I have this exact brush and I listen to music when I brush my teeth and I noticed that the brush pitch seems to match up with most music. No wonder, It's freakin C4!
Awhile back before youtube I was watching a show on the Discovery channel and they talked about how casinos did a study and found middle c is a pleasing sound to people, so they tuned their machines to it. I'm thinking the tooth brush is tuned to help the user feel more pleased/calm in the mornings.
You are a great teacher. That was a combination of a story and a project. I played it for my wife and oldest kid (7) and they thought it was awesome! I always know I'm on the right track when they are impressed with my work. Thanks for the inspiration.
i'm sure you get this a lot, but your voice is FANTASTIC for audio. You also seem to have a knack for producing/picking music that fits with your vocal cadence.
Watched this video while brushing my teeth this morning with my own sonicare, and it was cool hearing it harmonize with your song as you were producing it! I’ve always liked it’s tone too, and it’s cool to hear that it’s actually a tuned middle C. Great vid!
i’ve had this toothbrush for years. i have relative pitch and noticed it was humming in c major, and i often listen to music when getting ready. sometimes songs come on that are in the same key, and my toothbrush and phone speaker have a lil duet :)
That’s so awesome! (Tip: you don’t need to “brush” like that. Just hold the toothbrush against your teeth. It does the brushing for you. Ask your dentist).
This is so incredible to see and my mind is always blown using plug ins and wondering who made them and seeing you program a sonic toothbrush synth yourself is just delightful idk how else to describe it
You are my new favorite UA-cam channel!!! As a music student, I appreciate how you go in depth with all of the electronic components! I struggle with jargon, but understand most processes when explained to me. You're helping me enter into professional spaces with the words I often want to say, but cannot find the words!
Arguably the best channel on UA-cam to just understand and listen to beautiful noises. My first comment was when the video started and I was just amazed. The second comment is because I can’t believe how awesome it ended up as per usual.
I'm not really interested in the instruments that much or music itself, but I am absolutely mesmerized by your knowledge of these aps you use and how you just click here and there and a minute later you have an actual music piece 🤩
Yes! I have one, as well and I love to hum around that tone. its a fun way to come up with melodies while brushing thy teeth. This video made my day. So so well done. Thank you!
What fun! Someone deliberately chose middle C for the pitch. Deliberately! And I must ask, why that waveform? Someone knows that it would sound better than a pure sine wave, and a sine wave would’ve worked just as well (for the toothbrush function). Great video by the way!
since the waveform you see is produced by picking up an electro-magnetic/mechanical process, it might be not what there was initially. Also i guess the inital oscillation which drives the coil should be a sqaurewave
"no way to change pitch" > embedded engineer enters chat. Wonder if I could swap the microcontroller out and playback specific songs on the brush, other than a C4 tone.
I made a sample library once by sampling my Quip toothbrush 🤙 The results were... interesting 😁 Love this video, thanks for making great content, we appreciate your efforts!
SUPERB RESULTS!! As a musician, 'experimenter' and a synth nut - this amazes me just what can be used as an instrument. Im an old guy and grew up with the FIRST synths Moog etc. I used to use a suction cup microphone and walk around with a cassette recorder 'sampling' (yes very archaic but in the late 60's there wasnt much) Many things produce 'notes' even BEES and WASPS which I have sampled. One lovely sound was the noise a cable makes (the kind holding up power or radio poles) when struck with a small flashlight or piece of rubber hose. Apparently years later they used this for the 'LASER' sound in the first Star Wars movies?
david, great work. and decent sampler is great! just downloaded it after watching a lot of your work on youtube. thank you sooooo much for your ideas, your fearless approach to making music thinking out of the box and, of course, your music!!! you ARE cool!!!
fantastic video, I'm glad I'm not the only one that enjoy brushing teeth for the sound. Interestingly, you can modulate the sound with your mouth to achieve sort of overtone scale. It's like throat singing, but with electric oscillator.
When I use this I always enjoy the filter effects from making different formant shapes with my mouth. I have considered sampling it before and repitching it in production.
This is so great! I move my mouth space and lips while using my electric toothbrush to play simple songs like row row row your boat (brush brush brush your teeth).
This is quite amazing, it's such a nice sound. It reminds me of the synth used in Steve Miller Band - Fly like an eagle. I'll totally use this for one of my songs
Great idea, and sounds beautiful! Though I wonder what it would sound like with the contact microphone now. The brush would introduce harmonics and distortion, and probably a sort of low-pass filter effect, that might be interesting (and sound less clean, if you excuse the pun).
I've always been impressed with the way the mouth brings out harmonics when someone else is brushing. It never sounds that good inside my head.... I may try this with a good mic and a mouth! Nevertheless, these samples came out quite nice. I'm sure the pickup imparts some character....
DUDE. I know exactly where you are coming from as I have the exact same toothbrush and have made so many weird sounds with it and my mouth while brushing my teeth. Something interesting is that while using the toothbrush, if you change the shape of your mouth while signing a note that harmonizes with the toothbrushes tone it makes a really neat resonance.
wonderful. I also enjoy singing and harmonizing to random objects. my favourite is the diesel pump at work, it has quite an appealing industrial drone. i get odd looks from co workers as i sing along!
Been thinking of doing other things, to make sounds with electric toothbrushes. Pressing against different surfaces, using different homemade attachments, etc.
I know the feeling exactly. I often listen to music while brushing teeth and I always sing harmonies with the drone :D sometimes it matches the music i listen to
I have a feeling the next step in experiencing music live will incorporate a physical component like this, especially as hyper reality becomes more pertinent.
Yes! I recently switched from an Oral B to a Sonicare and even my partner pointed out the overtones she could hear as I was brushing my teeth with it. It's quite interesting.
Imagine to poke around with the microprocessor to make it reproduce more tones and be able to load mp3 to your toothbrush.... That would be really awesome! Metallica would clean more than Mozart?
you might be able to replace the crystal with a function generator to change the pitch, but the higher you bring it the less efficient the microprocessor will run so don't go to high
I don’t have perfect pitch but as a simple production junkie I know what a C sounds like and it was exciting to hear that and have you mention it right after!!!
I got one of the "kids" versions of a sonicare toothbrush, the base sound is in C as well, but it makes diffrent tones every 30 seconds to let you know when to switch side and even plays a "tune" when you're done brushing or the battery runs low. I imagine some samples would making toothbrush songs way easier!
I use an Aquasonic toothbrush and my wife said, "that sounds like a synth". I was brushing my teeth, thinking that it sure did sound musical. I pulled out my tuner. In default mode it is a couple cents short of a D and in another mode it's spot on E. Shared in a synth group and they pointed me to this video. I HAVE to believe that the designers did this on purpose, statistically it's just so much more likely to be out of tune than in tune by accident. Makes me so happy that someone, given a choice, decided to do a little extra work to make something pleasing for people instead of grating. If more people approached their designs in this way, the world would be a better place.
And since yours does a middle C, and mine is capable of D and E, I wonder if a toothbrush orchestra is inevitable... who knows all of the tones that are out there...
David, I have just discovered your UA-cam videos a few days ago, while searching for music production information. You are an amazing talented person. I love your informative, entertaining, creative videos, your diversity, your deliverance and most of all, your personality. A breath of fresh air! I have subscribed! By-the-way, you have similar hair to me, which makes life interesting, because when I wake up in the morning, I don't know which hairstyle it's going to be! LOL!
OMG I literally do this same thing haha I feel like you might get more unique sounding samples if you used the clip or another kind of physical contact mic.
I have one of those TENS units (the doo-dads that send electrical pulses to adhesive pads you place on sore muscles). It's basically a simple dual VCO/A synthesizer and can easily connected to any preamp with a little cable-macgyvering. Some very, very odd analog-burbles and basses.
The sonicare Kids version plays little songs in between the 4 stages of brushing to let you know to move to the next one, maybe you could mess with it on that? It uses different notes for those, but still runs at middle c during operation. It has 2 sets of jingles (so 8 in total), each "age" mode has its own, and there are 2.
My first thought for recording the sound from that would have been to use one of those electro magnetic pickup coils that people used to use to record phone calls, since they have good range and mcan be used non distructively in most cases. I've recorded some electronic toys, games, and even some toy musical instruments that either use samples, square waves, or wavetable sound in this way.
I swear the dry version sounds exactly like the opening synth in Thor's Magic Bathtub by Lackluster, it has an oddly digital yet not super squarey timbre to it which I adore. I'm 100% gonna use this one whatever I decide to make next! Thanks a lot for sharing the sampling process too, I absolutely love seeing crafty little audio things like this, and your presentation style is perfect for it.
David - maybe consider making an entire album with the toothbrush sounds? Dentist offices could play it in their waiting room!
Check out Device orchestra channel
I love this idea. It's on par with a coffee table book about coffee tables.
"Songs for Dentists" - An homage to Brian Eno
Sounds like the next matmos album
@@BadGrrmmr :)
I have this exact brush and I listen to music when I brush my teeth and I noticed that the brush pitch seems to match up with most music. No wonder, It's freakin C4!
I figured this out too one day and it was wild lol
Try listening to music in C major or minor key :]
When you get a golden record for this, I hope it comes with a plaque.
😅😂 nice
Awhile back before youtube I was watching a show on the Discovery channel and they talked about how casinos did a study and found middle c is a pleasing sound to people, so they tuned their machines to it. I'm thinking the tooth brush is tuned to help the user feel more pleased/calm in the mornings.
You are a great teacher. That was a combination of a story and a project. I played it for my wife and oldest kid (7) and they thought it was awesome! I always know I'm on the right track when they are impressed with my work.
Thanks for the inspiration.
Thanks! That means a lot!
It’s really incredible right!? Criminally low subscribers atm! Too the mooooon David!
4:33 this reminded me of c418's minecraft disc songs. sounds pretty soothing
i'm sure you get this a lot, but your voice is FANTASTIC for audio. You also seem to have a knack for producing/picking music that fits with your vocal cadence.
Yes, he sounds a lot like David Bianculli, who is a contributor to Fresh Air on npr.
Watched this video while brushing my teeth this morning with my own sonicare, and it was cool hearing it harmonize with your song as you were producing it! I’ve always liked it’s tone too, and it’s cool to hear that it’s actually a tuned middle C. Great vid!
i’ve had this toothbrush for years. i have relative pitch and noticed it was humming in c major, and i often listen to music when getting ready. sometimes songs come on that are in the same key, and my toothbrush and phone speaker have a lil duet :)
Reallllly cool and inspirational, dude. Brilliant idea to use the guitar pickup.
David, you're an artist! With clean teeth!
That’s so awesome! (Tip: you don’t need to “brush” like that. Just hold the toothbrush against your teeth. It does the brushing for you. Ask your dentist).
This is so incredible to see and my mind is always blown using plug ins and wondering who made them and seeing you program a sonic toothbrush synth yourself is just delightful idk how else to describe it
You are my new favorite UA-cam channel!!! As a music student, I appreciate how you go in depth with all of the electronic components! I struggle with jargon, but understand most processes when explained to me. You're helping me enter into professional spaces with the words I often want to say, but cannot find the words!
Arguably the best channel on UA-cam to just understand and listen to beautiful noises. My first comment was when the video started and I was just amazed. The second comment is because I can’t believe how awesome it ended up as per usual.
I'm not really interested in the instruments that much or music itself, but I am absolutely mesmerized by your knowledge of these aps you use and how you just click here and there and a minute later you have an actual music piece 🤩
Great video David. My Drone "sang to me" too and when I sampled it hovering it turned out to be middle C !
The flying drone plays a musical drone note! Who would've thought...
Yes! I have one, as well and I love to hum around that tone. its a fun way to come up with melodies while brushing thy teeth. This video made my day. So so well done. Thank you!
7:34 that bass is even more convincing than some of the synthed bass patches. Very inspiring.
What fun! Someone deliberately chose middle C for the pitch. Deliberately! And I must ask, why that waveform? Someone knows that it would sound better than a pure sine wave, and a sine wave would’ve worked just as well (for the toothbrush function). Great video by the way!
Could possibly have something to do with different (higher or lower) pitches being more likely to cause headache
it was probably not deliberate by any means...
Middle C is 256 hz(so, 2^8) which is probably why
@@99temporal Based on standard tuning where A is 440Hz middle C is 261.62Hz.
since the waveform you see is produced by picking up an electro-magnetic/mechanical process, it might be not what there was initially. Also i guess the inital oscillation which drives the coil should be a sqaurewave
maybe not deliberately, maybe is the best freq to get the job well done...
"no way to change pitch" > embedded engineer enters chat. Wonder if I could swap the microcontroller out and playback specific songs on the brush, other than a C4 tone.
I made a sample library once by sampling my Quip toothbrush 🤙 The results were... interesting 😁 Love this video, thanks for making great content, we appreciate your efforts!
SUPERB RESULTS!! As a musician, 'experimenter' and a synth nut - this amazes me just what can be used as an instrument. Im an old guy and grew up with the FIRST synths Moog etc. I used to use a suction cup microphone and walk around with a cassette recorder 'sampling' (yes very archaic but in the late 60's there wasnt much) Many things produce 'notes' even BEES and WASPS which I have sampled. One lovely sound was the noise a cable makes (the kind holding up power or radio poles) when struck with a small flashlight or piece of rubber hose. Apparently years later they used this for the 'LASER' sound in the first Star Wars movies?
Thank you so much David. Wishing you all the best!
I absolutely love these sounds and how the song turned out in the end. I’m learning so much from you. Amazing, thank you! 🙏💕 Love from USA
david, great work. and decent sampler is great! just downloaded it after watching a lot of your work on youtube. thank you sooooo much for your ideas, your fearless approach to making music thinking out of the box and, of course, your music!!! you ARE cool!!!
Okay, finally watched this vid, always scroll pass it. definitely was worth the watch
fantastic video, I'm glad I'm not the only one that enjoy brushing teeth for the sound. Interestingly, you can modulate the sound with your mouth to achieve sort of overtone scale. It's like throat singing, but with electric oscillator.
Another great video David, I love to see what you do, Amazing what came out of it
Hi David, i really loved your video, you did a great job on the plugin - it looks so cool ^^
Just found your channel via this video, really cool!
Hey David, this is really awesome. Keep it up, I love ur stuff dude.
this is wonderful! thanks for sharing. I love hearing creative synth and songs made from random objects
When I use this I always enjoy the filter effects from making different formant shapes with my mouth. I have considered sampling it before and repitching it in production.
This was incredible David!!!!
Absolutely stunning!
Will definately be making use of your toothbrush synth, thank you kindly for it David
that was brilliant :) and Im so happy there is people messing with those daily sounds on their heads :)
Youre making my new Maschine+ groovebox an ambient powerhouse of sound. Another great collection of sound! thnks :)
This is so great! I move my mouth space and lips while using my electric toothbrush to play simple songs like row row row your boat (brush brush brush your teeth).
Great work David! 💯🙌🏼
Woahh you are soo good at what you do!! Never expected such a beautiful sound from a toothbrush!!😍😍
This is quite amazing, it's such a nice sound. It reminds me of the synth used in Steve Miller Band - Fly like an eagle. I'll totally use this for one of my songs
That was so much fun! Really love it!
Great idea, and sounds beautiful! Though I wonder what it would sound like with the contact microphone now. The brush would introduce harmonics and distortion, and probably a sort of low-pass filter effect, that might be interesting (and sound less clean, if you excuse the pun).
I've always been impressed with the way the mouth brings out harmonics when someone else is brushing. It never sounds that good inside my head.... I may try this with a good mic and a mouth! Nevertheless, these samples came out quite nice. I'm sure the pickup imparts some character....
I just got this recommended and I thoroughly enjoyed it! Neat idea and great explanation of what you are doing. Awesome video! I just subscribed
Ohh Mr. Hilowitz your Toothbrush Synth sound is better than my Coffe machine Sounds. Very impressive.
The typical attack sustain release decay could be altered to tooth related terms. Like cavity plaque brush decay or something
Genius!
This little toothbrush makes beautiful music
Fascinating! So I am not the only one doing harmonies with my electric toothbrush! Now I have to check the tuning of my Braun toothbrush :-)
I love this video i have the same toothbrush and i am about to use that library .!!!
This is 100% my kind of jam. Love this :)
DUDE. I know exactly where you are coming from as I have the exact same toothbrush and have made so many weird sounds with it and my mouth while brushing my teeth. Something interesting is that while using the toothbrush, if you change the shape of your mouth while signing a note that harmonizes with the toothbrushes tone it makes a really neat resonance.
Yes. I can make my mouth make an E note or a G note and it sounds really cool.
You can change the harmonics by changing your mouth and do the harmonic series
As a dentist, who is also a flutist & music enthusiast, I approve to your works & oral hygiene routine.
Yes to creativities, no to cavities.
This so inspiring I just loving it
wonderful. I also enjoy singing and harmonizing to random objects. my favourite is the diesel pump at work, it has quite an appealing industrial drone. i get odd looks from co workers as i sing along!
Been thinking of doing other things, to make sounds with electric toothbrushes.
Pressing against different surfaces, using different homemade attachments, etc.
I know the feeling exactly. I often listen to music while brushing teeth and I always sing harmonies with the drone :D sometimes it matches the music i listen to
Love it! Thanks, David, for this and for all your work.
Your work is amazing! You got a follower for ever!
You can also make didgeridoo noises with your mouth and electric clippers. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
Coolest discovery ever! Can’t believe it was in mid C. Un-frik’n-real!
I have a feeling the next step in experiencing music live will incorporate a physical component like this, especially as hyper reality becomes more pertinent.
Yes! I recently switched from an Oral B to a Sonicare and even my partner pointed out the overtones she could hear as I was brushing my teeth with it. It's quite interesting.
Really very interesting.
Imagine to poke around with the microprocessor to make it reproduce more tones and be able to load mp3 to your toothbrush.... That would be really awesome! Metallica would clean more than Mozart?
you might be able to replace the crystal with a function generator to change the pitch, but the higher you bring it the less efficient the microprocessor will run so don't go to high
Look up Tooth Tunes. It used bone conduction to play a song through your teeth
Raffis “Brush your teeth” lol
@@LitCactus Thanks. So even the hack is nothing new: ua-cam.com/video/nNbroMs_dOQ/v-deo.html
Beyond amazing
I knew from the thumbnail that this was gonna be a David Hilowitz video!
I don’t have perfect pitch but as a simple production junkie I know what a C sounds like and it was exciting to hear that and have you mention it right after!!!
I got one of the "kids" versions of a sonicare toothbrush, the base sound is in C as well, but it makes diffrent tones every 30 seconds to let you know when to switch side and even plays a "tune" when you're done brushing or the battery runs low.
I imagine some samples would making toothbrush songs way easier!
I use an Aquasonic toothbrush and my wife said, "that sounds like a synth". I was brushing my teeth, thinking that it sure did sound musical. I pulled out my tuner. In default mode it is a couple cents short of a D and in another mode it's spot on E. Shared in a synth group and they pointed me to this video. I HAVE to believe that the designers did this on purpose, statistically it's just so much more likely to be out of tune than in tune by accident. Makes me so happy that someone, given a choice, decided to do a little extra work to make something pleasing for people instead of grating. If more people approached their designs in this way, the world would be a better place.
And since yours does a middle C, and mine is capable of D and E, I wonder if a toothbrush orchestra is inevitable... who knows all of the tones that are out there...
Both funny and useful!!
That is something I was thinking about for quite a long time!
David, I have just discovered your UA-cam videos a few days ago, while searching for music production information. You are an amazing talented person. I love your informative, entertaining, creative videos, your diversity, your deliverance and most of all, your personality. A breath of fresh air! I have subscribed! By-the-way, you have similar hair to me, which makes life interesting, because when I wake up in the morning, I don't know which hairstyle it's going to be! LOL!
Thanks for sharing so much detail!
hahaha i have a similar toothbrush and had an idea for a module where you stick your toothbrush in. love your approach!
cinematic video. this should be on theatre
Brushed up well didn’t it?
Every morning I contemplate how to sample mine. I’m still intrigued to try a mic pickup because there are a lot more overtones in your head.
nice work david. i liked the humming at the start. maybe a future project
Brilliant video... cool samples! C4... you knew!
Absolutely brilliant.
I'd love to have this playing in my headphones if I ever go on a solo Interstellar exploration, even though I am nowhere near to be an astronaut
So glad I’m not the only one that harmonizes with their toothbrush
how does this guy have only 300k subs...? the quality speaks for itself...
OMG I literally do this same thing haha
I feel like you might get more unique sounding samples if you used the clip or another kind of physical contact mic.
The song gave me nostalgia for some reason.
I have one of those TENS units (the doo-dads that send electrical pulses to adhesive pads you place on sore muscles). It's basically a simple dual VCO/A synthesizer and can easily connected to any preamp with a little cable-macgyvering. Some very, very odd analog-burbles and basses.
The sonicare Kids version plays little songs in between the 4 stages of brushing to let you know to move to the next one, maybe you could mess with it on that? It uses different notes for those, but still runs at middle c during operation. It has 2 sets of jingles (so 8 in total), each "age" mode has its own, and there are 2.
My first thought for recording the sound from that would have been to use one of those electro magnetic pickup coils that people used to use to record phone calls, since they have good range and mcan be used non distructively in most cases. I've recorded some electronic toys, games, and even some toy musical instruments that either use samples, square waves, or wavetable sound in this way.
This is one of the best videos i've ever seen. Cheers Mate, you're awesome 🍻
Dude, you are amazeballs, I am so into making sounds and recordings and arrangements out of everything possible...
This was so interesting. Nice one David 👍
hehe.. I had that exact toothbrush. Vibration is so intense that I could use it at first, and also found the sound quite noticeable.
different mouth shapes can actually change the note the toothbrush makes. I play Taps on mine.
no it cant. it can change the timbre only
@@wujekjerry1188 you're right
Well dang. I'm stoked I clicked on this. This ticks all my boxes for entertainment. Subbed!
This is amazing!
I swear the dry version sounds exactly like the opening synth in Thor's Magic Bathtub by Lackluster, it has an oddly digital yet not super squarey timbre to it which I adore. I'm 100% gonna use this one whatever I decide to make next! Thanks a lot for sharing the sampling process too, I absolutely love seeing crafty little audio things like this, and your presentation style is perfect for it.
ayy another fan of lackluster's "container".. nice! thats a lovely album it is
You just analyze, construct, program and tune a toothbrush to make music. Awesome! I can barely whistle a decent tune.
Fascinating.