Miss/LED - two more LED music visualisers
This week I’ve been testing out more music visualiser devices.
Definitely not my finest work but I think I’ve managed to mostly salvage it in editing.
Still, as far as sequels go, this is less ‘The Godfather Part II’ and more ‘Superman IV The Quest for Peace’.
Anyway, here’s the video. It should provide twenty-odd minutes of undemanding and non-confrontational time filling. https://youtu.be/-67GUuDbNYg
I’ve been a bit out of sorts so far this year - its been like one big hangover. I wonder if it's possible to be allergic to a year. With any luck I’ll snap out of it soon, it’s probably just the winter funk.
Take care, keep on doing what you're doing - unless it's illegal, then maybe have a think about things.
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Mat, Happy B-Day tomorrow. 🎉 I got you that watch you wanted: https://www.ebay.com/itm/185258552661 Sorry, just kidding around...have a wonderful day! 🙂
Thanks - also that watch is pretty nasty.
A quick and totally random question. In an earlier version of your video end credits, their is a clip of the Sony Video Cartridge that comes right after the Seeburg BMS... what video is that clip from? Been hunting it down with no success.
That's from the Sony Ruvi camcorder video:. https://youtu.be/Qt_ct4wBnv8
Really cool video. Thanks! There’s an Eastern European maker named Hayri who has a small YouTube channel (“Hayri”) where he shows off the audio and OBD devices he’s made and sells on his Tindie store. He has a number of small devices similar to this that he has designed, has had custom circuit boards made for them, prints enclosures and assembles himself. They obviously aren’t cheap, but very clever. They might be worth you looking into.
Hey Mat, I just wanted to let you know that I've started the strange hobby of collecting all brochures related to the Advent 201 and Advent Chrome Cassettes (such as their special CR/70 audiophile music release) I'm always adding to my collection, so if you're interested in making a video about Advent someday and interested in scans of these brochures that aren't anywhere on the internet, if you gave a heads up in a Patreon update I would scan what I have at the moment and send it over.
I do have an Advent 201 and was planning on a video at some point. So it would be very handy if I had scans of the brochures for it. I wouldn’t be going into the cassettes etc, just the main machine.
Great video as always, Mat - thank you. I personally am not that worried by the 'fake' stereo on the first one. If you needed accurate readings, you would never use a device like that, so its purpose is purely decorative. I wonder if even in professional recording studios, anyone ever takes an actual numeric reading from a VU meter, or if they are only used to ensure the needle stays mostly out of the red?
I think as long as they're sure the equipment is set up correctly - they'd probably just aim to keep out of the red.
Hey Mat; I saw this and immediately thought the same graphic designer must have also worked on the VHD promo 😅: https://tinyurl.com/mry4cswb
Love the reviews of the VU meters/blinky bits. It's a shame the first one was fake stereo. Wish it was just mono and used the whole line of segments instead of showing the same thing twice. Oh well :)
Only thing missing was running a frequency sweep
I'm really surprised how many people have asked to see a frequency sweep on a 7 band novelty toy that's definitely not worth spending any money on. However I'll have to remember to include it in the next LED visualiser video.
The first one has addressable/smart LEDs (neopixels) which have a habit of crashing, which is probably the cause of your dead pixel. Power cycling usually fixes it better than tapping it.
Tapping is always worth a go.
I agree with @Yourboy_hampshire, at least as far as the first one is concerned. I'd be sending that first one back for sure - it doesn't do what it should.
Thank you for the video! Get well soon!
can you do a video on that swiss army knife
He talked about it at 44:30 in this March/April 2021 Patreon exclusive Oddcast video: https://youtu.be/fDCEAqBIMdc It was a great segment because I had one of the smallest knives myself back in the day (the Bijou model) - my favorite thing was the tweezers. A quality product that has consistently remained so (a rarity). And boy, are those blades sharp!
Great video, maybe I’m a sucker for flashing lights but I kinda want one 😂
but how much is it in Zimbabwean dollar?
Just another reason for me to be bummed about being American 😩🤣
Let's face it, our fellow citizens can be complete bozos sometimes, IMHO - present company of Patreons excluded.
Watched all your audio display videos as after one for the new house... Will wait for the next one. These were ok, but working fully and finished products is better. New shirt too I think
It's an old shirt - but newly ironed.
Nice, the software for the 2nd one is pretty well made indeed. And such big RGB panels aren't cheap, so while the utility of it is obviously a personal thing you do get your money's worth in hardware... And unrelated, that knife really is ridiculous :D
I agree with this -- I was quite impressed with the effort the makers of the second one have put in to create a load of easy-to-use visualisation options.
Canadian Dollars! 👍
Can't wait to see the one you didn't get to!!
Sir, yet another excellent video. I have always been fascinated with "Audio Readouts". Although these are very interesting, the price is far more than the value, as you stated.
A new week, another satisfying video. A new week, and again my first thought is: those new spectacles are quite fine! I really want to gorilla glue those three panels together. Why do I now sense there could be hidden messages in your videos ever since I missed the references in the Scope Clock video? 😅 Off topic, but I've been meaning to ask; has the Museum of Obsolete Media contacted you to catalog your huge Hipac collection? 😉 Or, better yet, profile your exploits?
There are no messages in this one - well not intentional, although that boot-up logo might be offensive for all I know.
Best wishes. What the hell is that Swiss army knife?!
Heavy.
Some of my least inspired videos have become the most successful, for reasons only known to the YouTube algorithm. Like who would've thought a video about crappy little black & white TVs would go viral?
It is odd how that happens. I really wasn't happy with my CD personal stereo video, but it didn't seem to matter.
You almost.....almost got me to buy another one of these. I have bought three different devices based on these videos and I love them. :)
I like the random currency conversions.
I really appreciate it as a Canadian :)
That first one you demonstrated has got me wondering why they would bother to have both L and R inputs if they were only going to display a mono signal. One guess is that they wanted to make people think they were getting a stereo device while saving the time and expense by only building a mono device--but then it appears that they actually did build a stereo device that only "plays" in mono. Maybe the one you bought had a manufacturing error that combined the signals. Oh well, if you really want this particular visualizer in stereo, I suppose that you could buy two of them;>\ These visualizers do have a real appeal to them, but at those high prices (I wonder how much they cost in Rhodesian dollars or Norwegian Kroner?) well, I think the best bet for music visualization is to run all of the Techmoan music visualiser videos on a loop
I appreciate the use of Australian dollars in this video. 😊
There’s a reason for that - I’ll explain in the next update.
For what it is worth, Adafruit sells those 64x32 RGB LED Matrix panels (I am guessing it is the 6mm pitch one) for $65 US. So three of those (screens by themselves) in the states is $195...Not sure what that is in the Queens Crowns, but... (if it is a smaller pitch screen, it would be cheaper.
Great video! I always enjoy these as they are a bit of fun and you would really not use these for professional type of things. If you did you would want a real time analyzer.
As for the incorrect stereo connections on that first unit, I suspect it's a holdover from the days when RCA inputs needed a mono option, like the Left/Mono input on a lot of TVs.
It seems there is another button at the back besides that slider that switches between microphone and RCA input. Maybe that changes between mono and stereo? (Visible e.g. at 1:36) Edit: Nope, there's nothing there. In another/older model there seems to be an additional small potentiometer in that spot.
The first have an Arduino Pro Mini embedded, you can even see the silkscreen prints of the PINs in the video at 7:45. So that has some DIY programming potential.
That Swiss Army knife is INSANE.
He talked about it at length a few patreon updates ago. Edit: GJ Robbins found the exact spot in a comment below. This is what she wrote: He talked about it at 44:30 in this March/April 2021 Patreon exclusive Oddcast video: https://youtu.be/fDCEAqBIMdc