Adapting Eddie's Amp Trick
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- Опубліковано 1 кві 2023
- On my trip to the Musikwinkel I discovered a wonderful fan organ, the Harmona. I immediately fell in love with it and had find one myself. But I had a twist in mind that would allow me play it in way that is more interesting to me: I would adapt Eddie Van Halen's technique for "brown sound".
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you could totally use that kind of trick with the pedals used with sewing machines, they are pedals controlling the motor speed by controlling the voltage
Aaaah what a good point
you should check out jen kutler. recently saw her debut of a piece called "chatter marks", which incorporated sewing machines that had been converted into monophonic mechanical synthesizers. extraordinary stuff.
That is a good idea!
You might have to hard wire the foot pedal directly to the organ fan driver....
It would work, but seems like an invasive mod. Great idea though.
@moonboogie N8 if done properly it can be incredible
this, not unlike a slowed down accordeon, feels incredibly maritime and melancholic to me for a reason. lovely.
I got a cheap fan organ years ago, and a trick I used to do was to hold all the keys at once and then turn it on. It produced a creepy crescendo, like an choir of ghosts. Definitely worth a try!
organ: slow jackhammer noises
Hainbach: *enthusiastic thumbs up*
A speed controller on a fan organ. I always thought of that when I was younger. Can't wait to see how it works out.
That held chord at the end took me places.
True xD
To me it gave me future nostalgia, like the feeling of nostalgia for things I hope about my future lol crazy
That was so calming, thank you!
It's like opening an especially lush filter! Beautiful sounds ❤
I love this! Coming from a guitar background I have used this technique with other things before but never would’ve thought to use it on something like this! It’s beautiful!
Excellent! I love your musical mind. You've so much creative thinking that inspires me to also find new ways to hear the world. Thank you, Hainbach.
Beautiful technique my friend! Love your explorations in sound! 👏
Oh wow
That's an absolutely beautiful sound
That sounds so beautiful!
That sounds amazing. The perfect ambient music machine.
sooooooooo cool... nicely done HAINBACH!
havent seen something like this in almost 30 years thank you! my grandfather had a weird organ collection and these organs tucked into cases was right in his alley.
Breathtaking sound!
The Internet exists for videos like this. I really love this idea and the thought behind it. My first keyboard was a toy piano when I was 4, and my second was a fan-powered table top organ with about two octaves, but it wasn't cool like yours. Your Harmona is extremely cool-sounding and this is a really cool hack.
Oh wow, that sounds awesome!
Best episode so far. So interesting.
Awesome, awesome sounds! Thank you so much for sharing :)
Also, I sent an email to about this too, let me know if it didn’t turn up :)
you know at this point every new video you make just makes me want to see a plugin version of whats featured in the video because it all sounds so just perfect
Oh my word, that is a beautiful keyboard!
Such an awesome sci-fi-nils-frahm vibe emanating 🙏🏻
You have the PERFECT accent to go with that voice. So comfy, and Teutonic enough to inspire confidence in you, somehow? IDK it's just wonderful to listen to. Like that organ!
That sounds beautiful 🖖
That’s a great solution for the lack of dynamics on a fan organ that I personally solved by ditching my fan organ for a much larger and older pump organ, but this is very cool and it does sound beautifully melancholic.
Excellent. As always
wOOOW.....that sounds super-luscious!
Wow. Stunning
What a cool instument!!
Oh wow, it's so sombre yet full of so much texture and interest! I could see this being suited really well to make soundtracks for slow artistic films... What a cool find :D
Beautiful! Love your vids.
what a brilliant idea !
As a guitarist who’s heavily influenced by Eddie Van Halen, amongst many others, and done all sorts of stuff in search of their own take on that “Brown Sound” I am loving every little bit of this.
Now go the extra mile - pick up a 5150, the Eddie Van Halen amp, and plug this into that!! That amp works some sort of midrange magic to anything you run into it, and I even use it for part of my bass guitar tones
I would have to re-amp it as the Harmona has no out. But it would be worth it indeed!
Das is´ja mal großartig..! 👍
Very nice fan organ!
the man i bought one from had a foot pedal from an old sewing machine, for the trick you did.
thanks for the video.
I found a Farafasa fan organ from the 50s sitting in a flooded drive. After seeing it there for day after day I finally stopped and picked it up. It was so full of mud and dirt. I really didn’t think it would work and only wanted to sacrifice the Keys. Discovering that the only thing inside being a blower I decided to clean it up and try it. This thing sounds beautiful. It took me 2days to clean all the mud out of it. Surprisingly the water and mud didn’t cause any major damage and it looks so good just sitting below my MS20. I was wanting to put a pickup in it and use it with the 20s ESP.
It’s channels like yours that inspires me to resonate at my fullest potential.
Thanks for the great content.
Thank you for sharing that! It is hearing stories like this that inspire me in return.
sehr geiler Sound 🥰. Danke!!
I love the creaking
Fantastic! Thanks!
Sounds super similar to the harmonium used on Radiohead’s Motion Picture Soundtrack. Sounds gorgeous!
I never should've guessed a "variac" can be this useful for making such beautiful sounds with mains powered instruments! 😮 👍
Love this videos about synthesizers made in GDR 😀
that low f# is chef's kiss
Beautiful sounds 🤎 As a teenager I was a huge fan of Van Halen sound but never heard of this "brown sound" story. Really interesting !
Oh wow!
That worked beautifully.
The held notes droning in the background really opened up my soul.
You have conquered the impossible and turned a plain old fan organ into a beautiful Synth.
That third sound was really nice. It had a bit of a vibrato to it.
You are amazing!
Brings me back to my first compositions in 68-69 with a Magnus electric organ. As for the trick of blocking keys to play hands-free chords, we used folded Paris métro tickets - A tip shared both with Sergio Macédo (in our two head band BэM) and Tim Blake of Hawkwind and Crystal Machine fame: we all lived in the East of Paris at this happy times.
Ah wonderful! Knives, beer coasters, subway tickets…if I ever curate an ambient exhibition these will get a special place
I have seen Tim use folded pieces of something in his keys from gong performances of the 70s, never would have guessed what it was. I have always done the same thing but with either coins or cables.
Ooh damn I like that. I have a Selmer Companion 49 fan organ so I'll have to buy a regulator to breath some life into it. By which I mean, breath less life into it 🤔💨
I want one!!
Guter Stoff für's Ohr.
I actually have one of these. It has an amp plug-in and small internal microphone that picks up the sound of the reeds. I can then use pedal effects to warp the sound. It's pretty fun!
yeah thats super cool, well done homie
that 5:30 swell tho. damnnnnn son. Gorgeous!
smooth !
Oh cooool! Your last video about the electric harmonium* inspired me to try a similar idea, but in the mechanical realm instead of the electrical:
I cut a big hole into a fan harmonium's wind chest, and covered it with an airtight flap. Gradually opening the flap kills the air pressure inside the instrument and filters the sound. I found that opening/closing the flap is much more responsive and expressive than adjusting the fan power, which takes a longer time to have an effect.
I'm wanting to find a way to make this flap mechanism even more playable. Maybe a cable system, like a remote hi-hat pedal? Or a lever that you can play with your thumb while your fingers are on the keys.
*specifically, that bit about notes fading out slowly when you flip the power switch.
You could make really accurate-sounding Minecraft music with this
Not Minecraft, Aphex Twin
This is so cool…like an harmonium
That voltage regulator should be put on a foot switch…like a wah pedal sort of a thing….
Assigning the variac to a a foot pedal would really work.
Variac's are great. Not only can they help with servicing caps, they make good dumbbells !
Not with a variac, but when the motor broke in my Hammond organ and I needed it for a gig that night, I tore a DC motor and speed controller out of an electric golf bag cart thing I got from the rubbish. It didn't stay in tune very well, but the wild expressiveness was a lot of fun
That sounds very very cool
It was! I've been meaning to get a variable frequency drive for the organ for ages so I can go wild, but stay in tune when I need to
I loved seeing you stick the bits of card in the keys haha, I do this with my old indian harmonium because its drone doesnt work haha
It almost sounds like a pipe organ, didn't know these had such potential!
Hainbach: Hears a weird sound
Hainbach's hand: Instinctive thumbs up
""good to have you back"love Sylvia Massy's video as well.💙
She is wonderful
This reminds me of my beautiful acoustic reed organ.
Can only but recomend one if you hae the space.
They have a beautiful character to them
This might be the most melancholic instrument I've ever heard, even without the variac trick. Somehow, the atmosphere it creates also reminds me of the game "Disco Elysium". I think if you ever played that game (with music by British Sea Power) for a while, you know what I mean...
Reminds me of the slower sections of “islands” by King Crimson, like when Peter Sinfield is singing before the coronet solo
Eurorack enthusiasts: let me tell you about VC
Hainbach: let's go full EVH and get a Variac!
mega mega nice 🙂
Nice!!
Thats my hood. Hainbach was here and I’ve missed it
I use a Variac on my soviet TOM 1501 to get the proper 220VAC to power it, but does very interesting things when run at much lower voltages.
awesome, great idea :) i also have a little organ i'd like to do this to
Nice! Could pull off some cool Sigur Ros vibes with those tones.
I was pretty surprised by the mention of Zwota and Klingenthal. It's a 10 minute drive from where I'm at, in Markneukirchen. They're all towns deep in the Musikwinkel of the Vogtland in Saxony. Really strange seeing this stuff from my direct area on your channel!
I was even closer to you ua-cam.com/video/9ISzdCG9BmU/v-deo.html
@@Hainbach Wow, somehow that video totally went past me. Gotta love the algorithm. Awesome stuff!
In may there will be the Musiktage, perhaps that's something that could be interesting to you.
Wow, what a great idea! I was so enthused by it that I tried plugging my laptop power supply into a Variac, and now my beats sound much warmer and browner! Only problem is that the laptop battery seems to run out, even though the power supply is plugged in! Weird. ;)
There's a dark 80s vibe to this, for sure.
I recently picked up an Italian fan organ locally for next to nothing. As soon as I heard it I thought I need to work on a controller for the fan, maybe a replacement (or additional) DC fan which I can more easily control, perhaps CV controlled.
I wonder if controlling the air coming out of the fan would be easier by blocking/diverting the airflow.
I always thought it was ween that had developed the brown sound.🤔 Very nice.
And now you’ve got an ADSR for your fan organ.
Cheers!! Lov it !! :-)!!!! She is beautiful!
Hainbach, maybe you could have someone help you build the voltage regulator into a pedal, with the voltage dialed in to the sweet spot. Kinda like an expression pedal.
I asked my tech already right after filming. Would be amazing to have hands free without beer coasters or papers
Probably the biggest voltage controlled oscillator around!
❤ genial
The whole “In through the outdoor” album from Led Zeppelin gives the impression that it was made with Brown Sounds.
Oh man, about 15 years ago we inherited an old Farfisa Pianorgan from my wifes family. I am so gonna have to try this on that...
Certainly brings out the character of the instrument.
I am an accordionist and use the « in between » register all the time. It’s possible to get note bends and all kind of weird harmonics from the reed when the air pressure is stronger.
It’s wonderful what air will do - extended techniques are beautiful
Cool !! My ancient Hohner Organa12 (which I never use) might actually become more interesting with such a Variac. Not sure though if this would really be worth 80 or 100€ as this fan organ has no "presets" at all ...
7:30 ooooh 😄
It's weird how Hainbach has better audio quality outside than most people have in quiet rooms.
Thanks! The is the new "voice focus" in the Davinci. I had to dial it down because it felt like I was talking directly in your ear in cupboard.
What a beautiful find! Sounds lovely but wouldn't a simple foot operated adjustable air escape vent (to reduce the internal pressure) have the same effect?
You would have to change the apparatus for that, this is way simpler as its from something I had lying around
@@Hainbach The one you have is very elegant as is your concept of course! I was just pondering the principle as some years ago I did own a very cheap looking plastic one in pale blue which would definitely have been suitable for such a mod if I'd known the tonal possibilities.
Wow! That organ would be perfect for some apocalyptic shit
nice :-) yeah, add some pedal or oscillator to the variac.
maybe you can try to overdrive the fans and get some crazy harmonics or so? (careful! have fire extinguisher nearby! lol)
My reed organ does this if I leave the heating on in the winter and dry it out a little too much. It comes right again in the summer months.
Hello this was a great video i wanted to know where can i get this kind of amp for a fan organ
I got it from Amazon, look for VARI-AC
first, i really like they way how you explore sound and try things out, second, which variac are you using??
Thanks! It is one I got for 40eur from eBay - nothing special
Does changing fan speed with proper controller would be better? We can underpower electronics but we cant over power with too much voltage. What about changing how fan blows air to get interesting sound characters and rhythms? It may sound like tremolo but changing air like oscillator would be very interesting.
A viewer told me he modded the fan in his with bird bones, which created ghostly rhythms. There is a lot you can build upon here.
Depending on what type of motor that organ uses, this trick may or may not be a bit risky. A lot of small motors used in devices like that are synchronous induction motors, their speed is primarily controlled by the frequency of the AC source. When you first start the motor, they produce very little torque and only become efficient once they reach optimal speed. By only decreasing the voltage and not the frequency, you are forcing the motor to operate in its inefficient region, which will cause the motor to have very little torque and generate more heat. It can also cause the speed to be unstable and potentially cause the motor to stall, which can overheat the motor and permanently damage it.
The Variac isn't really an ideal induction motor speed control for that reason. A VFD (Variable Frequency Drive) would be a more appropriate method to alter motor speed. While it appears to work okay with this device, keep in mind that there is a chance of damage if you continue to use it that way, and other devices might not tolerate the reduced voltage as well.