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I spent 1200 € on a sound system the other day. it has bluetooth connectivity and thats about it. No particularly good bass, and the top end sounds a bit like an empty can of baked beans. However, the Ford Mondeo attached to it was good value; and it does have a handy little equalizer for shaping the sound slightly. Great Deal everything considered. Pro tip: I was considering the Tx6. But as far as i can gather, it doesn't include a car, even though the price suggests it.
After spending like 5k€ on diy Eurorack stuff that was fun to solder (but I don't know how to f**in use it) 2 months ago I bought the cheapest E-Strat off Amazon, just to stay connected in music. Don't know how to play the git at all, but willing to learn. 120€ including everything, Amp was DOA, was actually replaced with the next level one at no extra cost. But it's perfectly acceptable, good machining, stays in tune, doesn't ring too much, happy days! :) My last diy was an open source Teensy based "Micro Dexed" featuring two DX7 emus, a MI Rings, another diy basic synth and what not for like less than 100€ in total. On the other hand: TE with some 1k€ crap... wtf...
I don't understand how people can't realise that the TX6 is revolutionary! It's the only mixer that lets you mute/unmute three adjacent tracks at once, with just a single finger! Whether you intended to or not.
@@treetopjones737 Haha. I guess I'm never gonna make it as a YT celebrity then -- there's no /room/ on my desk for a plant, so it has to sit in the background. ☹
@@neuzethmusic131 i got their music light from the dicount area. i wanted it cause it is beautiful. It turned out amazingly impractical and useless, but yeah, cool design.
Teenage Engineering really went and charged over a grand for a light dimmer switch that plays jingles. Incredible stuff. Thanks for blessing my Friday once more! :P
those drums are actually snappy as fuck, can't wait to pay a total of €5 to get a comprehensive sample pack from some youtuber and continue memeing on the pixie mixer
@@towerrunner4675 I have to agree. This almost seems like someone asked AI to generate a fake Bad Gear episode with a ridiculous product but using a respected brand to give it credibility. Sadly, it is a real video, a real product, and is harming the credibility of TE. In the jam I would take any of the other pieces of gear over the TX6. Even the monotron has more likely production value output per minute of input.
"$1200 IQ test", best TE comment ever. Someday I hope someone on the internet will post pictures of a workstation that is comprised of all the TE gear, including the creepy wood dolls.
That last track has some of the Best Most Random Royalty-Free Based Video Editing Ever Seen On Bad Gear And That’s Saying Something Don’t You Think- ever 😂
Lol, that’s basically what TE has done with the Field collection. They just wanted to make stuff they wanted and make it as high build quality as possible with basically just unique parts. This is one of the reasons for the crazy price point. I don’t know how they can defend the price on the table though… It seems pretty bland
@@Softlol Tesla and Apple don't need to make cars and phones out of exotic materials with space-age processes either, but consumers with more money than sense love overengineered crap that costs too much.
@@stickyfox I mean isn’t the whole point of the material that its super durable and very lightweight?… Thats my experience with apples macbooks. Sure we don’t need to, we don’t even need phones or computers or cars or planes. We have all we need in nature and can survive of that with communities and hunting. So where are you drawing the line? Because in the supply chain of pretty much every big brand you will find something filthy.
My first professional mixing desk took two people to get it into the studio. It was only 24 tracks. I've picked larger things than this out of my nose.😨
@@eightcoins4401I bought a Ramsa WR8118 18 channel for $50 in 2018. For $1000, this thing had better cook me breakfast after I finish wiggling its knobs.
I quite like my TX-6. I view it as an audio multitool; It does a lot... adequately. I get that that's not exactly high praise for something so expensive but I really do think its form factor and the fact that it's battery-powered are major selling points. I'm constantly repurposing it for different uses and moving it around because it's just so easy to do so! I find a lot of value in its portability and its many functions, even if those functions are almost always worse than dedicated devices. I don't think it's the right device for most people but I'm really glad I bought one (used).
I went to pick up some gear from someone an hour north of me once, in a kind of out the way place, no bus, though I was driving. It was from some rich guy up on the the bluffs who I've bought from a few times. He always has the THE best gear that he's selling. I've never been inside to actually see his collection, but he has so much good stuff listed all the time that I search local listings every week or so for the place he lives to see if he has anything new. Anyway, as I arrived, there was another guy there who had taxied up to get his stuff. Low and behold it was THIS unit. The guy worked for IntelliJ. As I gave him a ride back home, he went on to explain how THIS was the most epic unit that could do exactly what he wanted where nothing else could, and he got it at the amazing price of $800 Canadian. I dropped him off back home and never saw him again.
...not Intellij, I mean intellijel, the eurorack company based in my hometown, not the IDE. I'm a software developer literally programming on Intellij right now, so I get confused.
I've had a TX-6 for a few months now, it's my most fave device ever. It's sexy looking when you actually pick it up. It sounds utterly fantastic, the EQ ranges are spot on for what I need. I use it to make rip vinyl videos directly into a GoPro camera. The signal path is vinyl->Tx-6(24bit)->GoPro(24bit). The FX are really nice sounding and solid. If only it was 1/2 the price - I'd buy another in a shot!
Bad Gear, the only show that not only makes the worst gear sound good, but does it consistently enough to make this show one of few that is consistently entertaining even when autoplaying through them!
Being a trucker who likes to mess with and jam with the gear, I'm always on the lookout for the compact and portable; space is always at a premium on a Freightliner. But there's a point of diminishing returns for compact gear and TE went a little past it this time; makes me think I'm trying to use Zoolander's cellphone.
I totally agree. I like portable gear but I found this basically too small to usable. It could have been twice the size and still tiny, but way more usable
I’m gonna put a huge “I got this for way cheaper used” sticker on my OP1 field. Cause goddamnet I love it and it’s going straight in my live gig. But hey, I’m in a band, not a “DJ” so maybe there’ll be less judgement in our audience 😅
I am SO GLAD this video happened. Teenage Engineering needs to take note of the comments. Much as I love my OB-4, the TX-6 alone made me almost lose respect for them completely. I don't understand how anyone thought this was a good idea. Even if the price is justified because it's a pain to produce, anyone business smart should have stopped them before they'd even put it out. They did get a scolding from certain few major industry players at Superbooth from what I heard though 😂 I'll be waiting for the TX-12, which should be at least 3-4 times as big, and definitely 50% cheaper to even compete with similar products IMO.
Hey Federico! There’s a mind boggling story behind that thing involving no other than Kanye West, I assume they tried to minimize write offs and I totally want to make a video about that but I’m afraid there’s not enough meat on there without getting too speculative.
These videos have so many cut-aways and jokes, I think it's probably the only gear review channel that has serious rewatch value, just to get all the references. I don't even know how you have the patience to find all those memes and then edit them all in. Love the channel!
I just throw this into the direction of TE: your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
Could be useful for a live rig, to submix a couple boutique line modules. Fits in a pocket, a good quality for keyboardist who is carrying full car of gear already
@audiopilz , Teenage Engineering came out of the Audio Department of DICE (we did the Battlefield games, Mirror's Edge, Medal Of Honor, but I digress), where the Head of Audio at the time used to work at Elektron beforehand. I worked with all of them, back then since I was part of DICE Audio. Today the previous head of audio is CEO/GM whatever at Teenage Engineering. The others work at Embark, and then there is me. Synthwise: Elektron ESI - DICE - TE
I spent some time really looking in to potential manufacturing cost of some of their stuff, and can genuinly say they have the highest markup of anything ever
Yep...and the Rädler will probably result in more interesting ideas than this thing. Or cirrhosis. For me, I'll go for a case of of Old Rip van Winkel 10-year (I like the limestone notes...terrior, y'know) and still have $ left for a good steak. Having said this, TE will probably now come up with a line of whisky flasks with built-in sequencers. Only $799!
Total respect for getting those amazing jams out of it! The price, and those knobs’ similarity to “Knurlies” actually make it a gateway device to Eurorack modular!!
It sounds pretty good and especially drums are perfectly snappy through the compressor. Wish it was at least half the price, now it’s more a designer piece than a workhorse it should be
@@AudioPilz No! Its not an issue at all. I saw four little nails included in the box, suggesting how to solve the potential problems, hmm.. maybe I saw them in another box 🤔
Hey! I wanna thank you and your channel for giving so much good vibes all the time. Synth and the yt musicians and producer community has become my love. Sharing passion for great technology and of course - music! Thanks for super entertaining tracks and reviews! Theres so much gear to check all the boxes!
Are we going to get an episode on the Sy-77/99 someday? I don't really want the price to skyrocket, but they are so cool (and difficult to use sometimes😄).
Well I love it as a pocket mixer that is battery powered and I can bring anywhere an use with small synths.. I use it with OP-1, roland mc101, tr6-S, yamaha reface cp and novatiin circuit. To have a small mixer with 6 stereo channels or 12 mono is a must for small setups or on the move. Just love it.
@@AudioPilz they made 120,000 - (I think euros) in 2022 at a 5% profit margin (2.4m rev.). With 50-200 staff they are not rolling about in Jaguars just yet.
@@AudioPilz the reason their profits are so low is because they are putting it all straight back into rnd. The profit figure is token and not significant as profits are unused money and therefore waste so must be maid into big pay cheques or put into Swiss holding account to hide it.
@@AudioPilz You could close down the rnd dept and place those costs under profit to raise the value of the company to idiot investors who can't see the company is being gutted and not grown.
This is the only channel that requires hummingbird focus and reflexes, making me pause and rewind so much as to not miss any memes or details. I don't mind, because if I'm putting the work to watch, I know this guy painstakingly put in all that work in editing. 😅
For that price surely they could make it at a functional size that ordinary human fingers could use instead of tiny elven hipster digits ...but hey! What's functionality when you're all about ridiculous design statements & exorbitant prices
Don't forget you're going to need to pay a couple thousand dollars for the high end rework station and microscope you'll need when you have to replace a worn out fader in a few years. I don't care how good your soldering skills are - nobody's going to have much luck blowing hot air in a thing that small with a $50 (or even $500) Hakko. I just checked and a Pace MBT360 is just over $2150 ("new low price!")
I had the TX6 for about a month then sold it and got a BASTL BESTIE instead. When I had the TX6, I got a knife and shaved down the sides of my cables so they would fit in there. It worked and was a lot cheaper than buying TE branded audio cables.
3:03 That would be pretty badass if Richie Hawtin and Allen & Heath and TE all got together and made a little Model 1 mixer that was only as wide as a DB25 connector, and it had two stacked on the back, and if you get two you can snap them together and they link cue/mix busses.
I personally love this thing, the tininess lets me load up a TP7, OP1F, this, into an expensive but highly fashionable Fjallraven backpack so when I am drinking my craft PAs at the local brewery I am still able to make a tune, or at least record some semblance of a tune without looking like I am an ableton user in a coffee shop on my macbook. Kudos for that. I am not a good enough photographer/videographer otherwise I'd be making tiktok instagram bangers that get me tons of likes while I ask my rabbit r1 how many likes I'm receiving Jokes aside, it's an invariably useful tool, and I do not think just for musicians, but for podcasters, streamers and other cool people. I think TE have reached a different market other than the hobbyist synth user who spends $5000 on a Moog product(posthumous Bob Moog) vs a behriniger due to their high values and morals. Now how to stream 12 mono bad gear videos at the same time with the TX6? I need help Florian!
I mean, how cool is it that you can have TX-6, TP-7 and 3-4 x CM-15 and you basically have a portable podcast studio you can easily fit in you backpack. Add a computer and 1-2 cameras and you have portable live stream setup. It will cost as much as a house, but it is possible.
Holy crap! Despite being a TE product customer, I had zero interest in the TX-6, I wrote it off as one of their overly expensive nice-to-have gadgets, and probably wouldn't have entertained a review of it from almost anyone. But I'm so glad I saw your video because I think you're right, this "abonmination" is def the future of where music gadget designery is headed. And it just may make sense at that price if they can get it closer to their POs. I'm always thinking that for sample playback I could use literally ANY computer device, but then when it's time to hook one one up for a mobile setup, I do have to invest time in setting up something to work - but built in to the mixer makes a ton of sense for if I was gonna do small live gigs w just me, my Roland JD-XA, and a TC Helicon voice processor (and mic). I own the RME Babyface for >10 years and while I wouldn't gig with it, it's been hella reliable.
I’m sorry you had to go through that. That device may be an important tool for somebody, but that is not likely to ever enter any setup I’ll be working w/ anytime soon.
Just seeing you deal with those tiny controls and screen made me feel exhausted. However, yet another few great pieces of music, especially the second jam and the final track.
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I spent 1200 € on a sound system the other day. it has bluetooth connectivity and thats about it. No particularly good bass, and the top end sounds a bit like an empty can of baked beans. However, the Ford Mondeo attached to it was good value; and it does have a handy little equalizer for shaping the sound slightly.
Great Deal everything considered.
Pro tip:
I was considering the Tx6. But as far as i can gather, it doesn't include a car, even though the price suggests it.
A Volvo would be nice here
For real right? I was listening to my 2000 dollar system in my garage, and my family freaked out cause I left the smoke machine going.
I paid $500 for my first portable sound system. It had an 8-track player and a built in diesel engine ;) I think they called it the Monte Carlo.
😂😂 @@AdamsOlympia
After spending like 5k€ on diy Eurorack stuff that was fun to solder (but I don't know how to f**in use it) 2 months ago I bought the cheapest E-Strat off Amazon, just to stay connected in music. Don't know how to play the git at all, but willing to learn. 120€ including everything, Amp was DOA, was actually replaced with the next level one at no extra cost. But it's perfectly acceptable, good machining, stays in tune, doesn't ring too much, happy days! :) My last diy was an open source Teensy based "Micro Dexed" featuring two DX7 emus, a MI Rings, another diy basic synth and what not for like less than 100€ in total. On the other hand: TE with some 1k€ crap... wtf...
I don't understand how people can't realise that the TX6 is revolutionary! It's the only mixer that lets you mute/unmute three adjacent tracks at once, with just a single finger! Whether you intended to or not.
And all for the low, low price of about €1000. What a steal!
Mind. Blown.
Maybe someone will design an aftermarket outer shell that mechanically transfers the controls onto a reasonably sized interface.
It does seem to be pretty groundbreaking. But because of its irrational, silly pricing, they can be groundbreaking by themselves; who gives a toss.
"Whether you intended to or not." Hahaha!
The zoom onto the duct taped adaptors is why we love you. Never one to shy away from the janky realities of making music with a jumble of random gear.
Thank you so much!!!
And the rest of the tape roll cradling the potted plant was a nice touch, too.
@@AudioPilz really makes me feel like i'm at a basement rave in Cologne dissociating staring at the gear
@@GerenM63 Every pro YT synth channel has to have a little plant on the desk. 😃
@@treetopjones737 Haha. I guess I'm never gonna make it as a YT celebrity then -- there's no /room/ on my desk for a plant, so it has to sit in the background. ☹
This seems like a great product for me if it were about 50% larger and 50% less expensive
Agreed!
And 50% bigger
Best part about that statement is that it would probably cost half as much to manufacture if it weren't so damn small!
+ 50% better built quality
Maybe if people were 50% smaller and the dollar was 50% stronger...
Teenage engineering has a way of making things cost 1000 bucks that I think should cost 49 bucks when I pick them up in Ikea
I'll give you 48
Ikea and TE had already a collaboration some years ago. I have the modular speaker with subwoofer. It's nice.
$1199.00 USD but who's counting!? 🤣
@@neuzethmusic131 i got their music light from the dicount area. i wanted it cause it is beautiful. It turned out amazingly impractical and useless, but yeah, cool design.
I agree. Is the most hipster shit ever. The mac book of gear.
Teenage Engineering really went and charged over a grand for a light dimmer switch that plays jingles. Incredible stuff. Thanks for blessing my Friday once more! :P
Have a great weekend
those drums are actually snappy as fuck, can't wait to pay a total of €5 to get a comprehensive sample pack from some youtuber and continue memeing on the pixie mixer
Snappy drums for days;) thanks!!!
Based
😂
If there was a Bad Gear Hall of Fame the TX-6 would definitely be there.
Agreed!!!
Yeah, hard to belief that this product isn't a hoax. 😄
@@towerrunner4675 I have to agree. This almost seems like someone asked AI to generate a fake Bad Gear episode with a ridiculous product but using a respected brand to give it credibility. Sadly, it is a real video, a real product, and is harming the credibility of TE. In the jam I would take any of the other pieces of gear over the TX6. Even the monotron has more likely production value output per minute of input.
**shows the device**
me: 😄
**price appears on the screen**
me: 🤣
lol
T.E.: "Can we interest you in our folding table?"
"$1200 IQ test", best TE comment ever.
Someday I hope someone on the internet will post pictures of a workstation that is comprised of all the TE gear, including the creepy wood dolls.
YES 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That last track has some of the Best Most Random Royalty-Free Based Video Editing Ever Seen On Bad Gear And That’s Saying Something Don’t You Think- ever 😂
Thank you so much!!!
This is the poster child for the saying "just because you can doesn't mean you should"
Lol, that’s basically what TE has done with the Field collection. They just wanted to make stuff they wanted and make it as high build quality as possible with basically just unique parts. This is one of the reasons for the crazy price point.
I don’t know how they can defend the price on the table though… It seems pretty bland
True that
@@Softlol Tesla and Apple don't need to make cars and phones out of exotic materials with space-age processes either, but consumers with more money than sense love overengineered crap that costs too much.
Actually, I like knowing little kids built my phone.
@@stickyfox I mean isn’t the whole point of the material that its super durable and very lightweight?… Thats my experience with apples macbooks.
Sure we don’t need to, we don’t even need phones or computers or cars or planes. We have all we need in nature and can survive of that with communities and hunting.
So where are you drawing the line? Because in the supply chain of pretty much every big brand you will find something filthy.
"No one should pay this price for an OP-1"
Wise words;)
At the price point and cable nonsense it's' certainly ticking all the overpriced tat boxes.
Shots fired;)
At this point, Bad Gear should be a paid-for Public Service, worldwide.
Mandatory watch. Everytime.
Thanks you so much!!!
My first professional mixing desk took two people to get it into the studio. It was only 24 tracks. I've picked larger things than this out of my nose.😨
Lol
I think this is designed for people that needs to mix some volcas already in deep in their a... 🍍
I guess you don't take your synths out into the woods.
You can also literally buy an 8 channel mixer for less than this abomination costs
@@eightcoins4401I bought a Ramsa WR8118 18 channel for $50 in 2018. For $1000, this thing had better cook me breakfast after I finish wiggling its knobs.
I quite like my TX-6. I view it as an audio multitool; It does a lot... adequately. I get that that's not exactly high praise for something so expensive but I really do think its form factor and the fact that it's battery-powered are major selling points. I'm constantly repurposing it for different uses and moving it around because it's just so easy to do so! I find a lot of value in its portability and its many functions, even if those functions are almost always worse than dedicated devices.
I don't think it's the right device for most people but I'm really glad I bought one (used).
Nice!!!
I went to pick up some gear from someone an hour north of me once, in a kind of out the way place, no bus, though I was driving. It was from some rich guy up on the the bluffs who I've bought from a few times. He always has the THE best gear that he's selling. I've never been inside to actually see his collection, but he has so much good stuff listed all the time that I search local listings every week or so for the place he lives to see if he has anything new. Anyway, as I arrived, there was another guy there who had taxied up to get his stuff. Low and behold it was THIS unit. The guy worked for IntelliJ. As I gave him a ride back home, he went on to explain how THIS was the most epic unit that could do exactly what he wanted where nothing else could, and he got it at the amazing price of $800 Canadian. I dropped him off back home and never saw him again.
what an awesome story, no not really.
800 Canadian is pretty nice!
...not Intellij, I mean intellijel, the eurorack company based in my hometown, not the IDE. I'm a software developer literally programming on Intellij right now, so I get confused.
@@alexwestconsulting wait what, you don't even know who you work for?
@@dankeplace I know who I work for. I confused who he works for. IntelliJ vs IntelliJel. I use both frequently. Note the similarity?
I've had a TX-6 for a few months now, it's my most fave device ever. It's sexy looking when you actually pick it up. It sounds utterly fantastic, the EQ ranges are spot on for what I need. I use it to make rip vinyl videos directly into a GoPro camera. The signal path is vinyl->Tx-6(24bit)->GoPro(24bit). The FX are really nice sounding and solid. If only it was 1/2 the price - I'd buy another in a shot!
👍
Bad Gear, the only show that not only makes the worst gear sound good, but does it consistently enough to make this show one of few that is consistently entertaining even when autoplaying through them!
Thank you so much!!!
that wordless zoom on the duct taped connectors lol.
;)
I'm still speechless about your musical talent. I love how you seem to create this variety of electronic sound effortlessly
Thank you so much!!!
Being a trucker who likes to mess with and jam with the gear, I'm always on the lookout for the compact and portable; space is always at a premium on a Freightliner.
But there's a point of diminishing returns for compact gear and TE went a little past it this time; makes me think I'm trying to use Zoolander's cellphone.
Have you checked out these small passive DJ mixers? They’re quite a thing here in EU
I totally agree. I like portable gear but I found this basically too small to usable. It could have been twice the size and still tiny, but way more usable
I think 200 bucks is a bit too expensive for this.
Lol
The vision tester is working.
Whenever I see these or op1 fields in anyone’s rig I judge them
Do you like them better?;)
@@AudioPilz lol. Yep!
I’m gonna put a huge “I got this for way cheaper used” sticker on my OP1 field. Cause goddamnet I love it and it’s going straight in my live gig.
But hey, I’m in a band, not a “DJ” so maybe there’ll be less judgement in our audience 😅
how else am i gonna FLAUNT MY CAAAASH
Bruh😂
What is this? Straight to Bad Gear for Ants?
😂😂😂
It’s a large audience that’s yet untapped, might have to start catering to ants as well!
hahahaha
I am SO GLAD this video happened. Teenage Engineering needs to take note of the comments. Much as I love my OB-4, the TX-6 alone made me almost lose respect for them completely. I don't understand how anyone thought this was a good idea. Even if the price is justified because it's a pain to produce, anyone business smart should have stopped them before they'd even put it out. They did get a scolding from certain few major industry players at Superbooth from what I heard though 😂 I'll be waiting for the TX-12, which should be at least 3-4 times as big, and definitely 50% cheaper to even compete with similar products IMO.
Hey Federico! There’s a mind boggling story behind that thing involving no other than Kanye West, I assume they tried to minimize write offs and I totally want to make a video about that but I’m afraid there’s not enough meat on there without getting too speculative.
@@AudioPilz oh SNAP! Wir müssen uns dann noch wieder treffen! 👌🏼😂
These videos have so many cut-aways and jokes, I think it's probably the only gear review channel that has serious rewatch value, just to get all the references. I don't even know how you have the patience to find all those memes and then edit them all in. Love the channel!
Thank you so much!!!
I just throw this into the direction of TE: your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
Wise words
@@themattschulz3984 - Ian Malcom, Jurassic Park
@@APMTenants Yes
My hands are cramping just watching you
It can be quite a challenge
Excuse me, I'll be looking for my subwoofer that careened across the floor while the intro was playing.
When the triangle wave hits different
@@AudioPilz
It's okay, Woofie. It's okay. The big mean triangles are gone!
My sub weighs 22kg, and somehow it's now upsidedown?
For Papa Smurf that is a full sized mixer though
Interesting way to see it
@@AudioPilz I am a TE fan but this one cracks me up.
But imagine him handling the huge output cable 😂
@@Musikkeller-Innsider Lol that would take the entire village of smurfs working together similar to how to heads on easter island were moved.
I missed your gig at Klangfarbe today :/ I even had some certified bad gear on me.
Hope you had a nice time!
All great, still there;)
Could be useful for a live rig, to submix a couple boutique line modules. Fits in a pocket, a good quality for keyboardist who is carrying full car of gear already
@audiopilz , Teenage Engineering came out of the Audio Department of DICE (we did the Battlefield games, Mirror's Edge, Medal Of Honor, but I digress), where the Head of Audio at the time used to work at Elektron beforehand. I worked with all of them, back then since I was part of DICE Audio. Today the previous head of audio is CEO/GM whatever at Teenage Engineering. The others work at Embark, and then there is me.
Synthwise: Elektron ESI - DICE - TE
Great insight, thanks!!!
I really appreciate the use of the Korg Monotron in Jam 2 :)
😀😀😀 thanks!!!
If I recall correctly, Van Halen used it on one song decades ago.
Absolut geil...Ich liebe den Sarkasmus und die versteckte Ironie und die Kurzweiligkeit...und natürlich die Infos und den Sound.....
Vielen herzlichen Dank!!!
Yes Florian, TE is serious about both their bottoms and lines.
😂😂😂
Ohhh, boy.
The second jam took me by surprise, I didn't think this thing would work without a succulent in the shot.
Bad gear always gets me excited cuz I know it’s almost the weekend. 😊
Have a nice one!!!
I spent some time really looking in to potential manufacturing cost of some of their stuff, and can genuinly say they have the highest markup of anything ever
I just sold mine and bought 1000 cans of Gösser Radler instead.
Prost!!!
was will mit mit so einem iso getränk?
@@Keckegenkaies trinken vermutlich. Wieso, was machst du denn mit deinen getränken? 😟
Yep...and the Rädler will probably result in more interesting ideas than this thing. Or cirrhosis. For me, I'll go for a case of of Old Rip van Winkel 10-year (I like the limestone notes...terrior, y'know) and still have $ left for a good steak.
Having said this, TE will probably now come up with a line of whisky flasks with built-in sequencers. Only $799!
@6:10 you almost killed me with that zoom I was already zoomed in on that 'work' with the zoom function on my mbp 😂
It's so small actually makes the Roland S-1 seem normal. 05:53
Total respect for getting those amazing jams out of it! The price, and those knobs’ similarity to “Knurlies” actually make it a gateway device to Eurorack modular!!
For that price, just buy all of the compact Roland AIRA Volcas and chain them together with aux in and midi clock sync. No mixer needed!
True that!
Include four S-1s and an RK midi box for 4-note analog polyphony.
The zoom in at the duct tape wrapped cables at 6:07 just sent me lmao
I never believed you‘d pull off the intro on a TX-6
There is no other way
Happy Friday AudioPilz
Have a great weekend too!
no matter how bad the gear I can always count on the final jam being an absolute banger 🔥
Thank you!!!
It sounds pretty good and especially drums are perfectly snappy through the compressor. Wish it was at least half the price, now it’s more a designer piece than a workhorse it should be
Compressor is tight!
This thing is so small, you will need velcro to keep it from sliding around the desk.
That can indeed be an issue here
@@AudioPilz Tiny Gear issues.
@@AudioPilz No! Its not an issue at all. I saw four little nails included in the box, suggesting how to solve the potential problems, hmm.. maybe I saw them in another box 🤔
No problem. This is so small that the surface tension of a drop of water holds it in place.
Who needs a desk?
Hey! I wanna thank you and your channel for giving so much good vibes all the time. Synth and the yt musicians and producer community has become my love. Sharing passion for great technology and of course - music! Thanks for super entertaining tracks and reviews! Theres so much gear to check all the boxes!
Please show all those images for a little longer
Thank you for the feedback!!!
"Stylistically-confident well-off audio jet-setters" This channel just never misses... bravo
Thank you so much!!!
@@AudioPilz :D
This mixer needed to be just a touch larger for live contexts but the sound quality and flexibility is solid. This will never leave my live rig.
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I literally had to squint my eyes to see how small that thing was
Well done TE. The king of bad gear.
Are we going to get an episode on the Sy-77/99 someday? I don't really want the price to skyrocket, but they are so cool (and difficult to use sometimes😄).
I Have a SY77 but the sounds are kind of broken. So I now use it as a random glitch machine. 😊
Great suggestion, thanks!!!
Well I love it as a pocket mixer that is battery powered and I can bring anywhere an use with small synths.. I use it with OP-1, roland mc101, tr6-S, yamaha reface cp and novatiin circuit. To have a small mixer with 6 stereo channels or 12 mono is a must for small setups or on the move. Just love it.
With the Rabbit R1 collab (and everything that has been happening around it) you can get an idea of what kind of company is TE 😓
A very profitable one
Who really doesn't care for the end customers
@@AudioPilz they made 120,000 - (I think euros) in 2022 at a 5% profit margin (2.4m rev.). With 50-200 staff they are not rolling about in Jaguars just yet.
@@AudioPilz the reason their profits are so low is because they are putting it all straight back into rnd. The profit figure is token and not significant as profits are unused money and therefore waste so must be maid into big pay cheques or put into Swiss holding account to hide it.
@@AudioPilz You could close down the rnd dept and place those costs under profit to raise the value of the company to idiot investors who can't see the company is being gutted and not grown.
It always surprises and amazes me that you can make such awesome jams with equipment that seems so infuriating to use!
Thanks!!!
Oh lord he droppin a video on TE, have some mercy. With the right reverb.
😂😂😂
He made a video on the OP1 and the OPz before
@@eightcoins4401 precisely why i ditched porn when this came out.
I asked three times and it finally happened! Thanks for being awesome!
the stock footage jam was amazing haha
Thank you!!!
Bro, the full. Track blew. Me away. Wizardry 100%. Hats down
Thank you!!!
Why? why why why? these designs are just getting more and more ridiculous.
They do
Best review ever. The micro mini synth pholosophy is anti human and promotes frustration.
We need a review of the Field Table! Looking forward to the intro!
Samples of me smashing it
@@AudioPilz I have yet to see a review about that table anywhere. Do it. It would be smashing!
Percussion sample. :D
Great converters in that tiny box and lots of cool features on a portable interface. I’ve already heard film guys love the tx-6 and cm-15 mic
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You cant do a DAWless jam with that - thats a DAW
Mind. Blown.
People that say they are doing a DAWless jam are my favorite lmao
@@AudioPilznice to see the real GOAT came out to play #iheartmyBSP 😂😂
I think this thing is pretty awesome. Expensive yes, but the tiny footprint is really pretty cool.
Wouldn't touch any Teenage Engineering gear with a 6-foot long barge-pole even if it was given to me free
Lmao suuuuure 🤣
What a dumb thing to say.
@@jeltoninc.8542 I stand by my original statement, personally I think their gear is over-priced junk
That was wonderful. I honestly had no idea the little mixer even did any of the stuff you demonstrated. The audio demos were luscious.
Perhaps they thought that if it's soooo small dust wouldn't be Able to get into the sliders? :)
Like, on a molecular level?
Every time TE hits Peak Goober, they do something even more inane. It's almost impressive.
Absolutely impressive!!!
This thing looks like such a pain to use.
It is
This is the only channel that requires hummingbird focus and reflexes, making me pause and rewind so much as to not miss any memes or details. I don't mind, because if I'm putting the work to watch, I know this guy painstakingly put in all that work in editing. 😅
So much Tennage Engineering stuff souns great but the Apple aesthetic and close to Apple prices pushes me away...
Close to Apple? I think we're deep in apple territory
@@AudioPilz I'm a Behringer fan, they made this addiction slightly affordable, was trying to be diplomatic, but yeah...
TE is amazingly good at making things that simultaneously make you want them and feel like an idiot for wanting them
For that price surely they could make it at a functional size that ordinary human fingers could use instead of tiny elven hipster digits ...but hey! What's functionality when you're all about ridiculous design statements & exorbitant prices
Hey, I have tiny Microkorg hands and I was REALLY struggling
Love seeing the Monotron Delay in use🎉❤ I'm always looking for excuses to utilize it and its filthy delay
Great little piece of kit
Ah yes, our favourite overpriced Chinese toy brand is back at it! Not even Roland AD 2024 can beat them!!!
TE is like Behringer with Jony Ive as head designer, half the price being his salary
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You nailed it with the video for the final jam. Yes! 🙌🙌🙌
Thank you!!!
boom 1st. (edit 2nd). 😅
Pro tip: Type less, send only ❤
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@@njdpdv 😂👍
Really cool take on the intro theme. Can't believe TE thought they would actually sell any of these.
I think they might sell several.
Thank you!!!
Don't forget you're going to need to pay a couple thousand dollars for the high end rework station and microscope you'll need when you have to replace a worn out fader in a few years. I don't care how good your soldering skills are - nobody's going to have much luck blowing hot air in a thing that small with a $50 (or even $500) Hakko.
I just checked and a Pace MBT360 is just over $2150 ("new low price!")
Your jams are always sooooo good! Wish you released them on youtube or spotify! Would love to fill my playlist with them!!
Thank you so much!!! Shameless plug: full tracks can be found on Patreon
I could never turn those knobs with my fingers. It would be better if they had a screwdriver slot in the top.
I had the TX6 for about a month then sold it and got a BASTL BESTIE instead. When I had the TX6, I got a knife and shaved down the sides of my cables so they would fit in there. It worked and was a lot cheaper than buying TE branded audio cables.
3:03 That would be pretty badass if Richie Hawtin and Allen & Heath and TE all got together and made a little Model 1 mixer that was only as wide as a DB25 connector, and it had two stacked on the back, and if you get two you can snap them together and they link cue/mix busses.
I’d be up to that!!!
When I've seen some review on TX-6, I've thought "it's a joke!" So I've quickly forgot about it.
I personally love this thing, the tininess lets me load up a TP7, OP1F, this, into an expensive but highly fashionable Fjallraven backpack so when I am drinking my craft PAs at the local brewery I am still able to make a tune, or at least record some semblance of a tune without looking like I am an ableton user in a coffee shop on my macbook. Kudos for that. I am not a good enough photographer/videographer otherwise I'd be making tiktok instagram bangers that get me tons of likes while I ask my rabbit r1 how many likes I'm receiving Jokes aside, it's an invariably useful tool, and I do not think just for musicians, but for podcasters, streamers and other cool people. I think TE have reached a different market other than the hobbyist synth user who spends $5000 on a Moog product(posthumous Bob Moog) vs a behriniger due to their high values and morals. Now how to stream 12 mono bad gear videos at the same time with the TX6? I need help Florian!
Bad Gear surround!!!
@@AudioPilz Yes! 12 point surround...of every different intro piece with each piece of gear you've used...the madness? or the beauty of the art?
I mean, how cool is it that you can have TX-6, TP-7 and 3-4 x CM-15 and you basically have a portable podcast studio you can easily fit in you backpack. Add a computer and 1-2 cameras and you have portable live stream setup. It will cost as much as a house, but it is possible.
If I use TE gear, maybe it can end up in a museum. Indiana Jones would approve.
Where are you finding these houses?! are they tiny too!? homes for antS?! :)
Holy crap! Despite being a TE product customer, I had zero interest in the TX-6, I wrote it off as one of their overly expensive nice-to-have gadgets, and probably wouldn't have entertained a review of it from almost anyone. But I'm so glad I saw your video because I think you're right, this "abonmination" is def the future of where music gadget designery is headed. And it just may make sense at that price if they can get it closer to their POs. I'm always thinking that for sample playback I could use literally ANY computer device, but then when it's time to hook one one up for a mobile setup, I do have to invest time in setting up something to work - but built in to the mixer makes a ton of sense for if I was gonna do small live gigs w just me, my Roland JD-XA, and a TC Helicon voice processor (and mic). I own the RME Babyface for >10 years and while I wouldn't gig with it, it's been hella reliable.
I’m sorry you had to go through that. That device may be an important tool for somebody, but that is not likely to ever enter any setup I’ll be working w/ anytime soon.
Looks like something on the shelf, behind the counter at Urban Outfitters. Then you ask how much it is, and go ; "Oh, i see, nevermind.."
At that point I usually say "I don't like the colour".
Just seeing you deal with those tiny controls and screen made me feel exhausted. However, yet another few great pieces of music, especially the second jam and the final track.
Well the unusual take on the little intro tune is amazing for sure!
Thank you!!!
Darn, that All TX-6 Muzak track is slick af and one of the best you've done man.
Thank you!!!
"Noooo!!! Don't trust it, t's a fake. A montage !"
Well, I feel you very inspired for this one, and lots of fun for me! Thanks
Love Roland
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