TB-303 Documentary - Bassline Baseline (2005)

[chiefbag]

To be fair the selector switch which you have surrounded by a red circle clearly represents a "saw/square" option. That aside nice breakdown again, keep up the good work .(Amen)

[askadetra]

my favorite kind of synthesizer for electronic music. it's not used a lot today. it was used for some non electronic styles, then it became a very important addition to hip hop, electro (electro funk), acid house, acid techno, breakbeat, drum n bass, acid trance, goa trance, psytrance and some hardcore styles.

[agilders]

Nice doc, but you need to reupload this video, the quality sucks ass.

[turquoisecapricorn]

Thumb up for this documentary.People who nag and think they can do it better, make a video then!

[VegassTrades]

Smack my Bitch up used a Korg Prophecy for the main riff, not a 303

[GeoAl09]

why the hell does all the music glitch?? its annoying

[scyhte82]

whats up with that horrible glitching music?

[Envergure]

Cool doc.

[TheYouSphere]

Very well researched documentary, however whenever there is an image the background goes a weird grey colour and then it sort of fades, really annoying and makes it difficult to see the picture. Perhaps because it's on YouTube? I enjoyed watching this and have learneed much. Thank you.

[pipedreamrealityblog]

ACIEEEEEEEEEEEEED

[sgcollins]

around 1987 i gave my 303 and my 606 to the janitor, told him they were good for swatting large insects. i didn't know they were destined to become treasures.

[onhookersandgin]

They missed out the MC-202...

Well, they missed out nearly everything relevant :/

[onhookersandgin]

Wow, they achieved what is possibly the impossible, by creating the most boring documentary ever on such a colourful history of an amazing subject matter! How?!!

[MrTeeBee303]

Sine wave...pffft someone didnt do his research! You totally discredited yourself there. Shit "documentary"

[limeyamos]

thank you for this, I remember your voice from the amen break installation video.

[theeltea]

Now, now, the Prodigy's Smack My Bitch Up used "TB-303 GROWLER" from Korg Prophecy and not a TB-303.

[SomeGuyInSandy]

Cool video, very nice.

[martinenn]

So today, we have computer software consisting of representations of a 3 dimensional interface on a 2 dimensional screen being controlled by a 3rd party hardware so as to emulate the sound of a machine built over 20 years ago, wich was itself built to emulate the sound of a machine built over 30 years before it. I fucking love acid house maaaaaan...

[youdontknowxpand]

Yeah, I wanted to buy a TB-303 then I saw the prices... Damn... Why am I not living in the 80s!?

[DAUBERMIN]

Awesome vid

[saltykraut]

Saw or square waves. Not sine

[emremokoko]

narrated by MALE Glados ;)

[emremokoko]

the narrator sounds like a synthesizer too :)

[tabipapi]

love the info

thanx

[djshelleymack]

2 mins in and I cant stand any more of Nate Harrison's tedious monotone!

[TrowbridgeHardcore]

Smack my bitch up was xl recordings, tb303 had square wave not sine

[theeltea]

@TrowbridgeHardcore Not to mention TB-303 wasn't on Smack My Bitch Up at all. :)

[TrowbridgeHardcore]

@theeltea well the main lead was a heavily distorted saw wave so it could of been used, wouldent surprise me if it was 101 tho

[ceephaxacidcrew]

this comes across like it was written and spoken by a computer without having checked for errors....sine wave ? Come on, probably 50% of 303 tunes use the square wave, it's the first thing you'd know if you cared about what you were talking about

[geroin31337]

@ceephaxacidcrew apart from the other 50% that use sawtooth? lol

[Capeau]

@ceephaxacidcrew

If you actually knew what you were talking about, you'd know you're wrong. Its not because you have the option to select between saw or square that there is no square mixed in (yes, by design)

[theinfideluk]

That was really cool thanks for the upload man :)

[jnberger]

Awesome doc!

[jsxtal]

bushleague

[qone1200]

kudos for this amazing documentary nate. and thank you for uploading and sharing this. super interesting. ill never have a tb-303....

[numanuma20]

The video never mentioned the fact of Daft Punk's influence of TB 303. I never have heard such amazing basslines from a house band.

[LouigiVerona]

mc-303 has absolutely nothing to do with TB-303, but the number "303". It is not an "improved TB-303". Very poor documentary.

[loombaron]

this video is a must in your favourites

[Rampagge1]

Great video, thanks for the upload!!!!

[AnthonyDavid94]

Smack My Bitch up used a Korg Prophecy, which has a 303 preset.

[theeltea]

@AnthonyDavid94 TB-303 GROWLER, to be exact! Glad I'm not the only one noticing that!

[AnthonyDavid94]

@theeltea They did use an actual 303 in Weather Experience for example though. but yeh, Prophecy :)

[sirthomasjensen]

The two wave forms you can switch between are sawtooth and square wave, not sine.

[b00y4kk4]

@sirthomasjensen hahaha epic fail at 5:02

[tranceemerson]

@sirthomasjensen I caught that error and I was going to tell him lol

[dudearlo]

@sirthomasjensen isnt a sine wave obtained through a filter?

[dronehymns]

@dudearlo No. You could run a sine through a filter but it wouldn't make much sense because sines don't have harmonics to filter.

[dudearlo]

@dronehymns can you run a saw or pulse wave into a lowpass to get a "fake" sine wave?

[dronehymns]

@dudearlo You could probably filter a triangle wave and get a faux-sine. I don't think you'd have much luck making a saw or pulse sound like a sine with just a lowpass.

[TrowbridgeHardcore]

@sirthomasjensen technically its a half inverted saw alough sounds pretty identical to a square

[FilziSH]

Awsome!

[signupsucksass]

great video!!!