Where else have you seen these small white records? action man? laughing bags?

@ShawnTewes

2 жыл бұрын

Ripped the voice box from sister's mama dolly and it had a clear/whitish disc with random phrases picked up by stylus and similar battery powered mech.

@Kevhuman

2 жыл бұрын

I had the talking action man commando with "rip cord" when I was a kid , wish I knew where he ended up

@keithsquawk

2 жыл бұрын

There were the long strips as well

@AnthonyDFHogan

2 жыл бұрын

I remember vaguely a toy I had as a kid. You'd pull the cord to wind the spring, then an arrow would turn to point at different things, and wherever it landed, it played the sound from the plastic record inside.

@CausticCatastrophe

2 жыл бұрын

Older stuffed toys had these kzread.info/dash/bejne/hm2Ms5R8opvcqc4.html And of course, the Fisher-Price See 'n Say "THE COW GOES..... MOOOOOOOOoooooo" kzread.info/dash/bejne/pJ2O2MWukZOTZpM.html This one is the one i grew up with, its by mattel.

Please release this as a single. I'd totally spin this at my next club gig.

@ghostisblack

2 жыл бұрын

He releases his songs from videos on his patreon, check the description.

@DJTI99

2 жыл бұрын

@@ghostisblack Right on!

@SerbanCMusca-ut8ny

2 жыл бұрын

It does sound great, indeed!

@captainhook155

2 жыл бұрын

Seconded

@postersm7141

Жыл бұрын

Yeah he did a really good job. If I were a DJ, I would definitely spin that at my next gig

The best ones were cars from the 80s with sound notifications for speeding. In the early to mid 80s USA highway speeds were all 55mph, then they got upped to 65mph... My friends Chrysler K-car (i forget what it was exactly, there were soooo many k platform p.o.s.) would say "you are speeding, please slow down" when going the 65mph new highway speed limit, repeatedly, every 30 seconds or so.

@brianleeper5737

2 жыл бұрын

They probably got a federal tax credit for putting that speed warning in.

@JETJOOBOY

2 жыл бұрын

My import Honda Prelude used to BEEEP BEEEP at 100KMH I found the Beeper and took great delight in ... putting it out of MY Misery!

@brianleeper5737

2 жыл бұрын

@@JETJOOBOY Jammed an icepick into the speaker, did you?

@marshmower

Жыл бұрын

​​@@brianleeper5737 did that on a brand new RAV4.. Now I still hear the blind spot warning so I think I won a prize. I love that beep in the new cars with blind spots. Speaker in the cluster is toast though and life is good.

This is like a modern take on Kraftwerk's Autobahn. *YES!*

This seems like a more complex version of those Toys where you pull a level and a an arrow will spin and say something. Like if it's pointing to a cow it will say "The Cow goes MOO"

@jaecenwhite2590

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure those worked exactly the same way, the starting point selected the track. They just usually didn’t have an electronic amplifier, it was just an analog diaphragm speaker

@edison700

2 жыл бұрын

@@jaecenwhite2590 I know....that what a more complex version of ment.

Good stuff! When my dad was an Auto electrician in the late 80s they had an Austin Maestro with a similar voice system come in, except I believe it used more solid state electronics rather than a spinning record. Apparently the lady who did the voice is still alive and well!

That's one of the craziest things I've ever seen come out of a Datsun's anatomy.

You got it running! Awesome!

I HAD THIS CAR AND I'VE ALWAYS REGRETTED THAT I COULDN'T PULL THAT OUT BEFORE IT WAS TAKEN AWAY AFTER BEING WRECKED! ;-; 1981 Datsun 810/maxima

You've a right to look pleased at the end. You got proper lost there! Next -- 3d printed discs of your own samples?

@Ferro_Giconi

2 жыл бұрын

3D printing doesn't have the kind of precision needed for records. You could make something that looks like a record with something high precision such as a resin printer, but it wouldn't come anywhere near having the precision to create the pattern of sound waves on the record.

@andreasu.3546

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ferro_Giconi There's a video on youtube of a maker who's printing records on a 3D resin printer. Sound quality is not great (to say the least) but you do recognize the song playing. Give 3D printing technology another 10 years and they'll sound OK.

An old Renault 25 had also a speech thingy built in, but only in the more luxurious version. But I think it was an digital speech synthesizer.

@AntoninPoitou

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed it uses the same kind of text-to-speech (like the speak and spell) chips that some cartridge and modules for microcomputers from that era (circa '86).

You got such an amazing track out of this

I think this is my new favorite groove

I worked on a 1986 Datsun/Nissan Maxima that had that warning system in it. If the car battery was going low because you left the lights on or door open the record would slow like it does in the video lol

"It's got an audio output, so you know what that means?!" We'll be able to hear it over the internet once it gets set up? "We can plug it into a modular synth-A-sizer!" Oh. My! GOD!

Looks like it uses the same idea as the 'bag of laughs' from many years ago, but the bag of laughs didn't have an amplifier, the speaker cone was directly attached to the stylus. When i saw the title i thought you were going to show in car record players, like the philips norelco auto mignon from the 60's

I think Techmoan once featured and dissected one. Might be worth looking. It's utterly cool if you add pitch control and reverb! Seeing you play tunes on it brings pure joy to my heart.

@U014B

2 жыл бұрын

I know Steve Mould dissected a toy with a similar mechanism.

@foorje

2 жыл бұрын

that was a magnetic spinning disk with parrallel tracks, bit different.

@guillaumegaudin694

2 жыл бұрын

@@foorje Oh yes wasn't it the executive talking clock ?

@adameichler

Жыл бұрын

The original See N Say toy works on similar principle.

Wow it sounds so good with the synth it's crazy!

You can make music on anything. Cool bit of tech for sure.

Did you just invent "car wave synth" ? cause i love it !

Key is in the ignition. Lights are on.

You seriously should release this as a song mate , great content as per normal, thanks Sam for sharing this with the world, take care 👍👍

Now I know what the wierd sounds from the april stream was

The long-awaited follow-up to Warm Leatherette :)

I love the entire sound when you are using it in the synth. Reminds me of Big Science - Lauri Anderson, or maybe a different sounding Central Scrutinizer from Joe's Garage.

I love the creativity with which you attack these things. Really fun and interesting to see what you do.

This recordplayer design is very similar to what they used in kids toys such as talking teddy bears and dolls. I remember from kindergarten in the mid to late 80’s a toy recordplayer from fisher price using a hard plastic record a bit like this one.

Unbelievably cool Sam. Not sure how this passed me by but sooo glad I found it.

To some these just seem like simple samples, but just think of the time, effort and money that would have gone into creating them. The amount of voice actors that would have auditioned and the fine-tuning of the vocals and the amount of takes it would have taken.

@Slurkz

2 жыл бұрын

This… totally. And the prototyping of the whole system, the audo editing, mastering and physical cutting of the disks (for which a machine needs to be designed and created as well), without all the software we are used to nowadays. And also making the device serviceable.

@drworm5007

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine getting royalties every time someone leaves their lights on

God I love electronic music! The only “style” I feel I can actually grasp and try to make.

Hahaha, Kraftwerk 2.0! Remember the Mattel Optigan? It was a poor man's mellotron based on an floppy optical record and the tracks being played by individual keys and accompaniment knobs. Very lo-fi though. You might even be able to print your custom discs with some overhead sheets and a laser printer!

The oddly seductive intonation of the announcement messages makes me always want to add "...if you know what I mean" after each one...

Before cassettes and 8-track, you could also buy an actual 45rpm player for a car. I remember my granny owning one.

Loved this video! ❤️ Thanks for sharing! 👍

Love it! You have way too much fun.

That tune is amazing haha well done 👏

Sick jam!

With every video I watch my desire to visit your museum of random glorious bits increases. Hopefully I can get across the pond sometime soon. Well done mate!

Absolutely fabulous

Fricking awesome, and I love that lingering loop at the very end. Look Mum No Datsun.

Banging, love it.

Great track!

After all of this, I hope that you turned off the lights and removed the key from the ignition...

Oh man you get better and better. Love how you got lost in the moment with the device hooked up to your machine and then the face gurning at the end (I'm also a gurner - it must be a Kent thing).

Love this one. Been looking for one of these for a while but I guess I’ll cross that one of my list. I’ll never top this jam. This is as good as it gets people! ✌️

superb!

great music! i love 70's and 80's synth disco music

Awesome tune

Awesome sound

I haven't heard that voice for a long time. I had a 200SX that had that. The module was in the back on the right side behind the side trim panel. You could hear it making noise when it ran. I always thought it was a tape of some sort. The funny thing was in the winter it would slow down from the cold.

Brilliant, cheers!

Me and my bro were talking recently about a late 70's Action Man toy he had that had different coloured disks with different messages on. It was some sort of radio/broadcast/radar listening thing. Me? I just liked to move the rubber band out of the way and scratch with it as the disks were robust as hell. Good times! 😂👍

@johnwalker194

2 жыл бұрын

Haha, scratching is cool ! I got in real trouble at school for opening the French teachers desktop reel to reel player in the language labs and scratching the word tricalore (flag) backwards and forwards, all the class was laughing and I didn't notice the teacher had come back in, got a huge slap to the side of my face but it was worth it !!!

Brilliant!!!

This Guy is a genius, the english kraftwerk Man, thanks for being there doing stuff like this, amazing

Never heard some thing that sounded so Ramsgate.... Love it !!

That was fantastic

Awesome 👌🔊

Just crazy. I love it.

I’m glad there are people like you in the world.

Banging tune.

Really nice. Getting a Hitch Hikers' Guide To The Galaxy vibe!!

that's was superb!

this is so cool!

This is like 90's house music.

I experienced this in a 1984 Nissan 200SX and a 1988 Nissan Maxima when I was a kid. Thanks for the memories.🥂

Amazing ! ^^

I'm fascinated by this.

we had one in a laughing bag and it was years before we realised it was double-sided and had much funnier giggling children on the B side - maybe this has a flip side in Japanese 😄

That's cool! It's even got a bit of a Whammy Bar effect.

Excellent.

THIS ONE GOING TO BE ON THE FUTURE VINYL, LOVE UR STYLE BRO

I honestly felt like that tune could be the new banger from Daft Punk. So sick.

5:41 That synth scratches an itch in my brain!

New banger just dropped

By the godz Sam, you are amazballz. Tops of the pops. I really am staggered on how post apocalyptic cool this is.

This so cool.

You are a genius 😀

So we know the secret voice of your recent w-e live stream: neither furbys nor Daleks' samples... just an old Datsun car watchdog gadget. Awesome!👍😆

i LOVE THIS!

Utterly class

Bing!, right door id a fuel pump. lights are low!. bing!

This could be a Josh Wink track, straight off the Left above the clouds album Sounds great! 👍

THAT ...IS ....MENTAL !!! Love it

lots of fun with a little gadget!

Came right out of my favorite car! The Nissan 300zx!

I hear the ultimate vapor wavey driving song coming together.

Fitted to the Nissan Laurel C32 in the UK. 1985 to 1988 They were in the boot, under the rear parcel shelf. I actually recorded the messages into MP3s on my last one, it had a different voice to yours. Sounded more like the BT woman, I can send the clips if anyone wants them.

What a banger

that sounds freakin sweet

That is just freaky! Lights disco, man!

You looked so damned satisfied here, Sam... :P

OK now you need the 80's Chrysler one that used the TI Speak & Spell chip!

In the '80's not long after I graduated high school, I had a friend who had a car that had this. I think it was some kind of Chrysler (I'm in the USA). Every time you'd open the door it was "A door is ajar."

Dam your such a mad scientist, I wanna jam with you on my drums XD

My Grandpa had one of those 80's cars that had similar canned speech device. And whenever the car said something to him, Gramps loved to talk back to it. When he'd open the door, the car would say "The door, is ajar." Gramps would always, inevitably say back to it, "No it's not, it's a door." The car: "Your headlights are on." Gramps: "I know, I'm the one that turned them on." The car: "The fuel level is low." Gramps: "Already? I just filled you up. Damn, you're greedy."

Just like a talking Action Man only bigger, and better quality. 😄👍

If my import 200sx has one of these in japanese I will be so happy! Off to find it now!!

im saving up to travel out there when you are open and i can ...im in the usa :)

Oh my, I didn’t realize I had a little record player in my 82 Datsun 200SX. The most common warning I would get was “door is ajar”

so sick....