The things people will do to avoid using an actual synthesizer. Joking, but some really cool sounds you got there. Definitely enjoyed the rubber ball dragged across a surface.

Did you and David Hilowitz Music hit this same idea around the same time at random? This is crazy to see right after I watched his video from a couple weeks ago xD

Greetings, I am very happy to have come across your channel. Thank you very much for presenting all these discoveries to us. I have been experimenting with recording the sounds of different surfaces and structures for a while. When you plug your piezo microphones into your recorder (Tascam), how many volts phantom setting do you enter? Or do you enter such a setting? Love from Turkey.

Kits!!!! Yessssss! Very excited for this product :)

Great experimentation. Thanks for showing how to wire them. The reason for two? Is it to get double the sound? Because you wouldn’t get stereo, right?

"Nobodies here I'm talking to myself!" 😆

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That's cool! 😲

You should also record the freezing sound!

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gafIna18YsiHrqMsi=PxMmQAIfM48f5Cip 18:00 , sounds like people working at house construction site 😅 but whole video is my idea of rain drops tripping on air inflated plastic tube recorded with those same mics! Weird sounds!

Very nice but you covered the speaker 😞

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I live for piezo and contact mic content

can u make me one please I don't have the money tho but I will save up to pay u aslo I am not good at sordering

Is it possible to go very low on frequency? I mean, to produce rhythms with a feedback loop?

Really cool concept!

How did you mic up the little instrument?

Love the sound of it !

verycool!

20-some years ago, that prototype board is exactly what i dreamed of having in my tiny studio, with loops of different sounds hung from pushpins up on a cork board on the wall. Eventually I just used a soldering iron to melt two holes in the top of a radio shack front-load cassette player, and would painstakingly feed a section of tape through the works, then hold play + pause, and i could gently shift the ribbon back and forth manually in order to "scratch" the sound, wax record style. i bet you could also "scratch" with that prototype setup - it's really yummy looking! And i'm excited to see more progress on this v2.

3:53 love the Sam Raimi style Zoom in haha, I just watched Army of Darkness

You probably know this but the tape mechanisms that a still available are not very good to put it mildly. If I were gonna make something like this I would use a pair of good Sony Walkman mechanisms which I would find used.

Just a thought. Since you're using a wooden chassis, you may want to try and ground any parts in the tape path. just the surface contact of the tape on plastic can build static voltage over time, and since you don't have a big metal chassis ground plane, that could potentially happen here. Not definitively saying it would be a problem, but just something you might want to be aware of. I know you've built these things before, and maybe it's not an issue, but since this is a new project and new design, you may run into new problems.

❤Wow, a great idea and implementation! I would like to build a REAL analogue delay in a similar way, maybe you would like to design something like that in the future, as real analogue tape delays are rare, but sound very musical and warm, new real tape delays products are unfortunately available very expensive. Building something like that yourself would also be a lot of fun.

Been collecting old tape mechanisms for just such an experiment! So excited to see this!

Awesome. Can’t wait to see the final product. What are you using to control the motor speed?

Cool video. Watching builds is so satisfying.

I imagine they're called movements because they are similar to clockwork and watch mechanisms, which are also called movements.

Brilliant stuff 🤘 Can you make a video about the amplifier and transducer? I would love to create this kind of setup myself.

Now this looks like fun! I have amplifiers, pedals, cable, etc but it looks like I need to get a transducer 😊 How did you route the signal when you were recording with the pedals? And how did you make the contract mic? I’m guessing there’s a piezo disc buried in there.

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Dude! This is nice...

This is awesome! Following closely

bro you are a saint for providing kits! i cant wait!

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Cool idea! I wonder if midi input could be possible 🤔

Didn’t you rip off Caleb Mclaurens guitar hero cassette synth and use it to win Moogfest in 2013?

this is brilliant. thank you. awesome.

The hero we didn't know we needed!

open source hero

Genius idea, thank you, i've built some prototype ! It's facinaiting!

Cool.

I love this so much.

so cool

This is so awesome, man. Can't tell you how much it's appreciated you're helping keep tape culture alive and thriving!

i dont know if you will consider this feature but ive thought about it for a while: what if there was a mode that made it so that each press of a key (either per key or all total) it would only output one of the cassetes audios (or have it invert the blend) for added veriety and uncertainty. If each note has a release time this would be another way to create note pairings

✨🏆✨ so inspired! …I just joined the patreon and am giving s whole three dollars per month 😜

I will be first in line for the kit! Exciting!

That is beautiful - creative and pretty special. Love it

I ordered a transducer when this video came across my feed the other day. It showed up today and I just finished wiring it up(I built a piezo mic and an amp years back). Can't wait to get going with it here in a bit. Thanks a bunch for sharing this!