This is a very cool drum

[@robscallon]

Mmmmm analog reverb

[@GoviaM]

rob scallon

[@aronta9059]

Mmmmm

[@AndreasAmorsen]

Having once watched a Rob Scallon video collaboration with Reverb, and obviously now considering myself an expert in this field, I found myself screaming: touch it, just TOUCH IT! throughout the first half of this video.

[@realsammyt]

I think I’ve seen this somewhere…

[@alecgalloway3518]

Yummy

[@Hainbach]

After all the high-end footage of a spring reverb flying around I loved the out-of focus shot. Human after all.

[@atomboyd]

You sure? Dude JUST got back from space.

[@Hainbach]

​@@atomboyd Yeah we chatted on short wave before he left orbit. What an adventure!

[@TheDarkMessiah]

His new cam likes the guitars more than it likes Andrew :/

[@andrewhuang]

😂😂😂

[@StudioSensei]

I thought the same thing.. but mostly we just watched a full high production value space odyssey from Andrew, and his first video back on earth is more, well.. down to earth (production wise).. I love it all.

[@marcingrajcar3469]

what we actually need from Andrew is a proper dark techno rave/industrial track using these drums!

[@StefanCreates]

7 minutes long minimum

[@whyage3473]

Same thought.

[@_-Marcel-_]

Yesss! 🔥

[@SlyHikari03]

Yes

[@adambrowne01]

Tbh. I was thinking the same. I just want a wonky techno track with these metallic sounds

[@EdrikPrinsMusic]

It's such an Andrew thing to have his modular sorted by color.

[@sbsftw4232]

I choose to believe he couldn't decide between white and black, so he just bought one of each. For every module.

[@badfish41969]

He seems like a very well organized type of dude

[@aedile2819]

every day Andrew gets closer to sounding like Aphex Twin

[@teodorodevecchi4023]

Also this reminded me of something like Burial

[@Shrimpy08]

Hey the microphones

[@f52_yeevy]

Probably more like Merzbow. In fact, there's even a video of him live using a spring reverb.

[@Elriri]

yes

[@billypilgrim1]

Blasphemy

[@NathanaelNewton]

Anyone who's ever played with a doorstop knows that this is a sound we've been looking for all our lives

[@ConManAU]

Aunty Donna: Everything’s a drum! Andrew: Hold my reverb.

[@lo-firobotboy7112]

LOL....this makes me feel VERY OLD. We used to love playing with the reverb tank in the mixers in the band room back in high school, circa 1988. We would run the reverb output through a Boss distortion pedal or feed it back into the mixer's eq . The other fun thing to do was to stretch an engine timing spring (aka Slinky) across a room with a cheap pair of piezoelectric pickups (aka Walkman headphones) attached to one end with a rubber band. You plug the headphones into onf of the mic inputs on the mixer and run that signal through the mixer's reverb tank. Viola! You have all you need to write the score to Forbidden Planet. Love you work... Cheers!

[@NorthTexasEagle1989]

Dude, I hope you are a sound engineer now. We need you.

[@lo-firobotboy7112]

@@NorthTexasEagle1989 Only as a hobby. I went into Industrial Design and became a toy designer. I've worked on a few music toys though.

[@benjamintoulouse7052]

I have a similar, sort of anachronistic memory, but just holding a slinky to my ear and letting it hang down, before tapping it on the side to make a Star Wars blaster noise. Heh.

[@BeTheAeroplane]

So I just quickly gave this a try with "Echo" in Ableton and it's pretty sick. Just crank the feedback and send it anything. Then you can play with the delay time, reverb, and EQ, and as a bonus, there's modulation! It sounds best with the reverb location on "Feedback". Important: put a limiter on the track.

[@alvaroalexanderavelar3419]

Do you have a tutorial? xD

[@marcusmiller3354]

hey do i need analog gear to connect it to ableton ?? or could i do this with only a midi keyboard and an audio interface ?

[@BeTheAeroplane]

@@marcusmiller3354 Are you talking about the echo thing, or just in general? In general you'll be fine with a midi controller and interface. For the echo thing, you don't really need either. It's just using the "Echo" (that is the name of it) effect inside Ableton with the feedback cranked up to generate a tone.

[@marcusmiller3354]

@@BeTheAeroplane maybe i misunderstood ur comment i thought u was talking abt sending the spring reverb in the video into "echo" in ableton. And i was wondering if i could use this analog reverb without any analog gear to plug it into

[@BeTheAeroplane]

@@marcusmiller3354 No. I am using nothing except Echo on a track with no other effects (except a limiter to not blow my speakers up) and then sending it any random sample to get it to start feeding back.

[@resting27]

4 producers 1 spring reverb. Has to be done. Go go go!

[@PaulBreitzmann]

So... the spring reverb has feedback that feeds reverb back into the reverb. Then you added gates to turn that into drums, and then for good measure you put that into Ableton and added some reverb. The only thing left is to sample that and feed it back into the modular spring reverb to complete the circle of life.

[@ThisIsRobinY2K]

I'd LOVE a sample pack made out of just the cool sounds and feedback from the spring reverb

[@6kine6tic67]

Then make one.

[@ThisIsRobinY2K]

@@6kine6tic67 If I had the modules and the spring Reverb I definitely would

[@ThisIsRobinY2K]

HE MADE A SAMPLE PACK LETS GO!!

[@formerastronaut]

Guitarists who've been "kicking the reverb tank" for decades nodding slowly in the corner

[@theofficialczex1708]

"Needs 20 more OTTs." - Virtual Riot's best friend, Eliminate, probably

[@Rilloster]

Hey Andrew , ive been following you for 2 years and i just want to say: you’re the most intuitive, creative producer I’ve ever come across! The inspiration you give and the music you make is pure genius! I really hope that you recognize the value of the videos you are putting out to us and the kind of help you are providing for us who have lost inspiration or music-making ideas and different point of views. I really want to wish you the best possible outcome of your life. Thank you Andrew.

[@dreamyarts4907]

You're telling me that me getting lost in details of the thing that is interesting and realising me making use of the knowledge I have gained and transforming that into a product is a good idea worthy of happening. Thank you Andrew.

[@needfortweed8734]

I love the fact that Andrew felt he had to voice the sound going into the cables. I chuckled, I did...

[@weareallbeingwatched4602]

We could have had some effects. Pitch shifter and ring modulation for the win...

[@rygelxv]

The band Einstürzende Neubauten had a lot of percussion and sounds coming from springs, and doing drums to them. Much later, they dedicated a whole song to this, Feder Vice (Feder is german for spring).

[@talesofgore9424]

I need a version of this that uses one of those doorstops that goes BOINOINOINOINOINOING when you tweak it.

[@Rmcbeatz.]

It’s cool because Andrew says it is

[@BigDamnArtist]

For anyone that doesn't know, Rob Scallon has a really great, nearly hour long, video exploring different types of analogue reverbs that is definitely worth a watch if you were curious about the spring reverb in this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJeohJiZbbisZtk

[@AndyGneiss]

I came here to recommend that video. It was a fantastic dive into the world of reverb technology.

[@ItsPBUH]

nice, thanks

[@a_fallen_temple]

As a noise musician this is right up my ally. Loved the percussion sounds, reminds me of the kind of output i get out the the Pulsar from SOMA!

[@DavidHilowitzMusic]

I love this video! Really inspiring. I've had a spring reverb sitting on my shelf for several months now and I'm ashamed to say I haven't really played with it. My plan was to try to insert it into a violin I'm building. I might have to try using it as a percussive device first. Once it's inside the violin, there's no getting it out. ;)

[@neon_berni]

Loved that choppy industrial sound at 2.45, would be awesome in a nasty dubstep track.

[@phxphy]

I’m about to start scoring my first film pretty soon, and this kind of insight is exactly what I needed to get even more excited and creative with my sound design. It’s a fantasy-horror film, so this is perfect. ❤️

[@aural_supremacy]

If you haven’t seen Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock playing Star Spangled Banner check it out, part of his sound was manually plucking the springs of the whammy/vibrato system on a Fender Stratocaster fed into a wah, fuzz face, octave fuzz, univibe rotating speaker simulator then into 2 100 watt overdriven tube amp heads outputting into 16 12 inch speakers that are also miked? and fed into the pa, which gave a massive wave of oscillating feedback which He surfed by using the guitar controls and playing it at the same time kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6usYqivlpdkaas Don’t know if the link works but Experience Hendrix is all over on the copyright so the clips come and go, full performance is available on DVD.

[@stiptreezy8481]

Andrew always coming up with the most abstract, creative methods. I wanna hear these sounds on a movie score 🤯

[@hickorymccay2994]

Jamaican producer King Tubby used this type of sound a lot in the 70s. The avant-garde collective The Residents (the eyeball mask guys) used it on their song Smelly Tongues as well.

[@Den_Anderen]

The sounds and rhythms generated by the spings remind me of Ansome - Stowaway, it always felt industrially primal-ish to me. Now i at least understand where i get the industrial viabe from!

[@LTGuitarist]

Have you tried placing the spring on a snare drum and using it as a contact mic? Other types of drum are available.

[@VlogsJake]

It definitely blowing my mind to see a stringed instrument as a drum. I know like the snare drum uses wires to make the snare drum vibration but it's just astounding that you'd expect a guitar or bass sound and it comes off like a drum

[@HNMusic13]

Just joined your class on monthly. Looking forward to learning more about music production!

[@themandownstairs4765]

I've loved spring reverb since I learned about King Tubby, so glad you decided to cover it

[@talesofgore9424]

Those ghostly tones do have a dub reggae energy to them

[@MikesBakes]

Andrew should open an interactive music museum with modular synths

[@kiadora7010]

this is SOCOOL & i love how skilled you are - your vids are fire!

[@lauandersen4894]

Wow, your module wall... rack... brick... cluster... place... thing looks crazy😆

[@Scyllless]

I can remember listening to similar types of sounds when I used fl studio and i had some reverb and grossbeat on the same track, whenever i stopped playing whatever it was there were still those ghostly reverb-ish kind of drum sounds that quickly faded into nothingness, but definitely had that quality to it. Super cool to play with that sound!

[@WavesNGames]

The cable voice shows that you've really become a parent.

[@micowata]

So glad to see you cover this one reverb in particular ! I really enjoyed how you also embrace using it as a sound source/oscillator. I mostly use it for bell sounds and very chaotic places. You can hear it all on my recordings of the last 4 months, often used in combination with a Springray.

[@sampsahult3752]

I agree Andrew! Just hooked up a Doepfer spring reverb in my modular and you pretty much can't imitate the sound it creates. It's awesome. Thanks for all the content!

[@nickcarophotography]

One of the originators of this sound was the dub master Osbourne "King Tubby" Ruddock way back in the 60's/70's. Grampian Spring reverb, Fischer Space Expander delay and hi-pass filter and then play the springs with a drum stick..

[@ericlewis3444]

I went to a thrift store back in the day and bought a reverb amp. Never seen anything like it. Obviously a 60s or 70s solid state amp. The front has a bunch of lights, each time you move the reverb dial, it makes the lights separate, making a fuzzy light pattern. the effect of the audio through it sounds VERY similar to this!

[@paulsmallmusic]

I loved the saga, but I missed this kind of videos. Glad to have you back on Earth!

[@kirkydaturkey]

That looks insanely fun 🤩 Love the experiment with the percussive reverb

[@monkey_breath]

a few of those reverb hits sounded like a good dark acid bass, would be cool to sample those and pitch them around. love it though, that module isdef going on my wishlist!

[@Fractalfrog]

Thanks for the super awesome vid. Feedback loops are an ongoing obsession in my creative journey. What started as a way to keep my visual art from violating music copyrights has become a whole new rabbit hole of soundscape creation. Your channel helped me so much in allocating precious resources for some specialized hardware. STOKED!

[@benodaboy]

I loved your space journey but GOD I’ve missed this content.

[@Gunbudder]

This is a lot like piano wire memory, which involves twisting a very long piano wire quickly. the twist flying along the wire is resent around the loop when it reaches the end and represents data

[@resp0nse_beats]

You are an absolute MADMAN Andrew. Stay MAD!

[@chromeatic788]

I feel like running the vibe boom through this would be spectacular. Or even generating vibe booms spontaneously by smacking the spring.

[@zairadile]

I'm reminded of those spring-mounted stoppers placed behind doors to stop them from smacking into the wall when opened all the way. Andrew playing the reverb springs directly kinda makes me think of what would happen if someone attached a contact mic to one of those door stoppers.

[@Omlet221]

2:44 This is what you would hear if you are on the run from cyber police in a sci fi video game

[@Kataclysm113]

i'm gonna be honest, i havent actually watched any of your videos in about 3 years, and i was not expecting to see a massive spaceship control panel when i got back. glad to see the pandemic has been productive.

[@themandownstairs4765]

4:01 sounds like it could be the backbone to a horror movie score

[@JYoutubes10]

I was amused with the cable voices. It reminded me of Bob talking to his garden in Bob's Burgers.

[@pesterenan]

That was funny, I laughed at lot at the little sound wave going "ahahaha! I love to go down these cables!" XD

[@D-Man_Jam]

7:16 Sounds like suspensful detective music from a 2000's USA channel tv show

[@cashwarior]

ah man I miss Space Time already 😫but glad to see new content!!

[@TinyMaths]

I haven't watched your channel in a very long time. I remember when you got your first modular synth case and packed it with a few modules. Now your studio is starting to look like some kind of futuristic mad scientist's laboratory, nested inside a 'cleanroom' ; beautiful.

[@unclemick-synths]

I had a Great British Spring Mk2. Was great for stereo thunder effects by kicking the pipe it was built into!

[@joelkulesha8284]

Your video's introduced me to modular 3 or 4 years ago and I've been obsessed ever since. Now I have a rack and its so cool seeing the modules I have showing up in your case as well! The modular is looking gorgeous btw! Next you need an all white and gold NLC section! Or an addac red section!?

[@perkeleman1265]

4:04 is giving me some Woodkid - Goliath Vibes, this is very cool sound design.

[@jarcau_vegan]

00:34 Teletubbies for audio-addict -adults- children. So much fun. So much respect 🍀🙏🏻🍀

[@Jeffro28227]

Dude, you're incredible. Thanks for this.

[@martincasadoblanco7799]

I love this video. Such a great comeback

[@Dayta]

back in like 1985-1990 somwhere around that my dad build a electric organ like literaly every single electric part smolding everything together on his own it was called "wersi helios" .. it had 2 springs like that (maybe twice the lenght) capsulated within a metal box to shield it from the magnetic influence around it i suppose .. it was beeing used to created reverbs and since it was open while he build all that me as a kid of couse noticed how you can annoy mum by moving the organ and make those springs hit the inside of the metal box which created like a lightning strike very loud :D like .. little kid moving this thingy and its loud and kid gets atantion type of game :D .. just listening those spring sounds bringt back alot of memorys

[@jokyo4608]

I took the monthly class last year and released my new album 6 months later :)

[@js4life257]

I’m so glad you’re back, I’ve missed you.

[@iamsushi1056]

I’m like thirty seconds in and I’m hooked.

[@johnywhy4679]

I really like that you're exploring and discovering live.

[@vitogatto]

3:00 Andrew has been physically reverberated!

[@Styner09]

Your setup looks like a freakin space command center from a movie, lol.

[@milanoid1]

The sound at 2:29 is similar to the sound used at the begin of the Korn and Ice Cube video. As I heard it for the first time in childhood, I never heard it anywhere else. In this video has a very similar sound.

[@rolandmdill]

Natural Gate is such a great sounding LPG, one of my favourite modules

[@friesiamans1966]

the first sounds remind me soo of our first sound adventures during the time of the cassette ear from the late 70s into the 80s when we´d use anything that produced a sound - and i remember well, how we played on the back of my father´s rocking chair, which had many springs in it and when we hit on the frame, we got these almost spooky sounds out of them, haha - i had almost forgotten about that... :-)

[@ChurchOfTheHolyMho]

So interesting to see you discover something I discovered Freshman year by accidentally kicking the mixing desk where the spring reverb was mounted. Was interesting to see you combine the old with the new. BTW, when the mixing desk is a large chunk of plywood with lots of surface area, with the help of EQ and loud enough monitor speakers, you can get create feedback by getting the desk itself to vibrate... followed by conversations with your professor. lol

[@ThePlodger]

Digital reverb also works well. Different to a mechanical spring, but definitely its own thing. Also, try putting some nontrivial effects in the feedback loop. Band pass filters can give you haunting melody/drone lines. Pitch shifters can sound amazing too.

[@Shunnabunich]

Don't forget, you can get bigger spring tanks for even more ridiculous reverb. For that matter, if you're in a DIY kinda mood, you can just get some springs on their own (from…whatever you can cannibalize a few springs from) and reuse the transducer and pickup from the unit you've already got. (Come to think of it…do they even need to be springs?)

[@Goliemaskguy]

So fun thing that you can also do with a open spring tank, put it in the kick drum and blend it with the dry signal gives this wonk bass sound

[@inexpensive_housing-2948]

Banging a spring reverb was one of the defining techniques in Jamaican dub music. so big shoutouts to King Tubby and th rest!

[@DonovanPresents]

I accidently had the self-oscillating effects pedal on Logic Pro years ago and that was such a mind blowing moment! Cool to see you can do it analog as well. 😁👍

[@iamsushi1056]

Oh my gosh Andrew play with convolution reverb. It’s amazing for this

[@holyordersotaku3768]

Before I started messing with synths and Abelton these videos were just interesting or cool. Now I'm taking notes.

[@azabass]

Andrew literally just did a SOPHIE tutorial and no one noticed

[@notaboutit3565]

Can you elaborate? I’m interested

[@azabass]

@@notaboutit3565 When hes plucking the spring, sounds alot like a SOPHIE pluck IMO, specifically from the track Unisil

[@jmalmsten]

I'd recommend looking up the Blaster Beam instrument. Basically a giant 5.5m long metal beam strung with tensed wires. Famously used in the first Star Trek movie and a few later productions. This spring reverb sounds a lot like it... which I guess isn't too surprising as they work on similar principles. It's also a bit like how they made the blaster sounds in Star Wars by attaching contact microphones to anchorwires for various radio-towers and banging on the wires. But it is fun to see that even at a modest size it still makes fun sounds.

[@whynotanyting]

4:04 Suddenly Goliath by Woodkid. Really neat sounds!

[@TheSakuraGumiLTD]

Adjustable sizes for different base notes… and certain note In general… might be less space horror movie in vibe

[@remingtonleeman]

3:00 Me coveting my friends audio equipment while he’s talking to me

[@Doomlaser]

reminds me of the Blaster Beam, the monstrous stringed behemoth used for the distinctive spooky sounds of "V'Ger" in the Star Trek: The Motion Picture soundtrack

[@MarcMajcher]

I started playing with spring reverbs when I build my first Apprehension Engine a couple of years ago, and they're *super* fun to play with. I haven't tried doing this with it yet, but I'm about to!

[@sharpenednoodles]

everything's a drum, EVERYTHING'S A DRUM

[@AndyChamberlainMusic]

Heaviest growl ever at 2:44 lmao

[@TGKawikachu]

2:18 ah so this is where the vine boom sound effect came from

[@officialLINKSIS]

I love spring reverbs! Playing the springs could make for a cool sample pack 😏

[@donovanthompson2212]

What about putting some sort of vibration motor or like an exciter on the spring reverb itself, maybe make it a module itself to be controlled with like an envelope or oscillator? Maybe force the drum sounds on the springs itself...

[@maomallows]

Yes.. Yes! YESS!!! More sound design sessions please. I really find inspiration when producers just mess around and get something creative out of it.

[@netizen_m3919]

Andrew lives in a 1970s science fiction film. The white room and buttons and knobs are 🔥😂

[@machinima1402]

The most literal spring reverb i have ever heard about

[@VoyivodaFTW1]

You are my constant reminder that music is just sound waves and that I can use whatever sounds I want to make music.

[@Gunbudder]

the tribrows hit just as hard as they did in 2007. who else remembers touchtone genius?

[@ecclesman]

No one: Minecraft cave sounds: 1:03