COPPER PIPE MADE INTO A STUDIO DELAY THAT RUNS AT THE SPEED OF SOUND

hello how's it going so a month or so ago now I put up a video about a machine that heimbach and I made um whilst we were doing the pipe dreams EP pip dreams is the second EP that heimbach and I have done after Roto pops uh the link to both of those and the vinyl is below but we did an experiment about making a quick bodge job version of the cooper timecube cooper time Cube being a very old delay that was built from basically hose pipes two different lengths of Hose pipes in a box and then there was a speaker on one side which was actually an sm57 microphone capsule and then on the other side there was two microphones I'm assuming they were also sm57 capsules on either side of the hose pipes so there was two different lengths the both lengths are right here and this made some really quick delays we actually got quite a bit of success out of a hose pipe a garden hose pipe from the DIY place [Music] yes no yeah no way that s so good that sounds so good we had a funnel on one side with a speaker and then on the other side we had a really small microphone of course there was a lot of people commenting about oh you should do it like this oh you should do it like that so I thought let's have a think and also take in some of the comments and maybe make a better one and maybe take it to the next level possibly well um um yeah so this is when I ended up getting this yeah 25 M of coiled 15 mm copper pipe the thinking is is it might not be the best material but we're just going to keep on going around in circles if we don't kind of like settle on one of them but the idea is might be a little clearer it might be a little clearer it might be a little different hello how's it going yep so I'm just going to get a microphone all right so if I put this here the delay hopefully is a little bit cleaner going through this this is approximately the same length as the one in the other video but we're going to use this as a test to see if we can build on it further in the following video after this one so hopefully as you could have heard there this is a little bit brighter sounding there's also something else I want to mention about hose pipes and stuff in general as a lot of people commented in the last one about using the the ribbed uh pipes and when you speak into one of these rib pipes I did in the previous video you'll notice that there was multiple delay times you could hear coming through bleeding out of the pipe well funnily enough if you listen to the other side of that pipe it sounds exactly the same the volume however is a lot lower that's because the sound is vibrating off each of the ribs at different times so you're actually getting delay times at multiple points through the pipe bleeding out of the pipe that's what you're hearing you're not actually hearing the end result you're hearing the sound being bled from the pipe itself for more control of the sound what we want we don't actually really want it to do that however that is another effect entirely and if this one kind of does well well maybe we'll make a box out of that where the microphone's on the actual outside of the hose and then the hose is wound out so you hear millions of different ones the idea with this pipe is going to put a speaker on one side we're also going to cut it in half so we're going to make a microphone tap in the middle at 12.5 M and then we're going to put a microphone on the other side the thinking is is you'll get two different delay times from the same pipe if we're successful with this I'm going to have to try and save up and buy more of this and make just a longer delay just keep on going because plumbing supplies are easily boltable and adjustable if we unbolt this and bolt an exactly the same setup next to it well we'll get double delay and if you keep on doing that inor we could have a much longer delay but we've also multiple middle grounds in the meantime the first thing we're going to do is we're going to split this pretty much in half so I'm going to find the middle one oh that's much more manageable we've got 12.5 M let's try and make this work first and then we'll connect them both together and get 25 M again so in order to make this neat and tidy I decided to design some mounts so so we could put this together I jumped on on shape the online CAD program and quickly bashed together these things that are freely printed in green and then sprayed because I only had green and these bolt together like that the idea with these is we're going to be able to acoustically isolate each of the coils from each of the other ones sufficiently for this to work like so like so you can see right there I then spent a little bit of time trying to wind this up I should have done it around a barrel uh but I yeah as you can see I tested there but I couldn't find a circle that I really liked so I just did it by hand like this which actually properly bit me in the ass when I was trying to copy it with the second module but hey ho what are you going to do after as you can see after a little bit of time and a little bit of adjustment it really started coming together and then I put the mounts on this is when the pain started to begin because yeah that stuff did not want to line up but after an hour or so it really started coming together you had to tighten it up bash it about a bit tighten it up a bit more to get circular this is a Standard Plumbing converter and it actually fits around this condenser mic exactly so we're going to use that and we're going to use this speaker I found this u87 clone for the condenser mic it's a driver so we're going to attach the condenser mic he here we go so this is 12.5 M which is approximately 40 milliseconds is the maths the exact maths right here and um yeah we're going to wire it in I could already hear a Reverb but I don't know what that's coming from so we've got the microphone cap capule here we're going to bolt that to the bottom R heav like that have that's sitting down there then we're going to have the speaker that's going to be on the other side lovely we've got the microphone on channel 16 there's phantom power that's turned on so the microphone is there then the speaker that's going into the pipe is going on one of the send outputs we've got an ms10 that is right [Music] here we're going to turn up the send on the ms10 to see the effect of the pipe [Music] oh now let's turn up some [Music] feedback no effect effect effect with feedback [Applause] [Music] right let's double the delay time by removing the speaker adding a t Junction oh Pop That on get a second one and pop it on top I know this is silly is it try and add some more of these mounts I have no idea how this is going to turn out but let's just give it a go shall we these clamps you have to tighten up bit by bit it takes a little bit of time but the more it gets tighter the more neat it all starts looking it's pretty good I mean it's this is not by no means perfect but it doesn't look that bad it doesn't look that bad at all they're nowhere near equal spacing so just pretend it looks neat yeah pretend it looks neat right same as before we've got the speaker on the top we've got the microphone right at the bottom lovely jly but we've also got another microphone in the middle I have no idea how this is going to work out or sound but let's give it a go so now we've got twice the pipe length which in theory is twice the delay line from the speaker to the bottom microphone however you will know that I've added a microphone in the middle it is on a t Junction yes it's not ideal but it's worth an experiment to see if it even makes a difference because if you think about it it's a closed chamber so the air pressure is traveling in that so maybe bends and stuff might not affect it let's see anyway what it sounds like we're going to bring in the delay that we've already heard that's all right now what about the longer delay that's pretty long both of them at the same time so we're now going to try and experiment with the effect but in stereos we'll have this one coming out of this side and this one coming out of this side [Music] bit of feedback on the send bit of feedback on the send [Music] [Music] oh [Music] so what do you think to The Copper time Cube let us know I really want to do a part two but Copper's quite expensive like this is 80 milliseconds in total of delay if we get another two of these modules and have another two sets microphones that's 160 milliseconds and then you've got all the TAPS in between and if you get another one that's 240 milliseconds and another one that's what 320 milliseconds that's quite a lot of delay when you get to it but yeah cober's expensive so if you want to help us out on this then please go and check it out on patreon you can also download some sounds of the noises that are made you can use the samples and whatnot but yeah I'll be definitely saving the pennies to try and make this bigger very soon I'll also be working on some sound isolation because there's a lot of background noise that gets in through the condenser microphones personally I cannot tell the difference between the microphone being that way and that way so technically having it tapped all the way up would actually be fine but yeah until next time I'm look I'm no computer this is the copper time Cube and if you like see don't forget to subscribe and don't be scared to try it maybe don't try this unless you've got the back door key to a plumbing shop though see you later

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Length: 11min 50sec (710 seconds)

Published: Fri May 31 2024