Using a Soviet wire recorder as a ghostly space echo
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2020
- Update: I made a plug-in of this • My Military Wire Recor...
In which I explore the wonderful lofi tone of the Soviet made MN61 wire recorder for music. Includes probable Cold War spy communication, a guide on splicing magnetic wire for recording and lots of musical and sound design examples.
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We should add some delay.
This is taking the term "lo-fi" to an entirely new and haunting level.
That "Chernobyl" vibe when you played with the Juno at
“Synthesiser sounds like broken memories” - quote of the day !
Makes everything sound like Boards of Canada.
"The ghost of the past caught in a metal cage." Well said, it is a truly wonderful find. Thank you for the exploration of this device! Liked!
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I’d love to see somebody model this thing for a VST
Honestly one of these would be perfect used for the OST of a post apocalyptic game set in the Soviet Union. Both eerie and haunting, yet sad and emotional. Like a lonely Russian man staring at the wastes of Moscow, afraid of what mutants might lurk in the buildings, whilst tearing up remembering his life before the end of the world, begging god for just one more moment with his friends and loved ones, for just one more moment in his old life, hoping he’ll never come across the remains of his wife and child as he searches for what little food remains in the broken city.
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This is stuff from the former DDR ... and the people you hear on the recordings have a saxon dialect. Of course they do. Why should it be otherwise? *sighs XD
I've never, ever, EVER heard of a wire recorder, and it sounds so beautiful!
No amount of DSP modelling could ever reproduce this effect accurately. There's a formidable new challenge for Pete Celi at Strymon. Great find, great demo. Thanks for sharing.
A friend of my father had a wire recorder, and he demoed it for us when we visited his house back in the 1950s. It's the first "home" recording device I ever saw or heard. I don't know where it was made. I was fascinated by his machine and thought it a marvel, but it never sounded this musical!
Feedback from analog echoes is the most wonderful sound
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This so much reminds me of listening to old MW radio back in the 1970s late at night. Much like the intermission piece on Kraftwerk's Radioactivity. It's got a really warm quality to it.
Fascinating video. I’d never heard a wire recorder before and it has a very evocative, eerie sound. The self-oscillation echoes remind me of Tristram Cary’s radiophonic soundtrack for the first Dalek story in Doctor Who (1963-4).
Back last year I heard an album on bandcamp that a Russian who recorded under the name Staruha Mha made about 20 years ago and I couldn't work out how he got such a weird, unearthly sound... until now.