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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

One of the best channel of KZfaq thank you AudioPilz🎉

This channel brings me great joy. Thank you.

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

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

"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

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

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

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...

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

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.

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

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.

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!

Everytime a treat. Thanks for being awesome!

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

Wie immer ein Festmahl :D Besten Dank !

Great review as always! 👍

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.

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!!

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

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

You make my fridays better! Happy friyay!

"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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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 !

Another cool video! Have a great weekend!

Somehow FNAF (Five Nights at Freddies) characters dancing in a white room is scarier than the games ever could be...

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

The TB-3 definitely needs a revisit.

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!

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.

Extremely fair review of the NuBass. Sequencer is great, sonic sweet spots are narrow, tubes really just smooth over some the edge that you want for acid, but it's a refreshing variation on the theme and can be a really fun groove toy paired with a PO-12

Now Korg needs to release the Nutkick

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

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 😂

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

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

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

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

The funky jam sounds awesome !

I've just ordered one. It was the last Pokemon I needed to complete my Volcadex 😂

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

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

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

Audiopilz-ener, creating Nu musical genres every episode.

I noticed the really early Moogs’ oscillators sound similar to each other in demos too. Yet both this and them, once they’re finally filtered and triggered, definitely have a certain juiciness to them. Like, with each element taken alone I agree they’re lacking… but together it somehow works for me. The intro caught my attention in a way which doesn’t usually usually happen. That’s especially interesting considering I was on team “tubes don’t sound different except for distortion and EQ”; but I think I REALLY like them in oscillators. Who knew? Which, y’know, I just checked and Moog used transistors all along - perhaps he just used much slower response time ones than the oscillators of the 80s used! In which case maybe I _am_ on team “transistors can sound the same”, heh. If what I like is just a relatively long “slew time”. Anyway yeah, a VFD is absolutely a type of vacuum tube just as a magnetron in a microwave is :) Just very flat ones. Honestly I wasn’t surprised at all to see you bring them up because I’d clocked them from the colour alone. That turquoise phosphor is _unmistakable._

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

Illustrations at the top

Great video.

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

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.

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

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

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

I have a nutube vca in my modular ( plankton nutone). It does seem to contribute a bunch of, admittedly somewhat pleasant, thermal type hiss, and breaks up a little early/excessively as would be expected in a low voltage tube config, but it does really make things sound nice. I generally run it on a m'/s encoded bus to generate extra stereo info in the signal.

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!

4:48 The Nubass was the most expensive Volca at launch. However, prices have fallen through the floor. Only a fortnight ago, it was on (UK) Amazone for £85. Today, it's only deadcat-bounced its way up to £115.

Jam1 attacks my heart. So nice.

My wife: 'Are you watching that German guy again that hates all your music stuff?' 'Yes.. I mean he's Austrian. But yeah..'

I feel partially responsible for the NubAss since from the first time I saw those nuNube things I kept nagging Korg to use them to make a big monosynth like the Knifonium 😅

That intro sounded pretty deep and warm!

Outtakes - YAY!

Happy future bad gear acquisition day!

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

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.

Bought it as my first "real" synth, after using some free app stuff, to learn what all those parameters do. Had it for a week and like it very much, only changed the global setting for tempo, so far. Now I am looking for stuff to do with it on youtube and my first stop is of course - bad gear! 😁👍 the only thing that annoyed me, was that the free software bundle is not entirely compatible with windows(DAW for example-mac only)

@0:48 I love Sausage Fattener plugin. I use it loads. It makes things like a fatter sausage than before you used it. If you haven't got it...well, everyone should, it's great 🧡

You absolutely need to get a Casio VA-10 for the vocoder shout out alone

always a pleasure to watch your videos. what do you do with all that bad gear once youre done reviewing it?

"Is Korg aware of the Volca memes?" I kind of hope so. I would love to have a Volca done up in one of the fantasy color schemes as a special edition. As for the Nubass, I haven't seen anything that sells me on it. I have a standard Volca Bass that remains one of my favorite synths, despite its lack of features, due to its portability, great sound and smooth filter. I haven't seen any Nubass demos that sound as good as what I get out of the Bass, I'd have to demo it for myself to know for sure.

Why is it that after every episode of Bad Gear I want to buy the gear in question. In this case I want it and I don’t even like acid.

Hopefully they come out with a red Nubass Bass.