I miss my dad when watching this...He died 4 years ago at the age of 64. He had the same patience when explaining things, though enjoying when us young people try to make it our own. That's the thing with explaining, it his you when you get older.
As a guy who got hugely inspired by you and Hainbach’s test equipment videos back during the pandemic and built a giant set up known as the ‘End Of The World Machine’ I highly approve of this! You rule Sam good stuff!
I think he needs to visit Tatjana van Vark, who also qualifies, and look at some of their mechanical engineering art, and of course their phone exchange.
I have nothing with electronics, yet this is my favourite channel. Especially with all these sounds, I am back in bed as a 10-year-old with my radio with the green eye next to me, listening to all these mesmerizing sounds and voices from far away while moving the dial slowly.
It's funny when you get to see these old bits actually being used, as intended, instead of being viewed from afar in some obscure museum. Sam's "Ow many you got!!" Classic.
That oscilloscope was like some crazy old sci-fi movies stuff, astonishing! It seems the sine waves are truly alive, closed inside these twisted circuits! Don't let them out! >,>
It really is a great experience using an analog oscilloscope with a synth. One time I managed to construct an animation (of a jumping rabbit) in a fairly odd patch. Sounded decent at least.
WOW!! This is very, VERY impressive!! What a spectacular and awesome setup!! It looks like an electronic scientific research lab from back in the day. It also reminds me of early computers as well, such as the Whirlwind I. So, this is how those weird sound effects were created for those old sci-fi movies from back in the 50's and 60's, like "Forbidden Planet," for example. NICE!!!! It's so amazing that all of the basic components found in a typical modern analog synthesizer also exist in this vintage high-end test equipment. I can only assume this is the type of equipment that was used during the early days of electronic music and sound effects, which eventually led to the development of the modular synthesizer. I can even recall hearing some of these types of sound effects used in soundtracks from classic sci-fi and horror movies made during the 70's as well.
Hans reminds my of my late electro teacher.. The long hear. And the tone of explanation.. also the pinging galaxy shapes on the ocilator were out of this world. Loved the visiualization of the sound and "gravity" effect. reminded me of the DIY etch and sketch vid
the jam kept growing piece by piece with nice rhythms and complex sounds, great job guys, lots of fun to be had. insane vibes past the 25min point with great character to the plucked picked and percussive bits.
That was some truly interesting stuff! Now all the generation of the sounds for old Sci-Fi movies makes much more sense as well as the term "electro-acoustic music". A real eye-opener! Some of the first sounds in the video was very reminiscent to early stuff from Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream too - nice!
Those 1950 to early 1960th sci-fi movies with landing on foreign planets (e.g. "The Silent Star", "Forbidden Planet" etc.) often had this kind of athmo sounds. Interesting is that they controlled large filter banks by hand instead of envelope circuits to make these voice-like airy space timbres.
was over a decade in the german Luftwaffe, repairing radios, mainly SEM line, i know a few of these generators, HP and Rhode&Schwarz, was active in the 1990s and we sure used 20-30 year old generators, museum pieces, but they always got calibrated and sure worked perfect, we repaired even tube radios still with SEM25 in the 1990s, was an itneresting time.
Wow. What a fantastic room of audio. I absolutely love the setup, super well thought and laid out. Willem is incredibly insightful. This could have been a 2 hour video and I would have still found it really interesting to watch. I love to think how kit like this is the birthplace of so much of the music we enjoy listening to today, even if it wasn't originally intended for this equipment to be musical. Thanks for sharing, I truly enjoyed the experience of the journey into sound.
Wow, this brings back memories. When I was in high school I worked at an electronics surplus store so of course I had a home lab with a Tektronics scope, HP200 audio generator and a spring reverb. I have no musical talent but I did have lots of fun seeing what I could come up with. That was 45 years ago. I really like the setup in this video.
Thanks for this inspiring video! Love this setup for its pure and well thought out layout. Also love the organic and searching way of tuning and playing the mixer board instead of traditional keys! Guess you had a great day! Keep up the the great work!
That analog computers display is the most hypnotic thing I have ever seen. And to have control over it in that manner.... I could get lost for 3 days straight in that thing.
I remember when I wired my analogue scope in XY mode to the analogue percussion of my Casio MT-88, I got similar strange psychedelic spiral attractor stuff.
man, no wonder this was the scifi aesthetic for so long... walking inside a huge synth to turn the knobs is rad. it's so clean too, like the controls for a nuclear reactor
Thanks so much to your good self and Hans, not forgetting the camera person, for this particularly brilliant, educational soiree. I loved it. 😊 This exploration filled in a load of gaps in my knowledge around how the electronic pioneers, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and all the other international music labs worked in the pre-synth days. The time, patience, inventiveness and the pure vision of those early folk shines through in this session. What joy to get those last few niggling questions answered. Questions I would have struggled to even pin down...and you and Hans just nailed it. Top class, as ever Sam. Thank you!
So wonderful! Thanks for sharing! Watching this fills me with emotion: Excitement, Curiosity, Wonder, Confusion, Jealousy and Inspiration just to name a few.
I grew up watching the first few seasons of Doctor Who, Twilight Zone, and other shows and these are the exact same sounds you’d hear. Now I know why. Thanks!
To think all of this equipment is downsized and inside of most musical keyboards these days. That’s how they are able to create all the built in sounds. I literally use many of the same methods to create new sounds from the existing built in sounds in my music programs. Interesting to see it on such a grand scale.
OMG, That is nerd heaven. With all these boxes being old test equipment they likely run with linear power supplies. I wonder how much W/h that thing pulls when everything is turned on.
Absolutely breathtaking! That's more HP than you have Brüel&Kjær! CuriousMarc would be proud. I'll try visiting the place should I go to the Netherlands again. Makes me wish I could do electronics maintenance and service there. The computer though - it's another thing of beauty in and of itself. "...and the Keri of the counter..."
lol, i told you the sine wave is useful, massive setup and cool sounds, thnx. I got one for you: 'Marusha - Somewhere over the Rainbow' (1994), this track turned the Techno music world upside down, multiple platinum in several countries. the instrumental part is killer in the mid section, Chicken skin occurs and it stays in your head. Love parade was a free festival in Berlin and more than 1 million up to 1.5 million people attended on a big traffic roundabout, with people climbing the streetlight to see something, this was one the anthems.
Ahh, this is soooo great to see! Went to their channel and hoped there were like hour long videos of improvisations with this equipment, but unfortunately no.
Remember a project in Practical Electronics for a box that made coloured noise. You probably have it somewhere late sxties early seventies.. It was completely analogue and used a noisy diode to make white noise and had a series of filters with toggl;e switches and pots with chicken heads. Picture was on front cover.
Awesome video… takes me back to electrical engineering lab days. We would have been much more motivated if we thought about using that gear to make real music. Great seeing old and new generation geniuses work together.
I have been there some times. Hans is as nice irl ! Love that studio and its sounds. Also been in the other studio featuring lots of famous synths. Have to visit it soon, its in my city, 's-Hertogenbosch...❤❤❤
*Rob is with us still... So thats cool.* lol dunno why but Sam seems bored or maybe something else was on his mind. No hate I just hope all is well. This channel is one of the best, it reaches a very large range of human from my daughter to my pap. Every individual instrument or tool has its own story no matter how common or rare or the price range. Keep doing what you enjoy sir but if it becomes a bit much please take ur time cause you do post alot and have for awhile. Im def a fan
You somehow got some music out of that set up at the end. Nice! I guess you won't be dragging that thing out and about to a lake or river for a photo op, eh! lol
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A big thanks to all the passionate people who salvage these wonderful machines, preventing their definite loss !
I miss my dad when watching this...He died 4 years ago at the age of 64. He had the same patience when explaining things, though enjoying when us young people try to make it our own. That's the thing with explaining, it his you when you get older.
best wishes my dude
😢 im a dad 43 y. old just not sure if im right now , this one punch me hard ,
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FINALLY! Someone with more equipment than Sam. This Museum is such the slacker.
No No please!! :-) Sam's place is really of an other category, very different and VERY special!!! 🙂
Willem 2 studios! These guys are so patient and sweet, they love to explain everythung with all the passion they have❤ Big love
As a guy who got hugely inspired by you and Hainbach’s test equipment videos back during the pandemic and built a giant set up known as the ‘End Of The World Machine’ I highly approve of this! You rule Sam good stuff!
Nice to see a dutch mad scientist
I think he needs to visit Tatjana van Vark, who also qualifies, and look at some of their mechanical engineering art, and of course their phone exchange.
for sure! not too many knocking about these days.
I have nothing with electronics, yet this is my favourite channel. Especially with all these sounds, I am back in bed as a 10-year-old with my radio with the green eye next to me, listening to all these mesmerizing sounds and voices from far away while moving the dial slowly.
It's funny when you get to see these old bits actually being used, as intended, instead of being viewed from afar in some obscure museum.
Sam's "Ow many you got!!"
Classic.
"used, as intended", ahh, ok, there's a comma.
That oscilloscope was like some crazy old sci-fi movies stuff, astonishing! It seems the sine waves are truly alive, closed inside these twisted circuits! Don't let them out! >,>
It really is a great experience using an analog oscilloscope with a synth. One time I managed to construct an animation (of a jumping rabbit) in a fairly odd patch. Sounded decent at least.
Very reminiscent of the score for “Forbidden Planet” which was made with similar equipment.
WOW!! This is very, VERY impressive!! What a spectacular and awesome setup!! It looks like an electronic scientific research lab from back in the day. It also reminds me of early computers as well, such as the Whirlwind I.
So, this is how those weird sound effects were created for those old sci-fi movies from back in the 50's and 60's, like "Forbidden Planet," for example. NICE!!!!
It's so amazing that all of the basic components found in a typical modern analog synthesizer also exist in this vintage high-end test equipment. I can only assume this is the type of equipment that was used during the early days of electronic music and sound effects, which eventually led to the development of the modular synthesizer. I can even recall hearing some of these types of sound effects used in soundtracks from classic sci-fi and horror movies made during the 70's as well.
.....totally absorbing, both sonically and visually.....if you weren't on tour I'm sure you would both still be there in twiddle heaven....
this was genuinely moving to watch... unbelievable how far weve come and yet the old ways are still so beautiful
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 Incredible collection of someone who clearly loves what he does. So many possibilities with this old gear. Just love it!
Hans reminds my of my late electro teacher.. The long hear. And the tone of explanation..
also the pinging galaxy shapes on the ocilator were out of this world. Loved the visiualization of the sound and "gravity" effect.
reminded me of the DIY etch and sketch vid
Maybe great big huge dials need to make a comeback. Very satisfying.
the jam kept growing piece by piece with nice rhythms and complex sounds, great job guys, lots of fun to be had. insane vibes past the 25min point with great character to the plucked picked and percussive bits.
That was some truly interesting stuff! Now all the generation of the sounds for old Sci-Fi movies makes much more sense as well as the term "electro-acoustic music". A real eye-opener! Some of the first sounds in the video was very reminiscent to early stuff from Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream too - nice!
Those 1950 to early 1960th sci-fi movies with landing on foreign planets (e.g. "The Silent Star", "Forbidden Planet" etc.) often had this kind of athmo sounds. Interesting is that they controlled large filter banks by hand instead of envelope circuits to make these voice-like airy space timbres.
Two thumbs up for that story about Stockhausen at the radio station.
What an amazing place! I enjoyed this video, as well as the ones Hainbach has done from Willem Twee. You two should jam together at the Twee!
was over a decade in the german Luftwaffe, repairing radios, mainly SEM line, i know a few of these generators, HP and Rhode&Schwarz, was active in the 1990s and we sure used 20-30 year old generators, museum pieces, but they always got calibrated and sure worked perfect, we repaired even tube radios still with SEM25 in the 1990s, was an itneresting time.
This is exactly how I imagine the Star Trek Classic series got their atmospheric sounds on several planets!
31:56 Beam me up, Scotty! That's that sound.
It sounds exactly like the first electronic music soundtrack ever - the soundtrack for "Forbidden Planet" wich was made by the Barons in the fifties.
I met someone who worked on the ship sounds for Star Trek. Lots of air-conditioning hums recorded to reel to reel
Wow. What a fantastic room of audio. I absolutely love the setup, super well thought and laid out. Willem is incredibly insightful. This could have been a 2 hour video and I would have still found it really interesting to watch.
I love to think how kit like this is the birthplace of so much of the music we enjoy listening to today, even if it wasn't originally intended for this equipment to be musical. Thanks for sharing, I truly enjoyed the experience of the journey into sound.
This is great some really beautiful sounds from it. Love the pure droning bank of sines, ghost ships and all.
Wow, this brings back memories. When I was in high school I worked at an electronics surplus store so of course I had a home lab with a Tektronics scope, HP200 audio generator and a spring reverb. I have no musical talent but I did have lots of fun seeing what I could come up with. That was 45 years ago. I really like the setup in this video.
got chills from this.. I would play with this all day every day, daaaaaamn, nice equipment
I can't believe I listened to the entire video. Amazing sounds! 😲
I worked for HP for 5 years on their laptop line customer support and never knew they made these machines, woah. Great video!
Thanks for this inspiring video! Love this setup for its pure and well thought out layout. Also love the organic and searching way of tuning and playing the mixer board instead of traditional keys! Guess you had a great day! Keep up the the great work!
its kinda cool that in my musical journey im at the point where i know what is going on and what hes talking aboot
So cool to see your live performance in Tolhuistuin the other day!!🙌🎶
That analog computers display is the most hypnotic thing I have ever seen. And to have control over it in that manner.... I could get lost for 3 days straight in that thing.
I remember when I wired my analogue scope in XY mode to the analogue percussion of my Casio MT-88, I got similar strange psychedelic spiral attractor stuff.
This place is only 30km from my house, but i've never been there! I should visit it some time. I believe they also have a ARP 2500.
man, no wonder this was the scifi aesthetic for so long... walking inside a huge synth to turn the knobs is rad. it's so clean too, like the controls for a nuclear reactor
some of the most beautiful sounds I have ever heard coming from some of the most beautiful machines I have ever seen
Thanks so much to your good self and Hans, not forgetting the camera person, for this particularly brilliant, educational soiree. I loved it. 😊
This exploration filled in a load of gaps in my knowledge around how the electronic pioneers, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and all the other international music labs worked in the pre-synth days.
The time, patience, inventiveness and the pure vision of those early folk shines through in this session.
What joy to get those last few niggling questions answered. Questions I would have struggled to even pin down...and you and Hans just nailed it.
Top class, as ever Sam.
Thank you!
What a wide palette of sounds, from eerie industrial drones to plucky and percussive beats. Really cool demonstration video!!
That’s an amazing looking place! It’s looks very industrial, like a power plant. But it’s a power plant that makes sounds from outer space.
thanks so much and great to have you Sam and Johnny!! 🙏🎂🎂🍰🙃
Do enjoy your tour!!!
Love this one a ton. Thanks for always providing great content with depth, history and fun.
Always fun to hear Hans explain!
Het Sjoerd, jij ook hier😁
@@jkrielaars haha zeker, ik volg Sam en de w2 studio's al jaren
well, what can i say? awesome is an understatement. mad respect for collecting, building and maintaining this behemoth of a sound laboratory.
So wonderful! Thanks for sharing! Watching this fills me with emotion: Excitement, Curiosity, Wonder, Confusion, Jealousy and Inspiration just to name a few.
This is one of the most awesome sound creating machines in exsistance! Thank You so much for sharing it with Us Sam!
Good Job guys ,ReALLY Enjoyed this.....Fantastic Job Mr Twee
Bloody brilliant! We had a bunch of that stuff in the electronics lab I worked in.
Love. It. A lot
Looking at the backs, I'm missing the GPIB connectors
2:08 Ahhh, the sweet sound of tinnitus ❤
i could watch videos like this all day
The cool thing with 'test equipment' is that you can actually 'see' what's going on, and eventually mesure it. Nice synth!
Thanks!
It‘s technically speaking all rather abracadabra to me but what a truly amazing and fascinating demo this was. Thanks! 🇳🇱🇬🇧
I grew up watching the first few seasons of Doctor Who, Twilight Zone, and other shows and these are the exact same sounds you’d hear. Now I know why. Thanks!
WOW. what a beautiful collection of equipment, and what musical possibilities!
The king of modular synthetisizers.
To think all of this equipment is downsized and inside of most musical keyboards these days. That’s how they are able to create all the built in sounds. I literally use many of the same methods to create new sounds from the existing built in sounds in my music programs. Interesting to see it on such a grand scale.
Those sounds are fantastic. This made me smile a lot. :)
Strange yet very soothing sounds ,coming out of these machines .
One of the best videos on this channel
OMG, That is nerd heaven. With all these boxes being old test equipment they likely run with linear power supplies. I wonder how much W/h that thing pulls when everything is turned on.
Hans is genius. This place is awesome and absolutely unique in the world.
Absolutely breathtaking! That's more HP than you have Brüel&Kjær! CuriousMarc would be proud.
I'll try visiting the place should I go to the Netherlands again. Makes me wish I could do electronics maintenance and service there.
The computer though - it's another thing of beauty in and of itself.
"...and the Keri of the counter..."
lol, i told you the sine wave is useful, massive setup and cool sounds, thnx.
I got one for you: 'Marusha - Somewhere over the Rainbow' (1994), this track turned the Techno music world upside down, multiple platinum in several countries. the instrumental part is killer in the mid section, Chicken skin occurs and it stays in your head.
Love parade was a free festival in Berlin and more than 1 million up to 1.5 million people attended on a big traffic roundabout, with people climbing the streetlight to see something, this was one the anthems.
Ahh, this is soooo great to see! Went to their channel and hoped there were like hour long videos of improvisations with this equipment, but unfortunately no.
Remember a project in Practical Electronics for a box that made coloured noise. You probably have it somewhere late sxties early seventies.. It was completely analogue and used a noisy diode to make white noise and had a series of filters with toggl;e switches and pots with chicken heads. Picture was on front cover.
Fantastic nerd stuff - amazing construction/setup. Imagine that it gave you a lot of ideas 😊
Awesome content. Brilliant. Not touched an analogue computer since university in 1985
Every second of this was amazing
Awesome video… takes me back to electrical engineering lab days. We would have been much more motivated if we thought about using that gear to make real music. Great seeing old and new generation geniuses work together.
Pure tube analog! Must sound amazing in person!
The Dutch Side of the Moon - Very inspiring!
Very nice, so inspiring. Many thanks from Norway.
Great guys, two mad scientists at work!
I already had a rough idea what you could do with test equipment. But that was just mental 🤯
Almost as pretty sounding as my tinnitus love it!
utterly utterly fascinating
What an aural feast. Sounds like the sound effects from early Doctor Who/Raumpatrouille Orion shows.
That analogue computer is a right treat.
Mental! loved it. Great old stuff from my days. Thanks.
Amazing, and great movie
Riveting stuff!!! Thanks for all your invaluable videos!
Love those little moments of Sam’s heavy breathing lmao 😂
I have been there some times. Hans is as nice irl ! Love that studio and its sounds. Also been in the other studio featuring lots of famous synths. Have to visit it soon, its in my city, 's-Hertogenbosch...❤❤❤
Can't believe he set foot in my Province hahaha, great to see you here :-)
Awesome, been there once, Hans is a legend!
Look Mum it's the Netherlands !
That analog computer part🎉
*Rob is with us still... So thats cool.* lol dunno why but Sam seems bored or maybe something else was on his mind. No hate I just hope all is well. This channel is one of the best, it reaches a very large range of human from my daughter to my pap. Every individual instrument or tool has its own story no matter how common or rare or the price range. Keep doing what you enjoy sir but if it becomes a bit much please take ur time cause you do post alot and have for awhile. Im def a fan
I wish i fully understood how cool this really is..
I love seeing your interactive perspective on this studio!! 👍👍🎛️🎚️
Bet the engineers who designed that test equipment would of never suspected it would of been used this way! That's a mad setup!
... would have never ... ... would have been ...
Just another day in the Computer Core of the USS Enterprise. Fascinating!
Fantastic musical gadgetry...i put you in the Tangerine Dream playlist...
uff these machines just sound amazing! minimal techno at its best :)
I'd have no idea what I was doing, but I could spend hours in that room! Especially with the analogue computer's oscilloscope ❤
You somehow got some music out of that set up at the end. Nice! I guess you won't be dragging that thing out and about to a lake or river for a photo op, eh! lol
It's a dream studio !!!!!
Similar sounds were used in the original Star Trek shows as well as the visuals from the horizontal display.
31:56 Beam me up, Scotty!
Purposefully wonderful insanity. A delightful meander into a journey i wish I'd turned up for.
That was so much fun to see and hear!
Hi from Hamburg. Can't wait to hear your new song "pooing in the evening" 😂
wow.. what an awesome setup!