Some of the best music I heard in childhood were the various ringtones in my dad's nokia phone, So yeah...

The world before internet was an interesting one.

@@joshm7769 Better too!

It clearly works as a multi band filter bank. Just listen to the noise timbre changing. Lovely stuff

There is a reason for it. Each channel had its own linear potentiometer. If you pulled the plastic links off, you would almost certainly be able to apply the equaliser to each channel independently. Perhaps try it.

I was always appalled by that as a teenager. But if people are ok with it (because it's cheap) then that's ok with me.

Highly advanced in it's time.

It was common on cheap systems.

Haha thats awesome! :D

Lol

So it was basically the vinyl version of the clockwork dynamo radio....I'm guessing...

Woow, talking about redundant systems! 😁 Really cool!

Crystal radio.

I know right, and when you pressed a button - you actually made it perform the function. Now when you press a button it feels like your asking it's permission.

@@richardcrook2112 Well, when I push my wife's buttons, I definitely *am* asking for permission! 😃

Yeah we somehow lost "fun."

that why vinyl is so popular

I feel this. All of those unlisted features we found by half-pressing keys and the fun we had. I no longer feel alone, my brothers are out there!

Like a computer that you can program to do absolutely anything? 🙃

@@4.0.4 Computers are much too abstract, and lack an element of "play". Early computers actually are better for this, since you had to mess with it to do anything. It's why stuff like Scratch is so awesome for introducing kids to programming. I'm also a big fan of PICO-8.

That's why I wrote a C program that takes a stereo WAV file and writes a mono WAV file that alternates the left and right channels 60 times a second plus some synchronizing signals so you can record stereo music on the linear MONO track of a VHS video cassette recorder...one 2 hour SP tape holds a little over 40 minutes of stereo sound...I did this so I can experience the tape dropouts and hiss of the VHS magnetic tape surface...of course...this is not a real-time solution...and I had a heck of a time getting the program to not have discontinuities in the output as it reads the WAV file digitized back off the tape and algorithmically splices back the stereo sound...now with artifacts of tape recording effects. I even used the system() command to run the Dolby B software encoder decoder to get better signal to noise ratio...the level that you digitize the signal back in doesn't matter much as there is a sine-wave after each packet which is used to set the DC offset and volume level, so song fade-outs remain intact even with automatic level control recorders.. In the future I want to make a program that takes a high-definition/4K 60 frames per second video file and re-draws it slower into a DVD video MPEG file which you would be able to record on a VHS tape then use a capture card to capture the image off of the VHS tape and re-assemble it into a high-definition 4K 60 frame per second video file complete with all the tape dropouts, static and other VHS glitches..(this is vaporware--I haven't wrote this yet!)

For whatever reason, I seem to always find a way to "half press" digital stuff, especially the more modern "smart" crap, making them do all kinds of errors and freezes. It's kinda annoying being an unintentional bug finder.

So THAT's what it was. Another mystery solved 😁

Oh my god. I've wondered what this was since about 1992

My old Denon amplifier also had a DAD/AUX input. According to the manual it stands for "Digital Audio Device", aka. CD!

It only works with Journey or Tom Petty.

The Half-Presser Brotherhood is alive and kicking. Unity in every half press of every button! 🤘

I discovered it around 1997

I knew this from my FIRST boombox when I was 6 years old in the summer of 1988 way back at the end of the Crusades...Push the pause button halfway while playing and the pinch roller lifts up but not enough to take the take up spindle out of mesh with the motor...and Instant Rim Drive high speed mode...I did it so many times that the pinch roller fell off and got mislaid somewhere and from that point on it was always Chipmunk music...until I that discovered the top outlet which was wired to the light dimmer switch...simply dim the cassette player and normal speed is achieved....flash forward to Veterans Day in 2017 or 2018 when my father got the bright idea to dim the electric space heater...a loud POP!....then darkness....

If memory serves me well, dictaphones of the similar era had some sort of tape speed selection... of course the quality was much worse, but you could carry it around school recording fart noises or toilets flushing and different speeds with silly voices.

This is so wholesome, this was my childhood too

The greatest crossover in history

I had Grundig M1 Mini, and now when i googled it.. it looks kinda cool.

R E A L S H I T ???!!?😳

REAL!

kids are all more pure and talented. they just dont have the experience, knowledge and status. we devolve into adults due to society programming our talents away into mindless robot slaves. good job, society!

Well thank you 😁You may be exaggerating a bit though...

He has some music on his channel, check it out.

bro whats wrong with you