I Made A SLINKY TOY GUITAR And It Sounds Like Space Lasers In Huge Caves

[@theuntapstep7789]

That’s a great tone slinky, I find the tone is really dependent on how much carbon they mix into the steel, of course vintage slinky’s are better, I have a nice aged 70’s slinky, amazing tone, I spent an arm and a leg for it but, nothing can match the sound of that classic slink’verb.

[@emilyadams3228]

Now they got '57 Reissue Relic'd Slinkys. Same badass sound for 1/10 the price.

[@Dong_Harvey]

The best slinky reverbs still have cobalt in the metal

[@saillively]

I really can't tell if you guys are joking

[@ishankumar4471]

@@saillively Thats what im wondering lmao

[@theuntapstep7789]

@@saillively are you even a guitarist? Slink’verb coils have been used since the 60s Hendrix used a Minnesota James copper slink on Electric Ladyland not to mention Clapton’s Beano tone was heavily shaped by his nickel-steel alloy coils. Tone slinky’s are ubiquitous among musicians today, and while their a lot more compact these days, you can hear them on many of the top 100.

[@outspokeninsider752]

*rediscovers spring reverb*

[@singer3188]

I've never played a standard spring reverb that sounded like lazors

[@outspokeninsider752]

@@singer3188 then you never took one apart and played with the springs! (or dropped it while it was on) They are pretty awesome.

[@Zolbat]

@@singer3188 my amp has a spring reverb, if you hit it slightly it sounds somewhat like this one, though much shorter and higher pitched

[@singer3188]

I do have access to a spring reverb that's in a crate mx120r 212 guitar combo. The reverb sounds amazing but otherwise the amp isn't that great in the tone department. Maybe I'll rip that reverb outta there

[@outspokeninsider752]

@@singer3188 You can pull out the spring "tank", they are usually mounted to the side or bottom of the cabinet with rubber washers, away from the speaker (to reduce feedback). They tend to be hollow on the bottom, made from folded steel. Turn it over. Pluck the springs. Freak out. No worries, 99.9% of spring reverbs are low voltage passive components. A few mount a small amp on the board, but don't pass current thru the springs themselves. I have a few sitting next to me. The nicer ones have 3 springs while most have 2. If exploring is not up your alley, and your amp is solid-state, pick up a corner about an inch and drop it with the reverb cranked. be amazed. (does not work with digital).

[@zetok45]

He just reinvented reverb without understanding how spring reverb tanks already work. It's cool to see him discovering that.

[@hendrianjayyy7395]

Plot twist he is know that so he made this

[@brandobin]

Idk about that cus he has another video where he is messing with a spring reverb unit

[@Sarahbuildsstepsequencers]

I was gonna say... 😀

[@foxtrotmetal01]

@William Stevens are you suggesting he made a fool of himself?

[@jeremyacton4569]

Google YAYBAHAR to see another version of this idea.

[@st_orlie]

This sounds much cooler than I expected that it would.

[@therugburnz]

I thought it would need much more tensions to work at all.

[@notinterested8452]

I knew that it would sound exactly like this.

[@vajnazsombor9397]

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[@therugburnz]

@@vajnazsombor9397 Yes, I am Zero

[@vajnazsombor9397]

@@therugburnz lol I think my pocket commented that. Also u aren't 0 you are 100

[@johnwallace2319]

Slinky reverb is now a thing

[@Zolbat]

There's gonna be hundreds of slinky pedals

[@TomMilleyMusic]

I mean not to be that guy but...that's kinda what spring reverb already is

[@michaelgeary9370]

Piezo and slinky apparatus have been used as a foley device for laser sounds for a long time.

[@NotDingse]

@@TomMilleyMusic not to be that guy, but that was the joke

[@TomMilleyMusic]

@@NotDingse I see no indication of that, and if it was I couldn't care less lol. Life goes on

[@cuthbertbquantox7142]

The perfect instrument for a Johnny Cash style country lament about a space cowboy lazer shoot out.

[@taskforce6983]

Knights of cydonia

[@hummus5694]

@@taskforce6983 i friggin love that song dude, muse is a killer band

[@SamChaneyProductions]

::Simon setting up for a gig:: Sound person: Do you want any spring reverb on your guitar? Simon: No, I'm good ::pulls lid out of sound hole, revealing giant slinky, stretches it out 6 feet, and attaches it to the mic stand:: Sound person: ...

[@wohdinhel]

Sound person: *B R I L L I A N T*

[@joshuarobinson4146]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ploopybear]

we be slinky reverb

[@smitty__]

this comment broke me. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@michelleasunnydays140]

This cracked me up. Good answer 😂

[@opensourceq]

me: mom can we stop and get spring reverb? mom: no we have spring reverb at home spring reverb at home:

[@rocker4207]

Yea, but it's 10× cooler

[@wiiu7640]

This sounds like guitar on a zoom meeting...

[@TweezerBleezer123]

😂😂

[@CARLOSManuel-cy4lh]

🤣🤣🤣

[@ikkjetilgjengeleg]

If you liked it, you should've put a spring in it

[@harrytuttle8161]

😜 sounds like a setting on a Strymon Big Sky .

[@miso2923]

Genius

[@Beer-can_full_of_toes]

That made me laugh way harder than I should have and I’m not ashamed.

[@themightychippy3756]

Okay...you got me 😂

[@bladeofSteele]

Don't be mad when you see that we want it

[@edabbott8130]

I think that a couple of takes of this, stereo panned would sound really interesting, cause the slinky would be bouncing slightly different for each take. It's like a truly random reverb

[@therugburnz]

Yeah man, it could also have multiple piezoelectric drivers and pick-ups for stereo or more.

[@dylanotto1675]

better yet one take, two slinkies

[@therugburnz]

Yeah, you got it

[@swettyspaghtti]

Now drop it down the stairs and record the sound What a time to be alive

[@maxpowers2908]

Lmao

[@maxpowers2908]

Best comment fr

[@Thorney369]

😂

[@DavidFrostbite]

Ooh, I want to hear this with a slide. Like a hawaiian steel guitar.

[@StereoTyp0]

I second this motion!

[@emilyadams3228]

Check out Justin Johnson's video "When Someone Hands You A Bottle Of Tabasco On Stage". He's jamming blues slide on his Jack Daniel's Whiskey Barrel Tele-Style, through a spring reverb. That twangy Tele slide through a tank sounds like the Devil's comin ta gitcha. I want to try that w/an acoustic.

[@Dong_Harvey]

@@emilyadams3228 would be cool if Justin used his shovel

[@emilyadams3228]

@@Dong_Harvey And played The Doors: Waiting For The Sun. "Can you feel it, now that spring has come..."

[@reggiep75]

Playing a drum loop or drum machine thru a slinky cable would be good.. 8 slinky's and contact mics would be interesting to see.

[@emilyadams3228]

That's some Tom Waits shit, right there.

[@KrumpusPlunk]

Like a slinky octopus drum computer...thing...

[@nathanvanmiddlesworthmedia]

I have a feeling this idea would be super great with a bass guitar!

[@lostlang]

How u come up with these ideas is beyond me 😂 I also unironically like the sound

[@mayhapsvenotcaleb4576]

I like it too, the slinky resonating with the notes adds some really cool harmonics in some places

[@lostlang]

@@mayhapsvenotcaleb4576 yeah it's like a broken classic spring reverb. It's hilarious how much it sounds like an effect you can create with RC20

[@raymondo162]

you never heard of a plate reverb machine ??

[@lostlang]

@@raymondo162 lol. Still doesn't directly translate to putting a slinky on a guitar.

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

Beautifulll

[@itsmaeday_2105]

Pog

[@Reliquancy]

Oh, look it’s my other favorite English electronics musical instrument hacker musician guy lol I don’t know how I have more than one of those.

[@nathanjasper512]

Cross over!!!! Cross over!!!! Cross Over!!!!!

[@danjwalker]

“ my other favorite English electronics musical instrument hacker musician guy” hmmmm You know they’re from different countries with completely different accents?????

[@nathanjasper512]

@@danjwalker Bro come on, every english speaking person who lives outside of Merica is from England didn't you know that?

[@evilmorels7753]

You invented a thing that already exists and I'm happy about it. Try adjusting the tightness of the spring.

[@MrJonne2000]

When he just plays with the slinky alone it sounds like a starwars battle is happening

[@steadywatching7564]

I just wanted to say: I love the current camera setup, this angle is a lot more immersive than the standard "standing at desk view"

[@fjduucudjdeididi287]

Spring reverb

[@maicoldamiko6488]

omg

[@maicoldamiko6488]

...

[@virtuosomaximoso1]

You win one internet.

[@oleksiishekhovtsov1564]

Unironically, this is basically how real spring reverb works

[@konstantinosmparmpounis6464]

Hmm, autumn actually.

[@girlboygirl7723]

You should try putting a spinning disc in the hole, like the ones vibraphones have in their resonator tubes. Another idea could be to have a lid with tuned tines with pickups like the ones a rhodes has, but these might function like drones. A third idea could be to make a lid with a hole in and have a second thin plate overlapping that hole but not closing tightly, so as to make them smack together and create some sort of buzzing distortion.

[@SeekerGoldstone]

Yes! A vibraphone guitar! You could control the tone/speed of the disc with a sewing machine pedal.

[@El_Chompo]

I want to see how it would sound with the spring streched out tighter. Keep up the good work

[@BourdeoixEterno]

Sounds like music playing during a space war

[@jonathanlewis6146]

Space cowboy that shoots lazars from his guitar as he plays, Disney hire me.

[@Spikeba11]

Try playing with the slinky stretched to different lengths to "tune" the reverb.

[@notorioustampaton]

It would be cool to blend that with the pickup the guitar is already fitted with. You could do some cool things with that I reckon 😄 like have one signal dry and the other wet? Or even just to balance the two volumes?

[@ryanmelvey8764]

strymon will clone this and sell for $399

[@boopyfox4402]

Cuvave or Rowin or Kokko or Nux or Twinote will clone Strymon and sell for 15$

[@willhaul5581]

LOL you guys are funny because it's true. But I think Line 6 already put this out in their latest update for the helix

[@jeanbonnefoy1377]

Reinventing the spring reverb. Sort of. Next step: reinventing the plate reverb with the help of some pieces of corrugated sheet. Good luck with that 🤭🤗

[@thirtysauce9294]

Hearing the “laser” sounds from the slinky just gave me flash backs of making this noises as a kid pretending to be in a Star Wars battle.

[@ValirAmaril]

'so what's your favourite music genre?' 'space lasers in huge caves'

[@DavidFrostbite]

Now we have to make some space-western music with this. (Mandalorian maybe?) Spacey slinky reverb! You could add a compressor too so the slink sounds don't overpower the guitar.

[@JustPlainRob]

Godspeed You Black Emperor called and they want their sound back

[@ryanchristophergregorio9026]

It's like playing a guitar when spaceships fire laser beams

[@dustyoverstreet648]

Spring reverb with a magpie twist. This would be a great way to make a giant spring reverb unit, you could just glue one end to a 4 inch speaker for a transducer. It sounds fucking dope on the guitar tho!

[@emilyadams3228]

In 1975, I accidentally found out that a speaker can also be a microphone. Nowhere near as good, of course, but I did get a fairly clear signal. So here's what I just saw in my fluffy brain: From left to right (I'd draw this on here if I could): Speaker; Slinky taped to the speaker cone; Other end of the Slinky taped to a matching speaker cone; this speaker is plugged into a mic jack. I'm not sure how well that would work, but I thought of the transducers in a Fender Tank. You'd probably have to turn the mic speaker (pickup transducer) up real high, & the whole thing would have to be in an amp case surrounded by pillows, or in another room for studio work, but it might be pretty cool. You never know.

[@dirtwagon9041]

What I'm imagining with this is having two recordings of playing something, one with slinky and one without, and then slowly transitioning from slinky to no slinky

[@PhillipRaymondGoodman]

I've thought for sometime that it would be cool too put a bunch of thinner reverb tank springs into a guitar so they're stretched out in the inside the hollow body, different lengths throughout so you get a really rich reverb sound. Obviously very awkward to put them in, but I feel it's doable.

[@Laurabeck329]

Maybe if you want to actually build a guitar. Putting them in a finished guitar is probably impossible

[@PhillipRaymondGoodman]

@@Laurabeck329 certainly extremely difficult, but I'm not sure if I have the skills to build an actual acoustic guitar. I'm thinking though if I were to cut a large hole in in the guitar I could get them in easily and then just put a large panel over it, maybe a metal tray.

[@Laurabeck329]

@@PhillipRaymondGoodman That would sound like garbage

[@PhillipRaymondGoodman]

@@Laurabeck329........ Well that is my sound aesthetic, trash instruments. Obviously I'd only do it on a cheap and nasty guitar, nothing really nice.

[@flatfingertuning727]

How about designing a guitar where the bridge and tailpiece are held in place by cables or ropes fastened to the tail and float above the body, but are connected via loose coily spring to something like a drumhead? Could one create an acoustic instrument with built-in spring reverb?

[@owenloughlin2824]

this looks like the kinda thing you’d hear in the minecraft soundtrack

[@maddykrantz]

YESSSSSS!

[@danielleohallisey4218]

Me: That won’t work You: Listen to this ! Me: Where’s my hole saw?!

[@Eryk.Burkharth]

This is how the Star Wars sounds was created

[@HBCrigs]

I wonder if you were playing it on stage if the slinky would feed back like crazy or not

[@thesquarerootofnegativei6225]

It depends on how loud the stage volume is, but quite possibly yes. Acoustic instruments without slinkies have that problem too, though.

[@PhillipRaymondGoodman]

You could attach it to somewhere in the audience and they could play it

[@satsuke1207]

10:04 Space ships: pew pew pew pew pew This guy's guitar: pew pew pew pew

[@HBCrigs]

I feel like Ben Levin could get a lot out of this particular sounds

[@Soggstermainia]

Sounds like an indi computer game soundtrack. Played some games like "to the moon" with epic piano soundtracks, feel like could be a similar sort of thing if carefully curated to a super peaceful vibe.

[@therugburnz]

Get multiple slinkys, a sheet of metal and some other springs to make a Room+Spring+Plate=Reverb!!!! The RoomyPlate'O'SprongaVerb. Fran from Frantone recently bought an old real stereo plate reverb from an old studio and showed how it works. This plus that hooked together would make a rich but Spooookie reverb with laser effects.

[@ytSuns26]

Early reverb was accomplished with springs . Route the slinky around inside the body of the guitar and have an awesome instrument. Love it.

[@triippy...6476]

*exiled Jedi comes home from a hard day of harvesting, watches this video* *Order 66 PTSD Intensifies*

[@doknox]

If star wars battle scenes were choreographed to music! This is cool. Just the sound of the slinky is incredibly 70s movie sound effect.

[@L00PdeL00P]

Could make a sick dub reggae track with that

[@JafoTHEgreat]

"This is the.....eeugh" Lol that was cute. Cute enough where I'd pick him up and give him a big hug.

[@catonthehowlingmoonrecords9529]

Talk about spring reverb! Reminds me of when you drop a Fender Twin.

[@ZaynesGamescrayfish]

Now we need to Ocean Man on this thing. It just sounds like the perfect water effect on it.

[@probablyyourneighbororsome8412]

you should make an album out of this

[@gutterg0d]

ikr. Obviously for a spring release.

[@TheGreatConstantini]

It’s always fun to watch a new generation discover something that has already been done. a basic spring reverb. Next play it through a large fan and discover vibrato.

[@DanFingermanOctopus]

That sounds really nice :)

[@MrLeFilipfloppyvelarde]

It feels like you could make some interesting space/sci fi sounds with this

[@djbazinet8758]

On a daily basis I look forward to hearing “HIIMTHEMAGPIE”

[@Hainbach]

Very nice.

[@susanlawens3776]

I clicked on this, thinking this might be interesting. And then I noticed that you're wearing the same pants as me. And your shirt is white and green stripes, my shirt is black with a green Dr. Strange on it. I think KZbin might be getting to know me a little too well.

[@BierBart12]

This sounds exactly like the battle noises in Supreme Commander. Except the camera is inside a house where someone's playing guitar while the battle is going on in the distance

[@SatanSupimpa]

02:58 Me as a teenager

[@treesurgeon2441]

This turned out really cool. I like the lofi vibe.

[@retrigger_]

"I wonder what the next experimente will be with that hole"

[@emilyadams3228]

Gawd, if there's anything a girl does NOT want to hear, after her first time...

[@rachelrodgers9171]

I just discovered this amazing guy and his creativity of making unique modifications to various instruments. I LOVE this Slinky effect!

[@innercores1266]

You gotta watch his barbed wire bass and the video for no neck bass. They are hilarious! He is my favorite inventor up here.

[@brianspenst1374]

There is a guy that built something similar. He has 2 long springs connected to drum heads on one end and strings on the other. He plays with a cello bow and it sounds amazing.

[@o.g5211]

Link?

[@becketthor]

Sounds cool, is there a link to it so I can see it?

[@brianspenst1374]

I am racking my brain trying to remember the dude's name or the name of the instrument. Gimme a few minutes.

[@brianspenst1374]

It is under yaybahar. kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZK8Z4eueJaioKM

[@F.Oxwood]

@@brianspenst1374 Gorkem Sem, I believe, and the yaybahar is the instrument. Edit: I didn't scroll far enough, just saw that you found it. My bad!

[@EarlyMist]

The ambient strums would sound amazing by themselves in a space western like Firely or Defiance.

[@crashoverride4531]

tuning your guitar is one of the most important things you can do

[@matthewf1979]

This is exactly how spring reverb works. The guitar body is the signal source and spring driver(reverb transformer) and the transducer at the end send the signal into a gain stage to be mixed into the dry signal. Except, the entire signal here is wet! I enjoy watching this type of experimentation. It can be an inspiration.

[@krytenfivetwothreep2485]

Well, they say there's a first time for everything, and that was my first time watching a man experiment with his hole

[@MetallicaKing48]

Studio software developers and programmers are taking notes from this guy.

[@davidrudderham7659]

It’s the blaster sound effect from Star Wars 😂

[@ianschilhab6222]

“Thankfully, I am very creative” : whips out duck tape

[@RootDude68]

Root Beer

[@dal_21]

i agree

[@guyblin]

13:31 ROFLMFAO... thanks mate. That was glorious. All of it.

[@MattBreakz-vj3ch]

Wish I had your room as a kid..awesome to watch the slinky reverb come to life! U need to headline a Music Festival !!!

[@Slimebiter]

god i love this channel so much. I found you because i looked up some weird kalimba shit i think, and now I’m getting Quality Content

[@PaulThomasV]

Holy moly! I just listened to the space sounds while at the same time listening to a spinet piece of Bach. It blended together smoothly!

[@TayTayMakesBeats]

Really organic sounding! I'm shocked but I really shouldn't be. Magpie always comes through with the heat.

[@biomechanoid]

This is how the spring reverb was invented. Just the guy who likes drilling holes and putting in them his slinky.

[@BIGPUN4EVER]

This is actually an old sound design technique "minus the guitar". It was used to make those legendary laser sounds from the old star wars movies. The guitar overpowers the laser effect but it is still present in the sound a bit.

[@0VRLNDR]

I'm here for the steel guitar impersonation. 6:14 Also Shallow Water pedal eat your heart out.

[@nolanwolf1828]

That sounds too nice for it's own good, i want more

[@baldmandoom]

This sounds good, like a modulated dirty spring reverb! Have you thought about drilling another hole in the back behind the front one for another lid? Then your lid system would work for the slinky toy attachment, and probably other options

[@Zahgurym]

Epic space battle at 10:03 ... Love it, gonna get a tiny slinky for my ukulele. lol

[@ydlp7705]

Really nice sounding, sounds like it’s from an old rock n roll record, it had the same tone as an echo chamber (plus the laser things obviously)

[@mr.giggles4995]

This is some next-level revolutionary shit man. Genius.

[@thejakefromstatefarm6768]

one of your best ideas. it sounds like a dream sequence or something. it’s pretty awsome

[@SchlafrigerGeist]

It can product joy and melancholy all at once. Nice work!

[@sorcererCermet]

definitely got a bit of that pet sounds vibe to it. lovely

[@jamesh5460]

Cool! This could be a thing! It answers the age old question of what a Slinky is good for!!

[@drloqutis2492]

Just so you know you can get the same sound just be connecting the slinky to a contact mike. The guitar sounds through it are kind of weird fun.

[@deirdrexd280]

9:06 that one scary scene in Coraline

[@UsTheMusicTVOfficial]

Wow, I am surprised that it worked! It's like Psychedelic/Electronic Folk music! :)

[@rtyuik7]

10:55 - 11:21 -- sounds like the documentary music for the Civil War of 2372, when the robots rebel against their robot creators, and an all-out blaster fight erupts over the entire city...

[@acciaiomorti]

analog underwater filter? this seems like something that came out in the 80s in some other more creative timeline

[@Thesupremeone34]

It didn't come out in the 80's. It came out in the 60's or earlier Really really long reverb tanks basically don't exist anymore but this is both exactly how they worked and how they sounded. (Minus the star wars battle in the background) You'll hear the sound in prog rock sometimes. There were also very cheap guitars like the Peavy student guitars that had coils wound so cheaply that out of the box they sounded like you were playing from the bottom of the ocean

[@OneHellOfASandwich]

I like how it sounds like it was recorded with really low bitrate. Which is my favorite sound.

[@thenoizician7814]

Definitely investing in a slinky and experimenting with it after seeing this. As a budget spring reverb it's bloody lovely

[@evanwilliams8908]

Sounds great. The whole time I was trying to figure out what pedal combo it would take. Cutting all your treble and putting reverb and phaser/flanger on might get you close. It’s so dark sounding but it still has the piezo brightness.

[@NeutroWorld]

Love it! Now add a second one and pan hard Left and right for stereo!

[@inUR2teeth]

Aquaman playing a tune on his guitar in his cave underwater effect... Brilliant 👍