A Filter So Good I Kept It a Secret

[@Hainbach]

Samples, Music and thanks: patreon.com/hainbach Buy my music: hainbach.bandcamp.com

[@axis_8]

This video and many others you've made on exploring musical possibilities make me feel free. I cannot think of a more superior compliment to give you. On my journey into music making, which is mainly in the realm of eurorack btw, your videos have given me so much inspiration, but, again, the feeling of being free to create whatever I like, is the dominant one, and for this I sincerely thank you. "Uncertain paths" is your way, so anti-totalitarian as it gets. 🙏

[@Hainbach]

Thank you for sharing, this makes me very happy to hear

[@HowlingUlf]

Can we all agree on Hainbach is the Bob Ross of electronica?

[@setharnold9764]

Happy little oscillators

[@GizzyDillespee]

Cuckoo even moreso...

[@brianspenst1374]

More of a Levar Burton. Hi I'm Hainbach, welcome to Arpeggio Rainbow. I love this classic synth, but you don't have to take my word for it.

[@setharnold9764]

@@brianspenst1374 and Hainbach is already an expert on the technobabble! Good call.

[@TheLuckymod13]

Facts

[@hintoninstruments2369]

I've been using one of these for audio analysis for over 25 years. Also an HP3580A Spectrum Analyser which is very similar except it has a CRT display instead of the meter. The filtering is done by heterodyning the signal up to IF, filtering it, and then heterodyning it back down again. This enables very narrow bands as tight as 3Hz wide. I also have an HP3561A and an HP8903B. It would all have cost more than a house, more like a whole street when new.They just don't make modern equipment like this anymore. It all has noisy fans and needs a PC which are the last things you need when dealing with high quality audio and music. You should also check out the Tektronix TM500 series test gear, particularly function generators like the FG 501A and FG 504.

[@Hainbach]

Thank you for that background info! I have a huge TM500 rack that sounds devastating. I just never got around to make a video on it. It’s on my to do now.

[@Sandy-dd4le]

I can hear Ebay groaning under the extra bandwidth issues they are experiencing right now

[@alexgrunde6682]

6:16 that is some absolutely delicious rhythmic industrial noise

[@viralempire1986]

shoutout to the real hero of this video, the lego box under the desk. My son has 4 of these and when he grows out of lego, I'm claiming them for studio organisation.

[@Hainbach]

They are so useful!

[@domdib55]

Some serious early Dr Who/ Radiophonic Workshop vibes in places - sweet!

[@jamesstonehouse3448]

The 3581A is a wonderful bit of kit. I used to use / repair / calibrate them in a lab back in the 1990s

[@mechasartre3694]

Hainbach- Purveyor of fine noises

[@hooper8915]

I just caught up with a few of your newest videos. Thanks for giving me so many new ideas to go use in my studio :)

[@loopinnerthe]

Fourier analysis in a big box. I love the closing shot with its little meter needle going up and down and your PC there with a big green audio spectrum getting calculated in microseconds. The pure unfathomable poetry that is Hainbach. Thank you for standing on the shoulders of giants and also inviting them along. Must see if I can find a car flasher relay for you and perhaps you could have a yellow flashing lamp somewhere in a future soundscape....I guess pair a big incandescent lamp with a light sensor and some interesting envelopes might emerge.

[@volkerfirma]

Amazing sounds and so inspiring.

[@sonofsheepdog]

Fascinating, absolute gold.

[@daneguitarist1]

ok damn, that is beautiful Hainbach, great stuff!

[@RabRabNZ]

the ringmod law I believe is called the sineheitsgebot

[@CaseyKlepMatson]

It's giving Yeezus drums at 8:50 sick

[@kerzwhile]

Absolutely Incredible!!!

[@madacetv]

hi hainback it’s good to have you bach!

[@rp8564]

Your playful experimentation is just great to watch/listen to! Inspiring!

[@chascoppard]

Sounds incredible!

[@doctorc-ton1099]

Creating a new instrument out of obsolete equipment is like when Picasso invented Cubism. You have this thing, kept it a secret, much like Picasso hid his first cubist painting under his bed. This sounded so interesting, I can hear how it can augment all kinds of things and really do interesting effects to your music, that it is a secret weapon of sorts. I felt like AudioThing could be all over this as there must be an algorithm governing what you have created, however, perhaps your secret instrument should remain this unique thing that is yours. Cheers for a really neat series of sounds in this video. The passion for seeking sounds is really awesome!

[@graemedavidson499]

The price of HP secret sauce just went up!

[@theuniverseinstereo3453]

Dear Mr Hainbach, we have been using your synth fluss on our productions, it is really quite amazing, we release a video every Saturday and will be giving you a hashtag/shoutout all of our videos forthcoming as we are utilising it quite extensively. Thank you so much and we look forward to more of your wonderfully informative and intertaining videos.

[@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES]

I love that you got 4 ! that's my kind of quartet. What a delightful sound

[@chocogr2024]

I had fallen asleep while watching this video and that cool siren-like sound at 4:44 woke me up

[@SoundsMick]

The clicks from the contact mics are so interesting! These things look cool.

[@ringsystemmusic]

Oooo surprise Hainbach! Lovely noises!

[@emdotambient]

The Krell have entered the building! Fascinating, beautiful texture and rhythm.

[@trumanandnoahproductions1159]

Ur sounds are so beautiful and a huge inspiration to me

[@tonynekrews]

Amazing stuff! I feel another AudioThing / Hainbach collaboration coming up

[@keithraney2546]

Nice. Must be fun sequencing all that ?

[@xgmode]

Seems like a new VST3/AUv3 plugin on the horizon, hopefully.. This stuff is perfect for techno, like your other plugins. Love it!

[@lushlab.x]

Genius

[@fablesofsilence]

Wonderful, thank you. Building your own filterbank with these, very nerdy!

[@mongobigmuff]

That was... AMAZING

[@SoundMediaVibes]

Lush sounds!👍👍👍👍👍

[@casinosquare8169]

Always super inspiring ❤

[@computrhead]

Amazing sound experiment. The low end noise part (6:55) sounds great for a horror game.

[@anastasia0zardonova]

That sewater is awesome. I am jealous.

[@jamesdegriz]

Interesting sound!! Kindof precise chaos.

[@MLoerAudio]

You had me at contact microphones 🎙️ ❤️

[@georgem6651]

Just amazing tones out of those 🥹 Of all the kooky, rare and bizaree stuff I expect to see in your videos, the thing that made me go "wat? Hainbach uses that?" was the Summit 😅

[@Hainbach]

I use it mostly as a MIDI keyboard and arp :-)

[@Sandy-dd4le]

There should be a challenge Hainbach to get music from random equipment event! Like say, a morse code key and it's oscillator !

[@bombfog1]

So many of these sounds in this video belong in a science fiction horror. So dope!

[@thebenefactor6744]

And yet you still harbour the secret of where you got ahold of that Bill Cosby sweater. Forever mysterious.

[@TheZaadofAnatolia]

some of the stuff in the middle of the technique demos section sound like some of the ambient parts of Soundtracks For the Blind by Swans, particularly the sounds before 7:30

[@kevindewinter8235]

You Nerd! Haha love it..

[@setharnold9764]

4:20 such lovely organic rumbles

[@TheLuckymod13]

Immediately I check Ebay. Prices already range from 300 to 600 US Dollar. The Hainbach Effect! XD I think they're just a bit rare and pricey. I've spent enough this week on a B&K 1613... So, I'll have to wait! Thank you Hainbach for sharing your secrets!

[@warius1]

You are a dedicated follower of fashion, aren’t you.

[@emilienlesage947]

sadly they were that already up 5 month ago...

[@TheLuckymod13]

@@warius1 meh. I have a lot of odd things, but Hainbach is a great source of info for vintage gear. I am super happy with the B&K filter for sure.

[@bitegoatie]

I saw this specific thing along with other audio analyzers, filters, and other processors in a lab at college (too many years ago), not long after I started playing a Buchla modular and a couple of ARP synthesizers (2500, 2600). The "Wave Analyzer" part of the name caught my attention and put me in the mind of Stockhausen and music, but this was not that kind of lab, and I was just a visitor. I am certain, however, this 1581A was the model I saw that day. I returned to look at the test equipment a few times, but I never asked to play with the gear in that lab, because what I really wanted to do was to manipulate the sounds of the synthesizers through the processors. That was not going to happen. Thanks for another technical video on how you make music. I am deeply grateful, having asked for more such stuff just recently after I praised another video. What follows is sort of off-topic, but I include it from a place of love. Please, please - don't participate in the internet-driven abuse of the English word "unit". Contrary to what people think, "unit" is not a fancy-sounding replacement for any noun referring to any set of any number of members. One might get that impression, listening to or reading young, internet-trained journalists who were never taught English at the elite educational institutions from which they graduated. No, the term, like most words, has a couple of fairly narrow meanings and limited uses. That "filtering audio processor" or even "audio analyzer" (much less "anything you like") doesn't figure among them might surprise audio-gear fans who speak, as a native language, something other than English, because so many audio reviewers and musicians have learned from the internet that everything in audio can be called a "unit". I feel for you, as a generous, sweet man who makes lovely music and speaks, generally, amazingly good English. You stepped on this wire to my brain that lights me up and cooks my nerves when yet another person misuses this word - or another of the many relentlessly misused terms - that has become popular in internet English, thanks to austerity-emaciated budgets for what has become (over the last four or five decades) terrible or absent English-language instruction in English-speaking countries. Some of these terms have caused real social harm through their misuse and abuse ("identity" being one), and others are merely ugly. The sum of the public policies that brought us to this point is a degradation of public discourse, a decline in the quality of writing and journalism (and a subsequent drop in the reputation of the press as a whole, especially in the U.S.), more misunderstanding, less agreement on what things (including laws) say and mean, and a decline in the ability of people learning the language as children or adults to find models of good writing or competent teachers of the mechanics and interpretation of the language. This set of problems has been a key element in the resurgence of reactionary, bigoted, and authoritarian political movements that grow fastest when facts and interpretations can be readily manipulated and confused, when the meanings of simple declarative sentences cannot be reliably agreed upon and indisputable evidence becomes a matter of routine dispute. So, silly as my concern may sound, I am not being simply grumpy. Nothing much rides on the usage of one word in a video on the production of music. If we cannot say what we mean, however, and we reach for general terms (including both correct and inappropriate general terms) as a default rather than the terms we have for this purpose, we lose something. Worse, we develop habits that, over time, may become something consequential. In English, to be sure, we have offloaded a lot of effort (~200 years) to standardize the language to save a few dollars to spend on cutting the taxes of people who do not need the tax cuts, then justified, after the fact, cutting arts and language instruction with cognitively lifeless wisdom like "creativity cannot be taught" and "teaching standard English just reinforces the language of power", and the results have been uniformly bad. They are worsening every day, and none of that is your fault, yet I post this here because you dropped, what, six "unit" offenses on me? Oh well. Anyway, if you are not talking about how you read decibels, frequency in hertz, or some other actual unit of measurement, it is a pretty good bet "unit" is not the term you need. The remedy for this one comes without a fuss. Thanks again for a cool video.

[@GizzyDillespee]

I just looked up "unit" in the Oxford dictionary... you probably should do the same. The 2nd definition is exactly how Hainbach and others use the word.

[@wrenchposting9097]

tl;dr - OP is a leftist ironically complaining about postmodernism. lmao

[@bitegoatie]

@@GizzyDillespee Another dictionary guy. Dictionaries long ago gave up being references of correct usage (this was their original purpose, so the misunderstanding of what dictionaries are now is culturally understandable; dictionaries were a key development in the standardization of the English language before that educational project was killed by the right wing in the UK and the US half a century ago, give or take, with later assistance from lazy teachers and relativist linguists more interested in AI grants than the social function of language in society). Modern dictionaries are, as pure lexicography, catalogues of actual usage, correct or, as in this case, not. "Unit" is not correctly used as a replacement for any arbitrary noun, whether or not that thing is an actual unit. What I said stands, and a stack of dictionaries will not change it. You are welcome to say whatever you like and to live in error and misunderstanding if error and confusion pleases you. I have done my public-service announcement.

[@sidsuperstar]

Dude….first of all thanks for sharing. And second of all I’ve being thinking and it so good that there are people like you out there that are still out there trying to make art and not only content…thanks! One question thou. What about impedance to connect to a mono audio source. How you handle the. Input and output for the sound feed?. Thanks again Sid

[@Hainbach]

Thanks! The input and output handle all signals well, and you can finely adjust them For measurement you can add the standard 600 ohm impedance.

[@sidsuperstar]

Thanks again Hainbach….you are the man!

[@glebpalamarchuk9087]

This is pure pan sonic in a box

[@matthewsaul3533]

Hi Hainbach, thank you for being such a wonderful presence on KZbin. You and LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER have become hugely inspirational to me lately and I’m deeply grateful for what you offer us. I’m wondering how you’ve found these various test equipment devices. Like, how did you learn what they were all called, brands that made them etc? If I were to go looking for various pieces, I’m wondering how a novice to this particularly subject would go about it.

[@Hainbach]

Hi! Join the Hainbach subreddit to learn more and watch this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5erZmaXbt10oNE

[@matthewsaul3533]

@@Hainbach Perfect! Thanks so much!!

[@ВанечкаЗвезда]

Any thoughts on soviet test equipment? It's very cheap on used market in easter europe, even the tube stuff

[@Hainbach]

I never found any here, so I have no idea.

[@BigTrouble324]

And then, the price went through the roof!

[@RobinPalmerTV]

I could probably sit for hours in a large comfy room and listen to all the music from this filter bank.

[@Hainbach]

When I had that filterbank setup I did just that 😃

[@GillamtheGreatest]

when do we get the AudioThing plugin though?

[@tobitweaks]

DAS GESETZ 😈

[@niallmacdonald2710]

I'm a tadge confused as to why you didn't just use a few spare channels on your main mixer to up the gain from the other mics, coming out of the inserts and into the Kawai. I'm not surprised the Kawai didn't have enough gain for the contact mics, it looks to be designed as a line level mixer, although I'm unfamiliar with that model.

[@Hainbach]

Because I don't have spare channels on the main mixer :-). I also wanted to keep it all in one its one instrument. But its actually more fun to use the HP as its own amp, sounds more interesting.

[@niallmacdonald2710]

Fair enough. Thanks for the answer.@@Hainbach

[@Panama_lewis]

Are you using banana clips to 1/4 cables ?

[@mylordboudewitz]

I see a new vst is coming

[@domdib55]

Oh I sure hope so - on iOS too😊

[@derekcrockett6214]

Starting around 13:00... That's why you make the big bucks (euros).

[@el.algoritmo]

dear hainbach! I loved the piece of music that sounds at 1:47, is that a track of yours? or could you please tell me what is that? thank you, loved the video!

[@Hainbach]

That was a layout I made for huge German pop singer that did not end up on a record. I rediscovered it when I made this video and will now release it on the test equipment music record.

[@el.algoritmo]

awesome!@@Hainbach looking forward yo hear it!

[@emilienlesage947]

ah yes that one video

[@curtishoffmann6956]

The secret part of the secret sauce. Yummy!

[@RegebroRepairs]

I wouldn't even have expected them to have an output. 😀

[@Hainbach]

Yeah it’s hidden in the back. When I first came across this I almost dismissed it because i did not see it

[@Stranger_at_the_Crossroads]

I've had my eye on one of these for a while now! Next time, can you please wait until AFTER I buy something to blow the lid off the secret? 😅 (p.s. inspirational video as always!)

[@youdonotknowmyname9663]

I have to stop watching our channel because this makes me want to buy even MORE old test equioment then I currently have in my electronics lab.

[@jmalmsten]

So... Audiothing is working on a VST right? :D

[@wishbonebrewery]

there's a spot of Forbidden Planet in there!

[@mutedsounds2k]

I saw it on eBay on sale for 795 USD... ONE UNIT!!

[@Hainbach]

Well, I never just go on eBay and buy the most expensive unit. I spend months sourcing any instrument so I dont overpay. But that is job in itself

[@terrordisco2944]

I want the plugin 😭

[@Hainbach]

We are putting it on the to do list. In the meantime I have found a German unit that is similar but ridiculously overengineered

[@Reevyv]

@@Hainbach It's obvious that "hp" means "Hainbach Plugin" 😁. Seriously, a Hainbach Test Equipment Filter Bank Plugin would be awesome!

[@JeredtheShy]

My favorite part was at the 5 minute mark where it all harmonizes with my tinnitus

[@Hainbach]

Oh my, Tinnitus is horrible. Sorry to hear!

[@mentalitydesignvideo]

these are like 500 eur now

[@LizzardHimself]

4:20 caused an earthquake warning in my area

[@rossginn5333]

I want to see your electrical outlet situation

[@Hainbach]

Power conditioners everywhere

[@SnowmansApartment]

the real experiment is: does this video have a significant effect on the price? 😅

[@Hainbach]

You know it will, that has been tried and tested and confirmed :-)

[@ramsaysg]

Price just went up lol

[@ErichIzdepski]

Ever watch MacGyver?

[@dessiplaer]

How can we now go forward in trust if you hide things from us? 8-) Fun video! So what else are you hiding?

[@Hainbach]

You know the end scene from Indiana Jones, where they put the holy grail in a warehouse?

[@synthanatomy]

Beautiful sounds :)

[@chambre466]

😘

[@orchestratedpassage9468]

novel way to ping the filter👈

[@delta-9969]

"For three years I've kept this a secret, but now that I've acquired 4 of them, I can finally make a video and cause the prices to skyrocket to absurd levels almost immediately."

[@Hainbach]

Well, I had four since three years. And you are such a cynical person, please stop watching my channel.

[@GGprods-o2x]

This bro is like a hillbilly felt instruments.

[@Hainbach]

Well, I was first.

[@GGprods-o2x]

@@Hainbach first to look like a hillbilly maybe, but he's def first to making quality products that aren't just your usual shill content.

[@UnemployedFriend2pm]

For elite level engineering I'm bringing back the lab coat 🥼

[@commodoor6549]

And all this time I've been wasting my time honing my skills on a keyboard and guitar. I fee so stupid

[@Hainbach]

LOL I played nothing but scales for a year once, it is still useful today