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Same. I had think about my father immediately after his words. He also already passed away in 2017, after many years with severe health-problems. But I really miss the time we'd spend together. No friendship could ever replace the connection we've had. So.... I feel with you Florian!
I love Bad Gear, but I'm also digging these new experiments in format and topic. It was very special getting to see a different side of you, thanks for opening up your memories for us. I'd love to see more videos with this kind of narrative take from you, I think you hit it out of the park. Thanks for such a great video and a heartwarming personal story.
Storytime: I had my son slapping on musical keyboards at two months old. Excited, I told my mom. Surprised, she tells me, my father did the same thing with me. About six months later, my father sent me numerous baby pictures I'd never seen. One is a picture of me on his lap at two months old, playing a keyboard. I look at the picture, astonished. It's the same keyboard I had my son playing (Casio VL Tone, released in 1979). I coincidently bought it right before my son was born. Unknowingly, I had a calling and history with it that I never knew. My father and I are more alike than I ever knew.
I didn't give you permission to make me feel things! I lost my dad 2 years ago. Lifelong musician, director, teacher. I inherited all his gear. While his gear is more folk oriented, I still find reasons to use it and think of him every time I do. Loved this story. Thank you for telling it.
Thank you!!! I feel your loss. Lots of acoustical instruments here too - used his Viennese guitar in the Tracker Mini episode for some sampling experiments...
Florian quickly becoming the best content on YT, beautiful story, beautiful tribute to your father and one of the most beautiful delays out there. What a treat man, thank you.
Loved this. As someone who has a terrible relationship with my father, I can’t help but feel envious and yet also appreciative that there are dads out there who try to guide and influence with patience and love. That’s a cherished piece of gear indeed and I hope it continues to provide much joy. I hope I can end up being at least a little like your father to my own three kids who are starting out on their musical journeys now. Thanks for sharing this Florian, it made for a welcome side quest from the Bad Gear series.
My dad was the same. He used the money he just got from a job to buy me a JV-80 and such. He just wanted to see me happy. He passed away in 2005. He was my best friend.
In 1989 I was 8, when my dad gave me his sh101, this started my adventure in music making. He also shared with me his love for music, made me discover so much bands, took me to lots of music shows. Same as you, he was a father, and a friend, the kind of person we could talk about life and everything for hours. He suddenly died 20 years ago at the age of 42. I miss him since this day, and this sh101 is the only material thing from him that I could keep. But there will always be magic souvenirs left. So your story touched me a lot, and believe me, I totally understand. Thanks a lot Florian for sharing with us this sincere and beautiful story ❤
Such a great story. I grew up in Scotland with a rugged Scottish boxing Dad union leader and English rose pianist mum. Dad won, and I became a local council consultant, but mum's music never left me. She had an upright piano like Paul McCartney and I learned to play and listen to the sustain pedal sounds on that beautiful instrument. In my 20s I rebelled for a few years and found myself in Nottingham with Cubase V1, and Atari ST and a Korg, rolling funny cigarettes and playing guitar with my first delay pedal. Those sounds still haunt me today, all gear later stolen by my sisters' then abusive boyfriend. Now I live in New Zealand and at 54 I'm recreating these memories using a stereo memory man as a space echo. It turns bleeps and bloops into chambered resonances that resonate. I honour your father, he gave you space to bring your own creativity forward. Thank you to him and you both.
That's a proper tribute. My own dad passed in 2015 and I have no words for how much I miss him. Now, if you'll excuse me, I think there's something in my eye...
I lost my mother earlier this year, and her weird old kurzweil synth-piano-thing has been swiftly upgraded from baroque oddity to family heirloom. I really love that you made this, it means a lot to me.
Damn man. As a dad myself, eager for my son to get into the gear world, that last bit got me like a knockout punch. Didn't see it coming. Beautiful moment.
Memories are pretty much echoes on a tape...with an intensity and repeat rate as strong as the experiences we share with our loves ones. Maybe that's what makes delays and reverb effects so appealing, just our own self reflection on them. Thanks for the "gear change" and the personal involvement, this one was truly special.
I heard a wonderful interview with Les Paul in 2008 as I passed through Georgia. He talked about his first electric guitar, which was made out of a piece railroad track, and talked about the sustain... and the back pain... lol
This was a really touching tribute to your dad, and my condolences on his passing. Mine passed three years ago and I credit him for introducing me to the joys of audio gear and recording. I still have his old Ampex reel to reel sitting here in my studio. It was the very first piece of gear I learned to use at the tender age of 4 and somewhere in a box there are no doubt still some reel tapes of my earliest experiments. Thank you.
Oh Florian that was lovely. My dad taught me how to play guitar, and every time I go home he blasts my first demo over his (considerable) HiFi system. I'm not sure he knows how often I listen to *his* songs, though.
The Pilz--OMC, I didn't have to paws a million times to watch the gearz video. I feel like someone left out the cat-nip, and transported me to another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind--a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space, and as timeless as infinity...
Loved the history lesson about the gear and your father. The times where you've mention 'delay' and 'echo' features of a piece of gear have a different meaning now. 🙏 We'll call this one an episode of "Good Gear"
My (late) father, who was actually an accordion player, provided me with the Watkins Copicat which I used in my heavily distorted techno live sets back in the days. After my sets people always came to see and ask what the F was that crazy feedback effect :D Now I have the Boss RE-20 pedal which I really love. The Copicat is still in the family. My brother has restored it and is using it.
I've got Dad's cymbals down here. We shared them because I never seemed to be professional when he was and vice versa. And while he was never into the sort of tobacco one might share recreationally, I'm listening to his last 2022 performance I recorded in his living room shortly before his death. Played himself out at his own funeral to Fleetwood Mac's Don't Stop; did a shuffle better than Fleetwood himself. RIP Dad, and sorry for your loss too x
This is, quite probably, the best you video you have ever made. It's absolutely fantastic, and you're already one of the few channels where I watch every video that comes out.
The tenderness in your presentation here is warmly welcomed. It's refreshing and touching in equal measure. I still thoroughly enjoy your alternative anti-superhero stance in Bad Gear, but the positivity and good energy here is encouraging and inspiring. Keep it up young fellow!
I'm here for this Good Gear stuff. Whole different vibe from bad gear, with time to explore a classic 70s sound design box, and you don't need to pause every 1.3 seconds to read and decode the heavy memes of Bad Gear. Great stuff.
My father died in the 90s when I was 13. From him I have his ovation breadwinner, jupiter 4, sh2000, sh1000 (all three synths in desperate need of service and currently under sheets) and a TEAC 3340s which has been the centerpiece of everything in my studio forever. Im going to pull the ovation out tonight i think.
What a lovely story. I inherited just one thing from my dad - a banjo that I am committed to one day learning to play. He also once wrote me a letter, including the advice to "Leave no turn unstoned." Which is much easier than learning banjo!
@@Vingul Thanks bruv - I have a fairly broad base of musical knowledge, but didn't recognise about half of your message - I'm guessing it's banjo related? I have much to learn!
@@jimlampshady O yes, Cripple Creek is a bluegrass standard. Earl Scruggs is often credited with «inventing» or at least popularising the three-finger roll, which allowed banjoists to play really fast in that famous bluegrass style. As opposed to the «clawhammer» style for instance. Scruggs played the banjo in Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys, the band that gave the name to the genre. He fell out with Monroe but became a legend in his own right, and together with Lester Flatt, as «Flatt & Scruggs» - they recorded a version of Cripple Creek as a duo as well. You might have heard their rendition of «Foggy Mountain Breakdown», it was used in the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde, classic car chase music, lol. I could ramble on but that oughta do it.
My dad has a one of a kind 1962 Fender Jazz Bass which I learned to play on. I always say it's like learning to play bass on Excalibur. We still get together and jam every now and again, and that bass is still played and taken care of regularly by both of us. I don't think I would be the musician I am today without my dad's influence or that bass.
I know where one of these can be bought for about $2500. The guy who owns it opened it up and let me watch the tape crawl around. It is the coolest damn thing. Genius in its simplicity.
I was born the same year these became available... honored! Fun Fact for any Dub Heads out there. King Tubby built all the equipment in Lee "Scratch" Perry's Black Ark Studio all but his Re-201 Space Echo
I got my space echo in the late 2000s: I was a teenager and went to a flea market, an old lady was selling some stuff and there I saw it in all of it‘s green, black and silver glory… a Roland RE 201. I didn’t quite know what it actually was but I knew a lot of people online said it was good and sought after. I approached her and asked her, what she wanted for it and she said „I don’t really know what this is, but around 100€?“. I knew it was a good deal but being a teenager I didnt have that money. I literally had all my birthday‘s money with me (around 70€) and told her that this is all I could give her. She happily agreed, and I carried it home being happy. It‘s a staple in my music production since then.
Nice personal story about the RE-201 and your dad. More vids like this please! I used to own a Chorus Echo RE-501, but without the backstory (I just got it second hand online), but eventually sold it because my OCD went berserk with tape sticking and wearing out. But those Space Echoes are magical devices for sure, and no emulation nails them yet.
I love this new style of video and what a wonderful story about your dad - I wish someday my children will appreciate my gear in the same way. Everyone who has lost their father can't fail to be touched and agree with your closing sentiments. You've really showed your human side here. Keep expanding your repetoaire - you've plenty of it left!
Dear Florian, First of all, I want to thank you for each Friday's episode. There are some I’ve watched a thousand times (I think my favorite is the one about FL Studio, even though it’s not hardware). This episode really touched my heart because my father, who passed away in 2017, was also my mentor in music. The first instruments and audio gear I had access to were thanks to him-a music and technology lover, a curious and studious person. I still keep a LOWREY LS30 keyboard that I use to teach MIDI to my students since it still works perfectly and can be used as a controller, even now in 2024. But without a doubt, the equivalent of the space echo in my life is the Technics 1200 mk2 turntable, and like you, I wouldn’t trade it for anything if it meant having one more moment with him. Someday, I would love to invite you to one of the live streams I host on my channel. Sending lots of love from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The back story is even warmer and more genuine than the sound of the Space Echo. For me, heaven would be having a father to share magic tobacco and endlessly laughing our ass off watching Bad Gear video's. Thank you, Florian.
That was the most wholesome and touching teenage miscreant stoner shenanigans turns into quality family bonding time stories I have ever heard. Finding your first tape echo,and your first accidental weed at the same time, must have been absolutely surreal and mind blowing. To be honest after such an experience ,i am surprised you didnt end up into Dub Reggae or Stoner rock. Your dad sounds like an amazing man, and I am grateful he raised a man like you .
I appreciate that you shared this! It did make me wonder how these relationships resonate thorough life. Surprisingly, I too have a story with a dad (mine) and a space echo, the only thing different being story’s content. My father is, among other things, a terrible hoarder, to the point that the stacks of more or less valuable gear make up a dungeon in his apartment. He once flexed saying ‘and oh, I got a space echo somewhere here’. I have never seen it. The end
There is so much heart & soul in this video, I had to come back & give this more props 👌 it's been a tough week & we need more media like this in our lives.
As a relatively new dad to 4 year old twin boys I always wonder and hope that one day, and following lots of gentle encouragement, they will take to music and my collection of synths, samplers and outboard I've been collection for the past 28 years. Your video is very touching and gives me hope that one day my sons, like you, feel the same and find as much enjoyment in music and gear (good or bad) that I have throughout my life. I think your dad would be very proud and overjoyed that you share a love inspired through him ☺
This time, unlike usual, instead of commenting on a video, I’d like to recommend a UA-cam channel to all audio gear enthusiasts: Stu's Technicolour Musical Bong™. Despite health challenges, the creator of this channel is finding his way in beautiful, atmospheric, and slightly melancholic music. Great gear, excellent skills, remarkable musical sensitivity… and zero audience. I truly don’t understand it, and I’d be very grateful if you could support this gentleman with kind words and maybe even a subscription to his channel. Cheers!
My dad gave me my first Synth which was the Korg Ms2000R, which I still use to this day. This is also why I hounded you to do the Bad Gear on it as soon as I found your channel!
That was a very touching personal story my friend. Thanks for sharing that. My dad was a tenor and when he came to Perth Australia, the tatooine of earth in the 60"s he bought this big ol' echo machine thing I guess you could call it. I was told people used to think he was lip syncing cause they thought the device was a tape player. I remember the machine cause he disregarded it in the 70's and I being a young kid used it to play rocket ships with it. It was a huge thing with lots of knobs and switches or maybe it seems that way to a young mind lol. It did have a tape mechanism of some sort. In the 80's I used it's nice wooden exterior to house my Atari 2600,, controllers and it had this wooden slot down the side that was the perfect size to store the cartridges.
What a great story Florian and a lovely tribute. I love the space echo, I remember seeing one hooked up to a CB radio in the 80s, crazy stuff! As amazing as it is I couldn't help be fascinated by the collection of printing blocks! I used to work at a printers in the 90s, its so cool to see some real old school blocks.
family history gear is good gear. Regardless of the gear. Funny enough, my dad's equivalent piece of family history gear is a Lexicon Alex. I use my beloved Alesis Wegde now, instead. My dad managed to lose the Alex while moving a few years back. The piece of gear is gone but my dad is still here. I am endlessly grateful for this 🙏 Your dad sounds like a great man. Thank you for sharing the touching story. Beautiful video.
After several years of showing no interest in music my 15yo son suddenly volunteered to learn to play the bass. It's excellent quality time and very similar to when my Dad taught me my first 3 chords on the guitar when I was 16. Sad to hear your Dad has passed on. He has clearly done a good job on you. Raise a glass to the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
Your dad sounds like he was truly one of a kind. I’m so sorry to hear of his passing. Maybe, in this vast universe, we’re all like echoes from a Roland Space Echo-repeating, fading, but never really gone. And one day, as you reach that next playback head, you’ll feel his presence again, clear and familiar.
Das ist eine wunderbare Geschichte über ein wirklich schönes Gerät. Ich habe meinen Vater (der fließend Deutsch spricht) vor etwa 10 Jahren ebenfalls verloren und verstehe Ihre Gefühle. Danke, dass Sie ein Teil unseres Lebens in Sachen elektronische Musik sind.
Lovely story. Not family-related but when one of the founders at my wife’s theater retired he gave me the gear he used to soundtrack their plays in the 1970s, including an RE-301. It really is a special machine plus it has all those decades of artist mojo soaked in.
My dad also passed away in 2016. He was a piano nerd and just the last couple of years I became a synth and electronic music nerd. I also would love to hang out with him for one evening so I could show him what I have learned. ❤
Best episode ever! As a somewhat new dad myself, my oldest just turned 3, you had me tear up at the end. I serviced a couple of 201’s. Truly a wonderful machine. I have to do with a Echocord, which is great, but no 201.
This was not a retrospective about the Roland Echoplex. It was thoroughly touching time capsule of the memory you cherish of your father, AP. What you have shared service to_why I not only became a guitar player (since my father nudged me in that direction) but also why I don’t intend on ever letting go of two of my own synthesizers if I can avoid it, both of which have direct lines of connection both my father and his own father.
That was one of your best videos. Well done! Definitely could imagine this being a new series for you. One of the pieces of equipment that's quickly become one of my favourites is the pretty affordable Surfybear Classic spring reverb. There wasn't any equipment like this around the family. But what really helped me is when a family friend moved back from London, late 90s post Summer of Love. With a huge record collection. Everything from all the Rephlex, Warp back catalogue (Aphex, u-Ziq, Squarepusher), to all the great Detroit and German techno and tons of Jungle records, including dub plates. I spent many hours listening, and taping my favourites. And wore those tapes out listening repeatedly.
Okay. That was a lovely story. All the respect to your father, may he rest in peace. And I have always liked the Roland Space Echo, even before I knew that's what it was.
I'm born in 79 (soon to be 46yo), and my dad was a musician (organist/keyboardist). We had at home a Hammond B3 + Leslie Speaker, which I used for learning to play, a Mini Moog Model D, the Roland Space Echo RE-201, and I personally had a Fender Twin Reverb and a Gibson Les Paul Custom from my uncle, that had to stop playing guitar because of arthritis. I'm a guitar player today. From all of this, I only have the Gibson Les Paul Custom guitar. The Space Echo disappeared after a friend loaned it for a project. The Fender Twin Reverb was stolen in a rehearsal room, and the Hammond and Mini Moog, had to be sold for some money, as my dad died in 1996 when I was still 16, and we didn't have anything. We sold the flat we lived in, the car (a little Renault 5), etc...
The RE-201 was one of the first hardware devices I ever owned. Traded it with a friend for an original TB-303 in the mid 90's. Meanwhile the TB-303 is not original anymore, but fitted with an aluminium case and Devilfish modification. There's still moments that I miss the Space Echo, but the 303 gave me so much throughout the years, it is for me the device that I would never sell or trade for anything. But running the Devilfish through the Space Echo would be something special that would be as special as hanging out with my dad for another night to play chess. Sadly he passed away early June this year. Thanks for bringing up these memories again and congrats to that Space Echo.
I so love that this is about a thing, but so much more. I love and miss my father so much, and can tell that you do too. They are always with us though. On our shoulder, as I like to say. Best.
As a budding synth enthusiast, I’ve watched and enjoyed this unique channel for all the oft reported reasons. But I also see how you (Florian) have started to transcend the original YT channel theme to take on a personal nature: “Bad Gear” seems like a genuine friend now, humming over these internet wires. So.. on we’ll go, a loose knit community of synth folks, resisting the paradox of GAS, and enjoying the music and jams all the more, amid the irony and humility and wild meme humor!
Not only was it a great review, it was a work of art. From wording to every little pieces of interior. I love how Florian finds a way to inject some much-needed high culture into the usually sweaty, bearded world of Dawless idiosyncrasies. This episode was a work of art as well. Wow. Bro, I've said it before and I'll say it again - these videos should be in a museum of internet art. P.S. I can see how hard it was for you to say those words about your dad. Bro i felt that. Been there. Thank you Florian.
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Same. I had think about my father immediately after his words. He also already passed away in 2017, after many years with severe health-problems. But I really miss the time we'd spend together. No friendship could ever replace the connection we've had. So.... I feel with you Florian!
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Came here to say this
That was a beautiful and touching tribute to your father. Much love
Thank you so much!!!
My father and i don't talk . Happy for Audiopilz
For my father I haven’t exist for over 40 years now…
What a beautiful legacy he left you, and indirectly, us! Thanks for sharing
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"Only one more evening"... I started crying there...
Your dad is proud of you AudioPilz, I swear to God.
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I'm listening to this episode at work. Tears in my eyes.
That got me too :*(
I love Bad Gear, but I'm also digging these new experiments in format and topic. It was very special getting to see a different side of you, thanks for opening up your memories for us. I'd love to see more videos with this kind of narrative take from you, I think you hit it out of the park. Thanks for such a great video and a heartwarming personal story.
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+1 wanted to leave the same sort of comment but you nailed it
@@darwiniandude +2!!
@@AudioPilz agree with OP, thx for spreading your wings some, the results are good!
@AudioPilz Yes, do more origin story! Extra points for including another vintage photograph! 🙂
Lovely echoes from the past ❤
Thank you, Ziv!!!
Storytime: I had my son slapping on musical keyboards at two months old. Excited, I told my mom. Surprised, she tells me, my father did the same thing with me. About six months later, my father sent me numerous baby pictures I'd never seen. One is a picture of me on his lap at two months old, playing a keyboard. I look at the picture, astonished. It's the same keyboard I had my son playing (Casio VL Tone, released in 1979). I coincidently bought it right before my son was born. Unknowingly, I had a calling and history with it that I never knew. My father and I are more alike than I ever knew.
Wow, great story! Thanks for sharing!
I didn't give you permission to make me feel things! I lost my dad 2 years ago. Lifelong musician, director, teacher. I inherited all his gear. While his gear is more folk oriented, I still find reasons to use it and think of him every time I do. Loved this story. Thank you for telling it.
Thank you!!! I feel your loss. Lots of acoustical instruments here too - used his Viennese guitar in the Tracker Mini episode for some sampling experiments...
Wasn’t expecting to get an emotional experience from this channel, wowwwwww
Thank you for sharing! What an incredible story
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A wonderful tribute to your father, his gear, & his ‘gear’…
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Yeah! I thought the same! 🤗
Florian quickly becoming the best content on YT, beautiful story, beautiful tribute to your father and one of the most beautiful delays out there. What a treat man, thank you.
Thank you so much!!!❤️
Loved this. As someone who has a terrible relationship with my father, I can’t help but feel envious and yet also appreciative that there are dads out there who try to guide and influence with patience and love. That’s a cherished piece of gear indeed and I hope it continues to provide much joy. I hope I can end up being at least a little like your father to my own three kids who are starting out on their musical journeys now. Thanks for sharing this Florian, it made for a welcome side quest from the Bad Gear series.
You seem to be a great parent, all the best!!!
My dad was the same. He used the money he just got from a job to buy me a JV-80 and such. He just wanted to see me happy. He passed away in 2005. He was my best friend.
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You won the parents lottery.
@@treetopjones737 My dad was one of those men who was a dad to all my friends as well. The biggest heart.
Man, this is easily my favorite video of yours. Excellent story telling and a touching story at that. Beautiful stuff. ❤
Thank you so much!!!
In 1989 I was 8, when my dad gave me his sh101, this started my adventure in music making.
He also shared with me his love for music, made me discover so much bands, took me to lots of music shows.
Same as you, he was a father, and a friend, the kind of person we could talk about life and everything for hours.
He suddenly died 20 years ago at the age of 42. I miss him since this day, and this sh101 is the only material thing from him that I could keep. But there will always be magic souvenirs left.
So your story touched me a lot, and believe me, I totally understand.
Thanks a lot Florian for sharing with us this sincere and beautiful story ❤
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Such a great story. I grew up in Scotland with a rugged Scottish boxing Dad union leader and English rose pianist mum. Dad won, and I became a local council consultant, but mum's music never left me. She had an upright piano like Paul McCartney and I learned to play and listen to the sustain pedal sounds on that beautiful instrument. In my 20s I rebelled for a few years and found myself in Nottingham with Cubase V1, and Atari ST and a Korg, rolling funny cigarettes and playing guitar with my first delay pedal. Those sounds still haunt me today, all gear later stolen by my sisters' then abusive boyfriend. Now I live in New Zealand and at 54 I'm recreating these memories using a stereo memory man as a space echo. It turns bleeps and bloops into chambered resonances that resonate. I honour your father, he gave you space to bring your own creativity forward. Thank you to him and you both.
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Such a fantastic way to remember your dad by keeping his gear close to your hands and heart. He sounds like a wonderful man 🩶
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That's a proper tribute. My own dad passed in 2015 and I have no words for how much I miss him. Now, if you'll excuse me, I think there's something in my eye...
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I lost my mother earlier this year, and her weird old kurzweil synth-piano-thing has been swiftly upgraded from baroque oddity to family heirloom. I really love that you made this, it means a lot to me.
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Bro. The music you made on the Space Echo was so perfectly fitting for the device. Absolutely devine.
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3:40 King Tubby & Scientist would be proud.
Thanks for sharing such a personal story. Your dad sounds awesome.
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Damn man. As a dad myself, eager for my son to get into the gear world, that last bit got me like a knockout punch. Didn't see it coming. Beautiful moment.
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Memories are pretty much echoes on a tape...with an intensity and repeat rate as strong as the experiences we share with our loves ones.
Maybe that's what makes delays and reverb effects so appealing, just our own self reflection on them.
Thanks for the "gear change" and the personal involvement, this one was truly special.
I heard a wonderful interview with Les Paul in 2008 as I passed through Georgia. He talked about his first electric guitar, which was made out of a piece railroad track, and talked about the sustain... and the back pain... lol
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This was a really touching tribute to your dad, and my condolences on his passing. Mine passed three years ago and I credit him for introducing me to the joys of audio gear and recording. I still have his old Ampex reel to reel sitting here in my studio. It was the very first piece of gear I learned to use at the tender age of 4 and somewhere in a box there are no doubt still some reel tapes of my earliest experiments. Thank you.
Oh Florian that was lovely. My dad taught me how to play guitar, and every time I go home he blasts my first demo over his (considerable) HiFi system. I'm not sure he knows how often I listen to *his* songs, though.
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tell him!
The Pilz--OMC, I didn't have to paws a million times to watch the gearz video. I feel like someone left out the cat-nip, and transported me to another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind--a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space, and as timeless as infinity...
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Loved the history lesson about the gear and your father. The times where you've mention 'delay' and 'echo' features of a piece of gear have a different meaning now. 🙏
We'll call this one an episode of "Good Gear"
Thank you so much!!!😀😀😀
My (late) father, who was actually an accordion player, provided me with the Watkins Copicat which I used in my heavily distorted techno live sets back in the days. After my sets people always came to see and ask what the F was that crazy feedback effect :D Now I have the Boss RE-20 pedal which I really love. The Copicat is still in the family. My brother has restored it and is using it.
Man, your work is so important! And this episod especially
Thank you so much!!!
I've got Dad's cymbals down here. We shared them because I never seemed to be professional when he was and vice versa. And while he was never into the sort of tobacco one might share recreationally, I'm listening to his last 2022 performance I recorded in his living room shortly before his death. Played himself out at his own funeral to Fleetwood Mac's Don't Stop; did a shuffle better than Fleetwood himself. RIP Dad, and sorry for your loss too x
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This is, quite probably, the best you video you have ever made. It's absolutely fantastic, and you're already one of the few channels where I watch every video that comes out.
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The tenderness in your presentation here is warmly welcomed. It's refreshing and touching in equal measure. I still thoroughly enjoy your alternative anti-superhero stance in Bad Gear, but the positivity and good energy here is encouraging and inspiring. Keep it up young fellow!
Thank you so much, Robin!!! Very happy to hear that!!!
Wonderful episode. You're human, finally XD
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I'm here for this Good Gear stuff. Whole different vibe from bad gear, with time to explore a classic 70s sound design box, and you don't need to pause every 1.3 seconds to read and decode the heavy memes of Bad Gear. Great stuff.
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This episode really moved the needle for this channel. Awesome story!
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My father died in the 90s when I was 13. From him I have his ovation breadwinner, jupiter 4, sh2000, sh1000 (all three synths in desperate need of service and currently under sheets) and a TEAC 3340s which has been the centerpiece of everything in my studio forever. Im going to pull the ovation out tonight i think.
Great collection!
What a lovely story. I inherited just one thing from my dad - a banjo that I am committed to one day learning to play. He also once wrote me a letter, including the advice to "Leave no turn unstoned." Which is much easier than learning banjo!
Turning stones and playing banjo goes hand in hand;) Thank you!!!
«Cripple Creek» is a nice place to begin if you want to start out with the three-finger roll. As played by Earl Scruggs.
@@Vingul Thanks bruv - I have a fairly broad base of musical knowledge, but didn't recognise about half of your message - I'm guessing it's banjo related? I have much to learn!
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@@jimlampshady O yes, Cripple Creek is a bluegrass standard. Earl Scruggs is often credited with «inventing» or at least popularising the three-finger roll, which allowed banjoists to play really fast in that famous bluegrass style. As opposed to the «clawhammer» style for instance. Scruggs played the banjo in Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys, the band that gave the name to the genre. He fell out with Monroe but became a legend in his own right, and together with Lester Flatt, as «Flatt & Scruggs» - they recorded a version of Cripple Creek as a duo as well. You might have heard their rendition of «Foggy Mountain Breakdown», it was used in the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde, classic car chase music, lol.
I could ramble on but that oughta do it.
My dad has a one of a kind 1962 Fender Jazz Bass which I learned to play on. I always say it's like learning to play bass on Excalibur. We still get together and jam every now and again, and that bass is still played and taken care of regularly by both of us. I don't think I would be the musician I am today without my dad's influence or that bass.
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Love this format. Love that emotional soft key change! Thank you for sharing such a great family story!
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I know where one of these can be bought for about $2500. The guy who owns it opened it up and let me watch the tape crawl around. It is the coolest damn thing. Genius in its simplicity.
I was born the same year these became available... honored!
Fun Fact for any Dub Heads out there. King Tubby built all the equipment in Lee "Scratch" Perry's Black Ark Studio all but his Re-201 Space Echo
1974 FTW!!!
I got my space echo in the late 2000s:
I was a teenager and went to a flea market, an old lady was selling some stuff and there I saw it in all of it‘s green, black and silver glory… a Roland RE 201. I didn’t quite know what it actually was but I knew a lot of people online said it was good and sought after. I approached her and asked her, what she wanted for it and she said „I don’t really know what this is, but around 100€?“.
I knew it was a good deal but being a teenager I didnt have that money. I literally had all my birthday‘s money with me (around 70€) and told her that this is all I could give her. She happily agreed, and I carried it home being happy. It‘s a staple in my music production since then.
Nice personal story about the RE-201 and your dad. More vids like this please! I used to own a Chorus Echo RE-501, but without the backstory (I just got it second hand online), but eventually sold it because my OCD went berserk with tape sticking and wearing out. But those Space Echoes are magical devices for sure, and no emulation nails them yet.
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I love this new style of video and what a wonderful story about your dad - I wish someday my children will appreciate my gear in the same way. Everyone who has lost their father can't fail to be touched and agree with your closing sentiments. You've really showed your human side here. Keep expanding your repetoaire - you've plenty of it left!
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I love the type-setting desk!
The OG
Great equipment and great story! Also love the way you filmed the episode!
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now, this video totally got my attention! Not just because of the RE-201 but the whole story behind it. Beautiful
Thank you so much!!!
@@AudioPilz btw your videos are always good to watch, well made too!
That was beautiful. Thank you
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Dear Florian,
First of all, I want to thank you for each Friday's episode. There are some I’ve watched a thousand times (I think my favorite is the one about FL Studio, even though it’s not hardware).
This episode really touched my heart because my father, who passed away in 2017, was also my mentor in music. The first instruments and audio gear I had access to were thanks to him-a music and technology lover, a curious and studious person. I still keep a LOWREY LS30 keyboard that I use to teach MIDI to my students since it still works perfectly and can be used as a controller, even now in 2024. But without a doubt, the equivalent of the space echo in my life is the Technics 1200 mk2 turntable, and like you, I wouldn’t trade it for anything if it meant having one more moment with him. Someday, I would love to invite you to one of the live streams I host on my channel.
Sending lots of love from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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I don't know if they used the Roland but the break on The Chemical Brothers Setting Sun with the tape delay blew everyone away back in the day
I'd like to know too
The back story is even warmer and more genuine than the sound of the Space Echo. For me, heaven would be having a father to share magic tobacco and endlessly laughing our ass off watching Bad Gear video's. Thank you, Florian.
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That was the most wholesome and touching teenage miscreant stoner shenanigans turns into quality family bonding time stories I have ever heard.
Finding your first tape echo,and your first accidental weed at the same time, must have been absolutely surreal and mind blowing. To be honest after such an experience ,i am surprised you didnt end up into Dub Reggae or Stoner rock.
Your dad sounds like an amazing man, and I am grateful he raised a man like you .
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First time I heard Dubstep I was asked why I was grinning.
It felt so familiar, the laws of dub as laid down by Space Echo.
Especially early UK dubstep!
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Did Florian just tell us about the first time he got high?
indeed he did!!!
First time?
@@AudioPilz I do recall you said dreadlocks..... What were we thinking?
I appreciate that you shared this! It did make me wonder how these relationships resonate thorough life. Surprisingly, I too have a story with a dad (mine) and a space echo, the only thing different being story’s content. My father is, among other things, a terrible hoarder, to the point that the stacks of more or less valuable gear make up a dungeon in his apartment. He once flexed saying ‘and oh, I got a space echo somewhere here’. I have never seen it. The end
@ 4:30.............You......you had HAIR ?!?!?!?!?!?
Massive amounts;)
There is so much heart & soul in this video, I had to come back & give this more props 👌 it's been a tough week & we need more media like this in our lives.
Thank you so much!!! All the best!
Everybody needs a «Space Echo».
You can say that again :)
Absolutely!!!
As a relatively new dad to 4 year old twin boys I always wonder and hope that one day, and following lots of gentle encouragement, they will take to music and my collection of synths, samplers and outboard I've been collection for the past 28 years. Your video is very touching and gives me hope that one day my sons, like you, feel the same and find as much enjoyment in music and gear (good or bad) that I have throughout my life. I think your dad would be very proud and overjoyed that you share a love inspired through him ☺
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This time, unlike usual, instead of commenting on a video, I’d like to recommend a UA-cam channel to all audio gear enthusiasts: Stu's Technicolour Musical Bong™.
Despite health challenges, the creator of this channel is finding his way in beautiful, atmospheric, and slightly melancholic music. Great gear, excellent skills, remarkable musical sensitivity… and zero audience. I truly don’t understand it, and I’d be very grateful if you could support this gentleman with kind words and maybe even a subscription to his channel. Cheers!
Great recommendation, thanks!!!
My dad gave me my first Synth which was the Korg Ms2000R, which I still use to this day. This is also why I hounded you to do the Bad Gear on it as soon as I found your channel!
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F!rst!
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@mikeP6 Sorry bro, try again next week ;)
@@AudioPilz Love the video, great story!
That was a very touching personal story my friend. Thanks for sharing that. My dad was a tenor and when he came to Perth Australia, the tatooine of earth in the 60"s he bought this big ol' echo machine thing I guess you could call it. I was told people used to think he was lip syncing cause they thought the device was a tape player. I remember the machine cause he disregarded it in the 70's and I being a young kid used it to play rocket ships with it. It was a huge thing with lots of knobs and switches or maybe it seems that way to a young mind lol. It did have a tape mechanism of some sort. In the 80's I used it's nice wooden exterior to house my Atari 2600,, controllers and it had this wooden slot down the side that was the perfect size to store the cartridges.
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This was a touching tribute. Thanks for sharing. I feel the same way for another day with my father.
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Most heartwarming episode yet, I'm sure there is a story behind that dog too.
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Loved it, very emotional too . Dads, artists and others are often the reason we got so inspired as kids
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What a great story Florian and a lovely tribute. I love the space echo, I remember seeing one hooked up to a CB radio in the 80s, crazy stuff! As amazing as it is I couldn't help be fascinated by the collection of printing blocks! I used to work at a printers in the 90s, its so cool to see some real old school blocks.
Thanks!!! That's my father's stuff
Beautiful tribute to two legends. Your dear dad & his space echo.
His memory will echo forever ♥️
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family history gear is good gear. Regardless of the gear.
Funny enough, my dad's equivalent piece of family history gear is a Lexicon Alex. I use my beloved Alesis Wegde now, instead. My dad managed to lose the Alex while moving a few years back.
The piece of gear is gone but my dad is still here. I am endlessly grateful for this 🙏
Your dad sounds like a great man. Thank you for sharing the touching story. Beautiful video.
Thank you!!! Alesis Wedge is great!!!
After several years of showing no interest in music my 15yo son suddenly volunteered to learn to play the bass. It's excellent quality time and very similar to when my Dad taught me my first 3 chords on the guitar when I was 16.
Sad to hear your Dad has passed on. He has clearly done a good job on you. Raise a glass to the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
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Much love and respect to a father and a son.
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Your dad sounds like he was truly one of a kind. I’m so sorry to hear of his passing. Maybe, in this vast universe, we’re all like echoes from a Roland Space Echo-repeating, fading, but never really gone. And one day, as you reach that next playback head, you’ll feel his presence again, clear and familiar.
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That was touching tribute to your dad and I'm so sorry for your loss
Das ist eine wunderbare Geschichte über ein wirklich schönes Gerät. Ich habe meinen Vater (der fließend Deutsch spricht) vor etwa 10 Jahren ebenfalls verloren und verstehe Ihre Gefühle. Danke, dass Sie ein Teil unseres Lebens in Sachen elektronische Musik sind.
Vielen Dank!!!
Lovely story. Not family-related but when one of the founders at my wife’s theater retired he gave me the gear he used to soundtrack their plays in the 1970s, including an RE-301. It really is a special machine plus it has all those decades of artist mojo soaked in.
Nice!!! Thanks!
Awesome tribute, and definitely an awesome thing to have to remember him by. Been itching for a Space Echo lately.
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What a profoundly beautiful and moving video. It brought me to tears. Thank you for sharing.
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My dad also passed away in 2016. He was a piano nerd and just the last couple of years I became a synth and electronic music nerd. I also would love to hang out with him for one evening so I could show him what I have learned. ❤
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A beautiful story 😢 great jams
Best episode ever! As a somewhat new dad myself, my oldest just turned 3, you had me tear up at the end.
I serviced a couple of 201’s. Truly a wonderful machine. I have to do with a Echocord, which is great, but no 201.
Echocords are awesome!!! Thanks❤️
I was fun to see you performing ! And in an unusual setting! cheers! MD
Thank you!!!
Holy Crap! It has been 11 years since my dad passed. I still think about him everyday. I miss him and my old mean drunk Granny.
RAD SIR!
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What a moving tribute to your father! I hope the RE201 conjures many more years of joy and memories!
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You hit me right in the heart bro.
I also lost my dad in 2016 and have had that same thought. I would give anything to have one more day with him.
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Right in the feels. Much love, Florian.
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This was not a retrospective about the Roland Echoplex. It was thoroughly touching time capsule of the memory you cherish of your father, AP. What you have shared service to_why I not only became a guitar player (since my father nudged me in that direction) but also why I don’t intend on ever letting go of two of my own synthesizers if I can avoid it, both of which have direct lines of connection both my father and his own father.
Man, you utterly slay with your video creation!
Yeah, I'd swap all my synths for a hug from my mum!
much love
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That was one of your best videos. Well done! Definitely could imagine this being a new series for you. One of the pieces of equipment that's quickly become one of my favourites is the pretty affordable Surfybear Classic spring reverb. There wasn't any equipment like this around the family. But what really helped me is when a family friend moved back from London, late 90s post Summer of Love. With a huge record collection. Everything from all the Rephlex, Warp back catalogue (Aphex, u-Ziq, Squarepusher), to all the great Detroit and German techno and tons of Jungle records, including dub plates. I spent many hours listening, and taping my favourites. And wore those tapes out listening repeatedly.
Es macht einfach unglaublich Spass Dir zuzuhören.
Vielen Dank!!!
Okay. That was a lovely story. All the respect to your father, may he rest in peace. And I have always liked the Roland Space Echo, even before I knew that's what it was.
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Your best video yet. As a fellow old man, the slower pace was fab and I'm not too proud to admit your touching words brought a tear to my eye.
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As a parent, I find this inspiring.
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I'm born in 79 (soon to be 46yo), and my dad was a musician (organist/keyboardist). We had at home a Hammond B3 + Leslie Speaker, which I used for learning to play, a Mini Moog Model D, the Roland Space Echo RE-201, and I personally had a Fender Twin Reverb and a Gibson Les Paul Custom from my uncle, that had to stop playing guitar because of arthritis. I'm a guitar player today.
From all of this, I only have the Gibson Les Paul Custom guitar. The Space Echo disappeared after a friend loaned it for a project. The Fender Twin Reverb was stolen in a rehearsal room, and the Hammond and Mini Moog, had to be sold for some money, as my dad died in 1996 when I was still 16, and we didn't have anything. We sold the flat we lived in, the car (a little Renault 5), etc...
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The RE-201 was one of the first hardware devices I ever owned. Traded it with a friend for an original TB-303 in the mid 90's.
Meanwhile the TB-303 is not original anymore, but fitted with an aluminium case and Devilfish modification.
There's still moments that I miss the Space Echo, but the 303 gave me so much throughout the years,
it is for me the device that I would never sell or trade for anything.
But running the Devilfish through the Space Echo would be something special that would be as special as hanging out with my dad for another night to play chess.
Sadly he passed away early June this year. Thanks for bringing up these memories again and congrats to that Space Echo.
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I so love that this is about a thing, but so much more. I love and miss my father so much, and can tell that you do too. They are always with us though. On our shoulder, as I like to say. Best.
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As a budding synth enthusiast, I’ve watched and enjoyed this unique channel for all the oft reported reasons. But I also see how you (Florian) have started to transcend the original YT channel theme to take on a personal nature: “Bad Gear” seems like a genuine friend now, humming over these internet wires. So.. on we’ll go, a loose knit community of synth folks, resisting the paradox of GAS, and enjoying the music and jams all the more, amid the irony and humility and wild meme humor!
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Not only was it a great review, it was a work of art. From wording to every little pieces of interior. I love how Florian finds a way to inject some much-needed high culture into the usually sweaty, bearded world of Dawless idiosyncrasies. This episode was a work of art as well. Wow. Bro, I've said it before and I'll say it again - these videos should be in a museum of internet art.
P.S. I can see how hard it was for you to say those words about your dad. Bro i felt that. Been there. Thank you Florian.
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Thank you so much for sharing such a beautiful memory. That was so deeply moving and a wonderful tribute! ❤
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I’ve been watching bad gear since the start and I love your channel, but this one was from the heart - your dad would be so proud. 👍🏼
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