BUILDING A DIY BASS GUITAR SYNTHESIZER WITH A SID CHIP

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

A Sample Pack of random bits and bobs from this performance is available on my patreon :- www.patreon.com/lookmumnocomputer ALSO! my partner has put up her first video on LUNAR PORTRAITS :- kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJWZl5J4j9x6pKM Brian Peters Links :- VIDEO :- kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y3K1YoOcjJqnfq8&feature=emb_title GITHUB :- github.com/brianmarkpeters/CHIP_BASED_SYNTHESIZERS If anyone knows Brian please let him know. i tried to get in touch about this but i had no response. so i wont be sharing my version with the knobs.

[@ratatouille420pm4]

Do you still have that bass if so would you be willing to sell it ??

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

ratatoullie music sorry . Not for sale 🙃

[@bushkilla7348]

You should attempt a cover of Rob Hubbard's Arcade Classics title theme with this somehow! Brilliant stuff 😎 kzbin.info/www/bejne/b36vd4ulbMtoepo

[@richsackett3423]

We don't have bits and bobs in our country. Shame, really. Pick up that Mustang. Ultimate victory on the Hondo synth.

[@claytonnieman1210]

Crazy it sounds like the organ I got glad to have you back in my life cause u make it so golrous

[@Vectif]

I feel like he'd be a character in Regular Show lol

[@maxonmendel5757]

This is sp true

[@thejay8963]

Now what animal would he be? Or would he be a human character?

[@dr.getter7118]

I just know he'd be super-friends with Gary and spend as much time on Synthos as he could :D

[@Vectif]

@@dr.getter7118 Yeah! I'd imagine him getting along with Techmo a lot too! If Regular Show was still going I'd super love him being featured there xD

[@coreycann9639]

Ello, governor

[@AradhyaOnBass]

The action on that bass is ABSURD.

[@pamelamerritt9180]

Beautiful

[@captaintony1227]

That's all I could see while he was playing it . reminds me of my first bass good thing I had have huge hands and was to dumb to know better lol

[@CorrosionAudio]

I'm getting RSI just looking at it

[@Lechinkchonk]

Just was I was thinking

[@rabanomartinez7759]

I'm glad to see other people basically complaining about the high action on this bass

[@GordonBraicks]

The mighty SID chip just keeps inspiring people since the 80s and it will always be there... It still amazes me what a musician/technician is able to squeeze out of it.

[@olliewalker6406]

I love that "your spaceship in an 8-bit video game just crashed" sound.

[@olliewalker6406]

It's Paper Boy from the NES. When he crashes, it makes that exact sound. When the bass does it my pants fit all funny.

[@foobarf8766]

Instruments have players, synthesisers have pilots.

[@gearandalthefirst7027]

From my own experience I'd say synths have riders

[@TheFlameImperishable]

Instruments have players, Synthesisers have war criminals

[@neonvoid]

all those years, and i haven't seen this one until today. amazing! looks AND sound incredible!!

[@dontstop2517]

Thats crazy! I want one

[@TheBaconWizard]

Me too!

[@mikestckl6939]

@@TheBaconWizard me wants one too

[@greatkingrat]

The absolute worst thing about this is that I can’t walk down to the local music shop and buy one because I’m sold

[@blackphoenixfamily8477]

I am pretty confident I could use the provided information......so find you the bass you want the goodies in. I'll charge you $275 and you pay for the shipping to and fro

[@myautobiographyafanfic1413]

@@blackphoenixfamily8477 Think you could for a guitar?

[@djadams3356]

Don’t understand how you made it, but I need one.

[@1fastbitch434]

Hahaha! My saying is (usually about odd vehicles) I don't know what it does, but I want one!

[@grewalthegray]

Love your projects. You are a real music magician genius.

[@ozzelot3349]

I'm a simple man. I see SID, I press like.

[@josh-zmidi-banana926]

SID is love... SID is life... 🤟

[@elvergalarga4461]

I like that CID too, good times.

[@greggoso600]

could use piccolo strings, tuned like guitar strings but thicker to fit a bass

[@Hmastiles]

This. Maybe foam under bridge to mute strings

[@widdlytube]

What about an octave up circuit before the midi converter?

[@greggoso600]

@@widdlytube doesnt sound the same, i think the less you effect the signal the better the result will beb

[@jakeclock9982]

@@Mungoes Right but the less effects between the pickup and the converter, the better

[@GeorgeDolbier]

I'm on youtube late at night, uselessly scrolling, when I see a LMNC post! (it is 3:30 a.m. in the pacific northwest). It is literally a dark and stormy night, and you are filling with wild and crazy cool. Thank you for everything you do!

[@NPrescott]

Haha I was watching this in Tacoma at the same time! @_@

[@russellzauner]

Pdx boiiii

[@nicholasbstone]

just buy yourself a set of 6-string bass strings, and leave off the two lowest strings. Youll still have a bass, but tuned A-D-G-C. It would also help with the high action you're experiencing (less tension on the neck)

[@jimmy_jamesjams_a_lot4171]

So funny that I was imagining Jeri Ellsworth when you actually said her name two minutes later! I LOVED her solution to keeping the surrounding electronics at the conventions where she plays from interfering with her bass’ pickups. Her solution? Trash the typical pickups and install Little piezo inducer discs that she clipped and placed beneath her bass strings! Soo IF you get any EMI issues or interference from nearby arcade pinball machines, maybe you ought to install a piezo inductor array for a secondary pickup option?! For someone who’s outward appearance would suggest a grimey and pretty rugged person, you REALLY do have it together. AWESOME!! Oh yeah, NICE ROUTER!!

[@StuntcatTV]

I don't know who you are, you badass electro punk, but I am very happy the almighty algorithm introduced me to you, your cyber bass and your sick gameboy wall!

[@phillipcrews9377]

Sam this is amazing! I know this video is old but if you ever plan on working on this again you should do a very simple "blend" mod with the original passive P-bass pickups to bring in the original sound of the bass on top of the synth! Just a thought. Love what you do, always looking forward to your videos uploads and projects!

[@FrancisMaxino]

All your words make sense to me mate because I've been using MIDI since the 1980s and I understand electronics, love your MODs and inventions completely unique, like an artist retro fitting custom fusion of technology spanning decades, brilliant...your bass synthesizor is sick...built in octaver and adjustable synth parameters with loads of knobs...gnarly as all hell...I want one...

[@bgttgb100]

thats just about the most 80's thing ive ever seen, its beautiful

[@jameshamaker9321]

Fact.

[@424Recording]

This video made me realize I need to do two things: make that synth project and get a leather jacket. Thanks, Sam! Excited for part two!

[@MarcoTatta]

World needs more people like you mate

[@carlossimon1427]

Sam can you please make more videos about building stuff for modulars? PS: I love your videos & music

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

hey gaming base!!!! i will be doing :D sorry about that! they are rather speradic!

[@carlossimon1427]

@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER haha thanks because i wanna build my own modular synth and just got a case with power supply and a few oscillators

[@sheepkillindog]

GamingBase there are a bunch of diy kits for modular. I started there. It’s a cheap way to build your synth and learn soldering. Avoid smd components unless you have more advanced soldering skills. Happy wiggling!

[@RabbitxRabbit]

This guy’s a real life techno-wizard/bard! I love it!

[@asdfpoiuyify]

Ay, idk if you read enough of the comments to see this - on the issues you’re having w/ G2M recognizing the lower notes, you could convert the input signal an octave up? Digitally this is done by taking the absolute value of each sample, effectively folding the negative parts up. I’m not terribly familiar with the analog equivalent but I know I’ve seen schematics for it before that only require a handful of components. Then while processing the MIDI signal you can shift the pitch back down an octave to get the note that was originally played.

[@chrishopkins209]

asdfpoiuyify my solution would be use a set of piccolo strings so the bass is pitched an octave up without needing any pitch shifting

[@cankutbayhan]

he is the only individual taking responsibility for the future of music business, I'm gonna carve out a statue already

[@SeamlessR]

Hell yes!

[@chrisc1553]

Finally a youtuber who lives in a real house. Shelves of old electronic equipment gear on the floor.I dont know who you are but the second the video started I felt at home.

[@henrykhenrykowski2745]

10:20 that's very MUSE-y-like bass sound.

[@nirvana4771]

Title please. 😥

[@thetalantonx]

The music you make has me suddenly transported back to childhood, watching the best of 80s Sci Fi.

[@brianrappaport]

Chris Wolstenholme from MUSE wants to know your location.

[@Parkskigaming]

Needs LED's in the neck but yeah, this is totally muse.

[@NotTriad]

Haha, I though the same

[@wayanbima9892]

Matt bellamy APPROVE!!!

[@ZiddersRooFurry]

My first thought lol

[@edsongranados4318]

LOL

[@rosspalumbo]

This human is a treasure of the internet.

[@dynamicfreeqz4796]

If a new Terminator movie comes out, this would be a cool instrument to build a soundtrack around. Imagine playing this with strings, choirs, and brass. You could make some seriously epic industrial sounding music.

[@Wacholder]

My parents still have that exact Moulinex mixer in the kitchen, working like a charm - you´d better bought it :)

[@greg0uk]

Won't be that exact one as the one you're referring to is on ebay unless your parents put theirs on ebay but they didn't because theirs is in their kitchen.

[@aienbalosaienbalos4186]

Pontus Janssons Magic Hat they put it on eBay. I mean, the photos went on eBay. Then they put it back in the kitchen until someone bought it. Gladly no one did. Source: I’m his mom.

[@nyleen]

You're basically ColinFurze but mad for music.

[@Placehold2222]

imagine if they got together for some projects

[@monumentmen7263]

@@Placehold2222 Don't think Sam plays ska-punk though...

[@claxtoncurtis811]

bro the back ground music you made for this is amazing

[@6lordof6thisworld6]

i'm glad that sick tune sidetracked my OSHA-senses

[@norullzz]

Did you notice that mad flex of him misusing loo rolls, he must have so many...

[@6lordof6thisworld6]

@@norullzz maybe they're also from ebay, 100 pounds per roll

[@nataroonytrontime3976]

This was the first video I watched of you. Never regretted finding you!

[@jurassicpork765]

"I CAN FEEL MY HEADPHONES MOVING!" oh, sorry, was i yelling? This is dope.

[@nullbyt]

I'm so grateful to be on the same planet as you.

[@abacab1]

...the neck seems to be bending a little bit more than it should, judging by the footage ( 0:38 - 4:35 - 6:59 ). Very nice project, though... a lot of synth possibilities... OR you can use it to piss everybody off in a rehearsal, just keep messing with it til everybody leaves...

[@enoch7532]

João Gabriel Padilha pretty sure that’s just the fisheye lens warping the space.

[@myoriginalname]

It's the fisheye effect like someone above said, if you look closely at 6:59 everything else looks distorted as well.

[@ruthlessadmin]

Well this is officially the coolest thing I've seen this year so far.

[@キラキラくりくり頭]

Phone call from Muse incoming any time now..

[@johannsoncrusoe5589]

Thaught about that, too! 😁

[@fretlesscountry]

amazing, should be a quarantine essential !!! props to your work man!!

[@BeerAndChunder]

I just found your channel yesterday and I love all the crazy shit you make, do you have/can you make a video on how to start collecting gear and equipment based on synths? I'm really interested in all of it but I have no clue where to start.

[@thekiwiclipper1113]

Well everyone’s gonna tell you the same thing, you need to specify price limits, as well as what sounds you’re after. This isn’t something someone else can decide for you, do some research and within a year you’ll have a better idea of what you want to get. I personally own a Moog Grandmother and a Make Noise 0 Coast. Both great synths but totally different sound and workflows.

[@Mgooy]

You really need to assess how many furbies are in your budget

[@ihavea4]

Holy crap I need to make one of these. I've never soldered anything in my life but this has made me want to learn. When you turned it on and it worked I couldn't believe how awesome it sounded!

[@russellzauner]

9:54 *synthbassriffage* Iron Maiden: *DEMONETIZD*

[@eriktittidii3037]

Wow, that's one badass bass! It looks and sounds amazing. Wish I had one. Keep up the good work!

[@stardustjustlikeyou]

I'm so glad I'm not the only person spending this much time on eBay..

[@howes1960]

I was just checking videos for info for building my own small minimalist bass...and I stumbled on this. Totally mad, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Way more than I am aiming for, lol.

[@blakebuckland8484]

Imagine what Cliff Burton could of done with one of these bad boys...

[@kylemcdearmont]

would have been absolutely the pinnacle of bass playing if he had this thing. can you imagine Orion with this?

[@JuanIparraguirre]

Exactly my thought some minutes ago!

[@olisonic6577]

The Beatles would've Been so much better with this

[@MadStowned]

Les Claypool

[@blackphoenixfamily8477]

@@MadStowned He'd have fun with it for a couple weeks.....

[@TofuRabbit]

YES! I've always wondered if you'd ever make your own guitar synth after the couple videos you did on the Casio and the Roland, this is so dope!

[@mikestckl6939]

you should put in a "dry mix" knob and a "theremin fuzz" circuit from parasit studio that would make it even more dope than it already is !

[@cam-inf-4w5]

You could also get like a gyro sensor something and when you tilt the bass up or down it raises and lowers an effect.

[@cirava]

Now I want to see a band with a synth guitar, synth bass, and electric drums.

[@balloonman8796]

Imagine that and the synth is the only acoustic instrument (i.e. slapaphone style)

[@whelanbdubs]

Bro, you are so freaking talented. Respect.

[@CaptainFrankHawks]

Kid, your a bad ass. You made something I wouldn't even begin to know how it even works.

[@greatkingrat]

The choice of the knob style was a masterpiece move

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

If my dad were still alive, he would’ve creamed himself over this video - and asked me when I was going to duplicate this bass. I’m the family musician - although he taught me basic guitar chords, was the first person to mention the word “synthesizer” to me, brought up the three of us on the Commodore 64 aaaaaand would’ve been the first to push for me to have a model just like this.

[@mum1685]

Coolest dad ever

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

You know, 섹스맨난 네 엄마 인., he could be.

[@BertGrink]

ShreadTheWeapon I say DO IT MAN, in honour of your father! 😁

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

If I knew the first thing about building, BertyFromDK.

[@IchBinDerLikendHater]

@@Shred_The_Weapon Just do it. You are clearly interested in the topic and it's no rocket science. If you have no clue how to build stuff like this teach it yourself just how you managed to become a musician, by learning stuff. The community is super friendly and there are lots of people out there that are willing to help you out with any issue you encounter. It's never to late to learn a new skill in life. You got it 👌

[@JohnRBooth]

Son, you're livin' the dream. GO FOR IT

[@justintimeflipping]

Hey buddy you blow my mind every time ...LOVE a good old synth bass...

[@gerardo_gallingerschnetz]

THIS IS A BLOODY REAL BASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WELL DONE BRO!

[@icewallowkam2054]

Jesus that subbass was so deeeeeep! Well makin a diy speaker setup with a bigass 300w car subwoofer was worth the hit WOOH

[@stephanc197]

I watched this when it first was posted, and after rewatching it, it's still cool af

[@kj4ilk]

this is cool as heck

[@ry7hym]

Oh my god… I think I just fell in love with your creation

[@ecalzo]

Hey.. look.. Sam...there's no chance to see you in tour in italy.. right.. ?i will have to see your new place in the Uk i suppose.. i hope i can soon.. will come there if i will ... take care... awesome content of yours.. love zibra too by the way..

[@fluidizm]

Che figata sarebbe vederlo in Italia???

[@toddspeck9415]

So fun to hear your music as you build these creations. Your awesome Sam.

[@ronnyraygunz8718]

You could make a whole career out of this bass!

[@Lordxfx]

The level of creativity omg

[@charleyedwards2121]

I wonder how hard it would be to be able to “lock” in a couple specific settings so you could preset them and just flick a switch as you played

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

Charley Edwards presets are for poopy bum bums

[@brandonheat4982]

@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER dude.... i hear commissions fir this particular bass coming.

[@Kolce6Mabana]

fuuuk the songs one could write with this! A very inspiring built! Also the choice of bass, absolutely awesome.

[@simaojoseph]

Man for the love of electric axes gods do a simple setup on that awesome bass. You can shoot darts with those strings action!!

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

Astronaut you know what they say. The higher the action. The better it plays upside down.

[@olliewalker6406]

Um. I'm not sure that they say that.

[@simaojoseph]

LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER oh your right, that’s definitely my favorite position.

[@fuumax7969]

setting up the action is highly subjective, i love a high action for example, but on my jazz bass i pretty much only use for slappp i have a low action

[@joseantoniojimenezcorona6811]

I can see what you just did, but i just can't believe what i'm hearing. Awesome Sam!!!!!!!!

[@olivermcdowell9312]

can you make a tutorial series, to show where to start with making and using synths. I would really like to know the method behind your madness.

[@Lalaland.001]

just scroll through his older videos he's already done a bunch of them throughout the years

[@pupilmusic3197]

bruh looks like a bass that prince would use. love the style and the idea to combine the 80s style of synthesizers with this bass that has a distinctively 80s look itself. Ima subscribe, your pretty cool.

[@oystersource]

"Not the most perfect instrument " Shut up and take my money!! Amazing!!

[@buckstarchaser2376]

8:58 That's the guitar sound from the original version of Utah Saints' - Something Good ! That sound got me interested in making distortion effects, until I got a job undistorting things.

[@StarRock442]

When you get it figured out, can I buy some schematics? I want to do this.

[@johannsoncrusoe5589]

Now, that is cyberpunk! Awesome! Relly fresh and just great!

[@jonaconti3904]

How have you learned all these things about electronic stuffs? Anyway this is a really cool project :)

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

Just messing around. Avoiding procrastination etc etc

[@whisk0r]

Yup, pick a project and keep at it until it is done.

[@jonaconti3904]

Cool!!! I think I'll stop procrastinating and start messing around

[@adamlatour8837]

Love the way you think!

[@poipoipoipoipois]

should get someone like davie 504 to rip that thing, hearing crazy slap on a synth bass would probs be wickedd haha

[@jessebondmusic]

slap wouldn't transfer, as the midi converter box just creates note on/off events... so it'd sound the same as normal playing

[@poipoipoipoipois]

@@jessebondmusic i see thanks for the info 👍

[@totesmcpreesh7617]

Still something with Davie504 or Rob Scallon could be sick.

[@poipoipoipoipois]

@ whoooosh... i was just saying his style would be interesting with such an instrument, specially as he likes to try different instruments, but that might be too much for you...

[@jessebondmusic]

@ I watch him all the time, and I both play and build instruments, so... #owned

[@captainc00tie]

I am IN LOVE WITH THIS INSTRUMENT

[@myribsbroke]

Once he can travel, we need davie504 to slap this.

[@jameshamaker9321]

I agree with you about that.

[@PineappleStickers]

We really don't

[@fuckcensorship69]

was he in prison?

[@kobalt_ren01]

Aw yeah, I was considering getting one of these Hondo basses, liked the Explorer bass format with the Telecaster control plate.

[@Yumi-262]

man that's pretty radicool

[@GeorgeCarlin88]

OMG it's amazing 80s sounds.

[@jimmy999S]

Lmnc: buys 1970s toaster Lmnc: 1970s toaster synth video

[@ryanbaconsizle9119]

Thank God for this king, I grabbed a hold of the Electro Harmonix Mono synth bass pedal and it isn't quite what I expected, so I may take a crack at this 👀👀

[@Michael-dx1uv]

I feel like he’s the Colin Furze of music

[@v616sirius]

Never heard a statement more true Micheal.

[@anarielelensar8201]

Colin has used his music in some of his videos

[@dykodesigns]

Pretty handy with the woodworking too. The router makes light work of that bass guitar’s body!

[@tomvesely4008]

I would love a blend switch that would mix the clean bass signal with the synth. Anyway great video as always!

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

sure! but i decided to do away with the bass entirely. cus from experience when they are mixed they sound a bit naff. so decided to go extreeeeeme haha

[@iliyalabaznov5885]

@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Is that because of phase problems between the bass string and the synth wave? What if you had a control on the synth that allowed you to phase-align the two? You get similar problems sometimes when a bass and a kick drum cancel each either out in a studio situation, and end up with a tragic loss of low end. Popping the phase on the bass often brings the boom back. Does this chip give you a way to set the phase at the start of a note?

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

Iliya Labaznov naaa just a taste thing innit

[@TranslationX]

THE - COOLEST - THING - I - HAVE - EVER - SEEN!!!!

[@saturnism777]

Some day pretty soon on this chanell "I just buy some extra toilet paper and turned it into a synthesizer"

[@SS_BS_TS]

Congratulations on predicting the future kzbin.info/www/bejne/noPcpqKfbtl8mbs

[@saturnism777]

@@SS_BS_TS yep. Economy will fall, lockdown until june.

[@Zeydarchist]

some of this awesome Bass sounds like it helped make the NIN Ghosts albums, this is like-- one of the coolest and ear-confusing things i've seen in ages. this is so freaking cool! kinda makes me wish i could learn bass proper! late but, keep going and keep having fun~!

[@fluidizm]

It would be awesome if you used a tremolo lever instead of the knob in order to use that more easily! Anyways is a great idea and awesome sounding stuff!

[@andresenes]

You give me hope on humanity! I Love your channel, lots of inspiration. WOW! :D

[@spuddoctor]

Can it SLAP!?

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

slapping?. if you want it to sound like rapid farts then i guess you can try....

[@Skibbityboo0580]

@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Hook it up to the fart synth then slap it. Maybe you'll make a fart black hole?

[@OfficialDropRate]

CHECKMATE

[@tonyvolume666]

Get with Davey504 and do a collaboration video

[@UsTheMusicTVOfficial]

Wow man, that is truly a unique instrument! I definitely would love to have one of those in my collection, since I play a lot of Rock music with keyboards and electric sounds. Thanks for sharing this, that really made my day.