Ripped the voice box from sister's mama dolly and it had a clear/whitish disc with random phrases picked up by stylus and similar battery powered mech.
I remember vaguely a toy I had as a kid. You'd pull the cord to wind the spring, then an arrow would turn to point at different things, and wherever it landed, it played the sound from the plastic record inside.
Older stuffed toys had these th-cam.com/video/T9XQ2Cr8vyk/w-d-xo.html And of course, the Fisher-Price See 'n Say "THE COW GOES..... MOOOOOOOOoooooo" th-cam.com/video/riZvcua0-60/w-d-xo.html This one is the one i grew up with, its by mattel.
Good stuff! When my dad was an Auto electrician in the late 80s they had an Austin Maestro with a similar voice system come in, except I believe it used more solid state electronics rather than a spinning record. Apparently the lady who did the voice is still alive and well!
The best ones were cars from the 80s with sound notifications for speeding. In the early to mid 80s USA highway speeds were all 55mph, then they got upped to 65mph... My friends Chrysler K-car (i forget what it was exactly, there were soooo many k platform p.o.s.) would say "you are speeding, please slow down" when going the 65mph new highway speed limit, repeatedly, every 30 seconds or so.
@@brianleeper5737 did that on a brand new RAV4.. Now I still hear the blind spot warning so I think I won a prize. I love that beep in the new cars with blind spots. Speaker in the cluster is toast though and life is good.
I worked on a 1986 Datsun/Nissan Maxima that had that warning system in it. If the car battery was going low because you left the lights on or door open the record would slow like it does in the video lol
Looks like it uses the same idea as the 'bag of laughs' from many years ago, but the bag of laughs didn't have an amplifier, the speaker cone was directly attached to the stylus. When i saw the title i thought you were going to show in car record players, like the philips norelco auto mignon from the 60's
I think Techmoan once featured and dissected one. Might be worth looking. It's utterly cool if you add pitch control and reverb! Seeing you play tunes on it brings pure joy to my heart.
This seems like a more complex version of those Toys where you pull a level and a an arrow will spin and say something. Like if it's pointing to a cow it will say "The Cow goes MOO"
Pretty sure those worked exactly the same way, the starting point selected the track. They just usually didn’t have an electronic amplifier, it was just an analog diaphragm speaker
I love the entire sound when you are using it in the synth. Reminds me of Big Science - Lauri Anderson, or maybe a different sounding Central Scrutinizer from Joe's Garage.
Indeed it uses the same kind of text-to-speech (like the speak and spell) chips that some cartridge and modules for microcomputers from that era (circa '86).
3D printing doesn't have the kind of precision needed for records. You could make something that looks like a record with something high precision such as a resin printer, but it wouldn't come anywhere near having the precision to create the pattern of sound waves on the record.
@@Ferro_Giconi There's a video on youtube of a maker who's printing records on a 3D resin printer. Sound quality is not great (to say the least) but you do recognize the song playing. Give 3D printing technology another 10 years and they'll sound OK.
This recordplayer design is very similar to what they used in kids toys such as talking teddy bears and dolls. I remember from kindergarten in the mid to late 80’s a toy recordplayer from fisher price using a hard plastic record a bit like this one.
To some these just seem like simple samples, but just think of the time, effort and money that would have gone into creating them. The amount of voice actors that would have auditioned and the fine-tuning of the vocals and the amount of takes it would have taken.
This… totally. And the prototyping of the whole system, the audo editing, mastering and physical cutting of the disks (for which a machine needs to be designed and created as well), without all the software we are used to nowadays. And also making the device serviceable.
"It's got an audio output, so you know what that means?!" We'll be able to hear it over the internet once it gets set up? "We can plug it into a modular synth-A-sizer!" Oh. My! GOD!
I haven't heard that voice for a long time. I had a 200SX that had that. The module was in the back on the right side behind the side trim panel. You could hear it making noise when it ran. I always thought it was a tape of some sort. The funny thing was in the winter it would slow down from the cold.
Oh man you get better and better. Love how you got lost in the moment with the device hooked up to your machine and then the face gurning at the end (I'm also a gurner - it must be a Kent thing).
Hahaha, Kraftwerk 2.0! Remember the Mattel Optigan? It was a poor man's mellotron based on an floppy optical record and the tracks being played by individual keys and accompaniment knobs. Very lo-fi though. You might even be able to print your custom discs with some overhead sheets and a laser printer!
With every video I watch my desire to visit your museum of random glorious bits increases. Hopefully I can get across the pond sometime soon. Well done mate!
Me and my bro were talking recently about a late 70's Action Man toy he had that had different coloured disks with different messages on. It was some sort of radio/broadcast/radar listening thing. Me? I just liked to move the rubber band out of the way and scratch with it as the disks were robust as hell. Good times! 😂👍
Haha, scratching is cool ! I got in real trouble at school for opening the French teachers desktop reel to reel player in the language labs and scratching the word tricalore (flag) backwards and forwards, all the class was laughing and I didn't notice the teacher had come back in, got a huge slap to the side of my face but it was worth it !!!
Love this one. Been looking for one of these for a while but I guess I’ll cross that one of my list. I’ll never top this jam. This is as good as it gets people! ✌️
In the '80's not long after I graduated high school, I had a friend who had a car that had this. I think it was some kind of Chrysler (I'm in the USA). Every time you'd open the door it was "A door is ajar."
Fitted to the Nissan Laurel C32 in the UK. 1985 to 1988 They were in the boot, under the rear parcel shelf. I actually recorded the messages into MP3s on my last one, it had a different voice to yours. Sounded more like the BT woman, I can send the clips if anyone wants them.
we had one in a laughing bag and it was years before we realised it was double-sided and had much funnier giggling children on the B side - maybe this has a flip side in Japanese 😄
Had a '84 Nissan/Datsun Maxima with that. I had always assumed it was a loop tape as it had slowed down over the years. The odd thing was that rather than saying "the door is open" it would say "the door is ajar". It was the butt of many lame jokes.
That voice sounds like the speech samples you'd find on Belgian New Beat tracks or german techno stuff from the late 80:ies ;D. Very cool! I don't know why she's using that totally dramatic tone of voice, though. Ok, so the left door is open, so what!? No reason to get all upset about it ;D. Also, I love how the alert tone on the record works harmonically with the music you're adding on top of it. It works very nicely in a diminished scale or whatever.
We had a talking car when I was a kid. I was no older than ten, so this was early 90s; and as such I don't remember the make or model. Edit: a quick google suggests it may have been a Chrysler New Yorker. The voice and prompts are familiar. I always remember us all making the same joke every time the car told us a door was ajar. "No, it's not! It's a door, silly!"
Yeah soooo cool. Sounds like a dystopian future setting from an 80ies Sci-Fi movie, moving into a demoscene funky fresh extatic flight over a cyberpunk city.
My Grandpa had one of those 80's cars that had similar canned speech device. And whenever the car said something to him, Gramps loved to talk back to it. When he'd open the door, the car would say "The door, is ajar." Gramps would always, inevitably say back to it, "No it's not, it's a door." The car: "Your headlights are on." Gramps: "I know, I'm the one that turned them on." The car: "The fuel level is low." Gramps: "Already? I just filled you up. Damn, you're greedy."
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Where else have you seen these small white records? action man? laughing bags?
Ripped the voice box from sister's mama dolly and it had a clear/whitish disc with random phrases picked up by stylus and similar battery powered mech.
I had the talking action man commando with "rip cord" when I was a kid , wish I knew where he ended up
There were the long strips as well
I remember vaguely a toy I had as a kid. You'd pull the cord to wind the spring, then an arrow would turn to point at different things, and wherever it landed, it played the sound from the plastic record inside.
Older stuffed toys had these
th-cam.com/video/T9XQ2Cr8vyk/w-d-xo.html
And of course, the Fisher-Price See 'n Say
"THE COW GOES..... MOOOOOOOOoooooo"
th-cam.com/video/riZvcua0-60/w-d-xo.html
This one is the one i grew up with, its by mattel.
Please release this as a single. I'd totally spin this at my next club gig.
He releases his songs from videos on his patreon, check the description.
@@ghostisblack Right on!
It does sound great, indeed!
Seconded
Yeah he did a really good job. If I were a DJ, I would definitely spin that at my next gig
Good stuff! When my dad was an Auto electrician in the late 80s they had an Austin Maestro with a similar voice system come in, except I believe it used more solid state electronics rather than a spinning record. Apparently the lady who did the voice is still alive and well!
You got it running! Awesome!
The long-awaited follow-up to Warm Leatherette :)
You got such an amazing track out of this
Unbelievably cool Sam. Not sure how this passed me by but sooo glad I found it.
This is like a modern take on Kraftwerk's Autobahn.
*YES!*
The best ones were cars from the 80s with sound notifications for speeding. In the early to mid 80s USA highway speeds were all 55mph, then they got upped to 65mph...
My friends Chrysler K-car (i forget what it was exactly, there were soooo many k platform p.o.s.) would say "you are speeding, please slow down" when going the 65mph new highway speed limit, repeatedly, every 30 seconds or so.
They probably got a federal tax credit for putting that speed warning in.
My import Honda Prelude used to BEEEP BEEEP at 100KMH
I found the Beeper and took great delight in ... putting it out of MY Misery!
@@JETJOOBOY Jammed an icepick into the speaker, did you?
@@brianleeper5737 did that on a brand new RAV4..
Now I still hear the blind spot warning so I think I won a prize. I love that beep in the new cars with blind spots. Speaker in the cluster is toast though and life is good.
Wow it sounds so good with the synth it's crazy!
The oddly seductive intonation of the announcement messages makes me always want to add "...if you know what I mean" after each one...
You seriously should release this as a song mate , great content as per normal, thanks Sam for sharing this with the world, take care 👍👍
I worked on a 1986 Datsun/Nissan Maxima that had that warning system in it. If the car battery was going low because you left the lights on or door open the record would slow like it does in the video lol
Looks like it uses the same idea as the 'bag of laughs' from many years ago, but the bag of laughs didn't have an amplifier, the speaker cone was directly attached to the stylus.
When i saw the title i thought you were going to show in car record players, like the philips norelco auto mignon from the 60's
You can make music on anything. Cool bit of tech for sure.
I love the creativity with which you attack these things.
Really fun and interesting to see what you do.
I think Techmoan once featured and dissected one. Might be worth looking.
It's utterly cool if you add pitch control and reverb! Seeing you play tunes on it brings pure joy to my heart.
I know Steve Mould dissected a toy with a similar mechanism.
that was a magnetic spinning disk with parrallel tracks, bit different.
@@foorje Oh yes wasn't it the executive talking clock ?
The original See N Say toy works on similar principle.
This seems like a more complex version of those Toys where you pull a level and a an arrow will spin and say something. Like if it's pointing to a cow it will say "The Cow goes MOO"
Pretty sure those worked exactly the same way, the starting point selected the track. They just usually didn’t have an electronic amplifier, it was just an analog diaphragm speaker
@@jaecenwhite2590 I know....that what a more complex version of ment.
I HAD THIS CAR AND I'VE ALWAYS REGRETTED THAT I COULDN'T PULL THAT OUT BEFORE IT WAS TAKEN AWAY AFTER BEING WRECKED! ;-; 1981 Datsun 810/maxima
I love the entire sound when you are using it in the synth. Reminds me of Big Science - Lauri Anderson, or maybe a different sounding Central Scrutinizer from Joe's Garage.
An old Renault 25 had also a speech thingy built in, but only in the more luxurious version. But I think it was an digital speech synthesizer.
Indeed it uses the same kind of text-to-speech (like the speak and spell) chips that some cartridge and modules for microcomputers from that era (circa '86).
You've a right to look pleased at the end.
You got proper lost there!
Next -- 3d printed discs of your own samples?
3D printing doesn't have the kind of precision needed for records. You could make something that looks like a record with something high precision such as a resin printer, but it wouldn't come anywhere near having the precision to create the pattern of sound waves on the record.
@@Ferro_Giconi There's a video on youtube of a maker who's printing records on a 3D resin printer. Sound quality is not great (to say the least) but you do recognize the song playing. Give 3D printing technology another 10 years and they'll sound OK.
I think this is my new favorite groove
That's one of the craziest things I've ever seen come out of a Datsun's anatomy.
Did you just invent "car wave synth" ? cause i love it !
This recordplayer design is very similar to what they used in kids toys such as talking teddy bears and dolls. I remember from kindergarten in the mid to late 80’s a toy recordplayer from fisher price using a hard plastic record a bit like this one.
Now I know what the wierd sounds from the april stream was
To some these just seem like simple samples, but just think of the time, effort and money that would have gone into creating them. The amount of voice actors that would have auditioned and the fine-tuning of the vocals and the amount of takes it would have taken.
This… totally. And the prototyping of the whole system, the audo editing, mastering and physical cutting of the disks (for which a machine needs to be designed and created as well), without all the software we are used to nowadays. And also making the device serviceable.
Imagine getting royalties every time someone leaves their lights on
"It's got an audio output, so you know what that means?!"
We'll be able to hear it over the internet once it gets set up?
"We can plug it into a modular synth-A-sizer!"
Oh. My! GOD!
I haven't heard that voice for a long time. I had a 200SX that had that. The module was in the back on the right side behind the side trim panel. You could hear it making noise when it ran. I always thought it was a tape of some sort. The funny thing was in the winter it would slow down from the cold.
I experienced this in a 1984 Nissan 200SX and a 1988 Nissan Maxima when I was a kid. Thanks for the memories.🥂
Oh man you get better and better. Love how you got lost in the moment with the device hooked up to your machine and then the face gurning at the end (I'm also a gurner - it must be a Kent thing).
Hahaha, Kraftwerk 2.0!
Remember the Mattel Optigan? It was a poor man's mellotron based on an floppy optical record and the tracks being played by individual keys and accompaniment knobs. Very lo-fi though.
You might even be able to print your custom discs with some overhead sheets and a laser printer!
Key is in the ignition. Lights are on.
God I love electronic music! The only “style” I feel I can actually grasp and try to make.
This Guy is a genius, the english kraftwerk Man, thanks for being there doing stuff like this, amazing
Fricking awesome, and I love that lingering loop at the very end. Look Mum No Datsun.
With every video I watch my desire to visit your museum of random glorious bits increases. Hopefully I can get across the pond sometime soon. Well done mate!
Never heard some thing that sounded so Ramsgate.... Love it !!
Me and my bro were talking recently about a late 70's Action Man toy he had that had different coloured disks with different messages on. It was some sort of radio/broadcast/radar listening thing.
Me? I just liked to move the rubber band out of the way and scratch with it as the disks were robust as hell. Good times! 😂👍
Haha, scratching is cool ! I got in real trouble at school for opening the French teachers desktop reel to reel player in the language labs and scratching the word tricalore (flag) backwards and forwards, all the class was laughing and I didn't notice the teacher had come back in, got a huge slap to the side of my face but it was worth it !!!
I’m glad there are people like you in the world.
Before cassettes and 8-track, you could also buy an actual 45rpm player for a car. I remember my granny owning one.
That pitch control is the best!
Really nice. Getting a Hitch Hikers' Guide To The Galaxy vibe!!
This could be a Josh Wink track, straight off the Left above the clouds album Sounds great! 👍
After all of this, I hope that you turned off the lights and removed the key from the ignition...
Love it! You have way too much fun.
I'm fascinated by this.
By the godz Sam, you are amazballz. Tops of the pops. I really am staggered on how post apocalyptic cool this is.
Love this one. Been looking for one of these for a while but I guess I’ll cross that one of my list. I’ll never top this jam. This is as good as it gets people! ✌️
great music! i love 70's and 80's synth disco music
That tune is amazing haha well done 👏
In the '80's not long after I graduated high school, I had a friend who had a car that had this. I think it was some kind of Chrysler (I'm in the USA). Every time you'd open the door it was "A door is ajar."
So we know the secret voice of your recent w-e live stream: neither furbys nor Daleks' samples... just an old Datsun car watchdog gadget. Awesome!👍😆
That's cool! It's even got a bit of a Whammy Bar effect.
This is like 90's house music.
Came right out of my favorite car! The Nissan 300zx!
THIS ONE GOING TO BE ON THE FUTURE VINYL, LOVE UR STYLE BRO
Oh my, I didn’t realize I had a little record player in my 82 Datsun 200SX. The most common warning I would get was “door is ajar”
Loved this video! ❤️ Thanks for sharing! 👍
Bing!, right door id a fuel pump. lights are low!.
bing!
I think the 80s Pontiac Firebird (US) has something similar, they were used in many vehicles around the world
I honestly felt like that tune could be the new banger from Daft Punk. So sick.
Fitted to the Nissan Laurel C32 in the UK. 1985 to 1988 They were in the boot, under the rear parcel shelf. I actually recorded the messages into MP3s on my last one, it had a different voice to yours. Sounded more like the BT woman, I can send the clips if anyone wants them.
Just like a talking Action Man only bigger, and better quality. 😄👍
we had one in a laughing bag and it was years before we realised it was double-sided and had much funnier giggling children on the B side - maybe this has a flip side in Japanese 😄
I hear the ultimate vapor wavey driving song coming together.
Some OMD shit right here!
Can you make a recording of the whole record? My mate has a Datto and I wouldn't mind making an arduino based one with the voice warnings
If my import 200sx has one of these in japanese I will be so happy! Off to find it now!!
OK now you need the 80's Chrysler one that used the TI Speak & Spell chip!
Had a '84 Nissan/Datsun Maxima with that. I had always assumed it was a loop tape as it had slowed down over the years. The odd thing was that rather than saying "the door is open" it would say "the door is ajar". It was the butt of many lame jokes.
That is just freaky! Lights disco, man!
lots of fun with a little gadget!
Reminds me a little bit of Anne Clark in the 80s
You looked so damned satisfied here, Sam... :P
That voice sounds like the speech samples you'd find on Belgian New Beat tracks or german techno stuff from the late 80:ies ;D. Very cool! I don't know why she's using that totally dramatic tone of voice, though. Ok, so the left door is open, so what!? No reason to get all upset about it ;D. Also, I love how the alert tone on the record works harmonically with the music you're adding on top of it. It works very nicely in a diminished scale or whatever.
Awesome sound
Very cool. Eddie Murphy did a whole set making fun of this voice that he said was a new thing in cars back in the day.
Yep, "Lights are on"!
Great!- th-cam.com/video/kMxdFwCU1OE/w-d-xo.html
im saving up to travel out there when you are open and i can ...im in the usa :)
Awesome tune
Dam your such a mad scientist, I wanna jam with you on my drums XD
At 7.25 it sounded like the riff from My Polyester Girl song
Key in the ignition, I am your automatic lover.......
KEYS ARE IN THE IGNITION!!! yeah baby!!! :)
New banger just dropped
THAT ...IS ....MENTAL !!! Love it
We had a talking car when I was a kid. I was no older than ten, so this was early 90s; and as such I don't remember the make or model. Edit: a quick google suggests it may have been a Chrysler New Yorker. The voice and prompts are familiar.
I always remember us all making the same joke every time the car told us a door was ajar. "No, it's not! It's a door, silly!"
Yeah soooo cool. Sounds like a dystopian future setting from an 80ies Sci-Fi movie, moving into a demoscene funky fresh extatic flight over a cyberpunk city.
Remember the dolls with plastic or vinyl discs :D
Absolutely fabulous
My Grandpa had one of those 80's cars that had similar canned speech device. And whenever the car said something to him, Gramps loved to talk back to it.
When he'd open the door, the car would say "The door, is ajar." Gramps would always, inevitably say back to it, "No it's not, it's a door." The car: "Your headlights are on." Gramps: "I know, I'm the one that turned them on." The car: "The fuel level is low." Gramps: "Already? I just filled you up. Damn, you're greedy."
🔥🔥🔥
Follow on project idea: Circuit bent Datsun? Like the entire car.
The low pitch is really convenient.
The voice sounds like Marina Sirtis, Deanna Troi in TNG.
Banging tune.
Imagone if this guy, chemical brothers, and justice teamed up for a project
Thank video. Think you should make lofi. Mpc drums kits. Heyyyyy
Great track!