Returning to this, yet again, for the vvunderful tones...ended up finding a 516eq. Sleeper of a mic! Appreciate the clips.

Marvin. Great font.

awesome sounds AND color on the video lol

The production quality is amazing holy shit, you’re gonna make it big if you keep goin on like this dude! Such a chill mix of information and entertainment. Meanwhile I’m gonna go buy a couple several ish cassettes and recorders (they will absolutely be my gateway to more physical media formats)

your amazing

Sadly here in Oz, thrift stores rarely accept electrical goods due to the risk of liability. Most of my best finds have been on the side of the road within 100m of my house. Keyboards, guitars and drums.

I like the sounds you're getting. Do you do sample packs of drums that have different velocity samples or round robins? Something that could be loaded into a sampler.

Teach me, master.

Whats that sound mod you plugged the keyboard up to?

The Wes Anderson of Audio 😅

Me and you are twins brother

Come on universe... Ssl bus+ and Vitalizer won't buy itself! 🌌😅

Great tip, and lovely playing

Enjoy your videos and love your doggy. 4:32 gave me olivia tremor control vibes :)

Love it! I'm a big fan of the cheap gear route myself. I have a tiny old Yamaha keyboard I've had for over 30 years and I'm 33 lolol I'm certainly not afraid to invest in certain pieces of gear when I know what and why I want something, but I really love pulling the most out of quirky things that are often overlooked.

Back when my friend and I were 19, we jammed on a near-dead battery Yahama Portasound PSS 470. We set it on an ironing board, plugged into a minidisc player and hammered out some pretty wild stuff. I listen back to the recordings now and then and there are parts that still astonish me. At one point, it sounded as though the keyboard was being plunged under water and pulled back out again.

Love your vid man😎

Analog people are so lame

Mate, I'm so happy to find this channel. Btw, I'm also tapehead, playing and recording my RTM, Basf, Agfa, Zonal tapes on my Revox B77 (factory restored, brand new). Collected over 200 reel tapes over the past 5 years (10.5 inch reels, with various designs and window shapes). So I understand your passion, keep making music and videos. This is art (at least for us) :D 🙏Please, make a playlist with all these instrumentals that you used in your videos, You have such great taste in music 😍

Bro the voiceover is out of this world, I can tell from my phone speaker how beautiful it sounds

I record all my synth jams to the app audioshare on my iPhone. They are mixed through a four channel behringer mixer. So i can listen to my jams later in my car or sometimes when i’m walking around through the phone speaker.

ur insane i love u

I feel you ! Having too many options is a creative killer process.

Hey man, great stuff, new subscriber here, you mentioned there are cassettes with a “sun baked flavor” are there any brands and specific tapes you recommend? I want something Lifi but not too. Any recommendations welcome thank you!

Gorillaz used that rock 1 rithm preset as a sample in the music “clint Eastwood”

OK yeah you just earned another sub. We have the same mindset!

What a nice creative philosophy. Thanks for the inspiration.

When this video first came out I found so many Akai m7s on ebay. Now, it is sold out pretty much everywhere ⚰️

Digital isn’t dying but analog is coming back in a big way

Great video! I enjoyed it a lot! Cassettes aren't a bad format at all, it depends on how much money you want to invest. it is actually a format that reached "analog perfection" few years before it fell into oblivion

I really enjoyed your playing 🙂 Would love to see some more guitar content from you

I'm really just beginning my journey as a musician, but this is definitely how I started, and how I am continuing to grow. Found a Slammer by Hamer short-scale bass guitar at Good Will for $45. I just really liked it, it called to me. Replaced the strings with tape-wounds, which cost a few bucks more than the bass. I bought a new bass to celebrate completing an online bass course. A Harley-Benton fretless violin bass, brand new was $170. Of course with a case and shipping from Germany, it ended up almost twice that, but still, not a high end instrument. BUT, it is beyond functional. Put tape-wounds on it as well, and I think this is as close as you can get to upright tones on an electric bass. Tone is just exactly what I was looking for.

what headphones are you using here?

I have an old C-1 I purchased at a thrift store YEARS ago for like $5, it turns on but I think the belt doesn't work, I was meaning to get it repaired and this video may have just inspired me to. Thank you!

I was able to get a library of congress C1 tape player for $20 on FB Marketplace because the guy who had it said it wouldnt play right even with the power cable. For some reason, when the battery in the machine is dead, it will not play the tape right even on a power supply. I took the battery out and it worked just fine. Also changed the belts. Similarly, i also found my tascam 424 mkii 4 track recorder. It was like $22. It wouldnt start but all it needed was a new capacitor. Changed the belts and it works perfectly. Already used it as an instrument and recorded a few songs on it. So fantastic. This guy is right, you can just get lucky. Keep trying.

WE WANT MORE VIDEOS FROM VVUNDERTONE!!! GO TO WORK! NOW!!! (pretty please!)

This video was so cool and so well done I loved it

i use cheap shit for neccesity too. ive been playing for 30 years and i still use budget line shit. all my keys are dual-pohonic casios ive pulled out of the trash, my favorite guitars are the ibanez GIO line and thats the cheapest ibanez they make, i pulled my hondo II d-28 clone out of the trash, glued it back together and only had to spend 6 dollars on the strings. and harley benton makes a great amp sim for 85 bucks i really like.

The more AI come into play, the more laptop producers will suffer. Which means well produced analogue music should rise again. Which means better quality music full stop.

Thank you for the kicks,they sound amazing. Gonna use em for drum replacement .

All I can cogently muster is this: Thank you for what you do. These vids are A++.

After the story I would love to use this samples in my project

I have never believed in expensive equipment. I believe in good ideas.

Great video man this helped a lot

I bought 2 Boss Dr rythim drum machines of ebay for £20 each ,that's giving them away.

So tasteful this channel!

Absolutely in awe of your approach with terrific humble retro gear! Keep on keepin' on! And the duds complete the theme! Great stuff!

this approach is how Gorillaz got alot of their sounds and they were one of my favorite bands

I still mourn my Casio SK-1 that I lost ten years ago. Found it at the thrift store for like $5. Now they go for 100+ on reverb. I'll probably have to buy one. The built in mic and the way the chip samples things was just the perfect kind of instant lofi sampler that I have never been able to replicate.

It will only sound good if all the electronics are replaced and the heads have been relapped. Over time heads will wear down and you will loose audio frequency and with that you get a tape gap and if you don't get your heads relapped they will have something called "open loop" which is where you loose 1 or both channels and you have to toss the heads out because they are unfixable. I got my 2 track heads relapped because they were only pushing 16khz vs the 28khz when they were new and I only had 500 hours left in them before they became open loop. I can get 2 more relaps done on them and then they are no good. I have about 2500 hours on them in total but after 1000 hours it's best to get them fixed. Watch out for scammers with these tape decks. They will say it sounds fine in reality they aren't because of so much use.