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You're not really in the studio unless your recording to tape, no... you're not really in the studio until there's no multi-tracking... NAY... you're not really recording music unless your laying down your tracks into a spinning piece of wax!

Hope you enjoy this look into recording history. This was a lot of fun.
Next week we see how this equipment holds up against a metal band.

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Recording on 100-Year-Old Equipment

Recording music on 100-year-old wax cylinder recording equipment. Next week we put a metal band in front of it! or get the song, commentary, song stems, and early access to videos when you super-subscribe on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/RobScallon Second channel videos: Short song Live vs. Wax: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sn7KyLHfr0 My Uncle the Philanthropist Live vs. Wax: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBpQR2z2eko Featuring Jeff Linville: https://www.youtube.com/Westgateil Modern Engineer: Rob Ruccia 1800s Engineer: Shawn Borri Video edit by Jake Jarvi: https://www.youtube.com/pineappleboyfilms/ The purple picks I use were given to me by Purple Plectrums https://PurplePlectrums.com This video was made possible because of Patreon support from Zain Omar, Navin Antoine, Brad Tucker, Jaz Maglana, Blayd Malburne, Andrew Johnston, Cody Melcher, Caleb Chalfin, Otto Cate, Nicolette Kawata, Haroon Rahman, Quintin Waldner, Hypergnome, Stefan Gunn, Andy AKA VaultsOfExtoth, Rob Harper, Rahul Parsani, & many other awesome people on my Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/RobScallon Thank you so much! Music videos go on the main. Everything and anything else is posted on my 2nd Channel: https://www.youtube.com/RobScallon2 Also... Merch: https://store.dftba.com/collections/rob-scallon Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/RSfanpage Twitter: http://tinyurl.com/twitter78 Instagram: http://instagram.com/robscallon/ Tumblr: https://RobScallon.tumblr.com

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Chas

this is really cool.

Andrew

Awww man so excited to see the metal song ! I thought just recording normally puts pressure on but this is a step up haha! Super interesting though to see how they used to record. Also I was wondering if you could do me a favour? Just finished a video making metal with everyday objects (toaster, toothbrush etc.) and it would make my life if at the end you said something like "what the hell was that? Needs more strings, that wasnt metal" just recorded on your phone or anything. If you cant thats cool! If you can you can email me at andrewwatson55@hotmail.co.uk Love what you do man!

Zillebrothers

Whoa, what an AWESOME idea!!! Really cool!

RobScallon

Yea! Here each cylinder has to be home made. They can do a few takes, but require 15 of shaving off a layer of wax very evenly to start another take. Pressure was on for sure. And sure :) Scanned through some of your videos and they seem really fun! Sent something over to you just now. Thanks for the support!

Andrew

Crazy ! Amazing how accessible it’s become now ! That’s awesome thanks so much ! Honestly so cool thanks!!

Jeanine McCarthy

Ahhh this is amazing! I adore a process and this is definitely a process I had not seen before. Fascinating! Can't wait to see the metal band results next time!

RobScallon

It was a really fascinating recording session, I anticipated a lot of troubleshooting but not the troubleshooting that ending up happening. Metal band didn't turn out at all like I imagined.

Davie504

That's so fascinating! epic!

Make Something

Ahhh, this is so incredibly cool! What a great opportunity!

Brad Tucker

You should definitely release the tab for that uncle song it’s so good