About Bad Gear
Bad Gear is a YouTube music equipment review series, covering (almost) exclusively “the world’s most hated audio tools”, both modern and vintage. The show is produced & presented by audio engineer & musician Florian Pilz, with each weekly episode consisting of a rendition of the show’s intro produced wholly or in part with the topical gear, followed by a description of its functionality, history, controversies, etcetera, then, a series of tracks produced with the aforementioned gear
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Editor's PickAudio-Technica AT-LP120XUSB
Direct-drive USB turntable
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BestsellerSony WH-1000XM5
Noise-canceling headphones
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Audio-Technica AT-LP60X
Fully automatic belt-drive turntable
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Sony WH-1000XM4
Wireless noise-canceling headphones
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Top Tracks
Intro tune
Verdict
Jam 1
Jam 2
Overview
Finale
Hate
Jam 1 (Techno)
Worst Korg Volca???
Patreon Vocoder Shoutout
What else???
Software Instruments (Sampler, VA, FM, Additive, Meme Synths)
Workflow, Shortcuts and many, many Windows
Effects (Reverb, Autotune FX, Soundgoodizer, Gross Beat)
Oscillators
Microkorg - A Hipster Synth???
Korg Electribe 2
Arturia DrumBrute - The YouTube Drum Machine???
Jam 1 ( Techno )
Jam 2 ( Drum'n'Bass )
Worst Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator???
Roland MC303 - Worst Groovebox Of All Time???
Jam 1 (Trap Beat)
The Notorious Beat Thang
Presets
Roland TR-8
Yamaha DX7 - Synth Of Fear???
Overview Yamaha Seqtrak
Prologue feat. Gaz Williams
Sequencers
Elektron Digitakt - Overpriced Mono Drum Sampler???
Jam 2 (EDM Drop)
Oscillators, Updates, Vocoder (Arturia)
Overview Korg Minilogue
Red Sound Darkstar - Worst Synth Of All Time???
Tape section
Synth section
Envelopes (ADS, Cycling Envelope), LFO
The 100 € Behringer Challenge
Limitations, pricing
Modal Skulpt - Plastic Toy???
Step Sequencer, Parameter Automation, Spice & Dice
Oscillators, Tuning
What else??? (Connectivity, Current Firmware, Bugs)
Overview XFER SERUM
Polyphony Modes (Unison, Mono+Sub, Midi Delay, Chords, Arpeggiator)
Overview Teenage Engineering TX6
DX7 patches from the internet
Overview Arturia Mini Freak
Overview Korg Volca Drum
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