HEY! Get back to your own channel! :D - Bet you're disappointed it's not Sylvia responding, hahah. But in all honesty I could say the same thing to you. Thanks for all the inspiration, Ryan!
One time I connected an incandescent light bulb to the audio output of a stereo (we were trying to synchronize lighting with music for a Halloween display on a budget. It worked surprisingly well). When we tested it with no speakers hooked up you could actually faintly hear the music coming from the bulb itself.
As a teen with a kickin stereo in the late 80s I hooked up an old set of 12v fog lights to the 2nd set of speaker outputs and started playing some Danzig... Wow... that was pretty cool for lil ole me back then XD kept blowing fuses in the amp but it was worth it, techno was fun as well!
Yep, that's what one would expect. May not be the best thing for the stereo because the impedance of the bulb would be highly nonlinear (and not in the way that a speaker's impedance is nonlinear) but yes, you'd expect to be able to hear some sound coming directly from the bulb (hint: the filament is coiled - actually, it's a coiled coil).
as a fun trivia note... older and some current PA speaker crossovers actually use incandecent or neon bulbs as over current limiting and protection.. so when you are driving them hard, they start lighting up to bleed off the excess energy.. it's kind of like a fuse but doesn't blow (well, eventually perhaps under extreme conditions, lol).
A few people asking what’s going-on. The bulb is a variable resistor: its resistance increases as it gets hotter, and it gets hotter with a louder signal. The result is audio compression, and it’s really, really nice.
The real question is series or parallel and what's after the lightbulb in the circuit? I'm assuming parallel and then feeding another speaker that is mic'ed or a direct box? And then mixed for taste. I went looking for more info after hearing about this on sure's signal path podcast.
That's true for a standard filament bulbs. Absolutely not for a fluorescent one wich is, basically, a neon tube folded on itself with the electronics in the bottom.
Wait wait wait ...Please explain better ..because I don't see anything mic'ed nor cables going out of that fluorescent lamp !! I am really confused about where the bulb signal is going ! Now i feel so dumb about it !!
She's really compelling because besides having a nice voice, she's talking about something she loves and her enthusiasm is contagious. It would be a whole lot of fun to make a record with her.
im completely blown away , i need to start reading more books to learn more about this. that is really awesome thank you so much for sharing this video.
She has ALL THE TOOLS WE DREAM OF... she experiments like a kid that only dreams of having that gear. True artist. Everytime I see her doing her thing, I feel so inspired. A true testament that gear is only a tool. Fucking beast... She even does things that dont make the mix. Doesnt matter, it's the attitude behind always trying something new... Damn... Shes the best
I love that you are sharing the excitement of invention! I have no doubt it will soak into the recording. I also love seeing the HH V800 power amp because I use it's little brother, the V500, for bass guitar. Fat-sounding MOSFETs, giant transformer and an indestructible chassis. HIWATT-like craftsmanship.
Ich habe in 40 Jahren Audio schon viel gehört und erlebt, dass war hier aber mal sehr beeindruckend, wie ein Gitarrist von einem Raum in den anderen "spielend geht", um zum Schluß ein starkes "Feedback" zu haben...smile Das geht aber auch noch anders! Beste Grüße, Horst Lemke, Musikproduzent & Studiogitarrist, Germany
I love the tone and all, but I don’t understand how or if the light bulb was actually affecting the tone. You still have speakers and they were mic’d up,
The light bulb acts as a natural compressor for the signal, they recorded the signal mic'd from the JC80 but the signal coming through the second amp and the light bulb was most likely DI and overdubbed for a sweet effect
Unbearably cool! Reminds me of when I read about David Gilmour and Allan Holdsworth who would mic an amp, send the mic signal into another amp then put that into an iso box and mic that to the board. Some of the coolest, most dangerous sounding tones ever produced. This is a great tone I'm hearing also!
I am thinking the same thing, Brad. I mean, you can run the output of an amp into any resistive load....but how in the fuck is it changing the tone of one amp, through another amp upstream of the signal. Things just don’t work like that. The transformers, transistors, resistors, coupling caps....THATS NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS.
I'm an audio engineer and guitar player and we used to have some guitar and bass cab's in the studio with lightbulbs wired off the last speaker inside the cabinet as to provide a dampening of resistance to cabinet so we didn't blow up the speakers when we recorded the guitar at high volumes. It was cool bc the cabinet started to light up on the inside behind the speakers while we were playing LOUD. It was like the ET heart in his chest lol. What I am trying to figure out here is post amp and into the lightbulb, she doesn't explain if it goes into a cabinet? So I am curious as to how the signal from the lightbulb gets turned over to an audio signal? Not sure if she meant to say that the lightbulb was in-line before a cabinet? Anyway, great stuff! LOVE SYLVIA!!! @Sylvia Massy
OK, I figured it out, the lightbulb "becomes" a secondary source for audio. So she comes out of the line out of the main amp, into (and ONLY into), a SS power amp input, the speaker output of that amp is used with an audio connector like a jumbo 1/4" or a banana, with like a 12ga or 10ga (2) conductor speaker wire, and on the other end is a female electrical connector that a small light is plugged into. So basically an ex-cord with an audio connector on one end. The audio signal from the amp provides the lightbulb just enough wattage to light it up AND make it act as a resistor type speaker so sound comes out of the lightbulb! She then mics up the lightbulb and it sounds all brown and fuzzy. GENIUS!!!
@@themotocrossmodchannelWulfMX the bulb itself has a mic next to it?? Would have thought the level would be so low that the main amp would down it out? Is it possible that she put it into a re-amp box or DI then into the desk?
@@DanHomeAtLast it looks like she did mic up the lightbulb and mixed it in with the other amp signal. I found another video of this where the amp was in another room where you can hear it better, I will find it and post the link
@@themotocrossmodchannelWulfMX sorry sounded so dumb what I said as the bulb won't have any sound lol. I'm guessing one could well send the signal into the desk for arguments sake; if an amp is say 50w and the bulb is similar you would have a low current but could still be too hot. You could try the line out signal and run it thru a low current led and then into the desk? Providing the line out has some guts She's using a florescent which are typically about 10w so the signal would need to go to a cab, especially from that hh its packing some balls
@@DanHomeAtLast I think the reason why she had the light bulb near the amp is so they work off each other...so the light does have audio coming off it lol, crazy, she also used a potato as an amp filter! Out of the amp, bare wires into a potato, then into a cab lol
And I thought I was the only one who tried crazy things when recording. Sylvia you’re one person I’d love to meet, pity we live on opposite sides of the Atlantic.
so the guitar goes into the roland and then the direct out goes into an amp which goes into the lightbulb and then? there's some essential information missing :( i once had some community csx boxes with a build in bulb to function as a limiter/compressor before the controller limiter would come. the pure essence of power compression
i came up with this idea too last year but got too busy with house renos and family life .. i don't own a studio like yours.. glad to see it work . my first thought is .. why not use an incandescent bulb? so simple and less junk to run through .. all the others have extra junk to make it work but the incandescent is just power to filament. i would think this would be easier to use. i'm gonna try it . .i got some vintage style bulbs with nice wires. :) cheers.. (gonna sing through it and maybe try 48v phantom power to kick it up.)
Oh wonderful, that is one zombie killing note right off the first lightbulb shot, had my speakers up, an' my old deaf ear is ringing home for mama :) The rest of me survived though, because I am not a zombie..... yet... :P
How is the sound from the bulb impacting the sound coming out of the JC and into the microphone? It’s a separate load from the JC speaker being recorded.
Late reply here, but it doesn't. The mic on the JC80 is most-likely being used as a 'dry' signal which is given its own track in the mix to tie back in the dry or normal sound of the guitar on its own. The signal going out of the speaker-out output on the JC80, into the second amp, and through the lightbulb is probably being used DI (direct in) with their recording interface- where its recorded on its own track. From there, they can adjust the volume of each track (the normal JC80 track and the lightbulb DI track) to find the right mix for the sound they're looking for in the solo. Hope this helps!
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Imagine a massive ambience track with the feedback
I would like to see a diagram of this setup. I don't see how the sound from the guitar amp would be effected. Is the output of the power amp connected to the light bulb and an other speaker?
She speaks so softly for someone who has producer and engineered some of the biggest, loudest rock records in the last 30 or so years haha.
imma bouta record the raunchiest most nasty guitar solo you ever heard and im gonna narrate it like a bedtime story
The quietest people scream the loudest at night
@@projectz975 Yup, Sylvia Massy is really cute. I guess she would be great to hang out with after a bad week! :)
Weed
Sylvia listen. You’re too cool for this world.
That sounds like a threat.
"We took the output of this guitar and put it into this cup of yogurt..." Gotta LOVE out of the box thinking!
It's in the cup thinki... nvm
"It gets wronger" lol
Everything she tells you is a secret.
So true
It's a really great sound! Thanks Sylvia for all the inspiration!
HEY! Get back to your own channel! :D - Bet you're disappointed it's not Sylvia responding, hahah. But in all honesty I could say the same thing to you. Thanks for all the inspiration, Ryan!
One time I connected an incandescent light bulb to the audio output of a stereo (we were trying to synchronize lighting with music for a Halloween display on a budget. It worked surprisingly well). When we tested it with no speakers hooked up you could actually faintly hear the music coming from the bulb itself.
As a teen with a kickin stereo in the late 80s I hooked up an old set of 12v fog lights to the 2nd set of speaker outputs and started playing some Danzig... Wow... that was pretty cool for lil ole me back then XD kept blowing fuses in the amp but it was worth it, techno was fun as well!
Yep, that's what one would expect. May not be the best thing for the stereo because the impedance of the bulb would be highly nonlinear (and not in the way that a speaker's impedance is nonlinear) but yes, you'd expect to be able to hear some sound coming directly from the bulb (hint: the filament is coiled - actually, it's a coiled coil).
as a fun trivia note... older and some current PA speaker crossovers actually use incandecent or neon bulbs as over current limiting and protection.. so when you are driving them hard, they start lighting up to bleed off the excess energy.. it's kind of like a fuse but doesn't blow (well, eventually perhaps under extreme conditions, lol).
She produced Tool’s first major album. So now she’s my hero.
A few people asking what’s going-on.
The bulb is a variable resistor: its resistance increases as it gets hotter, and it gets hotter with a louder signal.
The result is audio compression, and it’s really, really nice.
The real question is series or parallel and what's after the lightbulb in the circuit? I'm assuming parallel and then feeding another speaker that is mic'ed or a direct box? And then mixed for taste. I went looking for more info after hearing about this on sure's signal path podcast.
That's true for a standard filament bulbs. Absolutely not for a fluorescent one wich is, basically, a neon tube folded on itself with the electronics in the bottom.
Wait wait wait ...Please explain better ..because I don't see anything mic'ed nor cables going out of that fluorescent lamp !!
I am really confused about where the bulb signal is going !
Now i feel so dumb about it !!
@@dnantis fiddle around with it until you can hear the lightbulb....
Can't be the case. It's a fluorescent bulb. Has to be hooked up in parallel if anything.
I don't know how I got here, but I feel like I'm going to be here a while.
And that’s how you get a bright guitar sound
lol get out
Ahhhhhhhh
It must be so fun to work with Sylvia she’s always doing something really interesting.
Absolute genius! Sylvia you're by far the most inspiring producer/engineer i've ever seen!
Idk about yall but she's perfect for asmr. Soft spoken and explaining stuff. It's great
Really enjoying your book, Sylvia! The art is phenomenal, and the stories and technical aspects are fascinating. Big fan!
You're mental, Massy! These videos (and your book) are HUGELY creative and inspirational. I LOVE IT! :D
Sylvia has the most beautiful speaking voice. I’d love to hear her read poetry. Over to you Syl.
Sibilant Sylvia Series of Poetry?
Um, *no*
I love to hear her speak. It's like an angel :)
I agree. Her eyes are very pretty too. Then again, everyone’s beauty really comes from the inside.
She's really compelling because besides having a nice voice, she's talking about something she loves and her enthusiasm is contagious. It would be a whole lot of fun to make a record with her.
Sylvia, you are a true inspiration!
im completely blown away , i need to start reading more books to learn more about this. that is really awesome thank you so much for sharing this video.
She has ALL THE TOOLS WE DREAM OF... she experiments like a kid that only dreams of having that gear.
True artist. Everytime I see her doing her thing, I feel so inspired. A true testament that gear is only a tool. Fucking beast... She even does things that dont make the mix. Doesnt matter, it's the attitude behind always trying something new...
Damn... Shes the best
Love this women......God bless you....thanks for you music...
One time I smoked some instant decaf coffee and I went back in time. I shit you not.
what's the brand?.....it's for a friend....
Gold blend ? Or was it mellow birds? ☕️ ommmmmmmmmm
This is insane! 🤩🤩🤩
How has it taken me so long to find your videos? You are quite possibly the coolest person.
I am living for the energy she emanates
I love that you are sharing the excitement of invention! I have no doubt it will soak into the recording. I also love seeing the HH V800 power amp because I use it's little brother, the V500, for bass guitar. Fat-sounding MOSFETs, giant transformer and an indestructible chassis. HIWATT-like craftsmanship.
ASMR for musicians. I love it. I can barely keep my eyes open.
that was ultra cool. you seem like a really good person to work with. relaxing i guess great for studio time.
Man, that sounds great.
I Luv how creative You are.
Brilliant!!!
Really good sound ... awsome
How can you come up like this creative way . You are a genius
Ich habe in 40 Jahren Audio schon viel gehört und erlebt, dass war hier aber mal sehr beeindruckend, wie ein Gitarrist von einem Raum in den anderen "spielend geht", um zum Schluß ein starkes "Feedback" zu haben...smile Das geht aber auch noch anders! Beste Grüße, Horst Lemke, Musikproduzent & Studiogitarrist, Germany
Ich versteh nicht so ganz, wie das Signal in die Glühbirne und wieder raus kommt.
Kannst Du mich da bitte aufklären?
Keine weiteren Fragen mehr...smile
You’re all awesome!
Very creative idea!
I love the tone and all, but I don’t understand how or if the light bulb was actually affecting the tone. You still have speakers and they were mic’d up,
The light bulb acts as a natural compressor for the signal, they recorded the signal mic'd from the JC80 but the signal coming through the second amp and the light bulb was most likely DI and overdubbed for a sweet effect
@@robertsacks7995 that is awesome, thank you for explaining. I will have to experiment with that
that was so gnarly in the best way
Crazy, I like it!
shes so cool and seems so sweet!
Love this
Unbearably cool! Reminds me of when I read about David Gilmour and Allan Holdsworth who would mic an amp, send the mic signal into another amp then put that into an iso box and mic that to the board. Some of the coolest, most dangerous sounding tones ever produced. This is a great tone I'm hearing also!
I really cannot imagine anybody who is cooler than Sylvia Massy.
Who needs ssl comps when you have lightbulb.
Love it
Very good!
sylvia is a pearl
old V8s were loverrrllllyyyy ,,, I heard Adamski through a Mayer Pa powered by bridged V800s , it was amazing.
What?! I'm sorry... What?!
@Kamala Harris's Neck How about light bulb >guitar>bass>light bulb> back to drums> guitar?
@@heavyglassglass back to drums 😂😂😂
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basically a cheap compressor ...
I am thinking the same thing, Brad. I mean, you can run the output of an amp into any resistive load....but how in the fuck is it changing the tone of one amp, through another amp upstream of the signal. Things just don’t work like that. The transformers, transistors, resistors, coupling caps....THATS NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS.
YEAH, it’s 100% lampooning the “Mojo” of musical gear freaks.
Bella !!
awesome
Sylvia, you rule!
That was ...enlightening.
I'm an audio engineer and guitar player and we used to have some guitar and bass cab's in the studio with lightbulbs wired off the last speaker inside the cabinet as to provide a dampening of resistance to cabinet so we didn't blow up the speakers when we recorded the guitar at high volumes. It was cool bc the cabinet started to light up on the inside behind the speakers while we were playing LOUD. It was like the ET heart in his chest lol.
What I am trying to figure out here is post amp and into the lightbulb, she doesn't explain if it goes into a cabinet? So I am curious as to how the signal from the lightbulb gets turned over to an audio signal? Not sure if she meant to say that the lightbulb was in-line before a cabinet? Anyway, great stuff! LOVE SYLVIA!!! @Sylvia Massy
OK, I figured it out, the lightbulb "becomes" a secondary source for audio. So she comes out of the line out of the main amp, into (and ONLY into), a SS power amp input, the speaker output of that amp is used with an audio connector like a jumbo 1/4" or a banana, with like a 12ga or 10ga (2) conductor speaker wire, and on the other end is a female electrical connector that a small light is plugged into. So basically an ex-cord with an audio connector on one end. The audio signal from the amp provides the lightbulb just enough wattage to light it up AND make it act as a resistor type speaker so sound comes out of the lightbulb! She then mics up the lightbulb and it sounds all brown and fuzzy. GENIUS!!!
@@themotocrossmodchannelWulfMX the bulb itself has a mic next to it?? Would have thought the level would be so low that the main amp would down it out? Is it possible that she put it into a re-amp box or DI then into the desk?
@@DanHomeAtLast it looks like she did mic up the lightbulb and mixed it in with the other amp signal.
I found another video of this where the amp was in another room where you can hear it better, I will find it and post the link
@@themotocrossmodchannelWulfMX sorry sounded so dumb what I said as the bulb won't have any sound lol.
I'm guessing one could well send the signal into the desk for arguments sake; if an amp is say 50w and the bulb is similar you would have a low current but could still be too hot. You could try the line out signal and run it thru a low current led and then into the desk? Providing the line out has some guts
She's using a florescent which are typically about 10w so the signal would need to go to a cab, especially from that hh its packing some balls
@@DanHomeAtLast I think the reason why she had the light bulb near the amp is so they work off each other...so the light does have audio coming off it lol, crazy, she also used a potato as an amp filter! Out of the amp, bare wires into a potato, then into a cab lol
You make recording so fun.
So I followed the advice and plugged my fender strat into the oven. Set the temperature to 200 and now its baked playing jimi hendrix
This reminds me of plasma drive distortion from game changers audio. Grate Idea!
This sounds pretty badass, I must admit.
science in music ...........music in science,....amazing
Awesome
I wish my grandma was this cool
This is NUTS! Hopefully you can find some time to do one of your incredible diagrams!
Too much fun! I'm surprised the mic didn't grab some of that metronome when you had the door open!
And I thought I was the only one who tried crazy things when recording. Sylvia you’re one person I’d love to meet, pity we live on opposite sides of the Atlantic.
I love the idea of creating great unique sounds in the studio but I always doubt myself wondering how can I replicate that live.
so the guitar goes into the roland and then the direct out goes into an amp which goes into the lightbulb and then? there's some essential information missing :(
i once had some community csx boxes with a build in bulb to function as a limiter/compressor before the controller limiter would come. the pure essence of power compression
i came up with this idea too last year but got too busy with house renos and family life .. i don't own a studio like yours.. glad to see it work . my first thought is .. why not use an incandescent bulb? so simple and less junk to run through .. all the others have extra junk to make it work but the incandescent is just power to filament. i would think this would be easier to use. i'm gonna try it . .i got some vintage style bulbs with nice wires. :) cheers.. (gonna sing through it and maybe try 48v phantom power to kick it up.)
animal!!! Rock n' roll!
My kind of work place!!!!
Love these videos. But did I miss something here...is the bulb acting as a speaker or a load?
sweet technique
rad!
🎆🎇
2 mins after the video, I am still trying to wrap my head around this one... just staring at my monitor, wondering whatever just happened.
Sylvia the mad scientist
Oh wonderful, that is one zombie killing note right off the first lightbulb shot, had my speakers up, an' my old deaf ear is ringing home for mama :) The rest of me survived though, because I am not a zombie..... yet...
:P
How is the sound from the bulb impacting the sound coming out of the JC and into the microphone? It’s a separate load from the JC speaker being recorded.
So cool
Is that like a little ssl set up?
I guess I'm stupid but I don't get it. How does the lightbulb do anything to the sound coming out of the JC80?
Late reply here, but it doesn't. The mic on the JC80 is most-likely being used as a 'dry' signal which is given its own track in the mix to tie back in the dry or normal sound of the guitar on its own. The signal going out of the speaker-out output on the JC80, into the second amp, and through the lightbulb is probably being used DI (direct in) with their recording interface- where its recorded on its own track.
From there, they can adjust the volume of each track (the normal JC80 track and the lightbulb DI track) to find the right mix for the sound they're looking for in the solo. Hope this helps!
Imagine a massive ambience track with the feedback
I'd live to see a tutorial on how you wire the audio cable to the lamp!
how do you have this wired then? is the bulb in series with the cab?
I would also like to know this.
I’ve had good results running the lightbulb in series, never tried parallel.
and I was told Les Pauls are dark sounding.
underrated comment
How does this comment not have 1000's of likes?! 😂
Where can I find this song, I'm really curious about the final result.
Same
I would like to see a diagram of this setup. I don't see how the sound from the guitar amp would be effected. Is the output of the power amp connected to the light bulb and an other speaker?
sylvia...eye loveth thee.
i'm sampling that sustained note and running it through a granulator okay?
te amo
this shit is bananas
So...how do you do this? Sounds killer, would love to understand what is happening and how to do it.
Sonic witchcraft! I dig it.
Fucking nice!
I´ll appreciate if anyone could explain me how this works...still trying to lift my jaw from the floor
Imagine having a mom like her...jajaja. Ill be mama's boy 100% all day😂
Me - I made a noise with my VSTi in Live, yay.
Sylvia Massy - I recorded a guitar solo through a lightbulb.
Me - Do I even Produce 🤷♂️
The sustain on that guitar was insane! Was that using some kind of sustainer/hold?
Feedback
@@TheRockinDonkey that was more than feedback, it was a continuous note.
What song did this end up on?
Love you Sylvia. You light my bulb
Fucking awesome. Was this song released it sounds really nice
THAT's how to do interesting stuff, yes!
Can somebody explain how to pick up audio from the light bulb?
Can someone provide me with a title of this song? Sounds so cool!