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I’m a simple guy.
-I hear “wanna see something cool”
-I watch
-I see something cool
-I like
I appreciate you :)
I get asked if I want to see something cool and then I get shown something cool.
Id rate it a solid Pretty cool / Something cool.
Thank you for these videos
and that's pretty cool
Same! Except I often don't understand the cool thing, but it is cool.
Soggy pillows, the wet spot I won't sleep on.
seems even in the more digital days of audio, the old "the fuck is that hum coming from" never leaves us
Oh yes. Really big fun happens when you've got a lot of analogue gear nailed to a PC with a sound better than most recording studio ones.
Step 1 is making sure you don't have any powerline ethernet devices (that took me longer than I would prefer to figure out)
Gotta love dirty power, it'll really send you for a (ground) loop!
@@oddball_the_blue The fun starts when you add a bit of kit and the hum doubles, add another and it disappears, remove a third and it come back louder. Phase cancellation can be a bitch.
As a guitarist using high gain while recording, i had to angle my self in specific directions to not pickup 60 cycle hum coming from the shitty insulated walls😂
How the fuck did you post 12 hours ago when the video is only 1 hour old?
"THE F*CK IS THAT HUM _COMING_ FROM"
sir please this is my daily, i have a mixer 😭
three words: ground. loop. isolator. you can put them inline to your signal with a little box and a cable tail and they'll make that 60 cycle into sweet, sweet silence with one button press.
Been AV technician for 15 years.... Even video could hum back in the analog days....
Ah 'the fuck is that hum coming from? ' I felt that deep deep in my soul ❤❤
I work with old electro-audio equipment, and that line hits hard
Thats me everyday. Where is it???!
Memories of my first home recording station, circa 2003
“The fuck is that hum coming from?” In my case… usually a feedback loop somewhere due to poor grounding.. 😅 attach a VGA Cable from the Computer to the TV usually fixes the irritating Hum of having 3 Bedroom stereos (record player/BT/Radio/Tapedeck box, 2005 Bookshelf Stereo with Bose two 12x9’s added, and a Mini Office Stereo) Daisy-Chained to output as one… 🤣🤣🤣
I got lots of Output hum… but still.. that VGA fixes the issue, especially when playing music through Winamp on the PC. Lmfao 🤣
The battle goes on, trust me.
God i fucking love this dude, no matter when im scrolling, or how im feeling, whenever he pops up i know its gonna be a good use of time, i always learn something, and thats pretty cool!
He gets my vote… so refreshing to hear someone who wants to swear just DOOO IT!!!!!!!!
"This caused high frequencies to roll off like an enthusiastic groupie biting a pillow"
This man's dirty jokes are brilliant 😂
Do I want to know?
@logond277 I'll explain when you're older
New specimen found! Innocent being! I shall name you, @@logond277
@@logond277 dw i dont get it either and im well in the age group to know, and im not exactly innocent either
Bitting a pillow if I had to hazard a guess is probably euphemism for being the bottom in some style of from behind sexual activity
An energetic groupie wpuld likely be very excited to be having sex with their music idol.
If its not a dirty joke and meant to be taken litterly, then it its just like someone screaming into their pillow because the band they like dropped like a single or something
Heavy “help me step bro” vibes with this one
Oh i understood that ref! Shame me! 😂
We got the zesty ahh “help me I’m stuck” cutaway today. Better luck next time.
Im stuck in the 8 track player 😂
Thats some zesty shit
GYAAAAAAAT
I’ve been an audio engineer for a few years (becoming an electrician now) and I love old analog equipment. I love how it feels over digital. Digital is more practical, but analog is a lot more fun to play with
I think this encapsulates how I feel about analog vs digital. I don't have room for records, I don't even have room for CDs. I have room for tapes, but not the equipment (and I don't think cassettes are retro enough to have a resurgence like records have). But I have a connection to the Internet, and all music is there, especially the new stuff (it's free to upload to TH-cam/SoundCloud).
Besides all analog audio storage degrades over time, so while digital might not be as high of a quality, it won't get any worse over time as long as you still have the file.
@@blehbleh8552how do you have the room for tapes but not CDs when tapes are bigger? Also cassette tapes have been around since 1963, they're pretty retro. And the physical music does degrade over time if you care for it right it will last. We have records from the 1920s and some from even before. I have a strong feeling that we will not be listening to the same digital music 100 years from now
Sounds "Better" too. not cleaner, but the adds the pleasant distortion that creates a warmth and tone that is not in digital. plus if its old tube gear and depending on how much you have it helps keep you warm too lol
The "ferrous" wheel pun is perfect. I had to go back to make sure that I heard/read correctly.
Me too bro!
made me doubt whether or not I knew how to actually spell "ferris wheel"!
Except that those wheels were aluminuminuminum. ;)
Ferrous would also magnetize and do really bad things to one's recording.
The funny thing is, I used to work on all of that stuff, consumer electronics mostly, all to component level.
While the industrial and computer guys replaced boards, I was busily fixing the boards, frequently on site.
@@spvillanothe tape is ferrous
"Where DaFuk is that hum coming from?!?!?"
That gave me flashbacks.
I'm a philosophy major that plays bass... Wasnt expecting to get called out at 5am on youtube
Shouldn't you be practicing?
The "where the fuck is that hum coming from?" bit had me dying... so real... so traumatising...
Demag, Q-tips with isopropyl alcohol for cleaning heads & dirty capstans and pinch rollers. Winding my own 8-track carts. Razor editing! Yippee!
Hated when I found a tiny crack filled with brown gunk!
Gotta keep her crack clean, lest one lose one's joy for life and her sweet music!
Fiziks are Phun, Phulcs!!
"Translate to English"
;-)
The hum is just something i never got rid of until recently on my reel to reel, and now that it's "missing", the music feels like its "missing" something
Like getting rid of the piercing static on old crt tvs. Just isn't the same without that background noise
Perhaps there's a way to just attenuate the noise somewhat instead of fully deleting it?
One of my favorite VSTs is a tape delay simulation, with both authenitic hum and hiss emulations , which along with the tape saturation and wow and flutter emulations really sells things
@@crestothegecko6279 I used to silence noisy coils and flybacks with toothpicks wedged between coil and core.
Hum was either a bad filter cap or a bad ground, usually.
Same with cassette tape hiss. Noise reduction is great and all but listening to digital music and not hearing that white noise in the silence between songs makes it feel like the music is missing a piece.
Almost 100 years and we still can't find that goddamn hum.
I damn near died laughing.
Thank you.
Love these shorts. The jokes are hilarious.
I'm addicted to your videos. hope it helps these future generations to be able to have interests in shit they don't know.
The puns over puns over actual educational stuff is what made my ESL (English second language) ass to watch this short three times. And that's pretty cool!
Don’t worry, even English only plebs like myself go “What?? What did he sayyyyyy???” ⏪⏪
Thanks for the flashbacks! Loved my reels! "the fuck is that hum coming from" was always a universal truth.
I have never felt ‘where the fuck is that hum coming from’ so hard
Growing up in the 80's we had a demaginitizing cassette tape. Sucker was heavy as shit and made all of metal.
As someone learning the dark arts of music production, it's cool to see old school equipment like that.
I LOVE YOUR CONTENT SO MUCH DONT EVER STOP!!! I love the videos so much, you are a book of knowledge and inspiration!!!
this guy always deserves a like
could you maybe make more in depth videos into the things you show off? Would love to learn more about that demagnetizer
Keep an eye on my Classroom Appropriate channel and you will! It's going to be in the next episode! th-cam.com/video/3G9jjOs1M20/w-d-xo.html
@ oh shit didn't know you had a second channel! thx man
maybe make a quick short telling people about it?
@@ovencake523He has, more than once. You probably missed them.
Yep old enough to know about. Where that hum coming from. But now think it was just practice for the humming in my ears now. 😁👍
Absolutely love his narration. Makes learning fun and interesting
FYI, magnetic tapes are still used today for archiving, since the cost per TB is significantly lower than hard drives and they can hold data pretty well as long as you store them properly.
We used to use VHS tape, and a dual deck VCR for archiving audio programming, Wired in the stop and and record buttons to a relay so we could use sub audible automation tones to trigger it
up to 25-30 years if kept in constant humidity and temp, got some lto 5 myself good stuff and cheap, tho the drives/readers are costly but not to bad as they have long lifetime
Just know every time this man says "wanna see something cool" the answer is ALWAYS YES!!!!
As a automotive engineer and building cars as my hobby I can confirm the “where the fuck is that hum coming from” while flipped around when the lights are down balls deep in whatever application you’re working on absolutely touches every nanometer of my soul
DAMN, I'M EARLY!
Also, "the fuck is that hum coming from?" Definitely got a laugh outta me.
Can I just say I love your videos, the passion, creativity and knowledge you spread genuinely does the world good. Keep them up, and have a wonderful new year!
Dude, i love learning about all this stuff from you and your channel
...ashamed i can't do any of it because of my pacemaker. if i even look at an electromagnet wrong, it's a very bad day and an expensive trip to the ER.
Even though its unplugged, seeing you wave that demagnetizer haphazardly is giving me severe anxiety.
My brain is overloaded with these fast pace jokes ! LOVE IT
Thats pretty cool! Wow! You keep me wanting to know more about stuff you post! Thank you for the time you spend doing these videos
this short gives me 'Greatest technician that's ever lived' vibes and im all for it.
your prose is fu@king gold sir.
This guy should be a rapper or something he’s got more skills than a lot of people
I watched some of your other videos, they helped me evolve my dream to the next step I want to help people learn like you, but about auto mechanics and build race ready factory cars, with technology for only racing and safety. You being in technology that teaches people like me makes me want to get into it even more for helping people find a passion they didn’t know was super interesting. Helping people that want to learn and do better is the best feeling and no matter what I’ll be the number one fan watching every video and helping without setting myself on fire to keep others warm.
These are written so amazingly well...
This channel is incredibly entertaining 😂
The bass player comment hit me in my soul, I feel called out wtf😂😂😂😂😂😂 You are amazing
That poem was pure bliss! Never fails to disappoint me you scoundrel!
The fuck is that hum coming from? It's the best I've heard in years. I needed that laugh
Love the audio tech content!
Because SCIENCE! lol love your channel keep em coming.
This guy is like the greatest technician that ever lived if he owned a power plant😂
"The "bleep" is that hum coming from?" Cracked me up. Lord knows how many times at work I have to play "Find the weird hum/sound" game.
Yo, he spelled physics in German 🔥🔥🔥👏🏾
CAKE!!! Didn't expect the cake.
What you explained in this short is so awesome that “that’s pretty cool”
"the fuck is that hum coming from" has consumed days of my life
i actually had a Friend "Bass Player" that really commuted w Timothy leary in the 90s. Timothy was the lead singers "Godfather". not joking. Paul Barker of ministry was mentioned player... cheers
“The fuck is that hum coming from?!?” perfectly describes my hundreds of hours as a one-man tech crew for a moderate sized theater…
Everywhere as it turns out, you can even hear the stage lights!
And that’s almost as fun as the cardboard boxes of stuff, long forgotten within the bottom of the audio rack, glued to the linoleum through time itself …blocking the cooling fan for the amp, lol
i love all my analog audio equipment. he floored me with "the fuck is that hum coming from???" and "phun with fiziks"
That hard hat in the background brings back memories. Most of my uncles and my dad worked in telecom most of their lives. My uncle knew all the service passages around the Missouri state Capitol building. My mom was also a telephone cable splicer back during the 70s/80s in Texas with my dad. I haven't seen anything with that logo in forever.
I’m just a hair young to remember reel-to-reel, but I am now an audio engineer myself and love some of those effects of tape. Never knew any of this though, and I gotta say, that’s pretty cool.
“ … is that hum coming from” caused an instant flashback! Lol
I absolutely loved all the jokes and references this video top notched
Your TH-cam channel is a bright spot in my dark days. Twelve thumbs up.
I think I learned more about historical pop culture than electronics in this one, nicely done!
Physicsduck will forever and always be like my go to besides top gear to get that sweet sweet informative humor. Its S tier. I dont think anyone else can teach me what this man does in the same impossibly funny way.
I love the way that tape machines (specifically the shoebox recorders) combine mechanical and electronic parts to make music, it’s so beautiful and fascinating. About a year ago back I bought several at goodwill and took apart and attempted to restore them. By the end I was pretty good and had some more sick vintage audio gear. ts was fun asl and kinda got me into this dope world of electronics and mechanical stuff and like this corner of TH-cam rabbit holes. It’s so cool and weirdly intuitive
i fix up vintage music gear for a living and also love you so this is really cool:)
Im glad i stumbled on this content at 3 am, the coolest stuff ive watched
Dude the nonstop puns make this so much more enjoyable.
You my friend are hilarious while being informative!! You’ve earned a subscriber lol
This is by far one of the coolest and funniest channels on TH-cam I'm surprised you aren't on the education side of TH-cam
Came for the knowledge, coming back again for the funzies
It is always so wonderful to hear his classic "Wanna see something cool??" Because I know for a fact that it's either gonna be absolutely incredible, some really good knowledge, or some goofy shit that's gonna make me laugh. I love you Physicsduck, YOU'RE Pretty cool :)
Can’t believe I’m just finding this guy now. Best content since vsauce
That bass player comment is a personal attack. 😂
Wanna see something cool, gets me every time. YES !! Please !!
The sheer qualitative and quantitative density of jokes on these videos is veritably enviable
I fucking love you dude
You are the best this is the niche info I crave constantly
Dude you are funny as hell, love to doom scroll and learn. you stop me every time, i mess with ev builds and i learn something new every time. Keep it up man love your content.
The first vid I ever saw of you a long time ago was about reel to reels. If I remember correctly it was about using a reel to reel so you could making music with people without being in the same room. Nice stuff.Good to see that you are stil mucking about with these machines.
Thought we were going to get a burst of Cat Stevens there for a sec.
Calling magnetic tape rolls ferrous wheels is the level of factual absurdity i aspire to have one day.
“THE FUCK IS THAT HUM COMING FROM?!?” Nearly killed me😂😂😂
Degaussing wand, used to be used to degauss TV picture tubes... (remember those?? )
I fucking love tech dad
never thought I'd get physicsduck crossed with tape machines, two of my algorithmic monoliths. I'm fucking HERE for it
>"ferrous" wheel
Absolutely phenomenal sir 👏
Bruh...i feel the "the fuck is that hum coming from?" on a primal level.
Background for those, who didn't ask:
For YEARS i have been plagued with EMI noises on my PC. Hums, high pitched noises, you name it.
Had a few sound cards, UNTIL I found out, that it's my USB-ports...
Yeah, what's that? That shouldn't happen? It's all digital?
Tell that to my USB-Ports.
Plugging things into the ports made it worse.
Changed hardware over the years, basically everything, like PSU, Mainboard, CPU, Case, GPU, whatever, but it persisted.
So most manufacturers seem to not give a damn about grounding correctly.
Solution was to get a TOSLINK DAC, so i could de-couple everything from my PC.
It is still there, if I turn everything up to max, but the setup is so good, it is happy -and loud- at 25% power.
So much for a "useless standard", you TOSLINK haters!
I am now using a Schiit Audio (yes, that's their name) Modi DAC and Asgard Amp and I am happy ever since ^^
Something about analog audio equipment gets me all tingly inside lol it may be the magnet trying to rip the coins out but it feels nice.
"Ferrous wheels". I'm so gonna steal that. 😂
aaaaand it’s everywhere
God, I'd love to see you cover the physics of Minidisc and how it's a megneto-optical format. Really interesting middle ground between CD and other formats
whenever i come on shorts and i hear "Wanna see something cool?!" in what can only be explained the most enthusiastic tone, i know im bound to learn something that i may never need to know, but will have stapled to the back of my mind.
The philosophy major bass player bit got me. Dead to rights.
That thing is bringing back memories. I went to college to learn recording back in the late 80’s and had to “de-gauss” the decks every month.
I love how you even managed to sneak a Leary reference into it itching that side of my brain 😂😂
Lmfao the fun with physics subtitles I'm dead lmfaoooo
The search for the hum got me a treat. 😂😂😂
Its also really cool that these ferrous wheels are the audio in audio animatronics
"TF THAT HUUM COMING FROM !!!"
I felt that to my core, omg that's my absolute pet peeves with slight minor inconvenience with audio settings 😂😂
Can I use that to degauss my transporter pads?🖖🏻