Plot twist: Hainbach is a supply teacher in a high school who popped into the storage room to grab something several years ago and never came out. Fascinating walkthrough. You're a wizard.
Hainbach could have his next collection pressed onto vinyl. Then he could play his own recording on the most degraded phonograph he can find, but only after figuring out a way to patch LFO control voltage into the speed control. The resulting sample will be the basis of a new masterpiece. 👽👽👽
@@SyncdAlien Then he records it onto an tape loop and sends it to Simon to dip it into some booze and bleach while Sam is turning the phonograph into an experimental synth!
@@SyncdAlien You can wobble the speed of a record by drilling a new hole beneath the center. My friend as a badly pressed dub 7" that came with a slighty shifted hole, the delay effects and the constant wobbling combine to something really dope and strange.
St Hainbach, patron saint of old forgotten equipment. Bless you Hainbach for giving those lovely electronics a new life, and for sharing it with us. I for one would buy this as a vinyl album without any reservation should it come to pass.
Thank you, Hainbach. I appreciate your glacier-melting struggles and what is emerging from those many hours of experimentation. It has awakened some fond memories in me. In the late 1960s / early 1970s when I was in my 20s and people like Walter Carlos, John Lennon, Pete Townshend, and Keith Emerson were playing with multi-track studios, Mellotrons and incredibly expensive synthesizers that were purposely constructed to produce musical sounds, I had only a couple of old tape recorders, a rather clunky old tube-based oscilloscope, a cheap old Harmony guitar, and a few harmonicas and similar simple instruments to play with. A bit later I acquired an affordable but nice little spinet piano and finally (in 1975) a 4-channel Teac tape deck which I really couldn't afford. I experimented with whatever I had, trying to get different kinds of sounds and looking for ways to mold them into something that sounded at least remotely musical. What you are doing right now reminds me vividly of those early days of exploration and inspires me to at least think about doing that kind of experimentation again. I am feeling a fresh rush of motivation to revisit that approach to music-making. I need to do it now while (at age 71) I still have a little time. Thank you so much for both your lovely music and the inspiration it gives to people like me.
You just said it so well about the process of pulling something out of these limitations. I've been working with '60's tube shortwave radio since the eighties, and it has many of the same challenges, but the results are otherworldly, and the process forces you to think in new ways. It's also a creative kick in the butt that gets you excited about making music again, after you feel as if you've already done it all. Very well done, so musical and sensitive, and aware. Cheers.
@@TRUEiMPROrecords I hate to give away any secrets, but if you have the budget and the patience to work with a high end unit from the sixties, like the Hammarlund HQ-140a or HQ-180a you can use the beat frequency oscillator and antenna polarity and band spread and all sorts of parameters (tons of knobs) to get some extraordinary sounds, and then of course, there is external processing. They really are timbral powerhouses. Check out my website - I have some audio examples of my shortwave work there.
This is so cool! Thank you for wrestling these sounds so no one else has to lol! It's as if the dark dissonant sounds are inherent when using test equipment. In fact, it actually sounds like the oscillators are whining/complaining like they don't want to play music with each other, but you are saying "No no, we make techno beats now." I love this, good job my dude!
I remember reading something about how Delia Derbyshire's heart wasn't in it any more when synths started coming in boxes and could be controlled by keyboards, having been using individual oscillators and filters from BBC Engineering to create the sounds. I didn't have a clue what she meant until watching you working with very similar equipment and getting the results this. Brilliant stuff.
This is techno in its purest form, you're really going back to its roots while also implementing modern techniques without overdoing them. Love your work, maybe I'll buy some of it on vinyl! Danke Hainbach!
Process > Product. Terrific lecture on the process of wrangling these beasts. You are becoming quite the mad professor/artist-in-residence of vintage test equipment. I absolutely cannot wait to see where this all goes: how do tape loops, Ciat-Lonbarde, modular and vintage test equipment get used together in future productions, whether live or in recorded form? The cassette loop in this "track" was a hint.
What I love about this video, besides the beautiful music, is watching your joy of discovery. It really seems like a visceral experience to make music with your equipment.
This sort of sets the standard for what Pure Techno really is. I wonder if anyone has ever done this before? Like the Radiophonic Workshop did the Multitrack equivalent... sort of filtered through Musique Concrète techniques... & it seems others dabbled on the fringes of where this meets European Classical. But you're doing Live PA with nothing other than Test Equipment! ( ...& I guess some Guitar Pedals too. ) It's pretty refreshing!
Once again with the techno-ASMR. I would love to attempt production with your setup. It's very different from what I've seen from modular setup's. Danke.
Yes another great tune from the test equipment set up & very chill song too! 🙂🙂 Yup on my USB stick, have to create a folder for your tunes & name the folder “ Hainbach tunes to chill too” 🙂 Yes stumbled on your channel & subscribed to your awesome channel! 🙂🙂 Love the pure sound that test equipment makes! 🙂🙂 Years ago my late Dad had a big sound generator he had & wished I could of kept it! 🙂🙂🎧🎧🎵🎵🔊🔊
Great video and explanation. I totally love making music with test equipment. It’s really inspiring and you have to rethink and learn new techniques. Also in my setup there are no vca’s (except two vco’s go one) no envelope generators no step sequencers etc. but on the other hand there are so many cool things which you don’t see in a (modular) synth setup. Stuff like, word generators, gated integrators, lock-in amplifiers. Crazy filter banks and i can go on like this. I really should setup a channel to like you and Sam and share what i do in a better quality and of course with a bit of education :)
I really find yourself but in particular this use of test equipment so inspiring. Using equipment that has limitations and untapped potential is something that I use in my creative work. I'm a very technically proficient film photographer but i choose to use cheap plastic cameras or malfunctioning digital cameras with very little in the way of control to create something new and unique. See that idea manifesting itself in sound and music really encourages me to keep exploring that avenue. Who knows, maybe i'll make a video on it one day? Big fan right here!
Feines Telekommunikationsanlagen Audiogefilde! In meiner jungeren Lebensjahren hing ich gerne an Ohrmuschel und lauschte die "Besetztzeichen" etwas länger als es üblich war. Am Geschmackvollsten waren die Telefonzellengeräte. Da hatte der Ton eine saftige Attack- und genau so saftig endende Sustain- Kurve. Wie durch das Kabinett mit Schmackes. Ein sehr interessantes Konzept und Art deiner Musik! Abo4ever
Always a good day when you post a video! I want to let you know that it is because of you, that I have dug out all of my equipment and scrounged a desk that was destined for the trash at my work; and put most everything together! I actually started making bleeps and bloops this weekend, much to the behest of my wife I’m sure ;-)
The mention of wrestling with finicky equipment reminds me of the pure joy I used to get when I got Windows Movie Maker to edit a cool video, or when I do something interesting in MS Paint. There really is something to be said for fighting against and eventually working with the limitations of a tool or medium.
Loving the video so far (only halfway) but it struck me just now that, when you say effects are the body of electronic sounds, you may be likening them to, say, a physical body of another instrument like an acoustic guitar’s soundboard, size, depth, etc. The tonal changes are like pick placement, the way you strum, the string material, etc. Somehow this makes a lot of sense to me, but is that what you mean? Do you have any example videos discussing this? It’s a really interesting concept and I’d love to hear you expound more on it, even if I’ve completely misinterpreted you.
Oh boy - you haven’t had the bill for the electricity yet? Better sell a LOT of records, my friend. Modular is expensive at every level, but this new fascination of yours (and mine, through you and old recordings) will take its biggest bite in the utility bill. Solar panels on your roof might help, if you have a really huge roof. There is no doubt, on the question of recommending test equipment to musicians, that struggling with medium or context changes emphases and decision-making processes for people given to being mindful about music. The outcomes wind up being different, and this can be helpful in all sorts of ways. In your case, you are making beautiful music and, as a bonus, you are getting good material for videos. As always, thank you for taking us along with you on your journey.
Awesome bud! Interesting to see how you use each part and what you're looking for! Have you ever used a VHS tape and a VCR for audio? heck you could probably stack a few VCRs and make a giant mellotron! HAINBACH - always inspiring!
Hey Mate, love the test equipment videos. Thought I was the only one with a fetish for obsolete lab equipment. Would you ever considering getting someone to do simple modifications, like adding crude voltage control to the basic oscillators? It would increase the patch-ability of some of the more basic building blocks. However I can understand how this would take the pure, raw, challenge of using such devices. Keep up the amazing work.
You are totally right: A struggle to go from droning to rhythmical play. And of course always a nice feeling like Captain Nemo if you stand in front of your big knob machines. Very nice done Hainbach. Very instructive and emotional:-) Also a nice thing is a HP 203A.
neat video again! its me or the ending is daft punk one more time's beat? hainbach: always remember that the youtube card is on the top right of the camera viewport so you want to point your finger to the top left of the camera i prefer chat as always
I don't know how similar it is to what you are looking for, but I really enjoy Aleksi Perälä, especially the colundi sequence level 7. I'm more into drone that's in a similar style and found a ton of cool releases put out by Tokyo Droning.
M D J i just finished a 6 track album done with only test equipment and some digital delay and reverb. All tracks are one take live jams. Just waiting for the records to be ready from the pressing plant.
HAINBACH - you know i confess at first I wasn't keen on your videos - i thought you were a bit of a sort of self promoting poseur - but I confess you've grown on me and I think your intentions are pretty genuine now - okay it's my 'catholic' confession i guess and just my way of saying 'thank you' for your dedication to a worthy cause (and something very much 'up my alley' as we say) - that was one hard-won subscription!
Thank you. I just love to experiment with sound and discover old and new ways to make music. Talking about that on camera is something I only taught myself in the past two years and am only getting comfortable with recently. To come over as a poseur is horrifying for me, glad you changed your opinion over time.
Truly amazing and gorgeous. But those two keyboards are just so sad sitting there off to the side. I feel them saying 'Put me in the game, coach!' Sorry little dudes! Pls give them a hug or something.
Love this. What about new test equipment? I know they cost more than old obsolete test gear, but have you ever used new test instruments? I want to build a tower of test gear, using a cheap mixer and guitar amp, keeping the test gear system totally separate from my other, normal, musical instruments and effects pedals. Sound good?
I haven't tried new stuff, because its not "knobby" enough. Its all buttons, and does not have the high-quality analog parts that make it sound so good. You can keep the tower away, but it also nice to integrate. I am using piano often, and once even soprano sax.
Frankly, this feels scary, ecstatic, super Up Ahead shaking hands or claws with bizarro Behind Us, instantly subversive, rescuing old obscure specialty equipment, in the defiance of the test gear's intended purpose, de-purposing and re-purposing them, in glimmering mesons, twinkling indystrial intricacies and delicacies, you yourself tower, transparent insubordinance used as re-ramped variations of what can only be called the genius of Hainbach, in his rightful, hard-earned throne in the pantheon of electronic music and abstract soundscape generation. Much respect and deep fandom, your videos and sonic explorations are articulated signal dreams. Cannot get enough. Please never get bored with this genre you are inventing, perfecting, repopulating. I want the Montreal Assembly 865 for Zellersasn, Count To 5, WMD Protostar, NiiO Iotine Core 4 analog saturator filterbank. I love my Malekko Charlie Foxtrot digital buffer / granular delay. Get some Gotharman's gear, too. I will soon get me some Ciat-Lonbarde devices. Love what you do, my friend! Great presentation style. You inspire me joyfully.
Do you use the EHX frequency analyzer much? I also have the old version the same as yours. Please can you demo with it incorporated into your tracks, unless you've done so already? Thanks.
I want to give you a huge THANK YOU first for posting this video. It has cleared up a few questions I’ve had since you started this whole thing. Unfortunately I’m one of the ambitious ones that find this completely fascinating ;) There’s so many artists using modular now. Some (not all) of it isn’t very good because all the equipment is meant to sound great for sell-ability and be user friendly but sometimes the credit really falls more on the design of the equipment rather than the skill of the musician. Some modular users have never played a real instrument so as a whole modular will never compare to true virtuosity - at least not yet. I think you are drawn to test equipment because the challenge and romanticism of being a musician is reinvented in these over complicated but warm machines. By the way... the recreation of the fairgrounds play is going well but I’m getting a bit carried away which is a good thing but it’s taking longer than I initially thought. I think I’m working with over 30 samples right now. I’m excited to share it with you. Cheers!
Why is that? I understand it's more difficult than test equipment but it's a interesting challenge, a bit disappointed but hey, you're still great :) and well, you dived into test equipment so why not :) What happened to the scope you had?
Fascinating sounds and concepts again! Adding CV-control inputs to dials and switches would open more possibilities, but then again maybe that is what the eurorack is for... Have you any type of sequencing in mind for the test equipment setup?
When are you going to start adding shortwave radios into the mix? keep it up man i love your test equipment stuff. would love to see an hour long minimal or drone live set...
Average synth heads: "Can't get any more old school than analog synths!"
Hainbach: "Hold my beer."
Plot twist: Hainbach is a supply teacher in a high school who popped into the storage room to grab something several years ago and never came out.
Fascinating walkthrough. You're a wizard.
the world needs a hainbach techno vinyl ep.
It's coming..
Hainbach could have his next collection pressed onto vinyl. Then he could play his own recording on the most degraded phonograph he can find, but only after figuring out a way to patch LFO control voltage into the speed control. The resulting sample will be the basis of a new masterpiece. 👽👽👽
and the best thing is... he's enough of a mad professor to do exactly this.
@@SyncdAlien Then he records it onto an tape loop and sends it to Simon to dip it into some booze and bleach while Sam is turning the phonograph into an experimental synth!
@@SyncdAlien You can wobble the speed of a record by drilling a new hole beneath the center. My friend as a badly pressed dub 7" that came with a slighty shifted hole, the delay effects and the constant wobbling combine to something really dope and strange.
That jam was wonderful. It's insane how you've turned test equipment in a techno setup! Good job!
It's borderline necromancy!
St Hainbach, patron saint of old forgotten equipment. Bless you Hainbach for giving those lovely electronics a new life, and for sharing it with us. I for one would buy this as a vinyl album without any reservation should it come to pass.
Thank you, Hainbach. I appreciate your glacier-melting struggles and what is emerging from those many hours of experimentation. It has awakened some fond memories in me.
In the late 1960s / early 1970s when I was in my 20s and people like Walter Carlos, John Lennon, Pete Townshend, and Keith Emerson were playing with multi-track studios, Mellotrons and incredibly expensive synthesizers that were purposely constructed to produce musical sounds, I had only a couple of old tape recorders, a rather clunky old tube-based oscilloscope, a cheap old Harmony guitar, and a few harmonicas and similar simple instruments to play with. A bit later I acquired an affordable but nice little spinet piano and finally (in 1975) a 4-channel Teac tape deck which I really couldn't afford. I experimented with whatever I had, trying to get different kinds of sounds and looking for ways to mold them into something that sounded at least remotely musical.
What you are doing right now reminds me vividly of those early days of exploration and inspires me to at least think about doing that kind of experimentation again. I am feeling a fresh rush of motivation to revisit that approach to music-making. I need to do it now while (at age 71) I still have a little time.
Thank you so much for both your lovely music and the inspiration it gives to people like me.
Bob, thank you for sharing that. It's comments like these that make this all so worth it.
That track is incredibly tight! This outclasses many techno productions on modern equipment
You just said it so well about the process of pulling something out of these limitations. I've been working with '60's tube shortwave radio since the eighties, and it has many of the same challenges, but the results are otherworldly, and the process forces you to think in new ways. It's also a creative kick in the butt that gets you excited about making music again, after you feel as if you've already done it all. Very well done, so musical and sensitive, and aware. Cheers.
Mind expanding on the use of shortwave radios?
@@TRUEiMPROrecords I hate to give away any secrets, but if you have the budget and the patience to work with a high end unit from the sixties, like the Hammarlund HQ-140a or HQ-180a you can use the beat frequency oscillator and antenna polarity and band spread and all sorts of parameters (tons of knobs) to get some extraordinary sounds, and then of course, there is external processing. They really are timbral powerhouses. Check out my website - I have some audio examples of my shortwave work there.
This is so cool! Thank you for wrestling these sounds so no one else has to lol!
It's as if the dark dissonant sounds are inherent when using test equipment. In fact, it actually sounds like the oscillators are whining/complaining like they don't want to play music with each other, but you are saying "No no, we make techno beats now."
I love this, good job my dude!
I remember reading something about how Delia Derbyshire's heart wasn't in it any more when synths started coming in boxes and could be controlled by keyboards, having been using individual oscillators and filters from BBC Engineering to create the sounds. I didn't have a clue what she meant until watching you working with very similar equipment and getting the results this. Brilliant stuff.
This is techno in its purest form, you're really going back to its roots while also implementing modern techniques without overdoing them. Love your work, maybe I'll buy some of it on vinyl! Danke Hainbach!
“Dead-serious Hainbach” is my favourite era of Hainbach.
Hainbach : *Explains how everything works*
Me, who doesn't understand anything : ok
I am from the digital world and its good to see this videos. Opens my mind a lot.
Process > Product. Terrific lecture on the process of wrangling these beasts. You are becoming quite the mad professor/artist-in-residence of vintage test equipment. I absolutely cannot wait to see where this all goes: how do tape loops, Ciat-Lonbarde, modular and vintage test equipment get used together in future productions, whether live or in recorded form? The cassette loop in this "track" was a hint.
What I love about this video, besides the beautiful music, is watching your joy of discovery. It really seems like a visceral experience to make music with your equipment.
This sort of sets the standard for what Pure Techno really is.
I wonder if anyone has ever done this before? Like the Radiophonic Workshop did the Multitrack equivalent... sort of filtered through Musique Concrète techniques... & it seems others dabbled on the fringes of where this meets European Classical.
But you're doing Live PA with nothing other than Test Equipment! ( ...& I guess some Guitar Pedals too. )
It's pretty refreshing!
Some of the rhythmic stuff when you're talking rather reminds me of Chris Carter's rhythms for Throbbing Gristle. Nice.
your honest enthusiasm for this stuff is so great and inspiring tbh! such great sounds!
I love this test equipment series.... something I only "had a go" with in my youth.... so well executed by you. Sehr gut.
words can't describe what i feel about this, thank you so much for doing what you're doing and being how you are. ❤❤❤
Once again with the techno-ASMR. I would love to attempt production with your setup.
It's very different from what I've seen from modular setup's.
Danke.
Ha ha. "I could listen to this for days".
Yes, you'd still be smiling as they carted you away.
Very well done, this setup sounds incredible
Such an interesting and unique music making method. Inspiring as always, Hainbach!
Yes another great tune from the test equipment set up & very chill song too! 🙂🙂 Yup on my USB stick, have to create a folder for your tunes & name the folder “ Hainbach tunes to chill too” 🙂 Yes stumbled on your channel & subscribed to your awesome channel! 🙂🙂 Love the pure sound that test equipment makes! 🙂🙂 Years ago my late Dad had a big sound generator he had & wished I could of kept it! 🙂🙂🎧🎧🎵🎵🔊🔊
Great video and explanation. I totally love making music with test equipment. It’s really inspiring and you have to rethink and learn new techniques. Also in my setup there are no vca’s (except two vco’s go one) no envelope generators no step sequencers etc. but on the other hand there are so many cool things which you don’t see in a (modular) synth setup. Stuff like, word generators, gated integrators, lock-in amplifiers. Crazy filter banks and i can go on like this. I really should setup a channel to like you and Sam and share what i do in a better quality and of course with a bit of education :)
I really find yourself but in particular this use of test equipment so inspiring. Using equipment that has limitations and untapped potential is something that I use in my creative work. I'm a very technically proficient film photographer but i choose to use cheap plastic cameras or malfunctioning digital cameras with very little in the way of control to create something new and unique. See that idea manifesting itself in sound and music really encourages me to keep exploring that avenue. Who knows, maybe i'll make a video on it one day? Big fan right here!
the more rhythmic stuff from you is very pleasing, danke :)
Beautiful patch man, thank you so much. This was fascinating to listen and watch. And the big knobs, oh.
Feines Telekommunikationsanlagen Audiogefilde!
In meiner jungeren Lebensjahren hing ich gerne an Ohrmuschel und lauschte die "Besetztzeichen" etwas länger als es üblich war. Am Geschmackvollsten waren die Telefonzellengeräte. Da hatte der Ton eine saftige Attack- und genau so saftig endende Sustain- Kurve. Wie durch das Kabinett mit Schmackes.
Ein sehr interessantes Konzept und Art deiner Musik! Abo4ever
UA-cam's compression really doesn't do this performance justice. The album is so much cleaner and more real.
Always a good day when you post a video! I want to let you know that it is because of you, that I have dug out all of my equipment and scrounged a desk that was destined for the trash at my work; and put most everything together! I actually started making bleeps and bloops this weekend, much to the behest of my wife I’m sure ;-)
Ich bin begeisteret . die Geister die ich rief. der absolute super analog synth ... Bravo Bravo
That rack looks like intensive care unit! :)
Maybe you can go on tour, play some gigs at medical centers and hospitals.
The mention of wrestling with finicky equipment reminds me of the pure joy I used to get when I got Windows Movie Maker to edit a cool video, or when I do something interesting in MS Paint. There really is something to be said for fighting against and eventually working with the limitations of a tool or medium.
This was amazing, thank you for breaking this down.
I actually really enjoy this test equipment techno music.
You gave that aging gear new life, amazing
This is eerie and I love it.
This is like therapy
what a wonderful jumper
nobody, absolutely nobody:
Hainbach: you could make music out of this
Offset Variable pitch function generator live at berghain volume 1 is my new jam...
Loving the video so far (only halfway) but it struck me just now that, when you say effects are the body of electronic sounds, you may be likening them to, say, a physical body of another instrument like an acoustic guitar’s soundboard, size, depth, etc. The tonal changes are like pick placement, the way you strum, the string material, etc. Somehow this makes a lot of sense to me, but is that what you mean? Do you have any example videos discussing this?
It’s a really interesting concept and I’d love to hear you expound more on it, even if I’ve completely misinterpreted you.
This is completely insanity!
Absolutely fascinating. Thank you for this video.
That distortion (between the 2 oscillators) did it for me .....bzzzzzt
Absolutely faszinating!
Oh boy - you haven’t had the bill for the electricity yet? Better sell a LOT of records, my friend.
Modular is expensive at every level, but this new fascination of yours (and mine, through you and old recordings) will take its biggest bite in the utility bill. Solar panels on your roof might help, if you have a really huge roof.
There is no doubt, on the question of recommending test equipment to musicians, that struggling with medium or context changes emphases and decision-making processes for people given to being mindful about music. The outcomes wind up being different, and this can be helpful in all sorts of ways. In your case, you are making beautiful music and, as a bonus, you are getting good material for videos.
As always, thank you for taking us along with you on your journey.
Awww, 8:35 that "I made something good huzzah" smile :-)
Awesome bud! Interesting to see how you use each part and what you're looking for! Have you ever used a VHS tape and a VCR for audio? heck you could probably stack a few VCRs and make a giant mellotron!
HAINBACH - always inspiring!
Hey Mate, love the test equipment videos. Thought I was the only one with a fetish for obsolete lab equipment.
Would you ever considering getting someone to do simple modifications, like adding crude voltage control to the basic oscillators?
It would increase the patch-ability of some of the more basic building blocks. However I can understand how this would take the pure, raw, challenge of using such devices.
Keep up the amazing work.
I think that is entirely possible, but right now I have noone near who could help me.
Very very nice jam! And a great channel btw!
I wish we could crowd fund Hainbach to build a secret bunker in the side of a mountain, Bond villain style
Lovely! I felt like I was listening to some lost track from Tangerine Dream or Klaus Schulze...
very cool Silver Apples vibe there
You are totally right: A struggle to go from droning to rhythmical play. And of course always a nice feeling like Captain Nemo if you stand in front of your big knob machines. Very nice done Hainbach. Very instructive and emotional:-) Also a nice thing is a HP 203A.
Yeah! I was looking for that one, and fund this, which seems to allow for even more complex outs.
this is incredible
I love this sooo much.
excellent, as always
Thank you Max!
Amazing as usual
I'd go to this live show.
Don't tempt me!I am so proud to have all my gear in a small Samsonite now...
neat video again! its me or the ending is daft punk one more time's beat?
hainbach: always remember that the youtube card is on the top right of the camera viewport so you want to point your finger to the top left of the camera
i prefer chat as always
I should make myself a marker on the camera.
Its a crime that Jamezoo hasn't invited you down to do a residency at that willem twee studio place yet
DRRNNDGL some people working on that.
DRRNNDGL he’ll probably come to the waveform research centre first. ;)
My cat walked into the room at 6:15, even she couldn't resist the drones.
NICE ONE I LOVE THIS MATE
Beautiful.
It's so difficult to find techno in this style. Can anyone name a good label distributing stuff like this?
I don't know how similar it is to what you are looking for, but I really enjoy Aleksi Perälä, especially the colundi sequence level 7. I'm more into drone that's in a similar style and found a ton of cool releases put out by Tokyo Droning.
His albums are here: hainbach.bandcamp.com/
In the sidebar there, he lists net-labels he's released on, and recommendations.
Sahko Recordings. Check out the early Panasonic/Mika Vainio stuff.
Silver Apples, which started out around 1966, uses old oscillators like this, and no synths. Check out their albums uploaded to UA-cam.
M D J i just finished a 6 track album done with only test equipment and some digital delay and reverb. All tracks are one take live jams. Just waiting for the records to be ready from the pressing plant.
Very nice!!!!
"My neighbors listen to great sine-wave oscillators... Whether they like it or not."
You should do a Boiler Room machines techno set. That would be awesome!
Thank You!!!
16:45 Sounds like the old May Company department store
HAINBACH - you know i confess at first I wasn't keen on your videos - i thought you were a bit of a sort of self promoting poseur - but I confess you've grown on me and I think your intentions are pretty genuine now - okay it's my 'catholic' confession i guess and just my way of saying 'thank you' for your dedication to a worthy cause (and something very much 'up my alley' as we say) - that was one hard-won subscription!
Thank you. I just love to experiment with sound and discover old and new ways to make music. Talking about that on camera is something I only taught myself in the past two years and am only getting comfortable with recently. To come over as a poseur is horrifying for me, glad you changed your opinion over time.
yes and sorry to think that ... though youtube is full of such people so it's very easy to assume ... good luck!
fascinating
" love big knobs and i cannot lie
Truly amazing and gorgeous. But those two keyboards are just so sad sitting there off to the side. I feel them saying 'Put me in the game, coach!' Sorry little dudes! Pls give them a hug or something.
They are my lifesavers. Everytime a track sucks these two come in and make it better. They feel appreciated 😄
@@Hainbach Happy to hear that! :D Thanks for the inspiration.
Love this. What about new test equipment? I know they cost more than old obsolete test gear, but have you ever used new test instruments? I want to build a tower of test gear, using a cheap mixer and guitar amp, keeping the test gear system totally separate from my other, normal, musical instruments and effects pedals. Sound good?
I haven't tried new stuff, because its not "knobby" enough. Its all buttons, and does not have the high-quality analog parts that make it sound so good.
You can keep the tower away, but it also nice to integrate. I am using piano often, and once even soprano sax.
Frankly, this feels scary, ecstatic, super Up Ahead shaking hands or claws with bizarro Behind Us, instantly subversive, rescuing old obscure specialty equipment, in the defiance of the test gear's intended purpose, de-purposing and re-purposing them, in glimmering mesons, twinkling indystrial intricacies and delicacies, you yourself tower, transparent insubordinance used as re-ramped variations of what can only be called the genius of Hainbach, in his rightful, hard-earned throne in the pantheon of electronic music and abstract soundscape generation. Much respect and deep fandom, your videos and sonic explorations are articulated signal dreams. Cannot get enough. Please never get bored with this genre you are inventing, perfecting, repopulating. I want the Montreal Assembly 865 for Zellersasn, Count To 5, WMD Protostar, NiiO Iotine Core 4 analog saturator filterbank. I love my Malekko Charlie Foxtrot digital buffer / granular delay. Get some Gotharman's gear, too. I will soon get me some Ciat-Lonbarde devices. Love what you do, my friend! Great presentation style. You inspire me joyfully.
Do you use the EHX frequency analyzer much? I also have the old version the same as yours. Please can you demo with it incorporated into your tracks, unless you've done so already? Thanks.
Check my videos on pedals for ambient music, it's covered there
Hainbach the new Richard H Kirk
In the words of Werner Herzog, “I love it, but against my better judgement”
I have to remember that.
This is super fun to watch and listen to, but your household power usage must have risen dramatically in the last couple of months!
Hey Hainbach, how do you patch your banana cables into 1/4" (1/8") jacks?
Adapters, look for logain Util
HAINBACH thank uuuu
I will buy all of this guys lab equipment music.
Hi, thanks for sharing your knowledge! The "Differential Mixer" your talking about - which Brand/Type is it? thats what I'm looking for..Thank you, P.
Ever find one? I'm looking for something like that too
@@Stranger_at_the_Crossroads unfortunately not. But I'm selling my UBM ands other stuff if you're interrested
nice trip
*Tunes crystal radio to HAINBACH*
Love this track Hainbach. You are an inspiration!
te amo wachin sos un capo
You should try out some sound emitting EMC test equipment like transient generators with relays, ESD guns etc. Different field but very interesting
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!
@@Hainbach I slowed down some of those sounds recently and it's insane
I sadly find only very expensive guns on ebay, an most of them in the states. Will lookout!
I want to give you a huge THANK YOU first for posting this video. It has cleared up a few questions I’ve had since you started this whole thing. Unfortunately I’m one of the ambitious ones that find this completely fascinating ;)
There’s so many artists using modular now. Some (not all) of it isn’t very good because all the equipment is meant to sound great for sell-ability and be user friendly but sometimes the credit really falls more on the design of the equipment rather than the skill of the musician. Some modular users have never played a real instrument so as a whole modular will never compare to true virtuosity - at least not yet.
I think you are drawn to test equipment because the challenge and romanticism of being a musician is reinvented in these over complicated but warm machines.
By the way... the recreation of the fairgrounds play is going well but I’m getting a bit carried away which is a good thing but it’s taking longer than I initially thought. I think I’m working with over 30 samples right now. I’m excited to share it with you. Cheers!
oscilloscope music with test equipment when!?
That is a rabbit hole I am hesitant to dive in. I would also need a new scope :-)
Why is that? I understand it's more difficult than test equipment but it's a interesting challenge, a bit disappointed but hey, you're still great :)
and well, you dived into test equipment so why not :)
What happened to the scope you had?
Incredible:) ill have to give you a shout when im next in germany, would be an honour to collaborate on some noise
Fascinating sounds and concepts again! Adding CV-control inputs to dials and switches would open more possibilities, but then again maybe that is what the eurorack is for... Have you any type of sequencing in mind for the test equipment setup?
I might have a Serge TKB incoming....
@@Hainbach Amazing! Hopefully I´ll be there when you eventually run these bad boys thru a big PA in a big space ;)
HAINBACH cheater haha
Good old Heathkit!
wicked!
I just realized: doing experimental music on test equipment is a pun
When are you going to start adding shortwave radios into the mix?
keep it up man i love your test equipment stuff. would love to see an hour long minimal or drone live set...
It's planned!
Excellent... I love a nice radio jamming session. ;)
Beautiful work! How’s your electric bill?
We don't talk about that. 😄 But feel free to chip in a buck on patreon.com/hainbach