Bad Gear - Boss DR-3 Dr. Rhythm - Doctor Getting Worse???
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- Опубліковано 26 лис 2020
- Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world's most hated audio tools. Today we are going to talk about the Boss DR-3 Dr. Rhythm digital drum machine. We liked (most of) its predecessors but is this more recent model any good? Is the doctor getting worse?
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Voted for you immediately! So glad to see you get some well-earned recognition!
You've got my vote - Good luck!
Voted for the “sonic mushroom” 😉
Thanks for the link, you just got my vote - love the humour, info' and it's all educational too, keep up the great work !
Good Luck bro.
You're definitely gonna win personality of the year!
Let's hope for the best (very prominent nominees) Thanks for your support!
if he doesn’t, it will have been a robbery.
The jokes and delivery are on point
Unfortunately it's unlikely since he has so few subscribers to vote for him.
Half the reason I watch this show is just to see what crazy sub-sub genre of electronic music he’s going to showcase... and he never lets me down 🤣
We need more Robodance in the charts!
I screenshot every one of 'em so's I can remember 'em :D
"There's a cowbell in it too" Sold.
I'll take two!
The thing that this series made me want more than anything is not Bad Gear, but in fact the unified currency of dollareuropound.
All hail the Global Union.
World peace through gear!
Truly terrible, so absolutely perfect.
You should definitely win the award. I'll wote for you.
Thanks!
@@AudioPilz Oh... My other favourite synth guy is here... I feel like I'm cheating on one of you... 😯😂😬
Everybody knows Geert Van Schlänger is the music tech personality of the decade. There is no competition.
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I gigged with this for over 10 years. It worked like a dream for this piano bar entertainer. More punchy and fat sounding than the Alesis SR-16/SR-18 . I did however mute the bass part and used the bass sounds on my Motif and Roland RD pianos. The song/user style section was good for making gig lists. I had structured it so that I had four sets of songs ready, and I had the first 3 user styles as general-purpose ones to be able to requests on the fly - even mid-song, which the fill to new style undocumented feature does amazingly.
This was probably the intended use. Great to hear it worked for you
Mine finally went to drum machine heaven yesterday. I always thought it was a good machine. I wished there were more bass voices, but it was a pretty reliable unit overall. I've got an Alesis 18 on order. Hopefully that will work out.
it seems like it would be really fun to jam with tbh
Glad you voted for Nick, he was your only competition for my vote. Naturally I voted for you bro 👊
Very kind of you! Thanks!
Definitely got my vote, my favourite new YT channel of the year.
Thank you so much!
Best thing of 2020
I should add that I love that it is awailable every Friday at 5pm.
I’m Dr Rhythm and my prescription is more preset basslines
The Doctor's in!
Let me add, why I look forward to watching your episodes: I work with Covid-19 patients, I listen to them and yes, shit has hit the fan for many in many ways, losing their jobs and worse, losing their lives. So after a long day at work, I plug my 2013 Apple wired earplugs into my now ancient iPhone 6 and relax with your funny, educational and pleasing visually videos. Thank you my friend and I hope you win this contest!
Thanks! That's a heartwarming comment. Stay strong, my friend!
As an amateur guitarist and past open mic host, this little unit has served me well but I only ever used the drum function with the recommended dual footswitch. For that kind of use, the unit is absolutely fantastic and is still going strong after many years. Being able to trigger the fill while paying through the beat pattern transitions is a lot of fun and the unit sounds pretty acceptable through an amp. Great for guitarists and keyboard players. I feel that I've had my money's worth out of this little unit many times over. A great review though by a highly technical reviewer, which I found very interesting. Informative and a lot of fun to watch. Thank you for a great post.
This Doctor Mix is getting worse and worse
Rhythm, it's Dr. Rhythm... ;)
That was some of the most translucent shade I've seen dished out in a while 😦
🤣
@AudioPilz Jokes aside man congratulations. As I understand it you are in one list with the twenty best tech youtubers. Meaning probably in all of social media...?
This is really good and a nice affirmation. 🥳👍
Doctor who?
This is a drum machine for the solo live performing musicians, it can’t be compared to modern drum machines since all of modern drum machines are mostly made for production or electronic music and not for live performance, this one is in its own category, I love having 3 variations with 3 fills at the touch of a button plus intro and and ending buttons, I own 2 and use them to play live, I play in bars and restaurants and this baby works awesome for that, I wish Roland made more advance version of this one that would allow me to save the data and transfer it to a second drum machine or to have a backup, to this date I have not seen another drum machine that would be this easy to use during a live performance sometimes improvising songs that the audience asks me to play if anyone knows of another please replay and let me know :-)
Have you tried the DR-880? Seems to be a nice package!
I loved that bass filter sweep.
Thanks! It was EXTREMELY difficult to get the levels right
You should do a "best of" Bad Gear Easter eggs video. I know I miss a lot of them, so I'd love to have you point some of the best of them out.
Thanks for the input. I thought about that but different people like different easter eggs. Maybe an easter egg voting?
Cuts to clip of public lavatory, i am crying
Not exactly a Lexicon ;)
The first rule of dawless jamming is to never stop talking about dawless jamming.
It can be truly liberating to make electronic music without a computer (but talking about feels great, too;)
Congrats on the nomination!!! I say it is well deserved, and we're all pulling for you here!
Thanks! We are already one step further ;)
Thanks for another great video! These boxes really were so bad, bit I really want one of those, 'Press here to start!' stickers for some reason.
Thanks! "Press here to start!" - stickers coming soon as merch!
Congrats on the nomination. Your channel and Hainbach are two of my favorite channels. These are the two I watch as soon as I can.
Happy to hear that! Hainbach is great!
Thanks for reminding me to vote for Nick, he really is great isn't he?
Haha, not really. You're my very favourite Austrian music technology comedian on UA-cam ❤️
Thanks! ❤️Nick❤️
Every week i am amazed again deeply by the amount of work you put into making this videos presenting the world (more or less) crappy gear. I am also very much looking forward every week to your next video
Thank you so much!
Congrats on the nomination! Edit: holy cow that green screen footage channel is killer! Thanks for posting the link! Also that guitar tune was killer, super punchy sounds
Thank you! Yeah, those guys are phenomenal
Congratulations on being nominated my friend! Awesome content!
Thank you!
Just wanted to let you know that I love LOVE all the details you put in your videos! like the toilet picture when mentioning reverb, the cowbell in ending and all the other gimmicks 😄
Hope you're doing well during the curfew!
Also is the sound louder than usual? 🙃
Thanks! I usually try to stay at the same level but the internal processing of the DR-3 makes it sound louder than other gear
it sounds just GREAT!Powerful,punchy,mix-ready drums
..I only use the preset tones in my DAW for recording...so I don't have to fight with the menues etc.
now the DR-880 is on the way...which is a monster!
I love your demos...very creative and musical...and the DR-3 sounds fabulous in your set up!
Thank you!!!
I asked my wife to vote or she could listen to me (try to) explain how FM synthesis work... She promptly voted.
You're a good husband! Thanks to both of you!
I put in my vote for ya!
Gear suggestion. Ensoniq ASR-X. Great sampler, and effects. terrible terrible sequencing problems from midi lag to choking on fx changes.
Love the vids. Keep up the good work.
Thanks! Great input!
Another fun video. Great show. Perfect timings and setup, you have my vote.
With a keyboard like Roland E-80 you had a fill down and more options, curious what you can do with this kind of models.
Thanks! Wow, those Roland E models look ugly. I'll take a closer look!
Btw. Please check my UA-cam channel if you need inspiration. I am not a really good player but i just try something. I cant sell my g8 and e-80 because you dont have something else for the money if you look at the options.
I bet someone got a bonus for thinking of that "Press here to start" sticker pointing to the "START" button ... thanks for pointing it out!
I think it was their last resort;)
The best part of whatever day these are uploaded on!
Happy to hear that!
I hope you win! They should have a funniest category, you'd win that every year!
Yeezy 4 president!
no other online music tech personality makes bad gear sound good. you got my vote!
PS will you do another bad gear jam when you win?
THANKS! ATM it's a bit difficult to find nice locations around here bc of winter and lockdown but I will have to find a way
@@AudioPilz you're the best!
Finally... another Friday and some more bad gear.
Thank god it's Friday!
A friend gave me this piece of gear.
Although I can’t operate the Apollo 13 rocket, or a submarine by myself, I *do* know how to push the “start here” button.
They wanted to make sure that everyone gets it😅
At first I had this mixed up with the Dr. Beat and was confused LOL
That last track was really neat! Now I want to hear more of yall's music from your band!
Thanks! Aren't those the Metronomes?
I hope you win it mate there's a lot of great channels, yours being one but your sense of humour is unrivalled haha. I can't watch one of your videos without pissing myself at least once to something you've slipped in in the cleverest of ways. Haha keep it up amigo
Thank you so much!
@@AudioPilz Same here, it's a rare video I don't find myself laughing out loud. Great delivery and pace, vote given :D
Oh, and the cowbell!!!
good video, as always! Always amazed how you get results with a maschine like this.. bravo!
I have an old
"Yamaha FB-01" sitting at home because I talked to a pretty known techno producer who used it in one of this more known tracks.
I never figured out how to get a "evil and bleepy" techno sound out of it but maybe the FB-01 is a good device for BadGear because it is a programming nightmare (imo)..
Thanks! That one is a hot contestant!
@@AudioPilz Would love to see this one :)
Congratulations on your nomination! Well deserved!
Thanks!
You are the only synths person I keep watching. You did so well mate.
Thank you so much!
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The black and white crowd cheering on the 20th century tv 👌👌👌 some classic video edits
Thanks!
The opening shot was priceless 🤣. More, please.
Thanks! More to come!
This really is a bad gear; looks boring, hard-to-read screen, hard-to-use sequencer. I don't consider DR-550 series as a bad gear at all, but DR-3 is just so bad...
This one is really a step back!
Nah. It's y'all. Not the gear. Fact.
I had already voted for you long before this video, I thought you were keeping it low-key 😂 Please do the Behringer Swing next, I bet it would tick all of Arturia's boxes!
Thanks for voting! I have to admit that I only found out because of a comment here on the channel;)
Great vid !! Hope to see a vid on The Yamaha SU200 ✌️😄
Thanks! Already searching for one!
Absolutely you deserve it. You put in the work congratulation
👏👍this channel is incredible for beat freaks & gear heads
Thanks!
Hahahaaaa Yo you had me with the "Animal Rights Advocacy" the "cow bell" hit was just OVERKILL !!!!! 😂 😂 😂
😀😀😀 thanks!
i have my DR-3 here since 2015 or something and i just found out that TSC stands for total sonic corruption thanks!
It's in the manual;)
Great content, hopefully you win the award
Thank you so much! Let's hope for the best!
You have way too much fun making these videos :)
Don't tell anyone;)
Yup, I've got one and for a while video tutorials for this unit were the most viewed videos on my channels. Gigged with it couple of times. It was great, especially with the ability to switch patterns with a foot switch. Also I used to dump drum and bass parts from my daw to the dr3 via midi. That's simple. The only con I can come up with is the lack of electronic hats. Only acoustic ones and it sucks!
Sending the parts over from the daw via midi is a great idea. I will use it in a future episode! Thanks!
Glückwunsch zur Nominierung! This vid is amazing. Very cool FX. By the way: never heard of this machine before. :-)
Besten Dank!
@6:12 - great sounding jam!
Thanks!
Heck yes!!! Now you gotta do an episode on the Dr Samples (boss sp-202).
The Doctors are in!
Take two placebos and call me tomorrow!
I love my DR-3. Just got to learn how to use it. Great Video.
Thanks!
I use a DR-3 a fair bit. I set up my own user kit (you have to vol balance all the different samples as you mentioned) and a user 'soundshape' EQ and just control it via midi. I like a lot of the drum samples, and the bass samples can be fun for cheese and retro stuff.
Agreed! What nagged me is that they had nailed it (at least) 15 years before and got sloppy with this one
Voted for you. There are some great channels in the list. If I want to learn the ins and outs of a particular synth right down to what it smells like and how many screws it has I visit Loopop. But if I want obscure 80s and 90s references that make me laugh my ass off your bad gear reviews never fail! Good luck.
Thank you so much!
Awesome video, as usual! You've got my vote.
Thank you so much!
At 1st i thought it was about the overly enthousiastic Dr Mix getting worse in his enthousiasm 😏 Great video editing.
Dr. Mix is a great performer! Thanks!
That's... Coming up! Haha, Dr Mix is cool, sure he's got some crazy energy but he knows his stuff and man he can play!
@@GODZINACOMA101 I didn't mean it in a bad way, but he can get exited over i dunno, a basic midi connector :)
@@XHALE303 it's cool man, I know exactly what you're saying, I haven't watched much of him since he started building the new studio, getting excited about the packaging of light fixtures is a step too far 😂
@@GODZINACOMA101 DIdn't see him in a while either. I loved your ''scratching'' on the Novation. i've performed with Prodigy at the same raves early 90s, reminded me of that, nice & oldschool. Keep it up!
Great Job on the nomination. Does that mean you've got the dough to review the Roland SH-32 now?
Thanks! It's not the Nobel Prize, I think we're all in it for the fame only ;)
ok i died when i saw that high end yamaha djx groovebox
Isn't it high end? ;)
High profile
Video outro features a cowbell. This channel is amazing
Thank you!!!
Man you should win it. As much as I love Nick, you interact with your subscribers more than most others. You have my vote! ... but I digress.
I actually prefer the nostalgic sound of the TR-505 over this.
Thanks!
Congratulations on your nomination and I really hope you win 😁
Thank you!
I love the beneath the planet of the apes meme in the begging 👍🏼
Let's reveal our inmost selves ;)
This year you truly deserve to win this award. Community grows conservative, and needs something new, and your concept is amazing, funny, interesting and new. Like, in capital letters NEW and FRESH.
Thank you so much!
"Keep Power On !" was my signature on forums for years. It appeared on the MC-505.
It would have been more enjoyable to see in a forum then than on the machine ;)
Back when I first was getting into synth hardware, I happened to see this thing sitting on a shelf in an antique shop with my mom for only $50. 15 year old me spending my mother's money didn't think this thing worth even that much money.
I never thought about this damn thing again for YEARS until I discovered your video on it here lol. Glad to know it wasn't just my inexperience that made me think it was bad gear
I think you paid exactly what it was worth ;)
@@AudioPilz not exactly. I remember taking it to a pawn shop to sell and a worker was talking to his buddy about music and he asked me if I made anything on it (clearly not knowing what it was). I showed him a few beats I made and I saw a slight roll in his eye and he said "oh" and went back to talking to his buddy
$50 for a shitty drum machine and a feeling of embarrassment from some pretentious jackasses that's lasted for over a decade 😅
Yep don’t feel bad.
I had same experience when I got my Ensoniq Mirage for 125$.
I was like: b💩tch you work in a music store getting your ears blown out by tossers playing Metallica riffs all day. You haven’t got a clue what good sound is, even😺
A bad workman blames the tools 🤣
Let it be known - I LOVE THIS MAN’S VIDEOS
Thanks, man!
Great vid!
Thank you so much!
i already plugged the DR-5 and Better(?) Gear DR-660 last time and i want to mention them again, but more importantly i'd love to see you explore the alesis QS6/QS7 or another quadrasynth model. when i was 16 making industrial music, all the rich kids online had a kurzweil K2000/ensoniq ASR-10 while a lot of somewhat less affluent kids with supportive parents had the QS6/7. these completely avoided any recognizable musical relevance, yet at one time it seemed they were everywhere. i used one only briefly, but i had the impression that it was pretty legit for a 90s ROMpler. alesis also had the nanosynth and i've often thought about getting one, at least to sample any nice sounds and sell/donate.
Thanks for the input!
I was loaned one when my SR-18 died and at first I thought that this was an unusable dumbed down POS. Then I revisited some tracks I'd recorded with the SR-18 and found that I got perfectly decent drum tracks by using the intro/fill/part buttons. The ambience actually helped the drums to sit in the mixes. But yeah, the UI is crap and you can't seem to tune the samples. I've been using Boss drum machines since the late 80's and this one has the worst sequencing of all of them. Nowadays I write MIDI drum parts directly into Reaper's MIDI editor and I've poached all of the sounds I could out of every drum machine available. That's the best of all worlds.
Agreed, that's the way to go
Great as always. Side note: Do I spot some yellow Reclam-books on your bookshelf? I have them too, from studying German many years ago. :)
Thanks! Cheap education for everyone. Great concept!
Been waiting for the DR-3 :D knew it would come on this show
It had to come! Thanks for your patience!
There was a Dr-202 that seemed aimed as a crossover between the types who'd usually get a Boss drum machine and electronic musicians who couldn't afford to get the Roland MC-whatever. I remember testing one at a crappy instrument store back in tha day (they had one room of keyboards & drum machines, most of their merch was guitars & brass)
Great input! These have become quite costly!
Geile Folge, wie immer !
Korg kaossilator? Mein erster ,,Synthesizer,, 😁
Danke! Kommt schon...
I recently picked up one of these at a cheap price. I'm noodling with DAWless stuff, and my other/previous drum machine is a "Groovesizer", a weird little Arduino-based super lo-fi beep boop machine. Thanks for the great overview; it's a definitely flawed instrument, but useful in its place. (Though I sometimes wonder if I'd have about the same kind of feature-to-aggravation experience with an appropriate Pocket Operator.)
Favorite UA-cam channel.
Thank you!
You are the best! Boss had some great products. Another item I want to see is the tiny handheld from Roland. The PM or PMA with numbers after it or something. It was a portable device to create midi tracks with built in sounds and a monochrome display (just like the Nintendo Game Boy) and it has a touch screen! All that back in 1996!!
Those were "great"! I'd love to find one of those!
@@AudioPilz I couldn’t agree more. They were also affordable. If I found one of these gems, I will buy it. Thanks 🙏 for your kind reply!
You have worked hard to earn that reward! Good luck!
Thanks!
How about a video on the DR670? Love mine and also really like the sequencer for when I don't necessarily want to run stuff through the beatstep pro!
Thanks for the input. I'll take a closer look!
Oh boy, had a Dr550 mkII, a Dr5, now am planning on this Dr3. The generations are such wonder
Yeah, good old doctors;)
@@AudioPilz i wish they kept the tap tempo and leds on the buttons on the dr5
you never bought it and got the 880 years later
It seems like your true love, so terrible - you keep coming back for more. And, you present it well. If I thought I needed a drum machine, I might’ve thought of getting this.
Is Martin the guy whose playing see hear in the intro too?
No, that was my humble playing;)
It’s still good enough for my ears, AP.
U have my vote bro I hope to see you win, this is the best gear channel in UA-cam
Thanks, bro!
Well deserved nomination x up with big guns! Hope you win dude
Thanks!
Boss : Hey we have a line of drum machines that people have been using happily for years , how can we improve it
Customers : Improve the sounds , add memory , maybe with USB
Boss : How about instead we completely change the interface in a way that means days of menu diving and add seriously hokey basslines that sound terrible unless you're playing on a children's TV show .
I think they sold quite a lot of them, paradoxically to non-techie people (according to all the forum posts)
Yeah, the bass voices on this unit left a LOT to be desired. There was only one that I could put to use. Even that one had to be funneled to it's own track so I could process it further.
Voted! These are the episodes I always look forward to watching
Thanks! Happy to hear that
I voted for you, because, even though I like the other performers on the list, your videos are the only ones for which i genuinely get excited.
Thank you so much! Happy to hear that!
congrats on the nomination, you definitely deserve it!
Thank you!
War zwar schwer, aber hab für dich gevotet. Weil ich finde, dein Kanal ist einfach eine super Idee
Vielen herzlichen Dank!
Thought this was the worst of the worst gear, but then I heard that bassline at 6:20 and fell in love. Kind of.
Yeah, it has that one good bass sound ;)
The DR-3 rhythms and bass lines were found in a dumpster at Yamaha after they threw out the rejects from demo songs on their PortaSound "Christmas Gift" keyboards.
Can I have a time machine and an exact location of that dumpster?
my favourite comment.
Ay! Another Anrufbeantworter. With rubber knobs!
Dat bass around 2:50 reminds me of Seinfeld. :)
Voting done! Voted for my beloved Model:Cycle as well.
Thanks for woting!
the start button got me lol
😀😀😀
Has this been asked already but have you reviewed the DR-5? With it's "a bit like a fretboard" interface? You could also use it as a (bit wobbly) guitar synth!
Yeah, the DR5 came up a few times, thanks for the input. Let's see if one pops up in the local classifieds
You got my vote , don't make me regret it😊 keep that good content coming
Thanks! Working on it!
Ah it was a tough vote between you and Look Mum No Computer, but I went with you in the end
Happy to hear that! Thank you!
There are two new drum machines released fairly recently: The Yamaha FGDP-50 & 30. Not sure if they would belong in Bad Gear or Better Gear though but it'd be interesting to see what you think. I'm interested in getting the 50 btw.