Are you recording with the headphone output? Great demo also!

A great example of the analog and effect sound from a reel to reel... To me vinyl and some tape have a little more to give us than digital but that might be my age. Thank you for sharing!

And you want to pay how much for a Mellotron?!

I love this sound.

I almost bought that exact tape machine at a thrift shop. 9:14 I believe it had some defects though, and I passed it by.

Love how this is presented lol

Which desk is that?

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Hi Steve. You played this little tune in your last video and I was fascinated from the sound. On last friday I watched a small concert of a female guitar artist and she used a delay also on some of her songs. So I find it very fascinating how technology can support and improve the art of music. Greetz from Germany. 😊

Thank you very much for kind word's 🙏❤ it is very supportive 😊 ❤️ I love expressing my feelings about life in miusic.💖❤️‍🔥 That is my passion ❤️‍🔥💖

This is a True Masterpiece of Neo-Impresionism and Electronics.

Thanks for this extra upload! It delivers a special atmosphere while looking at how the tape echo is generated in real time! If your improvisation is Mac & Cheese than the link below is about a proper Spaghetti tape transport: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZesiJxjm7SdmNU Have fun :-)!

Swooshy. It’s Star Trek beam me up scottys aplenty. Or most episodes of dr who in the 70s. I loved Jon Pertwee.

A poo undo occurred in an episode of red dwarf. It happened to the Cat character. You should have seen the look on his face.

Very interesting demonstration. Also, what is source of that nice piano sound? Sounds good when played and when dropped.

This tune is called : "is it reel ?"

Dive! Dive!

Caught in one word " BEAUTIFULL....! ! ! ❤

Ay…. Ay…. Ay…….

I wonder if a keyboard instrument could be constructed that had one for each key? It might be easier to sample, but not nearly as fun! :-)

11:25 didn't see that coming! 😂

Really nice improvisation, I picture an animation of watercolor autumn leaves falling when listening to this.

David Tudor energy here

This should become a meme and then go viral. If there's any justice.

What piano plugin are you using Steve? It has a nice soft sound.

Дружище! Англичанин, брат! Уважаю твой разум, твой гений, но меня сегодня охватила с головой моя собственная болезнь и я пока не способен уделить тебе внимания больше, чем самому себе. Хоть я при смерти, но выкорабкиваюсь, как Бог велел.Завтра, когда победим, назначу тебя вторым Эмерсоном или вторым Бэнксом. Но пока подожди, до Моей Победы! Мы, русские, сегодня особо и особенно не любим англичан, хотя это далеко от Космоса))) Подожди нашей победы, и тогда я превознесу тебя));-)

I own an as new one of these ,, plays beautifully

My audio mentor had one, I remember something about a resistor or a stepdown to get it slow enough to hear both tones

Mac & Cheese is my favourite piece of music of the week.

This video was sublimely, almost transcendentally good. I can't believe it's taken me so long to find Vintage Keys Studio's channel, but boy, am I glad I did. Pure old-school music technological happiness. Thank you, Mr Christie. 🙏

Thank you, that was great. I learned something and had a laugh too. Totally appreciated :)

Loved this! Sadly I think I stopped learning when analogue became unfashionable. Loved the tape echo, of course live we would use the Watkins Copicat, you probably have one somewhere. The reel to reel vintage twilight zone and Dr Who, or perhaps Dr Chris was fabulous as was your ‘made up tune’. Thank you!

What Great and Professional Demonstration of this Tape Echo /Delay, performed by the very talented Engineer and Musician Steve Christie.

Really great!! Your are so lugubrious but great!

Love tape delay...I've got an echoplex and space echo. There's nothing else like it.

Honestly, I didn't know how the tape echo & delay exactly works, until now. Thanks for revealing that mystery! Position 11:24 shows how cluster harmonics were discovered - another question answered ;-)! All the best :-)!

I have recently been on a reel-to-reel kick... and bought a couple to restore (one actually works though). Great content that someone could use to create some vintage effects for a project. Interesting, informative, and entertaining and I did laugh out loud, keep sharing... Thank you!

Two different Pooh references.🎉

I wish you could remember how you built your vari-speed box. Sounded great slowed right down.

Perfect demonstration.

Well done! Important to show the bedroom baseball hats what we used to get up to with our Akai 4000s and acetate to get sounds like those on All Along the Watchtower, Dr Who theme music and Terry Riley’s Rainbow in Curved Air. Our analogue musical world required the use of art and physics in almost equal measure. You must surely have an old WEM Copicat box with four playback heads somewhere in your studio emporium for your echo Part II demo. I mean where would all those early 70s guitarists have got to without their Copicats?

Great stuff, I am a big fan of tape delay and appreciate the in depth explanation I also want mac and cheese now.

The first time I was let loose on a three head tape recorder, I connected a mic & headphones and invited friends & family to try and speak while hearing the delay. Much hilarity ensued. This old fart loves messing around with tape too! Another great video, as always. Cheers!

Frippertronics ( see- enoweb faq2 ) is a fun ambient echo of sorts. You take two (preferably identical) reel to reel tap machines and put them side by side. Instead of your take=up reel being on Deck 1, you use Deck 2's take=up reel, but you also feed Deck 1's feed-reel through Deck 2's tape head and pinch roller captstan. You end up with a completed product as your take-up reel. You enter Robert Fripp's and Brian Eno's ambient world of loooooong echoing, loops on loops fading in/ fading out depending on how loud or soft you play.

Steve!!!!!!!!!

Also read Ken Griffin Special Effects , by Erik Larson ( just search ONLY- Ken Griffin special effects ) *Ken Griffin Cruising Down the River* album is a great example of Ken's and friend Les Paul's short echo and feedback techniques. With Les Paul around you know it's not straightforward. To learn about the Wurlitzer 4600 Electrostatic Continuous Free Reed Organ , see the great partially animated article 'Wurli 4600' under Tech Articles on the North Suburban Hammond Organ Society website. While there check out the articles on the Hammond B3 Organ and the great 1967-1972 Hammond X66 organ, of which only 1,000 were made, but you can still find them for less than a cheap Fender guitar. Oh the organ get's no respect. A great X66 performance of a great SPACE theme simply Ytb search - Steven Eaklor

I like the degration of the sound of real tape echo's

Ooooh I like the swooshy and saturation effects very sci-fi . I have a question, how does this differ from flanging?

18:09 *sings Telstar* Waaaaah wah-waaaaah wah wah-wah-wah-wah-waaaaah 😄