Making A Moog Style Frequency Bank By Modifying Old Test Equipment
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- I made a Fixed Frequency #Filter Bank like in #moog modulars, by modifying a Bruel & Kjaer 2113 Audio Frequency Spectrometer! For the stripboard layout of the mixer check my website #synth.
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Stems and samples and much more are available on my patreon! theres about 30 minutes worth of sounds from this for you to use.
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simple Mixer Stripboard layout Available on my site! www.lookmumnocomputer.co
30 minutes of stems and samples of this thing are available over on my patreon aswell as the song from this video :) - www.patreon.com/lookmumnocomputer Also! Would you like the 3d printed files for that little socket i built?
this performance dance could have used a bit more lsd
@pcpaulius hahaa what
I should have said signal generator.... it was a score from the local dump.. I believe it is an EICO branded unit. I’ll upload a video and link it here
I've got an idea! Can you make a synth with a panning option & one that makes the volume go up & down. Example 3 oscillators one is a bass where the volume is going up & down (maybe different ways like a wave or a sidechain) one oscillator is panning left to right or right to left (and you can control the paning speed/ how far left to right it goes) and the 3rd one is just a tweakable tone plus you can filter it etc? 😃 that would be awsome
Hey Sam! So by absolute chance I came across a B&K 1022 BFO in a local thrift store today. They're asking $200, which sounds a bit more than what you've paid but I imagine these are rarer here in the states. I had read on a forum that some of these old B&K oscillators put out massive voltage, as they were meant for lab work, and they can blow mixers amps etc if not modded. Any knowledge of the voltage issues? Worried I'll blow out my stereo lol. It's in a super random grungy thrift store so I would be amazed if they even know what it is let alone that they may have tested it, any key things to test or look for before buying? Thanks!
In the future we'll bring our kids to visit the "British Interactive Museum of No Compu-Ah"
Look, World.. No Computer!
it might even be a thing at one point
@Tiadiad Fis is the museum of no computah. You got fat, mate?
@@rich1051414 yes i got very fat
shouldn't it be bri' ish ? :D
Oh yes, finally!
He bought all your stuff bro.
Hallo, ich bin HEINBACH! :)
@@ToTheGAMES ... good to have you back... ;)
Oh hainbach you just spread the test equipment fever! :)
good form bud! hope you guys keep doing what you do.
I was just thinking that we don't have enough mad scientists these days. You have my deepest respect!
One of these days you’re going to accidentally create a miniature black hole in that studio and then: Look Mum, No Universe.
Dacci Pucci hahahahha
Perhaps that should be Look.. no Mum... Just nothing, big, wide nothing.
Look mum, no.... .....
Your studio looks like a old submarine. Cool video like always!!!
10:24
Now make it into a massive vocoder
Yes
I think you just communicated with another dimension 😄
Usually people either know what they’re talking about, or have good aesthetics, but you do both and it’s amazing
Sam: "This is an audio frequency spectrometer, a forgotten relic from the '60s"
Also Sam: "Yeah I'm gonna need like 14 of these now."
Seriously though, the Frequency Bank looks fantastic, love the aesthetics blend.
It is a spectrometer not an oscilloscope!??
Wow, that green color and unmistakenly design brings back memories ;-) I was an electronics apprentice back in the early 80's at that Brüel & Kjær.
Believe in that museum plan! I think that is an awesome idea. Don't be scared to try it!
More hands on displays in spaces is important.
7:05 sounds kinda like an old router dialing in :D
didnt know routers dialed in.
Modem*
Could also work as a
oversized 32 band eq
Was going to ask if an Alesis deq230 would do the same?
That’s essentially what this is. It’s just a giant array of band pass filters
eBay>Business, Office & Industrial>Test, Measurement & Inspection>Other Test, Measurement & Inspection
CURRENTLY SOLD OUT
Bruel & Kjaer Type 2113 Audio Frequency Spectrometer
I found 1 for 800 Euros, plus postage!
in the words of LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER: "ooh, sheesh kapeesh!"
"things got a bit creepy so i got elmo out"
CREEPINESS INTENSIFIES
"And I kinda got a little bit carried away" sums up your whole channel perfectly lol. Keep the ridiculousness coming bruv!!!
nice "hands+arms on" frequency sweep. sounds good man
performance art right there
wow this filters have very nice disttortion to it i think. gives the sound extreme strenghth. sounds nearly like a soundgoodizer, like a preamp but stronger. this is wonderful
He had a DS-1 on the table... maybe it was that?
Who is this tiny gang of weirdos constantly disliking your videos?
“Nearly as big as a baby” had me laugh out loud!
its a big green babehhh
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Pity the woman that squeezes that out
@@annother3350 no worries, itl be a droid
I'd give two thumbs up if I could, only for the sheer amount of work that went in there.
You have the absolute right kind of whackyness, I like you so much.
I have two old function generators from 1970-1975 and I like to use them to display Lissajous figures on my 1970 oscilloscope. Some times I even interconnect them and listen to their beeping and sweeping :)
Thanks for the video. We all enjoy twiddling a knob... ummm. That sounded wrong.
Sam has built the first miniature BBC Radiophonic Workshop. I dare say Marc Ayres will be in touch. LOL
Awesome how you're getting such organic sounds out of white noise and the signals, must be the analog circuitry...sometimes like 50s sci-fi effects from the movie The Forbidden Planet, awesome man, it's like having mega-multi-band resonance filter at your finger tips with a large bunch of potentiometers.
Imagine him going to some old blokes house from facebook marketplace and the old dude being like, "I have know idea anyone would want one of these. I would imagine it's pretty obsolete now. I don't even know if it works!"
and he's Just like, "Aw yeah aye got ten offem"
7:30 that sounds a lot like an old modem tone unsurprisingly.
Have you ever thought about using an old modem to generate tones?..
After all that's what they are made for :)
Ha ha. That would be interesting...
interesting... maybe they will make noise just powering up the array of modems, or it will be difficult to get ide/pci interfaces working as intended. SAM, have you jiggled with it just as a proof of concept? modems seems the only thing you have not used yet! :D
I'm enjoying the test equipment video craze as of late. keep up the good work bud!
12:36, the monster from the Id--Forbidden Planet!
I'm sure that's what Richard D. James looked like when he was younger, it's really amazing!
Alright u sexy mad scientist & musical wiz kid when ru building a real life Tardis/club?
It os more BBC radiophonic workshop and Delia Derbyshire. Minus the open reel 4 track and 24 track tape recorders.
This guy is like the Colin Furze of modular synths
Just wanna say that you, Hainbach and Simon The Magpie have become my UA-cam holy trinity. You guys make UA-cam great again ❤️
Do you release music?? can it be found on Spotify?
30 band parametric mastering EQ,.
How much do major recording studios pay for something like that? like 10K or something,
if you did that for all of those and sold them to all the major studios in various parts of the world that would be what
…$150,000
to take out the one unnecessary frequency from a completed mix easily,.
or
Clayton Brown Harvard wants to know your location
The Drumbute sounds awesome processed in that thing, even the hats sound spicy.
Saaaam!!! Could you, PLEASE, record another "mixtape" like this one you did before with fisher price cassette player? Just the music that you use to fill up your videos ;) I have a playlist of my favourites of your's and there are 2 covers, this mixtape and "stand and deliver" (I LOOOVE this one!!!)... One hour of great music... and it's gone :O What to do? Need moaaah!!! ;D
7:10 Sounds like 56kbps.
Welcome. You've got mail. lmao
I understand they used something like these to make the first version of the Doctor Who theme, as realized by Delia Derbyshire.
At 7:15 my dialup modem woke up and printed the line CONNECT 1200/NONE
Where do I start learning how to solder and test/fix circuits? I love what you are doing!
Awesome filter. But would it be hard to wire bypass switch across each Row and Column? So then you can instantly make a particular group wet or dry or isolate the
intersecting dial.
So is this like a hardcore graphic equaliser?
You absolute madman. I love your work.
Honestly mate, where on earth do you find stuff like this? I’m amazed that you managed to find so many, especially for so cheap.. bravo Sam!
So this is basically a graphic EQ. But with the VCAs it's gonna be a (half of a) vocoder!
You are producing ample waves of penetrant Love. And we love your wayves.❤❤❤🐱
Some of the sickest sounds I have heard! This should make something truly brilliant 😎
This has made me realized the power of fixed filter banks.... Now I am thinking about ordering one.
Some proper phat sounds....
Why not think about doing a samples CD for remixers...
What happened in 0:14?
Wrong frame..
What is the secret behind this?
There are multiple stills of Sam throughout the video. Prolly editing/rendering errors :)
@@ToTheGAMES errors!?!?!
@@fantasyproduct1042 Yeah, to irregular to be considered on purpose I think :)
PARALLEL PORTTTTTTTT BOIII
Wow.... how it shapes the noise is lush. Those ghosts - love ya work mate!
7:17 has a Stockhausen vibe to it. I think you gave me a few suggestions as to how those sounds were made back in the day. Awesome. Thanks!
I suggest you avail yourself of a copy of SPACE RITUAL by HAWKWIND
A phased LFO named "Sam". CV that thing! You are a beast.
1. this is amazing and you are a mad genius
b. its fantastic to watch the rapid improvement in build quality, those printed panels and the face plate fit the equipment's look so well
さん. never give up on the museum :D you could host modular meets, electronics workshops, and maybe even gigs there too, all with help obviously. but it could be our weird electronic mecca
Monster Sound Bro
Excellent!!
Top work as always Sam! "...nearly as big as a baby!" Classic!
whats the soundtrack you put in the background from 03:00;00? It remembers me of an old Legend of Zelda soundtrack. EDIT: WHERE CAN I BUY THIS I NEED IT!
So you basically built iZotopse "Iris" / "RX Spectral Filter" in analog. Such an amazing thing! :)
It'd be cool to see you do something similar with a stereo graphic equalizer and give it resonance¿?
LOOK MUM LOADS OF ADDERAL!
Liked, subscribed and... I don't know. I wanna wear your t-shirt. You're great! Live long and prosper!
I'm really looking forward to your first official sci-fi movie soundtrack - just waiting for you to be signed up any day now ... :)
7:06 you are now connected to the internet
Love your vibe man on all your videos and great to see somebody young giving real passion in synthesizers,along with cuckoo you are both great personality’s for synth and gear lovers,keep up the good work
imagine this guy plays with kraftwerk !!!
When is this man getting 1 mil subscribers?
Spread the word
'Having a twist' also known as 'frobbing', or 'frobnicating' , which are beautiful words, at least in my opinion.
At 11; 30 ish that build was sick....i instantly thought of a killer sample to drop before the kick comes back ....but by the time i got to this comment i decided to hold the aforementioned killer sample, hostage..... because its thR good.....lol.here are my terms ...believe me they are worth it.....Number 1. Contact me i live in ALASKA at the moment..but a projectt of PLANED EPIC proportties awaIts... once you have agreed to consider my offer......i will then and only then release the sample......word
hi, very inspiring stuff! Amazing what you are capable of when it comes to mods. For a very long time I am looking for a B&K 2107 Analyzer, if you will ever sell one, please contact me! And do you know the difference between a 2107 and a 2010? Thank you
Would it work to use faders instead of rotary potentiometers? To have quicker 0-10 volume control? (im useless in electronics)
Amazing! You remind me of a mad genius from Spiral Tribe, lol @ the acid/smiley jacket, Yr a true artist, you could prob make a mint working for a hardware company, but this is yr love. Props man. if yr playing live in Cardiff UK, I want to know man. Newly subbed & liked ofcause.
Look like sounds of planets recorded by the Nasa...translated into hearable sound ! (sorry I don't speak english)
Nice work - that sounds crazy :) Can you hack/bend my Korg Kaossilator 2S ? I bought it thinking it had a cross-fader & 2 loop banks - it was advertised as having these features,, but that was on the older one :( Korg replaced this with an overdub which isn't much use for making full tracks.
WHAT IF.... You added 4 "busses" and added a 4-way slider switch to every frequency that allowed you to assign it to those busses. Then you could send different elements to different frequency banks. OR you could do trigger inputs to turn on the different busses with a sequencer.
Gitting all frisky with them knobs...when he grows up he will be a KNOB TURNER.
The song at minute 5.50 ahead... i bet is your, can i buy it somewhere??? Please, please, answer me!!! I'd pay hundreds of euros!!!!
So Fucking Dope!!!! The bass...the treble...my God...
I'm getting old - I could barely hear a faint hiss from the 12.5 kHz one. I used to be able to hear the 15 kHz end note on Sgt. Pepper perfectly fine in my 30s, but almost 2 decades later there's not much left over 10 kHz, and especially in my left ear.
You really are a great teacher and you make me laugh to. Thanks. If your ever in Tasmania (oz). Feel free to couch surf. 👍
Hello someone, is the Heathkit brand one of those highly regarded manufacturers like Bruel & Kjaer? I have often seen it at flea markets.
Thts a hella project, all those knobs to tweak on the swells and fades, might I suggest a mini matrix above that increases the gain on a diagonal row to make a bit of the real time recording easier . Top to bottom Rows , and columns the first macro would control 1(first row) B(column) & 2A ,, second macro dial handles 3A, 2B, 1C, Third macro 1 D, 2 C, 3B, 4A etc etc.
Awesome stuff and thx for mentioning me
Did you tap out the output from another stage on the B&K type 2107 or did you just go for the output straight up? i read this thread on the vintagesynth forum - would be interested in hearing what you did:
"What I have started doing with these units to overcome this is to pull the cathode follower tube in the final stage and tap the output signal from blocking capacitor on the output of the preamp tube in front of it which effectively runs at line/instrument levels via a high voltage blocking capacitor and 1MOhm leakoff resistor to ground. This results in a much more studio friendly output which is in fact also a little cleaner too."
Did I mention that I actually love you, Sam? (jokin' just a huge fan of B&K and music) Please come perform in France!!
The B&K 1022 Beat Frequency Oscillators you have there in the back ground have a modulation facility that lets you wobble a tone by a certain amount around each frequency (example by 5%). You use it so that if your loudspeaker or whatever you are testing has an unusual bump or spike in response, the warble allows you to average out the measured SPL . You would connect this bfo to a chart recorder via the mechanical control Beldon cable on the side of the oscillator . As the chart recorder wound the oscillator up in frequency, you would click progressively more warble on to the underlying swept sine wave frequency. This is how you used to make a chart recording of a frequency response .
OH! So that's why I couldn't find any of these... You grabbed them all!!
Goddamn, if you're making a fullblown studio out of all this equipment, I'll have to refer a few people
I'm pretty sure I know people who'd kill to record on this (besides myself, of course)
This is by far my favorite one. I bought a Moog 10 just for the 907 and this thing sounds just as good if not better. The Q is amazing. Make me one please. hahah
If you are already planning on adding a VCA on every output, then how about adding a second Bruel & Kjaer 2113 with some rectifiers and whatnot to make a vocoder out of them?
7:49 The new "HUMAN-HIGH/LOWPASS-FILTER"! :'D
Sounds like Fad Gadget's "Collapsing New People" @9:53
Dude you're like a cross between Bob Moog, John Lydon and a Wiggle. It's brilliant.
That's so cool my head's
going to explode.
OOPS...there it goes.
What a mess.
Fabulous.
call it "STEAMPUNK" the individual filter isolation is so cool! great mod :)
You could use two of these filter banks to build your own 30 band vocoder.
Filter bank A gets the carrier as its input and the outputs go into 30 envelope followers.
Those 30 envelope followers have CV out and those signals go into the CV in of the mixer of filter bank B which has the modulator as its input.
Would you like to perform at House of Blues in New Orleans because believe I can help make that link to get that ball rolling. and if the link can be established; you will need a green card to perform in the states with Live Nation however that shouldn't a problem to get set up before you get here; but I'm actually not familiar logistics of that process of aquiring one; so you'll have to research that.. To be clear I'm not a fancy person with connections; just a fan with this one connection at HOB New Orleans. I think you'd love exploring the music scene and other live venues here in the city. So if you're interested let me know and I'll help pass the torch.. the only catch is I get to see the show for free.. lol jk I'll pay I'll pay