The Family Space Echo

[@AudioPilz]

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[@rorz999]

I'm not crying, you're crying 🥲

[@AudioPilz]

❤️❤️❤️

[@enochroot9438]

I'm not cry-y-y-y-i-i-n-n-g

[@MarkusGeheim]

Same. I had think about my father immediately after his words. He also already passed away in 2017, after many years with severe health-problems. But I really miss the time we'd spend together. No friendship could ever replace the connection we've had. So.... I feel with you Florian!

[@LocaliLLocano]

❤❤❤❤

[@kurtheller5948]

Came here to say this

[@andrewculp1378]

That was a beautiful and touching tribute to your father. Much love

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you so much!!!

[@dustmighte]

My father and i don't talk . Happy for Audiopilz

[@lummsmusik3219]

For my father I haven’t exist for over 40 years now…

[@ewetoo]

What a beautiful legacy he left you, and indirectly, us! Thanks for sharing

[@tomtinoteichmann2364]

Du bist der Hammer !

[@chrisallen5855]

I love Bad Gear, but I'm also digging these new experiments in format and topic. It was very special getting to see a different side of you, thanks for opening up your memories for us. I'd love to see more videos with this kind of narrative take from you, I think you hit it out of the park. Thanks for such a great video and a heartwarming personal story.

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you!!!❤️❤️❤️

[@darwiniandude]

+1 wanted to leave the same sort of comment but you nailed it

[@3rdPersonProductions]

@@darwiniandude +2!!

[@TheCubanGiant]

@@AudioPilz agree with OP, thx for spreading your wings some, the results are good!

[@palindromial]

@AudioPilz Yes, do more origin story! Extra points for including another vintage photograph! 🙂

[@emeku03]

"Only one more evening"... I started crying there... Your dad is proud of you AudioPilz, I swear to God.

[@AudioPilz]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@lo-firobotboy7112]

I'm listening to this episode at work. Tears in my eyes.

[@hungryxfriend]

That got me too :*(

[@loopop]

Lovely echoes from the past ❤

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you, Ziv!!!

[@chrisstaubyn]

Storytime: I had my son slapping on musical keyboards at two months old. Excited, I told my mom. Surprised, she tells me, my father did the same thing with me. About six months later, my father sent me numerous baby pictures I'd never seen. One is a picture of me on his lap at two months old, playing a keyboard. I look at the picture, astonished. It's the same keyboard I had my son playing (Casio VL Tone, released in 1979). I coincidently bought it right before my son was born. Unknowingly, I had a calling and history with it that I never knew. My father and I are more alike than I ever knew.

[@AudioPilz]

Wow, great story! Thanks for sharing!

[@Frikoppie-q2v]

As a child, my favourite instrument was sand.

[@RobBoles]

I didn't give you permission to make me feel things! I lost my dad 2 years ago. Lifelong musician, director, teacher. I inherited all his gear. While his gear is more folk oriented, I still find reasons to use it and think of him every time I do. Loved this story. Thank you for telling it.

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you!!! I feel your loss. Lots of acoustical instruments here too - used his Viennese guitar in the Tracker Mini episode for some sampling experiments...

[@ambrosiajam8008]

Wasn’t expecting to get an emotional experience from this channel, wowwwwww Thank you for sharing! What an incredible story

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you so much!!!

[@dreamdealer]

Florian quickly becoming the best content on YT, beautiful story, beautiful tribute to your father and one of the most beautiful delays out there. What a treat man, thank you.

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you so much!!!❤️

[@TheBlackDog1969]

A wonderful tribute to your father, his gear, & his ‘gear’…

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you!!!❤️❤️❤️

[@RaverOperatorGeeza]

Yeah! I thought the same! 🤗

[@chrisdavies9143]

Loved this. As someone who has a terrible relationship with my father, I can’t help but feel envious and yet also appreciative that there are dads out there who try to guide and influence with patience and love. That’s a cherished piece of gear indeed and I hope it continues to provide much joy. I hope I can end up being at least a little like your father to my own three kids who are starting out on their musical journeys now. Thanks for sharing this Florian, it made for a welcome side quest from the Bad Gear series.

[@AudioPilz]

You seem to be a great parent, all the best!!!

[@vjreimedia]

My dad was the same. He used the money he just got from a job to buy me a JV-80 and such. He just wanted to see me happy. He passed away in 2005. He was my best friend.

[@AudioPilz]

I feel you❤️❤️❤️

[@treetopjones737]

You won the parents lottery.

[@vjreimedia]

@@treetopjones737 My dad was one of those men who was a dad to all my friends as well. The biggest heart.

[@LifeOrbPlusle]

Man, this is easily my favorite video of yours. Excellent story telling and a touching story at that. Beautiful stuff. ❤

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you so much!!!

[@Loomiedarko]

In 1989 I was 8, when my dad gave me his sh101, this started my adventure in music making. He also shared with me his love for music, made me discover so much bands, took me to lots of music shows. Same as you, he was a father, and a friend, the kind of person we could talk about life and everything for hours. He suddenly died 20 years ago at the age of 42. I miss him since this day, and this sh101 is the only material thing from him that I could keep. But there will always be magic souvenirs left. So your story touched me a lot, and believe me, I totally understand. Thanks a lot Florian for sharing with us this sincere and beautiful story ❤

[@AudioPilz]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@3D6Space]

I heard a wonderful interview with Les Paul in 2008 as I passed through Georgia. He talked about his first electric guitar, which was made out of a piece railroad track, and talked about the sustain... and the back pain... lol

[@AudioPilz]

Lol

[@scottystef]

Such a great story. I grew up in Scotland with a rugged Scottish boxing Dad union leader and English rose pianist mum. Dad won, and I became a local council consultant, but mum's music never left me. She had an upright piano like Paul McCartney and I learned to play and listen to the sustain pedal sounds on that beautiful instrument. In my 20s I rebelled for a few years and found myself in Nottingham with Cubase V1, and Atari ST and a Korg, rolling funny cigarettes and playing guitar with my first delay pedal. Those sounds still haunt me today, all gear later stolen by my sisters' then abusive boyfriend. Now I live in New Zealand and at 54 I'm recreating these memories using a stereo memory man as a space echo. It turns bleeps and bloops into chambered resonances that resonate. I honour your father, he gave you space to bring your own creativity forward. Thank you to him and you both.

[@AudioPilz]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@rodmorrison47]

That's a proper tribute. My own dad passed in 2015 and I have no words for how much I miss him. Now, if you'll excuse me, I think there's something in my eye...

[@AudioPilz]

❤️❤️❤️

[@chema_needs_a_home_]

Such a fantastic way to remember your dad by keeping his gear close to your hands and heart. He sounds like a wonderful man 🩶

[@AudioPilz]

❤️

[@KattKirsch]

I lost my mother earlier this year, and her weird old kurzweil synth-piano-thing has been swiftly upgraded from baroque oddity to family heirloom. I really love that you made this, it means a lot to me.

[@AudioPilz]

Happy to hear that!!! Thanks!!!❤️❤️❤️

[@FlorianRachor1]

Bro. The music you made on the Space Echo was so perfectly fitting for the device. Absolutely devine.

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you so much!!!

[@keepitshortnsweet]

3:40 King Tubby & Scientist would be proud. Thanks for sharing such a personal story. Your dad sounds awesome.

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you so much!!!

[@johnnythreshold]

Oh Florian that was lovely. My dad taught me how to play guitar, and every time I go home he blasts my first demo over his (considerable) HiFi system. I'm not sure he knows how often I listen to *his* songs, though.

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you!!!❤️❤️❤️

[@StanleyKubick1]

tell him!

[@jdaddyaz]

Damn man. As a dad myself, eager for my son to get into the gear world, that last bit got me like a knockout punch. Didn't see it coming. Beautiful moment.

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you so much!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@BrendonBrooks]

Loved the history lesson about the gear and your father. The times where you've mention 'delay' and 'echo' features of a piece of gear have a different meaning now. 🙏 We'll call this one an episode of "Good Gear"

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you so much!!!😀😀😀

[@rarara7255]

Man, your work is so important! And this episod especially

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you so much!!!

[@hardwaresecuritymodule]

I love this new style of video and what a wonderful story about your dad - I wish someday my children will appreciate my gear in the same way. Everyone who has lost their father can't fail to be touched and agree with your closing sentiments. You've really showed your human side here. Keep expanding your repetoaire - you've plenty of it left!

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you❤️❤️❤️

[@thomasyon4332]

Wonderful episode. You're human, finally XD

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you so much!!!

[@sedumjp]

I'm here for this Good Gear stuff. Whole different vibe from bad gear, with time to explore a classic 70s sound design box, and you don't need to pause every 1.3 seconds to read and decode the heavy memes of Bad Gear. Great stuff.

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you❤️❤️❤️

[@PaulEubanks]

This episode really moved the needle for this channel. Awesome story!

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you!!!❤️❤️❤️

[@keromblum]

Much love and respect to a father and a son.

[@AudioPilz]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@bouncylj]

This is, quite probably, the best you video you have ever made. It's absolutely fantastic, and you're already one of the few channels where I watch every video that comes out.

[@AudioPilz]

❤️❤️❤️

[@JohnOShaughnessy]

now, this video totally got my attention! Not just because of the RE-201 but the whole story behind it. Beautiful

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you so much!!!

[@JohnOShaughnessy]

@@AudioPilz btw your videos are always good to watch, well made too!

[@lo-firobotboy7112]

I love the type-setting desk!

[@AudioPilz]

The OG

[@RobinRimbaudScanner]

The tenderness in your presentation here is warmly welcomed. It's refreshing and touching in equal measure. I still thoroughly enjoy your alternative anti-superhero stance in Bad Gear, but the positivity and good energy here is encouraging and inspiring. Keep it up young fellow!

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you so much, Robin!!! Very happy to hear that!!!

[@JavadMustafayev]

Love this format. Love that emotional soft key change! Thank you for sharing such a great family story!

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you!!!

Memories are pretty much echoes on a tape...with an intensity and repeat rate as strong as the experiences we share with our loves ones. Maybe that's what makes delays and reverb effects so appealing, just our own self reflection on them. Thanks for the "gear change" and the personal involvement, this one was truly special.

[@napotronix]

Nice personal story about the RE-201 and your dad. More vids like this please! I used to own a Chorus Echo RE-501, but without the backstory (I just got it second hand online), but eventually sold it because my OCD went berserk with tape sticking and wearing out. But those Space Echoes are magical devices for sure, and no emulation nails them yet.

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you!!!

[@SsgtHolland]

The back story is even warmer and more genuine than the sound of the Space Echo. For me, heaven would be having a father to share magic tobacco and endlessly laughing our ass off watching Bad Gear video's. Thank you, Florian.

[@AudioPilz]

Thanks❤️

[@airsickgrove]

I was born the same year these became available... honored! Fun Fact for any Dub Heads out there. King Tubby built all the equipment in Lee "Scratch" Perry's Black Ark Studio all but his Re-201 Space Echo

[@AudioPilz]

1974 FTW!!!

[@aerospatialerecordings]

This was a really touching tribute to your dad, and my condolences on his passing. Mine passed three years ago and I credit him for introducing me to the joys of audio gear and recording. I still have his old Ampex reel to reel sitting here in my studio. It was the very first piece of gear I learned to use at the tender age of 4 and somewhere in a box there are no doubt still some reel tapes of my earliest experiments. Thank you.

[@Burn_The_Elastic]

I don't know if they used the Roland but the break on The Chemical Brothers Setting Sun with the tape delay blew everyone away back in the day

[@AudioPilz]

I'd like to know too

[@mutespeakerbeats1095]

There is so much heart & soul in this video, I had to come back & give this more props 👌 it's been a tough week & we need more media like this in our lives.

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you so much!!! All the best!

[@jimlampshady]

What a lovely story. I inherited just one thing from my dad - a banjo that I am committed to one day learning to play. He also once wrote me a letter, including the advice to "Leave no turn unstoned." Which is much easier than learning banjo!

[@AudioPilz]

Turning stones and playing banjo goes hand in hand;) Thank you!!!

[@Vingul]

«Cripple Creek» is a nice place to begin if you want to start out with the three-finger roll. As played by Earl Scruggs.

[@jimlampshady]

@@Vingul Thanks bruv - I have a fairly broad base of musical knowledge, but didn't recognise about half of your message - I'm guessing it's banjo related? I have much to learn!

[@jimlampshady]

@@AudioPilz Turning "stoned". After "an old pack of tobacco" for example...🤪

[@Vingul]

@@jimlampshady O yes, Cripple Creek is a bluegrass standard. Earl Scruggs is often credited with «inventing» or at least popularising the three-finger roll, which allowed banjoists to play really fast in that famous bluegrass style. As opposed to the «clawhammer» style for instance. Scruggs played the banjo in Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys, the band that gave the name to the genre. He fell out with Monroe but became a legend in his own right, and together with Lester Flatt, as «Flatt & Scruggs» - they recorded a version of Cripple Creek as a duo as well. You might have heard their rendition of «Foggy Mountain Breakdown», it was used in the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde, classic car chase music, lol. I could ramble on but that oughta do it.

[@jezza8558]

What a great story Florian and a lovely tribute. I love the space echo, I remember seeing one hooked up to a CB radio in the 80s, crazy stuff! As amazing as it is I couldn't help be fascinated by the collection of printing blocks! I used to work at a printers in the 90s, its so cool to see some real old school blocks.

[@AudioPilz]

Thanks!!! That's my father's stuff

[@NoyaD9]

Great equipment and great story! Also love the way you filmed the episode!

[@AudioPilz]

❤️❤️❤️Thank you!!!❤️❤️❤️

[@onemanwent4059]

Beautiful tribute to two legends. Your dear dad & his space echo. His memory will echo forever ♥️

[@AudioPilz]

❤️❤️❤️

[@Eirikgonzo]

That was beautiful. Thank you

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you!!!❤️

[@AdrianGeorges]

Es macht einfach unglaublich Spass Dir zuzuhören.

[@AudioPilz]

Vielen Dank!!!

[@keithsquawk]

First time I heard Dubstep I was asked why I was grinning. It felt so familiar, the laws of dub as laid down by Space Echo.

[@AudioPilz]

Especially early UK dubstep!

[@thechadbuddha]

@@AudioPilz *S k e n G*

[@desktorp]

I still have a giant Peavey amp that my dad got for free and repaired but haven't used it in years. I have his guitar, record collection, turn table, Realistic brand equalizer, tape deck and receiver/amp, oldschool Sony CD player and just a lot of other electronics knick knacks.. most importantly, I inherited all of his tools, so I seldom need to buy anything when I need to make or repair something. He was a really cool guy-- an electronics tech by trade and humble indoor gardener in later years, of which I was lucky enough to partake. He was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2004 and died in 2006. He was only 49. I often wonder what he would think about the world today, but I think I have a good idea. Love you Florian bro.. one of the greatest KZbinrs to ever do it.

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you so much❤️❤️❤️I feel you!!!

[@djscorchio]

This entire episode was beautifully special, touching and vulnerable. TBH I did not expect that it would take this emotional turn, but now I kind of understand why it had this different atmosphere. I appreciate it a lot that you shared this with all of us. I hope you can feel good about this Florian, I think your dad would be proud of you.

[@AudioPilz]

❤️❤️❤️

[@marcanglin7127]

@ 4:30.............You......you had HAIR ?!?!?!?!?!?

[@AudioPilz]

Massive amounts;)

[@Axiohm000]

This was a touching tribute. Thanks for sharing. I feel the same way for another day with my father.

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Tofu_Pilot]

Did Florian just tell us about the first time he got high?

[@The_Invisible_Hand_Of_CV]

indeed he did!!!

[@AudioPilz]

First time?

[@The_Invisible_Hand_Of_CV]

@@AudioPilz I do recall you said dreadlocks..... What were we thinking?

[@ForecastGrim]

You hit me right in the heart bro. I also lost my dad in 2016 and have had that same thought. I would give anything to have one more day with him. ❤

[@AudioPilz]

❤️❤️❤️

[@SmallWorldBigThings]

This time, unlike usual, instead of commenting on a video, I’d like to recommend a KZbin channel to all audio gear enthusiasts: Stu's Technicolour Musical Bong™. Despite health challenges, the creator of this channel is finding his way in beautiful, atmospheric, and slightly melancholic music. Great gear, excellent skills, remarkable musical sensitivity… and zero audience. I truly don’t understand it, and I’d be very grateful if you could support this gentleman with kind words and maybe even a subscription to his channel. Cheers!

[@AudioPilz]

Great recommendation, thanks!!!

[@TheSnowLeopard]

Most heartwarming episode yet, I'm sure there is a story behind that dog too.

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you;)❤️

[@80iesDude45]

Everybody needs a «Space Echo».

[@PleasantDiversion]

You can say that again :)

[@AudioPilz]

Absolutely!!!

[@MikeKiker]

My dad has a one of a kind 1962 Fender Jazz Bass which I learned to play on. I always say it's like learning to play bass on Excalibur. We still get together and jam every now and again, and that bass is still played and taken care of regularly by both of us. I don't think I would be the musician I am today without my dad's influence or that bass.

[@AudioPilz]

❤️❤️❤️

[@t-r3xy]

F!rst!

[@mikeP6]

i was 10 seconds late

[@AudioPilz]

Yeah!!!

[@t-r3xy]

@@mikeP6 Sorry bro, try again next week ;)

[@t-r3xy]

@@AudioPilz Love the video, great story!

[@grayola4291]

I appreciate that you shared this! It did make me wonder how these relationships resonate thorough life. Surprisingly, I too have a story with a dad (mine) and a space echo, the only thing different being story’s content. My father is, among other things, a terrible hoarder, to the point that the stacks of more or less valuable gear make up a dungeon in his apartment. He once flexed saying ‘and oh, I got a space echo somewhere here’. I have never seen it. The end

[@simonairey8982]

What a profoundly beautiful and moving video. It brought me to tears. Thank you for sharing.

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you❤️❤️❤️

[@jarsamo]

My (late) father, who was actually an accordion player, provided me with the Watkins Copicat which I used in my heavily distorted techno live sets back in the days. After my sets people always came to see and ask what the F was that crazy feedback effect :D Now I have the Boss RE-20 pedal which I really love. The Copicat is still in the family. My brother has restored it and is using it.

[@AceGarpTruckingCo]

I've got Dad's cymbals down here. We shared them because I never seemed to be professional when he was and vice versa. And while he was never into the sort of tobacco one might share recreationally, I'm listening to his last 2022 performance I recorded in his living room shortly before his death. Played himself out at his own funeral to Fleetwood Mac's Don't Stop; did a shuffle better than Fleetwood himself. RIP Dad, and sorry for your loss too x

[@AudioPilz]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@punkpharaoh4460]

Awesome to see people talking about musical equipment outside of the usual "Here's how x guy used this" or "Why you should purchase this and drive the price up". I far prefer this format, talking about memories and what makes something special to you is far more interesting, and at least to me - it's more relevant to music, and our relationship to this artform. Your father sounds a lot like mine, a talented musician who can sometime be as much a friend and confidant as a dad. I sometimes wish I took an interest in music far younger, only starting as I turned of age - there are so many conversations it feels like we're yet to have, but talking about the mix of the projects he's helping on, or how he's adapting his recording setup for a better drum sound always makes me smile, I've learned a lot from him, and I think videos like this are always proof that the time spent together is worth it's weight in gold. Thank you.

[@AudioPilz]

❤️❤️❤️

[@blumendesboesen]

Awesome tribute, and definitely an awesome thing to have to remember him by. Been itching for a Space Echo lately.

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you❤️❤️❤️

[@wearjammincicmusicstudio7446]

As a relatively new dad to 4 year old twin boys I always wonder and hope that one day, and following lots of gentle encouragement, they will take to music and my collection of synths, samplers and outboard I've been collection for the past 28 years. Your video is very touching and gives me hope that one day my sons, like you, feel the same and find as much enjoyment in music and gear (good or bad) that I have throughout my life. I think your dad would be very proud and overjoyed that you share a love inspired through him ☺

[@AudioPilz]

❤️❤️❤️

[@aksen303]

thought we were going to get a cool space echo history video, instead we get one of the most beautiful music gear videos ever. my dad wasn't a musician, but he was into technology. we had things like cd players and video recorders before almost anyone else i knew, and he would bring home a computer from his work regularly in the late 80s, and eventually bought a PC in 1989, and let us kids use them. i ended up doing computer science at uni, and am a programmer to this day, and it was primarily because of him. he passed away in 2014. miss him to this day ❤

[@AudioPilz]

I feel you❤️❤️❤️

[@jamesbustillos7332]

That was a beautiful tribute. What I would give to hang with my old Man and Lady again..

[@AudioPilz]

❤️❤️

[@recycology5468]

That was a Heart and Soul, engaging tribute to your father. 😊 When I asked my Mother for guitar lessons at age 11 I was shocked when she said yes because she was so strict and conservative by mid 60's standards. She could just barely afford the $5 lesson fee working as a hair dresser and raising 3 kids. The LOVE of a parent is beyond measure. On another note, I'm using an affordable NUX Tape Delay pedal, It's kind of a clone.

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you!!!❤️❤️❤️ It's great when parents know what really counts

[@RodolfoLeblon]

My dad passed away in november 2016, and what can I say.... This is beautiful, heartfelt. My dad didn't leave me a tape echo, but certainly did he leave me with an incredible love for music. Thanks for making this video. And may he rest in peace.

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you❤️❤️❤️

[@ProSimex84]

My father died in the 90s when I was 13. From him I have his ovation breadwinner, jupiter 4, sh2000, sh1000 (all three synths in desperate need of service and currently under sheets) and a TEAC 3340s which has been the centerpiece of everything in my studio forever. Im going to pull the ovation out tonight i think.

[@AudioPilz]

Great collection!

[@jurakerleha]

That was touching tribute to your dad and I'm so sorry for your loss

[@blakecasimir]

Beautiful story, sir. An appropriate and touching ode to your dad and a great instrument. Thank you for sharing with us.

[@AudioPilz]

❤️

[@PWMaarten]

Best episode ever! As a somewhat new dad myself, my oldest just turned 3, you had me tear up at the end. I serviced a couple of 201’s. Truly a wonderful machine. I have to do with a Echocord, which is great, but no 201.

[@AudioPilz]

Echocords are awesome!!! Thanks❤️

[@LowFiHank]

Thanks for this heartwarming episode 🙏🏻 I bought a used Space Echo last year after a long search for a decent model. I wouldn‘t sell it by any chance. Keep up the heritage ❤️

[@AudioPilz]

Thanks!!! It's a keeper!!!

[@Cyberbat]

Right in the feels. Much love, Florian.

[@AudioPilz]

❤️❤️❤️

[@cocacumba]

My dad also passed away in 2016. He was a piano nerd and just the last couple of years I became a synth and electronic music nerd. I also would love to hang out with him for one evening so I could show him what I have learned. ❤

[@AudioPilz]

❤️❤️❤️

[@kenniferlopez1]

Holy Crap! It has been 11 years since my dad passed. I still think about him everyday. I miss him and my old mean drunk Granny. RAD SIR!

[@AudioPilz]

❤️

[@craigsurette3438]

That was the most wholesome and touching teenage miscreant stoner shenanigans turns into quality family bonding time stories I have ever heard. Finding your first tape echo,and your first accidental weed at the same time, must have been absolutely surreal and mind blowing. To be honest after such an experience ,i am surprised you didnt end up into Dub Reggae or Stoner rock. Your dad sounds like an amazing man, and I am grateful he raised a man like you .

[@AudioPilz]

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[@kamesound]

Dear Florian, First of all, I want to thank you for each Friday's episode. There are some I’ve watched a thousand times (I think my favorite is the one about FL Studio, even though it’s not hardware). This episode really touched my heart because my father, who passed away in 2017, was also my mentor in music. The first instruments and audio gear I had access to were thanks to him-a music and technology lover, a curious and studious person. I still keep a LOWREY LS30 keyboard that I use to teach MIDI to my students since it still works perfectly and can be used as a controller, even now in 2024. But without a doubt, the equivalent of the space echo in my life is the Technics 1200 mk2 turntable, and like you, I wouldn’t trade it for anything if it meant having one more moment with him. Someday, I would love to invite you to one of the live streams I host on my channel. Sending lots of love from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

[@AudioPilz]

Gracias!!!❤️❤️❤️

[@ProfessorPepper17]

What an amazing story to share with the world, thank you for this heartfelt episode of Bad Gear

[@thought_scores]

Magical is right. Always found something magic about the physical tape whirring and squeaking through the mechanisms. A touching video, thanks 🙏🏼

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you!!!❤️

[@NateBarduson]

Echoing 😎 the comments here praising this video. The ending just soaked my pillow in tears. I could feel your father’s warmth through your storytelling. Beautiful stuff.

[@AudioPilz]

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[@steveanderson5226]

Thank you so much for sharing such a beautiful memory. That was so deeply moving and a wonderful tribute! ❤

[@AudioPilz]

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[@benjaminguerrero5588]

Such an emotional video. That was incredibly moving. Your dad sounds like an awesome person

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you!!! He was a true legend!

[@robbiewabisabi]

Das ist eine wunderbare Geschichte über ein wirklich schönes Gerät. Ich habe meinen Vater (der fließend Deutsch spricht) vor etwa 10 Jahren ebenfalls verloren und verstehe Ihre Gefühle. Danke, dass Sie ein Teil unseres Lebens in Sachen elektronische Musik sind.

[@AudioPilz]

Vielen Dank!!!

[@chokocat9064]

The Pilz--OMC, I didn't have to paws a million times to watch the gearz video. I feel like someone left out the cat-nip, and transported me to another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind--a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space, and as timeless as infinity...

[@AudioPilz]

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[@TheKorgGadgeter]

I know where one of these can be bought for about $2500. The guy who owns it opened it up and let me watch the tape crawl around. It is the coolest damn thing. Genius in its simplicity.

[@compucorder64]

That was one of your best videos. Well done! Definitely could imagine this being a new series for you. One of the pieces of equipment that's quickly become one of my favourites is the pretty affordable Surfybear Classic spring reverb. There wasn't any equipment like this around the family. But what really helped me is when a family friend moved back from London, late 90s post Summer of Love. With a huge record collection. Everything from all the Rephlex, Warp back catalogue (Aphex, u-Ziq, Squarepusher), to all the great Detroit and German techno and tons of Jungle records, including dub plates. I spent many hours listening, and taping my favourites. And wore those tapes out listening repeatedly.

[@learnerslikeus]

This video destabilized me at first, without the usual 5 memes/second. Thank you for the good vibes from sharing this amazing gear and your connection to it.

[@AudioPilz]

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[@delatronics3257]

I have been servicing these for over 36 years (Ex Roland Senior engineer). The 201 is preferred by many as it utilises more transistor gain circuits, the newer 301 and 501 use Op Amps and have less noise but are not quite as organic. I have serviced other tape machines including Watkins and Korg and would say the Roland is better, but the Evans SE-820 is a clone but somewhat improved in various areas over the RE201 and that sounds a lot more dynamic if you like that sort of sound!

[@AudioPilz]

Great insight, thanks!!!

[@artisan002]

Okay. That was a lovely story. All the respect to your father, may he rest in peace. And I have always liked the Roland Space Echo, even before I knew that's what it was.

[@AudioPilz]

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[@MarciaDVL]

I was fun to see you performing ! And in an unusual setting! cheers! MD

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you!!!

[@mzisman]

family history gear is good gear. Regardless of the gear. Funny enough, my dad's equivalent piece of family history gear is a Lexicon Alex. I use my beloved Alesis Wegde now, instead. My dad managed to lose the Alex while moving a few years back. The piece of gear is gone but my dad is still here. I am endlessly grateful for this 🙏 Your dad sounds like a great man. Thank you for sharing the touching story. Beautiful video.

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you!!! Alesis Wedge is great!!!

[@deepsea313]

I still have my dad’s trumpet and Maranz receiver! So many musical memories! ❤

[@AudioPilz]

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[@robdot0]

this was an all around amazing story told perfectly. the newer shots of you in the room noodling around is very intimate and what we wanted.

[@ElectronicWitchcraft]

Your best video yet. As a fellow old man, the slower pace was fab and I'm not too proud to admit your touching words brought a tear to my eye.

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you❤️

[@BF-up5xw]

You are a wonderful story teller and I'm so glad that you got to have such a great relationship with your dad. That is such an amazing thing to have; even in the long grief of loss. It's also lovely to here you making some music with gear that you really love for a change!

[@AudioPilz]

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