2:53 That little "pew" and subsequent reverse snare noise, in channel 2, makes me think of sonic zooming by so quickly, that the snow breaks a second later.
... They are...! It looks like they added a tiny "waver" to to the waveform to give it that extra ringing echo! It's just such a tiny altercation you barely notice it! That "shiver" is way too uniform to be random error! Look at how stable the waves are on channels 3 and 4 when they're doing the chorus!
It sounds good at 3:13 because it’s sounds like 8 bit game gear sonic games but there were other sonic game gear Games but sadly an 8 bit Sonic 3 was never made but it would be cool if there was and this would fit right if sonic 3 8 bit was made.
@ElisianØhPläys Covid-20 Y'know, I wonder why they made the Genesis like that. There was no reason to do that, but they did. Its not like backwards compatibility was straight out of the box, because you needed to buy a Power Base Converter, so it can't be that. Good lord SEGA's choices were odd, and they still are.
Listening to these and thinking about how I remember the music, it's actually pretty cool how much the memory completely matches the deconstruction. It's also surprising to me which melodies were actually the PSG square waves and how the PSG noise added just that little something more to the percussion. I can only imagine how Streets of Rage tracks would look, especially Go Straight from SoR2.
Ice Cap is the greatest song I've ever heard, instantly memorable when compared to Hard Times. The heartwarming chorus, the excellent drum line, the crystal noises, the subtle bass, the square waves adding that depth, the Smoorh Criminal beat, and the subtle snowboard bleeps ...Oh God, is it all here and it's just great! I'll never forgive SEGA for cutting this one, especially cuz MJ didn't do it, and I think that this oscilloscope proves its brilliance in depth and cinematic appeal.
@@trancethehedgehog7552 I mean it was kinda like that for Launch Base Zone Act 2 as well. may have been less to do with laziness and more to do with cartridge size limitations.
The track deconstruction between acts was for Carnival Night, Ice Cap, and Launch Base; the 3 main level tracks Michael Jackson's team worked on. Angel Island, Hydrocity, and Marble Garden were all made by Sega's own sound team, which is why their Act 1 and Act 2 themes are so vastly different.
It's some kind of apotheosis when in the end all channels work hand in hand. Following the build up step by step and then seeing it all coming together is just a magical moment to me. Thank you for creating all of these!
What I find incredible is that this was originally a unreleased track recorded by the Jetzons in the 1980s (Which Brad Buxer was a part of). I guess he had this stuck in the back of his mind wanted to use it.
And so begins my quest to make the origins version in the style of the original, I really wish someone had made piano tutorial vids so I could identify some of the less identifiable notes such as at 1:52 lol
2:53 That little "pew" and subsequent reverse snare noise, in channel 2, makes me think of sonic zooming by so quickly, that the snow breaks a second later.
Hasan Abdul-Jabbaar wow, spittin’ facts over here
Look at channel 2. That's exactly what it looks like.
when you go so fast that the snow stops responding for a second
Sounds like a cat
Fucking SAME 🤗
The sound waves look like they're shivering
Fitting
this is an ice level we're talking about
Ah yes, the very light use of vibrato being oh so coincidental.
... They are...! It looks like they added a tiny "waver" to to the waveform to give it that extra ringing echo! It's just such a tiny altercation you barely notice it! That "shiver" is way too uniform to be random error! Look at how stable the waves are on channels 3 and 4 when they're doing the chorus!
It's a reverb like thing, even I am shivering
Channel 0: DAC’S Background Singers
Channel 1: calm
Channel 2: SNIFF
Channel 3 & 4: Channel 1’s support
PSG 0 and 1: energetic
PSG 3: energetic Introvert
DAC: KAKAKAKAKAKAKEEERRRR
PSG1 is also an echo of PSG0
*S N I F F*
psg 3 is basically dac
@@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171 that’s the part that got me XD
4:09 everybody gangsta til Channel 0 and DAC start groovin
and PSG3
@@dvdside he still there tho
Is Smooth criminal
the psg3 doing hi-hat: :(( no one notices me
"yeah"
I love that little "yeah!" sample in DAC.
crippled pig Same! It’s so cool
Sounds like "Hey" to me
Michael Jackson
I'm partial to the "szhooom" myself
Yep… it’s like launch base
_now for the hard times puns_
Damn you, you beat me to it
Ohyea ._.
I'm having Hard Times making a video
This must be the happiest day of your life, eh? Ignoring the other people who are having hard lives as you go by.
@@spicybreadproductions1972 *go commit being in a large crowd.*
3:13 Icecap on the Master System.
It sounds good at 3:13 because it’s sounds like 8 bit game gear sonic games but there were other sonic game gear Games but sadly an 8 bit Sonic 3 was never made but it would be cool if there was and this would fit right if sonic 3 8 bit was made.
Yes xD
That's because the PSG channels come from the Master System.
Hey... That's pretty catchy!
@ElisianØhPläys Covid-20 Y'know, I wonder why they made the Genesis like that. There was no reason to do that, but they did. Its not like backwards compatibility was straight out of the box, because you needed to buy a Power Base Converter, so it can't be that. Good lord SEGA's choices were odd, and they still are.
You've been hit by a Smooth Ice Cap with Hard Times
11:06 EVERYBODY NOW!!
;-; never talk about hard times its the best music ;-;
2:18-2:47 End of Act 2's theme. Also best part in my opinion.
For Act 1, its a deconstruction, but for Act 2, its a remix!
Like some levels in sonic 3 and knuckless UwU
Without Lanch Base zone
All 2 acts had the same music
@@imperatorzakura5045 Carnival Night, Ice Cap, Launch Base, most of Mushroom Hill, and Death Egg are practically identical in Act 2.
@@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171 Yes I know
@Uzi Rana I know.
8:18-8:46 is my favorite. I'm guilty of having Tails flying at this part just to make it sound like this.
Tails cutting off 1 and 4 by flying is just amazing.
-You mean -_-3-_- and 4?-
DAMMIT TAILS!!!
it's funny because that part of the video sounds really closely to the instrumental of the original song, look up Hard Times The Jetzons Instrumental
I've always thought IceCap's music never got the attention it deserves. Thanks for bringing it to light!
For real.
same. still my fav ice & snow zone
It's literally the most overrated song in the entire game. Don't know what you're talking about, 😂
@@i_used_adblock_to_watch_this
It's overrated.
Because it's good.
Never got the attention it deserves? Many people, including me, consider icecap to be the best theme in the game, what are you talkin’ bout?
The first 3 minutes of this are so.. relaxing..
Agreed
Calm Winter
So slow ⛛ to run Sonic...
It could have should have would have been for an ice cap zone four
Contemplative in a calm frozen setting
It very much is
Wait... Ice Cap has a hidden "yeah" sample in it????
Bro wtf
4:12
Yeah, it's really hard to hear but you can just about hear it when you know it's there
It's in the dac
@@andyukmonkey oh shit, just listened to the original, I CAN'T UNHEAR IT NOWWWWW
Let's be honest, 4:09 is an absolute bop in its own right
Yes!
Agreed
just add PSG 0 and 1 and its even more of a bop
Ice Cap
Zone
Act 3
6:01 !!!!
If you’re deconstructing ice cap zone… could you call it… an ice breaker?
@Rhys Higgon uhh
I dont think this has anything to do with that comment
but you do you I guess...
Leave
N(ice) one lol
@Rhys Higgon It's a NES (Nintendo Entertainment System.).
Nah, put this on the Sonic 3 Ice burg.
Wow, Brad Buxer really used all of the channels to recreate hard times
And he wisely changed the 4-on-the-floor to a classic electronic music beat
@@nthgth Popular in Eurotrash music in 1994.
@@twiff3rino28 yeah all the way thru present day. It works for Ice Cap though
Every song used all the channels
a couple of weeks ago i heard original hard times in mall
3:14 is PERFECT for a night time version with winds howling in the distance
I love this zone. This was the first sonic 3 song I learned on my keyboard during music class in middle school. Shut everybody up real quick. Lol
I'm learning star light zone on keyboard
Listening to these and thinking about how I remember the music, it's actually pretty cool how much the memory completely matches the deconstruction. It's also surprising to me which melodies were actually the PSG square waves and how the PSG noise added just that little something more to the percussion. I can only imagine how Streets of Rage tracks would look, especially Go Straight from SoR2.
I dunno why but the PSG channels during the chorus give this a really "cold" feeling
Fitting for the stage.
Ironic considering this is fire
Ice Cap is the greatest song I've ever heard, instantly memorable when compared to Hard Times. The heartwarming chorus, the excellent drum line, the crystal noises, the subtle bass, the square waves adding that depth, the Smoorh Criminal beat, and the subtle snowboard bleeps ...Oh God, is it all here and it's just great! I'll never forgive SEGA for cutting this one, especially cuz MJ didn't do it, and I think that this oscilloscope proves its brilliance in depth and cinematic appeal.
1:51 I think you already know this is the end of Ice Cap Act 2
Wait so is the deconstruction of Act 1 just separately reused for Act 2?
I'm not sure if that's lazy or clever
Edit: Dang this kicked off :0
Its separately used for act 2. Kinda lazy if you ask me
@@trancethehedgehog7552 I mean it was kinda like that for Launch Base Zone Act 2 as well.
may have been less to do with laziness and more to do with cartridge size limitations.
The track deconstruction between acts was for Carnival Night, Ice Cap, and Launch Base; the 3 main level tracks Michael Jackson's team worked on. Angel Island, Hydrocity, and Marble Garden were all made by Sega's own sound team, which is why their Act 1 and Act 2 themes are so vastly different.
@@trancethehedgehog7552 Perhaps they were pressed for time?
Strange how so many people conclude laziness is the answer
@@andyukmonkey Well, no. The genesis is perfectly fine to handle it.
It's some kind of apotheosis when in the end all channels work hand in hand.
Following the build up step by step and then seeing it all coming together is just a magical moment to me.
Thank you for creating all of these!
My favorite song in all of the sonic franchise
Same
Same
Same
Same.
How original 😏
What I find incredible is that this was originally a unreleased track recorded by the Jetzons in the 1980s (Which Brad Buxer was a part of). I guess he had this stuck in the back of his mind wanted to use it.
11:06! Final Result when all channels play
4:10 Channel 0: You've been hit by a Smooth Criminal
In other words, Act 2.
c
@@SteveDaBartender ?
@@KGR7Gamer C = "Si." "Si" means "yes" in Spanish/Espanol.
@@Optimistical *Español
Yeah im spanish
@@SteveDaBartender no
Happiest days of my life that this track was finally deconstructed.
Aaah, I'm so damn happy you got to this! Thank you for these videos, they have been so incredibly fascinating.
4:10 HERE WE GO🤣
11:06 is when the song is complete
Ily
Your work deserves more attention, that's awesome
Are we dealing with another Channel 0 and DAC again?
If so, I'm okay with that.
Also, PSG 3.
When you hit your feet
It is pain
It is pain
When you hit your feet
Hard times!
(Happiest days of my life)
Hard times come byyyyy!
@@OldManFrederick Ahhhhhhhhhh! I stand corrected.
@@OldManFrederick LOL, when I'm wrong I'm wrong. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hard times come by*
Edit your message lol
@@bkuey24 Wow. I write 3 lines of lyrics to a song, and get issued 2 corrections. My ears must be broken. Fixed. :P
Saddens me to know the 90's will never be back again
Ikr
(laughs in 2090s)
DUHHHH DIS MOOZIC ISNT TEH MOOOZIK I GROO OP WIVVV IT SMELLY
fucking cope! We still got some good bops! You gotta move on.
Hang in there bro 🙏🏾
The background beat for this zone is just so fucking fire, bro
Forever love this zone 💙
Nice And Icy ❄️
The sound waves are "shivering"
Looks like those waves are having a hard time making those sounds
The sound waves are shivering
I got an ad for Ice Breakers, what a coincidence
I once believed I actually got transported to a beautiful glacier because of this music.
Dude me too
I’m surprised to find out one of the sounds was actually produced by Channel 2 (at about 0:01), I always thought it was produced by PSG3.
Makes sense tho cuz PSG3 is usually the little white noise zips that play in the background
Or less a zip sound and more of a tik or tap sound
@@daniellehedges1980 It sounded like some kind of white noise to me, which is why I suspected it.
the FM channels can mimic the sounds of all the PSG channels.
@@nil8659 and louder
Probably one of my favorite sonic songs :)
Im having *hard times* trying to conplete this act really
For me, trying to pick a favorite channel in this song is like choosing between Sonic and Shadow- just give up, I love it all.
The waves are dancing, look at them go!
Whoever does the bass for this game's soundtrack is a genius
Who ever disliked is way too young to understand the nostalgia of sonic
Or just a disliker bot
@@timbertam7668 maybe but we don’t know for sure
I pity those S who dislike this song. I love it
I'm offended. I wasn't even born before the 2000's
Those 5 ppl are hard time composers
There is my love at 4:15 💜
Thanks for the caleidoscope construction!
Bruh its oscilloscope not caleidoscope..... and kaleidoscope isn't even spelled like that......
@@KGR7Gamer I think he was making a joke??? I dunno, maybe not.
@@Rammy_Latin this was my inner grammar police coming out lol
GOOD OL
AUTOMATED /j
Hard TImes
Thank you I have been waiting ages for this😀
i love the bass and DAC in this song.
0:00-1:23 When Tails starts flying
LOL! I was thinking the same thing! It’s because the flying sound overlays the channel 1 and 4
When I first played this zone I was having a Hard Time trying figure out where to go.
Happiest day of your life when you finally figured out where to go
3:14 eyo this sounds so epic
Bass and Percussion only sounds really good
sounded like there werent any Hard Times making this deconstruction.
2:59 The channel 2 looks like sonic running and the snow following him
Wow! This must've took forever to record. I bet a lot of y'all can create these in GarageBand.
Just did it : ) be thankful that took a few days
I wish I did something like this because I’m not a musician.
This is satisfying
But where's my Marble Garden Act 2?
Not here dumb
_I wonder where_
the channel 2 "pew" can actually be felt (in my opinon) because i have quad channel headphones
Amazing...when Channel1 plays all by itself it sounds so different then when it plays along psg0 and psg1.
just what i needed.
I really like how with the PSG channels, it gives a very subtle echo effect to the main channel.
For Steven harrold ❤ this reminds me of your beautiful mixes. I love your mixes and this too
👌I felt that sweeping sound
The first portion of this with all the "beat" portion stripped away reminds me of something like Golden Axe.
At 4:11-5:13 sounds good
@Ryder from grove street MJ Confirmed
The sound waves actually look like they are shivering
The whole memory for PCM-samples went to this song lol
Felt like I've just had a hard time listening to this.
And so begins my quest to make the origins version in the style of the original, I really wish someone had made piano tutorial vids so I could identify some of the less identifiable notes such as at 1:52 lol
I like how the waveforms are 'shivering' as it's Ice Cap
the sonic franchise has too many banging themes this is arguably my favorite tho
I like how Channels 1 and 4 look like they’re shivering
I love this song so much
4:08 funky part
4:10 you can tell this was Michael Jackson with the way this beat sounds lol
Except it's "Hard Times" by the Jetsons
This sounds good
Channels 1 and 2 sound very very calming
I love the beats
Channel 2 makes it sound like somethings playing reversed i love it
beautiful
Maybe my top 1 track of the classic sonic games, so perfect and fitting for an ice level
Poor ice such hard times.
Jokes aside this deconstruction is really _chill_
While the MD2 did goof up some of the audio balancing, it did make the yeah stand out a bit more...
We’re gonna miss you Michael Jackson, people keep saying he was involved with Sonic 3
This is how the song play when you’re playing becuase the sound effects are blocking all of the channels
Happies days of my life.
What program are you using? I have wanted to do this for months! (And with other songs)
Chill.
I feel like I've seen this before, but I don't care because this is on my favourite zone
6:01 Ay this fire🔥
0:01 Ch1, Ch2, Ch4
1:23 Ch3, Ch4, Ch1
2:46 PSG0, PSG1, Ch2
4:09 Ch0, DAC, PSG3
5:32 PSG0, PSG1, Ch0, DAC, PSG3
8:19 Ch1, Ch2, PSG0, PSG1, Ch0, DAC, PSG3
11:06 everything
What's your favourite part? Mine: 1:50, 6:28, 4:37
Can we just admit that this could be montage music?
0:28 My Favourite Bit
You should try music from Castlevania. Dracula X/Rondo of Blood and Super Castlevania IV are good places to start, they have awesome snes music.