Ep16: Synth Sounds of Talk Talk's "It's My Life"

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  • Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024

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  • @Schabo1234
    @Schabo1234 6 лет назад +36

    "...1984...let just say, life was great !" Nothing more to say !

  • @L77kim77l
    @L77kim77l 3 года назад

    Miss Mark Hollis. R.I.P.

  • @Dem1861
    @Dem1861 6 лет назад

    Clicked like immediately. Hope it's a good video.

  • @jarrod9052
    @jarrod9052 6 лет назад +171

    Keep the breakdowns coming ! Can you do the Synth cover of Billy Idol “ eyes without a face”

  • @stevekiley6121
    @stevekiley6121 5 лет назад +54

    RIP Mark Hollis.
    This is a great video explanation of the synth sounds, fair play to you.

  • @patrickvanbramer5318
    @patrickvanbramer5318 3 года назад +42

    No one can cover this song. Mark Hollis's voice is too Awesome!

    • @subs4794
      @subs4794 Год назад +3

      You mean Bryan Ferry's voice is too Awesome!

    • @arnold1412
      @arnold1412 26 дней назад

      @@subs4794 Yep, Bryan was something else, but Mark was in another planet mate.

  • @meganpatsel
    @meganpatsel 6 лет назад +93

    I love this series so much please never stop making it!

  • @ICACJ
    @ICACJ 6 лет назад +118

    3:48 The joystick on the juno only bends the pitch according to the position of your head. It's like playing a theremin but with your face!

    • @kgbinfo
      @kgbinfo 6 лет назад +2

      CJ it was their first foray into the advanced tech that would later become the renowned “d-beam”

    • @Dr_Satan
      @Dr_Satan 6 лет назад +16

      I don't know what you guys are talking about not being able to adjust the range of the bender on a Juno-106. You absolutely can. The slider furthest to the left that says "DCO" on the bender panel adjusts the max amount of the bend in either direction.

    • @thegophoto
      @thegophoto 6 лет назад

      Same thing I was thinking, that little DCO slider by the pitch bender.

    • @reneotten7376
      @reneotten7376 5 лет назад

      And otherwise use a mechanical stop.

    • @annother3350
      @annother3350 4 года назад +1

      In this case wouldn't glide be your friend??

  • @Ryokon101
    @Ryokon101 5 лет назад +22

    Rest in peace MARK HOLLIS WE LOVE YOU

  • @chrissoares23
    @chrissoares23 6 лет назад +79

    Talk Talk was great. Also love their artier records Laughing Stock and Spirit Of Eden. Some of the members of the band created a cool side project called .O.rang. check it out.

    • @lit3work
      @lit3work 6 лет назад +5

      Chris Soares agreed! Along with the Blue Nile and Depeche Mode, my very favourite bands. Their live performance at Montreaux Jazz Festival, from when they played live (sadly they felt they couldn't recreate the two masterpieces you mention above on the stage) is brilliant. Also check out Mark Hollis' eponymous solo album (no synthesis tho!) and bass player Rustin Man's album with Beth Gibbons.

    • @tony1kenobi202
      @tony1kenobi202 6 лет назад +3

      Picked up Mark Hollis' album for 50p in a charity shopBest 50p I've ever spent!

    • @Nightdare
      @Nightdare 6 лет назад +7

      Talk Talk was one of the few bands that quit before selling out

    • @bernardogui3933
      @bernardogui3933 6 лет назад +2

      I just did. I liked a lot. Thks.

    • @brooke9476
      @brooke9476 5 лет назад +2

      Mark Hollis was beyond his time, such a amazing talent

  • @garyholdsworth53
    @garyholdsworth53 6 лет назад +14

    This is, (without a doubt, not "no doubt") my favorite 80s song ever....thanks for doing it justice. I also love the bass line in this song, and love playing it on bass. It's anything but a conventional bass line.

  • @therajgreek420
    @therajgreek420 6 лет назад +43

    Clicked on this so hard. LOVE Talk Talk

    • @chasegilmond5637
      @chasegilmond5637 6 лет назад +1

      Arion Xenos I have their extended edition on vinyl and I love it

    • @John_Holmes
      @John_Holmes 6 лет назад +1

      Don't you forget, it may be your life, but life's what you make it! See what I did there? I was big in 1984 too. It's all on VHS.

  • @mattrodela2030
    @mattrodela2030 6 лет назад +20

    "Like putting a fly on a string and racing him across the street" This description for sensitivity made me bust up! Great presentation on a great song THANK YOU!!

  • @soaribb32
    @soaribb32 6 лет назад +28

    Running Up That Hill

    • @tguers
      @tguers 3 года назад

      And such a shame

  • @Justin_the_Analog_IC_architect
    @Justin_the_Analog_IC_architect 6 лет назад +34

    I love this guy - educational and funny!

  • @BReal-10EC
    @BReal-10EC 6 лет назад +13

    Talk Talk was definitely deeper than their few pop song hits suggested. The Spirit of Eden is quite a listen. And these videos are great. I hadn't really thought about it before.. but the changing technology was a major driving force in musical directions back then. As more tools became available, musicians used them. That explains why late 70s, early 80s, and later 80s music can sound so different.

    • @mskcrc
      @mskcrc 5 лет назад

      Laughing Stock is one of the great albums of modern music, even better than Spirit of Eden.

  • @lamgefyoutoob
    @lamgefyoutoob 6 лет назад +22

    He needs to be given his own cable channel.

  • @juliomazariegos8796
    @juliomazariegos8796 6 лет назад +24

    The band uses an actual bass guitar?
    One of my favourites basslines it gives shape to the song

    • @jandepardiusz4396
      @jandepardiusz4396 6 лет назад +10

      Yea, real guitar. Amazing line

    • @alexbreyer6921
      @alexbreyer6921 6 лет назад +8

      They had a great rhythm section.

    • @lit3work
      @lit3work 6 лет назад +6

      Paul Webb aka Rustin Man. Check out the live Montreaux set on RUclips and be enthralled.

    • @juliomazariegos8796
      @juliomazariegos8796 6 лет назад

      Scott Barnett i'll check it out thanks

  • @petermortimer3521
    @petermortimer3521 5 лет назад +10

    I smiled all the way through this. It makes you realise how talented these musicians really are!!

  • @ScottWozniak
    @ScottWozniak 6 лет назад +40

    5:55 You can absolutely adjust the pitch bend amount. The DCO slider above the bender lets you set the amount.

    • @edjwise
      @edjwise 6 лет назад +3

      That is what I was thinking!!!
      Doesn't the original song have some filter closing on that pitch bend part?

    • @oqsy
      @oqsy 4 года назад +1

      I’m a bit concerned that this was missed... am I in a Mandela Effect branch universe where you can’t?

    • @fisch723
      @fisch723 4 года назад

      Even if that is/was a limit, I would approach it by starting the bend up a step and let it down to the final pitch. At least you’ll always end in tune. And starting the note, you have a little time to adjust. Funny I was just working on learning the guitar for this song an hour ago. I also have to do the solo so I’m triggering an oboe with a lot of space around it. Tried getting that little out of tune vibrato that comes in but I gave up for now. Otherwise sounds tight.

    • @floppydisk921
      @floppydisk921 4 года назад

      Isn't that for setting the modulation amount of the lfo on the dco with the mod bend

    • @oqsy
      @oqsy 4 года назад +2

      Floppydisk There are VCO and DCF sensitivity settings next to each other.

  • @cordovp
    @cordovp 10 месяцев назад +4

    I don't know if I like these sounds so much because they represent my youth but I never stopped listening to them all these years

  • @arcticsmoke302
    @arcticsmoke302 4 года назад +3

    Replace the fairlight with the Jupiter 8 and you have your ah sound, but it’s more like a low screech sound almost scratching. Ian Curnow uses a variance of the same patch for the entire album as well in Such a Shame to get those guitar sounding leads. It’s a pulse wave, octave stacked, with a little bit of chorus and some white noise.

  • @DanielBrownsan
    @DanielBrownsan 6 лет назад +9

    The $1.2 baziilion dollar Fairlight synthesizer I wanted as a teenager is now an app. Has science gone too far?

    • @benanderson89
      @benanderson89 4 года назад

      Not a very good app, though. It doesn't simulate any of the really awkward behaviour of the Fairlight IIx that gave it it's really deep crunch. Look at the Samplight by Aly Jay. It should be out soon and it even models all the voltage controlled amps.

    • @napatora
      @napatora 4 года назад

      it hasn't gone too far enough!

  • @robertm8552
    @robertm8552 6 лет назад +4

    Talk Talk was so underrated. Life's What You Make It was another amazing track from them.

  • @blake..-
    @blake..- 5 лет назад +5

    RIP Mark Hollis

  • @faunoram
    @faunoram 6 лет назад +15

    this show is really fun to watch ! keep em coming ! it would be nice synth sounds of "Sweet Dreams" - Eurythmics

    • @starry2006
      @starry2006 4 года назад +1

      They did better songs like Here Comes the Rain Again.

  • @RoomAtTheTopStudio
    @RoomAtTheTopStudio 6 лет назад +11

    I used to hate a lot of these types of tunes when they first were around as they weren't my thing but they played constantly everywhere as pop tunes. Now I love them as they remind me of that era and I love how you take them apart and explain how they were created. Great series. Keep it up!!

  • @KurtRichterCISSP
    @KurtRichterCISSP 6 лет назад +10

    ❤️ Love love love some Talk Talk! Spirit of Eden will CHANGE YOUR LIFE

    • @welshhibby
      @welshhibby 6 лет назад +1

      Kurt Richter and laughing stock too

  • @OfficialRainsynth
    @OfficialRainsynth 6 лет назад +3

    I tried to replicate the "pad" sound on virtual 106 and it was completely different. Any explanation for that?

  • @edjwise
    @edjwise 6 лет назад +6

    You can control the amount of pitch bend on the 106. Does that not help with being precise?

  • @mikekaraoke
    @mikekaraoke 6 лет назад +3

    Could you please do synth sounds-The Reflex-Duran Duran or the hit song- "In the Heat of the Night"-Sandra that wasn't released in UK, US, Canada, Australia, But was a massive hit in France, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Holland, Denmark, Switzerland, Norway, Austria, Hungry, Italy, Spain, Argentina, Greece, Brazil, Japan, China,

  • @JulesFox
    @JulesFox 6 лет назад +1

    A bit of a missed opportunity to show how to actually program those sounds from scratch.... especially the brass, on the Juno.

  • @hahnsolo9006
    @hahnsolo9006 6 лет назад +5

    Thanks for producing this series William and Reverb. Top notch content.

  • @paulcardsfan
    @paulcardsfan 3 года назад +1

    You got some of the sounds but its alot more complex. Still have the seagull sounds plus there is a low moo sound and a crashing sound. Some other sounds still need to identify.

  • @rackmann6770
    @rackmann6770 6 лет назад +2

    Ok ok I've been patient enough..
    DO Psychedelic Furs 'love my way'
    Or 'the ghost in you' already!
    Ppplleassse
    I swear, if you do some shitty duran duran song before the psychedelic furs I will.....I will...
    Ok I'm not sure yet.

  • @nja3224
    @nja3224 6 лет назад +1

    That’s awfully complicated. Who knew? Great tune.

  • @oqsy
    @oqsy 4 года назад +1

    What if I told you... you CAN adjust the bend ratio

  • @xesh9520
    @xesh9520 6 лет назад +7

    I love this series, please keep the episodes coming!

  • @davidmckelvey2601
    @davidmckelvey2601 6 лет назад +10

    Synth sounds of Boards of Canada!

    • @fibranijevidra
      @fibranijevidra 6 лет назад

      David McKelvey Yes, BOC please!

    • @hcaz5818
      @hcaz5818 6 лет назад

      It would be so hard to choose a track haha

  • @gregb7595
    @gregb7595 3 года назад +1

    RIP Mr Hollis, you live on thru all that love you.

  • @marcrenton555
    @marcrenton555 6 лет назад +12

    *Great video as always!*
    Please do synth sounds of *Blue Monday* and some *Patrick Cowley* stuff

    • @cornerliston
      @cornerliston 6 лет назад +1

      An Oberheim DMX for the drums and a Moog Source Sawtooth for the bass and there you go. : )

    • @hudu
      @hudu 6 лет назад +1

      They have the DMX right there in the background! New Order time!

    • @alexbreyer6921
      @alexbreyer6921 6 лет назад

      I read an article where New Order said they don't remember most of their own settings on how things were recorded. They hired a dude to sleuth it out before they went on tour.

    • @cornerliston
      @cornerliston 6 лет назад

      I guess they were busy fighting about who's bass was going to be loudest? ; )

    • @chrisjdgrady
      @chrisjdgrady 6 лет назад

      Think he could choose a better NO song, but I'd be happy enough.

  • @marguskiis7711
    @marguskiis7711 5 лет назад +1

    Talk Talk probably used Emulator II not Fairlight for chorus.

    • @larserlandsson5824
      @larserlandsson5824 4 года назад

      nope, the Fairlight bit here was actually a Jupiter-8. No samplers used.

  • @TheWusster
    @TheWusster 6 лет назад +1

    yeah but what made the seagull sounds??? :-)

  • @juanitolopez8686
    @juanitolopez8686 5 лет назад +4

    I was hoping you would cover the little "BIRD" sound effect in It's My Life? What was that made with?

    • @RenePeraza
      @RenePeraza 4 года назад +1

      Right? I asked the same question just now!

    • @fbrinson
      @fbrinson 3 года назад

      a bird

  • @DeejvilleTV
    @DeejvilleTV 6 лет назад +32

    Very interesting video. Just a few points...
    1. Talk Talk never used the Fairlight CMI.
    2. Mark Hollis hates synthesizers. They were used on the record because they only had a small budget.
    3. The Jupiter 8 was Talk Talks main source pallet for sounds on the bands first album and continued to be the main workhorse on the second album (in fact two are here). There is no 106 on this track but there is an Oberheim OB-X and a Roland JX3P. Keyboards were done by Ian Curnow.
    4. The all important elephant sound is done by a Jupiter 8.

    • @marisgertans2438
      @marisgertans2438 6 лет назад +2

      Hm, I saw live concert of 1982 (here on youtube) and they used Roland RS-09 (these fluty lead sounds) + Oberheim OBxa for pads on the first album!

    • @josefwashere
      @josefwashere 5 лет назад

      DeejvilleTV great trainspotting bro!

    • @thegreaterconundrum
      @thegreaterconundrum 5 лет назад

      Calling something interesting is like the grandmother of sounding like you're complimenting something without really complimenting it haha

    • @SkylineTechnology
      @SkylineTechnology 5 лет назад +1

      The "ah" sound at 4:46 Was originally made by feeding a synth through a guitar distortion pedal in a Church and recording the reverbed end result.

    • @6581punk
      @6581punk 5 лет назад

      @Marcus Salem You rented them or used them in a studio? cheaper than getting a session musician and a piano I guess.

  • @faketablet5215
    @faketablet5215 6 лет назад +5

    Time to undust (and fix) my Juno 106...

    • @moogdome2562
      @moogdome2562 6 лет назад

      Me too. hope it's not the dreaded chip problem.

  • @ianwilson7637
    @ianwilson7637 5 лет назад +1

    I think the breathy sound on the Fairlight was originally from an OBx. You can replicate (or approximate) it on other synths using a random LFO on pitch and some noise if needed, although I'm not sure how it was originally done. System 8 does a decent job and the Studiologic Sledge even better.

    • @MsSolomonkane
      @MsSolomonkane 5 лет назад

      I absolutely agree with you - This breathy sound is not from a Fairlight - I found a link of the the band in which they explain how they created most of the sounds of this song (and others) . It's confirmed: they used an OBX for this breathy sound - and no sampler ever in any song : even for the supposed elephants of Such a Shame. here is the link : facebook.com/SpiritOfTalkTalk/photos/talk-talks-brilliant-keyboardist-and-lovely-fella-ian-curnow-answers-your-questi/524474557597819/
      I posted this link a few weeks ago but it seems that the owner of this video has suppressed it...

  • @MaxiBodyalive
    @MaxiBodyalive 6 лет назад +1

    The Fairlight sound is wrong.

  • @jvt6
    @jvt6 3 года назад +2

    Love this! Thank you for spotlighting this amazing song & GROUP!

  • @landreveur1032
    @landreveur1032 5 лет назад +1

    Too much great synths, dream of them all :-))

  • @pongthrob
    @pongthrob 4 года назад +1

    That fairlight sound is not even close to the original. And what about all the synth-ey wildlife sounds they used?
    This video should in fact be called "the *chords* of It's My Life".

    • @jno8039
      @jno8039 4 года назад

      I think it's was a Jupiter 8 and a Oberheim OB-Xa with a cross-mod

  • @angeyoda
    @angeyoda 5 лет назад +1

    Great subject mate, but no it's not that Fairlight sound. it's much more agressive than "Sararr".

  • @seamusthebogman
    @seamusthebogman 6 лет назад +3

    Unified under one sun - great job!!! Such a great electric bass line by Paul Webb as well.

    • @danielhresko4900
      @danielhresko4900 6 лет назад

      This song inspired me to buy a bass. The pre-chorus and chorus are sooooo fun to play!

  • @ducav2
    @ducav2 6 лет назад +1

    The notes you play with fairlight sound not quite the same as the original - that sounds more like a composed sound with sawtooth + white noise, with a bit of resonance

    • @larserlandsson5824
      @larserlandsson5824 4 года назад

      A Jupiter-8 with distortion + reverb. No Fairlight :)

  •  6 лет назад +1

    That fairlight sound is so out of place... It's made with an analog synth, not a sampler...

    • @KrokodillenKarsten
      @KrokodillenKarsten 6 лет назад +1

      René Didden : Totally agree ... there’s some distortion on it as well

  • @neuronmind
    @neuronmind 6 лет назад +1

    If you want that pitch bend spot on use portamento and just play the right notes...

    • @larserlandsson5824
      @larserlandsson5824 4 года назад

      or just set the pitch bend range, with the slider abobe the bender that this guy apparently didn't find.

  • @robertm8552
    @robertm8552 6 лет назад +5

    Can we get some Steve Winwood?

  • @fawkkyutuu8851
    @fawkkyutuu8851 2 года назад +1

    70's/80's Instruments were pure gold. To think you could just walk Into any music stores back then and you were staring at a fortune and the best synths/samplers/drum machine etc Instruments that would ever be made.

  • @klumpmeister2000
    @klumpmeister2000 6 лет назад +2

    Pointer Sisters “Jump for my love” should be next!

  • @seank997
    @seank997 6 лет назад +3

    SYNTH SOUNDS yes dude you are killin it

  • @J3unG
    @J3unG 6 лет назад +2

    I love this series! Thanks for doing it. Keep doing it, y'all. Can you do analysis of Prince, Herbie Hancock, Thomas Dolby, Zapp. Just some ideas for the future (Man...if you could do Roger and zapp's Bounce to the Ounce, that would be DOPE). Later!

    • @Reverb
      @Reverb  6 лет назад

      Great suggestions! We did cover one Prince song last season (but clearly, there are plenty more worth investigating!): ruclips.net/video/gDk_tQ2B0dg/видео.html

  • @AdamTheAd-vanc3d
    @AdamTheAd-vanc3d 6 лет назад +1

    Absolutly loved this one. Talk talk was had a unique sound, topped with Mark's vocals ...simply timeless !!!
    I have a funny feeling the original bendy sound and the chiffy sounding synth was a jupiter 8 thou i may be wrong.

  • @pointsofhonesty
    @pointsofhonesty 6 лет назад +1

    I actually really came here to figure out the bass sounds....damnnnnn

    • @alexbreyer6921
      @alexbreyer6921 6 лет назад +1

      It's a bass guitar. Paul Webb played on this song, I believe, although I think they had Danny Thompson's double bass later on tracks like "Life's What You Make It." I have read Paul played mostly fretless Musicman Stingray, but I don't really know for sure. I think a lot of English pop groups around this era used fretless bass. Trendy for the time.

  • @marguskiis7711
    @marguskiis7711 5 лет назад

    They actually did not use any Fairlight. Here`s an interview with their hired keyboard player Ian Curnow on recordings "Its My Life" from Electronic Soundmaker & Computer Music (July 1984)
    ("Talk Talk Talk
    Talk Talk are granted an audience with Sean Rothman")
    Ian Curnow: “There’s an Oberheim OBX my JP8 and some PPG…these are all colours and stuff but the bulk of it from my end was JP8. Pete Evans, the other keyboardist is using yet another JP8, a Korg Poly-61 and a Yamaha CP80.”
    How d’you go about constructing sounds?
    “We try to use synths from the point of view of unnatural instruments. We try to use a synth sound as you would use a Fairlight or whatever - you don’t get a particular string sound where you say ‘oh, that’s obviously a string’, You play with the sound and make it into something that hasn’t been heard before.”

  • @soaribb32
    @soaribb32 6 лет назад +1

    Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out

  • @DeadWhiteButterflies
    @DeadWhiteButterflies 6 лет назад +2

    I was so hoping you'd cover this so consider this a dream fulfilled. Still waiting on Human League, but it's okay. I'm patient :D
    Also, shoutout to Will with them thick rim glasses making them look better than I ever could.

  • @thebreakfastmenu
    @thebreakfastmenu 4 года назад

    I really don't like No Doubt, mostly because I don't care for Gwen Stefani, but the sound of their cover, especially the production, really is fantastic.

  • @tonematrix
    @tonematrix 6 лет назад +3

    Awesome episode! Gonna go practice my head-bends!

  • @DarkGloComics
    @DarkGloComics 6 лет назад

    You was three years old, in 1984 fool! Like a wise older woman told me, you have heard it, but you did not live it. You can hear, Head over Heels by Tears For Fears and enjoy it, but it's different when it was part of your life.

  • @5iul0001
    @5iul0001 6 лет назад +1

    Please do synth sounds of Van Halen's "Why Can't This Be Love"

  • @Satanjugend
    @Satanjugend 6 лет назад +1

    the choir patch isn't even remotely right. what the hell

  • @buickmonte
    @buickmonte 6 лет назад

    Wait.....have you been watching a DEVO video?!?! Your "Greetings and salutations humans" sounds like The General from a DEVO video!!!!

  • @Noone-of-your-Business
    @Noone-of-your-Business 6 лет назад +1

    The Fairlight sound is _nothing_ like the original. Listen to it again!

  • @corbananderson7060
    @corbananderson7060 6 лет назад +7

    Still don't understand how No Doubt got a grammy nomination for their cover of this song when they couldn't even get the lyrics right.

    • @mskcrc
      @mskcrc 5 лет назад +2

      the Grammys are bullshit, that's why

  • @djceejaay
    @djceejaay 6 лет назад

    I NEED MORE! I WANT MORE! 💯LEVEL 42...SCRITTI POLITTI...INFORMATION SOCIETY...and I could go on and on. THE 80's are my shit!

  • @moogdome2562
    @moogdome2562 6 лет назад +1

    Please, could you do, La Dolce Vita Ryan Paris, and Living by numbers, New muzic.

  • @soaribb32
    @soaribb32 6 лет назад +1

    Blue Monday please

  • @andrewminogue334
    @andrewminogue334 3 года назад

    Bet you were rockin that Member’s Only jacket in 1984. Great video.

  • @robertkoretsky6170
    @robertkoretsky6170 2 года назад

    Thanks for the Juno and Fairlight refs, I used synth brass and pads on my CasioCT-X5000, and the Vogel CMI Fairlight app on my iPad, with your suggested choir voicing, to nearly the same effect. The combination of the 2 synths is prototypical mid-80’s, IMHO.

  • @АлексейРапекта
    @АлексейРапекта Год назад

    The download links for "The Synths Sounds of..." series are broken. Can you please restore them? Thank you!

  • @leocomerford
    @leocomerford 6 лет назад

    Brad Fiedel's theme for /The Terminator/ surely deserves its turn, hard-to-grasp rhythm part and all www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/02/the_time_signature_of_the_terminator_score_is_a_mystery_for_the_ages.html .

  • @substance1
    @substance1 3 года назад

    1984, the days of the second British invasion. So much amazing NEW music was created back then.

  • @rmmjansen
    @rmmjansen 6 лет назад

    OK, +1 for the effort and I enjoyed the video. But...
    Don't try to do JP8 and OBX stuff with a 106. It sounds terribly flat and without character.

  • @cameronv205
    @cameronv205 6 лет назад +1

    Awesome video! It would be cool if you did The Human League- "Love Action" synths and New Order- "Blue Monday".

  • @cvader7
    @cvader7 5 лет назад +1

    great channel

  • @ceephaxx
    @ceephaxx 4 года назад

    I don't think that that two-note signature hook sounds like a CMI vocal sample.
    According to a quote from Talk Talk keyboard player Ian Curnow floating around on the net, it was done on an OB-Xa. To my ears it sounds like a fairly straightforward sawtooth on one oscillator combined with noise on the second oscillator and some sort of flanging. Should be able to get pretty close with the Matrix-12 emulation in V-Collection, although Arturia have just released an OB-Xa emulation, too!

  • @AaronHungwell
    @AaronHungwell 4 года назад

    I’m pretty sure they didn’t use a Juno 106 when making this track. It’s not a bad fill-in, but it’s not what they used. They left out the most important part...the big snare that comes in during the chorus.

  • @HotStrange
    @HotStrange 6 лет назад +1

    They rarely ever get the sound spot on in these videos but I still love them. Why?
    Also I wanna be best friends with this dude.

  • @sdflipper743
    @sdflipper743 5 лет назад +1

    Great job! William. One of my top 10 of the 80s pool of so many, you did it justice and care. Bless you.

  • @martijn_nl
    @martijn_nl Год назад

    There's a Jupiter pitchbended overtone growl in the song that's very interesting but never recreated in covers unfortunately.

  • @lengchai27
    @lengchai27 5 лет назад

    I like your videos...but may I have a suggestion? I think many of us would be happy if you could show the played chords - maybe somewhere at the side of the screen - of the songs what you play and emulate. That would be great help! Thanks!

  • @raywoodvine4958
    @raywoodvine4958 6 лет назад

    Iam 53 and I miss the 80s so much.gremlins, top gun, karate kid.human league,talk talk, leavel 42.all the grate films and music playing in the UK.i hate being in this day and age.most of the film and music are s--t.i get depressed that I can't go back to this grate age.please someone get me a time machine

  • @ryanreagan9049
    @ryanreagan9049 4 года назад

    How about the ‘SEAGULL’ sounds???? So curious...

  • @MrJixies
    @MrJixies 6 лет назад +1

    Why are you wearing safety glasses? Are those synths dangerous?

  • @mrmike743
    @mrmike743 4 года назад

    DEAR REVERB,CAN YOU PLEASE DO THE BREAKDOWN SYNTH SOUNDS OF VIENNA by ULTRAVOX

  • @markginsel4238
    @markginsel4238 Год назад

    But what about the keyboard part I can best describe as "seagull squawk"? It starts at like bar 3 of the intro.

  • @RenePeraza
    @RenePeraza 4 года назад

    No, no, no... we can't have this episode and not mention the other sample - the one that sounds like birds (and shown as birds in the video). C'mon... don't leave us hanging!

  • @fakshen1973
    @fakshen1973 4 года назад

    You know what... leaning does give you finer control. How many people tried it?

  • @altodynasty
    @altodynasty 6 лет назад +6

    oh yes

  • @adrianreyes4702
    @adrianreyes4702 Год назад

    Excellent Excellent Presentation idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!