Airplane Guidance System Goes Low

Maybe the oddest thing I ever made music with? The 1960s Bauknecht Tuning Fork Modulator STG 102 was used in instrument landing systems for airplanes and air traffic control. It is an electro-mechanical oscillator, which is both beautiful and very limited. But limits are great for creativity.
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[@Hainbach]

Soundpack and music from this video: patreon.com/hainbach Check out the amazing Dennis Weijers: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZoK0inZ6qc1lY9U

[@feudiable]

I'm always impressed by the devices Hainbach manages to find, but I'm even more impressed about the sweaters.

[@beatsbyblu6374]

thats a fact

[@supercompooper]

Why not visit his sweater channel? 🤠

[@mothratemporalradio517]

most wholesome electronica channel ever :)

[@xxx7917]

You will hate me for this . As a young airman I trashed heaps of this stuff when we upgraded to TACAN systems , I'm talking truckloads. Btw that is part of the approach and landing guidance system . The two frequencies are transmitted on different antennas,so if one is greater then the other you are off course for the runway ,amplitude sets distance

[@LYFoulidis]

Wooow basic triangulation by sound, very cool!

[@Someone89a]

Imagine an orchestra of these things…. Daaaamn

[@TheDeadlyKind]

The face of pure joy when you turn that thing on and hear the tones..... that's happiness.

[@Chris-vr8cd]

1:30 yea this cured his constipation for sure

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

That’s a beast! Fudging heck well cool

[@marctorres7182]

Hoping to see a Hainbach/ Look Mum collaboration soon ( and the return of Sambach :-) )

[@Hainbach]

In the works!

[@Chris-vr8cd]

@@Hainbach I hope we can here you guys jam. You two are like polar opposites, he's loud and energetic,you are subtle and calm. Maybe bring the accordion guy along too!

[@Erudotic]

I can't wait!

[@Tabu11211]

@@Hainbach :O

[@huntermerriman3288]

That thing sounds almost as cool as your sweater looks.

[@ThePsychoCzech]

oh hell yeah more test equipment! I wonder what the scientists in the 50s would think if they saw their very serious computation machines turned into techno instruments haha

[@noesunyoutuber7680]

There wasn't much in the way of Techno in the 50's, so I think they'd probably be shocked more by the music than the use of the equipment.

[@umbra5119]

they would probably love that its being used rather than being thrown away

[@BartManNL]

I love 1:30 where it starts overdriving. That happy look on Hainbach's face!

[@markusschreck6062]

It's not the mixer, it's the output 👍😁

[@Kevin.odonnell]

I believe that it would be used for intercepting a localizer frequency to help the aircraft set its glide slope. Those two frequencies, iirc, are the two that the antennae broadcast. When the plane receives an equal amplitude signal of both, then it’s on the slope. When it gets too much of one then it knows, based on which freq, that it is above or below the glide slope path.

[@Tabu11211]

that actually makes perfect sense!

[@richarquis]

That bit at 2.06-2.10, alternating the switches! That was hilarious, and it sounded pretty good too!

[@els1f]

I love the way old electronic equipment looks🤤❤️

[@elmilano1420]

SINEBACH! 😍 Love it!

[@lundsweden]

It has a tuning fork and pickups, that fork is massive though! Like a Rhodes piano from an alternative universe!

[@edgeeffect]

I could tell it was good bass because, listening on my phone, it was silent.... where did I put my headphones? Loved the collaboration.... could there be an album coming out of this?????

[@priqq1]

As always, sweater game on point 🔥🔥🔥

[@radarmusen]

Reminds me about bulova accutron tuning fork, pretty cool.

[@matthewmcree1992]

I had a working 1971 Bulova Accutron and never got tired of listening to the hum of the tuning fork inside (until a small amount of moisture got inside somehow and ruined it). I also have 2 Omega 360hz tuning fork watches I bought a few years ago and they were even cooler though.

[@spurioustransients]

When you first turned the effects on... Wow! What a phenomenal spine-tingling sound!

[@Hainbach]

Yeah I have a wild filterbank setup now - sometimes I just listen to it process its own noise. Its too good.

[@StephenMcLeod]

Turning equipment on always gives me the fear. This sounds fantastic. I like the idea that a plane landed near your house in confusion during this.

[@breadwarandcircus]

It is a quarter of a 12:1 scale model of a Lyra 8 from the 60s

[@AynenMakino]

That tone is intense! It actually made me queezy!

[@gothpuppy1123]

1:20 once both tones went into play it made my eyes start to water. Guess that really hit a nerve! I'll need to get one of these things for my sinuses!

[@StuderSSL]

My guess is that it is a frequency standard used for checking the audio frequency modulation of the radio beacon carrier waveform. Maybe the analog electronic oscillators in the 50's could not generate a low frequency waveform as precisely as a tuning fork could, and this was the era's quartz standard for low frequencies.

[@iosmusicman]

Superb little jam there and a double bonus to an ex private pilot. Cheers. Lee

[@Almanacs]

Lovely sound! And the performance at the end is amazing.

[@joeswaggy7779]

Amazing sound!

[@cruscifer]

It's all fun and games 'til an airliner lines up and lands on your studio

[@t0xcn253]

HAINBACH you just Mutually Assured Destructed my speakers

[@peladoclaus]

You really get the most beautiful tones out of this old equipment. It's quite impressive!

[@kristopherdetar4346]

OMG !!! I love it with effects. Fantastic Hainbach !!!!

[@ToreHansen]

It's so cool that you are doing this amazing job. That's why I now have cool album and the VST...

[@astrojazzman]

Sounds awesome, warm & thick 🎛

[@SufyMusic]

Fascinating

[@RobertSaxy]

Badass stuff

[@fivesolasfive]

Your sweater collection is underrated.

[@justinscarfe4294]

That sounds awesome!

[@julianreverse]

Beautiful little heavy box 😍

[@amillionorangedolphins9663]

Lovely music!

[@thedoc1210]

Stimmgabel Modulator is going to be the name of my next track, love the channel

[@dempsey2023]

Epic sampling!

[@929exrt3]

This machine is so beautiful!!!!

[@BottleBass1977]

Excellent! Need to listen to this again through decent speakers or headphones

[@bazedjunkiii_tv]

#happyhainbach is the most suitable hashtag for this video

[@phillipmitchell2254]

You could probably hack that into a synth and turn it into a rad electronic bass organ for industrial drone

[@chriswareham]

The track about halfway through this video is superb. Such a tease when it cuts off so soon though 😆

[@c0ldcity]

Awesome brioche jumper!

[@JubalCreech]

Amazing sweater!

[@tomipojaghi]

wowww amazing sound!!!

[@IhorMedia]

This overdrive ❤️

[@collinmc90]

ooohhhh man that was beautiful.

[@Rondo2ooo]

"That's a nice sine." Me on the phone... nothing. Picking up headphones, ah!

[@flowbius]

What a session! Absoloutely loving it! 😁🤙

[@horowizard]

I love the speckled silver‐grey paint finish.

[@joshbutler7966]

So cool!!!

[@dimensionalineage]

Splendid stuff. Require notes beyond two or three fixed frequencies? Run it thru a frequency shifter. Many folks often run crappy gear thru a bunch of effects. While that sometimes works, I much prefer the approach of manipulating far simpler, older, sexier, and ultimately more pleasing sounding equipment, as in the general music engineering approach of employing a better sound at the source to record utilizing a "better" instrument - whatever that means to the operator. I like that method. And these kinds of primitive oscillators inspire creativity. I cannot jive with a Microkorg. I no longer drink alcohol, though suddenly I miss a Warsteiner dunkel. Correlation? Yes.

[@tekvax01]

Hainbach! you find the coolest old electronics!

[@setharnold9764]

1:51 ooooooooh that's a nice noise

[@natebaxley8464]

this tech isn't obsolete, localizers and glide slopes work the same way nowadays. its used every day all over the world in instrument landing systems :)

[@urmom5835]

i am still amazed you dont do more movie soundtracks.

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

i needed this for my live nasa improvisation

[@juliana.2120]

i cant imagine any better place for something like this other than Hainbach's studio! :D

[@Bartyron]

1:50 pure bliss.

[@RCAvhstape]

Cool that it worked right out of the box. With old stuff like that you never know.

[@dumb445]

Wish my circuit bent Yamaha fm synth could sine this hard. Sounds glorious

[@omunitTV]

I need that sweater Hainbach!

[@bricelory9534]

I never even considered a 30Hz tuning fork, but why not? Beautifully bass.

[@NateHorn]

crunchy - need me one of these in 3U format

[@Alphastare23]

oh wow...just that tuning fork is badass.

[@larsdela9323]

And I see that a Nagra IV-S has been added to the collection? Nagras are really addictive...

[@Hainbach]

Absolut!

[@trex70]

For me the most exciting video I've seen from you so far. Fascinating with which signal generators you can create everything music. This reminds me that back then we used cassettes to store data and a sound signal was also used to record programs on e.g. load or save my ZX Spectrum. Für mich das spannendste Videos welches ich von dir bisher gesehen habe.Faszinierend mit welchen Signalgebern man alles Musik gestallten kann. Das erinnert mich daran das wir damals zur Datenspeicherung Kasetten benutzt haben und dort auch ein Tonsignal verwendet wurde um Programme auf zB. meinen ZX Spectrum zu laden oder zu speichern.

[@temporoboto]

Cool and interesting video, thanks for sharing.

[@spookygoost3620]

God this thing is so dope

[@draggonhedd]

2:08 the Hainbach secret method

[@Erudotic]

Oh wow my face is like yours on these first sounds, infinitely beautiful! Oh no, electroMECHANICAL? WOOOOOOW THE Possibilities!

[@doktorhopfenmachers5717]

wow a dream sine

[@matthewmcree1992]

Hainbach, I am always amazed with what you manage to use for music making. BTW, where did you get that INCREDIBLE sweater? I want one to wear/show off here in frigid Minnesota! You look fantastic in it!

[@crowlsyong]

This is freegin incredible. 1:17 Come on. I mean come ON. THIS is what youtube is all about baby!!!!!!!

[@crowlsyong]

Take my like and my sub

[@Hainbach]

Glad you enjoy it! I have so much fun making these.

[@neuzd]

That sweatshirt!

[@jonasglockner]

Brownsing KZbin on my Laptop... ohh Hainbach has a new Video: (Tubnail) Pure Sine Bass me: Oh I think im going to watch it later with my headphones then. haha

[@JureJerebic]

Happy belated bday!

[@Alien-qw5ks]

Absolutely stellar stuff, i could see my self playing for hours with that, i really love this, it is so inspiring. P.s. are those ribbon mics you use on the accordion?

[@Hainbach]

Thnak you! They are Extinct Audio BM9, they are fantastic.

[@DoctorNemmo]

Probably if you have one of those devices you can broadcast a pure sine wave and then use the Doppler effect to find out if you are getting closer or away from the source.

[@LizzardHimself]

2:06 mood

[@simoantere7283]

Somebody dislikes the video already. What’s up with these people? I don’t get it.

[@melodywave3]

You made me look -___-

[@stinkymart3173]

Looks a lot like the machine on the cover of the Hip's Phantom Power, which was also a piece of aircraft equipment appropriated for music use, but it turned out to have little audio capability

[@XANDRE.]

@AdamNeely this makes me think of your fractals video.

[@juicyriffs805]

Outstanding video! My back ground is in Electromechanical Engineering, and wow, Ive gotta say, this make want to modify this device to have variable frequency oscillators… Perhaps find a way to add a mechanical bracket which allows the tuner coil-inducers to be adjusted for different tuners? I dont know, but my imagination is going wild, wanting to experiment with this device… It really has great qualities for sound design! Kind regards, sir!

[@kevincc]

I love sine waves and beating sine waves

[@atschi2000phil]

Because it is/was inventory of the german air traffic control, which is responsible for all the radio navigational aids like the ILS in germany, this device is most likely used on the ground, where this navaids are stationed. I think it was used for tuning the ILS and its regular maintenance. If you are really interested in its use, I could ask an ILS technician at work about it.

[@Hainbach]

Yeah, this is ground equipment. From what I gathered from aviator's feedback here, this unit provided the same guiding signals that are in use today, 90 and 150hz. So it likely was the guiding oscillator for ILS.

[@mikegeary8056]

ELECTO-MECHANICAL!!!!!

[@zsteinkamp]

Accordion button percussion!

[@Psionetics]

Whoa

[@PoulLarsenmusic]

This sound should be in a horror movie

[@johnnyraphaell]

Woow dunkeeel

[@johnelwer3633]

You could probably get different tuning forks for different note options.

[@GeorgeLocke]

I think hainbach went back in time to a 1970s casino to steal some curtains so that he could have that shirt made.

[@234cheech]

10/10

[@SufyMusic]

this would be good with the flute IMO

[@lunarlight1]

that jam is quality! what kind of volumes are you at for something like that ?

[@bobbystarchild975]

Wooop!!

[@DRRNNDGL]

need to hear this played through a EHX Pog or somthing