Recording on 100-Year-Old Equipment
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- Recording music on 100-year-old wax cylinder recording equipment.
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Could you imagine how mind blowing it was when people first heard themselves recorded on something like this
Bad Dragonite damn
yeah, I woulda been shook!!!
and that’s when “the voice of satan played backwards” was made.
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@@australianjock5793 DAMN THAT NIGGA SHOOK
This is one of the coolest things you have ever done. I can't wait for part 2.
Well much thanks for the Patreon support!
A project like this wouldn't be possible with just it's Adsense earnings.
SteelSkin667 wait what how was this comment made a day ago this was just uploaded
PsychoLunatic Mid patreon
I think patreons get a link ealier when the video was still "not listed" or something
Dude this might be a good way to record black metal lols.
You guys should record something really modern sounding, write 12/08/1913, bury it and wait for the conspiracies to surface
Shane Dawson would be right on it
@@rygdoomed442 Weird Flex, but OK.
I love this idea
Conspiracy *theories
they would have to write it in script bc that was the shit for a long time
I sincerely hope that there are people being trained to know what this old equipment is and how to use it. This is an art we should never forget, just like swordsmanship and horse riding.
love your comment!
It sounds like shit, good thing people aren't doing thing anymore
@@bigbirdmusic8199 may sound like shit, but it's history and a revolutionary object
They are called hobbyists. And hobbies will never die.
@@youarethebluestlight youre not wrong, but neither am I
I can’t imagine seeing that tape 100 years later just hearing “SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON”
yeah I bet this is how conspiracies are made " they had youtube in the early nineteen hundredds....they were talking about smashing like buttons even back then"
Why is this comment on 666 likes?
@@cosmicair3913 dont worry i'll make it 667
@@igone738 you monster
ye but it's not a tape tho
I don’t think 10 years ago Rob on his acoustic in the middle of the woods ever thought he’d be doing this. This man is incredible.
Nice! Youve outdone yourself, Rob.
Next up: An entire band recording directly to one-track mono reel-to-reel tape.
Thank you! Would be cool to explore more vintage recording equipment.
A wire recorder would be cool, pre war if you can find a working one as it is the first type of magnetic recording machine.
I do have a 1/4" full track Electrosound lcweb2.loc.gov/master/mbrs/recording_preservation/manuals/Electro%20Sound%20ES-505.pdf This is a full track reel to reel that was made in the late 1970's has a range of 30-19,000cps. It is similar to an Ampex 440B.
Only 1900's kids would remember these
Edit, 4k+ likes? wow, cheers.
1890's kid, and i remember it
@PlaugeDoctor 87 how old r u
@@retrocollecting4147 131 years old
Oldest person ever is 122 lol
@@junkhead_92 if it's your age you should go to Guinness world records haha
This is as lofi as you can be.
*A E S T H E T I C S N I B B A S*
@@AaronKaiMCDNLD
S P A C E D L E T T E R S
丁乇下下从丫 𠘨卂从乇 ｖｅｒｒｙ ｓｐａｃｅｄ ｌｅｔｔｅｒｓ
Lol
Actually you could recorded audio to signed 1 bit. It would be more lofi.
time to start that hipster black metal project!
wut?!
Good one Jare Bear
how the hell i am the only guy who likes this comment from motherfucking Jared Dines?
trve
deafheaven
2:06
"- sounds like we're listening to ghosts
-we are listening to ghosts"
that video got sinister right there
XD
oh grow up.
holarc
Why the salt?
902nd like :)
The band ghost aproves.
6:34 The quality is terrible, there's white noise drowning out the audio, the pitch is off, and yet... It sounds nostalgic. If there was a full song just like this I think I would listen to it on repeat all day.
Djohn listen to an artist called starry cat!
obviously its being done ....wrong!
That part had me shook somehow
It sounds like modern day lo Fi, simple guitar, underlying static sound . Now it's missing a looped clip from a cartoon with static tv effect
yeah its almost like it's 100 years old or something
This video is a prime example of why this channel is one of the best on TH-cam.
Varg vikernes is really jealous right now.
Great as always Rob
Vasari O xD
didn't even know he was outta prison
OH SHIT!
Jesus Christ
I was thinking about same thing :D
Maybe Varg makes one more Black Metal album after this :D
there’s just something about the way the little wax shavings catch the light when they’re coming off the cylinder that’s so beautiful
i thought it was pixie dust
Was also thinking that
tears start at 6:34
lofi wax cylinder radio - beats to relax/study to
Parkourior LOL
im actually thinking of sampling this and making a lofi beat lol
@@kitsvne4844 DO ITTT
@@_.l4n3 Alright, i'm working on a project right now, but as soon as it's done, im going to get started on sampling this, and i'll be posting it on my channel.
@@kitsvne4844 Can you make it public?
*Recording on 100 yr old equipment*
_Walks grandparents into room_
I wanna press like but its at 69
It’s been at 69 likes for a whole day now.
Wee_mask_the_slump_god Not anymore! ... sorry.
@@help4529 96 now
8:13 hearing someone swear through 100-year-old recording equipment it’s just hilarious.
Glen Fricker released a video today on how recording was invented and there’s an ACTUAL recording of a guy cussing „Fuck!“ as something goes wrong while he’s testing the new invented recording gear.
@@FlorianGuitar85 link? That sounds interesting
@@FlorianGuitar85 provide link
@@jd_kreeper Dudes, that comment of mine is so old, I don’t even remember it 😅
Just search „First recorded fuck“, or something, you’ll find it.
Why so lazy?
@@FlorianGuitar85 Because I already tried that and it didn't work, and I regularly reply to comments I made over a year ago so I assumed a few months wasn't too much of a stretch
What a cool video
SAMURAIGUITARIST YASS
samuraiguitarist you are cool as well man ! great job am a big fan
Hi!
you suck
Nihilistický HellRaiser How would you know, do you stalk him? Does he really suck? How much can he suck? What can he suck? Knowledge? Must be smarter than you to take that all in...
6:30 to 6:33 is so nice with the wax particles flowing through the air and the music in the background.
Incredible!
this guy.
is this what black metal bands record with
No, they use bathrooms
They use headsets
Is this what Dawn of the Black Hearts was recorded with?
I personally use potatoes and pencils (for the needle).
Lmao
The ULTIMATE way to infuriate Fluff! XD
And, this whole thing is the coolest ever :O
Indie/post-rock bands be like:
*heavy breathing*
That's a sweet comment
What really resonated with me about this video is the amount of respect and pride the cylinder recording engineer has about his craft. Dressing in a suit to not only display the equipment but set everything up and operate it and demonstrate its capabilities speaks volumes about the respect for the early days of sound engineering and the legend himself Mr. Edison who used this. I took a class about the early days of sound recording and learned about the early cylinder recording days, so to read the engineer's comments below with more detail about it was really fascinating as well. Thank you guys for putting this together! The Internet needs more of this!
Legend my ass.
He was just a hack who stole Nichola tesla's work.
Everyone knows that.
But we still talk about him to this day, regardless of anything else. So...legend.
As stated before, Tesla did not even come to America until 1883, Edison had installed Pearl Street, the First electric light power plant, and lighted New York City on September, 4th 1882. Tesla's AC power station was finished on April 16th, 1895, 13 years after Edison. Other people tried to make light bulbs, but they only would work for a few minutes and burn out. Arc lighting was an earlier form of lighting but only good for outside, it would blind you in a building. Tesla's work was stolen by the U.S. Government, who stole all his papers when he died. Including remote controlled boats, free energy receivers that gleaned energy from the earth, and laser technology. Other technology included steam turbines no bigger than a hat that would produce 100HP. He made a vibrating device that you attached to a beam in a building and it would destroy it, in not too long of a time. Tesla held 300 patents and Thomas Edison 1,093. I hold both inventors in high regard. I studied both since I was about 6.
I am truly fascinated by the knowledge you have on this subject, sir. Thank you for sharing! It's amazing what they accomplished in their time.
He seemed very... Tense. But I agree, he really has a treasure there, and the care it takes to preserve a working piece of history as he did is incredible
*Lo* *Fi* level: godlike
Trouble in421 steezyasfuck would be creaming his boxers
Trouble in421 fukin love your profile pic man. fungus amongus is one of my fav albums
Lo fi level: down to hell
6:34
Wait's over! Here's it with Metal!
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Here are the full takes of the songs
Short Song: th-cam.com/video/_sn7KyLHfr0/w-d-xo.html
My Uncle the Philanthropist: th-cam.com/video/TBpQR2z2eko/w-d-xo.html
Pinned it!
I cant wait for this im so excited!!!
you TEASE!
Rob Scallon sunn o ))) would be sucsseful with this
Rob Scallon OMG THIS IS AMAZING
lofi artists are creaming themselves at this
Way too Lofi lofi uses 90s grain
This is absolutely incredible! It shows how lucky we are to have any decent recordings from that time period and, even tho we have those recordings, it doesn't give justice to the musicality of the musicians who lived back then because they had to play very loudly to be heard in a recording. Thanks for the great video.
whazup25 jesus you didn’t have to write the whole Declaration of Independence
Nehemiah Zo it was literally 3 sentences
@@boblobgobstopper13214 +1 vote to the validity of this statement.
This was the video I didn't know I needed. So interesting.
bakerXderek cheah!
DUDE YOUR EVERYWHERE
4 years later, but CHEAHH!!
Awesome work, guys! Super cool theme!
Fuck you Glen!
glen! do the hair thing!
Yeah glenn put some of these horns in your studio so vocalists can`t cup it :D
Now all the black metal guys will be wanting to record on wax
Glenn, You gonna do a fearless review of wax recording?
I love how the guy just completely refuses to joke around "it won't lather..."
Still sounds better than MW2 mics
Did you know we went to the moon using "sliders"? What we have on a flip phone has more technology than what we had to go to the moon and back....
@@masterodisguise2983 that's from where we had to save space. Now I don't mean digital, I mean all 4 of the men were pushed together, with all the equipment next to them. So they had to save as much storage and weight as possible.
@@masterodisguise2983 no. We never went to the moon
@@damaygo1742 oh shit you right
modern warfare 2?
Can you please go through every decade of recording techniques please? It would be so amazing!
The guitar portion of the video sounded like a lo-fi track.
I absolutely LOVE this video! It was so cool to see how songs were recorded back in the day.
I have a 77 year old piano from before WW2 and survived the war. My grandpa that passed away brought it back to the house and we got it tuned and it works perfectly and it brings a very unique ring to it. I’m gonna make sure I pass it down to my future kids and they do the same to theirs
When its 77 years old it can't be from before WWII... 😂
That's not that old for a piano
@@keyboardwarrior0082 glad it survived the war...
you should make a video of it. would be very interesting to see
I have an old radio/vinyl phonograph hybrid from 1938. We fixed the radio and it still works but we need to send it away to get the phonograph player to work. This is what my great great grandfather used to listen to the war.
Content like these deserves more views. It’s educational and it’s really fun too watch. Compared too what the those Paul’s put out.
Support great content on TH-cam!
MrPoserGalore damn I thought exactly the same thing
Logang
640.000 views and counting, don't know what you are talking about..
Not everyone's great, hence the birth of the Paul's.
Honestly, I wouldn't want ignorants watching sensible videos, putting it politely.
He went to a school in the US. I live here so hear me out. FUCK. THE. SCHOOL. SYSTEM!
Rob "Hell of a Hipster" Scallon
That's, like, *really* cool.
in the early days of recording to the complexity of the process, a lot of new artists auditioning were giving one shot to get their song right, if they failed they got shown the door. It makes you really appreciate the anxiety they must have felt with that in mind in addition to being surrounded by complex and finicky machines as well as producers and executives.
That is kind of still the case in modern auditions. The mentality never left that you have only one chance.
Today its the same but in different ways
Legitimately this was absolutely genius back then. Like... who would’ve thought about wax and sound waves with the tech they had back then? Wow.... just amazing.
That singer must be your twin or something! Great singer and guitarist tho. Also want that uncle song as a ringtone haha
Crysis Music it was Rob himself didn't you notice?!
Akash Patra *whispering* that's the joke :)
Of course it wasn't. Rob doesn't have a long beard.
Rob's uncle is actually a chiropractor, not a philanthropist.
twuncle
Old mate doin the recording seems like a joy to be around.
Not much humor in that one
He seems like the guy from dinner for chumps.
I kind of like him. Lol
He’s concentrating very hard on keeping 100 year old equipment running to best effect
Some people thought tape was trve kvlt...
osten/сыр /der Käse/the cheese/le fromage/el queso
Very cool. That's why banjos and banjoleles were so popular in live music and early recordings in this era, They're WAY louder than guitars and ukuleles.
This is what every black metal band needs
Ha, my toughts exactly - the ultimate ABM gear
The trve sovnd prodvction.
You can use also an old nokia.
Pretty sure it's what Portal used on "Outre".
Alexandru Costache that's also 100 years old right?
This has got to be the coolest video you've done...
What an honor to record music with this legendary old equipment.
There`s no dynamics, he said. AS LOUD AS POSSIBLE.
Just like in modern day mastering.
I'm fucking dead. Good god.
DYNAMICS ARE FOR PUSSIES
@@MrTmontona Enjoy your dubstep and don't fart here please
Ooo vi iz anglii
The dude with the equipment seems like he just... doesn't want you guys to be using it. lol
Ha yes! Was wondering who else picked up on that
Coz its one and only, broke it and goodbye
@@koujirgame5349 Yeah that's true, and he's probably just being serious and professional
And actually if you watch the metal recording video it really shows that he is enjoying himself, he is even headbanging a little when they listen to the record
As I said, I think he is taking it very seriously
This dude honestly just hates people tbh
I can't decide on my comment for this video.
1) 6:34 so much melancholy
2) I'm not even sure if I'm worthy of watching this video. Such a great idea, and so much fun!
3) I'm not sure what I'm most amazed of: all the old equipment or Jeff's playing guitar. He plays guitar! He, Jeff!!! He plays guitar!!!!!
Still can't decide.
Well you decided well, and commented all three of them
bruh how you gonna leave us on a cliffhanger like that!
The way the wood dust flurries around the scene at 6:30 just feels so amazing.
Oh. My. Gah. This is SO COOL! 🤘😄👍♥️🎶
Ryan Francis, I just read what I thought!
Naj Renchelf I read it in Jerry Lawler's voice
i totally agree!
Hipsters will say this is the best media for music because it's 'warm' or something
Jack Chen it's far superior to modern conventional CD's I always carry wax songs and the player thing with me when I go running, I only listen to real music
you mean Limewire?
Bystander55 pathetic I used to make stone age war cries whilst flint knapping
VIYNL IS ACTUALLY THE BEST! I FEEL ATTACKED! 😂
Bystander55 its not music unless you steal it. Supporting the artist is old skool
All the vinyl nerds be like "oh sheet, this is even better"
Nerd = Smart
You = Don't
Nah these suck ass when you listen in person
Vinyl sounds even better then music online, this just sounds bad
@@Julian_0536 No it doesn't. If you've got good equipment and you're playing digital sound through them it sounds better.
I don't understsnd these people kept saying that vinyl sounds "better" than digital form of musics. Like srsly? Digital music sounds way better than vinyl. If you want them A S T H E T I C S itz vinyl for sure, but for actually quality audio, it's digital.
there is a recording floating about of the earliest "hit single": a wax cylinder recording, made 1894, of "daisy, daisy". still a good song actually.
This song, Daisy Bell, Edison Record 1058 was sung for my company in 1894, by Edward M Favor, of E.E. Rice's 1492 Company. Mr. Favor started his recording career with my company in 1889, and was the first professional recording artist, He still made records into the 1910's. Mr. Favor had a powerful voice, and great annunciation, he would cup his hands by his ears, and talk into the horn, and place his head at the right spot, to make a great recording, he would over emphasize hissing consonants so they would be audible in playback.
The COOLEST application of vintage to modern recording EVER!!!!!!
Now THAT is what I call LoFi
Hugo u wot m8 Lower fidelity than Nixon
ayy lmao
(+Hugo u wot m8) Watch as Black Metal bands start to use 100 year old equipment to make it more “raw.”
More like "Very LoFi"
this was amazing content, I loved how the tiny flakes of soap danced around the cylinder in the light.
Theres something about these old very mechanical devices that is very beautiful
"There's no dynamics so we just have to play loud?"
"Yes."
* *plays delicate finger style guitar* *
I kept feeling that the gentlemen that they had set up the wax cylinders was just going to snap.
Okay good I wasn't the only one 😂
Fantastic video, made me happy to watch as I love the distant quality of wax cylinder recordings.
I was really surprised to hear how poorly the guitars sounded on the wax recording, but I suppose that's as raw as sound truly gets.
Depending on what you mean by raw, vinyl is the closest to a natural raw sound wave, the only format I know of that very accurately reproduces it, on a level most audio equipment can't reveal. But I know what you mean, they're both raw in a similar sense.
electronics.howstuffworks.com/question487.htm
Also vinyl captures an extremely wide range of frequencies, people don't realize that frequencies you don't hear, will still affect the ones you do hear, so their presence or lack of it might be noticed by some. IRL you're possibly picking up subtle ways in which sound you're hearing, is being affected by sounds you're not hearing.
Blu-ray audio is close though and also covers a wide frequency range, 24-bit with 96khz sampling rate is up to around 48khz, or 196khz sampling rate up to 98khz. But vinyl is into the hundreds of thousands, doesn't really matter since no equipment can actually cover all that, not even electrostatic.
Even if not though, people also don't realize if headphones for example can do a range of 10hz-20khz, it means it can just barely do 20khz, where ones that can do 38khz will do 20khz much better. You'll likely hear more detail and clarity in the midrange too, it's a good measure of overall performance.
It's just because it's a quiet instrument, also as the engineer mentioned the colder the room the noiser the recording.
Yeah it reminded me why big bands and recordings used banjos instead of guitars back in the early days.
I see muse, I like
6:34 it kinda sounded more like a piano
Not to me
It be like that
You deaf.?
They're both string instruments so it makes sense
Oh is this what black metal bands record with?
So you've learnt the secret
Not all of them
Big Gay like Dark Throne??? I guess so haha
yes
He'll always amaze me.
This is not only one of the coolest things that you've ever done, but also one of the coolest things on the entirety of TH-cam.
Forget about wow and flutter just love the surface noise.
As an old audio guy this made me grin from ear to ear. Yes a big smile on my face. What fun.
So that's how Black Metal bands record their albums.
Iron Hammer yeah the ones that aren’t posers
in 50 years the uncle's song will be found and people will think that it was played in 1920 hahah
Maybe it will end up on one of those conspiracy theorist videos as proof of time travel.
Dude this is so cool !
You should do more of that (recording on old equipments) !!!!
The first song gave me a a vibe of some lost happy memory finally being remembered
i swear to god when they play back the melody at 6:34 i feel something really warm and strange about the guitar with the noise covering it .... it's so strange and familiar
Same man
aesthetic
Elevator music
The monologue at the end somehow turns Rob Scallon into James Cagney.
_"So we're gonna try this metal band, see ? And if your old lady don't like it she can just go and siddown, see? "_
SHOULD LISTEN TO LOFI
4:47 Stick with the person that watches you like that man to that wax cilinder.
Doesn't he spit on the wax cylinder though??
LOL ! Thanks for the laugh man.
Not on the cylinder record, but on the trunnion connecting the horn to the recorder. LOL
"Let's record in analogue"
"Let's record in wax"
Rob and the gang: *Holding things that are over a hundred years old*
Me: *dies inside*
great idea Rob!
very interesting.
well now we need a plugin from Waves that makes "normal" record into 100 year old wax record!
somebody tell 'em! )
this is so amazing
lately I've been really into 30's jazz and I always wondered what they would sound like in a modern studio or what today's music would sound like with old technology
That's some fallout shit right there 8:10
The “If my uncle was a philanthropist I wouldn’t know” bit gets me every time 😂.
[backing away out of the studio] “Yup, I’ll send you the bill. It’ll be a lot”
suddenly doing everything on tape seems like some crazy modern idea
The ultimate hipster setup
true true
This is so awesome! I'm imagining what would it be like if you recorded a whole album with it.
arturleaorf wax reels can only hold 2 minutes so an album wouldn't be possible. It would just be a series of single
coolest thing I’ve seen on TH-cam in a long time. love the forgotten knowledge by which innovative people had to be without modern scientific principles.
you need to record black metal on that thing
you got free demons screaming for satan and everything!
the wax would explode
Yes!
deathcore singers would still cup it
so it converts everything into ambient black metal?
(skiz) yes
funny
You: ambient black metal
Me, an intellectual: "aluminum soap"
fck yeah hahahahahaha
This is honestly amazing, it makes it feel like we're in the 1900's
Still had cleaner voice than black metal songs
Burak Bayezid A. Black metal isn't all distorted.
"I have a 1791 stradivarius viola in here and it's not as cool as that"
uh well, its a viola.
Ukulele Boi would you prefer lute, or viol da gamba, mr. snooty strings?
Heinrich Dubloon it's a joke with classical players, that violas are not "cool", violin gets you the girls
The viola is the "bass" of their community
Ah, hokay. For me as a trombone player the only real distinction between viola and violin is that viola hurts slightly more when you bludgeon someone with it.
Studio artist “It just doesn’t sound lo-if enough !!!”
Engineer : “I think I got just the thing “
Some shit spinal tap would use with the Marshall turned to 11
If my uncle was a philanthropist I wouldn’t know 😂
Now this! is quality content.
Next week, don't forget both the one-stringed-shovel and the clarinet guy, he was fun :D
"I had a 1791 Stradivarius viola in here, and it wasn't as cool as that"
Wow.
“Hey dude I just made this thing that can record sounds.”
“How about we record journals or what’s going on.”
“Nah how about we record creepy as hell sounds with it.”
“Great idea.”
Steampunk Djent??
Simon Hetherington yyeah!
does it djent? )
So black metal?
It sounds like people are cheering while he's playing
This is awesome
7:17 best way to enter the studio