Hainbach & Magpie are like a noisy DIY power couple. Should we call them Hainpie? Magbach?

"I’m probably not going to fill up more than this space that I’ve allotted..." - sounds like my eurorack friends in the heat of their denial.

Looks and sounds amazing! Just be careful not to open up some sort of space time portal. It happens all the time in the movies 😁

Loving your music and this channel. I’ve been watching so many of your videos in the evenings that when my wife saw that I was calling her on my cell phone, she answered it with ‘Hi I’m Hainbach, good to have you back.’

This was the most directly i've ever heard the electricity inside the wires and circuitboards, and it makes me feel super privileged to have access to lab equipment, i'll be using it more from now!

10:00 it really started ... cool stuff

That's how they did before the birdth of synthesizers. Well, not really "music", but still hypnotic and catchy.

I'm excited that you've included these instruments in your collection of equipment. This was a very interesting patch and I can't wait to hear more!

Would love to see you try and recreate some Stockhausen sounds. Like recording the test sine and several different frequencies to create additive tones.

wow, amazed by the versatility you can get with a setup like this. beautiful!

Sneaky Magpie!! great video Hainbach! loved the deepness of the tones that came out of that experiment!

Beautiful. I could listen to those two opening tones for hours. Very special.

First open reel tape and now function generators.... wonderful.... retro-futurism is alive an well! (The H.P. on the top shelf looks like is already close to being a synth anyway ;) ) I'm not sure now, in the (digital) 21st century... but back in the 1970s and 80s a short-wave radio was always a good addition to a set-up like this. It's great to see how much you and Magpie are enjoying yourselves playing with this stuff.

Another time you amaze me. I love the idea of going back all the way back to the origins of electronic music!

it's weird i enjoyed the video, it was really cool. The entire time for some reason I was focused on the fact that your sweater only has buttons on one shoulder, keep up the good work Hainbach

Very cool. Some parts reminded me of Perrey and Kingsley's music from the 60's.

This sounds amazing! Great work!

It sounds amazing. Beautiful machines!

Lol I was looking the my recommended videos as he said "I don't plan on filling up more than this space here". The thumbnail for the next video is him standing in front of a giant wall of test equipment. Crazy seeing how much his setup has grown. I think this is the first video I ever saw on this channel back in the day.

Another fantastic video! It would be interesting to see you tackle no input mixing ala Toshimaru Nakamura next, I see a lot of people attempt it, but no one manages to get those otherworldly sounds that he does.

Thank you, once again. Some of the best content out there.

Super cool that you and Simon the magpie started doing stuff together. That jam at the end was really cool.

That little performance at the end was awesome! I have ГЗ-33, old soviet sinewave generator, it weights 30kg and can drive a speaker directly up to ~50v :D Now I think I need to use it somehow musically and make a video

wow such an exciting time for you! a kick with a side chain would suit that low frequency drone

I like it, thanks for sharing! I especially appreciate the physicality of your "instrument". Two simple questions: How do you connect a banana plug cable from some test equipment to a 3.5mm minijack on your modern equipment, and particularly, how do you ground it (ie making sure they have common ground)?

I just started reading Jennifer Iverson's Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Musical Avant-Garde. About the WDR electronic music studio. Very interesting

Pretty cool! If you get mad at your neighbors, you could shake the whole building with that sine wave generator.. I look forward to more videos using the test gear.

great sounds. I could get lost in these for hours.

Absolutely love this!! Too bad many people do not understand the beauty of this. Near the end it made me float around in my head...

Now thats a real Knob! Beautiful and inspiring ad usual :)

I love Simon's high-tech GoPro mount. You guys sure do love tape!

God, I love love drone/noise music!

This is inspiring. Great work.

you ever worked with transducers? they are cheap and a really interesting way of bringing the electronic and organic world together. like giving electronic devices a real resonance body or use electronic impulses to move real percussions or create completly new percussions controlled by polyrythmic sounds or even combine it. kind of a analog convolving tool.

Marvellous sound generation , and composition.

AAAA this is so relevant to me !!! a few months ago i was extremely dedicated to building a test equipment setup but i didnt end up having enough room ! i cant wait to live vicariously through you and your upcoming videos (0:

Thank you for this, lord Hainbach.

This was great. A big inspiration for me.

The jam was really cool

great stuff man

AWESOME! Thanks for sharing.

Double thumbs up on this one...amazing! (recommend some kind of circuit protection...and a fire extinguisher just to be safe)

I love the oscilloscope. It competes the vintage lab equipment synth.

Oh hell yeah, that jam with Simon the Magpie was something else

ja ! this is ALL SUPER AWESOME STUFF ! LOVE IT

Archeology for synthesis. Love it.

I used to use some of this test equipment to actually fix things as part of my old job as a technician. I used to be able to draw the schematics for some of them from memory. I never thought of using it to create music at the time, though. Cool to see it. I've thought of picking up some of these older pieces just for my workshop at home.

this is not just cool, this is literally a higher level of cool!

Before I watched, I was like, "He must be hanging out with Dennis V."... Nice one, Haino!

Love your work!!!!!!

Jesus....this is just sick. Awesome

Nice pairing of the test equipment with the moogerfoogers! I'm a fan of BBC Radiophonic Workshop/ Delia Derbyshire/ Daphne Oram. If you are too, check out Atomic Shadow, one who is inspired by them.

still love your work!!

Best video ever. Roots of sound.

AWESOME IDEA

Amazingly hands on! Any leads on how to start looking for equipment like this second handed? Cheers!

Looks like you used at least 3 signal generators? It sounded awesome with my headphones. Loved the low tones!

Beautiful!!!

THE HAINBACH HAS SPOKEN.

10:48 "it's not you, it's me " :D jokes aside this makes for fabulous listening and viewing and I 100% agree that it's about the physical interaction, moving around these objects, as well as the wonderful sounds they can make all together. Not a purist either, would love to hear delay and big reverb on some of those sounds.

one of the best known of this type of music is the orignal dr . who theme as done in the bbc radio labs .

Great vid! Would you mind expanding on the setup a little more? I was trying to figure out exactly what each generator was doing. It sounded like you were pinging the Phaser to create rhythms at one stage, similar to your Phaser-drum machine video? Loved it mate.

Nice rich tones even after the shitty youtube compression. Look forward to future experiments with this stuff!

Ohhhhh, so much chemistry between the two of you.

excellent. visual!

always inspiring

Lovely startup noise on the big one. :-)

Stockhausen would be proud of you.😎

Neat sounds! You need to get a lab coat for your next test equipment session. Then you'll really look the part. Do you know Mr Carlson's Lab? He has a lot of great videos of random old electronic gear and test equipment.

really great!

Totally rad.

10:25 is so gooood.

Some amazing tones you have created! Quick question though, have you had to modify these in any way? i have a ganging oscillator which has only an rf output which i intend to use at some point but, i have been a bit scared to modify it until i get a full understanding of what i can do with it. ps. If you haven't noticed from my recent comments on your channel i have started to become a bit of a gear collector so your channel has become a goldmine of information for me :) Look forward to seeing more of these videos

Thats the way I like it. Looking forward to hear more:-) Hainbach, do you have a recommendation which effects do well with the test equipment? You mentioned the Moogerfooger. Could not catch which one you use. Maybe you can help. Thanks, Nobone.

Very wonderful.

Hi Hainbach, you may want to check out Biblioteq Mdulair from Geneva, they've been playing and touring with a massive test equipment setup for a while already.

when's the vst coming out? lol this is really cool though :-) oh and great idea for a sample series zum verkaufen hint hint.

Awesome!

I was going to recommend you to go to WORM’s Sound Studio next time you're in Rotterdam but I just checked the website and they are affiliated with Dennis' Waveform Research Centre so he probs already told you of it haha.

How nice that you find test equipment cheap. I haven’t found it so in the States for more than ten years. Good job keeping the Magpie muzzled until the end. Did you have him wrapped in tape? Locked in a closet? He was so well behaved!

Amazing

This inspired me to look at weird vintage gear on Ebay. I discovered all sorts of alien looking tube tech components. Some were used in radar. Its the sort of thing that Metasonix would probably use to create some audio processor from the large Magellanic cloud! (I own a TM1 AND r52). I used to dream about getting (or building) lots of circuit boards from ancient organs etc & wiring lots of circuit bends between them & see what sounds would emanate from it! I also thought about doing stuff like putting a large metal drum in the attic with a Mic one end & a speaker at the other. (No room even if it went through loft hatch!)

You have the exact same Tascam multi track recorder I have. I use it as a mixer now too. I've had that thing since the early 90's. I've dreamed of getting my hands on test equipment and making music, but this stuff is just.. too expensive and not very available here for me to get my hands on. What would be really cool would be if someone would make VST's to simulate the old test equipment and old experimental tape and old experimental electronic studio equipment from back then. The only thing I've really run across was a program called Berna, but it wouldn't run on Windows. You can do similar stuff with modern synths, but it's not the same thing.

Hainbach is the new Stockhausen

Really nice 👍 Gibt's irgendwie mal die Möglichkeit,dir in echt über die Schultern zu schauen? Grüße, Beno

F*cking sick, what a guy

I feel like I saw some of this equipment at Batman Elektronik, wondering if it might make sound. Niceness!

try a virtual 50s lab www.giorgiosancristoforo.net/softwares/berna/ Berna is a software simulation of a late 1950s electroacoustic music studio. Oscillators, filters, modulators, tape recorders, mixers, are all packed in a easy-to-use interface with historical accuracy.

3:28 absolutely beautiful

respect for taped go pro

It's funny that the KZfaq closed captions spell your name when you say it: Hi, I'm Honda.

Very cool. 6:22 - Does this sound good because it's running through the MoogerFooger? I'm guessing so.

Very cool. I am RF apprentice and I am around old test equipment all the time for MF and AM/FM. I wish I could make tunes with it sometimes instead of use it for radio!

What is it that is triggered at 6:20 to give that sequencer/plucky sound? im looking to get in to this as well and dont know the names of any of these types of units. thank you so much!

nice composition!!!, is the Heathkit brand one of those highly regarded manufacturers like Bruel & Kjaer? I have often seen it at flea markets.

Hilarious. Night and day get together to jam.

This is fascinating! Love your channel btw... I really want to sink my teeth into working with this type of equipment. Do you have any quick tips for not blowing anything up? I worry using this stuff with my current equipment and patching it together. Also are you just using banana plugs? Thanks in advance ✌️

How long before you go further back and get to the peddle-powered mechanical sine generator?

Hey! I have a quick question. I'm looking at doing the same thing and stumbled upon your channel. I can get a good deal on an hp 608e vhf signal generator. But it's my understanding that the frequencies it produces will be too high for me to hear. Is that the case? And if so could I transpose them down somehow? Possibly in ableton after the fact

Interesting stuff going on there. Dennis got some of his ideas about using test gear from me some time back, noting my use of it back in the 1990s (which continues to the present). It's always been a bit of an annoyance that once synthesizers became commonplace, the notion of using this sort of tech virtually disappeared overnight. Quite a shame, as these things come up with sonic results that often a synthesizer can't quite get at, with much of the cause of that probably having to do with the extensive use of vacuum tube tech in test gear up into the 1960s. There's a lot of strange nonlinearities that crop up, especially in filtering, that seem to be related to the notion amongst audiophiles that tubes create a certain enharmonic distortion that accentuates the musical characteristics of signals processed or generated with them...even if the gear is supposed to be "lab grade". One important caveat, though: given the higher voltages that this stuff can generate peak-to-peak, it's probably not the best idea to use that Fostex as an input. Much of my work with these, especially devices like my H-P 200CDs, was done using a 1st-gen Mackie 1202 (prior to the VLZ preamps), which I felt safe about due to their sizable voltage handling capabilities. The Allen & Heath ZED series also has very good higher voltage handling on their front ends, with either of those certainly being safe to use with synth-level voltages and, given that, very capable for test gear provided you don't run the outputs on the gear too high. Anyway, it's an interesting avenue to explore (as you've clearly discovered), but I always found that mingling their results with the larger spectrum of electronic sound was best, as it added a "what's that!?" factor to projects I use/used them on.