Please make one of these for tubes! A comparison of all analog saturation types would be awesome too!

Took me many years to understand this. This explains it beautifully!

My brain. I learned more words from this than what my english teacher give us back in my young days in school

probably the easiest to understand technical youtube video ever made. thank you!

How in the world do you not have millions of subscribers with such high quality vids???

I had read the OG article on the DIYRE blog, but this video does a great job of condensing/simplifying it even more!

Love the animation, y'all! I hope you do more of these videos. Clear, concise, and engaging.

This is amazing. For a person like myself who is trying to dive into DIY world without any knowledge about electronics, this kind of explanation is a godsend. Thank you!

Finally able to understand why valves and analogues have this warm musical sound to them that solid states just can't quite replicate. Thanks for video.

This is amazing, great work! Feels like so many people talk of transformers without knowing what they really do

I can't believe the quality of this video. I learned and started to understand more about audio transformers in these 4 minutes than in an hour of Google searches and complicated articles. Please make more content like this! Maybe one on impedance? I've read about the pipe and water analogy plenty of times, but I'm still left confused on any practical understanding of impedance and how to match things or how sound actually changes with different impedances between gear.

Brilliant... where mr audio left off, only more entertaining, better production and easier to understand. Nice work and now I finally understand these little mystery machines.

Mind blown - you made me realize how simple this huge concept actually is

This video is very clear and concise, and well-produced! I’m hoping to build a microphone soon, so I look forward to more like this!

Good voice, good speed of telling

This is so much more engaging and visual than all the videos of people just talking😂

Very easy understand- thanks for the great video

Can you do this with everything? Tubes, transistors, FETS, Op Amps, inductors...what the hell is all this stuff doing, and why? Perfect explanation with transformers!

Great video cool graphics , so we'll explained thank you !

its phenomenal!!! keep doing videos like this! talk about harmonic distortion, 2nd e 3rd enfasis!!! Thanks e Congratulations!

This video is fantastic. Instant subscribe.

Yes, very helpfull! Please do more vids :-) !!

more on this topic please, kinda epic video

Best explanation ever!

These are the perfect kind of videos which help bridge the gap between abstract concepts and real world application. So helpful. Great work guys.

man this is incredible, i always want to know how its works. I hope you keep doing this videos. Greetings.

Hi! Congratulations for the nice video! Cool animation, and you're touching all the important things. One suggestion though, everywhere you mention signal, it is voltage. While a 2:1 transformer steps down the voltage by 2:1, in ideal case it increases the current by 2:1 (in real life there are some losses). Keep going! 🙂

Very cool video! More please!

Exactly the information I was looking for in clear, and simple terms. THANK YOU!!!

This channel is a blessing!

And YES? Transparent recording consoles will become massively punchy warm vintage sounding recording consoles when adding transformers. Add them after the input amp. Also add a second on the direct output. Put some in the group channels. The Aux sends- Just put them everywhere! My console now sends shivers down my spine on playback!!!! No really My 1988 Wheatstone MTX88 SP5a went from a nice clean console to a killer powerhouse crusher of a console. I can't recommend this enough. It really is the best thing in the world. The sound of those vintage recordings we all love are just 3-4 transformers per channel.

Nicely presented, and to the point! Cheers

Very good video! thanks. Your 500 series modules are very interesting.

This is awesome! So glad to have found your channel!

So good to know this, thank you!

Amazingly well made presentation of transformers. Thank you so much. I understood more in this brief presentation on what transformers are, and what they do, than I did for two days searching the web for knowledge and understanding on the topic. I became an instant subscriber. 🙏♥️🙏 Is there anywhere where you people have a community where one can seek further advice and support on DIY music and studio related issues? At the moment I am searching for knowledge on how to make an external transformer coupling box, for sending line level FET preamp signals through to tape/DAW, when wanted.

More about this and tube amplifier, please... Thank you

This is an excellent video! Thanks. Just enough explanation to give me the understanding I need and ability to do more research if needed.

Excellent presentation, thank you ! Bill P.

Great explanation! Thank you!

Yes, please do more such videos!

great explanation, thank you

what a beautiful video

Interesting and very interactive video. Good job!

Incredible video. Thanks and greetz ✌🏻

Very educational! Thank you soooo much for this! One about tubes would be cool too.

All Info i needed!!!

superb explanation and great visuals! thank you :)

Such a good video, thanks !

Wow You gained a sub just by showing me one video amazing explanation

Excellent stuff! 👍🏼 Keep going, please make more like this 😎

Excellent! Well done with this presentation. Thank you.

Super informative!!

Great video - thanks 👍

This is an outstanding and great tutorial!

So helpful, thank you!

Great video

Awesome thank you so much super well explained!

Great video!

Nice info.

it would be fun to see how different components interact in circuits!

really loved that video

neat little video

Well done! Great explanation.

Awesome explanation. Thank you!

Holy shit this video is too damn good. Exactly what I wanted to know.

cogent and succinct! thank you!

Hey, I am doing an experiment trying to increase power loss in an audio passive crossover circuit by using a transformer, I'm a novice...lol to circuitry but I am thinking if the passive crossover blocks some of the actual power can step up from a transformer correct that loss, thanks in advance

They also do another thing !..............ENI = E ( voltage ) L ( leads ) I ( current ) So they do invese what Capacitor coipling does where current leads voltage... In a way introducing a transformer ( quality ) reequilibrates the DF factor resulting in a more lifelike sound experience where singers and musicians seem to have more presence ...something like kind of magic happens when you use them in a correct way ! Quality are NOT cheap but for balanced signal are the correct way to proceed versus the cheap and low performance IC's used in many commercial applications sold as balanced input/outputs witch iare a illusion and fake marketting .

i would love to be taught about why transformers are known to create frequency dependent phase shifts - i.e. why do they phase sift certain selective frequencies more and other frequencies less or not?

amazing video!

My hand wound isolation transformer does not pass enough power. Does it need a resonant capacitor in series with primary to match the 20khz AC input? I even tried impedance matching that did not work either.

Great informative video 😊 I'd like to know about opamps 😊

Wonderful video and well done. I was wondering about the effect of transformer size on the sound.

that was one slick video

more please! wow!!

great video

Meanwhile, I'm just wondering if the warm asymmetrical distortion heard in a lot of guitar amps driven hard is partially do to a dc-loaded and saturating output transformer...

This is so good... more!

Nice!!! Keep it up!

Awesome!

great channel!

amazing. thanks

It is still really magic.

Nice day... How do we wind output transforrmer design for booster amp.

Awesome video! Thanks! I have an old book about transformers I got from by grandfathers bookshelf. He worked on radiotelegraphy during the 1940s and the book has a warning in it "should not be exported out of the US in war time" so I wonder how he got it. The book talks both about core and wire gauge focusing a lot on wire gauge because it deals with power RF transformers. Is wire gauge an important factor for these audio transformers? Thanks!

Well done guys!

so clear ! fantastic video. immediatly sub ! it would be great if you could say us some specific names of transformers that sounds good, for each type ( steel / iron / nickel / copper ) .

thank you, super helpful 👍🏼

loved the video!!!!

Great video but please make another video on different styles and types of audio transformer

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Amazing video... really!!! I have a question if you have a sec. When you said that a 2:! ratio would mean that only 1/2 the signal would appear on the secondary of an audio output transformer... does that mean that the "identical signal" would appear... at half the voltage? Or... did you mean... "1/2 the signal" from a frequency point of view? Like... you'd lose all your treble, or all the bass?

Hi! I'd like to know how a transformer inside a moving coil microphone splits the voltage and reverses polarity between the hot and cold wires of an XLR cable, or rather - just how it splits the voltage (incase the signal is already polarised due to movement of the diaphragm)

Very good!

Have a nice day... How to rewind opt...?

More please like these

Thankyou very much I can make my microphone sounds good now. It's sound is too quiet. I gonna make it loudly.

Amazing video!

Nice!