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David Hilowitz Music

David Hilowitz Music

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@gmike10
@gmike10 Жыл бұрын
Never has an origin story made more sense to me.
@drunkendrink5241
@drunkendrink5241 Жыл бұрын
ong
@eternalsence3033
@eternalsence3033 Жыл бұрын
i was just about to comment this, right when i saw the pickups with the ductape all his other videos made so much more sense and i could see how it all started haha
@jamesnotjames
@jamesnotjames Жыл бұрын
literallyyyyy
@nostalgia_junkie
@nostalgia_junkie Жыл бұрын
extremely evocative of spider-man's spider of random chance
@topbreak38
@topbreak38 Жыл бұрын
An ad for the new exorcist movie came on before the video and my knee-jerk reaction to your comment was that you were a fan of the franchise.
@madcorndog
@madcorndog Жыл бұрын
building an electric guitar setup from old scraps. Now that's Rock'n'Roll.
@Balzhag
@Balzhag Жыл бұрын
and punk too (:
@BatteryAcidEater
@BatteryAcidEater Жыл бұрын
And metal 🤘
@antares4975
@antares4975 Жыл бұрын
@@BatteryAcidEater i think, metal is far too gear oriented. like, you have to have humbuckers and only in brigde position, you have to have a tight boosted hi gain amp, you have to use jumbo frets to shred like dime, etc.. Metal loves Subgenres. If you wanna sound like death metal, your sound has not much room to wiggle. The guitar tone defines Metal and separates it from rock in all its own subgenres.
@BatteryAcidEater
@BatteryAcidEater Жыл бұрын
@@antares4975 yes, but i love metal i dont care about these things
@antares4975
@antares4975 Жыл бұрын
@@BatteryAcidEater i love metal too, i'm just saying it is different than this
@seasong7655
@seasong7655 Жыл бұрын
This guy straight up builds his own electric guitar at age 12. Respect
@kotbayun2207
@kotbayun2207 Жыл бұрын
the guy finds anything in trash and it works perfectly fine. that's some LUCK
@YskarAlbumLuna
@YskarAlbumLuna 10 ай бұрын
Almost sounds like destiny
@NegativeReferral
@NegativeReferral 8 ай бұрын
@@kotbayun2207 And with strings it's not meant to handle.
@Kasikerim
@Kasikerim 6 ай бұрын
Its almost impossible because you have to make a jack input and connect it to pickup with hardware. Idk how he did or if its real but its not that simple bruv
@NegativeReferral
@NegativeReferral 6 ай бұрын
@@Kasikerim that's not that difficult, since you can often just put the pick up in the sound hole, and if you do want the input to be on the side, it's pretty simple to drill a hole, get the components in, screw it in, and then put the strings on.
@tomney4460
@tomney4460 Жыл бұрын
“Anything can be a distortion pedal” *runs to toaster*
@tylerphillips503
@tylerphillips503 Жыл бұрын
It can really distort a warm bath
@devoicedmusic
@devoicedmusic Жыл бұрын
A toaster is basically already a distortion pedal for bread. Soft, boring thing goes in, Awesome, crunchy things comes out.
@bluechalk6275
@bluechalk6275 Жыл бұрын
It's been 3 days. Someone should do a wellness check.
@tomney4460
@tomney4460 Жыл бұрын
@@bluechalk6275 I did it
@abraxasjinx5207
@abraxasjinx5207 Жыл бұрын
​@@tomney4460how did it sound?
@donkeyrockerstudios
@donkeyrockerstudios Жыл бұрын
i did a similar thing with a Hello Kitty karaoke machine when I was a kid. I had a cheap squier tele and no amp so i plugged the guitar into this hot pink Hello Kitty karaoke machine i bought at goodwill for a few dollars. The cool thing about that machine was that it had a quarter inch input rather than just some built in wired mic. Also, there was an "Echo" knob which sounded amazing.
@FreeCatCheese
@FreeCatCheese Жыл бұрын
Yup, we had a karaoke machine as well, that was like a cheapie CD/DVD player, with some discs with lyrics. It had an echo knob as well. I actually recorded some stuff onto a bookshelf system that you could stack up to 4 tracks by bouncing tape to tape, backing down on the input level on each pass. You could go further, but it was reasonably listenable after 4 passes, but more than that it was mush. 😁
@AwkwardHypernerd413
@AwkwardHypernerd413 Жыл бұрын
Holy shit I’m not the only one lol. I’ve used TWO karaoke machines so far, mainly as a bigger speaker for my orange crush mini. The second karaoke machine has several effects, and I can get a pretty cool chug sound if I pair it with the crush mini
@nyxcal
@nyxcal 9 ай бұрын
do you still have it? that’d be cool to see again
@JohnnyBravo-zz2nz
@JohnnyBravo-zz2nz 6 ай бұрын
I HAD THE SAME ONE AND DID THE EXACT SAME THING. AND THAT ECHO SERIOUSLY IS THE DHIT
@JohnnyBravo-zz2nz
@JohnnyBravo-zz2nz 6 ай бұрын
I had the same things as a kid and did the SAME exact thing lmao. And the echo really was a good reverb/delay substitute
@scowellmusic3632
@scowellmusic3632 Жыл бұрын
as far as I know, this is similar to how the band Neutral Milk Hotel got that guitar sound on their albums, particularly the song Holland 1945 from In The aeroplane Over The Sea. They didn't use any traditional pedals, and instead just recorded an acoustic, overloaded the pre-amps and plugged straight into the mixer - and it sounds amazing. It's a great technique and I think it has such a unique sound, especially when used with an acoustic!
@jeraldjoyce2995
@jeraldjoyce2995 Жыл бұрын
I think that's a big part of Jeff's tone. A combination of pre amp clipping and tape saturation. When he was performing live, I think he used a Soviet big muff and it got pretty close.
@scowellmusic3632
@scowellmusic3632 Жыл бұрын
yeah, a green russian to be precise. Really unique sound. Think he used some sort of pedal (possibly the green russian big muff) to record avery island but I could be wrong.@@jeraldjoyce2995
@heggy_69
@heggy_69 Жыл бұрын
The rolling stones did a similar thing, but way more subtle lol
@actuallythepie
@actuallythepie Жыл бұрын
Also the band, The Microphones!
@erikerikerikerikerik
@erikerikerikerikerik Жыл бұрын
on the single version of revolution, the beatles did a similar thing. just with an electric instead
@mikecunningham4682
@mikecunningham4682 Жыл бұрын
Your endless tinkerings never fail to astound me. You've got such a musically creative brain, you're a younger Les Paul. Big love, Mr Hilowitz ❤
@DavidHilowitzMusic
@DavidHilowitzMusic Жыл бұрын
Ah, thanks! Glad you’ve been enjoying the videos
@zeandro6403
@zeandro6403 Жыл бұрын
hey btw, that song you played in combination with both devices, is it an actual existing song and if yes can you give me the name and if no, can you upload a full version? :D@@DavidHilowitzMusic
@GameyRaccoon
@GameyRaccoon 9 ай бұрын
@@zeandro6403It's Tropical Storm by Manwomanchild! (Dave's band) It's on his bandcamp and there's a link in the description.
@3_ormorecharacters
@3_ormorecharacters 11 ай бұрын
4:15 that one chord brings back late 2022 flashbacks 💀
@crashscreen8200
@crashscreen8200 6 ай бұрын
I think it's better to call Saul
@GMByteJavaTM
@GMByteJavaTM 5 ай бұрын
S'all good, man
@i6leed
@i6leed 4 ай бұрын
skibidi lawyer moment
@icey_sickle
@icey_sickle 3 ай бұрын
@@i6leed STEP ON A LEGO WILL YOU???!!!👹👹👺👺👹💔💔💔🤬🤬🤬
@CassSheldonMisri
@CassSheldonMisri 10 ай бұрын
Ok that’s cool and all, but can it run doom?
@ing.beaver
@ing.beaver 5 ай бұрын
underated comment
@Wyd.joshua
@Wyd.joshua 4 ай бұрын
Your asking all the right questions 😂
@aussierhino8535
@aussierhino8535 4 ай бұрын
Hah
@LlayneSstaley
@LlayneSstaley 4 ай бұрын
The answer is always yes
@HellMunky
@HellMunky 4 ай бұрын
it must doom or it must die... then doom.
@kingmuffin2502
@kingmuffin2502 Жыл бұрын
One thing this video taught me is that you were more musically innovative at the age of 12 then anyone else I know at any age. Well done Sir.
@themac6356
@themac6356 Жыл бұрын
Genuinely thought you were gonna start playing the Better Call Saul theme at 4:15. Nifty tape deck honestly! Always really liked the look of mid 1970s tech.
@saularchlnux
@saularchlnux Жыл бұрын
the A chord will never be the same again.
@GarrionOne
@GarrionOne Жыл бұрын
was looking for this comment
@JustAcrylicArts
@JustAcrylicArts Жыл бұрын
@@GarrionOne same
@fritz6862
@fritz6862 11 ай бұрын
I WAS JUST GONNA SAY THAT
@jwdunn6401
@jwdunn6401 11 ай бұрын
Same here
@dmoore0079
@dmoore0079 Жыл бұрын
I had kind of a similar story. When I was 11, I was given a beat up 1960's Teisco electric guitar with no amplifier. I had a couple of random pieces of stereo equipment that I used as an amp, and eventually discovered distortion when I fed the output of one amp into the input of another. It sounded pretty gnarly, but I loved it!
@perkins1439
@perkins1439 8 ай бұрын
We would get quarter inch input cable with RCA jacks plug into the back of a stereo if you use the phono input you can overdrive the circuit and get that tone
@Zactivist
@Zactivist Жыл бұрын
:) one thing I love about your videos is not just your excellent musical knowledge... it's your masterful storytelling. Thanks for another great video.
@DavidHilowitzMusic
@DavidHilowitzMusic Жыл бұрын
Thanks! So glad you been enjoying them
@kevinboggan
@kevinboggan Жыл бұрын
This is great, man. I love that the tone took you straight away to something pretty early-Weezer-y. That's where my brain immediately went too!
@vantatv6655
@vantatv6655 Жыл бұрын
I totally got old rivers cuomo demos from this! Like something from the alone comps
@pepsy910
@pepsy910 Жыл бұрын
rivers said himself that he used no pedals in the recording of blue album!
@yyams
@yyams Жыл бұрын
my brain went straight there too:D
@zombie-process7025
@zombie-process7025 Жыл бұрын
The record/playback on that 45+ year old tape deck is EXCELLENT. Especially give its age.
@MayhemJack
@MayhemJack Жыл бұрын
Dude has been finding stuff in the trash since he was a kid, and made a career out of it! What an inspiration! Another reminder that real artists don't come from money. Art is borne out of need and wanting; it comes from longing. You can make a hell of a lot more with a little or nothing than if you had everything!
@jasonnicholas4336
@jasonnicholas4336 Жыл бұрын
Lovely recollection; I’m envisioning a story 40 years from now where someone describes finding an abandoned Ableton Push in an alleyway as a kid and that’s what started it for them.
@Jesse.Dangerously
@Jesse.Dangerously Жыл бұрын
but it's an acoustic ableton push, and they have to find some way to distort its output
@davemakesnoises
@davemakesnoises 5 ай бұрын
i got my first ableton license from a friend i met at a concert, and found a push 2 used at guitar center for half price, sold it back to ableton for 200 more than i paid on a trade in for push 3
@potatobomb13
@potatobomb13 Жыл бұрын
That classical electric guitar thing was so cool!
@kaitlyn__L
@kaitlyn__L Жыл бұрын
Fun fact, the area under both curves on the distorted waveform is (almost) the same, the height is very different (which is part of what makes the sound interesting) but so is the phase of the zero-point and that kinda cancels out
@josiahriggins3358
@josiahriggins3358 Жыл бұрын
Everytime I watch one of your videos I am blown away with how aesthetically pleasing, curiousity driven, inspiring, and simple (the best kind of simple) they are. The videos really, at least it seems to me, are a piece of your mind/creativeness that you have tapped into so incredibely well. Thank you for doing what you do and inspiring myslef and others!
@1oolabob
@1oolabob Жыл бұрын
The story part of this is very rock and roll. You knew what kind of sound you wanted, then did the experimentation to invent it for yourself. There's something really wonderful about that entire approach to music-making and to life in general. I'm mainly a percussionist. Anything that can resonate is a percussion instrument. Not gonna tell my poor-boy story, but if you know you're a musician at heart and you don't have a lot of money to spend on stuff, you find ways to make your music anyway. Great song too. I love everything about this.
@1oolabob
@1oolabob 11 ай бұрын
I'm back to watch this again. I got all the how-to the first time I watched...but I like the story.
@thatcipher
@thatcipher Жыл бұрын
people like you are such an inspiration I really felt like I was supposed to make music like a formula to get success but people like you showed me there is sooo much freedom to music. Who cares if my music will be listened by 10 people at a peak as long as it was fun and I poured in my soul? Gear like this is so unconventional but sounds damn great. I love it.
@stevedotwav
@stevedotwav Жыл бұрын
My first "guitar amp" was also a radio shack stereo amp 😅 when I finally got a proper amp, it was just a head and we built a cab with old car speakers. I think these kinds of experiences are actually really beneficial because you learn a lot along the way, and it creates a lot of extra creative pathways in your brain instead of getting railroaded along the "proper" track
@zantetsuken-zero
@zantetsuken-zero Жыл бұрын
4:14 this chord has been ruined forever for me
@ynzsbstn
@ynzsbstn Жыл бұрын
Same lol, I thought he was gonna play it
@heidenbarrel
@heidenbarrel Жыл бұрын
NOOOO
@weshard1
@weshard1 Жыл бұрын
My early guitar journey was very similar. First guitar was an old Eko acoustic that my father found in a skip. I don’t remember what happened to it, but it’s no longer in my possession. My first electric was a Fender Tele that got traded for a step exercises machine, that I originally paid £10 for. I didn’t have an amp, of course, but saw that the old 70s tape deck my parents had, had a mic input, and it gave the exact distortion tone you speak of. At the time, it sounded amazing to my ears.
@hisnameisjoel
@hisnameisjoel Жыл бұрын
Not only are you a fantastic musician but you're a fantastic storyteller. Every single video you make has me lost in your world and I love every chance I get to visit!
@SubSkrub
@SubSkrub Жыл бұрын
This is awesome! Ever since I was a kid I've always loved messing around with abandoned gear and experimenting with how it can be used 😁
@richardleveille3254
@richardleveille3254 3 ай бұрын
Cool! When I was 12, I plugged my first electric guitar into that same Realistic mixer, then into my parents stereo! Great memories!
@butthemeatwasbad
@butthemeatwasbad Жыл бұрын
That combo sounded so good. I would love to have THAT in a pedal.
@getsideways7257
@getsideways7257 11 ай бұрын
At least that sounded relatively decent...
@dylan_1884
@dylan_1884 6 ай бұрын
Man if I had knew you as children we would have been the best of friends. I wanted an upright bass at age 11-12 so I made one out of a plastic storage tote, a 2 by 4, weed whacker strings, and screws for the tuning pegs. I went on to make various little crazy projects with my friends, one of them being a talk box (easier to make than you may believe!). I still make homemade instruments to this day. Thank you for sharing this with us!
@thecutmusic1
@thecutmusic1 Жыл бұрын
this is one of my favorite channels on the entirety of KZbin! always enjoy your videos David!
@suprotivnemarny
@suprotivnemarny Жыл бұрын
Все що ви робите, пане - це неймовірно. Дякую вам
@FlameFlickers
@FlameFlickers Жыл бұрын
That was wonderful. Great content, no waffle or timewasting and really well edited and presented. Well done sir!
@braydenroden
@braydenroden 3 ай бұрын
Bro the mic input just sounded absolutely awesome, i literally paused it and showed it to one my friends who doesnt even play guitar and he thought it was dope, thats awesome
@AlexLlama
@AlexLlama Жыл бұрын
If you have a cassette deck without a mic input you can wire a 3/4" jack to the tape head and get the same result. And if you have a cassette walkman you can do the same, then use the headphone out to go to an amp and you got yourself a distortion pedal 😁
@Hneel65
@Hneel65 Жыл бұрын
I can relate to this. When I was a kid I had just enough money to buy a 2nd hand guitar, but not enough for also an amp. So I ran the guitar through some weird record player preamp into the stereo. It sounded about the same.
@hhdhpublic
@hhdhpublic Жыл бұрын
Okay, how much stuff do you find in the trash?
@fredman727
@fredman727 Жыл бұрын
If you go around looking for stuff in the trash you make some incredible finds! I have a piece of furniture I use for my gear. My keyboard to be specific
@DavidHilowitzMusic
@DavidHilowitzMusic Жыл бұрын
so, so much…tape recorders, stereo systems, instruments. it’s one of the real benefits of living in a city
@KingfisherTalkingPictures
@KingfisherTalkingPictures Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I’m I’m always looking through garbage, and never find anything so useful.
@fredman727
@fredman727 Жыл бұрын
@@KingfisherTalkingPictures same here, it's not always how you want it. :C
@duellingscarguevara
@duellingscarguevara 11 ай бұрын
Put your request out to the universe, and you'll be surprised what turns up..( but yeah, being in a city helps).
@LegionOfWeirdos
@LegionOfWeirdos Жыл бұрын
I did experiments like that all the time as a teen, you brought back some fun memories with this video. My first "four track recorder" was made with two stereo cassette decks and one of those Realistic mixers.
@crtzmo
@crtzmo Жыл бұрын
Yeah! Another great video, David. Fantastic synthesis of your memories, interests, and skills. And that song! Thank you.
@H_mzaS
@H_mzaS Жыл бұрын
David you must have been the most resourceful 12 year old kid. I really enjoyed watching this video. Really goes to show that expensive gear isn't everything. Creativity is much more important!
@germtray9371
@germtray9371 Жыл бұрын
fun fact shoegaze artist astrobrite use this exact same method to achieve distortion on his recordings
@josephbambino5639
@josephbambino5639 Жыл бұрын
6 lines and 30 seconds @7:30 - @8:00 and now I'm addicted to your music. I feel lucky I was suggested this video
@brycefunk
@brycefunk Жыл бұрын
As a non musician, I find your videos thoroughly entertaining and very well produced! Cheers!
@thefishermenandthepriestess
@thefishermenandthepriestess Жыл бұрын
Awesome video! My experience was similar, my parents gave me a guitar but no amp or pedals. So I would plug it in the mic input of the stereo. For extra distortion I would take the output and plug it back into the other mic input, making the signal run twice through the preamp. Playing with the balance knob would give extra weirdness!
@teemotheeey
@teemotheeey Жыл бұрын
Your rock-oriented videos are always my favorite to watch. I've been holding on getting cheap analog trinkets to complement my in-the-box setup, but I wouldn't have the space and time to take care of them (apartment living obstacle)
@danielsgrunge
@danielsgrunge Жыл бұрын
That is SO COOL! I have a similar story I don't quite remember what it was but I remember having this radio-like device that I ended up discovering produced a BEAUTIFUL crunchy sound, nostalgic!
@wumbr6467
@wumbr6467 Жыл бұрын
My favourite artist of all time, Phil Elverum, always used a tape deck as his distortion to achieve this crazy abrasive tone, you can hear it on the song "The Glow, Pt. 2" really well
@OhVicanne
@OhVicanne Жыл бұрын
The tone from the acoustic with the pickup and the preamp is awesome
@williamsimanjuntak5263
@williamsimanjuntak5263 Жыл бұрын
as a guitar player, audio lover, and electrical engineering student, this is beyond awesome
@dr.darkroom
@dr.darkroom Жыл бұрын
This tape deck tone is ridiculous! Nice work man - looking forward to what's next!
@Nelinka55
@Nelinka55 7 ай бұрын
Hey! Your story is imcredible and interesting! I am from Czechia and in/on every video I must have turn on subtitles to understand what anybody says but you are the first person which I understand without turn on subtitles - I enjoyed your video like as if I watched it in my native language. Thank you for made my day!
@brokensleepsound
@brokensleepsound Жыл бұрын
Great story and cool sounds! Reminds me of plugging into a Kenwood all-in-one stereo decades before collecting dozens of distortion and fuzz pedals.
@PhillipGolden-o7o
@PhillipGolden-o7o 6 ай бұрын
How are you not a guitarist in a punk band? Using an acoustic guitar with a taped pickup through an audio recorder as a distortion pedal sounds like something that some 70s or 80s punk band would do, like the Ramones or Bad Religion
@Aidenschommer1
@Aidenschommer1 Жыл бұрын
THANK YOU FOR THIS! I have an old stereo mixing console from goodwill i was hoping to use to record but never really could because of how old it is! But my god it worked so good as a pedal!!
@rr-fn5bs
@rr-fn5bs Жыл бұрын
I can definitely appreciate the origin story in the struggle thereof. I wish more musically based charities were easier accessible to people who have that need to create. Cool track too.
@B14k3
@B14k3 Жыл бұрын
I looks forward to your uploads and you never disappoint. You’ve taught me a lot and I appreciate it!!!!! Keep up the excellent content.
@elwolf8536
@elwolf8536 Жыл бұрын
1:46 mother
@DavidHilowitzMusic
@DavidHilowitzMusic Жыл бұрын
yes!!! glad someone noticed
@elwolf8536
@elwolf8536 Жыл бұрын
@@DavidHilowitzMusic haha knew it !! even naild the tone fella !! 😆
@MountainHomeJerrel
@MountainHomeJerrel Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing your journey and passion with us. You are one of the true artists out there. Keep the dream alive, man.
@SasquachPL
@SasquachPL Жыл бұрын
7:16 I was hoping you would combine them in series (as in, in one signal path to a single track); that could be interesting and way crazier than layering the two tracks as you did. Btw, the tone of your childhood acoustic through the record player preamp was AWESOME! I want that now haha:D bangin lofi punk tone
@stephengunterdc9651
@stephengunterdc9651 Ай бұрын
Really well done - script, production, editing, and or course the content. I suspect that you have a great support system, personally if not professionally, and I hope that you value and appreciate them. Good on you, mate!
@henry_cameron
@henry_cameron Жыл бұрын
Better Call Saul is at 4:14
@drunkendrink5241
@drunkendrink5241 Жыл бұрын
I thought I was insane
@TerryHaleMizagorn
@TerryHaleMizagorn Жыл бұрын
First time seeing one of your videos. Subscribed! What a great story, and I really appreciate the "science" behind what's going on. I was a huge Realistic fan back in the 70's and 80's and my first full time job was my dream of working at Radio Shack lol, so that hit home even more.
@guilhermefarias7295
@guilhermefarias7295 Жыл бұрын
This channel is one of the pearls of KZbin. You combine science, experimentation and emotional stories, aka. The formula of really good stuff!
@garybrady2723
@garybrady2723 Жыл бұрын
This is inspirational! Will try it with Dad's old stereo, Mam's old record player and 2 old tape recorders I've kept all these years👍
@Tape_Deck
@Tape_Deck Жыл бұрын
Dude building a guitar AND setup from trash has got to be one of the most punk things i've ever heard of
@diggie9598
@diggie9598 Жыл бұрын
That's real passion. I somewhat can relate to that story. When i was 15 and got my hands on a used Strat copy, i at first had no amp. My Granny's sorted out Tuberadio worked great for that purpose. I used the Phono Input, some old guy gave me that hint. Still remembering how i was, by try and error, sticking some wires in the holes of that input jack. During lockdown i restored that guitar and the Radio is still here. I just wouldn't run it anymore, the thing was built in the 1960s.
@pulpero666
@pulpero666 Жыл бұрын
Todas las grabaciones de bandas de rock en los 60s y 70s en Argentina de hicieron enchufando la guitarra directo a pequeños grabadores de cinta, era la única manera de conseguir distorsión porque no se podía importar amplificadores o pedales de guitarra. Manal, Almendra, Pappo's Blues, Los Gatos ❤
@miguelhinojosa5594
@miguelhinojosa5594 Жыл бұрын
Interesante! Siempre me pregunté cómo lograban distorsionar en esa época de escasez.
@pulpero666
@pulpero666 Жыл бұрын
@@miguelhinojosa5594 lo más popular era el grabador valvular Geloso g 257, Creo que para Artaud de Pescado Rabioso se usó un grabador National
@miguelhinojosa5594
@miguelhinojosa5594 Жыл бұрын
@@pulpero666 buenísimo. Pescado es de mis preferidas de las bandas del flaco. Me vuela la cabeza lo genio que fue haciendo tanto con tan pocos recursos. Saludos desde Cuba 🙌
@EdgarsLS
@EdgarsLS Жыл бұрын
Especially if you plug whatever preamp you have, into a tube amp, it sounds killer. I found a free VCR with mic inputs, cranked the gain and plugged it into a vibroverb, it sounded like a very badass fuzz.
@Blissfulsolitude
@Blissfulsolitude Жыл бұрын
Love your vids!
@trustyaxe
@trustyaxe 9 ай бұрын
This is so cool. A friend of mine showed me how to get distortion from a stereo like this. We were about 16 and just learning to play guitar and were talking about starting a band (we actually did about 2 years later, lol). Neither one of us could afford a distortion pedal or amp at the time, so the stereo speakers and the distortion we got from that provided many hours of fun and practice until we got real amps. That was about 1986 and I was so surprised to find a video on the subject. I always wondered how it made that sound, haha. Thank you so much for making such a great and informative video...also, thanks for bringing back some awesome memories!
@Quusikko
@Quusikko Жыл бұрын
This sounds great! And I love how the sound is produced. There's always something special to these kinds of approach. I always try to use the tools on my disposal "the wrong way" because it gives different results. In my case it means VST's, but I like to tinker with those. Putting drums through Amp SIms and whatnot. Many times the sound comes out kinda "basement" but I don't care as long as I like it.
@ChadAV69
@ChadAV69 2 ай бұрын
Dude, the freaking song and mix at 7:35 is very smooth. You need to be proud of that.
@agatone7244
@agatone7244 Жыл бұрын
For better distortion testing or anything saturation related, when plugging your distortion-device in to the amp, try plugging into the fx return (if your amp got one). That way you skip the preamp of the amplifier. Edit: this way you can connect anything with a preamp built into, in to the amp. I do it with my acoustic instruments as I don’t have a dedicated amp for them
@bob3rocks
@bob3rocks 2 ай бұрын
what a fun, nerdy series of experiments with distortion. I can see you're a musical mad scientist like myself. Much respect.
@j.jester7821
@j.jester7821 Жыл бұрын
Can my toaster be a distortion pedal?
@awalk56
@awalk56 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant. Brought back some memories. In the early 80s, I had a Realistic AM/FM turn table with a mic jack I used to play through.
@happyjessus
@happyjessus Жыл бұрын
It's crazy how good both distortions sound!
@Apo458
@Apo458 Жыл бұрын
Keith Richards used a Phillips cassette recorder on the tracks "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "Street Fighting Man". But instead of directly plugging in an electric guitar, he recorded his acoustic guitar (most likely his Gibson Hummingbird) with the included mic and then cranked up the volume
@antoniohillario9770
@antoniohillario9770 10 ай бұрын
Keith Richards said he used his cassette recorder on "Street Fighting Man" because that was all he had at that moment. His acoustic would not have sounded as wild and rebellious had he used the "right" equipment. It was the perfect tone for that song.
@AD-kv9kj
@AD-kv9kj Жыл бұрын
This is why expensive effects pedals are actually a scam. They cost nothing to make and are extremely basic circuits with a lot of marketing behind them.
@kaitlyn__L
@kaitlyn__L Жыл бұрын
@@return2sender791thank you
@toastedphantom3007
@toastedphantom3007 Жыл бұрын
@@return2sender791 Can confirm. A Fuzz Face shouldn't cost as much as it does but try and make an analog double chorus like a Liquifier and you quickly realize why they cost as much as they do. Also someone had to come up with the circuit in the first place.
@quasarulas3968
@quasarulas3968 3 ай бұрын
distortion changes a wave to a squarer sound wave which is the most harmonically rich sound wave which is why distortion and fuzz sounds so big and full.
@SaImonfungus6
@SaImonfungus6 7 ай бұрын
*It's called an Electric acoustic Guitar*
@markuslakanen6173
@markuslakanen6173 11 ай бұрын
Your videos are so inspiring , educative and fun to watch! Keep up the good work! 👏
@CPF_PZ
@CPF_PZ Жыл бұрын
i love your music stuff/experiments
@sendforacar9323
@sendforacar9323 Жыл бұрын
Isn't it funny how we experimented with the first things we had access to. I found myself doing the exact thing at that age. I'm still doing it today. Love the videos.
@redstefan6515
@redstefan6515 Жыл бұрын
I don't know why but both the tape deck and the mixer combined does something in my brain, idk the sound is just kinda magical to me
@stuartchapman5171
@stuartchapman5171 Жыл бұрын
Great stuff, I do this all the time, you can get ripper unique tones. Especially when you run the mixer and tape deck pre amps in parallel. I recommend everyone buy some y splitter cables or even better learn to solder and make some. Lots of pedals have parallel/series switching for dual function devices these days.
@benjyletouffu
@benjyletouffu Жыл бұрын
Another blissful moment with David. Love it ❤
@olegfrolovdesign
@olegfrolovdesign Жыл бұрын
Instead of a pickup, I used a speaker from a musical card (it was popular back in the day), and to get a distorted sound, I connected it directly to the tape pickup input of my player. Sounded crazy!
@stevenpipes1555
@stevenpipes1555 Жыл бұрын
Cool video man. Before i had my first amp i had a realy realy low quality, hand me down, electric guitar. I used to plug it into anything i could find that had a quarter inch jack. Thank you! This one brings me back!
@PartikleVT
@PartikleVT 8 ай бұрын
That tape deck sounds amazing for recording speech as well, gives a nice vintage effect
@ornleifs
@ornleifs 4 ай бұрын
A friend of mine had a guitar but no amp for quite some time so we used to connect the guitar to his cassette tape player and put the recording all the way up which gave this very distorted sound which we loved.
@ArtemAleksashkin
@ArtemAleksashkin 11 ай бұрын
My first guitar - Epiphone FAT-210 and now I still have it. I saved money long time to buy it. Several years ago I decided to upgrade it. Changed frets to steel and upgraded electronics. Much better with respect for my poor childhood
@gorryman
@gorryman 4 ай бұрын
that realistic mixer is key to my setup I have been using it for decades
@abhishekrao6017
@abhishekrao6017 Жыл бұрын
Great stuff made by an incredible person is a treat to watch everytime 👍✌️🙌
@teriakamoto
@teriakamoto 11 ай бұрын
I had this exact set up when i was 14. I had had a Peavey Backstage 30, and then a Lab Series L5 @ 13, but bounced around moving a lot between family crisis. Anyway, Same box from Radio Shack , and same or similar Stereo my Moms Boyfriend gave me. It allowed me to at least her my self play until i got another amp. This is how i did it in 1979. Necessity is the Mother of Invention.
@blanebeats8647
@blanebeats8647 9 ай бұрын
The story of your first electric guitar is truly inspiring. Anyone can do anything really. Most of the time the only thing stopping someone is their selves.
@lilbigmanrecords1708
@lilbigmanrecords1708 Жыл бұрын
Not surprised you find cool stuff. The universe is feeding into that sick diy energy
@xdef1ne
@xdef1ne Жыл бұрын
The bass running through the mixer sounded really cool
@edised71
@edised71 Жыл бұрын
Yep that was my first electric setup too! Great fuzz that was
@MrCreekyify
@MrCreekyify 11 ай бұрын
When I was little, I had no idea, that you needed an electric guitar to get distortion. That's why I used to tape a jazz broom from a drum set on to my acoustic guitar. The metal vibrating on the strings actually sounded a lot like distortion (at least in my memory :D)
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