You can't imagine just how much joy it is to see and hear mechanical/electrical devices you didn't know exist covered in such great enthusiasm and detail. Keep up the great work, please!
Oh man. I remember the class room clocks in my grade school years back in the 60's here in the US and they were controlled the same way. What was funny to see and hear was after a power outage the clocks had to all be fast pulsed to set to the correct time and those clocks were not very quiet when being set at high speed 😃
While I'm obviously quite a bit younger than yourself, my junior high school in the 90s was built in 1961, and was like a time warp in there -- everything was so old! It had those same style clocks, and the master was in the main office in a little alcove. I remember that loud and fast chattering noise very well. Every time a nor'easter came through and knocked the power out, the building would be freezing inside, and they'd reset those clocks. What a throwback! Later, my high school had satellite clocks, which I remember ironically being far less reliable.
@@TheNathan696969 Well.... I prefer tech from back in my youth as I understand it inside and out but I can work with modern tech but do not have a good feel for how it works at the component level if that makes any sense. Case in point that I am challenged when it comes to writing a decent sketch for a basic Arduino or programming my TV remote ;-)
Decades ago, it was my job to implement billing for 2G/3G wireless network systems. If you've used a cell phone in Somalia, Guam or out to sea on the Bering Strait, my code was involved in charging you for it. Seeing billing implemented in this manner is absolutely mind-blowing.
1:38 Oldschool engineering like that is so fascinating to me. I love the genius ways they figured out how to solve mechanical problems that us digital-age people take for granted.
@@freedustin Yeah it's ridiculous to me that they've made machines that run on exploding gasoline arbitrarily dependent on computerized nonsense that serves no vital purpose.
@@EliteSniperTV lol Clocks are one thing where I prefer digital. The ticking of a mechanical clock drives me insane. So does the bell of a mechanical alarm clock. I had one back in the day, but one morning I'd had enough of it's ticking, jangling bullshit and smashed it to bits. :-P
i love the motherbrain interconnected museum idea, it just keeps getting cooler and cooler! It would be cool if other clocks set up in other parts of the museum are all different times in the world, cause all of them are interconnected by one master clock, it would mean that it indexes correctly relative to each other?
Unfortunately no, it was not unusual for a slave clock to take more than one step per pules or miss a pulse ocassionally, especially if their solenoid mechanism got out of adjustment as they aged. This caused much anxiety and stress in the heart of a Postmaster, who then would feel compelled to call the Senior technician and request (demand, more like, for in my experience there was little love lost between the clerical and engineering branches of the NZPO) the immediate dispatch of a junior trainee tech to either short out a fast one (until the actual time caught up) or to use a 1.5 volt battery to apply additional pulses to a slow one. Ask me how I know this.
Sam, you inspire the hell out of me. I've had like a musical awakening from watching your videos and literally just not being afraid to try stuff, thank you, man, you've done so much for me.
Oh man this is great! And cheers for the shout out! There's something so nice about the very very slight variation in clock giving it a slightly more interesting groove. Was a pleasure to help out - Jesse
4:36 Heh, apparently I'm not the only one who sometimes runs clocks at too high a voltage. Long story short, due to a dodgy self-made AAA-to-AA adapter, I accidentally ended up running a regular quartz wall clock directly from the Li-Ion cell inside one of those fancy rechargeable batteries instead of its 1.5V step-down converter. The first thing I noticed was that the clock was unusually loud. It was only when I saw that it was often actually stepping backwards instead of forwards, that I figured out something really wasn't how it should be. The quartz circuit itself didn't really care about the +2.5 volt ‘overclock’ though, it still ticked at 1Hz…
Great! Amazing! A random idea: Put a mic in the master clock case - tons of resonance bouncing around in there. Then, a bit of filtering + some comparators and you might get some kooky timing sequences on the output.
Ohhh Man ..... you are by far the craziest person I follow on the web. I am 45, have been a regular at raves and currently finishing my studies in industrial robotics (a rare combination .... :) and I am fascinated by how you create the weirdest inventions with all that old shit for music.....and what sounds good!!! Due to my studies in robotics, I understand (now) how complicated it is to move all that old stuff to do this. So I admire you for your music and all your DIY videos. When I can get away to the UK, count on a visit to the museum. Thank you Mastaaa !!!!
Built it! Works perfectly. Thanks sam and jesse. Fastest build ever for me! The a773 mod was actuallly next on my list, so with a few days of thinking and then last night full construction one evening, works first time. ..
The Cake dudes are fun as, during a festival in Adelaide they lived in a workshop next to my venue and sneakily drove one of their telephone robots up behind me while I was filling a mop bucket. Creeeepy XD
How amazing would it be if each station at the museum had a sync box for 'free, 1x, 2x, 4x' and every half-hour or so everything set itself to 1x. Still allows for noodling around, but would probably be pretty powerful to have all the discordant/off-pace stuff just *snap* together on-beat for a minute or so before going back to whatever setting they were using before.
That was truly amazing, that heavy bassline with that ambient-like pendulum backround rhythm made me speechless! Keep it up, you are a sound engineering mastermind.
The master slave clocks I got training on were a bit more complicated, but essentially the same. The master would keep time for the building and periodically (every 2 seconds?) send out a series of pulses. Through a complicated set of shift registers, the slave would update it's time. Each slave was an independent clock, but was always waiting for an input signal to sync to. Most faults in the slave units were self contained. But we found a few ways to mess up the master signal for everything (eg shorting the input signal to the output of a 3600 multiplier). Fun times
This video had it all: old technology, an interesting idea, explanation of a circuit, collaboration, open source software, crazy sounds and beautiful background music. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this one.
As a kid in the 70's/80's I would marvel at many technological things. How did they announce the time over the phone? How did they synch up railway clocks? how did automated public announcements work? How did instant playback on TV work? How did they play a film on TV? How did Kraftwerk or Pink Floyd achieve their amazing sound? I could go on and on. As a kid all that were complete mysteries to me. Funnily enough it's only in recent years I'm finding out, with brilliant videos like this and Techmoan, Technology Connections and so on. To my mind it was so much more of an accomplishment before the digital age to do these things. Nowadays you just need a bit of electronics, push a button and you can do everything. It's like cars. When I saw a Mercedes 600 in the 70's as a kid it impressed me so much that I remember it to this day. Nowadays you can see Ferrari, Porsche, McLaren, Lamborghini and you go "yeah, yeah, nice" and you forget it 5 minutes later. Because of precisely this reason the musical contributions of this channel are a hundred times more impressive than the combined output of the muscial industry for the last 10 years. They just get the "artist" to fart into the microphone and get a "celebrity" producer to apply a million filters. So the result is utterly boring and I couldn't care less. But the sound of a (not so simple) pendulum being put through the analog wringer by Sam is just amazing and to me more impressive than every chart #1 of the last 10 years combined.
We have a telephone museum nearby. It is chock full of old phone exchange equipment stacks and exhibits. Some interactive, a.k.a. you can handle some of it. The place has an odor I associate with working on radios in my bedroom when I was a kid. Burning insulation or something. Your relays remind me of that. Mechanical. Wonderful.
This is amazing! I love how you really appreciate the work people put into engineering these old devices and how you integrate them into your audio craziness but in a non destructive way (usually :D) Please keep sharing your insanity with us all!
I love it, very cool! Now since you have figured out the technology you really should try a double pendulum or so, I think it would be very interesting how it's more chaotic behaviour translates to music.
Gosh, i wish i had the knowledge and imaginative intuition you do. I have a computer science degree, but gave up on programming, to become a lorry mechanic. Now the most electronic work i do, is creating wiring looms for light bars and cab accessories lol
When you first mentioned museum, I thought that was a crazy idea - but hey not the first time I thought that watching your videos. Now I'm getting closer to "that's the best museum ever" (there's still VSM you know)
ooh you could have plug that outputs to the museum-wide speaker system.. this could be the beat that other guests could add their own rhythms on top of.. so cool
Hooking these signals up to a synthesizer is the coolest idea. The outcome is even cooler. Reminds me of old analog synths from like the late 60s/early 70s. VERY groovy.
I had an old Aunt Maybel 😆 ! My very outdated junior high school in the 90s had this type of clock system, and it's cool to see how they work. BTW: I love the direction you've taken this 'hobby' of yours in. Your homemade synths continue to blow my mind (love em), and I think your devoted interest in these outdated mechanical devices is great -- you've certainly gone down the rabbit hole on those! Not sure if it's the same for you, but mechanical clocks have always had a sort of mesmerizing and calming effect on me. Sometime ago, I got an old "Regulator" brand wall clock with a wind-up mechanism, and I love putting my ear to the case and listening to all the inner workings. Rotary phones are another favorite---maybe you can do something with one of those one day (they're beautifully simplistic). Anyways, your marriage of old with new is, as always, wicked cool and very inspiring. Crack on! Regards from Plymouth USA. 👍
I found this channel looking for lyrics to your fantastic music only to discover it also has fascinating and passionate videos about all sorts of retro stuff, you are a fantastic human being
You can use a pll to sync to the freuqency. What it is basically an oscillator with variable frequency and its output is divided and compared by the reference signal to adjust its oscillation. The divider determines the multiplication factor of the reference signal.
I'm not sure that would actually sound good. The last time I was at the hospital I noticed that my heart rhythm was all over the place. Not even close to a metronome. I asked the doc if that was a bad thing and he was like lol no, your heart rate can vary by 10-20% with every beat. When they say your heart rate is 80 BPM that's just an average.
Here I thought I was clicking on a simple Steve Reich piece performance - now I’m watching an in-depth explanation about some bizarrely esoteric 20th century analog technology, and its utility in weirdo electronic music. I’m into it.
Hey Sam. Just had a look at the website of the museum. I found that most of the Facebook and Instagram links there are outdated. Maybe you finde the time to check on that. Thanks for your content. Have a good one and stay safe.
Not gonna lie. Was expecting songs from the band Pendulum synced up to things not related to the EDM band. But instead actually got music of a pendulum. Pleasantly surprised and informative! Awesome Video!
Love the throwback engineering! Also, really reminded me of the backbeat to Emancipator's song Ares which always reminds me of a clock with attached carillon. Come to think of it, Mythos' song Icarus is also similar... I must have a thing for clocks.
I can tell not only from the Clock 36 this video centres around, but also from the sheer amount of light straw equipment I'm the background that your clearly a GPO enthusias. 😀 Nice galv conduit worl too. 😎
I have a Magneta Time Co LTD Type 34 it's really similar to that one. It's surprisingly accurate. It has a really loud solenoid that moves the hands every minute.
someone else posed the idea of reed switches in the pendulum case somewhere here in the comments, and i think that's a pretty neat idea to get the "multiple pulses per second"-thing in a purely analog/mechanical manner. maybe you could have the reed switches on some sort of manually adjustable slide so you could change the timing between the sub-pulses.
I love how the result of all this equipment is a clock that tells “completely the wrong time”! If the clock were disconnected and stopped at least it would read the correct time twice per day!
Nice! The clock multiplier box could maybe be built analogly using a PLL. A prescaler clock diveder and a feedback loop clock diveder, both selectable using some switch.
Thanks Sam for breaking down pendulums for me in the quickest and best explanation ever. You could teach a mechanical engineering course for dummies 👌👍
These master clocks were in use up until the late 1990s. I know, because that's when I went to school and we had these. It was really hard to concentrate when your class room was next to the clock room.
My old school had some weird plug sockets on the wall, I assume they were used with mainframe clock systems like this. By my era, quartz clocks were obviously good enough for us lot xD
What you actually want is to have the master clock driving a flywheel and shaft at 60 RPM. The shaft then has multiple brass wheels on it with mirrors or black markings or whatever on it. Those get picked up by optocouplers. Each brass wheel is a different BPM. You can have a 120 BPM wheel, a 140 BPM wheel, 141, 142, 145, whatever. Pick and choose. Super easy to do on a CNC lathe, too.
Fantastic! Great inspiration. A random idea to keep it even more analogue: Altering the length of the pendulum could change bpm. Mounting an array of reed-relays in the cabinet close to where the pendulum passes could give signals to multiply the base bpm maybe. But I guess you are not short of ideas!! Maybe I should build that variant myself - and post a video of it :-)
Name something with a pendulum in it
The Perth, Australia, Drum and Bass ensemble Pendulum 😂
My 2012 mixtapes
Metronome.
ME.
The museum of everything else
You can't imagine just how much joy it is to see and hear mechanical/electrical devices you didn't know exist covered in such great enthusiasm and detail. Keep up the great work, please!
Saaame
Electro mechanical devices are cool. Like old pinball machines
Oh man. I remember the class room clocks in my grade school years back in the 60's here in the US and they were controlled the same way. What was funny to see and hear was after a power outage the clocks had to all be fast pulsed to set to the correct time and those clocks were not very quiet when being set at high speed 😃
While I'm obviously quite a bit younger than yourself, my junior high school in the 90s was built in 1961, and was like a time warp in there -- everything was so old! It had those same style clocks, and the master was in the main office in a little alcove. I remember that loud and fast chattering noise very well. Every time a nor'easter came through and knocked the power out, the building would be freezing inside, and they'd reset those clocks. What a throwback! Later, my high school had satellite clocks, which I remember ironically being far less reliable.
@@bveracka A bit younger? Yeah just a little.... 65 years on my end . The older the tech the more I like it 🙂
@@marknesselhaus4376 Mark, as an older man on youtube, do you prefer technology from back when you were younger or now in the modern era?
Wish I could find a video of that!
@@TheNathan696969 Well.... I prefer tech from back in my youth as I understand it inside and out but I can work with modern tech but do not have a good feel for how it works at the component level if that makes any sense. Case in point that I am challenged when it comes to writing a decent sketch for a basic Arduino or programming my TV remote ;-)
Decades ago, it was my job to implement billing for 2G/3G wireless network systems. If you've used a cell phone in Somalia, Guam or out to sea on the Bering Strait, my code was involved in charging you for it. Seeing billing implemented in this manner is absolutely mind-blowing.
1:38 Oldschool engineering like that is so fascinating to me. I love the genius ways they figured out how to solve mechanical problems that us digital-age people take for granted.
Seriously tho!!! It's absolutely amazing
I like how it works without a microprocessor... *looking at cars with disdain*
@@freedustin looks at my clock with distain too 😅
@@freedustin Yeah it's ridiculous to me that they've made machines that run on exploding gasoline arbitrarily dependent on computerized nonsense that serves no vital purpose.
@@EliteSniperTV lol Clocks are one thing where I prefer digital. The ticking of a mechanical clock drives me insane. So does the bell of a mechanical alarm clock. I had one back in the day, but one morning I'd had enough of it's ticking, jangling bullshit and smashed it to bits. :-P
i love the motherbrain interconnected museum idea, it just keeps getting cooler and cooler! It would be cool if other clocks set up in other parts of the museum are all different times in the world, cause all of them are interconnected by one master clock, it would mean that it indexes correctly relative to each other?
Unfortunately no, it was not unusual for a slave clock to take more than one step per pules or miss a pulse ocassionally, especially if their solenoid mechanism got out of adjustment as they aged.
This caused much anxiety and stress in the heart of a Postmaster, who then would feel compelled to call the Senior technician and request (demand, more like, for in my experience there was little love lost between the clerical and engineering branches of the NZPO) the immediate dispatch of a junior trainee tech to either short out a fast one (until the actual time caught up) or to use a 1.5 volt battery to apply additional pulses to a slow one. Ask me how I know this.
@@mikesanders6351 How do you know this?
Sam, you inspire the hell out of me. I've had like a musical awakening from watching your videos and literally just not being afraid to try stuff, thank you, man, you've done so much for me.
:D glad it helps!
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER
This is sooo good & creative. 😀
Oh man this is great! And cheers for the shout out!
There's something so nice about the very very slight variation in clock giving it a slightly more interesting groove.
Was a pleasure to help out - Jesse
4:36 Heh, apparently I'm not the only one who sometimes runs clocks at too high a voltage. Long story short, due to a dodgy self-made AAA-to-AA adapter, I accidentally ended up running a regular quartz wall clock directly from the Li-Ion cell inside one of those fancy rechargeable batteries instead of its 1.5V step-down converter. The first thing I noticed was that the clock was unusually loud. It was only when I saw that it was often actually stepping backwards instead of forwards, that I figured out something really wasn't how it should be. The quartz circuit itself didn't really care about the +2.5 volt ‘overclock’ though, it still ticked at 1Hz…
I want to visit this museum someday
Sam has totally made a museum out of electronic genius
I love the nano second inconsistencies with the beat. Makes the digital music sound human.
Great! Amazing! A random idea: Put a mic in the master clock case - tons of resonance bouncing around in there. Then, a bit of filtering + some comparators and you might get some kooky timing sequences on the output.
it will be a project. just a lot of technicals with that. i just didnt have one i wanted to leave in there permanently :D
Next level thinking
The pendulum delay sounds absolutely amazing. What a good vibe for both something steampunky or looming and ominous
Ohhh Man ..... you are by far the craziest person I follow on the web.
I am 45, have been a regular at raves and currently finishing my studies in industrial robotics (a rare combination .... :) and I am fascinated by how you create the weirdest inventions with all that old shit for music.....and what sounds good!!!
Due to my studies in robotics, I understand (now) how complicated it is to move all that old stuff to do this. So I admire you for your music and all your DIY videos.
When I can get away to the UK, count on a visit to the museum.
Thank you Mastaaa !!!!
good luck on the course!!!! :D
Built it! Works perfectly. Thanks sam and jesse. Fastest build ever for me! The a773 mod was actuallly next on my list, so with a few days of thinking and then last night full construction one evening, works first time. ..
Cool project! Thanks for the mention, glad to see you found good use for my code :-)
Whooo! Yeah been a healthy staple for me that module cheers!!
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Thanks! Again, glad to see my code has been useful for someone else!
The Cake dudes are fun as, during a festival in Adelaide they lived in a workshop next to my venue and sneakily drove one of their telephone robots up behind me while I was filling a mop bucket. Creeeepy XD
4:09 That's some high quality ASMR. I love the rattly noise when the pendulum's recharger switch engages.
12:32 sounds dope. I love how you studied the clock and explained it's mechanism to us. Fascinating stuff!
How amazing would it be if each station at the museum had a sync box for 'free, 1x, 2x, 4x' and every half-hour or so everything set itself to 1x. Still allows for noodling around, but would probably be pretty powerful to have all the discordant/off-pace stuff just *snap* together on-beat for a minute or so before going back to whatever setting they were using before.
That now explains the weird clocks at my Secondary school in the eighties, they never worked very well.
So that's why it's called a master "clock" even nowadays
Oh man. When you put those clock pulses through the delay my brain melted. Amazing stuff!
This is everything I could want from an electro-mechanical based music channel.
I got some major Dark Side of the Moon vibes from the jam at the end - I absolutely love the musical use of the clock sound
The song you did is just the perfect music to a chase scene in some cyberpunk movie.
That was truly amazing, that heavy bassline with that ambient-like pendulum backround rhythm made me speechless! Keep it up, you are a sound engineering mastermind.
oh now you will have me wiring up my old grandfather clock and its many chimes!
The master slave clocks I got training on were a bit more complicated, but essentially the same. The master would keep time for the building and periodically (every 2 seconds?) send out a series of pulses. Through a complicated set of shift registers, the slave would update it's time. Each slave was an independent clock, but was always waiting for an input signal to sync to.
Most faults in the slave units were self contained. But we found a few ways to mess up the master signal for everything (eg shorting the input signal to the output of a 3600 multiplier). Fun times
Doc Brown approves of this master clock
11:56 as soon as you turned that knob it sounded so filthy, I LOVE IT. I could listen to this all day, especially when playing an FPS game.
This video had it all: old technology, an interesting idea, explanation of a circuit, collaboration, open source software, crazy sounds and beautiful background music.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching this one.
As a kid in the 70's/80's I would marvel at many technological things. How did they announce the time over the phone? How did they synch up railway clocks? how did automated public announcements work? How did instant playback on TV work? How did they play a film on TV? How did Kraftwerk or Pink Floyd achieve their amazing sound? I could go on and on. As a kid all that were complete mysteries to me.
Funnily enough it's only in recent years I'm finding out, with brilliant videos like this and Techmoan, Technology Connections and so on.
To my mind it was so much more of an accomplishment before the digital age to do these things. Nowadays you just need a bit of electronics, push a button and you can do everything.
It's like cars. When I saw a Mercedes 600 in the 70's as a kid it impressed me so much that I remember it to this day. Nowadays you can see Ferrari, Porsche, McLaren, Lamborghini and you go "yeah, yeah, nice" and you forget it 5 minutes later.
Because of precisely this reason the musical contributions of this channel are a hundred times more impressive than the combined output of the muscial industry for the last 10 years.
They just get the "artist" to fart into the microphone and get a "celebrity" producer to apply a million filters.
So the result is utterly boring and I couldn't care less.
But the sound of a (not so simple) pendulum being put through the analog wringer by Sam is just amazing and to me more impressive than every chart #1 of the last 10 years combined.
We have a telephone museum nearby. It is chock full of old phone exchange equipment stacks and exhibits. Some interactive, a.k.a. you can handle some of it. The place has an odor I associate with working on radios in my bedroom when I was a kid. Burning insulation or something. Your relays remind me of that. Mechanical. Wonderful.
Man I love tech like this! It's really genius when you think about it.
This is amazing! I love how you really appreciate the work people put into engineering these old devices and how you integrate them into your audio craziness but in a non destructive way (usually :D)
Please keep sharing your insanity with us all!
I love it, very cool! Now since you have figured out the technology you really should try a double pendulum or so, I think it would be very interesting how it's more chaotic behaviour translates to music.
Can't wait for new stuff, im always looking forward to your ideas and projects. as an electrical engineer and musician this is right up my alley :D
Gosh, i wish i had the knowledge and imaginative intuition you do. I have a computer science degree, but gave up on programming, to become a lorry mechanic. Now the most electronic work i do, is creating wiring looms for light bars and cab accessories lol
4:54 Good of you to write an accurate description of yourself on that schematic diagram
Huh?
When you first mentioned museum, I thought that was a crazy idea - but hey not the first time I thought that watching your videos. Now I'm getting closer to "that's the best museum ever" (there's still VSM you know)
ooh you could have plug that outputs to the museum-wide speaker system.. this could be the beat that other guests could add their own rhythms on top of.. so cool
Hooking these signals up to a synthesizer is the coolest idea.
The outcome is even cooler. Reminds me of old analog synths from like the late 60s/early 70s.
VERY groovy.
sorry for laughing, reminds you ? It IS the same analog synths they used in the 60's and 70's...lol
Strangely fascinating. I love electro mechanical analog technology. And so weird and wonderful that you're saving and displaying it all.
I had an old Aunt Maybel 😆 ! My very outdated junior high school in the 90s had this type of clock system, and it's cool to see how they work. BTW: I love the direction you've taken this 'hobby' of yours in. Your homemade synths continue to blow my mind (love em), and I think your devoted interest in these outdated mechanical devices is great -- you've certainly gone down the rabbit hole on those! Not sure if it's the same for you, but mechanical clocks have always had a sort of mesmerizing and calming effect on me. Sometime ago, I got an old "Regulator" brand wall clock with a wind-up mechanism, and I love putting my ear to the case and listening to all the inner workings. Rotary phones are another favorite---maybe you can do something with one of those one day (they're beautifully simplistic). Anyways, your marriage of old with new is, as always, wicked cool and very inspiring. Crack on! Regards from Plymouth USA. 👍
I found this channel looking for lyrics to your fantastic music only to discover it also has fascinating and passionate videos about all sorts of retro stuff, you are a fantastic human being
You can use a pll to sync to the freuqency. What it is basically an oscillator with variable frequency and its output is divided and compared by the reference signal to adjust its oscillation. The divider determines the multiplication factor of the reference signal.
Ok, that magnet switch is absolutely brilliant. Pure wizardry. And I bet it hasn't missed in decades. ‼
Next step; hook a synth up to a heart monitor. :-D
I'm not sure that would actually sound good. The last time I was at the hospital I noticed that my heart rhythm was all over the place. Not even close to a metronome. I asked the doc if that was a bad thing and he was like lol no, your heart rate can vary by 10-20% with every beat. When they say your heart rate is 80 BPM that's just an average.
Would it be ethical to connect this timing system to someone's pacemaker? As long as nobody grabs the multiply knob.
And the Kurupt FM on the track hahahaha, full Heart Monitor Riddim.
i find your obsession endlessly fascinating. i have no musical talent apart from the trumpet and guitar. but your passion is infectious
So that is how you add swing to a modular synth.
You sir are a legend
That was actually an insanely phat little modular groove there.
Here I thought I was clicking on a simple Steve Reich piece performance - now I’m watching an in-depth explanation about some bizarrely esoteric 20th century analog technology, and its utility in weirdo electronic music. I’m into it.
Hey Sam.
Just had a look at the website of the museum. I found that most of the Facebook and Instagram links there are outdated. Maybe you finde the time to check on that.
Thanks for your content. Have a good one and stay safe.
I absolutely love the cable spaghetti on the module with the code by A773
If you close your eyes it sounds like an extremely regular game of table tennis
Not gonna lie. Was expecting songs from the band Pendulum synced up to things not related to the EDM band. But instead actually got music of a pendulum. Pleasantly surprised and informative! Awesome Video!
Never fails to amaze me.
Love the throwback engineering! Also, really reminded me of the backbeat to Emancipator's song Ares which always reminds me of a clock with attached carillon. Come to think of it, Mythos' song Icarus is also similar... I must have a thing for clocks.
I can tell not only from the Clock 36 this video centres around, but also from the sheer amount of light straw equipment I'm the background that your clearly a GPO enthusias. 😀 Nice galv conduit worl too. 😎
Hahaha yes it’s a recent obsession. I didn’t know what strowger meant 4 months ago now look at me 😂😂😂
Brother you come up with the maddest ideas mad I say!!!! But I love it so informative and entertaining all rolled up into one man!!!! :::=^)
TH-cam 2am: check out this dude playing a clock.
Me 2am: OMG THIS IS MY JAM!!!
I could go to sleep to all these noises. I love it. I reminds me of my grandparents. :)
I have a Magneta Time Co LTD Type 34 it's really similar to that one. It's surprisingly accurate. It has a really loud solenoid that moves the hands every minute.
And just like that, the clockstep genre was born. Have been enjoying your videos for a while now. Keep up the amazing work.
someone else posed the idea of reed switches in the pendulum case somewhere here in the comments, and i think that's a pretty neat idea to get the "multiple pulses per second"-thing in a purely analog/mechanical manner. maybe you could have the reed switches on some sort of manually adjustable slide so you could change the timing between the sub-pulses.
There is no end to your creativity. You're easily the most creative person I've ever experienced.
Duude! The TechnoViking would be PROUD! It's believed that he is out there in the U.K. blasting the music at as his anthem at 11:26
I watched this video when it was new. I rewatched it today. Infinite enjoyment potential.
That's some true industrial composting right there! So awesome.
Fantastic old stuff, and that sounds absolutely amazing. You should do a whole album using it.
That’s so cool like other projects would love to come to see the museum when I’m next in London
I love how the result of all this equipment is a clock that tells “completely the wrong time”! If the clock were disconnected and stopped at least it would read the correct time twice per day!
Imagine going to a show and the dude first wheels out a giant pendulum in a wooden case, then wheels out a modular synth. Bananas.
I didn't understand jackshit, but this man used a old ass pendulum for a master clock for synths. You absolute mad scientist.
I’m a mechanical engineer
You have my official stamp of ‘ that was pretty bad ass’ approval.
Good work explaining now I want to try it myself.
Nice!
The clock multiplier box could maybe be built analogly using a PLL.
A prescaler clock diveder and a feedback loop clock diveder, both selectable using some switch.
Oh hey, I remember suggesting something like this on your patreon a while ago, cool to see its going somewhere :D
lovely , well done getting this all running. Free pendulum. , building one now with SMI laser amplitude regulation.
Thanks Sam for breaking down pendulums for me in the quickest and best explanation ever. You could teach a mechanical engineering course for dummies 👌👍
I got way too excited when I saw that clock in one of your last videos. Glad you talked about it!
These master clocks were in use up until the late 1990s. I know, because that's when I went to school and we had these.
It was really hard to concentrate when your class room was next to the clock room.
I would complete the installation sending those synth vibes to speakers at each office in the building to sound time signals each hour for the clerks.
That master pendulum is one of the nicest clickiest endearing sounds I have ever heard.
I was watching these things on Objectivity the other day. They're the definitive example of oldschool precision engineering.
Never a dull moment I so much enjoy your posts. Been gaga on electronic music since the days of R A Moog. Many thanks. Regards Andre SA
Lovely how much circuit neede dto do something so simple, so many small clever sollutions along the way. Happy you keep those stuff runing.
What a cool, twisted way to make music. It's mechanical, electrical, and bizarre. Just the thing I needed to see Sam. Thank you for being yourself!
"What instrument do you play?"
"The Gent Pulsynetic Master Clock. Oh, and the Drone Wall."
I’ve always felt that time was arbitrary but in this case it appears to be everything :)
The units we choose to measure time with are arbitrary, time itself is not :)
3:46 - I have a bunch of those hanging around somewhere, along with a uniselector.
My old school had some weird plug sockets on the wall, I assume they were used with mainframe clock systems like this. By my era, quartz clocks were obviously good enough for us lot xD
Fucking genius. You always make the most interesting stuff and take music to new places. Thanks for being amazing!
I was super skeptical at first but now after hearing it I am a believer
What you actually want is to have the master clock driving a flywheel and shaft at 60 RPM. The shaft then has multiple brass wheels on it with mirrors or black markings or whatever on it. Those get picked up by optocouplers. Each brass wheel is a different BPM. You can have a 120 BPM wheel, a 140 BPM wheel, 141, 142, 145, whatever. Pick and choose. Super easy to do on a CNC lathe, too.
Everything on this channel makes me happy. This video doubly so.
Sounds like a steampunk Geiger counter 👌
That pendulum jam was fucking awesome.
@11:00 This reminds me of a very grotesque version of the intro from the movie 'Short Circuit', haha :D
Fantastic! Great inspiration. A random idea to keep it even more analogue: Altering the length of the pendulum could change bpm. Mounting an array of reed-relays in the cabinet close to where the pendulum passes could give signals to multiply the base bpm maybe. But I guess you are not short of ideas!! Maybe I should build that variant myself - and post a video of it :-)