Could you imagine how mind blowing it was when people first heard themselves recorded on something like this

Only 1900's kids would remember these Edit, 4k+ likes? wow, cheers.

"You're recording with a barometer, basically." Gives a new meaning to "recording under pressure."

I sincerely hope that there are people being trained to know what this old equipment is and how to use it. This is an art we should never forget, just like swordsmanship and horse riding.

You guys should record something really modern sounding, write 12/08/1913, bury it and wait for the conspiracies to surface

is this what black metal bands record with

6:34 The quality is terrible, there's white noise drowning out the audio, the pitch is off, and yet... It sounds nostalgic. If there was a full song just like this I think I would listen to it on repeat all day.

tears start at 6:34 lofi wax cylinder radio - beats to relax/study to

This is one of the coolest things you have ever done. I can't wait for part 2.

I can’t imagine seeing that tape 100 years later just hearing “SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON”

8:13 hearing someone swear through 100-year-old recording equipment it’s just hilarious.

lofi artists are creaming themselves at this

time to start that hipster black metal project!

This is as lofi as you can be.

Indie/post-rock bands be like: *heavy breathing*

*Recording on 100 yr old equipment* _Walks grandparents into room_

2:06 "- sounds like we're listening to ghosts -we are listening to ghosts" that video got sinister right there

I don’t think 10 years ago Rob on his acoustic in the middle of the woods ever thought he’d be doing this. This man is incredible.

6:30 to 6:33 is so nice with the wax particles flowing through the air and the music in the background.

I have a 77 year old piano from before WW2 and survived the war. My grandpa that passed away brought it back to the house and we got it tuned and it works perfectly and it brings a very unique ring to it. I’m gonna make sure I pass it down to my future kids and they do the same to theirs

Nice! Youve outdone yourself, Rob. Next up: An entire band recording directly to one-track mono reel-to-reel tape.

This video is a prime example of why this channel is one of the best on KZfaq.

I love how the guy just completely refuses to joke around "it won't lather..."

in the early days of recording to the complexity of the process, a lot of new artists auditioning were giving one shot to get their song right, if they failed they got shown the door. It makes you really appreciate the anxiety they must have felt with that in mind in addition to being surrounded by complex and finicky machines as well as producers and executives.

Varg vikernes is really jealous right now. Great as always Rob

Incredible!

There`s no dynamics, he said. AS LOUD AS POSSIBLE. Just like in modern day mastering.

6:34 it kinda sounded more like a piano

What a cool video

Some people thought tape was trve kvlt...

Legitimately this was absolutely genius back then. Like... who would’ve thought about wax and sound waves with the tech they had back then? Wow.... just amazing.

Very cool. That's why banjos and banjoleles were so popular in live music and early recordings in this era, They're WAY louder than guitars and ukuleles.

The ULTIMATE way to infuriate Fluff! XD And, this whole thing is the coolest ever :O

*Lo* *Fi* level: godlike

there is a recording floating about of the earliest "hit single": a wax cylinder recording, made 1894, of "daisy, daisy". still a good song actually.

Forget about wow and flutter just love the surface noise. As an old audio guy this made me grin from ear to ear. Yes a big smile on my face. What fun.

there’s just something about the way the little wax shavings catch the light when they’re coming off the cylinder that’s so beautiful

This is what every black metal band needs

The way the wood dust flurries around the scene at 6:30 just feels so amazing.

I'm finally back in school after years of saying I'd go back & figured I'd go for something I want to get better at, which is Studio Recording. First day of class, we learned about this history of recording and this was literally the first of it. So seeing this come up on recommendations deffinitley caught my attention. Awesome video, can't wait to watch Part 2 along with your other videos!

What really resonated with me about this video is the amount of respect and pride the cylinder recording engineer has about his craft. Dressing in a suit to not only display the equipment but set everything up and operate it and demonstrate its capabilities speaks volumes about the respect for the early days of sound engineering and the legend himself Mr. Edison who used this. I took a class about the early days of sound recording and learned about the early cylinder recording days, so to read the engineer's comments below with more detail about it was really fascinating as well. Thank you guys for putting this together! The Internet needs more of this!

This was the video I didn't know I needed. So interesting.

I'm kind of a new subscriber, but man... Your excursions in music enthrall me so hard, I can't stop watching bro. Keep making content man, you're the best ever

most original idea I've ever seen on KZfaq. (Bloody well edited too). Bravo.

Can you please go through every decade of recording techniques please? It would be so amazing!

Rob *says anything funny* sound tech *takes the joke as literally as possible*

oooh the white sound when they play back their recordings made me smile, it's like if I went back in time to hear some classic tunes.

7:17 best way to enter the studio

Still sounds better than MW2 mics

Wait's over! Here's it with Metal! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nLhkddh-m8q0ZGg.html Here are the full takes of the songs Short Song: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ldmeaq6qsa7KomQ.html My Uncle the Philanthropist: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iqighLVj35jJm6M.html

Got any cardioid horns? For laymen out there, I’ll explain what sound really is in a bit more detail. Almost everything you hear is really fast fluctuations of air pressure. That’s what moves your eardrum in and out. If the pressure changes - one change means going through both high and low pressure - happen between about twenty and twenty thousand times per second and the changes are great enough, you can hear it if you haven’t experienced any loss yet. With losses, you normally lose the ability to hear the fastest changes. The pattern of the changes determines the timbre, or what the sound sounds like. What any recording technology does is record a pattern as similar as possible to the pattern of the changes in air pressure. In this case the pressure changes move a device that carves wax. Playback means finding a way to translate those stored patterns back into air pressure changes. That’s what a modern loudspeaker or headphone does. What makes this early medium difficult is five factors: 1. The background noise drowns out too much sound. Actually, the same thing used to happen with tape hiss, though to a lesser extent. 2. If the sound is too soft, the carving device won’t be moved detectably by the air pressure changes, so it won’t record soft sounds. 3. If the sound is too loud, the pressure change may try to move the carving device farther than it can physically move, so it won’t record loud sounds. In any equipment, again especially including magnetic tape, if you’re loud enough to exceed the capacity of the medium to record, you get distortion. If you want to research this further, this form of distortion is called “clipping.” 4. The carving device can’t move fast enough to produce really high pitches, and those pitches (in this case also called frequencies) make the sound sound more natural and speech/singing more intelligible. This is also a problem in playback. 5. The carving device can’t move far enough to record low pitches which involve big pressure swings, just fewer of them per second. This is also a problem with playback because in order to produce bass you need to move a lot of air, which means the playback system needs more size than you see with wax.

This is amazing and the guy that operates that thing is amazing too!!! This is something what I got from this... back in the days imagine the money you could make doing concerts for ppl who were fans only from hearing you on wax!!! Live performance enhanced the actual instruments and vocals so if anything artist and musicians really gained fans from hearing low quality perfection to everything having to actually be perfections!!!

Awesome work, guys! Super cool theme!

This is absolutely incredible! It shows how lucky we are to have any decent recordings from that time period and, even tho we have those recordings, it doesn't give justice to the musicality of the musicians who lived back then because they had to play very loudly to be heard in a recording. Thanks for the great video.

my grandparents have an edison playing machine and this makes me think of going there and picking up a random scroll and listenimg to it. so cool to see how they were recorded

This is by far the coolest video I've ever seen ever!

The guitar portion of the video sounded like a lo-fi track. I absolutely LOVE this video! It was so cool to see how songs were recorded back in the day.

Oh is this what black metal bands record with?

Hipsters trying to out-hipster each other.

"There's no dynamics so we just have to play loud?" "Yes." * *plays delicate finger style guitar* *

That singer must be your twin or something! Great singer and guitarist tho. Also want that uncle song as a ringtone haha

Hipsters will say this is the best media for music because it's 'warm' or something

This is super awesome and I want to see more videos like this.

i keep coming back and watching this over and over again, its so interesting.

Rob "Hell of a Hipster" Scallon That's, like, *really* cool.

Content like these deserves more views. It’s educational and it’s really fun too watch. Compared too what the those Paul’s put out. Support great content on KZfaq!

Fascinating, thanks for.sharing. It's like going back in time.

Amazing, thank U guys for sharing this. Incredible.

Old mate doin the recording seems like a joy to be around.

So that's how Black Metal bands record their albums.

This is one of the coolest video on this channel, and that is saying something.

The first song gave me a a vibe of some lost happy memory finally being remembered

I was really surprised to hear how poorly the guitars sounded on the wax recording, but I suppose that's as raw as sound truly gets.

I kept feeling that the gentlemen that they had set up the wax cylinders was just going to snap.

coolest thing I’ve seen on KZfaq in a long time. love the forgotten knowledge by which innovative people had to be without modern scientific principles.

Rob, you are a blessing on music!

4:47 Stick with the person that watches you like that man to that wax cilinder.

This has got to be the coolest video you've done...

Rob: now we're going to try a metal band Wax: melts

I've had my Guild for about 10-12 years now, and while hearing you play Simple Song... I heard my guitar tone as I hear it when I record. That's amazing that one guitar brand can sound so unique to another. My dreadnaught has never sounded similar to my buddies dreadnaught bodied Taylor or Dana Bourgeios. Very cool. Great video too. Very cool!

The dude with the equipment seems like he just... doesn't want you guys to be using it. lol

Oh. My. Gah. This is SO COOL! 🤘😄👍♥️🎶

craziest thing, but ive been listening to short song for a couple of months and didn't even know you made it until I watched this video and you mentioned it. small world.

What a TREASURE!!! Thank you so, so much for sharing :-)

i swear to god when they play back the melody at 6:34 i feel something really warm and strange about the guitar with the noise covering it .... it's so strange and familiar

The metal band version is gonna be epic.

This is so cool to see! I’m learning the Yurok language, and a lot of the resources for the language are recorded on wax cylinders.

This is probably the most amazing video I’ve seen on KZfaq

you need to record black metal on that thing

I can't decide on my comment for this video. 1) 6:34 so much melancholy 2) I'm not even sure if I'm worthy of watching this video. Such a great idea, and so much fun! 3) I'm not sure what I'm most amazed of: all the old equipment or Jeff's playing guitar. He plays guitar! He, Jeff!!! He plays guitar!!!!! Still can't decide.

You were in my suggested list and I am so glad that I decided to click on your channel tonight

February 2021 rewatching old Rob Scallon videos waiting for that sweet new content

so it converts everything into ambient black metal?

Now THAT is what I call LoFi

What a cool project! Thanks for sharing this.

I hope that by seeing this and then hearing the playback for comparison, more people today can listen to ORIGINAL cylinders from back in the day and have an appreciation for the actual instrument / vocal shreddery/mastery that was actually taking place in the recording studio, even if more dimly heard today.

Steampunk Djent??

The COOLEST application of vintage to modern recording EVER!!!!!!

We toured the Johnson Victrola Museum in Dover Delaware. As a musician, I was so fascinated seeing where it all began. Thanks for this demonstration !

Absolutely the coolest thing I've ever seen!!! The guy with the equipment seems to be very literal. Almost like he doesn't know when you guys are joking or not.