Audiopilz: *slaps roof of YT channel* Full Tracks, Extended Jams, Sample Packs: www.patreon.com/audiopilz

@dreamyrhodes

Жыл бұрын

Just wanted to say, AudioPilz' "Bad Gear" is maybe the best Synth review show in existence. Honest, right amount of insight without too much details and good production quality for the sample songs too. Keep it up!

That's it! the final nail in the coffin. You've now covered every piece of gear I have lol!

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Isn't that a good thing?;)

@MazeFrame

Жыл бұрын

That is why I have this mildly-obscure FM synth to be save of that ever happening to me.

@ogami1972

Жыл бұрын

Same, and after he just made fun of my nts1 :( that's it, I'm building a modular.

@synthfreak291

Жыл бұрын

The good thing is bad gear doesn't make bad music, bad musicians make bad music :)

@ichjosh

Жыл бұрын

Relatable, including all gear I ever planned to buy...

"I think I have a favorite Volca, and it's not the nu-bass." 😂😂

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Kick FTW!!!

@Oljekristen

Жыл бұрын

I have 2 kicks

@Oljekristen

Жыл бұрын

Teenage engineering should develop a teenage kicks

@technicalfool

Жыл бұрын

@@Oljekristen It'd either be a cheap circuit board with awful trimpots, or something that looks like a lego set and costs $2000. Flip a coin to decide which one?

@Oljekristen

Жыл бұрын

@@technicalfool a 400$ black plastic device (similar design language as volca but two rows of keys like the perkons device with 2 volcas engines inside) a colab between teenage, korg, Erica synths and the Undertones

LOVED seeing the Volca Kick getting some action. That thing is seriously one of the best in the entire line. So flexible and just absolutely MONSTROUS sounding.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Love the Kick!

@ringsystemmusic

10 ай бұрын

oh no doubt- that thing (along with actually learning my instruments) saves my live sets.

God damn the jams were absolutely off the deep end today! Dirty techno, acid and lots of mud I'll never grow tired of! :D

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

@Yuzuki1337

Жыл бұрын

@@AudioPilz Thank you too!

I assembled a little volca rig for fun (modular, drum, nubass, keys, and the mixer). They are pretty little toys that let a classically trained musician like me pretend to know how to make techno (i'm not much of a step-sequencing kinda guy, i typically just play what i want to hear on keys, but this little rig is helping me learn the ropes.

@AudioPilz

11 ай бұрын

Great approach!!!

This channel brings me great joy. Thank you.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

You put a ton of work into these videos, keep it up legend!

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!!

As a proud owner of two famous "Bad Gear" labelled acid boxes, I just wanna say that the presence of NuBass just makes me appreciate TB-3 even more.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

TB-3 is life!!!

@Plexyglazz

Жыл бұрын

Looking at the NuBass makes me appreciate my EA-1 even more. 😲

@sporn23

Жыл бұрын

@@Plexyglazz lol yeah

@jbbrolic

Жыл бұрын

The TB3 is amazing. Even if I didn't like the sound (I like a bunch of them) it has that great acid sequencer with midi output.

you are seriously so consistent it blows my mind, you're serious proof that any piece of equipment has its use if you're willing to look for it and i think that's what really sets apart someone with extreme skill

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!!

One of the best channel of KZread thank you AudioPilz🎉

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!!

damn the jams went crazy in this one. nice work!

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

Amazing content as always! I was going to ask for this review and you read my mind :) keep up the great work

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

"welcome to the dark side of the mono-synth disco-funk wub & roll" (proceeds to show FNAF dancing action figures) i don't know where you found this sort of madness, but it is GLORIOUS, and im down for it. :D

@AudioPilz

11 ай бұрын

Thank you!!! The internet can be a dark place;)

Everytime a treat. Thanks for being awesome!

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

Yes!! That was a superb example of the now classic Bad Gear format. Superb review, maximum snark, and some great grooves. I suppose at some point you are going to run outta gear to review, but until then long may this continue! Korg need to get you on their booth at the NAMM show, I would love to see a 20 minute “bad gear” live demo at Anaheim, who knows - special guest appearances from Nick Batt etc? Haha

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

I think KZread is going to close its virtual doors before we are going to run out of Bad Gear;) NAMM here I come

@SlaserX

Жыл бұрын

It's going to take a LOOOOOOOOOOONG time to run out of bad gear. I have heaps of the stuff.

klingt beeindruckend. Noch beeindruckender sind die unzähligen Einblendungen, Memes und Clips hier. Wow. Das war viel Arbeit.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Vielen Dank!!!

I recognize the Prosoniq Orange vocoder anywhere ;) Thanks again for making my favorite Friday evening show!

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Good ear!!!

Guess the real tb-303 would make a great candidate for a bad gear episode, too. Thanks for the great videos!

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Grea suggestion! Maybe next April;)

@sporn23

Жыл бұрын

Yeah cause of this terrible menu for editing.

@StopTryingSoHard

Жыл бұрын

@@sporn23 The 303 sequencer is the greatest sequencer on Earth that doesn’t use toggle switches.

@lovemadeinjapan

6 ай бұрын

After the Bad Gear Final Jam with this Nubass, the original 303 is bad gear. Silver painted plastic. YUCK!

Wie immer ein Festmahl :D Besten Dank !

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Immer wieder gerne!

I can't believe you got that thing to actually make listenable sounds. I bow to the King of Bad Gear!

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

@YouTubeSupportTeams

Жыл бұрын

Umm it isn't difficult. It's a very capable little synth. Don't blame the tools...........

Have you ever thought about compiling your little jams into a continuous mix or a compilation? They're always so good. I would love to listen to them just as music.

@RodBeauvex

Жыл бұрын

There's supposed to be longer stuff/extended stuff on his Patreon.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Great idea, thanks!!!

Each time, even with really bad gear, you give us nice tracks.... Thanks

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!!

I'm currently in Vienna for vacation and I visited the Klangfarbe round building things because of this show. They were nice. Thanks Bad Gear Man.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Nice!!!

You make my fridays better! Happy friyay!

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

Besides loving the way you make fun and fuzz about those "bad gear contestants" - man you really rock your videos! I love the jams, the knowledge and the laughs, but i think i never told you that your video editing is awesome as well! Thank you so much for making tgif a little more TGIF!

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!!

wub'n'roll definitely deserves to be released. and thank you Florian, still favourite youtube show

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Shameless plug: there's a full track on my Patreon;)

Ich kanns nur immer wieder sagen. Best channel ever. Grüße aus 'schland! :)

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Besten Dank!!!

Great review as always! 👍

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

I hope you do this show for at least another 40 years!!

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

I hope so too! Thanks!

You have never covered the gear I have yet but I always feel tempted to sell everything when I watch your show! 😊

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you but don't sell the gear;)

@YouTubeSupportTeams

Жыл бұрын

why?

I actually had that synth on backorder for almost half a year before I felt like I didn't need it, so I cancelled the order. After having seen this episode, I feel confident that I did the right thing. Seems like a neat synth if you're really going down that reflux route, but very limited if you're outside that very narrow path...

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

If you want acid sounds on the brink of destruction - look no further...

@needfortweed8734

Жыл бұрын

@@AudioPilz acid sounds for that aural heartburn...

@inthefade

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. I get that some people just want that one sound and style of production. It's cool, I dig dancing to that dark squelchy shit at 3 AM as much as anyone. But for me it's just way too limited.

@mycosys

Жыл бұрын

they say limitation breeds creativity..... but it can also breed another wookie uninspired formula goa track XD

@needfortweed8734

Жыл бұрын

@@inthefade if I had been "professional" or just more into making pure acid I might have considered it. As it is now, I am just an unskilled amateur making "music" for fun, and it results in general weirdness bereft of acid. And for my weirdness I need something with a few more strings to play...

Still sitting on One Bad Gear piece in my whole studio. It's really lowering my self esteem. It's an amazing channel.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!!

@harrisbeatsfrankou6304

Жыл бұрын

@@AudioPilz It's near rock bottom. Thanks always.

@TooSlowTube

Жыл бұрын

@@harrisbeatsfrankou6304 It's not what you've got, it's what you do with it that counts.

We're having a "Roaring Twenties" end-of-year party here at my employer, in Lausanne, Switzerland. This was a perfect warm-up!

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Cheers!!!

Soooo you're saying I should find one for Black Friday? Great video as always my friend! Hope you're well! Awesome animation as well!!

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

If you like what you hear, go for it. Thanks!

Idk why but your "bad gear" videos always make me want it

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Bad Gear GAS is a thing;)

@themadduck8784

Жыл бұрын

@@AudioPilz I have this horrid habit of using mixing to fix bad gear and plugins so that probably is why I huff the bad gear gas

Another cool video! Have a great weekend!

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Have a nice one too!

And the Sirius sounds friggin insane. thanks, now I have to find one.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

These have become quite rare

First time with headphones and I thought I was actually gonna teleport right into 4am with no face

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

1 water pleaze

The kick sounds awesome!

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Love it!

Awesome episode as always! I own both the bass and the nubass and while the bass is able to produce more versatile sounds, the nubass has a much improved sequencer and a raw dirty quality to its sound that make it so much fun to play.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

@YouTubeSupportTeams

Жыл бұрын

Still have my nubass, but the T-8 is what the nubass should have been.

Love the pseudo-breakbeat in that last jam. Oh and the NuBass was good too. Love the acid sound ever since I first heard it back in '88. This Nubass has a nice edge to it - familiar, but can be distinctly different if played right.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Yes, your jams really stood out for me in this as I have zero interest in the Nu Bass, you really need to release a compilation as mentioned below!

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

super, klasse...macht immer sehr viel Spass...

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Vielen Dank!

I'm surprised to see so little love for the nubass in the comments. I love mine! As an acid box, it offers something different from the 303 in terms of its sound, and it's also a lot easier to program. And you can get some cool results with the LFO!

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Really liked the LFO too!

@YouTubeSupportTeams

Жыл бұрын

^^^ Finally Someone in the comments who actually gets it. Great little box. Engineered for acid. And it can do it too.

when you hit those leads out of the way of that pedal that shit was dope

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Way to go!!!

Deeply enjoyed the oversaturated audio in your sentence about how oversaturated the market is. You memed the voiceover audio, very meta 😂

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Lol;)

I've hardly touched mine, but the NuBass is a nice addition to the volca lineup in isolation. The tube is a gimmick though. It does actually sound nice, different character than the other clones I have. Really it's the volca footprint that sells it though. It's doesn't play particularly nice with the Keys/Bass IMO, but it's great in combo w Kick and Drum. Actually really highlights the Kick since the Kick also always felt like it didn't belong. Now it has a friend. I'm keeping it.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, great in that combination!

@WH3

Жыл бұрын

Yep, I have the Kick, Drum, Nubass combo together with a Volca Mix in a stand

Ja der kleine NuBass hat es schon in sich. Das Video hat echt Spaß gemacht, danke für den tollen Schnitt...🤣🤣

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Vielen Dank!!!

The funky jam sounds awesome !

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!!!

Un générique original a chaque épisode, des plans de coupes de folies, du matériel torturé, une diction claire, un nouveau style de musique inventé à chaque essais. Très bonne émission.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Merci beaucoup!!!

I do wish the two waveforms sounded a bit different but I do love that blue glow...

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Same here;)

Haha. I lost it at the 'Super Fun Happy Slide' Simpsons clip

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

😀😀😀

Well, it's not the Electribe EMX-1 review I was looking for, but these droids are right up my alley. Dammit.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

I still have to find one of these around here!

love the circuit, may get something else with it, Masterful jams, again

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

Jam1 attacks my heart. So nice.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

That intro sounded pretty deep and warm!

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Very distinct tone

0:27 listened to this while drinking a Weihenstephaner Festbier. Good timing, PROST!! Also.. Was there 2 Smudge the Cat memes in this? Well done Florian!! Frölische Freitag!

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Prost!!! Maybe a second one slipped in;)

I’ve paused the video to come here and groan at the manatee pun. I think I need to and lay down in a dark room for a bit… what’s wrong with you 😂

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

That comment literally made me lol

5:15 daaaaang! 😎 Actually all of what you did. I love it's sound. Not a 303, but a different, character-filled acid machine, for that low price.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

😀😀😀😀😀

@DetroitMicroSound

Жыл бұрын

@@AudioPilz You should make an EP single with that thing! I'm not even kidding, either! I'd love to hear that thing going through a few modes on Hologram's Microcosm! There are a few modes that would really be excellent processing it.

Volca nu bass and the keys make a nice sound. Combining these into the sound of a bass station two is awesome.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Nice technique!!!

Jesus, your meme game has me cracking up all the time.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

I was considering getting some storage/carrying cases for my volcas. and I found the perfect cheap solution. plastic pencil cases during a back to school sale. They were a dollar each and just the right size.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Nice, didn't think of that!

"That's what I really hate about volcas" I soldered a couple of thin wires onto the tracers under the memory button to an external switch on my Beats for that very reason. It's a tiny tracer but can be done with some patience. Now memory can be latched on, and one-finger pattern select is doable. Certainly made that crappy little box a little less crappy.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Nice solution!

I really enjoyed the p-n juction joke! And this episode

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

Now Korg needs to release the Nutkick

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Lolz

Great video !!!! You should do the behringer TD-3

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Great suggestion, thanks!

Illustrations at the top

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

😀

Okay. I especially enjoyed the outtakes at the end. And I still really hope some day you'll gain access to a Fairlight Voice Tracker for your vocoder shoutout.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!!! Fairlight Voice Tracker? I can't even find one on Reverb;)

@artisan002

Жыл бұрын

@@AudioPilz Not surprising. They were rare when they were production. To understand what all it could do, look up The Art Of Noise live in 1986, particularly the song Instruments of Darkness. J.J. used one for the voice modulation effects.

the vocoder shoutout was so cool. They always are Also I tried very hard to do proper acid line with the NuBass but, the accent circuitry was a shame, no classic acid barks 😭 Thanks !

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's more like acid on the brink of destruction;)

The TB-3 definitely needs a revisit.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Great suggestion, thanks!!!

Good stuff. Here’s one for the algorithm.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Much appreciated!!!

Great video.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

Wow this is more acid than 303...I'm convinced, sound-wise

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Definitely has a unique sound

@YouTubeSupportTeams

Жыл бұрын

built for acid :)

I think that the opening scene is a dream video for Bill Leeb and that early FLA-Delirium era aesthetics he so loved (me too).

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Ah, a fellow Austrian!!!

@earlsfield

Жыл бұрын

@@AudioPilz Yeah he is isn’t he? I mean, yeah he is from Vancouver but he is Austrian. Haircut gives him away :p

Outtakes - YAY!

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

😀😀😀

One thing you're missing is you're getting 303ish sounds without having to put up with the terrible 303 interface. thats worth something on its own.

@YouTubeSupportTeams

Жыл бұрын

💯

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

I usually use the TB-3 for that;)

2:17 - I was eating and looking away....I had to scroll back to see if it was a Letterkenny "allegedly"

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Of course it was;)

"Modern A-Manatees" NEVER gets old...

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Love these!

Thanks for the video. Dancing digital ragdolls... I'll go check if Hitchhiker has made any new tracks.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!!!

1:49 I would love that watch.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Looks so steampunk!

I really liked the wub and roll jam! I do not currently own any Volcas, but if I did, the ones that appeal to me the most are the regular Volca Bass, the Volca Kick, and possibly the Volca Drums.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Kick is much recommended!!!

@h2o1969

Жыл бұрын

@@AudioPilz honestly never really considered it until you had it on your show.

Audiopilz-ener, creating Nu musical genres every episode.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

Haha, I bought those coasters from Moog’s merch shop ages ago and they are still in use.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Nice!

For all the talk of nu tube technology being a “gimmick,” I’ve loved what I’ve heard from it. The Vox amps sound surprisingly big for their size, and that Volca distortion is distinct and sounds cool. I’m not an acid synth guy, but those baselines sounded good, to me.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

I'm fascinated by that technology too

how dare you release a great episode in the middle of the WC games? thanks for not quitting on us. happy black friday. usa! usa!

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Black Friday World Cup of scoring the best deals;)

Jam 2 goes unreasonably hard for being in a parody show. Sounds like something Boris Brejcha would drop live. Great work!

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

I considered this thing back when. Can not remember why I struck it from my wishlist.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

The hype faded rather quickly...

Yay! Another Volca episode. How about doing a volca only bad gear episode? I mean, how bad can they be when you put them together? By the way, what's in the cup?

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Great idea!!! 3 double espresso btw;)

This episode was so good my wife was looking over my shoulder and she even laughed out loud.

@AudioPilz

4 ай бұрын

Happy to hear that!!! Thanks!!!

6:59 this is makin me wish you sampled Jerma waking up from a jumpscare while streaming fnaf and going "YEP.....yep"

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Great idea!!!

This Volca NuBass video is bound to sell a lot of people on the Volca...Kick.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

The Kick is much recommended!!!

omg . How did I miss this one. Luckily, I was just watching you on Sonic Talk and you were talking about the volca so I did a search and ka-Blam! I found this one . Epic like usual. Hey you have another channel called "great gear" or something??

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!! I should definitely start working on this channel

Hopefully they come out with a red Nubass Bass.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Lol

When will Korg finally release an all analog and tube (umm, NuTube) driven full featured groovebox? They have been beating around the bush for so long that Roland might actually release something analog before them!

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, all Volcas in one big case!

Finally something for the black Friday!

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Yeah!!!

That 303 X-Ray is of my self modified TB-303. I took it the the School of Radiology University and asked if I could X-Ray it.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Wow, great stuff! Thanks for the picture!

Disco Funk Wub'n Roll is a new favorite genre.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

What’s this freaky jack adapter on the right at 6:25 ? Great video, as always !

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Some Neutrik Jack-Jack adapters they handed out at Musikmesse 2010;)

Yet another Volca with "where to put it" indications in the name that also rocks.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Didn't find that part in the manual tho;)