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Baby Driver's Tape Scratching Machine - Califone Cardmaster
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- čas přidán 5. 10. 2017
- “Is he slow?”. A demonstration of the device used in the movie.
Baby Driver (Blu-ray, UHD & DVD) amzn.to/2xjtnCc
Califone Card Masters turn up on ebay from time to time: ebay.to/2y3nVaz
There are two versions - The 2020 with the sampling playback function (like mine) and the simpler 2010 without.
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“She sounds like someone you don't want to mess with!”
This is one of the main reasons I like your channel.
finally techmoan shows us his hip hop production skills
That's just way too cool for an old educational device. :D The sampling feature seems like a bit of an overkill when it doesn't seem too much of trouble to just play the card again. I can see how this would have a lot of aplications for musicians... Especially on the experimental side of things.
Cool stuff!
You missed a golden opportunity to have the last card say _tha.. tha.. tha.. tha.. thanks for watching_ :D
Bickety Bam So Max Headroom....😊
Not with his sub par scratching ability. :p
Or having one of the muppets do some scratching.
That would have been a rather predictable way to end a video on scratching, init..?
That's brilliant!
Techmoan, I appreciate a lot of work you have to do even when video seems to be short and easy to made. I know it isn't easy. Keep up!
I concur :) Top effort mate, keep it up!
Great way to put it, I also concur.
GPUtest when it seems like it easy, that is a master at work
The video seems short and easy to make.
Blast from the past... We had those in my elementary school back in the '70s... :)
Cool
@@puppetmaster634 had em in my elementary school in 2000s, schools tech was all like 30 years old super underfunded lol
@@Andrewtatesbiggestfan my school was pretty funded and we had good electronics because the principal was smart when she retired and we got a new principal half the staff quit because no one liked her and the principal used all of the schools money on new flooring for the library and new book shelves which just complicated everything not to mention she only bought like 50 per owned laptops that barely worked
Aww your comment is so cute
How did you use it then
Dear god I want one of these so bad now.
Cyranek! :D
What are you doing here meme prophet
Cyranek I often find your comments in videos I watch. I like that.
I said the same thing, then I saw this comment, and now I know that (should I find such a machine) it would be better off in your capable hands.
Last place I expected to find a meme god
I never even knew technology like that existed until now!
It's just a cassette recorder without the cassette!
I've actually seen one of these... mid 90's in Elementary school.
We call 'a cassette recorder without the cassette' a Reel-To-Reel or Open-Reel.
Dang, you've ever heard of cassette tapes?
@@brentfisher902 It's a reel-to-reel or open-reel without the reel ;-)
As a scratch DJ, I would love one of these beautiful instruments. The creativity would be endless!!
Did I see this right; This is the world's first gig of *DJ Techmoan* ??? 😆 😎
And we see history being made. Can't wait for "Wireless HDMI (Dubstep Remix)"
Anamnesia I like this Cardmaster;you made it sound like a credit card turntable! Imagine a DJ using this device with a deck of sound samples of the long cards from George Clinton or The Temptations or Tri-Tones;bet you can make a beat from those smaller cards. How come this wasn’t as cool as Baby Driver?
tape the cards together so to create a loop track. Get several machines playing different loops plus a "live turntable" one.
Has he ever mentioned what his day job was?
Increase the speed, cut some slits and do some printing, and you get a zoetrope with its own audio track.
Unbelievable! I never thought I'd see something like this again, let-alone reviewed by you!
During my years at Fairmont Elementary--late-70's/early-80's--we made use of a similar machine: The Language Master. It was much larger, and the lessons were all on the longer cards. Best fun had with it was recording something over the teacher's side other than the proper lesson... Like, say, the sound of someone banging on a cubical-pole with a pencil.😁
Reminds me of that Robot in Futurama who would insert an 8-track tape when he wanted to reply.
LOL, Yeh! The one were they are on an island of old outdated tech or some such. With the one that almost kept running out of water for his water wheel and kept panicking.
That was a good episode if I recal.
"your mother"
rationalmartian Bender hiding from the upgrade and Robot 1-X
"What?!" ... "What?!"
Funny thing is that robot was based on a real toy from the 70s-90s, it was a robot that talked through special tapes recorded for it. (First versions were 8 track but later versions used standard cassettes) It also worked as a regular tape recorder/player if a regular/music cassette was used.
Those American pronunciation cards cracked me up.
When I worked in Iceland, there was almost an entire day dedicated to instigators having me repeat how I say “solder” in American. 🤪
Disney used to sell these here in Japan as part of their World of English education series. Disney sold these at a very inflated price to people to earn money teaching at home.
I didn't find out how big of a hand Disney has in the educational industry in Japan and some other Asian markets until recently. It seemed pretty odd to me since over here in the west they are primarily an entertainment company that doesn't have much of a foothold in the teaching market.
@@kristina80ification Makes sense, if they teach kids English they're more likely to watch their English products.
If you want to see someone really scratching with tape - watch this czcams.com/video/7nImXd0nxU4/video.html - Then watch this to see an update czcams.com/video/4LkZMmxRAB8/video.html
We had big dark grey ones in our school. I think they were called language masters? That could be a whole video for you. Retro school tech. Overhead projectors, pencil sharpeners, commodore pets etc 😉👍
We weren't allowed to take pets to school when I were a lad.
:-)
What do you mean retro tech. We've got an OHP in our office at work.
Admittedly it is a bit dusty.
I remember using them in special ed.
The Language Master was the same type of device, but made by Bell and Howell. We had them in school in the 60s and 70s Ours were Gray or Green and looked to be early 60s vintage. Of course they used the cards only as digital sampling wasn't a "thing" in the the 60s!
matt payne that is a good idea. Retro school tech
I totally remember using one of these in school and playing with the scratching ability, I also found it very amusing to see how many of the cards I could get to pile up on the left hand side
I remember we had those cards at school which were given out for people to draw on. Must have been surplus stock.
Yeah, they could have been leftovers.
Waste of an investment
Just like to say thank you for your great videos. I have always been a fan of the older audio and video technologies and also have a soft spot for the Sony brand. I know how much time goes into making and editing videos.
I remember using the machine in elementary school in 1968.
What happens if you put a credit card through it?
Russia will hack you.
try some old boarding passes too... maybe a recording of the gate agents mocking each passenger is recorded on there...
Depends if the heads are aligned closely enough to the tracks. There are 2 or 3 tracks on a standard credit card, bank card, etc. If it played, you'd hear some beeps. Like a ZX Spectrum loading a tape.
Beeps? I am familiar with the sound magstripes on credit cards make when ran past a magnetic head connected to an amp, and it certainly isn't a beep. My question was pretty much if the tracks lined up, or not.
I really hope he gives us a sample of an expired credit card to show us the effect.
I remember using one of these at primary school in about 1984ish. Good job Techmoan
I think we had one when I was at school in the 1970s when I was learning to read.
So did I, and around the same time. My 1st grade class had one of these then, it was fun to play around with.
Still existed in my primary school in the 90s. No idea what model it was.
Most likely the Bell+Howell Language Master. Google it.
Techmoan, that's great! I have seen every video on your channel. That's very very great what you do... greetz from Berlin, Germany!
I'm not even interested in old audio gear but your descriptions of their history and teardowns are fascinating. Keep up the good work!
Many of these gadgets and medias presented here would have remained in history if you had not brought them back here. Short or long, the videos are presented so well and most of them are practically unknown to many in the 2020ians. Thanks a lot and looking forward to see many of the rare obsolete medias and techs in your future episodes.
Media collector
P.S.Sivaprasad (India)
Fantastic video: obscure device, great demonstration, lots of fun. Kudos!
Holy shit, I actually own one of these. My mom was a teacher, so she has a bunch of old educational devices from the last 3 decades.
my man, you will be so retro cool with that thing.
Me too... somewhere! Damn. I forgot all about it until I saw this video.
I am a tutor, and I'd love to have one of these just for it's old school charm.
Would you be willing to sell it to me if you still have it?
@@BrotherSlender Possibly. Send me a message.
It is so satisfying seeing old technology like this. The way people bring their own imaginations to life is just amazing to me.
Thank you for the trip down memory lane! I actually had completely forgotten about those machines!
We actually had one of those...same brand, in my elementary school classroom back in the early 80's
Sounds like you're upsetting a mouse when you drag the card back
Well, the poor mouse that has to pull these cards through the machine has every right to be upset!
Upsetting a mouse. lol
*A mau5
Check out the Bell+Howell Language Master. I used to record and play back belches in the school library back in the 70's. Same concept.
They were available in the UK. We had one at Primary school in the very early 80's. The cards were pre printed and recorded. I don't remember ever recording myself saying what was written on the cards I just shouted at the machine until the teacher told me off. Another great video thanks.
I forgot about those devices. They date back quite a bit as I remember a similar device in my primary school back in 1971. The teachers called them flash cards and had printed words on them. Mostly they were used without the player but I remember feeling them into the player. I seem to remember a hammerite finish and large rotary knobs a bit like cooker hob controls. Nice find :-)
Shout out to Mr Tape! The one and only master of tape scratching.
Ladies and Gentlemen, are you ready for this? czcams.com/video/X6qRkUai5WM/video.html
"baby driver soundtrack but its played on the califone card reader"
I remember this gadget in school back in 1975. I was 11 at the time I think the version I saw was called a Language Master but the look and colourful buttons were identical to yours and the cards too. it was used for school spelling exercises I saw it used only once and never saw another one again until I watched your video. When I got into hip hop in 80’s I always thought that unit would make a great scratching machine. It brought back memories for sure.
Oh wow, those machines bring back fond memories! I had forgotten all about them, but when I was in elementary school we had a few kids who were learning English as a second language and used these machines. Very unusual piece of tech and amazed to see them re-purposed today.
I mounted a tape head on a bit of wood back in the day and made a sort of violin bow which you could stretch some cassette tape worked good with a preamp turned right up
Nice, love it, got it all pictured in my mind!... plenty of sound artists out there today, alive and well, doing just such lo-fi things.
I remember my elementary school had one of these. It was mostly used for 1st grade/preschool and special needs kids.
I'm so glad you made this video. I was so intrigued by this machine I kept thinking about it throughout the rest of the movie. One of the best movies I have seen in a long time.
This video shows how much you enjoy making these videos, making them fun for us to watch.
Darn it techmoan, I was just falling asleep here in America
No rest for the wicked, huh? ;)
No idea how I found this video but it’s 4 a.m
i really don't know how you don't have 1mil + subs yet
My guess is that I'm too old, too British, too niche and don't review smartphones.
Well please don't stop being too old or too British.
I think I have an old Sony Ericsson W810i ("walkman" phone) around here somewhere if you want to review it though.
Just noticed the same scene in that film also features the casio keyboard with the tape player that 8 bit guy recently reviewed.
Most of the time I'm not even interested in the subject, but your videos are so interesting and well produced that I watch them anyway.
No Muppets? I'm disappointed.
I'll watch this.
What you really want is an Akai MPCX....albeit for a bit more coinage. But you'll have endless hours of fun!
There are no stoping of old recording machines I didn't know about its existance. Amazing.
This was the first video i saw from this channel and it was the most well spent 6 minutes and 55 seconds ever!
Please open it up! :-) How is it recording internally, also on a tape (loop) I'd guess?
It says "electronic memory" so it's probably a chip.
It's just a pinch roller, a capstan, and a tape head. The magnetic tape is at the bottom of the card. It can digitize a few seconds worth of sound on its own digital memory and play it back.
Geeez! I only just noticed how much your 4-track reel to reel tape deck moves around when the Techmoan logo is on display! 😮
I remember in my old speech class, we used one of those machines. Back in like 2006! Maybe they quit manufacturing them, but schools still used them into the early 2000's. Ironically, my speech teacher at the time was a Ms. Dixon. Wasn't in there to learn English, just to help with pronunciation and stuttering. I completely forgot about that until i saw this video! Thanks for the upload!
You my friend deserve an award for production and genuine original content! Only saw this film a few weeks back and I wondered what that machine was all about. Keep em coming!
The bigger cards look like flight boarding passes to me, which used to have a brown strip on the back as well. Anyone knows if they have any data on there? Maybe years ago because nowadays they just scan a barcode.
Yep, they did, but the magnetic stripe was thicker, I think it was as thick or thicker than the stripes credit cards used to have.
cards usually only had the same information as was printed on the front, it was magnetic as it was easier to machine read than optical or scanning a barcode, wheres nowdays youd put a barcode and laser scanner, technlogy has changed a lot, as well as being able to instantly check your code against a live database, not really possible in the old days
Thanks for the explanation. Makes perfect sense now. So easy to forget that back in the days even at the airport not everything was online :-)
After the slew of abysmal movies from the 80s/90s with baby in the title and talking babies, my first reaction to the title of this move was absolute horror. Glad to see there's no actual babies.......
ShishkaBerry - Cool movie worth watching.
yes its a good movie I didnt like the name of the movie either. for some reason I dont remember him using this device
@@teknowil The name reminds me of the Simon and Garfunkel song
You're thinking of Baby Rider
You have the best outro of anyone on youtube. The combo of music and tech clips works really well together.
It's fascinating to see what kind of devices have existed in the past, which I've never heard of before! Nice video as usual! :)
Great video as always, I'm really curious as to how the device stores the teacher and student recordings for replay.
Cheap digitizing ICs were available by the late 80s when this was made
@@senorverde09 indeed....this was the heyday of those obnoxious audio greeting cards.
Now hook it up through a microphone and your dbx encoder and see how good it can reproduce sound
Oh wow my grandad had that Olympus Pearlcorder "dictaphone", he let me borrow it for a weekend to play with. I had so much fun with it. The recordings I erased will have been much more important than I realised at the time, him being a councillor and mayor then. He's long since passed away. Thank you for the obscure and personal memory.
Neffers - “Do you mind if I use your Dictafone?” “I’d rather you used my finger”.
Lol, right. :D
It never clicked when i saw the film recently. But now seeing your video i recognise the device. We had quite allot of these in my school back in 87
*goes to bed*
Checks phone & new Techmoan video.
Fine... Guess not! 😂
I think it is time to start a museum. I would pay to enter it!
Love your sense of humour Mat. The pronunciation cards of words you say perfectly fine were great.
I'm not even joking when I say you are actually better at scratching than some TOP DJ's!
What are the chances... I watched Baby driver just a few hours ago?
Google is always listening
presterjohn71 Got the video in my bag as I write this! Looking forward to what Watching it more now.
I want to see Baby driver
You have shown everything that exists to us. And still you manage to show us something new.
Are used to see one of those when I was in elementary school. It was for my speech class, because I had a hard time doing questions. It’s so cool see those back in this channel!
DANG! HOW Wide is that monitor??
ULTRA WIDE - there's even a video on the subject ;)
Hella wide
Adam: Google "21:9" -- they're quite common these days :)
It's a 29" ultrawide LG monitor
That's LG 29UM68. He also made a video about it - czcams.com/video/W_4nsUL4MRw/video.html
How does it store the sampled sound? You made the mystery box into an enigma! Is it stored on one of those analog memory "tape recorder" chips that had 10 seconds or so record time?
I'd guess electronically. You can get chips that store a few seconds of audio. Some can use external memory, some have it internally. Cheap ones are used in greetings cards where you can record your own message.
In the old days you'd have an analogue to digital convertor connected to RAM. Then a digital to analoge convertor to play back the sample from the RAM. Later, people discovered you can store analogue values in RAM, or EPROM, rather than just 1 or 0. This meant you could store audio directly in RAM, although the quality wasn't great. Then somebody put the whole thing in a single chip, and there you go.
You can also get cheap little voice memo recorders with something like 8 seconds of storage. Also wristwatches with the function built in. A novelty really, rather than anything practical.
Hey! You edited your post to make my answer seem like something you already knew!
Alien OrSutin lol its just tape!!
He's referring to the "sampling" ability of the machine. It can record a small sample internally.
greenaum I've witnessed the likes of early RAM/EPROM audio-recording in the early-90's on a classroom computer... and yes, the results were lackluster, but clearly pointed to something that came "down the road". (MP3-players)
I remember working with one of these when I was a young boy, they were used in speech therapy classes to correct speech impediments. It worked beautifully; I could barely remember the nature of my speech impediment until I saw this (Incidentally, I do believe I pronounced the "th" sound as an "F" sound when I was young) and I quickly corrected it; I was only in speech classes for a couple months for about 30 minutes a day.
Thanks for the memories!
I know that some of your recent videos didn't get the attention they deserve, but I just have to say that one of the main attractions of this channel for this 50-ish nerd is all the treasured analogue history. I didn't own a mobile phone for the first 30 years of my life, and despite the alien DNA splicing and the tendency for my voice to drop two octaves uncontrollably, I turned out alright.
Nah, I didn't need sleep anyway.
Exactly what I thought when I clicked on the video lmao
TheTundraTerror I love your avatar! I love muffinexplosion: muffinexplosion.deviantart.com/art/Delivery-for-Derpy-H-337570543
If anyone wants a clip of how it was used in the movie, click: czcams.com/video/OGQq86oIFDk/video.html
Holy crap, gotta see that movie ASAP.
Cheers. Thought he would at least use a crossfader.
Today, you learned how difficult it is to make a Scratch sound rhythmic. Skill, me old son. Skill.
Brings back memories of being at school in late 1983... Thank you very much of that!
Excellent, but what's is inside?
Adrian Bernat what?
What is a Sodder?
Anoop Sahal what is toob ?
Pook365 No we say solder we just don't drag out the l.
blanketcandy --- I dunno, I think every American electronics person on CZcams says "sodder".
Liofa All the times I've heard people say solder they usually say the l it's just a lot quicker and pretty faint. British people usually say the sol part of solder like bowl so you really pick up the l whereas Americans tend to say the ol in solder kinda like a combination of ah and all so it's hard to pick up.
Hey blanketcandy , seems USA have it correct as it is from French souder, they got it from Latin solidus and solidare,. We in England tend to have a mild irritation of the French so I can understand why we have Middle English going for solder from the Latin root rather than the French souder.
I don't watch all of your videos I'll admit. But the ones I do watch are always brilliantly made, educational enough without being preachy or excluding and you sound like you'd be good at audio books or radio
I hadn't even seen the movie but now I am more than certain that I have managed to see the coolest part of the movie. Thanks.
Worth a mention that the artist responsible for bringing this into the movie is Kid Koala. He was involved a lot in the musical side of the movie. People should definitely check out his work.
I've never seen the film, but this device looks fun. A bit different to the language lab at my old school in the early 80's
How does he even do that?! When i subscribed it was a great channel, but it just keeps getting better. These devices are so obscure and amazing and he does such a good job explaining them!
Nothing quite like a nice cup of tea and a new Techmoan video to start your morning.
We had one of these in my 1st grade classroom, here in the US. I always wanted to play with it, but it was for the children who were learning English as a 2nd language. Those are some old, nearly forgotten memories.
I have a similar machine called a "Voxcom" but it is a regular cassette player that has a card-reader attachment. Mine was used in a local elementary school until 2006.
The coolest part of mine is it actually came with several rolls of adhesive-backed magnetic tape, so you could place the tape on the back of anything thin and make your own audio cards! When I was in elementary they would have us take photos with a polaroid camera, then we would put stick the magnetic tape to the pictures and record ourselves saying what it was we took a picture of.
I still have it, but the belt drive has long since rotted away
We had one in my kindergarten class. That was 1985 and I hadn't seen another one until now. Thanks for this!
I came across a stack of those cards at some point in my education days in a supply closet! I had no idea what they were but recognized they had a magnetic stripe on them. They weren't what the teacher.had sent me in there for so I skipped past them and asked her about the cards later but she didn't know. Awesome!
I was in the second grade in 1967, and our speech therapist used this machine to improve my "sh" sounds. The model we had was very basic with no memory; one would send the card through to record or play back. It was a great help to many students and using the machine made the lessons fun.
Videos are top notch as usual. Always learning about a wide array of technology I never even knew existed. Great stuff!
An experimental musician like me would have one hell of a time with something like this. Thanks for the info Techmoan.
Thanks for this trip back to elementary school where I took speech classes. I had to sit there and use those clamp down headphones and repeat all kinds of phrases working on my R's and S's. Oh joy.
Retro tech that never fails to edify and entertain. Nice.
Had one similar in my junior school in 78. It was made by Sony and when you put it through it would say phrases like "What is your name" it had pictures on the card and was used as an English teaching tool
I just watched this movie yesterday and was wondering about this device. As always, amazing work!
I've learned a lot about ancient tech like the wire recorder (as seen in the TV series Manhattan) and now the Califone Card Master.
I found one of these on the street and took it home. A different brand, but the same idea. You can make large paper/tape loops and just have it play forever. I always wanted to make postcards that had accompanying sounds on them, but I never got around to it. Also had ideas of choose-your-own-adventure card decks to run on this thing.
Funny, I saw this movie last saturday. The scene where Baby used this machine lead to a nice conversation about how analogue techniques are fun because you'll understand the way a certain sound or sample is created much faster.
Thats interesting indeed. Mat, perhaps it'd be fun to review one of those toys from back in the day, that kids used to have with the casette recorder in there. Great examples are the My First Sony ones, maybe if you really wanted you could resolder a better microphone on there and try to get some really decent quality on there for example.
These are still around in America. Especially in schools with lower budgets. When I graduated high school in 2015, ESL and Spanish teachers at my school were still using these.
Notification of new Techmoan video, must watch it even in work.