Just wanted to say, AudioPilz' "Bad Gear" is maybe the best Synth review show in existence. Honest, right amount of insight without too much details and good production quality for the sample songs too. Keep it up!
LOVED seeing the Volca Kick getting some action. That thing is seriously one of the best in the entire line. So flexible and just absolutely MONSTROUS sounding.
@@AudioPilz _sighs and adds Wolca Kick to _*_The List,_*_ just under nubass and Drum_ I actually like the sound of this thing and not for its 303 stylings. Sounds like it can make some fat bass riffs. Does it have any grit or dirt that can be added outside the filter?
@@Oljekrisen It'd either be a cheap circuit board with awful trimpots, or something that looks like a lego set and costs $2000. Flip a coin to decide which one?
@@technicalfool a 400$ black plastic device (similar design language as volca but two rows of keys like the perkons device with 2 volcas engines inside) a colab between teenage, korg, Erica synths and the Undertones
I assembled a little volca rig for fun (modular, drum, nubass, keys, and the mixer). They are pretty little toys that let a classically trained musician like me pretend to know how to make techno (i'm not much of a step-sequencing kinda guy, i typically just play what i want to hear on keys, but this little rig is helping me learn the ropes.
you are seriously so consistent it blows my mind, you're serious proof that any piece of equipment has its use if you're willing to look for it and i think that's what really sets apart someone with extreme skill
Have you ever thought about compiling your little jams into a continuous mix or a compilation? They're always so good. I would love to listen to them just as music.
0:27 listened to this while drinking a Weihenstephaner Festbier. Good timing, PROST!! Also.. Was there 2 Smudge the Cat memes in this? Well done Florian!! Frölische Freitag!
Yes!! That was a superb example of the now classic Bad Gear format. Superb review, maximum snark, and some great grooves. I suppose at some point you are going to run outta gear to review, but until then long may this continue! Korg need to get you on their booth at the NAMM show, I would love to see a 20 minute “bad gear” live demo at Anaheim, who knows - special guest appearances from Nick Batt etc? Haha
Awesome episode as always! I own both the bass and the nubass and while the bass is able to produce more versatile sounds, the nubass has a much improved sequencer and a raw dirty quality to its sound that make it so much fun to play.
"welcome to the dark side of the mono-synth disco-funk wub & roll" (proceeds to show FNAF dancing action figures) i don't know where you found this sort of madness, but it is GLORIOUS, and im down for it. :D
I've hardly touched mine, but the NuBass is a nice addition to the volca lineup in isolation. The tube is a gimmick though. It does actually sound nice, different character than the other clones I have. Really it's the volca footprint that sells it though. It's doesn't play particularly nice with the Keys/Bass IMO, but it's great in combo w Kick and Drum. Actually really highlights the Kick since the Kick also always felt like it didn't belong. Now it has a friend. I'm keeping it.
Besides loving the way you make fun and fuzz about those "bad gear contestants" - man you really rock your videos! I love the jams, the knowledge and the laughs, but i think i never told you that your video editing is awesome as well! Thank you so much for making tgif a little more TGIF!
I was considering getting some storage/carrying cases for my volcas. and I found the perfect cheap solution. plastic pencil cases during a back to school sale. They were a dollar each and just the right size.
I'm surprised to see so little love for the nubass in the comments. I love mine! As an acid box, it offers something different from the 303 in terms of its sound, and it's also a lot easier to program. And you can get some cool results with the LFO!
@@AudioPilz You should make an EP single with that thing! I'm not even kidding, either! I'd love to hear that thing going through a few modes on Hologram's Microcosm! There are a few modes that would really be excellent processing it.
Okay. I especially enjoyed the outtakes at the end. And I still really hope some day you'll gain access to a Fairlight Voice Tracker for your vocoder shoutout.
@@AudioPilz Not surprising. They were rare when they were production. To understand what all it could do, look up The Art Of Noise live in 1986, particularly the song Instruments of Darkness. J.J. used one for the voice modulation effects.
You can go up an octave. If you go into transpose and hold the note down it flashes and you get an octave up. Tedious, but it's there. Accent and glide both have a second mode too.
Un générique original a chaque épisode, des plans de coupes de folies, du matériel torturé, une diction claire, un nouveau style de musique inventé à chaque essais. Très bonne émission.
Love the pseudo-breakbeat in that last jam. Oh and the NuBass was good too. Love the acid sound ever since I first heard it back in '88. This Nubass has a nice edge to it - familiar, but can be distinctly different if played right.
the vocoder shoutout was so cool. They always are Also I tried very hard to do proper acid line with the NuBass but, the accent circuitry was a shame, no classic acid barks 😭 Thanks !
VFD displays? I only knew of them from the '85 Roland JX-8P, they've got a limited lifetime which I guess makes sense now if they're essentially tubes (which also have a limited lifespan). I thought your intro bit about tubes, specifically nutubes, was fantastic bcuz Ive been wondering what the nutube is at all and seemed to me if I hadn't known about vaccum tubes already id have been able to understand your explanation. I had no idea they made a headphone amp w it, next checking that out....
@@AudioPilz you'd mentioned, very accuratley imo, the suspiciously low voltage aspect of the tubes in the ESX-1/EMX-1 and in recent years ive learned all about how that and my PreSonus TubePre using tubes that way isn't anything like using them in proper tube amplifiers. But back in the early 00s i bought into all the tube hype and would have wanted to buy the korg nutube headphone amp. I think the volca nubass sounds great, do u think the tubes play an essential role therE? as you pointed out, they're used in more ways than just slapping on the output signal. I read reviews of the korg nutube headphone amp which were very negative, somewhat sensibly . I say somewhat cuz audiophiles are always gonna be alarmed at the high THD and bad SnR w inexpensive tubes - its a given, but was there any sonic change that enhanced the audio in such a way that its more pleasurable to listen to? thats the real question, nobody complains about distortion effects producing artifacts and overloading the circuit with gain or making a clean sound dirty - because that's expected, because in many applications its a more interesting sound in the end. Likewise, the Aphex Aural Exciters are also using distortion to boost harmonics in upper frequencies, less vital now in the post-tape digital era, but I still use & like it - although id never slap it on the output bus at a fixed amount and expect everything to sound better as a result, anything which is supposed to do that is highly dubious, methinks. I get very mad when consumer audio products (or like Windows, or my car) try to have you listen with their "3D enhancement" or "surround" (in stereo) . anyways cheers
I really liked the wub and roll jam! I do not currently own any Volcas, but if I did, the ones that appeal to me the most are the regular Volca Bass, the Volca Kick, and possibly the Volca Drums.
For all the talk of nu tube technology being a “gimmick,” I’ve loved what I’ve heard from it. The Vox amps sound surprisingly big for their size, and that Volca distortion is distinct and sounds cool. I’m not an acid synth guy, but those baselines sounded good, to me.
I have a nutube vca in my modular ( plankton nutone). It does seem to contribute a bunch of, admittedly somewhat pleasant, thermal type hiss, and breaks up a little early/excessively as would be expected in a low voltage tube config, but it does really make things sound nice. I generally run it on a m'/s encoded bus to generate extra stereo info in the signal.
4:18 I picked up a Nubass recently and learned that you actually can transpose patterns chromatically! You hold function and turn the pitch knob to transpose the whole pattern in semitones.
Hey I've been thinking of getting this! I wasn't as big on the Volca FM as I expected (much more into the OpSix) but I have a Sample and a Drum and I love them both :P I wasn't sure whether to get this, the Volca Kick, or the Volca Bass, but I'd definitely like to have one of them lol
If you have the Sample you can load any kick sample on to it. The Kick is awesome but with the Bass or Nubass you get a tweakable standalone bass synth. The volcas are great, why not keep adding and have a complete dawless setup. If i didn't already have so much more capable gear i'd love to justify a volca-only rack of boxes!
"That's what I really hate about volcas" I soldered a couple of thin wires onto the tracers under the memory button to an external switch on my Beats for that very reason. It's a tiny tracer but can be done with some patience. Now memory can be latched on, and one-finger pattern select is doable. Certainly made that crappy little box a little less crappy.
Bad/Better Gear is my favorite rendez-vous on YT ! I always enjoy it, but what on the hell appears on 0'35 !!! What is this synth !!! Nice bonus with the vocoded name of contributors.
I noticed the really early Moogs’ oscillators sound similar to each other in demos too. Yet both this and them, once they’re finally filtered and triggered, definitely have a certain juiciness to them. Like, with each element taken alone I agree they’re lacking… but together it somehow works for me. The intro caught my attention in a way which doesn’t usually usually happen. That’s especially interesting considering I was on team “tubes don’t sound different except for distortion and EQ”; but I think I REALLY like them in oscillators. Who knew? Which, y’know, I just checked and Moog used transistors all along - perhaps he just used much slower response time ones than the oscillators of the 80s used! In which case maybe I _am_ on team “transistors can sound the same”, heh. If what I like is just a relatively long “slew time”. Anyway yeah, a VFD is absolutely a type of vacuum tube just as a magnetron in a microwave is :) Just very flat ones. Honestly I wasn’t surprised at all to see you bring them up because I’d clocked them from the colour alone. That turquoise phosphor is _unmistakable._
4:48 The Nubass was the most expensive Volca at launch. However, prices have fallen through the floor. Only a fortnight ago, it was on (UK) Amazone for £85. Today, it's only deadcat-bounced its way up to £115.
Yay! Another Volca episode. How about doing a volca only bad gear episode? I mean, how bad can they be when you put them together? By the way, what's in the cup?
Audiopilz: *slaps roof of YT channel*
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Just wanted to say, AudioPilz' "Bad Gear" is maybe the best Synth review show in existence. Honest, right amount of insight without too much details and good production quality for the sample songs too. Keep it up!
That's it! the final nail in the coffin. You've now covered every piece of gear I have lol!
Isn't that a good thing?;)
That is why I have this mildly-obscure FM synth to be save of that ever happening to me.
Same, and after he just made fun of my nts1 :( that's it, I'm building a modular.
The good thing is bad gear doesn't make bad music, bad musicians make bad music :)
Relatable, including all gear I ever planned to buy...
This channel brings me great joy. Thank you.
Thank you!!!
LOVED seeing the Volca Kick getting some action. That thing is seriously one of the best in the entire line. So flexible and just absolutely MONSTROUS sounding.
Love the Kick!
oh no doubt- that thing (along with actually learning my instruments) saves my live sets.
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_sighs and adds Wolca Kick to _*_The List,_*_ just under nubass and Drum_
I actually like the sound of this thing and not for its 303 stylings. Sounds like it can make some fat bass riffs. Does it have any grit or dirt that can be added outside the filter?
You put a ton of work into these videos, keep it up legend!
Thank you so much!!!
God damn the jams were absolutely off the deep end today! Dirty techno, acid and lots of mud I'll never grow tired of! :D
Thank you!!!
@@AudioPilz Thank you too!
"I think I have a favorite Volca, and it's not the nu-bass." 😂😂
Kick FTW!!!
I have 2 kicks
Teenage engineering should develop a teenage kicks
@@Oljekrisen It'd either be a cheap circuit board with awful trimpots, or something that looks like a lego set and costs $2000. Flip a coin to decide which one?
@@technicalfool a 400$ black plastic device (similar design language as volca but two rows of keys like the perkons device with 2 volcas engines inside) a colab between teenage, korg, Erica synths and the Undertones
One of the best channel of UA-cam thank you AudioPilz🎉
Thank you so much!!!
I assembled a little volca rig for fun (modular, drum, nubass, keys, and the mixer). They are pretty little toys that let a classically trained musician like me pretend to know how to make techno (i'm not much of a step-sequencing kinda guy, i typically just play what i want to hear on keys, but this little rig is helping me learn the ropes.
Great approach!!!
I recognize the Prosoniq Orange vocoder anywhere ;) Thanks again for making my favorite Friday evening show!
Good ear!!!
Guess the real tb-303 would make a great candidate for a bad gear episode, too. Thanks for the great videos!
Grea suggestion! Maybe next April;)
Yeah cause of this terrible menu for editing.
@@sporn23 The 303 sequencer is the greatest sequencer on Earth that doesn’t use toggle switches.
After the Bad Gear Final Jam with this Nubass, the original 303 is bad gear. Silver painted plastic. YUCK!
I can't believe you got that thing to actually make listenable sounds. I bow to the King of Bad Gear!
Thank you!!!
Umm it isn't difficult. It's a very capable little synth. Don't blame the tools...........
you are seriously so consistent it blows my mind, you're serious proof that any piece of equipment has its use if you're willing to look for it and i think that's what really sets apart someone with extreme skill
Thank you so much!!!
As a proud owner of two famous "Bad Gear" labelled acid boxes, I just wanna say that the presence of NuBass just makes me appreciate TB-3 even more.
TB-3 is life!!!
Looking at the NuBass makes me appreciate my EA-1 even more. 😲
@@Plexyglazz lol yeah
The TB3 is amazing. Even if I didn't like the sound (I like a bunch of them) it has that great acid sequencer with midi output.
damn the jams went crazy in this one. nice work!
Thank you!!!
wub'n'roll definitely deserves to be released. and thank you Florian, still favourite youtube show
Thank you so much! Shameless plug: there's a full track on my Patreon;)
Have you ever thought about compiling your little jams into a continuous mix or a compilation? They're always so good. I would love to listen to them just as music.
There's supposed to be longer stuff/extended stuff on his Patreon.
Great idea, thanks!!!
klingt beeindruckend. Noch beeindruckender sind die unzähligen Einblendungen, Memes und Clips hier. Wow. Das war viel Arbeit.
Vielen Dank!!!
0:27 listened to this while drinking a Weihenstephaner Festbier. Good timing, PROST!!
Also.. Was there 2 Smudge the Cat memes in this?
Well done Florian!!
Frölische Freitag!
Prost!!! Maybe a second one slipped in;)
Each time, even with really bad gear, you give us nice tracks.... Thanks
Thank you so much!!!
Everytime a treat. Thanks for being awesome!
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Yes!! That was a superb example of the now classic Bad Gear format. Superb review, maximum snark, and some great grooves. I suppose at some point you are going to run outta gear to review, but until then long may this continue! Korg need to get you on their booth at the NAMM show, I would love to see a 20 minute “bad gear” live demo at Anaheim, who knows - special guest appearances from Nick Batt etc? Haha
I think UA-cam is going to close its virtual doors before we are going to run out of Bad Gear;) NAMM here I come
It's going to take a LOOOOOOOOOOONG time to run out of bad gear. I have heaps of the stuff.
Still sitting on One Bad Gear piece in my whole studio.
It's really lowering my self esteem.
It's an amazing channel.
Thank you so much!!!
@@AudioPilz It's near rock bottom. Thanks always.
@@harrisbeatsfrankou6304 It's not what you've got, it's what you do with it that counts.
Awesome episode as always! I own both the bass and the nubass and while the bass is able to produce more versatile sounds, the nubass has a much improved sequencer and a raw dirty quality to its sound that make it so much fun to play.
Thank you!!!
Still have my nubass, but the T-8 is what the nubass should have been.
Amazing content as always! I was going to ask for this review and you read my mind :) keep up the great work
Thank you!!!
I believe the cutoff knob on the Nubass is the largest knob to ever grace a Volca. But is it sturdier?
only a chimp could break it
Definitely road-worthy
Idk why but your "bad gear" videos always make me want it
Bad Gear GAS is a thing;)
@@AudioPilz I have this horrid habit of using mixing to fix bad gear and plugins so that probably is why I huff the bad gear gas
"welcome to the dark side of the mono-synth disco-funk wub & roll" (proceeds to show FNAF dancing action figures)
i don't know where you found this sort of madness, but it is GLORIOUS, and im down for it. :D
Thank you!!! The internet can be a dark place;)
I've hardly touched mine, but the NuBass is a nice addition to the volca lineup in isolation. The tube is a gimmick though. It does actually sound nice, different character than the other clones I have. Really it's the volca footprint that sells it though. It's doesn't play particularly nice with the Keys/Bass IMO, but it's great in combo w Kick and Drum. Actually really highlights the Kick since the Kick also always felt like it didn't belong. Now it has a friend. I'm keeping it.
Yeah, great in that combination!
Yep, I have the Kick, Drum, Nubass combo together with a Volca Mix in a stand
You make my fridays better! Happy friyay!
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Ich kanns nur immer wieder sagen. Best channel ever. Grüße aus 'schland! :)
Besten Dank!!!
Besides loving the way you make fun and fuzz about those "bad gear contestants" - man you really rock your videos! I love the jams, the knowledge and the laughs, but i think i never told you that your video editing is awesome as well! Thank you so much for making tgif a little more TGIF!
Thank you so much!!!
Soooo you're saying I should find one for Black Friday? Great video as always my friend! Hope you're well! Awesome animation as well!!
If you like what you hear, go for it. Thanks!
Great video !!!! You should do the behringer TD-3
Great suggestion, thanks!
Deeply enjoyed the oversaturated audio in your sentence about how oversaturated the market is. You memed the voiceover audio, very meta 😂
Lol;)
We're having a "Roaring Twenties" end-of-year party here at my employer, in Lausanne, Switzerland. This was a perfect warm-up!
Cheers!!!
I do wish the two waveforms sounded a bit different but I do love that blue glow...
Same here;)
love the circuit, may get something else with it, Masterful jams, again
Thank you!!!
Wow! What is going on with that green and orange cable connected by a spring (?!) looking thing at 6:33? I'm intrigued. Cheers!
Neutrik handed them out at Musikmesse 2010 and I took a hand full;)
Wie immer ein Festmahl :D Besten Dank !
Immer wieder gerne!
I was considering getting some storage/carrying cases for my volcas.
and I found the perfect cheap solution. plastic pencil cases during a back to school sale. They were a dollar each and just the right size.
Nice, didn't think of that!
I'm surprised to see so little love for the nubass in the comments. I love mine! As an acid box, it offers something different from the 303 in terms of its sound, and it's also a lot easier to program. And you can get some cool results with the LFO!
Really liked the LFO too!
^^^ Finally Someone in the comments who actually gets it. Great little box. Engineered for acid. And it can do it too.
Another cool video! Have a great weekend!
Have a nice one too!
5:15 daaaaang! 😎 Actually all of what you did. I love it's sound. Not a 303, but a different, character-filled acid machine, for that low price.
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@@AudioPilz You should make an EP single with that thing! I'm not even kidding, either! I'd love to hear that thing going through a few modes on Hologram's Microcosm! There are a few modes that would really be excellent processing it.
Yes, your jams really stood out for me in this as I have zero interest in the Nu Bass, you really need to release a compilation as mentioned below!
Thank you!!!
how dare you release a great episode in the middle of the WC games? thanks for not quitting on us. happy black friday. usa! usa!
Black Friday World Cup of scoring the best deals;)
Okay. I especially enjoyed the outtakes at the end. And I still really hope some day you'll gain access to a Fairlight Voice Tracker for your vocoder shoutout.
Thanks!!! Fairlight Voice Tracker? I can't even find one on Reverb;)
@@AudioPilz Not surprising. They were rare when they were production. To understand what all it could do, look up The Art Of Noise live in 1986, particularly the song Instruments of Darkness. J.J. used one for the voice modulation effects.
Great review as always! 👍
Thank you!!!
Well, it's not the Electribe EMX-1 review I was looking for, but these droids are right up my alley. Dammit.
I still have to find one of these around here!
I'm currently in Vienna for vacation and I visited the Klangfarbe round building things because of this show. They were nice. Thanks Bad Gear Man.
Nice!!!
You can go up an octave. If you go into transpose and hold the note down it flashes and you get an octave up. Tedious, but it's there.
Accent and glide both have a second mode too.
Thanks for the heads up!
Un générique original a chaque épisode, des plans de coupes de folies, du matériel torturé, une diction claire, un nouveau style de musique inventé à chaque essais.
Très bonne émission.
Merci beaucoup!!!
You have never covered the gear I have yet but I always feel tempted to sell everything when I watch your show! 😊
Thank you but don't sell the gear;)
why?
Yoooo that Wub/Finale track was fun
Love the pseudo-breakbeat in that last jam. Oh and the NuBass was good too. Love the acid sound ever since I first heard it back in '88. This Nubass has a nice edge to it - familiar, but can be distinctly different if played right.
Thank you!
I hope you do this show for at least another 40 years!!
I hope so too! Thanks!
I really enjoyed the p-n juction joke! And this episode
Thank you!!!
The TB-3 definitely needs a revisit.
Great suggestion, thanks!!!
The jam was killer!
Thank you!
the vocoder shoutout was so cool. They always are
Also I tried very hard to do proper acid line with the NuBass but, the accent circuitry was a shame, no classic acid barks 😭
Thanks !
Yeah, it's more like acid on the brink of destruction;)
The kick sounds awesome!
Love it!
My wife: 'Are you watching that German guy again that hates all your music stuff?'
'Yes.. I mean he's Austrian. But yeah..'
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ja der kleine NuBass hat es schon in sich.
Das Video hat echt Spaß gemacht, danke für den tollen Schnitt...🤣🤣
Vielen Dank!!!
Illustrations at the top
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The funky jam sounds awesome !
Thanks!!!
VFD displays? I only knew of them from the '85 Roland JX-8P, they've got a limited lifetime which I guess makes sense now if they're essentially tubes (which also have a limited lifespan). I thought your intro bit about tubes, specifically nutubes, was fantastic bcuz Ive been wondering what the nutube is at all and seemed to me if I hadn't known about vaccum tubes already id have been able to understand your explanation. I had no idea they made a headphone amp w it, next checking that out....
That's actually super interesting technology. Not super well implemented in this case tho
@@AudioPilz you'd mentioned, very accuratley imo, the suspiciously low voltage aspect of the tubes in the ESX-1/EMX-1 and in recent years ive learned all about how that and my PreSonus TubePre using tubes that way isn't anything like using them in proper tube amplifiers. But back in the early 00s i bought into all the tube hype and would have wanted to buy the korg nutube headphone amp. I think the volca nubass sounds great, do u think the tubes play an essential role therE? as you pointed out, they're used in more ways than just slapping on the output signal. I read reviews of the korg nutube headphone amp which were very negative, somewhat sensibly . I say somewhat cuz audiophiles are always gonna be alarmed at the high THD and bad SnR w inexpensive tubes - its a given, but was there any sonic change that enhanced the audio in such a way that its more pleasurable to listen to? thats the real question, nobody complains about distortion effects producing artifacts and overloading the circuit with gain or making a clean sound dirty - because that's expected, because in many applications its a more interesting sound in the end. Likewise, the Aphex Aural Exciters are also using distortion to boost harmonics in upper frequencies, less vital now in the post-tape digital era, but I still use & like it - although id never slap it on the output bus at a fixed amount and expect everything to sound better as a result, anything which is supposed to do that is highly dubious, methinks. I get very mad when consumer audio products (or like Windows, or my car) try to have you listen with their "3D enhancement" or "surround" (in stereo) . anyways cheers
I really liked the wub and roll jam!
I do not currently own any Volcas, but if I did, the ones that appeal to me the most are the regular Volca Bass, the Volca Kick, and possibly the Volca Drums.
Kick is much recommended!!!
@@AudioPilz honestly never really considered it until you had it on your show.
For all the talk of nu tube technology being a “gimmick,” I’ve loved what I’ve heard from it. The Vox amps sound surprisingly big for their size, and that Volca distortion is distinct and sounds cool. I’m not an acid synth guy, but those baselines sounded good, to me.
I'm fascinated by that technology too
super, klasse...macht immer sehr viel Spass...
Vielen Dank!
I think that the opening scene is a dream video for Bill Leeb and that early FLA-Delirium era aesthetics he so loved (me too).
Ah, a fellow Austrian!!!
@@AudioPilz Yeah he is isn’t he? I mean, yeah he is from Vancouver but he is Austrian. Haircut gives him away :p
I have a nutube vca in my modular ( plankton nutone). It does seem to contribute a bunch of, admittedly somewhat pleasant, thermal type hiss, and breaks up a little early/excessively as would be expected in a low voltage tube config, but it does really make things sound nice. I generally run it on a m'/s encoded bus to generate extra stereo info in the signal.
Wow, great stuff!
Somehow FNAF (Five Nights at Freddies) characters dancing in a white room is scarier than the games ever could be...
Yeah, that one's uncanny
4:18 I picked up a Nubass recently and learned that you actually can transpose patterns chromatically! You hold function and turn the pitch knob to transpose the whole pattern in semitones.
Jam1 attacks my heart. So nice.
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Haha. I lost it at the 'Super Fun Happy Slide' Simpsons clip
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always a pleasure to watch your videos. what do you do with all that bad gear once youre done reviewing it?
Thanks! A lot of it is borrowed, I do keep some of the one's that I like tho.
Haha, I bought those coasters from Moog’s merch shop ages ago and they are still in use.
Nice!
Hey I've been thinking of getting this! I wasn't as big on the Volca FM as I expected (much more into the OpSix) but I have a Sample and a Drum and I love them both :P I wasn't sure whether to get this, the Volca Kick, or the Volca Bass, but I'd definitely like to have one of them lol
Totally get the Kick!!!
If you have the Sample you can load any kick sample on to it. The Kick is awesome but with the Bass or Nubass you get a tweakable standalone bass synth. The volcas are great, why not keep adding and have a complete dawless setup. If i didn't already have so much more capable gear i'd love to justify a volca-only rack of boxes!
That intro sounded pretty deep and warm!
Very distinct tone
Volca nu bass and the keys make a nice sound. Combining these into the sound of a bass station two is awesome.
Nice technique!!!
Jam 2 goes unreasonably hard for being in a parody show. Sounds like something Boris Brejcha would drop live. Great work!
Thank you!!!
Jesus, your meme game has me cracking up all the time.
Thank you!!!
Now Korg needs to release the Nutkick
Lolz
"That's what I really hate about volcas"
I soldered a couple of thin wires onto the tracers under the memory button to an external switch on my Beats for that very reason. It's a tiny tracer but can be done with some patience. Now memory can be latched on, and one-finger pattern select is doable. Certainly made that crappy little box a little less crappy.
Nice solution!
Bad/Better Gear is my favorite rendez-vous on YT ! I always enjoy it, but what on the hell appears on 0'35 !!! What is this synth !!!
Nice bonus with the vocoded name of contributors.
Knifonium. The Legend. Thanks!!!
You absolutely need to get a Casio VA-10 for the vocoder shout out alone
Great suggestion, thanks!!!
That 303 X-Ray is of my self modified TB-303. I took it the the School of Radiology University and asked if I could X-Ray it.
Wow, great stuff! Thanks for the picture!
If you haven't made one already, I'd love to see a bad gear review of the arturia microfreak
Thanks for the video.
Dancing digital ragdolls... I'll go check if Hitchhiker has made any new tracks.
Thanks for watching!!!
I'm looking forward to watching the Bad Gear review of the new Volca Cowbell.
Yeah, we need that one now!!!
Audiopilz-ener, creating Nu musical genres every episode.
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And the Sirius sounds friggin insane. thanks, now I have to find one.
These have become quite rare
I noticed the really early Moogs’ oscillators sound similar to each other in demos too. Yet both this and them, once they’re finally filtered and triggered, definitely have a certain juiciness to them.
Like, with each element taken alone I agree they’re lacking… but together it somehow works for me. The intro caught my attention in a way which doesn’t usually usually happen.
That’s especially interesting considering I was on team “tubes don’t sound different except for distortion and EQ”; but I think I REALLY like them in oscillators. Who knew?
Which, y’know, I just checked and Moog used transistors all along - perhaps he just used much slower response time ones than the oscillators of the 80s used! In which case maybe I _am_ on team “transistors can sound the same”, heh. If what I like is just a relatively long “slew time”.
Anyway yeah, a VFD is absolutely a type of vacuum tube just as a magnetron in a microwave is :) Just very flat ones. Honestly I wasn’t surprised at all to see you bring them up because I’d clocked them from the colour alone. That turquoise phosphor is _unmistakable._
The similarity to Moogs occured to me too
4:48 The Nubass was the most expensive Volca at launch. However, prices have fallen through the floor. Only a fortnight ago, it was on (UK) Amazone for £85. Today, it's only deadcat-bounced its way up to £115.
Interesting, maybe that's a UK thing. Still quite expensive here
Great video.
Thank you!!!
how bout a minilogue xd episode id like to see you jam/talk on that, also good vid as always
Thanks! Great suggestion!
Not gonna lie. You were making some sexy ass sounds with that Korg .
Thank you!!!
@@AudioPilz your welcome ! Amazing stuff man.
Yay! Another Volca episode. How about doing a volca only bad gear episode? I mean, how bad can they be when you put them together?
By the way, what's in the cup?
Great idea!!! 3 double espresso btw;)
Wow this is more acid than 303...I'm convinced, sound-wise
Definitely has a unique sound
built for acid :)
when you hit those leads out of the way of that pedal that shit was dope
Way to go!!!