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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 มิ.ย. 2013
- In 1974, Jaws became the world's first summer blockbuster. It grossed over $470 million, making it the highest-grossing movie of all time until "Star Wars" was released in 1977.
This octobasse was made by Mr. Antonio Dattis.
A few musicians stopped by MIM and on their tour, got to try out the Octobasse, which is one of only a few in existence.
Octobasse players: Eric Shetzen, Paul Sharpe, Timothy Spears, Bill Everett
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That's not Jaws, it's the sound my intestines make after eating at Taco Bell.
Lol
lmao
😂
lmfao rofl dieing in the corner
Wft32540 I am Mexican and here in Mexico Taco bell is considered American food, they are not real tacos!
What's hapenning is their camera's microphone problably cant pickup those really low notes. So you are just hearing the overtones wich makes it sound like my stomach.
+Yağız Ozan Dibek It's actually out of the normal range of human hearing pitch-wise, but yes, listening to a recording vs. being there in person does make a difference even with normal upright basses.
+Spencer Beberman I love how the guy flips the bow and plays it in a German style 😂😂
+Yağız Ozan Dibek some low notes is so low you can't hear them
That's because it's a German bow lol.
That's because it's a German bow lol.
And you thought the E string on the normal bass was low.
Not after I got a 5 string
Was gonna say, i thought it was hard hearing a five string bass's B string.
Xodiaq666 It doesn't always play B, if you loosen or tighten it, it will play a different note, that's why a lot of people just call the lowest string the first string, and the highest (on a four string) the fourth string. Also, it's not hard to hear if it's amplified, you just don't notice it as much as the higher notes because of the higher frequency and science stuff.
Dude, music is my passion, I know how string tension and notes works. I'm just saying, for me, I don't hear the note on a five string all that well, even when amplified. I just hear the string wobble half the time. That said I'm not a bass player, I'm a guitar player, so spending more time around a bass would probably let me hear it better.
Xodiaq666 ok, that makes sense. I think I misunderstood being able to hear the note, for the actual volume. A note can be the same volume and just be harder to hear because it's a lower frequency. And yeah, definitely listening to or even playing bass more definitely makes it easier to hear and pick out.
I think they hit the brown note.
'brown note'..... mwahahaha!
Is that a South Park reference I sniff
Bruh 😂😂😂😂😂
Sir Izzy isn't it a real theory?
Does it DJENT????!!!!
I cannot IMAGINE how much rosin that bow needs to work properly!!
Steven Scott 2? 3? Thingys? Idk but it would be a heck of a lot
The Octobass needs and Octoball of resin...
Steven Scott XD right?!
Natalia Bil "thingys"? You mean "cakes"
The upside being if you ran out, you could probably just cut down another pine tree with it...
The way the dude just yelled, "JAWS." had me weeping
It had me weeping of laughter!😂😂😂
Perhaps this is why there's only a few in existence.
one of 2
DaveDexterMusic, I believe there's only 6 in existence.
DaveDexterMusic *Jaws*
7 because one was made in 2010
Yeah.
It sounds like you're moving a desk across the floor...
Ueah
Ueah
Ueah
I feel like I need a subwoofer the size of a pool to even be able to properly hear this thing on a speaker
You would think so, right?
343.2 m/s is the speed of sound in dry air. The lowest note of the octobass is 16Hz. 343.2 m/s / 16 s^-1 = 21.45 meters. That's the fundamental wavelength;
But by that logic you would need a 1 meter diameter speaker to properly hear 343.2 Hz, which is higher than the fundamental pitch of your average female.
The trick of it, though, is that the speed of sound actually fluctuates quite a bit with pressure. That's why headphones seal with your ears and subwoofers come in enclosures.
InverseAgonist
Can you speak in English pls like my head hurts now
OK.
No, you don't need a big-ass subwoofer. You can use headphones, or a normal size subwoofer. Because physics.
Nah, just good headphones.
doesnt matter how big the woofer is
Imagine using that bow on a violin😂
Woah... I don't think that would even work. It would play all the stings at the same time LOL
Don’t Trip
I play the violin and was thinking the exact same thing, probably would sound like my life but worth a try
imagine using a violin bow on that
that my friend, would break my dear strings.
You'd use the violin to play the bow 😅
All we need is two EMG pickups, applied voltage, some distortion, and a little djent.
Tosin A-Octobassi
Instead of a 9v, use a car battery
U need a shovel
Yeah!
Those are some big pickups
Why so many dislikes? Were you expecting it to be tuneful? You clicked on a video called the Jaws theme on the octobasse, and you got the Jaws theme being played on the octobasse. What's the problem here?
they didn't play it right it's a dotted half note then one eighth of D then again it's not two whole notes in a row.
Batowner Studios Different instrument buddy
I think that it's the fact that one cannot hear the octobasse unless the volume is turned up to a substantial amount. I think people just dismissed this video before considering that method, just because they didn't firstly hear any sound.
Tempest exactly. They didn't hear the sound. That's why they disliked. And why the sound wasn't hearable was because the camera probably couldn't even pick the sound up. Wow Im chatting 😂
Batowner Studios. I am pretty sure that the octobase players cannot play an eighth note because the instrument is just to massive and powerful.
Never heard a lawnmower playing "Jaws" ROTFL
I remember when I went to the MIM a few years back and saw the octobass, me and my classmates made jokes on how we have to stack up and stand on top of each other in order to actually play it. That thing is HUGE in person. Planning to go back to the MIM later this year, can't wait to see it again.
You: octobass
Me, an intellectual: big string boi
I think it is amazing to see how the length of the notes comes close to the swinging frequency of the string. This is just so different.
Sunn O))) would make people melt if they used one of these
underrated comment is underrated
+Altar of Disgrace agreed. or Earth
Holy shit that’s true
@@xbreathingisirrelevantx Earth2 low frequency version would be perfect!
Put some EMG's on that and you will get the ULTIMATE DJENT GENERATOR lol
How would you mute it?
+Shining Armor with the bodies of metal elitists
You might even call it the Ultimate Djenterator
Dimarzios. EMGs suck for mid heavy tones
Awer Tyuiop HAHA. Nice one
I went to that Museum in Arizona and I got to see that room and it was wonderful. Truly a work of art
Oh my god, that first part cracked me up.
Bro that's not an octobass, that's a fucking lawnmower
Wow that octobass is massive, I've never seen an instrument that big before
Have you ever seen an organ?
@@technikchaot yes, it’s just that I wasn’t thinking about organs 5 years ago
That’s what she said
LOL@@redvine1105
LOL@@Bendythedancingdemon-gc7zy
this... this can djent
you should play the Seinfeld's theme on that
What a wonderful performance! Couldn't have done it better myself!
boy, that's deep.
Since I am aware how an octobass works, I find this highly amusing.
_"Presenting...JAWS!"_
I play double bass, I would really like to try that
Josh sameeeeee here glad im not the only one
Same... I don't play double bass, I'm going to start learning next week, but I do play electric bass, and I would LOVE to try it.
I only play the Violin and I’m not used to vibrations so I think that the Octobass would be SHAKING as hard as a wet chipmunk in Antarctica
:> me too
No microphone in the world can catch those frequencies, nor any speaker can reproduce them, as no human eardrum can really translate them. But those notes have harmonics, and there are psychoacoustics effects that make you reconstruct a non heard note by the mix of higher frequencies harmonics that correspond to it (oct, 5th, etc, linked to the Fourier distribution). That's all brain power !
I can't tell any pitch!
Imagine how many big violin jokes a day would you get playing this...
Some horror music composer needs to get a hold of this thing, NOW
I was learning about string instruments in the orchestra and I found this-
Anyone wondering why it sounds bad on their tiny speakers should take a physics class.
S. V. Villano Maybe it's not the speakers. Maybe your ears don't work right
It’ll sound shit on video anyway
That feeling when the pitch is deeper than her feelings for you :,)
The pitch is so hard to tell between the 2 semitones in the song because of how low pitched they are. I thought that the guys playing the octobass were playing one note on each streak as if though the pulled out on the lower one and pulled out on the higher one. When I sped it up to several times the original speed, I found out that I was wrong. He is playing one semitone then the next in one string.
I had to raise my volume so I could even hear it.
finally, this instrument does djent.
Unkraut Imagine this thing being actually used in Djent xD
When you loose your e string and your violin goes to a all you can eat buffet
I would fear an elephant clan coming while playing this instrument.
THATS A BIG ASS VIOLIN
triggered
sounds like inside a ship
imagine hearing this in the middle of the night.
i would shit myself
That’s the sound of my stomach after eating Taco Time. Then after the noise it all ends well
I can see this being used in a scary movie
Its too low for the human ear to pick up. We're just hearing the overtones. Play it a bit higher guys!
Brandon Skelton No it's not. They just have the strings so freakin' untuned that it it's hard to hear over these guys laughing so much.
Geegy true dat
Or too majestic for the human ear, GODS, BLESS US TO BE ABLE TO HERE THIS!
I am gonna have to get a good subwoofer and then listen to this again. My crappy headphones are surely doing it a disservice. ;-)
you would have fun taking that on a flight as cabin luggage lol
Jaws? More like Saws! Amirite?
Lol
Lol
It sounds like a generator
A "Big Generator"! "Rhythm Of Love" WOULD kick butt with this bad boy and a Graph Tech bridge pickup.
Sound generator
imagine being able to play an octobass and then just playing seven nation army lmaoo
I legit got the chills, which I don’t normally do
I don't think it sounds like this because 'the human ear can only hear blahblah' - look at how much the string is moving whilst playing - could actually sound phenomenal if a tight string was used, though I guess it's hard to fine a 10ft x gauge Bass string...
How is this a fuckin instrument lol. It just sounds like a saw on bumpy metal at this point
It's playing notes. They're just too low to be heard using the average camera/headphone setup.
how are you this fuckin stupid "lol"
And drums is a piece of wood hitting plastic and metal. It's still considered an instrument.
The Annual MIM Octobass "Jaws" Competition - one amazing bass virtuoso after another, hard to say who won top honors
Sounds just like what it looks like - a saw cutting thru a vibrating piece of metal🤘
Sounds like an old pickup truck.
How much rosin would one have to use for such a big bow lol
For some reason, just thinking about the octobass makes me hungry.
This puts my cello to shame!!! Well done!
i can barely hear it
whhhhhhh
they dropped the bass too low
What's the point of an instrument that only elephants can appreciate
Jammin Dragon Elephants need music, too.
And most animals that have good hearing, like Dogs or Cats, also, Animals can enjoy music too
My left ear enjoyed this
sounds like a shipwreck trying to play music
they need to install a pickup and make djdjdjent
GRAPH TECH Hexaphonic!
i love it and hate it
Some education for all y'all. To say the fundamental pitches are below the audible range means simply that the vibrations (or the packets of compressed air reaching your eardrum) are too far apart for your brain to interpret them as notes. It's not that our eardrums aren't picking up the packets of comressed air. Rather than a note, we hear a growl or slow pattern of ticks or knocks, as if someone is drumming quickly on the top of the bass with soft mallets.
If you hear "pitches" at all coming from these low strings, it's a cumulation of upper partials in the audible range and resonances from the body of the instrument itself.
The fundamental pitch however CAN be heard, just not as a "note". It is heard as the rumble, which can be counted in beats per second.
You'll notice that some of the demos of this instrument clearly rumbles at about 7-16 beats per second. As a piano tuner, and someone who counts beats per second every day, it's easy for me to hear this frequency. 7 or 8 Hz is about as fast as a ticking handmade watch.
In the case that the beat is slow... like 7,8,9 Hz, then the instrument is actually out of tune. HA! Should be 16 Hz or higher according to the design.
I also imagine it's very hard to get a steady frequency with the bowing hand, and weakness in the bowing could result in the wrong pitch. If they REALLY want to hear what this instrument is supposed to sound like, they should hire a bassist/piano tuner, of which there are several in the world. ;)
I have seen the worlds smallest violin but this
This is something else entirely
violin with gigantism
Worlds largest violin
(Music sin, I know)
I wonder what the highest note on that is 😅
Having tighter string tension would make this sound wayy better. The only reason it sounds so bad is because the strings are so floppy
You clearly don't understand physics. The string isn't wobbling due to low tension, though the tension is quite low. It's because the low C string is 16hz, a frequency so low, that you can see the waves. The string is vibrating at 16hz, of course it's going to look floppy, because what that's how slow the waves are at 16hz. So yeah, no shit the strings are floppy, that's physics, you can't make a string vibrating at 16hz have a tight tension, the lower the pitch, the longer and slower the wave. Not to mention most speakers have a cutoff at around 20-40hz, so what you're hearing isn't really a true representation of the instrument, since the actual pitch of the note has either been cut by TH-cam's compression or your speakers.
***** The string is wobbling because it isn't thick enough to tune that low. Frequency has nothing to do with string thickness, it has to do with the note they are playing. If they got a thicker string and tuned it the same way that it's tuned now, then the string would be tighter and it would have much better tone. Trust me, I've worked with stringed instruments for over half my life. I play 8,9, and 10- string guitars that are downtuned to scales that guitars aren't even meant to play. It's not about frequency, you just need thicker strings to make the lower tuning work.
Ethan Northup It's a different story with guitars because you are striking the strings, when you do so the momentum of the pick (or finger) makes the string follow and causes it wobble back and forth, and in that case thicker strings and a longer scale length will minimize that. An 8 string guitar with a low F# will be vibrating at around 46hz, still too fast for us to really see. If you were for example to use an ebow on an 8 string, even if you had thin strings and a short scale length, it would not wobble. A 10 string is closer, a low G# at about 25hz, but then again I've never seen a 10 string guitar where the bottom string didn't wobble, regardless of string guage or scale length. With the octobass, it's 16hz, and since they're using a bow (which unsurprisingly, like an ebow, doesn't strike the string in anyway) what you're seeing isn't excess vibrations or the result of momentum from a strike, it's just that each oscillation is clearly visible. Maybe thicker strings may reduce it, but honestly not enough to care about.
are you listening on a half-inch cell phone speaker? besides, you're not *supposed* to hear it. it just adds the notes that rumble your chest in a movie theater while you hear a bunch of stuff that's an octave or two up. even if you can't actually hear a note, it can still modify the chord you perceive when you put everything together.
it's rattling because they're playing it too hard, because that's how hard you have to play it to hear it. this instrument is not for solo performances. it's for subtle punch-ups, for making the difference between scary shark music and shark music that makes you *feel* scared.
Max Johnson why would the play so hard the instrument if you can't even HEAR THAT FREQUENCY
i thought they were saying yasss
The dislikes are the people listening with no headphones
Thank you for this video ✨
Sounds like my butt after a few brats and a root beer...
Jaws (Richard Kiel) should have played this instrument.
Rod Long Lol supposedly it was first made in the 1800's, so he was still around when they had one
sounds like a saw cutting food and a dinosaur making some growl sound
I love the looks on their faces
Mh. But does it DJENT?
Well it actually does...
jaws or the beginning of new world symphony 4th movement
RIGHT! That's a good call; I've played 'New World' many times. Also opening to Schubert's 'Unfinished Symphony'. These basses were invented at the height of the Romantic Era. Before Moog and Cerwin-Vega.
Exactly
That's a HUGE instrument...
Me: shows up to orchestra class in high school.
Teacher: WHERE IS YOUR INSTRUMENT?
Me: .......follow me.
*shows this to teacher
What's the point in this instrument? Serious question.
No it's not meant to be audible, it was invented to provide the "rumble" we get from listening to bassy music. It literally was made to shake people as they listen to a orchestra to create "atmosphere".
@@nazeege so 4d music
wow how funny...
oh wow I've been to that museum before!
MOM I HAVE PRACTICE WITH THE BASS NOW. GET THE CRANE
The octobass shouldn't be a intrument xD its too damn big!
Guess an organ shouldn't be an instrument either.
neither carillion
Well organ has a claviature which is like a piano :)
The fuck is an octobasse
Jeffrey Schwanke The most badass sounding instrument of all time
Blastphamous H-Dizzle I cant even hear it
BluAngel Spedd another video I watched said that its lowest note was 16 hertz. generally speaking humans only hear to about 20 hertz
Jeffrey Schwanke it's um... one of those.⬆
That thing
That is the exact same sound my chair made when I was getting up to get water. Now I have a bunch of drag marks on the floor, however, I have created a symphony. 😆
sounds like a fucking go kart passing by with the second guy XD
too flaccid; the string touches the neck. C1 = 32.7 Hz, one octave below the lowest C of the cello (C2, 64.14 Hz). This note is the same as the lowest note of a modern double bass with a low C extension.
This C is C0 not C1
A note has harmonics. You don't need to have a masters degree in Physics to understand such a simple concept. You are hearing multiples of 32.7Hz
why so many dislikes?
Ryan Jasiak it doesn't sound like jaws i guess
white-b0i It can’t even sound like anything unless you play it loud
My left ear loved the video
my left ear enjoyed listening to the vid
This video is not funny for me- It represent a completely neglected instrument. I think this performer could make this instrument more respected.
Buy it for me!
I think itd be better if it was brought to light in an actual orchestra because all we here are overtones but it was meant and created to make a low rumble throughout the orchestra so if they played it in one i feel like its sound better, i play double bass myself
I don't think it's a matter of it being respected, it's a matter of it being more well known, and there being only three in the world, of course it won't be well known. They're not laughing because they think it's stupid, they're laughing because it's just so incredibly massive and they're having fun.
Not everything needs to be so serious.
Seems that none of these folks are string players. They're not applying the bow pressure properly.
Nelumbo Nucifera they're trying, it's just that the physical displacement of the string at such low frequencies is fucking massive and effectively renders it unplayable.
thought there was a motorcycle drivin past my house
That bass is huge
Play Freebird.
The solo!
How about trying some music on it, instead of four guys dragging the bow across an open string?
DharmaMidget Hence the Jaws theme mentioned in the title of the video
I don't think it was open though? There appears to be some sort of lever system for the left hand that allows you to play notes (or maybe just chords?) if you see those fret bars on the neck.
They were, in fact, not playing an open string, they had to pull levers on the side to play more variety of music, but it was barely hearable
More like my stomach when I’m hungry
The size of that is jaw-dropping