How to make a (really) lofi DIY tape delay.

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project null

4 жыл бұрын

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In this video, I will show you how I made my tape echo.

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@jimmy_jamesjams_a_lot4171 4 жыл бұрын

I GIVE MUCH RESPECT FOR WHIPPING OUT THE 5$ SOLDERING IRON, TINNING YOUR TIP, THEN PROCEEDING TO DO A COMPLETE PROFESSIONAL DESOLDERING JOB!! We don’t need no Hakko. THANKS FOR SHARING THIS!!

@djSpinege 4 ай бұрын

I used cheap irons for like 20 years until i could afford a Hakko. It's nice but yeah, it's all the same if you take good care of your tips.

@axel_fagerberg 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful!!! Love this approach, it's the simplest I've seen so far

@infinitesmall 4 жыл бұрын

This is amazing, thank you!!!!! The music during the assembly part was also very beautiful

@MrStarbit 4 жыл бұрын

Great minds think alike I've done something similar myself. love the little touch of using the little pressure pad. Instead of sacrificing another cassette player I've bought a load of those adapters to plug an aux into a car cassette player. They're just tape heads attached to a aux cable I plug directly into so my mixer and add gain no soldering or sacrificing required :)

@tommychampion8483 4 жыл бұрын

that sounds awesome - can you explain that process a little more in detail? Do you plug the cassette aux adapter into the line in of another tape player and then into the mixer? I am curious to try it myself

@MikePaldino 4 жыл бұрын

How does that work?! I have a bunch of them- would love to try it out!!

@singhjobim9719 3 жыл бұрын

@@tommychampion8483 You'd have to see one , it is basically a cassette with a wire coming out of the back edge. you can insert into an automobile cassette player as use it as a way to amplify your cd player. www.ebay.com/i/353304566605?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-213727-13078-0&mkcid=2&itemid=353304566605&targetid=4580840328167961&device=c&mktype=&googleloc=&poi=&campaignid=403204656&mkgroupid=1235851284511226&rlsatarget=pla-4580840328167961&abcId=9300377&merchantid=51291&msclkid=ceb957ae9a541fd36266084f0499452f

@TALA-lu5ck 3 жыл бұрын

don't u miss out on a lot of EQ'ing, amplification and biassing stuff skipping the walkman's own amplification circuit?

@grontti 2 жыл бұрын

Do you rip out the tape head from the cassette adapter or how do you make delay out from it?

@j.wilcox3547 2 жыл бұрын

Cool video. Love the music playing while you are building the tape loop.

@davejones5745 Жыл бұрын

Everything done on analog tape machines. No computer interface, DAW ect...I like that!

@JavierLN0 4 жыл бұрын

AMAZING!!! Soo beautiful! I will try it too! Thanks for sharing!!!

@darthvader5701 4 жыл бұрын

This is brilliant, just what I was looking for, thank you for this solution that will save me hours of brainstorming.

@SyncdAlien 4 жыл бұрын

Insanely great! 😍 I love it! 😍

@glenesis 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! You are a madman. I appreciate it so much! I wish I'd thought of this in the 1980s when I was tearing tape decks and cassettes apart! I may buy a $15 Walkman and do this anyway. Nice kalimba playing!! Cheers :)

@dr.baisakhi 4 жыл бұрын

The background music is very eerie and have feeling of emptiness...

@Oberheim2001 3 жыл бұрын

This project is awesome my friend!!!! Really sick!!!

@grahamdunning 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent! Works really well

@stephend9756 4 жыл бұрын

amazing job on this! Subscribed!

@andrebartels1690 4 жыл бұрын

Such a great approach. No messing around with the precious speed-variable player, just a cassette that holds the read-head. Ingenious. I bet you could sell these things of you wanted. Remember these adaptor cassettes for your car stereo? They have a head and some mechanics in them. Maybe there is some playground in there, too. Just add some tape and some more fiddling. Just an idea.

@kanesmith8271 3 жыл бұрын

This music makes me cry on the inside 😿 👍

@medbe4580 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome!! Would love to give this a try!

@VintageMusicGearTV 3 жыл бұрын

Great idea presumably the head in the cassette is your delay head brilliant!

@V3xxe 4 жыл бұрын

I definitely need to do this. This is amazing.

@V3xxe 4 жыл бұрын

@@projectnull Currently my music is on my channel VaultsOfExtoth, and on vaultsofextoth.bandcamp.com :)

@cjbcarr1 2 жыл бұрын

damn that's cool. love all that pitch warble......sounds like you're playing a jazzmaster and yanking on the tremolo arm!

@PrimitiveInTheExtreme 4 жыл бұрын

...very interesting, great job.

@User173 4 жыл бұрын

yessss!!! love it. I'm gonna try this.

@sennebaeyens8738 Ай бұрын

Love this!

@ivorydunsty 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome tutorial Nicolas, absolutely beautiful music my friend!!! I’ve always been interested to try this :-) Best wishes and hope you are well :-)

@laplantamichay 4 ай бұрын

this is so cool!

@avantlanuit 5 ай бұрын

Incroyable. Bravo

@apachecou 2 жыл бұрын

that's really good!.. I'm wondering if more heads are added... but your DIY tape delay gave me good ideas!..thank you!!!

@jkennethking 9 ай бұрын

I'm currently restoring an RCA SRT-301 reel-to-reel tape machine so that I can make super-long delay loops... hacking this into cassettes is super neat. Thanks for sharing!

@afk_hesh 8 ай бұрын

Is there a tutorial for creating reel to reel delays? I don't even have one yet but I'd love to see that process. Can't wait to get my first tape deck and start experimenting!!

@cadburrower3736 10 ай бұрын

This inspires me to go to my local thrift store and start shoppin

@flapdance 4 жыл бұрын

I love the music in this video.

@Aldoistaken 4 жыл бұрын

Pretty damn cool!

@Aldoistaken 4 жыл бұрын

Oh merci c'est cool! Tes performances sont vraiment superbes, ça me donne envie d'intégrer plus de tape loops dans mes vidéos. :)

@DECIMA1 2 жыл бұрын

Wow this is awesome 👌

@noelr8546 3 жыл бұрын

I just copped a Walkman which I don’t intend to break lol but I love what you’re doing

@benringer5149 4 жыл бұрын

Hey mate great video do you have any recommendations for soldering irons please?

@ostrol1590 4 жыл бұрын

Man I FEEL you on this. Been browsing ebay like a madman but 3-heads are outrageously expensive.. praying behringer makes a clone ehe until then! looks dope

@tristanwh9466 Жыл бұрын

If you want to take a step up you can usually find lower end reel to reels for under $100, they almost all have three heads and can handle longer tape loops

@magicalife3 7 ай бұрын

the guitar riff is giving early Modest Mouse, love it

@copernicus808 3 жыл бұрын

Quite clever, actually... thanks!

@alien_brain 4 жыл бұрын

this is f*****g awesome pardon my french

@Fu_kTheZeitgeist 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome!!!

@DECIMA1 3 жыл бұрын

This is very awesome 👌

@futur_sunds 3 жыл бұрын

That's awesome.

@Mike-ry4ti 2 жыл бұрын

Well done, if you wanted a very tidy design you could wire in the secondary head to the playback circuit and use the same amplifier as the primary in playback mode

@V3xxe 4 жыл бұрын

Just realised that the tape player I'm using for this is one of those Tape Grabber ones, so I can actually record the output of the tape echo via USB. That will come in handy!

@afk_hesh 8 ай бұрын

What make/model is it? I'd love to have that feature built into my first deck

@kaffekrus2903 4 жыл бұрын

Hey man this is awesome! Would a 48 watt, 150-450 degrees celsius soldering station work for this? And how warm?

@PeteSasqwax 4 жыл бұрын

Man, I absolutely LOVE this. I have a couple of Sony TCM-20DV dictaphones that I was going to modify with jacks on the speed dial to control them via CV, but now I have to try this! Am I right in thinking that the 3rd head only needs to be a play head so an old (non-recording) Walkman would work?

@PeteSasqwax 4 жыл бұрын

@@projectnull thank you, man - I absolutely will do. I'm aiming to do it this weekend at the latest. If I can get it to work like this I like the idea of trying to find a way of varying the placement of the 3rd head to change the delay time. As for the CV control - it looks surprisingly simple (Chris Randall has shown how to do it on a video possible on his KZfaq but maybe it's on the Audio Damage one). Although I don't have modular as such, I do have a Koma Elektronik Field Kit FX and also a MIDI to CV converter so I should hopefully be able to make some kind of weird lo-fi Mellotron... maybe!

@Wolf_K 3 жыл бұрын

Very interesting way of doing it. ;)

@southernpride2003 4 ай бұрын

I built one of These with my grandpa and we put it inside my Gibson ga5 reissue LP junior tube amp it sounds like an Echosonic now I forgot to Mention that we made it a little bigger and the first input jack on the amp is the slapback echo option and the second output is just dry/normal

@marcussmithereens-smithert5409 4 жыл бұрын

Hoooolyyyyy THIS IS INCREDIBLE. I really hope this doesn't stay in my watch later list, and I actually give it a shot... We'll see... 😁

@marcussmithereens-smithert5409 3 жыл бұрын

@Hendrix Elisha Bruh out of all the videos to get bots to spam comments lmaoo

@marcussmithereens-smithert5409 3 жыл бұрын

@Tommy Parker Bruhhhhhhhh

@carlosdelrio8309 4 жыл бұрын

Hey this is great! I've been bending and playing a bit with cassette recorders and had a similar idea. Let me see if I get this clear: you're recording into the looped cassette with the non-opened Sony, but playing from the opened one? Because I was thinking in using a recorder that has "direct input monitoring" while recording, so that way you could use only 1 unit + the modded cassette inside, and get the live sound while recording + the sound from the read head inside the cassette (I don't know if this makes sense). What do you think?

@ReasonanceHead 4 жыл бұрын

Should work i think, just connect the play head to another player or amp and make sure the heads are aligned in the right order. Im gonna try this too because its damn hard to align an extra tape head in a cassette recorder

@therelaxafterrevision8073 3 жыл бұрын

gorgeous

@luxbuster2087 3 жыл бұрын

oh WOW all the methods ive seen use multi hundred dollar equpment. gonna try this with a couple of walkmans i got at the flea market! thanks for the idea!

@frankcoleman9005 4 жыл бұрын

If you swapped the player that you modified with the other one, wouldn't that enable you to control the speed of the delay?

@christiantorma2440 2 ай бұрын

Sehr sehr interessant 😊

@domenicojuniorgiordano3972 4 жыл бұрын

I've just one of these but I've a lot of ground noise! Any suggestions? By the way thanks for the tutorial, it's awesome!

@MarcosCine 3 жыл бұрын

How do you control Sony Pitch speed control during Recording? In the manual says that speed control only works at playback.

@256k_ 4 жыл бұрын

oh man i really wanna make this. now where to find a cheap tape recorder or two...

@NatePerdomo 4 жыл бұрын

very cool tutorial, but the music was honestly my fav part. 11/10 track.

@ralphk.j7809 3 жыл бұрын

What synths did you use for the background music

@MaNi-cn7to 3 жыл бұрын

Thx and nice!

@ShakyPr0ducti0n 3 жыл бұрын

You’ve sold it to me. I’m going to give it a try for sure. Potentially dumb question... Could you add a second head and wire it back to the same place as the first head? So you get a further delay?

@giuseppepettinati9627 2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking exactly the same. Hope someone will answer

@ACURAOCULTA 3 жыл бұрын

Very very good

@regular_rodro 4 жыл бұрын

This could be do it with a minidisc player?

@Jonas0Wahl 3 жыл бұрын

I'm trying to achieve the same! Would it be possible with just a hitachi trq295 and a player?

@Xtn1Insecticide Ай бұрын

Lol i had the same idea but built one with the tape head nearer the record head and didn’t creat a loop but shorted the tape length to accommodate the head

@beachdoggo7892 4 жыл бұрын

What’s the Sony tape player your using?

@martinmonaco600 3 ай бұрын

the sony output goes to the head inside the casette? The opened black walkman only is playing, right?

@ProfLuisHerrera 3 жыл бұрын

Analog ways are the best!

@rabbitholereins6360 4 жыл бұрын

Now I have to get a few walkmans

@labrax.0 Жыл бұрын

Wowee I have one of those pure gamma tapes

@canalesqueleto2323 4 жыл бұрын

Me podrias recomendar algun esquema de amplificador con 358??

@wurzel6857 4 жыл бұрын

instant submers

@DesertPunks 2 жыл бұрын

Is this one of your songs in the background?

@lawrencethewolf 2 жыл бұрын

project null meets the caretaker

@theycallmedub 4 жыл бұрын

😌

@seanh3479 4 жыл бұрын

Whats the name of this song? I looked around at your bandcamp and couldn't find it!

@john-vg9lg 3 жыл бұрын

Did yiu find it?

@seanh3479 3 жыл бұрын

@@john-vg9lg Yeah it was titled 'Darude - Sandstorm'

@john-vg9lg 3 жыл бұрын

@@seanh3479 XDDD

@mewmew32 4 ай бұрын

I don't get it, if you're recording on the unmodified tape player, isn't the erase head still engaged?

@sungkeh 3 жыл бұрын

holly damn

@upside-down6211 Жыл бұрын

Is it real time tape delay or just record?

@necrophage137 4 жыл бұрын

That sound 😍 what's the chords at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="408">6:48</a>?

@MatthewFraser1 3 жыл бұрын

Just waiting for Bob Pollard to start singing at any moment.

@sebecksonidoshorribles7652 3 жыл бұрын

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="359">5:59</a> 🤤🤤

@wordviruses 3 жыл бұрын

I would kill to have this as a vst

@simonb1009 3 жыл бұрын

Why do you use cheap recorder but no player?

@woosix7735 3 жыл бұрын

You should have put the second head closer to the record head

@chaz1182 4 жыл бұрын

mad man putting a tape head inside a cassette

@jasonb202020 3 ай бұрын

kkkkkkkkkkkkk king of snake

@user-ou3gq1kd1i Жыл бұрын

ни чё не понял,но всё равно круто

@analog_music_lover 4 жыл бұрын

tape is too short

@TheBaconWizard 4 жыл бұрын

No.

@zackhartmann 3 жыл бұрын

its the standard short loop length, easy to make. there are plenty of longer designs like the Chandler loop, or you can get creative and make your own. the tape doesnt even need to stay inside the cassette, you could string it across the room if you wanted

@davelordy Жыл бұрын

Great idea, terrible instructional video . . . the little parts we are meant to be paying attention to, how they are put together, where they go, how they are arranged - and so on - often take up less than 1/100th of the screen real estate . . . I'm not exaggerating here . . . very hard to see what you doing.