Well, you definitely did tear it up 🤯😂 an absolute, unreal joy to watch! Thank you so much Rob 🙇♂️ As for the tape deck, this one has been disconnected, but the same modification can be done while leaving the tape deck intact 🛠 perfect if you want some of that extra Lo-Fi ASMR whirring! 🎸📻
This with my Keeley Modded Speak & Spell, and the classic 1978 George Foreman 10w Grill (with Friedman mod boost) is my ultimate wet dry wet guitar rig.
Little know fact, Back in the 90’s, Sony made legit guitar pedals. I was the demo guy for them at 2 NAMM shows,it was essentially a multi effects processor, the HR-5. I’ll always be indebted to Sony for giving me an opportunity to go to 2 NAMM shows with a per diem. It opened the doors to other endorsements and meeting great people.
They never made any pedals at all. If you're talking about The Sony HR-GP5, well that was a half-rack. You're probably referring to the optional midi controller that could be bought with it, but Sony never made any "effects pedals" as such.
@@PrettyRecords it indeed was a half rack. But I used it as a pedal on the floor when gigging. There’s a few videos of me out there demoing them at NAMM and music messe. It was the HRGP5. Hard to believe It was almost 30 years ago ..if you worked at Sony. Thanks it was a long time ago..
@@Stephenmichaelsguitar Well just because you used it on the floor doesn't make it a guitar pedal! And they sounded awful, surprisingly bad coming from Sony. After owning one I learnt that not everything Sony makes is great. No wonder they stuck with making TVs. Unfortunately a lot of digital stuff from the 80's & 90's sounded like shit and the Sony HR-GP5 was no exception.
Rob, I want to give you a heartfelt "thanks" for taking the time to acknowledge/reply to your viewers' comments. I don't think I've made even one comment on your channel that has been left dangling to rot in the neither of cyberspace. That means a lot to us. Stay real!
Danny from weird and wired is a close friend and my personal choice for guitar tech! Incredible to see his creations finally getting the love they deserve
What that thing reminds me of is my first experience with my first fuzz box. That was an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi. Way back in the 70s, when I was young, broke, and all I could afford was stuff from EHX (before they called it EHX). I didn't know what I was doing, so I would up hating it. Then I learned more, but my guitar's pickups were microphonic, so I spent years trying to find a rig that wouldn't make my guitar howl every time I applied gain. Things are better now, thank goodness!😎
I did the same thing to an alarm clock with a tape deck. it was awesome, like yours sounds. and i was into doom and death metal at the time i did it. fun times. I soldered the input jack to the spot on the board where the tape head wires went.
My very first amp was the guts of a small Crate combo shoved into the top of a single fake wood stereo speaker with an 8" and 2" speaker. If music is meant to happen, it will happen. Love seeing ingenuity in the works. Thank you Rob.
I glimpsed the thumbnail on my lunch break and had to wait 4 more hours before watching. In that time I was gripped with curiosity for what Sony could've done and how would they market it? What possible niche could they have found to fill? What does it mean for other brands like Samsung and Panasonic? Will it be wireless? Have they figured out how to seamlessly integrate Bluetooth with true bypass somehow? Can I hack it with linux? Needless to say you got me proper good, hats off, 10 points😂 that little beastie sounds pretty good too, I think I've got a similar little deck somewhere, must give it a go. Cheers from NZ
Hells yeah!! This is genius, Rob!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻 Would be fun to get some other old tape recorders. I’m partial to Fisher Price of the late 70’s & 80’s. Let’s see how different models sound. You should pop some blank cassettes to record your playing while you’re at it, especially while manipulating some of the FF/RW buttons while recording. That would be totally Alvin and The Chipmunks’esque! I’d also love to see what would happen with a Sax-a-Boom (alà Jack Black fame). If you can find a way to connect a Sax-a-Boom with a contact pickup or some other way, I guarantee Jack Black will be calling you to join Tenacious D!
The first fuzz I gigged with was a late ‘60s Telefunken transistor radio, which had a blown smoothing condenser… And it sounded great through the school PA in 1969
You have an open mind and that’s what most players are lacking. Anything CAN sound good. You have to listen with your ears and not your eyes. Yes some expensive stuff is expensive for a reason; it’s irreplaceable. But if something cheap sounds good- it absolutely is.
That actually sounds incredible, made me go look for one on the second hand market, it’s got a slight warm Gary Moore vibe going on but with fuzz, I actually want one.
If you go back to an ad in a British newspaper you may be lucky enough to find the amazing Phillips tape cassette and machine that hardly anyone paid attention to til slightly towards the death knell of the 8 track. Yep, it’s actually there. I seen it. On video of course. I lived in the US of A and I was only 11 years old at that time. There, my tale of musical historical wonder. Enjoyed your’n. Me n the wife got sucked into your’n hook, line and middle eight of the song.
Funny thing is that my first guitar amp, one I made, were the guts of a Sony tape recorder I put inside a wood box and attached to an eight inch cheap speaker.
My first amp was a National Panasonic RX-5100F stereo Cassette player. I had made a cable that has 1/8" jack on one end to suit the input of the cassette player. Man, its in-built distortion sounded so great. Sadly it's not with me now.
Thought it was seriously going to be a legit amp. That would be awesome coming from a AV speaker company. Bose too. Definite potential if they did a collaboration with like boss or something for a solid state amp
HA! You got me lol. Sounds absolutely sick though. I wish it had a headphone jack so you could run it through different rigs. Makes me think old tech like this could be repurposed into guitar pedal formats. oh wait... Brb starting a pedal company I'll hit you up in a couple of months lol.
To be honest...this isn't too far from my first "amp". When I got my first electric guitar, I was playing through an old Karaoke machine. Not the fancy ones either. Just a 2 tape deck Karaoke machine with no options for displaying any lyrics lol. With the volume at full, the thing actually had great distortion and it did the job until I got a real amp lol. I wish I still had it just for nostalgia's sake. Contrary to yours though, mine wasn't a "Fuzz" sound but more of an actual distorted amp. It was super fun though! Great for a poor beginner that I was back then.
I often use a Vox ac30 headphone-mini-amp., and just for fun I plugged it into one of those square construction site radios. The sound is similar, but with more sustain on the lead guitar. This was a very funny video-clip, and I wish you all the best!
Yeas back I witnessed a Def Leppard Hysteria Tour concert erected from scratch long story short their semi(s) had been stolen and recovered by the FBI in Nevada. Def continued on and had a new sound system flown in from SanDiego hence was present at the time the cargo arrived. Everything was Sony on the face speakers soundboard etc...and the engineer was an old wizard looking bloke beard hat and all (but he wore Burkenstocks! 😋) ...swear it was the best sounding concert presented in stereo (round arena) with almost a 4D effect...chilling to the bone.....a super surreal experience to say the least. 🤘😔🎸
When I was a kid I fitted a jack socket to my mum's portable record player for my guitar. Mind you, in those days, portable record players had valve amplifiers
Sony used to make a rather expensive mono radio-cassette device with a large speaker, a simple mixer, a very simple rhythm box... and a guitar input. It was only 5W - but it was gorgeous - and I really miss mine!
I remember back when I was first starting, I didn't have an amp (or money to get one) so I played pretty much like this, on a tape deck that had an input jack and worked as an amp when recording was on :)
Just remembered the good old days when Sony produced the HR-MP5 and a few other multieffects.... these were no joke, actually, they were on par with anything of that era, easily. :-)
Well, you definitely did tear it up 🤯😂 an absolute, unreal joy to watch! Thank you so much Rob 🙇♂️
As for the tape deck, this one has been disconnected, but the same modification can be done while leaving the tape deck intact 🛠 perfect if you want some of that extra Lo-Fi ASMR whirring! 🎸📻
Hey dude!! Glad you like the video - cool news about the tape deck! 🤘🏽🤘🏽
This with my Keeley Modded Speak & Spell, and the classic 1978 George Foreman 10w Grill (with Friedman mod boost) is my ultimate wet dry wet guitar rig.
All you need now is a See 'n' Say talk box lol. "The guitar sez... WAHHHH!" 😂
Ha ha!!! Rig of the gods 🤘🏽🤘🏽
I am about falling out of my chair laughing here, laughing so hard I think I just hurt myself, lol.
😂😂😂
I'm hoping to pair it with my Betamax tape echo and my Pong ping pong delay.
That fuzz sound was actually awesome. Someone call JHS and tell them to put this sound in a pedal!
Little know fact, Back in the 90’s, Sony made legit guitar pedals. I was the demo guy for them at 2 NAMM shows,it was essentially a multi effects processor, the HR-5. I’ll always be indebted to Sony for giving me an opportunity to go to 2 NAMM shows with a per diem. It opened the doors to other endorsements and meeting great people.
They never made any pedals at all. If you're talking about The Sony HR-GP5, well that was a half-rack. You're probably referring to the optional midi controller that could be bought with it, but Sony never made any "effects pedals" as such.
@@PrettyRecords it indeed was a half rack. But I used it as a pedal on the floor when gigging. There’s a few videos of me out there demoing them at NAMM and music messe. It was the HRGP5. Hard to believe It was almost 30 years ago ..if you worked at Sony. Thanks it was a long time ago..
@@Stephenmichaelsguitar Well just because you used it on the floor doesn't make it a guitar pedal! And they sounded awful, surprisingly bad coming from Sony. After owning one I learnt that not everything Sony makes is great. No wonder they stuck with making TVs. Unfortunately a lot of digital stuff from the 80's & 90's sounded like shit and the Sony HR-GP5 was no exception.
@@PrettyRecords thanks again for your insightful comments. Cheers.
I'm waiting on the Fisher Price pull along telephone amp with an optional 2x12 plastic cab :)
Holy cow that’s a great idea!!!
@@RobChappers Now we just need to convince Fisher Price :)
@GraemeCampbellMusic pretty sure Danny has made one of those before. Correct me if I'm wrong Danny
now that sounds too good to be true
If Tonka made an amp it would be indestructible 😜
You do realize that some well known guitarists will use this to create a masterpiece and it will suddenly be in every studio worldwide.
It'll be the new Pignose 7-100
Wow! Sony making exclusive Fuzz amps and Game systems! I never knew Sony was this heavy! I want a Casio guitar Amp!!!
The perfect addiotion would be to convert the cassette deck into a tape echo!
The Internet is back!
🤘🏽🤣🤘🏽
If you hit rewind, Rob starts playing "Sunshine of Your Love"
The price is sky rocketing on Reverb now.
Can't believe it's April already
3:12 HOLY FUZZ!!! 😭🙏
My first guitar amp was a dual-cassette boom box with a stereo RCA input I plugged into with a Y cable. 😅
I did that thru my step dads hi fi cassette player. Till I blew a speaker and he got pissed. And made me get an amp. Lol
Rob, I want to give you a heartfelt "thanks" for taking the time to acknowledge/reply to your viewers' comments. I don't think I've made even one comment on your channel that has been left dangling to rot in the neither of cyberspace. That means a lot to us. Stay real!
Appreciate this comment bro, always try my best thanks for watching :-)
Instant White Stripes, inna box!
First thing I thought. Cheap and dirty noise, it’s prefect 🤘
Dammit, ya got me 😂🤣😂🤣😂
Brilliant stuff Rob 👍
welp, not quite what I was expecting ..................BUT ......................HILARIOUS and I thoroughly enjoyed the video !
That is absolutely beautiful!
This is amazing. You made me think about a weird thing to create with this Sony Super Wild Guitar Amp :) ;)
Danny from weird and wired is a close friend and my personal choice for guitar tech! Incredible to see his creations finally getting the love they deserve
It sounds cool indeed!
Built in tape delay! Awesome!
What that thing reminds me of is my first experience with my first fuzz box. That was an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi. Way back in the 70s, when I was young, broke, and all I could afford was stuff from EHX (before they called it EHX). I didn't know what I was doing, so I would up hating it. Then I learned more, but my guitar's pickups were microphonic, so I spent years trying to find a rig that wouldn't make my guitar howl every time I applied gain. Things are better now, thank goodness!😎
Massive beast of an amp. Glad you survived the encounter and your house is still standing.
I did the same thing to an alarm clock with a tape deck. it was awesome, like yours sounds. and i was into doom and death metal at the time i did it. fun times. I soldered the input jack to the spot on the board where the tape head wires went.
My very first amp was the guts of a small Crate combo shoved into the top of a single fake wood stereo speaker with an 8" and 2" speaker. If music is meant to happen, it will happen. Love seeing ingenuity in the works. Thank you Rob.
I glimpsed the thumbnail on my lunch break and had to wait 4 more hours before watching. In that time I was gripped with curiosity for what Sony could've done and how would they market it? What possible niche could they have found to fill? What does it mean for other brands like Samsung and Panasonic? Will it be wireless? Have they figured out how to seamlessly integrate Bluetooth with true bypass somehow? Can I hack it with linux?
Needless to say you got me proper good, hats off, 10 points😂 that little beastie sounds pretty good too, I think I've got a similar little deck somewhere, must give it a go. Cheers from NZ
You should wire the tape player so if you put a tape loop tape and press record you get a low fi tape delay
Ok that was surprisingly cool!!!
Hells yeah!! This is genius, Rob!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻 Would be fun to get some other old tape recorders. I’m partial to Fisher Price of the late 70’s & 80’s. Let’s see how different models sound. You should pop some blank cassettes to record your playing while you’re at it, especially while manipulating some of the FF/RW buttons while recording. That would be totally Alvin and The Chipmunks’esque!
I’d also love to see what would happen with a Sax-a-Boom (alà Jack Black fame). If you can find a way to connect a Sax-a-Boom with a contact pickup or some other way, I guarantee Jack Black will be calling you to join Tenacious D!
Badass!
Wow! I am at a loss for words on this one! I've never heard such a huge fuzz sound in my life. I gotta get one of these.
A beast to cut through any mix 😆 Seriously it sounds like it will have it's use. Makes me think of something Silvia Massy would get up to.
Celf sensoring now Rob?
Always has been 😂😂
@@JohnWiku LOL!
The first fuzz I gigged with was a late ‘60s Telefunken transistor radio, which had a blown smoothing condenser… And it sounded great through the school PA in 1969
You have an open mind and that’s what most players are lacking. Anything CAN sound good. You have to listen with your ears and not your eyes. Yes some expensive stuff is expensive for a reason; it’s irreplaceable. But if something cheap sounds good- it absolutely is.
That actually sounds incredible, made me go look for one on the second hand market, it’s got a slight warm Gary Moore vibe going on but with fuzz, I actually want one.
If you go back to an ad in a British newspaper you may be lucky enough to find the amazing Phillips tape cassette and machine that hardly anyone paid attention to til slightly towards the death knell of the 8 track. Yep, it’s actually there. I seen it. On video of course. I lived in the US of A and I was only 11 years old at that time.
There, my tale of musical historical wonder.
Enjoyed your’n. Me n the wife got sucked into your’n hook, line and middle eight of the song.
You really had me. I was buying this hook line and sinker. I was even about to call foul on you for being bought off with a PS5!
Excellent work.
love the fuzz... awesome!
Funny thing is that my first guitar amp, one I made, were the guts of a Sony tape recorder I put inside a wood box and attached to an eight inch cheap speaker.
Genius😂❤
Came a long way Rob since the Tiny Terror days with a MXR boost. This tone really crushes .
did the same thing with the realistic tape recorders as a kid. Excellent fuzz machines....
My first amp was a National Panasonic RX-5100F stereo Cassette player. I had made a cable that has 1/8" jack on one end to suit the input of the cassette player. Man, its in-built distortion sounded so great. Sadly it's not with me now.
I'm sure valve amps will come back into fashion again. I've seen a full circle with rack effect units.
That was my first Sony!!! Then I got a Walkman and I got Michael Jackson’s Dangerous album for the next Christmas, love this 😂
How does it sound with an IR after it?
Sounds like you're ready to open for SLEEP! I can hardly wait!
Thought it was seriously going to be a legit amp. That would be awesome coming from a AV speaker company. Bose too. Definite potential if they did a collaboration with like boss or something for a solid state amp
HA! You got me lol.
Sounds absolutely sick though. I wish it had a headphone jack so you could run it through different rigs. Makes me think old tech like this could be repurposed into guitar pedal formats.
oh wait...
Brb starting a pedal company I'll hit you up in a couple of months lol.
Wonder if you could build in a tape delay using an old blank tape from back in the day!
I did this back in the seventies with a open reel tape deck(from Sony) before I had my first fuzz(it was a Small Stone, first amp was a Traynor) :)
Love it! 💪🏽👍🏾
Yeahhh mannnn
Man.... I gotta get me one of these!!! I wonder how it will take my pedal board? I am excited!!!!
The face down rig has worked really well with my vintage Honey Tone combo amp.
Best tone I've ever heard you get, Rob. By a country mile. XD :P
Reminds me of my old pignose
To be honest...this isn't too far from my first "amp". When I got my first electric guitar, I was playing through an old Karaoke machine. Not the fancy ones either. Just a 2 tape deck Karaoke machine with no options for displaying any lyrics lol. With the volume at full, the thing actually had great distortion and it did the job until I got a real amp lol. I wish I still had it just for nostalgia's sake. Contrary to yours though, mine wasn't a "Fuzz" sound but more of an actual distorted amp. It was super fun though! Great for a poor beginner that I was back then.
Hi! Quick question - Is it suitable for playing arenas?
Asking for a friend
With a big enough PA anything is possible 🤣
Love it
I often use a Vox ac30 headphone-mini-amp., and just for fun I plugged it into one of those square construction site radios. The sound is similar, but with
more sustain on the lead guitar. This was a very funny video-clip, and I wish you all the best!
But does it sound better with or without a tape cassette inserted?
But what does it sound like with the Miku pedal?
Better!!!
You know, I really wanted to buy one but they’d all sold out LOL
Used to use one of those to record song ideas when my 1st band got together, trailblazers!
What camera are you using?
Is it 1st of April?
All smiles
This is brilliant, sounds like my old speakers after I burned out the voice coils; irreplaceable!
Wicked ❤
Yeas back I witnessed a Def Leppard Hysteria Tour concert erected from scratch long story short their semi(s) had been stolen and recovered by the FBI in Nevada. Def continued on and had a new sound system flown in from SanDiego hence was present at the time the cargo arrived. Everything was Sony on the face speakers soundboard etc...and the engineer was an old wizard looking bloke beard hat and all (but he wore Burkenstocks! 😋) ...swear it was the best sounding concert presented in stereo (round arena) with almost a 4D effect...chilling to the bone.....a super surreal experience to say the least. 🤘😔🎸
When I was a kid I fitted a jack socket to my mum's portable record player for my guitar. Mind you, in those days, portable record players had valve amplifiers
Sony used to make a rather expensive mono radio-cassette device with a large speaker, a simple mixer, a very simple rhythm box... and a guitar input. It was only 5W - but it was gorgeous - and I really miss mine!
Easy to do, It's just the wires from the tape head soldered to an input jack. I made a fuzz pedal like this out of an old walkman when I was about 15
Holy cow, I am selling all my amps and cabs, I must get the speak and spell combo amp.
Can you do a Tonex capture of this?
I don’t own a Tonex otherwise yes of course
Oh man, the prices are going to go up now... Glad we already have two.
Who would have thought 🎉
🔥
I think I’ve just found my new guitar rig with built in backing track player! Just need to get some TDK’s and copy my MP3’s over!
Amazing, so you can record your playing onto cassette tape and jam along with your favourite tapes? Does it also function as a tape echo?
Man, I’ll have to check it out. I’m not sure that that would be fucking incredible.
😂 Not what I was expecting for sure. That's a pretty sweet rig. Makes me wann tune down and jam some doom metal.
Ha!!! That looks fun! Looks like a cool studio thing to throw ppl off😂😂 they'll be chasing that sound and never know what it was😅😅
I remember back when I was first starting, I didn't have an amp (or money to get one) so I played pretty much like this, on a tape deck that had an input jack and worked as an amp when recording was on :)
Does good beer weigh more or less than bad beer?
Siamese Dream era Smashing Pumpkins tone!
Yeah very reminiscent of the track quiet
How do you get rid of that fuzz?
Dial back the guitar volume I guess
Thanks for massively triggering my April Fools Spidey sense...... In August!!!!
#confused
You can’t gig with it, but with the right set of Legos you can have a playdate.
Please, make a capture of this amp!
My first thought is to put an active bass through it 🔥💥🚒
this is either 151 days later or 214 days early.
God damn....its only Leslie Freekin West Chapman ....We Bow Sir.....🎉😂
Just remembered the good old days when Sony produced the HR-MP5 and a few other multieffects.... these were no joke, actually, they were on par with anything of that era, easily. :-)
Yeah I did this with a Tandy shoebox cassette recorder my mum bought me back in the day. Wire the input to the tape head.
Im still waiting on the Microsoft Xbox amp, that puts the entire 120 watt output through the little speaker that goes "ding!" 🤘
The walkman was a great wee amp back in the day 😂
"I'll just put this somewhere else..." Nice one.