Analogue audio enthusiasts will appreciate the price and warm sound quality of these; clearly superior to mini-discs.
@Robert08010
Жыл бұрын
Ooooow-snap!
@herbiehusker1889
Жыл бұрын
Vinyl is always better than digital.
@ryanblakeslee1406
Жыл бұрын
Well, it has a lot better longevity and repairability than any mini-disc player I've ever owned.
@craigduncan4826
Жыл бұрын
Totally agree. Far superior to CD’s with its analogue nature and infinite range, rather than CD’s digital limitations.
@mxbishop
Жыл бұрын
The only thing needed here are better audio cables. :-)
@MK-lk7nc
Жыл бұрын
The audio quality of the Mighty Tiny perfectly matches the emotional tone of the box art. One is the sound of madness, the other is the image of madness.
@IstasPumaNevada
Жыл бұрын
I've never heard a more thematically-appropriate rendition of Dixie.
@RyoHazuki224
Жыл бұрын
Play the music while very slowly zooming into the box art, while also slowly fading in a harsh red filter over the video! LOL fade to black... hear screams
@brintonsdad
Жыл бұрын
I now know the root of my childhood trauma.....
@doktorspock8910
Жыл бұрын
What would happen if the record could be played backwards?
@ericmendenhall2867
Жыл бұрын
@@doktorspock8910the end of humanity
@uncaringbear
Жыл бұрын
It's a little sad that we won't see these kinds of electro-mechanical toys produced any more. There's a certain kind of ingenuity and efficiency in how these devices and designed and produced, not to mention their quaint charm!
@videolabguy
Жыл бұрын
When children inevitably disassemble toys like this, they learn a great deal about engineering. Putting them back together for the first time teaches them to be technicians. Very inexpensive education if you ask me.
@Uhohlisa
Жыл бұрын
@@videolabguyyes!!! I would have LOVED this as a kid, and loved to take it apart.
@EeekItsSnek
Жыл бұрын
Yeah it's alright if you subtract the mass amount of land waste that these trinkets create after they've hit the bin in a week. It's hard to grasp how much waste a couple nicknacks make. But it is substantial. And there are tons of fun and inexpensive STEM and STEAM kits out nowadays like Kiwico that have actually semi usefull engineering kits for kids. And they may not get chucked in the trash right away.
@CaptainPupu
Жыл бұрын
Literally all of these scratch that, most of retro/90s tech are hot garbage. Especially these that were marketed for kids. I mean that kind of sound ? An insult to hearing itself. They use that trash for torture in north Korea.
@CaptainPupu
Жыл бұрын
@@videolabguybackbone of engineering. Indeed, it's exactly what our top minds would do if an alien craft would land. Only way to back engineer is take it apart and put it together.
@Fatgerman
Жыл бұрын
My heart goes out to the parents who bought their kids one of those and then had to spend the next weeks listening to what sounds like rubber bands being tortured, over and over again. You managed to make a very entertaining video out of it though, so perhaps it was all worth it.
@terencehill2320
Жыл бұрын
No it doesn't stop the fake courage
@FMCREPAIRARMAGH22
Жыл бұрын
My dad would have smashed it to bits lol
@chuuisinsane
Жыл бұрын
rubber bands being tortured is a perfect description
@matthiasbreiter4177
Жыл бұрын
Something sounding like this is called a "mice chorus" over here. But tortured rubberband is a more fitting description XD
@lakrids-pibe
Жыл бұрын
In my family there is a tradition of giving every newborn a very noisy and terrible "duck piano" as a gag. The parents tend to remove the batteries and "forget" where they put them.
@jajwarehouse1
Жыл бұрын
The box art accurately depicts the look of horror any kid would have when they hear the sounds emitted by one these little coffins.
@MrJC1
Жыл бұрын
hahaha little coffins! got me there.
@alexkuhn5078
Жыл бұрын
we need a compilation video, like "10 hours of Mighty Tiny music to chill to" with just a still image of that box art
@jasoncarswell7458
Жыл бұрын
Friend: "What's this?" Child: "INEVITABILITY..." (demon torturing noises emit from the speakers) Child: "LISTEN TO THE MIGHTY TINY. TAKE YOUR PLACE ALONGSIDE THE DARK LORD." 👹 Friend: 😨😨😨
@button-puncher
Жыл бұрын
Kid pictured is torturing another kid.
@shuflie
Жыл бұрын
@@alexkuhn5078 With runtime of less than 30s per record and only 40 titles listed on discogs there's going to be a few repeats in there.
@owensmith7530
Жыл бұрын
I love the way every record sounds pretty much the same regardless of what is meant to be on it.
@gigaherz_
Жыл бұрын
The Mighty Tiny scared the shit out of my cat. He was staring at the computer speakers with wide open eyes and then decided he was better off in another room.
@MartGC
Жыл бұрын
Oh i can imagine that, poor cat. But still very funny, this comment made me laugh so hard 😂
@RevRaptor898
Жыл бұрын
Startled my one too. He didn't leave the room but he did react much like your one did.
@ItsMrAssholeToYou
Жыл бұрын
Well duh. Would you want to stick around and listen to one of _your_ kind getting brutally murdered like that?
@raulglez
Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣
@BTGDelta
Жыл бұрын
You are a monster for subjecting your cat to this horrible noisy torture! :D
@admirerofclassicalelectron2858
Жыл бұрын
It has to be that warm analogue sound that vinyl enthusiasts always rave about.
@simonpeteradkins
Жыл бұрын
Which is why they're listed on Discogs.
@blakksheep736
Жыл бұрын
Yes, "warm", in the way a friction burn is "warm"...
@theSam91
Жыл бұрын
I liked the fact that you could play the entirety of the records without any chance of hitting a copyright strike.
@rogerdonne6769
Жыл бұрын
I'm amazed this video hasn't been tripped up by copyright matches. The quality of the reproduction is astounding!
@rockerseven
Жыл бұрын
I read this before watching. Now this comment is hilarious lol
@fridaycaliforniaa236
Жыл бұрын
@@rockerseven Same 😂
@AlyxxTheRat
Жыл бұрын
The idea of Banjo Pete's Greatest Hits being on Spotify is hilarious to me.
@asciimation
Жыл бұрын
I made a "Steampunk record player" as a joke (that almost no one got). Literally a steam engine powered record player playing the Sex Pistols God save the Queen. Badly. You can find it on KZitem. Sounds about as good as this and I got hit by a copyright match!
@radioflyer2030
Жыл бұрын
@@asciimation - Hilarious, thanks for that... but your Steampunk God Save the Queen is squeaky clean compared to this abomination. As a live sound & recording engineer, I was genuinely horrified by the Mighty Tiny. I felt like my ears were watching the most terrifying horror movie in human history...
@niek024
Жыл бұрын
That sounded even worse than I expected. Although I'm not sure why I had any expectations at all :-)
@shaunclarke04
Жыл бұрын
I mean I at least expected it to be audible 🤣
@andyjdhurley
Жыл бұрын
That's considerably bigger than the 'record player' inside the action figure I had in the 70s. It was built into the torso of the figure and the disc was removable and reversable and IIRC had several grooves so the character 'spoke' different lines each time you pressed the button (or it might have been pulled the cord, I don't think it had batteries).
@bigboomer1013
Жыл бұрын
I belive most of the traditional pull string toys have mini record players in them. They don't run with digital speakers. It's probably the reason why the old toys make a demonic sound when the battery is running low as the record player is slowing down.
@philtowle4683
11 ай бұрын
My brother used to have a dalek with a small record player in it. Think it was battery powered.
@bushidiru
Жыл бұрын
the lengths you went to in order to play it on a standard sized player and make it (roughly) listenable was admirable. thank you for your efforts.
@downumop
Жыл бұрын
Don't recall if you've ventured into 3D printing, but a one-off adapter for this setup would be quick and easy.
@bojcio
Жыл бұрын
@@downumop or you know, just some tape...
@volvo09
Жыл бұрын
@@downumopthere is no point in printing an adapter... It's a kids toy. Pretty much a nail on a "record", precision is not in the design.
@totalmarh
Жыл бұрын
Next we need to play a full-sized record on the toy
@erwindewit4073
Жыл бұрын
@@totalmarhYes, perhaps cut it down slightly in size? Drill a larger hole in the centre. Oh wait. why are all those pesky grooves so far away?
@jinky0u812
Жыл бұрын
As I was watching, I thought to myself, "I sure hope he attempts to play that somehow on a regular quality turntable in an attempt to check the actual quality of the pressing!" I KNEW you wouldn't let me down! 🥰 You are, by far, my favourite KZitemr!
@alaricsmith5558
Жыл бұрын
That's one of the best Banjo recordings I've ever heard. Terrifying. It was like watching Deliverence.
@telebubba5527
Жыл бұрын
Oh Suzanna however did sound how I remember it being played on an old wind up record player.
@user-co6ww2cm9k
Жыл бұрын
It's the first time I've ever heard a banjo in-tune!
@HPPalmtopTube
Жыл бұрын
There were actually dolls for little girls in the 70's that contained small records, where you pulled a cord to wind up a spring, and they played sound effects from the little disk, fully analog, similar mechanism to this. The sounds were the doll crying, laughing etc...
@mhoppy6639
Жыл бұрын
Same as my Palitoy action man talking commando. _”ENEMY TANKS APPROACHING!!!”_
@PaulTaylor1
Жыл бұрын
And the Talking Dalek! My brother had a talking police car, and there were several "radio backpacks" for Action Man. I think all of these were Palitoy.
@adamdavies163
Жыл бұрын
Yes, i've seen similar mechanisms in toys. Good old days!
@MayaPosch
Жыл бұрын
Indeed, seen channels like MyMateVince disassemble and repair a number of those, as well as newer mechanisms. Those 'talking doll' mechanisms are pretty amazing insights in how far technology was being pushed at the time for what would have been very affordable toys. My favourite part about those mechanisms was how they managed to pick a random sound sample from the record with each pull. It's a toy, but it can still be genius.
@unanimousowlcouncil7377
Жыл бұрын
there was also a Dalek toy that worked the same way, recording of Exterminate etc
@WatanabeNoTsuna.
Жыл бұрын
That tap on the lid with the deadpan face! 😂😂😂😂😂 Never change, Mat! 😂😂😂 Also, one of the many good things about this channel is how Mat always predicts the weird questions we might have about the stuff he shows us, like how the vinyl sounds on a regular player. My Saturday lunch is always a blast with these videos to keep me company! 😀
@BertGrink
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, Mat surely knows his audience by now :D
@Robert08010
Жыл бұрын
Saved me having to leave a comment. But now I've gone and left one anyway. Dang it all!
@WatanabeNoTsuna.
Жыл бұрын
@@Robert08010 We all gotta do our part to help with the algorithm! 😊👍
@kirminator
Жыл бұрын
I think that if Mat didn't tap it and we only got that half a second of noise, combined with Mat's deadpan expression, it would make the ending even more hilarious 😅
@briankeenan4901
Жыл бұрын
When I was about 7, my older sister (about 22) , bought a doll from a co-worker and it talked. It has the same mechanism in it as you've shown here. They always sounded like that. Being the smart kid that I was, I opened up that doll as soon as I heard it. I was amazed that it had a record player in it. Everyone teased that I was a boy playing with dolls. But it was 1964 and GI Joe wasn't prominent yet. And I found a doll with a record player in it. It eventually led to my career as a communication technician.
@chaos.corner
Жыл бұрын
That's a good point. Matt should probably look at some of these mechanisms.
@darkally1235
Жыл бұрын
That's one way to avoid copyright strikes! Imagine what vocals would have sounded like.
@Crazy_Borg
Жыл бұрын
That tap on the lid at the end was just the icing on the cake. Brilliant.
@lexluthermiester
Жыл бұрын
@Techmoan I actually had one of those. Grandmother gifted it and she included 5 sets of the records. When new out of the package, the sound was audible and we readily hear what was intended to be played. Sadly, due to the cheapness of the mechanism, it degraded quickly. The model you have uses a metal stylus, mine was plastic. You did bangup job getting it working again! And solids props for thinking up a way to sample the recordings from the discs. Thank You doing this one! Took me back to a time in life I had forgotten. I'll raise a toast to you, Cheers!
@WorldCupWillie
Жыл бұрын
13:35 listen to those lovely warm tones. Vinyl's superior sound quality shines through yet again.
@marcus_w0
Жыл бұрын
I love those high end audio gear videos! There's something special about the art and craftsmanship that goes into these kinds of devices. The engineering is driven by the enthusiasm for fine audio. The music they're producing has a special warmth, that simply couldn't be replicated by modern digital media.
@sunbeam8866
Жыл бұрын
Like fingernails on a blackboard!
@colombianguy8194
Жыл бұрын
My sarcasm detector just exploded 😂😂
@metacob
Жыл бұрын
I finally understand what all those audiophiles have been talking about, it's magical!
@lowlightpiano7110
Жыл бұрын
Repent and put your trust in Jesus. We've all sinned and deserve Hell. Jesus died on the cross and was resurrected, defeating death and sin. Since we broke the law, Jesus paid our fine. Since he paid it, we can be let go. We must repent and trust in Jesus to be saved. Revelation 21:8 Romans 3:23 John 3:16 Romans 6:23 1 Corinthians 15:3,4 Revalation 3:20 Romans 10:13❤❤❤😊
@itoibo4208
Жыл бұрын
fun fact: the etch a sketch had better quality audio than the mighty tiny
@mx.blackhole7615
Жыл бұрын
Truly amazed they manage to capture the sound of a wind up flash light onto a tiny plastic record disc.
@mcm3069
Жыл бұрын
Just when you think there couldn’t be any other interesting formats to have a look at - Techmoan pulls this thing out of history! Thanks!
@ICantStopMakingNoise
Жыл бұрын
That speed control is fascinating. I love "non component" bits like that. I dismantled a cheap milk frother where the switch was just a plastic pad that nudged a wire into the side of the motor housing, and this feels like the same spirit.
@Bellinose
Жыл бұрын
This is easily one of your most hilarious video, the creepy art, the awful sound, what an memorable "HiFry" experience! 😄 But what's more impressive is that with your usual care and dedication, even for the ugliest device, you managed to get some nearly usable sound. Thanks for the laugh! 🙂
@LeftoverBeefcake
Жыл бұрын
That's why I adore this channel. The care that goes into these videos, even for crappiest of gadgets, is awesome.
@killercarpcatcher
Жыл бұрын
No Wow & Flutter measurements? 😊
@whitslack
Жыл бұрын
>100% wow & flutter. 😆
@niek024
Жыл бұрын
and infinite harmonic distortion.
@td4dotnet
Жыл бұрын
Never thought I'd see the day where my passion for playing the Banjo and for watching videos on obscure vintage tech would appear but as usual Techmoan delivers! Thanks for this absolute treat! :-)
@ajvonline
Жыл бұрын
Despite the creepiness of the presentation and overall results, that little player is surprisingly well engineered!
@MrManniG
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, that was my thought as well. I'd say ot was also build quite well considering it was at one point nothing more than a Toy...
@freeculture
Жыл бұрын
Fits the Addam's family theme, maybe it was renamed at the last minute. Would explain the coffin shape...
@ethanpschwartz
Жыл бұрын
You should take a look at FranLab repairing her Pee-Wee Herman talking doll. Similar stylus and diaphragm, but it ran off a string in the back that needed flywheels and whatnot to regulate the speed as it retracted. It also somehow managed to randomize which phrase it played all with mechanical parts stuffed inside a doll.
@Charlesb88
Жыл бұрын
After looking at the creepy girl in the picture and the coffin shape of the record player, I was hoping he he’d play some the the records backwards so we could see if a hole in the ground revealing the pity’s of hell opens up.👹👺👿🔥🪦🕳️⚰️
@timhartherz5652
Жыл бұрын
If this was made out of higher quality materials it would have become famous. I feel like the engineers efforts were wasted on a penny pinching company which just wanted a disposable cheap toy.
@antiphlex
Жыл бұрын
Matt, you have your low-key comedy chops nailed to the floor. Excellent work, good sir.
@billglynn4883
11 ай бұрын
Back in the early 50's Noma Plastics produced a train station sized for O gauge model trains that played 3 inch 78 rpm records announcing train departures. Both steam and diesel sound records came with the unit. It used 2 D cells for rotational power and had an acoustic reproducer with a steel needle that could be replaced.
@VJFranzK
Жыл бұрын
It's incredible to see them working on a full sized player!
@Madjed2024
Жыл бұрын
Laughed so hard at the analogy between the box and a coffin 🤓 I admire how passionate you are in doing all the research you do and how generous in sharing the results As always thank you so much Mat
@dani25801
Жыл бұрын
me too , hahahahh !!!!😆
@mrrandomperson3106
Жыл бұрын
That zoom in on the packaging with the horror music spike was excellent!
@the7569
Жыл бұрын
This is so cool! I love that it can make sounds that somewhat kind of resemble music if you had perhaps some sort of horrific ear-related injury
@2Nu
Жыл бұрын
Matt, you never disappoint in making lemonade out of lemons when it comes to showcasing fascinating yet utterly mediocre products from a bygone era. Cheers mate!
@krikorsahakian4955
Жыл бұрын
When I was a child a friend of mine had the mighty tiny record player and we also went to the school together and we listened to the mighty tiny record player after school one day after Xmas vacation.
@GWNHomestead
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant! Why we moved beyond this and into digital audio is beyond me! That warm, soothing vinyl sound cannot be replicated 😊 (insert sarcastic emoji here) Cheers Matt!
@harveywallbanger3123
Жыл бұрын
Albums with less than 25% wow and flutter are passe these days.
@marqsee7948
Жыл бұрын
reportedly, Frank Zappa wanted to release Alice Cooper's first record in this format, with one song per side and a stack of discs for the whole album in a little cylindrical tin with a pull-top. The lack of players in people's homes was an issue that helped cancel that. He also wanted to release something on PlayTapes, he loved technology and was the first guy to have a fully stocked digital recording studio. Many of his recordings are at risk now from incompatible playback systems and redundant digital technology, so the effort continues to transfer archived material safely. Official release #126 was released recently, and it goes on...
@nrdesign1991
Жыл бұрын
This is strikingly similar to one of those early record-playing voice boxes used in talking toys (end even in some of the cars made by Datsun) before electronics took over. Of course, in this design the record is easily interchangeable.
@starbase218
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for covering this piece of high end, state of the art audio engineering. It is really a shame that so many people do not know what they are missing out on. Why mess around with silver cables when perfection has clearly already been achieved?
@Superknullisch
Жыл бұрын
Well put Ox, well put! I couldn't have said it any better myself, good sir! 😉🧐
@hjalfi
Жыл бұрын
This is amazing. It's got the highest jank:mass ratio of any device I've ever seen.
@jongarzamx
Жыл бұрын
A tiny coffin that reproduces the sound of souls in sorrow trapped in little discs
@kevodowd5282
Жыл бұрын
I have some of these mini records from when I worked at Woolies in the early seventies. I managed to play them on a laughing bag machine which runs at the same speed, I still have it and yes it still works!
@Crusader1089
Жыл бұрын
It would be kind of interesting to see what kind of precision engineering could achieve in this form factor in the modern day.
@mandowarrior123
Жыл бұрын
What, like a mini disk?
@paulwilson6357
Жыл бұрын
I'll bet you could 3D print most of that and get it working!
@Crusader1089
Жыл бұрын
@@mandowarrior123 Yeah I kinda realise that was the end goal, or those mini hard drives ipods had. But I was thinking analogue audio.
@app0the
Жыл бұрын
Well, back in the day there was Nagra SN which wasn't a vinyl player but got to similarly impressive form factors
@alasdair4161
Жыл бұрын
Imagine what the 3d printed record surface would sound like with 90% wow and flutter.@@paulwilson6357
@lindenseaman5605
Жыл бұрын
This was fascinating. Also Turkey in the Straw played in a recognizable way, and I was shocked. But good on you for getting this working and sharing the history around it. Also, maybe the marketing people for the Mighty Tiny were just really ahead of their time and going for the clickbait thumbnail approach that we see so often on KZitem videos today.
@mhoppy6639
Жыл бұрын
This is similar to the “record player” mechanism found in the Talking Commando Action Man (or GI Joe in the US?) When I took mine apart the tiny record system was surprisingly similar to this tiny disc thing. Great video as per usual.
@wayne7521
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, knew they were aimed at boys too, not like someone else ,said girls, didn't think they discriminated ,on making cash 😂
@wayne7521
Жыл бұрын
P.s. thanks as thought I was going crackers, as I did grow up with sisters only 😢
@jhonbus
Жыл бұрын
Yes! My sister had a doll of Ariel from The Little Mermaid that sang when you pulled a string in its back. There were many other similar toys (eg Woody from Toy Story) and I think they used a similar mechanism.
@christopherrigby2798
Жыл бұрын
Mine got used rather a lot. I do have some of the Action Man adventures on cassette still!@@wayne7521
@mhoppy6639
Жыл бұрын
@@wayne7521 indeed. Corporations love their filthy lucre. That’s why our rivers are currently filled with ton after ton after ton of -rotten shite- excess floodwater 😂
@mmmhorsesteaks
Жыл бұрын
Would have been interesting to see a wow and flutter measurement!
@DieselDahl
Жыл бұрын
The needle of the meter would probably bend or fall off, or both. 🥴
@-Steven-
Жыл бұрын
It would probably be better than those suitcase record players being sold everywhere.
@RingwayManchester
Жыл бұрын
Your videos never fail to impress. Brilliant as always Mat
@dj_paultuk7052
Жыл бұрын
Well it definitely holds the title for "Worst Audio quality in the world".
@cericat
Жыл бұрын
Oh how I wish that were true.
@alasdair4161
Жыл бұрын
I've seen some systems that would compete on that score.
@AtheistOrphan
Жыл бұрын
Oh I don’t know, the Crosley record players give it a close run for it’s money.
@peshozmiata
Жыл бұрын
The problem is that he didn't shave off the outer edge of the little records, of course that will make the audio quality worse
@j__r0d
Жыл бұрын
I don't know that I've ever been so let down and yet enthused by the sound of one of these devices you show off! 😆
@veldtwalker
Жыл бұрын
Imagine walking into a windowless concrete room with this sitting on a table, playing, with a single light bulb above it. When the track is over the door slams behind you.
@conwaytwt
Жыл бұрын
I along with others appreciate you mounting the records on a turntable and playing them so we could hear them a bit better. Earlier I kept expecting you to pull out your little scale and measuring how many grams effective force that stylus pressed against the records! But then, when the device started to play... just like parents in the 1970s, we were thankful for its blessedly short playing time!
@valedictorianism
Жыл бұрын
When I was a kid, my sister had a doll that could say something, or sing, and I vaguely remember one day I took it apart (I used to do that to all my toys to find out how they worked) and there was a tiny record player inside it, and it didn't seem to be an electronic device, it looked like it was purely mechanical. After many decades, I started to wonder whether I hadn't imagined or dreamed up the whole situation, and now, thanks to your video, I see that is a real memory, not a figment of my childish imagination!
@songsthatarecatchy
Жыл бұрын
You should try and find that doll again that would be cool
@ericschulze5641
11 ай бұрын
The old talking GI Joes had the same thing
@rossrian6037
8 ай бұрын
I, too, tore all my toys apart to see how they worked. My fave was the "speak n play" things that were round with a carrying handle on top and a pull string to make it work that housed a tiny recordplayer and the "record" had many lead-in grooves so when you pointed the arrow at the corresponding picture on the toy it would set the needle for that groove! Of course i tore the recordplayer out and had more fun watching it work than playing with the actual toy itself, lol!
@fizzy49cc
Жыл бұрын
As a child of the 70/80's with its own technical achievements. It never ceases to amaze me what was created in the 1960's. Especially considering the materials available. It really was a 'can do' decade, culminating with Concorde/Moon Landings & micro electronics. Your videos have helped me realise that there's no such thing as a 'new' idea. Keep it up sir.
@Padraigp
10 ай бұрын
What taxing the rich can do for us all!
@aldwinmagno
10 ай бұрын
@@phillipbanes5484i think he was referring to the time before Reaganomics existed, I guess.
@POPDELUSION
Жыл бұрын
My jaw dropped when the contact solution worked. I was pretty much yelling at the screen that the motor was dead when you were trying to pry it apart 😅 never knew dead motors can be revived this way
@firesurfer
Жыл бұрын
Quite often fans and similar are just dirty from use or debris from the carbon brushes. Cleaning them can bring them back to life.
@pancudowny
Жыл бұрын
Stopping at the initial inspection of the player, I'm reminded of a series of storybooks that had grooved discs adhered to the inside of various pages containing audio that kept in with the story on the page, which could be played with a player of similar design when set over the record.
@len9518
Жыл бұрын
Remarkable. Great job. I commend you for doing this with a straight face. Any child would have been bored with this, in less than a minute. No measureable rumble!
@nhand42
Жыл бұрын
That ending was so perfect.
@RichardPolhill
Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of the laughing/crying doll my sister had in the early eighties. That had a tiny record player inside, very similar to this, with laughing and gurgling happy baby sounds on a loop on one side of the disk and crying sounds on the other.
@OofusTwillip
Жыл бұрын
I still have my early-1970s Walking Wendy doll, with a little record player in its body. I have one of the records too, but the player is broken.
@jeremyfine1464
Жыл бұрын
My mouth was agape from the point Matt pressured his fingers on the grooves of the platter to test turntable torque. Like watching a car accident. Compelling stuff.
@elvisonwax
Жыл бұрын
How empowering this video is. To think of the trepidation I felt only yesterday, fitting a Beverly Craven mini CD single into my Denon. I imagined it being gobbled up, followed by an audible burp. Matt, you are fearless.. ‘I’ll just disassemble this bit..’
@alasdair4161
Жыл бұрын
Wow, I remember desperately wanting one of those when I was five or six years old. Recently recalling that memory I thought maybe I had dreamed it up, never having seen one since. I see now that it was a real thing, and I must have seen it advertised somewhere way back then. At about that time I was given a crystal radio instead which probably set me on my life path in electronics. Thanks for the video.
@sunbeam8866
Жыл бұрын
As a kid back in the '60s, I really wanted the 'Honor House battery-operated movie-projector' I saw advertised in the back of comic-books and other publications. I finally saw one at a flea-market several years ago. What a piece of junk!
@mineown1861
Жыл бұрын
Dixie was recognizeable. As kids we had an old gramophone we'd play with , the arm was missing so we'd make a paper cone and push a pin through the tapered end . Lightly holding the pin on a spinning record and it sounded pretty much like what you've got there.
@dalefirmin5118
Жыл бұрын
When I was a kid there was this novelty item that consisted of a bag with writing on it that said, "Put me down for a laugh." It had a pressure switch on the bottom and when you put it down, it played a recording of laughter that was infectious. Well, I got one that the bag was damaged and opened it up to find a record player much like the one that you show here.
@Pressbutan
Жыл бұрын
This was your best and most lighthearted video in a while. I’ve been missing the puppet out-tros and this is close enough. We demand more lighthearted and goofy Techmoan
@Waccoon
Жыл бұрын
That first play brought me to tears of joy. Really. Ah, the feel of the 70's, all packaged into a neat, tiny box. It's just like I remember.
@Davecat
Жыл бұрын
That version of Dixie at 13:33 is the best rendition of that song ever recorded.
@joshuahadams
9 ай бұрын
It’s like the sound a saloon band would have after getting blown up in a Looney Tunes short
@christopherrigby2798
Жыл бұрын
A similar system but with multiple grooves is to be found inside a Palitoy Action Man Field Radio were a button from the front starts a AA battery driven motor to play the disc using a primative needle and plastic diaphragm. With that the discs have commands you'd use in play!
@Jooles99
Жыл бұрын
Yes I had one of those when I was a kid.
@WahooLee
Жыл бұрын
My kid sister had a "talking" doll that had a tiny record player inside with an even smaller diameter record in it. No battery, but it had a wind-up motor activated when she pulled a string in it's back. I think it changed track with each pull, so it would say something different each time. I only discovered the record player when my 8yo sister asked 10yo me to fix it after she dropped the doll. I think it was something simple like the needle coming off the record and needed to be put back on the record.
@lurkerrekrul
Жыл бұрын
I've always been fascinated with miniature things, and I remember when I was quite little, I saw a cake in a local store that had a miniature record player and records on it. I really wanted it, even though I knew it was just a plastic decoration. I honestly can't remember if my mother got me a set of them or not. I have a vague memory of playing with it, but it could just be my memory playing tricks on me.
@exodous02
Жыл бұрын
Man, would have loved this as a kid. This is something they could bring back cheaply and it would probably sell well. When I was a kid we had a pretty big collection of books where each page had a record directly on the page and the player was a separate device. You'd center the device on the record that was on the page, hit play on the device, and it would play a 10 or 15 second clip. Have no idea what it was called but we had a lot of them. Can't remember the stories, mainly the device, but I do remember we had both Warner Brothers cartoon characters and Disney characters so the toy company licensed both.
@8bitwiz_
Жыл бұрын
I think a big QR code with some sort of MIDI representation would work today.
@timfischer
Жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure Techmoan already did a video on this type of book. But for the life of me I don't remember what they were called.
@exodous02
Жыл бұрын
@@8bitwiz_ I don't know, having little records would be neat. This would be better than CDs or tapes also, it is a dead simple mechanism that doesn't require any electronics. I bet now they would say the needle would put a kids eye out or something ridiculous.
@J-1410
Жыл бұрын
Leap Frog?
@padraigcollins6525
Жыл бұрын
Fantastic. I love the journey from not working to the full glory of how awful it sounds when it does work. And how how you manage to get the viewer invested in whether or not it works.
@generalrodcocker1018
Жыл бұрын
in 1978, a child college of mine, a girl had a doll with this built in. you could put different disks in and the doll said something like mama, if i tidy my room, can go to the playground afterwards? pretty hilarious
@Sevenigma777
Жыл бұрын
Hey man just wanna say thanks so much for all the great free entertainment youve given me over the years. I just love how obsecure some of the things you showcase are as well as teaching us all about it. I love learning new things and you have singlehandedly taught me a lot so between that and the great content i thank you and your hard work doesnt go unappreciated!
@ploom493
Жыл бұрын
This is true lo-fi analog sound. Digital has nothing on this. Kids today dont know what they're missing
@MrEddiedk
Жыл бұрын
I had a laughing box placed in a pouch that was sold as toy in the 80's, that was based on this system somehow. It was also a mechanical needle and a membrane, pressing down on a small record, that was driven by a little motor and batteries. It was VERY close to this complete mechanism, except that the record couldn't be changed (the housing was two parts, mounted together with screws).
@UnCoolDad
Жыл бұрын
Bhutan released vinyl postage stamps in the early 70's which you could play in a standard record player.
@MaxSMoke777
Жыл бұрын
Good to see you're still alive, Mat! I owe you some tapes.
@matthewhilty4209
Жыл бұрын
There is no way any of that would get a copyright match. It was hardly recognizable. You always show the best worst stuff.
@SmoggyLambGG
Жыл бұрын
The other problem with playing those records is, most turntables would stop playing or return the tone-arm to the park position.
@meechmushrooms
Жыл бұрын
I'm so glad he did the thing where he tried to play it on a normal record player. That was my first question when I saw the size of them, was, "will it play on standard equipment?" Leave it to Techmoan to go above and beyond where others wouldn't dare to go.
@biggiejohn3360
Жыл бұрын
all of those tiny records seemed to suffer from the same terrifying "demonic" sound, like the Edison doll
@telebubba5527
Жыл бұрын
It does make the expressions on the faces of the box art understandable though. 😱
@aminekostone1411
Жыл бұрын
I just love how it doesn't matter which record he puts on, they all sound the same!!
@pdrg
Жыл бұрын
Had the same mechanism miniaturised even further in a "Bag o' laughs" - the record was attached through friction, one side was the laughing, the other side was odd birdsong. Might be interesting to dig one up.
@R2DHue
Жыл бұрын
This video was great to watch from start to finish, with the entire repair process shown in detail.
@Gadgetonomy
Жыл бұрын
Zero chance of any content matches here!!
@stevosteve
Жыл бұрын
Made me smile from start to finish. The basics of the bygone days. Loved it.
@LEXXIUS
Жыл бұрын
The way it sounds, it would be perfect as a sound effect for horror games!
@richardworboys7212
Жыл бұрын
Wow, certainly boosts my appreciation for my Fisher Price Records I had when I was young!
@oudaak1
Жыл бұрын
The teddy bear,with fairy tail story record gramophone inside, sold in 80's Czechoslovakia, was even smaller and had a built in speaker...
@rupe53
Жыл бұрын
Back in the mid 80s Nissan / Datsun used a mini record of sorts to give verbal warnings to the driver, with prompts of "key is in the ignition" or "a door is ajar." The idea was they could insert a different record for various languages. Based on the size of the box I would guess the record was easily half this size.
@realityquotient7699
Жыл бұрын
Literally the same technology as Edison's first phonograph. Neat! Interesting to note that the quality of the recording appears to exceed the capabilities of the playback device.
@alm5693
Жыл бұрын
This fun episode sent me checking my "tiny collectors edition" of "If I Didn't Love You"/"Another Nail In My Heart" by Squeeze because I couldn't remember how small it is. At 5", it's giant compared to the Mighty Tiny. It plays at 33-1/3 rpm and appears to be suitable for automatic return record players. It doesn't have a whole lot more groove fidelity than the Mighty Tiny, but it can be played on real stereo equipment.
@paulhaynes8045
Жыл бұрын
Can we just have a moment's appreciation for a belt that survived intact for over 50 years? Modern day audio manufacturers need to find out what this belt was made of!
@telebubba5527
Жыл бұрын
The fact that it withstood 50 years is the reason why they do not use it anymore.
@Scodiddly
Жыл бұрын
Whale oil and asbestos.
@adamwhite2364
Жыл бұрын
@@Scodiddlyand probably lubricated with lead powder
@markbrooks7157
Жыл бұрын
I just bought a 55 year old Playtape player and to my amazement the belt was fine. It played perfectly.
@NevilleStyke
Жыл бұрын
Wow! Someone finally found a method of improving the listener's experience of banjo music!
@PascalGienger
Жыл бұрын
That reminds me of those doll record players from Italy. They were in many dolls and you put the records in the back of the doll. The stylus pressed so heavy on the plastic record so they wore out after some 50 plays - but with that purely acoustic system you didn't realize it until the whole audio was "milled" away ;-)
@rastislavzima
Жыл бұрын
I remember I had some toy that had such a sound but I can't remember what it was, I think it was maybe some kind of wehicle...
@Sunila_DragonladyCH
Жыл бұрын
I was looking to see if anyone commented on that. I hated dolls and never wanted to play with one, but I absolutely wanted this one (and got one) just because of that record player.
@CommanderZx2
Жыл бұрын
All of that work was totally worth it to get this thing playing.
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