Buy the drum sample library here: www.decentsamp... Download the free guitar sample library here: www.decentsamp... Listen to the song here: manwomanchild....
i dissagree, as someone who has repaired accordions before its 100% possible to bring it back, from what i could see. you would just need to get new reeds
My brother has this old guitar he bought for $100 from his guitar teacher ~6 years ago. The pickups made this really loud buzzing noise, and 2 of the strings were missing. After plugging it into my audio interface, it made this hideous, super loud ringing noise from 2k-4k. After seeing your videos, it inspired me to get it fixed. Replaced the bad pickups, re-stringed one of the two missing strings (it's a 5 string guitar now haha), and fixed the 1/4" jack output. Now it sounds amazing. I ran it through some Guitar Rig 7 by Native Instruments, and I have never heard it sound so good ever. Thanks, I guess!
@@acousticdoug After seeing Jacob Collier's 5-string guitar, I knew I had to give it a try myself. I tried some tunings designed specifically for 5 string guitars, but because I have mainly used EADGBE since I started learning guitar, I just tuned it to that instead. So it's basically just a normal guitar, except the 6th string is missing. I actually really like it, its way less complicated, and I can assign each string its own finger without having to worry about anything else. I will probably end up adding back the 6th string later, but for now, its just a weird little experiment bed that I can play with until I need to actually record anything specific with it.
@@acousticdoug I loved many of the 5-string guitar tunings, but because they could technically be 6-string tunings if they just added one more note, I just didn't really see the difference between them and any other tuning (until you get down to 4-string or microtonal tunings). I remember seeing and Andrew Huang video once about FACGCE tuning, which sounds beautiful almost anywhere you put your fingers. I just tuned the guitar to that for a couple weeks, and I loved it so much that I ended up writing a couple songs with it- 5 strings and all. You should really give it a try, it sounds beautiful!
As an accordion player I’m really excited to see you picked one up! It’s a wonderful instrument, it’s a free reed aerophone, the left hand bass buttons work on the circle of fifths. The bass buttons are also organized in a way that allow you to play bass notes and even major, minor, major 7, and diminished chords with just one finger. Depending on the size of accordion you have (the standard full sized accordion is a 120 bass) you should find a bass button chart, I also saw you can configure treble reeds (the buttons by the keyboard) with yours which is cool!
My aunt gave me the Mr. Peanut peanut butter maker for Christmas as a kid. You put a handful of peanuts and a little oil in the top and crank it and a spooge of PB came out. It was cool for about a week then it came time to make other butters. Hotdog butter, bean butter anything I could stuff in it. When I fed the neighbor kid a Ritz with pill-bug butter my mom disappeared Mr. Peanut.
thank you, david. i went to that flea market once when i was a kid, and seeing that intro brought a rush of memories flooding back. great stuff as usual
Great video, great guitar, great drum sample library, great song! Man you hit this one out of the park! ( I just got a working SK-1 with just one key missing for $25. at a flea market)
Nice Video Dave. The lack of strap pegs was probably due to it being used as a Laptop Guitar for country music. The odd position of the buttons could indicate that the laptop player was left handed and that would allow them to be out of the way. Just one possibility. Nice sound on your recording. I mix terribly.
Yeah, that drums sound pretty neat! Now I have to convince myself to install that strange DecentSampler-player. I watched the installation tutorial video, it indeed looks unneccessary complicate to use. Maybe I dare it though. Maybe later, but not now. Too scary yet.
@@Kunibert_Knatter It's not too difficult to figure out. I've started porting over some of the libraries I created previously for Kontakt to Decent Sampler.
@@theshaggyfreak Your own libraries? Cool! David Hilowitz has some lovely instruments, which also require that Decent thingie. However,I have not really understood both this DecentPlayer and the concept behind his free plugins. I should probably have to dig a bit deeper. Thx for your reply, Shaggy!
@@DavidHilowitzMusic Those Lua scripts help a lot for converting over those old libraries of mine. I have Kontakt but I've never enjoyed building libraries with it. I find DS working much better for my personal needs. While I have Logic as well, DS is a much better way to share those libraries. :)
Here to say an accordion repair project would be fascinating to watch! A lot of accordions are sold second-hand in my town but nobody here actually knows how to fix them. Would be awesome to see the process.
Love things like this I got a mystery 8-string guitar a year ago that I think I've used on almost every recording I've made since then. It seems to have come from a small maker in Quebec but that doesn't explain how it made its way to a store in San Francisco or why the manufacturer has no information about any 8-string models. If it was made in Canada, I've brought it back to its home country so that's pretty cool.
Found a gorgeous, weird, ugly, oddly confusing electric guitar at Goodwill in Santa Cruz - it’s got entirely handmade hardware made out of brass, solid wood body, 3 entirely different styles of pickups. There’s some legendary luthiers who are/were based in Santa Cruz so I wonder if this was an early attempt. In either case, it plays really well if you don’t mind the half-finished, wrongly placed fret inlays. It’s almost a Steampunk guitar.
I’m never prepared for the first distortion switch. It’s like what the guitar on the iron man theme wants to be. It blasts me back to 2009 - kind of like getting hit in the face by very strong cold wind
Yeah, can 100% confirm that pickup came from Japan in the 60s. I have an old Guyatone from '63 that has that exact same pickup. I've honestly thought about finding a few more for other guitars; they sound amazing.
That sounds excellent!!! I was thinking it was possibly made by someone who played only sitting, as I often get way more “vertical” with my positioning when I sit with CBGs, and don’t stand with them ‘cause I never play them live. I recognize those decals from back in the day as well, they were absolutely hobby shop standards. Doesn’t help narrow the search any, but hopefully adds some more fun to the mystery! What a cool instrument and a great find!
Those pickups are real gems, Mac DeMarco used a Teisco with the same type for his first three albums, and Robert Smith used a guitar with similar pickups for the first Cure record, have a guitar with the same pickup and love it more than a Strat I have, not to be slept on.
Ugh, that position of the knobs and the cord. If it was meant as lap steel why does it look like a guitar tho, with cutout to reach the high frets and all? If its guitar why the hell are the knobs and cords at that position? This guitar makes no sense ;_;
I drive down that road occasionally, I’ve always seen the area where the flea market takes place, but never have been by while it was in operation. Super cool stuff! I’ll have to drive down there while it’s going on.
This classic style is only a stone's-throw away from being rock & roll, instead of the "rock" that we all normally associate with the concept: Foo Fighters, Nickelback, Creed and that sort of thing. Growing up it was the "punk" or "pop punk" like the Offspring and Sum 41 that I loved. . . and still appreciate to this day. Though that's neither here or there.
I gotta say I absolutely fell in love with that guitar. I had no hopes but it actually sounds so good 😄 Really wish I had something like it to write with in my own studio!
I would kill for that guitar. It seems like it uses the pickups that most early Japanese companies would use. I know a lot of weird old Tesico and Kawai guitars use them.
I have seen a guitar very very close to this design in one of those weird guitar compilations but I cannot find the video again. I suspect there were more than one of these made. Jens Ritter also makes a very high end and refined version of this body style in the Princess Isabella line. Multiply your find by 600 to 700 times though. :)
One of the best accordion techs lives right here in Philly. Reach out to Dorie Byrne. She’s a really sweet person our age. And she and her husband are amazing musicians. You’re welcome. 💓
Big win on fun music stuff cheap! As far as the strap buttons go, a lot of classical guitars and Spanish guitars don't use them. I'm usually getting poked in the leg as I want to tilt my guitar up and set it on my let as I sit. Half of me hates the jack location on the bottom side too as I want to tilt up. I do wonder if it was a lap slide guitar though.
I am only a mere saxophone player, but... If that guitar was meant to be a lap steel, it should have very little compensation on the bridge, if any. It has a lot.
I wonder if this was made by or for a blind person. That might explain the thicker neck, the large knobs and their placement, and the lack of a strap. It might also have been played by a person that didn't have any arms. It's uncommon, obviously, but there are a few people that can do it (and that have videos on UA-cam). They place the guitar on the floor, usually on a couple towels or pillows, and play it with their feet.
You should do a video/series of videos on making music. Im dabbling myself, and would love too see your process and how you go about things (especially lyrics)
That pickup really sonds super nice. Have to look for one of those since I still want to build a guitar and did not know what kind of pickups I want. Anyway great video
I love your rock songs man, have you ever make anything more heavy? It could be interesting to see if you can push a single coil to make something like that Also would be lovely to see you experiment in the genre like trying psychedelic rock or stuff like that
This is very close to the guitar that En Esch from KMFDM had built for the 1997 Symbols tour. I can't find any pics of the headstock, but they might've been made by the same person!
Hi, would love to know the electric song from 1:18, when you open up the accordion. It does have this sweet boards of Canada vibe to it. Please let me know -cheers
Many lefties play strung right handed/upside down. Dick Dale, Elizabeth Cotton, Coco Montoya. Some righties will take a lefty Strat and swap the nut in an attempt to recreate Jimi Hendrix tone
It was my greatest honor to work with you, David! Thank you for making this sample pack possible!
tom swaggers
🤎🤎
the pleasure was mine!
Is the drum plugin re-mappable? For some reasons, not all edrums have the same mappings.
The accordion was totally a "here, YOU throw this away!" sale.
Plus they didn't have to take this weighty thing back home again
i dissagree, as someone who has repaired accordions before its 100% possible to bring it back, from what i could see. you would just need to get new reeds
I've been to this flea market many times and I always come away with some inexpensive Gems. Cool song too!
That's amazing! This was my first time, and I'm already wondering if I should drive back :)
My brother has this old guitar he bought for $100 from his guitar teacher ~6 years ago. The pickups made this really loud buzzing noise, and 2 of the strings were missing. After plugging it into my audio interface, it made this hideous, super loud ringing noise from 2k-4k. After seeing your videos, it inspired me to get it fixed. Replaced the bad pickups, re-stringed one of the two missing strings (it's a 5 string guitar now haha), and fixed the 1/4" jack output. Now it sounds amazing. I ran it through some Guitar Rig 7 by Native Instruments, and I have never heard it sound so good ever. Thanks, I guess!
@@SethMiller01 super curious, why did you not replace both strings, and since it’s only 5, what tuning is it?
@@acousticdoug
EADGB probably
@@acousticdoug After seeing Jacob Collier's 5-string guitar, I knew I had to give it a try myself. I tried some tunings designed specifically for 5 string guitars, but because I have mainly used EADGBE since I started learning guitar, I just tuned it to that instead. So it's basically just a normal guitar, except the 6th string is missing. I actually really like it, its way less complicated, and I can assign each string its own finger without having to worry about anything else. I will probably end up adding back the 6th string later, but for now, its just a weird little experiment bed that I can play with until I need to actually record anything specific with it.
@@SethMiller01 neat! I always love how different tunings and instruments inspire creativity. Which one has been the biggest “aha” moment for you?
@@acousticdoug I loved many of the 5-string guitar tunings, but because they could technically be 6-string tunings if they just added one more note, I just didn't really see the difference between them and any other tuning (until you get down to 4-string or microtonal tunings). I remember seeing and Andrew Huang video once about FACGCE tuning, which sounds beautiful almost anywhere you put your fingers. I just tuned the guitar to that for a couple weeks, and I loved it so much that I ended up writing a couple songs with it- 5 strings and all. You should really give it a try, it sounds beautiful!
I hope Strayer finds this video and comments
me too!
Once again, awesome video! Love that guitar, the song you made, that indie drums pack, and I even love that Pylon tshirt!
Thanks so much!
As an accordion player I’m really excited to see you picked one up! It’s a wonderful instrument, it’s a free reed aerophone, the left hand bass buttons work on the circle of fifths. The bass buttons are also organized in a way that allow you to play bass notes and even major, minor, major 7, and diminished chords with just one finger. Depending on the size of accordion you have (the standard full sized accordion is a 120 bass) you should find a bass button chart, I also saw you can configure treble reeds (the buttons by the keyboard) with yours which is cool!
Liberty Bellows used to pay 20 bucks for ‘parts’ accordions. If they still do, you can double your $
My aunt gave me the Mr. Peanut peanut butter maker for Christmas as a kid. You put a handful of peanuts and a little oil in the top and crank it and a spooge of PB came out. It was cool for about a week then it came time to make other butters. Hotdog butter, bean butter anything I could stuff in it. When I fed the neighbor kid a Ritz with pill-bug butter my mom disappeared Mr. Peanut.
this makes me want one
thank you, david. i went to that flea market once when i was a kid, and seeing that intro brought a rush of memories flooding back. great stuff as usual
Great video, great guitar, great drum sample library, great song! Man you hit this one out of the park! ( I just got a working SK-1 with just one key missing for $25. at a flea market)
Thanks! And that’s a great find!
You are the best instrument detective ever! Thanks for another totally entertaining story.
Love the drum sounds! I’m off to buy it now.
always the coolest finds! oooh...😯. Looking forward to those Indie Drums as well...
New Hope, the beautiful hometown of Ween
Dude, i’ve been looking for indie drum sounds but they’re so expensive! I definitely have $20 dollars to spare! Thank you my dudes for saving me
Wow, that guitar has such a wonderful vibe! Looking forward to checking out that drum library.
i grew up visiting new hope with my family and now go to college in philly! so amazing to see little gems that i remember 😊
Man. I thought I'd seen it all. Stratocasters, Double Neck Guitars, Six String Basses, 12 string guitars, but WOW.
I have enjoyed both this video and now the samples it created. Thank you.
I went to highschool in lambertville, so funny seeing the golden nugget on a video from someone I’ve been watching for years. Great job!
Great find and a catchy chorus in the resulting song! Also, this video reminded me to scan the newspaper for the next local flea market...
“Hand resting on the knob”
;)
I'm always impressed at your ability to find weird musical instruments for so cheap.
Nice Video Dave.
The lack of strap pegs was probably due to it being used as a Laptop Guitar for country music.
The odd position of the buttons could indicate that the laptop player was left handed and that would allow them to be out of the way.
Just one possibility.
Nice sound on your recording. I mix terribly.
Great video. Love the new drum samples too! That's actually a sound I've been looking for myself and purchased it right away.
Yeah, that drums sound pretty neat! Now I have to convince myself to install that strange DecentSampler-player. I watched the installation tutorial video, it indeed looks unneccessary complicate to use. Maybe I dare it though. Maybe later, but not now. Too scary yet.
@@Kunibert_Knatter It's not too difficult to figure out. I've started porting over some of the libraries I created previously for Kontakt to Decent Sampler.
@@theshaggyfreak Your own libraries? Cool!
David Hilowitz has some lovely instruments, which also require that Decent thingie.
However,I have not really understood both this DecentPlayer and the concept behind his free plugins. I should probably have to dig a bit deeper.
Thx for your reply, Shaggy!
let me know if you run into any trouble ;)
@@DavidHilowitzMusic Those Lua scripts help a lot for converting over those old libraries of mine. I have Kontakt but I've never enjoyed building libraries with it. I find DS working much better for my personal needs. While I have Logic as well, DS is a much better way to share those libraries. :)
Here to say an accordion repair project would be fascinating to watch!
A lot of accordions are sold second-hand in my town but nobody here actually knows how to fix them. Would be awesome to see the process.
Wow... perfect intonation. I wasn't expecting that.
Your Videos are always so entertaining and always so informative! I enjoy each upload you make :)!! Good stuff!!
Love things like this
I got a mystery 8-string guitar a year ago that I think I've used on almost every recording I've made since then.
It seems to have come from a small maker in Quebec but that doesn't explain how it made its way to a store in San Francisco or why the manufacturer has no information about any 8-string models.
If it was made in Canada, I've brought it back to its home country so that's pretty cool.
new hope, PA. hometown of WEEN!!!!
My very first thought "Lap Steel".
Oh boy ! Right 1 Again !
'Indie Drums' is Very Good btw 👍
Found a gorgeous, weird, ugly, oddly confusing electric guitar at Goodwill in Santa Cruz - it’s got entirely handmade hardware made out of brass, solid wood body, 3 entirely different styles of pickups. There’s some legendary luthiers who are/were based in Santa Cruz so I wonder if this was an early attempt. In either case, it plays really well if you don’t mind the half-finished, wrongly placed fret inlays. It’s almost a Steampunk guitar.
Your videos always cheer me up! Thank you so much for all the inspiration and the awesome music!
1:41 can’t wait!
Gorgeous guitar. I have a buddy who made a strat in a similar woody style. I really dig this kinda natural wood look
Interesting video and a great sample library. New ideas are just flowing in.
I’m never prepared for the first distortion switch. It’s like what the guitar on the iron man theme wants to be. It blasts me back to 2009 - kind of like getting hit in the face by very strong cold wind
Great video! Very catchy song in my opinion. I enjoy watching your videos and learning more about music. Such an amazing thing thanks!
Yeah, can 100% confirm that pickup came from Japan in the 60s. I have an old Guyatone from '63 that has that exact same pickup. I've honestly thought about finding a few more for other guitars; they sound amazing.
I love this channel, great video as usual!
That sounds excellent!!! I was thinking it was possibly made by someone who played only sitting, as I often get way more “vertical” with my positioning when I sit with CBGs, and don’t stand with them ‘cause I never play them live. I recognize those decals from back in the day as well, they were absolutely hobby shop standards. Doesn’t help narrow the search any, but hopefully adds some more fun to the mystery! What a cool instrument and a great find!
Those pickups are real gems, Mac DeMarco used a Teisco with the same type for his first three albums, and Robert Smith used a guitar with similar pickups for the first Cure record, have a guitar with the same pickup and love it more than a Strat I have, not to be slept on.
Ugh, that position of the knobs and the cord. If it was meant as lap steel why does it look like a guitar tho, with cutout to reach the high frets and all? If its guitar why the hell are the knobs and cords at that position? This guitar makes no sense ;_;
"Ok, I've got the strap on..." *snort*
I drive down that road occasionally, I’ve always seen the area where the flea market takes place, but never have been by while it was in operation. Super cool stuff! I’ll have to drive down there while it’s going on.
That flea market is amazing. years back, my wife and I bought a ouija board table there.
I love the the sound of this guitar I would kill for something like that it just hits the right spot
This classic style is only a stone's-throw away from being rock & roll, instead of the "rock" that we all normally associate with the concept: Foo Fighters, Nickelback, Creed and that sort of thing.
Growing up it was the "punk" or "pop punk" like the Offspring and Sum 41 that I loved. . . and still appreciate to this day. Though that's neither here or there.
I gotta say I absolutely fell in love with that guitar. I had no hopes but it actually sounds so good 😄 Really wish I had something like it to write with in my own studio!
The wearing on the top of the neck is interesting too. It really looks like someone has been strumming up, rather than down, and surprisingly high.
Please make a community post showing the back and neck joint (or is it neck thru?)
it is indeed neck thru!
YES!!! IVE BEEN WAITING FOR ANOTHER VID LIKE THIS!
The guitars shape reminds me of the aphex twin logo
The greatest band of all time, Ween, hails from this town.
I would kill for that guitar. It seems like it uses the pickups that most early Japanese companies would use. I know a lot of weird old Tesico and Kawai guitars use them.
For some reason whenever you write song for a video, it sounds like it'd fit perfectly in a Cake album.
I have seen a guitar very very close to this design in one of those weird guitar compilations but I cannot find the video again. I suspect there were more than one of these made. Jens Ritter also makes a very high end and refined version of this body style in the Princess Isabella line. Multiply your find by 600 to 700 times though. :)
One of the best accordion techs lives right here in Philly. Reach out to Dorie Byrne. She’s a really sweet person our age. And she and her husband are amazing musicians. You’re welcome. 💓
once again i am BEGGING you to put manwomanchild's work on youtube or yt music
You are a really good singer. First youtuber.
very very solid vocals :D, where is the album
Was this last weekend? I was in New Hope then, wish I would have known about the market but there was a ton of other cool stuff going on too.
Big win on fun music stuff cheap! As far as the strap buttons go, a lot of classical guitars and Spanish guitars don't use them. I'm usually getting poked in the leg as I want to tilt my guitar up and set it on my let as I sit. Half of me hates the jack location on the bottom side too as I want to tilt up. I do wonder if it was a lap slide guitar though.
Great find brother
Not only the cutaway but the angle of the bridge tells you it’s a right handed guitar
It has a very KURTISH grunge sound! Even the clean sound!😍
I am only a mere saxophone player, but... If that guitar was meant to be a lap steel, it should have very little compensation on the bridge, if any. It has a lot.
Weird guitar. Nice style of music. Sounds like the 1960's
Some people find the weirdest things, and that’s cool.
song was great - some what inspiring for me . . . makes what to fire up the DAW
Great song. You rock (literally)
You should try Musima guitars. A discontinued German/Russian instrument company. I recommend the basses and the 1655 guitar.
I can not wait to hear the song
the chorus sounds like a grandaddy song lmao
Love your demo song, great vibe '
Fixing old accordions means replacing old accordions parts... Theseus's accordion.
oh my god that guitar looks so sick. i want my own that looks like that
Nothing beats flea market visit in a new town
yay new david vid i love your content man!
I wonder if this was made by or for a blind person. That might explain the thicker neck, the large knobs and their placement, and the lack of a strap. It might also have been played by a person that didn't have any arms. It's uncommon, obviously, but there are a few people that can do it (and that have videos on UA-cam). They place the guitar on the floor, usually on a couple towels or pillows, and play it with their feet.
You should do a video/series of videos on making music. Im dabbling myself, and would love too see your process and how you go about things (especially lyrics)
That pickup really sonds super nice. Have to look for one of those since I still want to build a guitar and did not know what kind of pickups I want. Anyway great video
I love your rock songs man, have you ever make anything more heavy? It could be interesting to see if you can push a single coil to make something like that
Also would be lovely to see you experiment in the genre like trying psychedelic rock or stuff like that
david hilowitz my beloved
This is very close to the guitar that En Esch from KMFDM had built for the 1997 Symbols tour. I can't find any pics of the headstock, but they might've been made by the same person!
I knew this would happen, very happy.
Great stuff!
luv u dude
what do u think about the teenage engineering pocket operators
Hi, would love to know the electric song from 1:18, when you open up the accordion. It does have this sweet boards of Canada vibe to it. Please let me know -cheers
Thanks! I really should release that as an instrumental track
@@DavidHilowitzMusic yes please...🙂
Pretty sick! I definitely think its a Japanese homemade guitar
Song sounds like Enon. Very cool
Oh man, that you were at The Golden Nugget!!
Many lefties play strung right handed/upside down. Dick Dale, Elizabeth Cotton, Coco Montoya. Some righties will take a lefty Strat and swap the nut in an attempt to recreate Jimi Hendrix tone
I’m actually lefty myself, but I learned to play righty.
Much better that way! Like Joe Perry, Mark Knopfler and countless others. I’m too left handed to attempt a swap.@@DavidHilowitzMusic
this guitar looks like a heavily modified early 1950s Harmony Stratotone with a Japanese pickup in it from the 70s?
YESS ANOTHER DAVID VIDEO
Could you write a song in which the music doesn’t change but the vocals do, à la soulful house music? Peace.
You missed an opportunity to make a Ween song, as they are from New Hope!
Great video and great song!
The guitar can be played without a strap, lol.