HOHNER RHYTHM 80 | Analog Rhythm Box 1977 | HD DEMO

(c) 2019 by AnalogAudio1
The Hohner Rhythm-80 was in the seventies a known and widely used analog rhythm box in Germany. Made by Hohner in Germany/Trossingen, the makers of the Clavinet :-)
There are 20 rhythms, every single rhythm has 4 variations, 80 rhythms in total.
High quality hardware of real wood an metal. The tempo will be shown exactly on the display. BASS and TREBLE controls. FADE OUT button. The cymbals can be muted. A quite noisy unit as you can hear :-)
I played the Rhythm-80 with a small amout of ambience from a Lexicon MPX-500.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Love these old rhythm machines. Always have those punchy snares and great percussion.

[@AnalogAudio1]

yes!!

[@josephwright5921]

I love the swishy early analog drum machine sounds.

[@Amuh2004]

hard hitting!

[@Zeal808]

The sounds are so good 😊 tremendous machine

[@BarnacleButtock]

Wow that kick and snare! The cymbals/hihats are nice too

[@DavidBoura]

Awesome thanks!

[@Kaspar_Houser]

love the samba and pop on this thing. sadly no Rumba which interests me the most. What is your fave rumba preset on rhythm machines? @analogaudio1

[@shaft9000]

noisy or not ;o) imho this is one of the top sounding drummy things ever!

[@maikmario71]

Thanks !
... I've also owned the Hohner80 for a short time, will modify it with separate trigger inputs. Mine suffers from noise in general, does anyone out there have an idea of ​​how I can curb it, feedback would be great!

[@AnalogAudio1]

Had several units, all of them where noisy, that's normal. A noise gate can help.

[@maikmario71]

Okk thanks for the feedback! I'll keep an eye out for a GateNoise or build one if I find circuit diagrams, otherwise I live with it, a bit of noise is also totally ok for me! I live analogue technology. Thank you for your videos, you are the first address here on youtibe to hear good demonstrations of old instruments.