears.

Hi i have a question my gramophone needle is pushing too hard on the vinyl and it would not spin and it would damage my record. How do i fix it?

No one plays these things raw anyway. I’ve always run my machines through various pedals and I suspect that if I had a 909 at this point, I would sell it and buy some thing that isn’t cloned.

@LennartRegebo thanks for the lesson. Are the foils transferable from one machine to another? I need a replacement for my Neuphonic

I’m lost… revision one two three four 😂

the Behringer is better

Your research is imperative. It would be amazing if you could run your tests through newly released grooveboxes, samplers and drum machines so producers can be more informed before purchasing the devices. In example, had i know the Ableton Push 3 was going to have such unstable midi to control external devices. I wouldnt have purchased it. It would be also nice to have comparisons to other gear like Elektron Digitakt 2.

Very interesting and informative, Thank you for producing and posting this video

Great content! Thanks :) could you do the same for the mythical 808? Thanks

I feel like an argument can almost be made that the RD9 is mimicking what the 909 was originally intended to sound like. I suspect that 7K filter was not originally intended to be there and only showed up after prototypes were exhibiting too much noise and a compromise had to be made. Regardless, it sounds like they really did their homework and the consumers are the real winners here.

I might sound like a bit of a heathen here, but I feel like if you're recording from the summed output, you're not quite doing it right. Whatever processing you want on the kick- for example- probably wouldn't sound as good when applied to the full mix. Plus recording individual channels means you can tweak their levels later on.

get ERM multiclock and forget about any midi timing issues

this is the best explanation of midi clock and testing on the internet

who wants to trade his 909 for a boat?

A in the whole pattern is punchier in the bass drum

O my god

Your review helped me shape a decision, I got myself a RD 9 , I have to admit, it sounds superbe , and the versatility of the instrument is very nice and capable.

excellent review, analyse , thank you

t is is soooooo more fun than school lessons, i think i m gonna see it again for a 2nd time, very interesting and thanks for the very good tutorial/info!!

Thank you so much to Cryptout and Acid Mitch for sending me recordings of their TR-909s! Can you Share These samples with us ❤?

This is really informative and very well presented. Thanks

Gonna try this out soon! (Kind of afraid to even look at the spring since last time my nephew overcranked it and it made the loudest bang i ever hear)

Great content, thanks!

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The reasons it’s so hard to find a stable MIDI clock is because the government is lying to us and the earth is actually flat 😂😂😂

Thank you for sharing this! I have a made-in-England Columbia unit with this exact same issue and no idea what to do about it. Looking forward to attempting this repair and breathing new life into this old beauty. Many many thanks!

I feel the real comparison test is putting the sounds in a sequence, there's something interesting I remember, that when the claps are close together on the real tr909, they start sounding.... hard to describe it in words.

Omg

This was awesome. Thanks for taking the time to do the comparison.

Enjoyed this very much. I liked seeing how you methodically went through this process with increasing understanding and troubleshooting. Being frustrated by MIDI Clock is almost a right of passage, but most people don't get to understand it the way you have. FWIW, when you must sync to the DAW and use devices that support MIDI Clock, it's far better to use a device like CLOCKstep:MULTI, Multiclock, etc. It's exactly the reverse of what you've done to make a reliable test. The clock output from the DAW is audio and goes to a device that can convert it into a much more stable MIDI Clock and then distribute it. Throw in a few other protocols like CV and Sync24, and you have Sync Hub for lots of gear. Even on OSes and DAWs that can output a reliable enough MIDI Clock, there can come a point where the project grows to such an extent that MIDI starts to suffer under load and these devices become well worth it.

Why are the BPM values different for RD-6 and TD-3? Everything else in your table was going for 120 BPM but RD-6 is 127 and TD-3 is 117? That's off by quite a bit.

Expecting a Wintergatan reference: "So can we play tight music?"

Thanks a lot, very interesting! It got me thinking that, could it be that some famous drum machines - like the original 909 or 707 - get their famous groove from having an inaccurate MIDI clock? The probability distribution you showed did not look gaussian to me - what if it is the unique shape of the distribution of clock irregularities that is the main contributing factor to a "unique groove"? This would have been a super cool follow-up video!

Thank you Very much for investigating this ♥️♥️👍👍