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The Sound of Machines
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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 22 ม.ค. 2016
The Sound of Machines is a repository of DIY recording experiments, and tutorials for creating your own unique musical creations-a haven for both makers and musicians. I hope you find inspiration to create new, exciting sounds that the world has never heard before.
What Does the Inside of Melting Ice Sound Like? | Contact Microphone Experiments
Download the audio files from this experiment - www.patreon.com/posts/sample-download-118295636
Come hear what it sounds like inside a block of ice as it squeaks, clicks, pops, and creates an ASMR lover's dream. When you add effect chains to this sounds, it opens up even more worlds of strange audio delights.
This is the first in a series of recordings in which I'll be subjecting my homemade contact microphones to a gauntlet of destructive situations. While these particular mics came out unscathed, the following experiments will not be so kind!
For more sample downloads, come join me on Patreon
patreon.com/TheSoundofMachines
Come hear what it sounds like inside a block of ice as it squeaks, clicks, pops, and creates an ASMR lover's dream. When you add effect chains to this sounds, it opens up even more worlds of strange audio delights.
This is the first in a series of recordings in which I'll be subjecting my homemade contact microphones to a gauntlet of destructive situations. While these particular mics came out unscathed, the following experiments will not be so kind!
For more sample downloads, come join me on Patreon
patreon.com/TheSoundofMachines
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Building a Tape Loop Player from Scratch | Prototyping the Cassettone Two
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Recently I ordered some parts for my Cassettone Two project but they won't arrive for a few weeks. That is way too long to just wait around without working on the machine. So in the meantime I built this prototyping board. It's made from scrap wood and elements I salvaged from broken cassette players. This lets me continue to work on prototyping while I wait for the actual tape-player mechanism...
The Cassettone Two: A Mellotron Inspired Synth | Announcement Update
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This announcement video includes a number of new updates! Hello! I’m excited to share that I’m busy developing the Cassettone Two, the next evolution of the Mellotron-inspired instrument I built a few years ago. For those of you who have been following, the Cassettone uses tape loops to create unique, customizable sounds-and with this new version, there will be two cassettes instead of one. Eac...
Exploring Feedback Loops with DIY Audio Gear | Experimental Sound Techniques
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In this video, I’m playing around with feedback loops using a homemade piezo mic, transducer, and a little amp I put together as part of my "Surface Feedback" sample pack series. If you want the samples from these experiments, head over to my Patreon: patreon.com/TheSoundofMachines.
Vintage Piano Sample Pack: Cassette Tape Sounds from 1964
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In this video, I’m sharing something special-a sampling session with a vintage piano that’s been in my family since 1964. This old piano has seen a lot of use, and while it’s been tuned a few times, it still carries that unique, slightly out-of-tune charm. I’ve recorded every note on it, capturing both a clean version and one with a little extra character by running it through a cassette tape. ...
The Jangle Box: Sound Samples and Experimental Noise
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Download these ridiculous samples here: www.patreon.com/posts/jangle-box-110332953 In this video, I’m showing the process of creating a sample pack from one of my musical creations-the Jangle Box. Originally just a decorative box, I've repurposed it into an instrument that uses hobby motors to strum different strings. By controlling the motor speeds and string pitch, I can create a range of sou...
20 Contact Microphone Experiments - A Collection of my Favorite Instagram Reels
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Learn to make strange musical instruments and download my sample packs on The Sound of Machines Patreon! patreon.com/TheSoundofMachines Here's a roundup of 20 of my favorite contact mic experiments that I've posted to my instagram feed. Many of these are custom-made piezo elements, but quite a few are store-bought elements that are just as fun to play around with. Follow me on instagram for mor...
UFOs in the Stairwell | Let's Hear How This Sounds Episode 5
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Welcome to episode five of Let's Hear How This Sounds-the show about writing and recording song demos...with a twist! This will be the final episode under the name of "Let's Hear How This Sounds". For the next few weeks I will be working on a new show title and some updated graphics that will help the show flow a bit more smoothly. As in each episode, a random selection of instruments, effects,...
Frying Pan Goes POONK! | Let's Hear How This Sounds Episode 4
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In the fourth episode of Let's Hear How This Sounds, I make use of a frying pan to add some cool ambience to a demo track. The results are cool, man-check it out! Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/5Jucr8uCJ4fi57ScaTOiqH Instagram: thesoundofmachines Discord: discord.com/invite/QNtjR8NFSq
Is it a Clarinet or Screaming Geese? | Let's Hear How This Sounds Ep. 3
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In this episode of Let's Hear How This Sounds, we let a flock of uncontrollable screaming geese close out a song. Enjoy.
Effect Chain Stacking in Ableton | Custom Effect Racks pt. 2
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In this second part of my two-part series, I show some of the many many many features of effect chain stacking within effect racks in Ableton. This sh*t gets nuts... Be sure to watch part one here: th-cam.com/video/0wkLvyglzmI/w-d-xo.html Chapters: 00:00 Intro and recap of part one 00:44 Inserting audio effects 01:39 Opening the effect chain view 02:25 Exploring the different effect chain setti...
Making Custom Effect Racks in Ableton | A Beginner's Introduction
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When it comes to Ableton effects, the differences between inserts, chains, groups and racks can get a bit confusing-even for some of us who have been using Ableton for years. In this short tutorial I explain these terms, and show how to start making and using your own effect racks. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:25 What is an effect insert? 00:49 What is an effect rack? 01:17 What is an effect...
Abandoning Your Babies | Let's Hear How This Sounds Episode 2
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Welcome to the second episode of "Let's Hear How This Sounds". A new experimental series where I document the process of writing and recording music in my home studio. I'm still figuring out exactly what I want this show to be-I'm looking forward to seeing how it evolves. Here's what I get up to in this episode: 00:00 Welcome to the second episode 00:19 This episode's random selection 01:31 Gui...
Recording a Song From Random Prompts | Let's Hear How This Sounds Ep. 1
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Recording a Song From Random Prompts | Let's Hear How This Sounds Ep. 1
Piezo mics, a motorized platform, and weights-processing sound in Ableton Live
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Piezo mics, a motorized platform, and weights-processing sound in Ableton Live
Make Your Own Cassettone Mk1- A DIY Modified Cassette Player Synth
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Make Your Own Cassettone Mk1- A DIY Modified Cassette Player Synth
Cassette Player Piano Mod-MK1 Short Sample
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Cassette Player Piano Mod-MK1 Short Sample
I modified a cassette player to play like a synth - Pt.1
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I modified a cassette player to play like a synth - Pt.1
Musical Collaboration - My Process During COVID
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Musical Collaboration - My Process During COVID
High Water - The Sound of Machines (Official Music Video)
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High Water - The Sound of Machines (Official Music Video)
Music Projects and Sound Experiments-Supercut 01
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Music Projects and Sound Experiments-Supercut 01
The Successful Kickstarter Campaign video for "Under the Weight of Water"
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The Successful Kickstarter Campaign video for "Under the Weight of Water"
A Crazy DIY Percussion Music Instrument: "The Metronomic Two-Step Physical Sequencer"
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A Crazy DIY Percussion Music Instrument: "The Metronomic Two-Step Physical Sequencer"
"The Wolf" - The Production of a Song and all of its Composite Pieces
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"The Wolf" - The Production of a Song and all of its Composite Pieces
The basics of using photo resistors to control the signal flow in your music.
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The basics of using photo resistors to control the signal flow in your music.
This is really cool and inspiring. I'm going to order a bunch of piezo discs now :D
The things people will do to avoid using an actual synthesizer. Joking, but some really cool sounds you got there. Definitely enjoyed the rubber ball dragged across a surface.
Did you and David Hilowitz Music hit this same idea around the same time at random? This is crazy to see right after I watched his video from a couple weeks ago xD
Greetings, I am very happy to have come across your channel. Thank you very much for presenting all these discoveries to us. I have been experimenting with recording the sounds of different surfaces and structures for a while. When you plug your piezo microphones into your recorder (Tascam), how many volts phantom setting do you enter? Or do you enter such a setting? Love from Turkey.
Kits!!!! Yessssss! Very excited for this product :)
Great experimentation. Thanks for showing how to wire them. The reason for two? Is it to get double the sound? Because you wouldn’t get stereo, right?
"Nobodies here I'm talking to myself!" 😆
@@rdgmstudio as always…
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That's cool! 😲
You should also record the freezing sound!
Hah. It would be 24 hours of.... ..................................................ffft....................................................fff.........................................fssss.....................................p........................
th-cam.com/video/KvelzF-cTxA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=PxMmQAIfM48f5Cip 18:00 , sounds like people working at house construction site 😅 but whole video is my idea of rain drops tripping on air inflated plastic tube recorded with those same mics! Weird sounds!
Nice!
Very nice but you covered the speaker 😞
Output into DAW
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I live for piezo and contact mic content
can u make me one please I don't have the money tho but I will save up to pay u aslo I am not good at sordering
Is it possible to go very low on frequency? I mean, to produce rhythms with a feedback loop?
@@patricketp8356 maybe, but the ability to replicate any given sound is quite tricky as every minute variation in placement changes the audio
Really cool concept!
How did you mic up the little instrument?
Love the sound of it !
verycool!
20-some years ago, that prototype board is exactly what i dreamed of having in my tiny studio, with loops of different sounds hung from pushpins up on a cork board on the wall. Eventually I just used a soldering iron to melt two holes in the top of a radio shack front-load cassette player, and would painstakingly feed a section of tape through the works, then hold play + pause, and i could gently shift the ribbon back and forth manually in order to "scratch" the sound, wax record style. i bet you could also "scratch" with that prototype setup - it's really yummy looking! And i'm excited to see more progress on this v2.
3:53 love the Sam Raimi style Zoom in haha, I just watched Army of Darkness
You probably know this but the tape mechanisms that a still available are not very good to put it mildly. If I were gonna make something like this I would use a pair of good Sony Walkman mechanisms which I would find used.
@@mikegeary8056 in a perfect world they would be available everywhere. I’m trying my best to future-proof the build by finding the most accessible parts. The cool thing with these is that anyone (with a little bit of electrical know how) can swap out parts easy-peesy. At least that’s my goal.
Just a thought. Since you're using a wooden chassis, you may want to try and ground any parts in the tape path. just the surface contact of the tape on plastic can build static voltage over time, and since you don't have a big metal chassis ground plane, that could potentially happen here. Not definitively saying it would be a problem, but just something you might want to be aware of. I know you've built these things before, and maybe it's not an issue, but since this is a new project and new design, you may run into new problems.
@@GameOfThePlanets great feedback to consider. I appreciate any advice I can get! I’m bringing these comments to my tech person and we will add it to the our list of considerations. Thanks for bringing it up.
❤Wow, a great idea and implementation! I would like to build a REAL analogue delay in a similar way, maybe you would like to design something like that in the future, as real analogue tape delays are rare, but sound very musical and warm, new real tape delays products are unfortunately available very expensive. Building something like that yourself would also be a lot of fun.
Been collecting old tape mechanisms for just such an experiment! So excited to see this!
Awesome. Can’t wait to see the final product. What are you using to control the motor speed?
@@SISKworks in this video nothing really-just an ill-advised pot that doesn’t do the job. The final design requires a transistor and cap in the circuit, but I have someone helping me out with that now :)
Cool video. Watching builds is so satisfying.
I imagine they're called movements because they are similar to clockwork and watch mechanisms, which are also called movements.
Aha! I had no idea.
Brilliant stuff 🤘 Can you make a video about the amplifier and transducer? I would love to create this kind of setup myself.
@@MrSolcyson it :)
@@TheSoundofMachines 😃
Now this looks like fun! I have amplifiers, pedals, cable, etc but it looks like I need to get a transducer 😊 How did you route the signal when you were recording with the pedals? And how did you make the contract mic? I’m guessing there’s a piezo disc buried in there.
Stupid
Dude! This is nice...
This is awesome! Following closely
bro you are a saint for providing kits! i cant wait!
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Cool idea! I wonder if midi input could be possible 🤔
Cassettone SIX maybe?
Didn’t you rip off Caleb Mclaurens guitar hero cassette synth and use it to win Moogfest in 2013?
Haha. I think I know a few of those words.... google search here I come.
For me its the fact that we all have seen that mystery circuits picture from 13 years ago yet barely anyone is repping mike walter in these videos.
Bro ripped off the chamberlain too 😬
@@CircularMirror7 What are you all on about. Can I help at all? Do I need to call someone?
My dude is creating an open source project using open source concepts end easily sourceable components. Your baseless conplaining contributes nothing. Try to create instead of destroy.
this is brilliant. thank you. awesome.
The hero we didn't know we needed!
Oh boy. That's a big role to fill 🙃
open source hero
Genius idea, thank you, i've built some prototype ! It's facinaiting!
Cool.
I love this so much.
so cool
This is so awesome, man. Can't tell you how much it's appreciated you're helping keep tape culture alive and thriving!
Thanks! It's such a great sound. Especially when they are these grungy, dirty tapes...
i dont know if you will consider this feature but ive thought about it for a while: what if there was a mode that made it so that each press of a key (either per key or all total) it would only output one of the cassetes audios (or have it invert the blend) for added veriety and uncertainty. If each note has a release time this would be another way to create note pairings
@@trollkarlenjp interesting! That sounds like a feature that requires some coding. Right now I’m deliberately leaving out any controllers since that bumps the build difficulty up a number of notches! Future maybe?
@@TheSoundofMachines i know barely anything about that, but surely there is a way to figure out the logic and build it in hardware (that is if it sounds like its inlign with what you want this product to be). im not part of the discord as i ive just lurked here (love this btw), but sounds like that group would be a powerhouse
✨🏆✨ so inspired! …I just joined the patreon and am giving s whole three dollars per month 😜
Thank you! Every little bit helps keep me going on this journey. Can you also tell a few thousand of your friends to join as well? :D
@@TheSoundofMachines I’ll do what I can!
I will be first in line for the kit! Exciting!
Right on!
That is beautiful - creative and pretty special. Love it
Thank you so much!