Harder Than Concrete
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No Multitrack Tape Machine? No Problem!
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How to construct rhythmic elements with advanced tape sampling techniques, as used by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. There's no option to multitrack with this equipment, and dubbing would be common amongst the amateur pioneers of these techniques, working with smaller domestic machines in their sheds, garages, and spare rooms.
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  • @bonistik
    @bonistik ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    What are those little movable pole things you have the tape looping around?

    • @HarderThanConcrete
      @HarderThanConcrete 26 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      MroMax M6 10mm 30pcs Flat Head Cap nut Brad Hole Tee Nut Carbon Steel Round Base Screw-in T-Nut from amazon- with a bit of double sided tape on the bottom to stop them from wandering off

  • @ChromosomeSyndicate
    @ChromosomeSyndicate 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    3:54 whoooop it remind me on Dick Raajmakers (Kid Baltan) whoooop shortest sound 😂

  • @silkyglimpses7686
    @silkyglimpses7686 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Always a joy to best your sounds … those beautiful old machines so glad you make these sounds thank you ❤😁👍🪐

  • @silkyglimpses7686
    @silkyglimpses7686 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Lovely to watch and learn … totally love the sounds from Old tape … my machines are also old and just about working 😁 Fantastic sounding loop 😁👍🪐

    • @HarderThanConcrete
      @HarderThanConcrete 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@silkyglimpses7686 Thank you! Ah you make tape stuff too?

  • @ThMntnst
    @ThMntnst วันที่ผ่านมา

    Oh boy, this is right where it needs to be. I was a bit saddened to encounter your bandcamp and seeing no cassette-tape-releases over there.

    • @HarderThanConcrete
      @HarderThanConcrete วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@ThMntnst Working on a release for a tape label as we speak. Well, almost. I'm in bed this second but I'll be back at it in the morning.

    • @ThMntnst
      @ThMntnst 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @HarderThanConcrete Looking forward to it. Being in bed is ok. I do so myself sometimes.

  • @Timbobs
    @Timbobs วันที่ผ่านมา

    “I will now set fire to the entire room” - lines you say when you found a hobby you enjoy 😂

    • @HarderThanConcrete
      @HarderThanConcrete วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Timbobs I have to use threats to myself to keep it spicy

  • @ferrifet7267
    @ferrifet7267 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Grand job ❤

  • @JamesPearson
    @JamesPearson วันที่ผ่านมา

    Very much enjoying your videos. I love tape too, but I'm not sure I have the patience or time to go this far with it. Tape loops is one thing, but the splicing is next level. I admire your hard work and enjoy your results. Thank you for sharing!

    • @HarderThanConcrete
      @HarderThanConcrete วันที่ผ่านมา

      Once you get into the swing of it it's actually not too bad. I'm lucky that I have the space to have this set up permanently, so it's not a faff getting started

    • @JamesPearson
      @JamesPearson วันที่ผ่านมา

      @ that’s a really good point; your setup looks excellent and really ergonomic for doing this too.

  • @matthewharty6531
    @matthewharty6531 วันที่ผ่านมา

    And here's one I made earlier pulls out electronic masterpiece

  • @elektroarkivet
    @elektroarkivet วันที่ผ่านมา

    This is sooo inspiring! I'm constantly struggling between vintage methods and cheating with modern tech, trying to find my personal mix. Splicing tapes as it is done in this video takes more patience than I usually can afford, so I have to fint some shortcuts. (pun intended) I'm often thinking about modifying a vintage record player with a windshield wiper motor, so it will rock back and forth, synchronised with the rest of my "Boat Anchor Modular Synth" made of vacuum tube test equipment. Now as I watched this I got the idea to make something like an automated monophonic Mellotron of an old tape recorder, rythmically pulling the tape through the heads, letting a spring pull it back to the start, over and over again. By using a tape recorder instead of a record player, I think you can get rid of quite some inertia that hold things back. The slight missmatches in pitch and timing that still remains can either be chopped away with a relay on the audio signal, or let it remain to give it all a bit "natural organic variation". So far I've only used tape recordings as a constant source of audio signal to be cut in piexes rhytmically by the telegraph relay in my 1950's teleprinter service instrument TDMS5. th-cam.com/video/NCWbqL2ei7Y/w-d-xo.html

    • @elektroarkivet
      @elektroarkivet วันที่ผ่านมา

      Here's that telegraph relay again, working it's magic with the voice of Aleister Crowley: th-cam.com/video/IgXTY2FAes0/w-d-xo.html

  • @pmc5532
    @pmc5532 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Remember doing this yrs ago with my mixtapes that got chewed in the car stereo Brilliant !!

  • @Longstride
    @Longstride วันที่ผ่านมา

    Maybe it’s the outfit but in my head you’re doing this in a light house off the coast 😂

    • @HarderThanConcrete
      @HarderThanConcrete วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Longstride Ha you're right! If you have a look on my Bandcamp you'll see my Lighthouse Corner album! Great minds, etc.

    • @Longstride
      @Longstride วันที่ผ่านมา

      @HarderThanConcrete Ah! So in YOUR head you're also in a lighthouse :-) must have grown up on too much Portland Bill cartoons!

    • @HarderThanConcrete
      @HarderThanConcrete วันที่ผ่านมา

      @Longstride Bang on! Cromarty was definitely a swinger. It's the facial hair.

    • @Longstride
      @Longstride วันที่ผ่านมา

      @HarderThanConcrete :-) Until I moved to scotland I didnt know Ross and Cromarty were real places!

  • @listis1975
    @listis1975 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Μy friend your are a guide for me very interesting your channel

  • @saltynotbitter4557
    @saltynotbitter4557 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I found it very relaxing watching such tedious hard work lol, The end result sounds beautiful!

  • @matthewharty6531
    @matthewharty6531 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Ya Hainbach

  • @justawatchin2
    @justawatchin2 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    oh wow, i have your uh wobbulator. but under a different brand and no digital display. is your fan quite loud when you turn it on?

    • @HarderThanConcrete
      @HarderThanConcrete 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Ey up :) This one isn't too bad. Which exact model and make do you have

  • @ThMntnst
    @ThMntnst 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Hey, just discovering your channel by watching this video. Really weirdly enjoyable and fun!

    • @HarderThanConcrete
      @HarderThanConcrete 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Thank you! There'll be quite a lot more of this sort of thing- i.e. long videos where I look confused.

  • @markgriffiths5122
    @markgriffiths5122 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great demo, I used to do tapeloops in the early 80s but nothing as elaborate as that, partly because I only have fixed speed machines. Very much in the vein of John Baker. It shows why electronic composers were really crying out for some way of automating pitch, timing and ordering of notes and why the synthesiers like the Buchlas, Moogs & EMS were welcomed by most. But some like Delia Derbyshire never really liked synthesisers although she did have and used a VCS3.

    • @HarderThanConcrete
      @HarderThanConcrete 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I'm a huge fan of John Baker's work. I love the arpeggios he used to add to things made from the sound of water glugging from the mouth of a bottle.

    • @markgriffiths5122
      @markgriffiths5122 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @HarderThanConcrete if you are not familiar with him, FC Judd is another playful composer in that general area.

    • @HarderThanConcrete
      @HarderThanConcrete 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I have his little 7" vinyl record - the intro to electronic music. Recently owned his electronics in music and musique concrete books- both excellent but unfortunately I needed the cash to buy even more gear ha. I love the look of his studio- so domestic.

  • @warminstrel2284
    @warminstrel2284 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Just wow, takes me back to 70s seeing how Dr Who music made. Incredible project.

    • @Benjiroyoface
      @Benjiroyoface 12 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      delia derbyshire moment

  • @legionofswine
    @legionofswine 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great video, love it!

  • @Hainbach
    @Hainbach 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Lovely video, and a fellow B00GA owner, too! Here is a BPM tape speed to BPM to length calc that might come in handy (macleveland made it for my subreddit)

    • @HarderThanConcrete
      @HarderThanConcrete 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Thanks Hainbach! Good spot- everyone loves a booga (I bought mine after seeing your video on it). A calculator certainly makes things easier. Cheers, Ben.

  • @celtislam
    @celtislam 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Class x🤖

  • @daviHuggMonster
    @daviHuggMonster 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I am amazed that all these machines still work.

    • @HarderThanConcrete
      @HarderThanConcrete 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@daviHuggMonster some took a bit of work to get them going, but some just came to life instantly

    • @daviHuggMonster
      @daviHuggMonster 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @HarderThanConcrete can imagine that

  • @nicholasbalette6354
    @nicholasbalette6354 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Such a technique of sampling , to learn producing music, amazing.

  • @SunLogic1973
    @SunLogic1973 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Well done, Ben. I'm going away now.

  • @CommunicatingVessels
    @CommunicatingVessels 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

  • @PhilipJosephRae
    @PhilipJosephRae 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Fantastic video Ben ! Really enjoying your work love it !

  • @noizvendr
    @noizvendr 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    💯

  • @noizvendr
    @noizvendr 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    excellent, thanks!

  • @Longstride
    @Longstride 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Love your videos Ben! Always interesting! Glad you’ve hit 500! Good luck! Glenn

    • @HarderThanConcrete
      @HarderThanConcrete 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Thank you! Cheers for watching 😊

  • @temporoboto
    @temporoboto 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    great💙content

  • @j.wilcox3547
    @j.wilcox3547 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Absolutely fascinating. While i don't understand everything you are saying, i am learning. So glad i found yr channel. I'll be performing for the first time in over a year, maybe my friend/collaborater will post it. If yr interested, I'll let you know. Cheers.

    • @HarderThanConcrete
      @HarderThanConcrete 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Definitely- what sort of live setup are you using?

    • @j.wilcox3547
      @j.wilcox3547 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @HarderThanConcrete I have 2 instruments I bought from Resonance Circuits (ouija lab and Psychosis Lab) a maximal drone from Riucci and a board with 3 springs from Electro Lobotomy. They are all on TH-cam, and a 4 track with the answering machine tape loop. All going through a 5 channel mixer.

  • @Dandroid5000
    @Dandroid5000 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    You're putting out some great content here.......I've got oscillator envy, ha!!! Just wondering whereabouts you are in the country?

    • @HarderThanConcrete
      @HarderThanConcrete 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Leeds! Be careful with the oscillator envy. I had it, but now I envy people who have money in the bank instead of a house full of oscillators.

    • @HarderThanConcrete
      @HarderThanConcrete 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Tbh though you can make a basic setup and get DIY for around £30. I just wish I'd stopped there.

    • @Dandroid5000
      @Dandroid5000 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @ Just saw this.....yeah, I'm wary of splurging. All I'd want is one decent old Marconi I reckon. Leeds is a bit of a trek.... I was wondering if you fancied working on some tracks some time? I've got a load of old analogue gear myself, most of which is in storage......but I've been looking to do some raw, minimalist drum tracks with a bit of a 60's radiophonic psyche vibe - think Delia Derbyshire meets Pierre Henry and il Gruppo di Improvvisazione in a dark alley.

    • @HarderThanConcrete
      @HarderThanConcrete 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Dandroid5000 Sounds great! We can easily collab over the net. Drop me a line on insta :)

    • @Dandroid5000
      @Dandroid5000 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @ Gotcha!

  • @karlsynonymous481
    @karlsynonymous481 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Very wrong in the rightest way.

  • @CassetteTapeLoops
    @CassetteTapeLoops 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Love it !

  • @kristofwynants
    @kristofwynants 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Nice demonstration. Interesting how the sound went from smooth to nauseating and back again (at louder volume) when the frequencies con- and diverged

    • @HarderThanConcrete
      @HarderThanConcrete 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It's an interesting phenomenon isn't it!

  • @KaijuLeviathan
    @KaijuLeviathan 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This was great. Looking forward to the next video!

  • @GoldenChed
    @GoldenChed 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Brilliant mate!

  • @niki8660
    @niki8660 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    this is glorious😍

  • @isCUN7
    @isCUN7 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    best music video i've ever seen

  • @bez23
    @bez23 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    OLD SCHOOL old school. ❤

  • @VVELTSCHMERZ303
    @VVELTSCHMERZ303 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Love your dedication mate!

  • @temporoboto
    @temporoboto 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    great💙content

  • @iSapien1956672
    @iSapien1956672 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Me and. friend used to do this with cassette tapes in high school, early 90's

  • @j.wilcox3547
    @j.wilcox3547 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I cheated. I bought old answering machine tape loops I found online.

  • @jonathanredman8497
    @jonathanredman8497 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    One of my first jobs as a tape op. Classical recordings so not quite as easy as a single voice. 😁

  • @ferrifet7267
    @ferrifet7267 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Mint stuff

  • @digitalsouthofficial
    @digitalsouthofficial 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    cool! and your room looks sooo nice .) ps: and when I see the cup there, I'm a bit afraid I'd knock it over :)

    • @HarderThanConcrete
      @HarderThanConcrete 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@digitalsouthofficial I like to keep it there to add an element of danger

    • @digitalsouthofficial
      @digitalsouthofficial 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @ Hehe:) dangerseeker :)

  • @DirtyStable
    @DirtyStable 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Brilliant... crumbs I use to do that in the Early 1990s... messing around with sounds.. loops etc...realy enjoyed this Thanks

  • @CakeForJack
    @CakeForJack 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Nice video, I remember studying Music Tech at A-Level in the 00s and we had an educational video of Fatboy Slim explaining the exact same process. We were using DAW for actual editing of course, but it really helped to cement the fundamentals of sampling and loops.