By accident, I've stumbled upon this video. And suddenly, it came to my mind: "Laura's Theme" was used as the basis for "Go" by Moby. This song caught me immediately when I heard it for the first time back in the days. This was such an emotional techno track that it made you want to cry. And it was massive. When it came out, I didn't think of Twin Peaks. In fact, I've never seen the series. Yes, shame on me. "Go" made me change my musical journey. As a trained drummer I switched to keyboards and computer in 1992. This was the time of Commodore Amiga. When it broke, I was unemployed, so I could not replace it. Then other things were more important. And so, I went back to making music during the Pandemic. In May last year, I've switched to Ableton. And there, I use a 3rd party synthesizer called Diva. One of the stock patches there is Dream Synth -> Beauty Pad. And THIS IS the "Soundtrack". Well, I have something to play with. And what you said about buying 12 inches, is absolutely correct. One of the most important records in my entire life is "Disintegration" by The Cure. I have it as 180 g Double LP. You won't get a sound any close to this recording when you stream the same album. This is such a dense sound. Back in the days when the German Wall came down, this album was one of the first I bought with D-Mark, not with the money of the GDR. I was in tears when the cassette I bought broke. And I am so lucky that I bought this special edition of the album. Music nowadays is only something like lift music. As I said earlier, I make myself music. It is EDM music. And I want to add benefits to every track, so it is more like lift music from Spotify. But I know that this is not the main reason why music is consumed. This was very different back in the days when Twin Peaks came out. So, in the end, I want to thank you for this amazing video.
The last 8 minutes of this video are THE THING. the art, the memories, the thought and beauty that went into the process of making the album a complete experience. Before even MTV. No words..... Thank you @DistortThePreamp .
I came across this video simply because the title caught my attention, but I ended up finding a wonderful exposition of wisdom, science, technique, and philosophy. Congratulations, you did a truly magnificent and inspiring job. Thank you.
@@DistortThePreamp i noticed the pauses but it doesn’t matter if it’s a bit longer :) better that and good! Too much randomness on youtube sadly and too few where it’s from the heart and can be felt. It can be heavy sometimes to create anyway. Still looking forward to it!
Yes, call it nostalgia but the time before even CDs - somehow there was a real connection to the music and the people who made the music. It was an event going down to the music store to choose an album to buy; browsing from a-z, sometimes for up to hours! Reading all the info - and if it was a double album (or a double sleeved single album), what a bonus! Getting up to turn the album over. The whole process felt ceremonial. I'm not going to say "back in my day" - but I do miss it.
One of my favorite TV shows of all time with one of my favorite scores of all time. Thanks for this deep dive into Laura's Theme and the soundtrack patch. I'll be spending part of the day now recreating it on all my synths!
@@DistortThePreamp The closest I've got is with Dreadbox Nymphes. The attack stage can only get to about 15 seconds but it sounds very nice regardless. Furthest away was Arturia Microfreak, its envelope is shorter and it's filter is paraphonic so it's a very different vibe!
Historical Nostalgia is a really fascinating concept isn't it? I also reckon Melancholia to be perhaps the most sophisticated and interesting emotion a human can experience. I'm constantly trying to evoke it within my music making. Really enjoyable and informative video, thanks.
Thank you! I hadn’t come across ‘historical nostalgia’ as a term before Dr. Garrido mentioned it. But I was definitely familiar with the idea. And I agree about melancholia.
As a 27 year old, I'm one of the few people of my generation that bought CDs, classmates always looked at me weird when I said I bought CDs (started when I was roughly 13-14). I stopped buying CDs roughly around 2014 when I made a spotify account. There is a 10 year gap in my music collection. Half a year ago I started collecting CDs again and I'm trying to retroactively buy CDs I would've bought if it weren't for spotify. I also have a modest vinyl collection (most of the vinyl I have were given to me by people getting rid of their records). And I did also notice that the bigger 12 inches of artwork really let's you "immerse" into the artwork, if you will. But I like the CD format better because of the absence of clicks and pops and no fidelity issues when you get closer to the center of the record etc. I think both CDs and vinyls do indeed do a good job of forcing people to listen to the full album instead of just one song. Often on albums I find that the non hits are a lot of the times (in my eyes) better than the hit on the album
Best albums are better than the individual songs in the album. It can be a ”story” or joyrney that is forsed by the individual songs. It is like reading a book, instead of reading one chapter of that book.
You’re right. CDs really changed the way albums were sequenced. With vinyl, it wasn’t just that there were two sides - the closer you got to the middle the lower the quality (which is not as widely appreciated as it should be). So the standard practice was to put slower songs at the ends of the sides, and the most important songs at the beginning. Then when CDs came along for a while nobody knew how to sequence the pace. Should it still be in two halves? Or one continuous long musical narrative? And of course CD albums could be longer which was both good and bad because, honestly, 17 songs is too many for me to absorb. Really appreciate your interesting comment.
@@DistortThePreampThe police were experts at this sequencing. On something like Ghost in the Machine they start a side with a single to grab your attention “spirits in the material world”, finish on something epic “Darkness”, but also put a quality song in the middle “Invisible sun” so you don’t lose interest.
And THIS should silence all the 'presets are bad' snobs once and for all. Our Italian pride Badalamenti wrote those magical pieces which still stand today, gifting us with strong emotions, and he did it with synthesizers, silencing again some other snobs thinking only 'real' (whatever that means) instruments can be truly emotional. It's not what you use, it's HOW you use it.
Exactly! It’s about ‘playing’ a sound. When a sound responds dynamically to a good player, you can do amazing things. It’s like people who scoff at the DX7, they don’t understand how dynamic the patches are. It’s about the player and what they do with the sound :)
@@DistortThePreamp Thanks!!! Don't get me wrong - I LOOOVE sound design and acoustic instruments, they are both awesome in every way, yet, if patch no. 123 is the sound you need, why waste time reinventing the wheel? And sound waves are sound waves, a Strat through an amp is artificial as well, compared to an unmic'd classical guita but they both can make you laugh, cry or jump up and dance or whatever.
I was just about to make the same point about guitars. It’s cool when guitarists get new sounds. But nobody complains when a strat sounds like a strat 😂
I have both vinyls and CDs. To me, the most important thing about them, isn't the looking at the artwork, but the "ritual" of having to get out a physical medium, put it on the turntable or into the CD-player, and turn it on. You've commited to listen to THAT album. If you're suddenly unsure if it's what you wanted to listen to after all, there's a certain minimum of work required to swap music, so you end up actually listening to the whole thing anyway, and usually, it turns out it was the right thing after all. And inside the cover, there's usually information about who plays what on which track, or where it was recorded and who did the mixing and mastering etc. All this gives you a more intimate insight and deeper connection to the music.
Or, if it was an insane release by 4AD, sometimes even printing on the *inside* of the front cover that nobody could see unless they pulled the sleeve apart 😂 I have a Lush record like that.
Omg, you just opened a door in ny brain! Thank you for this!! I really appreciate the methodical and purposeful way you present this video. I just subscribed!
@@ChrisMills-AmbientSpace Thank you! That’s the kind of critical detail that’s easy to miss. And really is *the whole point* of how the sound works. Easily overlooked because, to the causal observer, notes are just played on keys. One doesn’t notice how some of the notes are suspended.
I was that kid who was eager to get home from playing outside in time to watch Twin Peaks episodes in entirety. Never missed one episode. Was also mesmerized by Angelo Badalamenti’s tracks as well as that haunting synthpad. Nostalgia of a really good kind. Thanks for bringing this up.
Do you mind me asking whether you were in the UK or the US? Here in the UK it all went a bit wrong and they stopped broadcasting after 8 episodes. Because there was no internet we didn’t know what was happening. I watched some more later but I think there’s a huge chunk I still haven’t seen. Really glad you liked the video, and thank you for taking the time to comment!
Thank you so much ❤ I was waiting for your next episode just as you were waiting for the new episode of Twin Peaks. So yes please do some more because your episodes are just as good as Twin Peaks - just in realm of music and synthesizer’s 😍🤩😍
Going by the goosepimples, yes you can get close to that emotional hit of Laura's Theme. I only watched Twin Peaks later in life (after I watched Mulholland Drive which still rates as perhaps my all time favorite movie) as I was only 7 in 1990, a bit too young to be watching Twin Peaks. I remember the theme though as my mum would watch it, and I could hear it through the closed lounge door, drifting up the stairs into my box room. I had no idea what it was, but it always got me, and after finding it through Mulholland Drive, it too became a very important piece of music in my life. Thank you for your TH-cam channel, it's just an absolute pleasure to watch. I can't play music for toffee but music is a huge part of my life and your videos and stories connect with me in ways few do. I don't call it content, because content is wallpaper, there but not respected or remarked upon. I respect your work and videos. Thank you.
Sorry for the delay in responding - it’s very hard to keep up with the comments. Thank you so much for this comment. It’s really great to get things like this, and I appreciate you taking the time. All the Lynch stuff is excellent obviously, and after making this video I resolved to watch Twin Peaks again!
Brilliant! I have been historically into the exact same base of music you have in that record collection. lol. I've been making this stuff just about as long too. You're right. It is STILL a major part of my life and identity. There's always something to learn. :) Thank you.
I don’t know who this is, but this was the most enjoyable YT video I’ve seen in a while. So I liked and subscribed. 12” vinyl was the best due to the covers. It didn’t matter if I had looked over it a dozen times I would still examine the artwork or credits/anecdotes or lyrics, etc. while losing myself in the music. I was also impressed on the section about nostalgia especially nostalgia for a period we didn’t even experience. What’s more, when he made the observation that there are younger people who are nostalgic over a time period that was a main chunk of my life. My mind was slightly blown by this. At almost 60 time is moving so fast I can barely keep up. Oh and of course the probable reason this video was recommended…the synth information and Twin Peaks’ “Laura’s Theme”.
This is one of the most helpful music education videos about synthesisers I ever came across. Invaluable for a beginner, thank you so much for uploading!
Just wanted to add a comment to say I’m already loving the mixture of subject matter on this channel - really looking forward to the next instalment, keep up the good work, squire!
@@DistortThePreamp Most welcome, sir! Speaking as a wannabe musician, I’m still only just scratching the surface of music production using Ableton, and am still equally un-proficient with my synth hardware (for shame!), but I’ve been a synth geek for 3-4 decades. So I fully appreciate the tutorial-esque ‘how to’ angle, and will no doubt find benefit from your advice and experiences. I’m equally enjoying the “closer look” at specific tracks/albums / artists within the sphere of the electronica genre; it’s an interesting and engaging dual-purpose niche that you’re carving for yourself here on YT. More of the same, please! 🙏😄
Thanks for this very instructive video !!! Twin Peaks is one of the best series ever made for TV. Lynch is a master of light and sound, and he helps us dive deeply into our emotional depths. I have several synthesizers, and they always reward me for my research of sound. Your version of the Laura theme was very good. Thanks again !!!
Thanks for what turned out to be a very moving and from-the-heart video. I've just watched it all the way through, and now I'm going to watch it all the way through again! I'm also going to watch some Twin Peaks later as that TV series seemed to completely pass me by and I know nothing about it at all except the name - which is familiar. Thanks again for a brilliant synth-twisted video. This is the best synth channel on TH-cam.
Oh thank you so much! I’m feeling a little tense at the moment because I’m about to release a video that has literally nothing to do with synths which might confuse people a bit. But I really appreciate your amazing words. So kind, and very supportive.
I'm not a musician. I can't play an instrument. I have no idea what half of this equipment is... yet still.... I can't stop watching. You share my passion for the 80s... and musical tastes, sure, but that's not it.... but I have just realised what it is: You're a damned good teacher. You have a great voice, and your passion for the time, the music and the emotions and the sounds of this great time in my life make it totally magnetic. I've learned so much stuff that makes me revisit some of my favourite tracks from this amazing time in musical history, and it's like I've had my ears syringed; I'm listening to them anew, with more awareness. So... i just wanted to say thank you.
Thank you David, that’s incredibly kind! My whole goal is to appeal as much to non-musicians as musicians, so comments like yours mean a lot! Very much appreciated :)
Congratulations you went (almost) to another level with this one's production, the whole "nostalgia" parts sounds like an investigation which of course reminisces with the TV series, very well done!
Such an amazing and informative channel! Also, I just learned why I feel nostalgic for Japanese City Pop even though I never experienced it (Historical Nostalgia). Looking forward to the next video.
Thanks for giving attention to the fantastic production of television from early 90s or late 80s. The music was super important in Twin Peaks. And you explain it very good IMO. So glad I found this video. Thumbs up!
I totally agree about the vinyl experience, you would read the sleeve notes and look at the artwork on the bus home, so were already immersed before even playing the music. The album was consumed in its entirety as the artist intended, and it really meant something. I miss that experience.
I'm really enjoying your videos. Your presentation of topics feels so sincere and genuine and you help bring an excitement to powering on a synth to exlore their endless possibilities. Looking forward to more. Cheers from Texas USA.
It's the size. Show someone an old 3x5 photo and they'll smile. Not much bigger than a phone, at least the ones nowadays. Put a big, coffee-table photo book in front of someone and something magical happens. So much bigger, so much more detail. It takes up more of your field of view. Same goes for movies and VHS/DVD. 😉
@@DistortThePreamp Its just good nostalgia on fresh climates, I live under tropical humidity, a well-sealed CD, protected from fungi, is more convenient. I have thrown away some records, it is difficult to keep them here.
i started learning sound synthesis around 2 years ago and watched hundreds of videos on youtube, but your channel I find most interesting, informative and inspiring! Thank you for your great work!
Thank you so much! Synthesis is very rewarding and not as hard as people make out. You’ve probably got it susssed now, but if you haven’t I would recommend learning how to throw up the ‘utility’ sounds like pluck, bass, leads, and so on. Are you using soft synths or a physical synth with knobs?
I think this now my favourite YT channel. The content is full of personal anecdotes, music history, musical education and musical experience all delivered as if if were just you and I sitting in your studio. But importantly, it's entertaining. And, of course, let's not forget the little Easter eggs (like cherry pie) that abound! Many thanks - a gem in a sea of mediocrity.
I'm Italian and I have to use a translator, but listening to your voice and your way of explaining is a pleasure for my heart, in 1990 I was 9 years old and when I saw Twin Peaks I felt the same emotions as you, Another sound that touched my emotions during childhood is the synth sound used in "The Show Must Go On" by Queen.. This is great video, you are a wonderful person thank you!! Andrea
Hi Andrea! I am very pleased that you were able to use a translator to translate the English captions. Sorry that I am not able to do the video in Italian, but I am very grateful to you for watching. Thank you also for making a comment!
@@ZE_Real_Spacepadrille Thank you! I’m having a bit of a production issue at the moment (in that I’m not getting the videos out fast enough) but I really appreciate your supportive comment :)
@@DistortThePreamp Don't put any pressure on you shoulders, make your stuff at you pace, we all love it like that ;-) It is easy to see that any of your video needs a time of reflexion, preparation, and cannot be done "on the go". Slow attack, slow release, good stuff 🙂
07:48 - the word for feeling nostalgic for a time you haven't felt is anemoia. I had to look for it a few years ago as I remember old music from before my childhood that my dad would play and still play today.
It's one word for it. Svetlana Boym considers it a form of 'reflective nostalgia' - either way, it all falls under the umbrella of nostalgia in function.
amazing video!! I am 53 years old. I am from Chile in South America, and in 1992, when Twin Peaks was on chilean local tv, I had exactly the same musical feeling that is explained here. I have been learnig music and buying synths since then. Greetings my friend.
Oh brilliant! Im sure that’s good enough! In my view its never about getting the *exact* same sound anyway - just about understanding how the sound works, why it makes us feel the way it does, and then capturing the spirit of that with something else :)
Massive was not used in making this video or the Twin Peaks soundtrack. Haha, just making a VST joke. I actually recently purchased the OLD Massive, for a few bucks...
I'm just a random viewer but I think the intro music you created with the same preset as Laura's theme is overwhelming and manages to surpass the nostalgia and mystery of the original. You made 30 simple seconds of speech turn into something epic that made me repeat the introduction over and over again.
That’s very kind! I based it on ‘Into The Night’ which was another one of the themes on the Twin Peaks soundtrack, though I played it in a different key and with different sounds, and slightly differently. It was a very interesting experience doing the background music as I did each piece live looking at the screen and trying to fit phrases around what I was saying. I’m so glad you liked it :)
I love your channel, and this video really moved me, Twin Peaks and old Roland analogs are maybe the two best things happened to the cultural history in the last half decade! Very well done videos, keep it up!
It’s amazing how much Roland got right. Not that I don’t like my Yamahas and Korgs too, but the Rolands are very special. I was talking to a producer the other day and we were noting how good the Roland sound designers were when presets came in. They hired amazing people who worked hard. Modern synths have apalling presets.
I had a D-50 back when it came out (late 80s) and I loved it at the time, but then in the 90s I decided that I hated the sounds because they were too cold. Now I’m back to loving them! The Fantasia patch is magical, and is all over Technique (New Order)
@@DistortThePreamp yeah, actually the D-50 is very dark and warm, not the typical “digital synth sound”. But it’s not analog either, it has it’s own category :) Actually it sounds also very twin peaksy
Wow, truly wonderful! This one was really good. Lots of great info that I didn’t know. This was very special. I always enjoy your videos, you care about music and what it means to you and you communicate that to the viewer. Thoroughly awesome! Thanks 🙏 👍
That’s really kind! I’m pleased you’ve got a guitar in your picture. I’m doing a quick video where I go through my Smiths record collection and I’m slightly terrified that all the synth players are going to turn off in disgust 😂
@@DistortThePreamp no worries my friend, you’ll do great!! Ps it’s a Fender Precision bass. I play guitar too but bass is my passion. I love synths too but they aren’t my primary instrument. I sure appreciate great synth content like your videos though, cheers 👍
Ps I’ve been meaning to tell you, your video on the Drawmer delay units was absolutely fantastic. I really got a lot out of that one. AND Drawmers seem to be relatively cheap too, if I opted to go for outboard gear….I just don’t have the room in my apt for them but they sure sound neat!!
Another excellent video! I was lucky enough to pick up a Roland D-110 for £50 last year, instantly fell in love with the Soundtrack patch, fantastic stuff!
That’s an insane price! Does the soundtrack patch sound similar to the one I was playing on the JX-8P? I’m asking because Roland made a lot of changes to it over the years. For example, with the D-50 they added a fifth…
@@DistortThePreamp couldn't believe my luck, complete with all literature from its original owner! Not sure, I'll have to fire it up and check but as far as I know it should be identical to the D-50.
@@RANDOMLOOPGENERATOR It won't be identical to the D50 version although there should be more than a passing "resemblance" to it. I do own a D10 but it lost all of its patches when I replaced the battery and can't say that I remember its Soundtrack preset. I do however remember the D10's default patch; Warm Pad Fades, on start up. I don't care what any of the D10's detractors say; that was a beautiful sounding patch.
Wow, what a great in depth look at musical expression and emotion. I'm from Western Sydney and it was wonderful to see our universities involved in your videos. Thanks again!!
Awesome! Sandra Garrido was a total star! The first time I interviewed her I forgot to press record. It was a mortifying moment. She was very understanding.
@@DistortThePreamp haha that's great we do try to be chilled in Australia Is there any chance that you'll look into Depeche Mode production techniques? 🤔 I've always been curious of their drum programming since they also use acoustic kits, but the layering of hi-hats is phenomenal.
Wow, such a great episode. I love the words you use to describe sounds - so eloquent. I also love my DM12 - for a c̶h̶e̶a̶p̶ inexpensive synth it's pretty darn powerful (and 12 voices!). I did get rid of my vinyl a couple of decades ago, fortunately I kept all of my (hundreds) of cassettes which date back to the early 80s. I can remember recording some of the songs off the local radio station or a friends LP, not to mention my band stuff from high school in the 80s. They are my journal.
That’s a fantastic journal but are the tapes still okay? I played all my old cassettes about a year ago and they had all de-magnetised. Of course I have no idea where they were stored. No doubt next to a magnet 😂 Thank you for the kind words about the episode. And thanks for calling it an ‘episode’. That’s definitely what I’m trying to make :)
For me at least, the reason I get nostalgic when going through a record collection, is the fact that those albums existed during the time frame when the music itself came out. It is as if you are holding a piece of "it" in your hand. Knowing that when a song you liked came out in 1979, 1980, '82 or whenever, the record you are holding in your hand existed somewhere out there in the world has a certain meaning. Somehow it feels as though it narrows the gap between now and the past and puts you a little closer to a time long gone. Twenty years ago, I purchased a Roland synth that was owned by an artist who I very much admired. To this day, that thing can't make a bad sound and inspires a sense of creativity like nothing else I own. It's probably psychological, but interesting none the less, and at least to me, very real.
of course i started crying like a child every time it went in major chords. And became motionless in silence while the tears would run down my cheeks. Well played, sir
Ah, man. Fantastic. Badalamenti was a genius. Lynch is no musical slouch, either. What a team. Been on a bit of a Lynchian kick with my daughter, watching the entire Twin Peaks set, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway. So great to be able to share the experience. Keep up the great work.
OMG Absolutely Amazing! I was just watching The Return and looking out at the mist on the pines on the hill this morning and BOOM!!! ❤ Your work man! 🎶oh and the Rio arpeggio one was spot on!
My heart skipped a beat when I saw the Twin Peaks soundtrack. It's always held a special place for me for exactly the reasons you've discussed. A beautiful performance by you too. Also, adding to what you said about Vinyl, so many times when I was younger, I would buy an Album based purely on the release of 1 single or just because I loved the artwork. Sometimes, I found the album not entirely to my taste, but, because I'd bought it, I'd persevere with it, try to hear what the artist could hear. Not all of them, but most of those albums are now the most treasured items I own. Like you said, I would just skip it now and never hear it again.
Yes, I’m really aware that I do that (skip tracks). I try very hard to listen to albums as they were ‘intended’ to be listen to, but it’s so easy not to do that. That’s for your kind worlds about the performance :)
I literally just played a somewhat beat-up one they were selling used at Guitar Center! I also do have the Twin Peaks soundtrack CD from when it originally came out! Nostalgia and many excellent music memories! Thank you for this excellent video!
A beat up JX-8P? Awesome! The aftertouch never works but personally I don’t think that’s a big deal or worth fixing. But it definitely has my favourite set of presets. And generally speaking I don’t like presets!
Absolutely loved this. Particularly the part about record sleeves at the end. I too remember queuing at HMV in Oxford Street… Is that even there any more?
I wasn’t sure but I’ve just looked and apparently it reopened Nov 2023 after a four year absence (when it basically went bust in 2019)! Maybe I’ll go this weekend and see what they’re selling. Hopefully records, rather than video games and t-shirts ;)
Great video. Very well spoken and emotional. The DeepMind may be a cheap synth (especially in comparison to overpriced vintage synths) but it actually hits way above his weight class. Very underrated by many people. Bought mine 2 years ago, love it and will never sell it. Thank you for such high level content.
Yes, I didn’t mean to sound disparaging about the DeeoMind. Calling it cheap was supposed to be a sort of compliment. I was sort of saying that you don’t need expensive gear to make expensive sounds…
Thank you very much! I’m debating whether to reply to the (very small number of haters) and against my better judgement find myself writing justifications. I should stop that.
Thanks for making this video. We recently visited the Pacific North West, so had Laura’s Theme on repeat as we visited places from Twin Peaks! I don’t think it was mentioned in the video but I think you’re touching upon themes of ‘hauntology’ here too.
My first synth was a Roland JX-3P, and my friend had a JX-8P. I think even my keyboard had the Soundtrack patch. But I later had an XP-10 and later a Fantom X6, and now an original Go:Keys and JD-Xi. The Roland keyboards had classic pad sounds, and lots of the newer ones have them, too.
Roland had a guy called Eric Persing with the job title Chief Sound Designer who was in charge of creating all these sounds. So many of the presets were fantastic and still stand up today. I can’t imagine a modern synth company or soft synth plugin manufacturer investing such huge resources in preset creation which is probably why they’re all so shockingly terrible! But this might be another reason why music from that period was so good - the synthesisers were not just machines, they were instruments that came with fantastic sounds.
I seem to remember a video clip of Angelo and David working together to come up with this theme and it was initially composed on a rhodes electric piano and it also sounded amazing and deeply emotional. Absolutely love the music from Twin Peaks, thanks for making this video
Fantastic music , emulates an atmosfere in all parts of story . Been watching it over Summer at 91 , in age of 24 . The music has more influence cos the tension in the ''air'' shows the war will come in my Town ! You put me in a big dilema with JX8P , cos , as i found out , it was D 50
@@crnogor Thank you so much! Which do you think was D-50? The D-50 came later and although Roland had a patch called “soundtrack” it sounded quite a lot different and, for example, had an added fifth. This was basically due to everybody misunderstanding what the main patch used for Slave to the Rhythm (Grace Jones) was 😂
@@DistortThePreamp Well come ! I can't discus with you about that cos i have no direct exp. with those instruments , just in theory ! I was in intrest which stuffs they use and find the video where Man mentioned Emulator II for phase bass , DX 7 MKS rack , D 50 . What do you mean , D 50 came later ? IT come out on market 87
That’s right, 1987. The Roland JX-8P was a couple of years earlier in 85. Whereas the JX-8P was a standard sort of analog synth, the D-50 had a new technology called LA synthesis where it had a really short sample followed by synthesis. But the story about the D-50 “soundtrack” patch is a little weird - it was relatively well known that the soundtrack patch had been used for the chords on Slave to the Rythm. BUT what wasn’t really understood is that most of the sound came from another layered patch which had a fifth added. When Roland recreated the soundtrack patch on the D-50 they added the fifth (and made a few other changes) basically just so people could play Slave to the Rhythm. So all that happened just because people had got the wrong main patch.
when i grew up it was all about cassettes ... you had albums on cassette with a wee paper cover and a miniture pic of the album... and you made your own !
I bought a tape deck recently to do some transfers of old demo tapes and of course all of my tapes were largely de-magnetised. I didn’t realise at the time (because we weren’t told) that the albums you bought on tape had a presumed life of about a decade whereas vinyl can last for a very long time.
@@DistortThePreamp that's strange - my 1985 Portastudio tapes are still playable (now I've repaired my 244 😀). TDK HSX and SF. Have yours been sitting in a strong magnetic field at some point?
What a great video! I'm a relatively new subscriber and am thoroughly enjoying your channel. I love the way each episode makes me feel like I've been on a journey with you and learned something useful and interesting along the way. Intelligent, thoughtful, interesting and awesome content. Thank you
Oh that’s fantastic to hear! My goal is to try to make entertainment content with a focus on music production, rather than just deep technical dives. So I really appreciate your comment :)
Great video, subbed. IIRC the soundtrack was done on an MKS-70, which is basically 2 8Ps in a 2u box. Safe to say this soundtrack is one of the reasons it is still a staple, to this day, in the racks of top film composers. The 8P & 70 are still steals comparatively. Roland also have the boutique JX-08, which is 2 8Ps with 4 more voices and last but not least, there is also the freeware VST PG-8X that does an excellent job emulating as well.
That's exactly right -- it was done on an MKS-70 :) I've heard great things about the PG-8X but I can't get it to run on my system because it's a modern Mac and the OS doesn't recognise the developer and refuses to pass it. Oh well! You're also right that the 8P is still fairly cheap for what it is. The aftertouch has usually gone but I wouldn't bother fixing that -- I'm not a fan of early aftertouch which is very crude and difficult to control (although I'm not a massive fan of current AT either). Best thing is to find an 8P going cheap because the AT is broken and "needs fixing", and then don't bother fixing it!
I think you nailed it, sir! Great vid and a very interesting insight into why we feel nostalgic about certain things. Totally agree with you about vinyl versus streaming. There's no process involved with streaming. It's instant gratification and that's what people are getting used to nowadays. I do however have an 18 year old niece who is buying vinyl and cd's from boot sales and charity shops because she prefers to have a physical product, so there's hope! :)
That’s very exciting (about your niece buying vinyl). There’s been a ‘dirty secret’ in the industry about the vinyl resurgence which is that, apparently, most of the people who buy records don’t have record players and are buying them just to collect. But this is the first year that I’ve started to believe that maybe it really is coming back…
Amazing how such a 'relative' simple pad, played in the right way, can transform a bunch of notes into an emotional journey. And it's not only you, they picked this sound on purpose. They probably already knew (or instinctly felt) what the expert said. I've got the JX-8P as a vst, with the fenomenal Soundtrack patch. I haven't dared to use it in a track, yet. But now I now how (do NOT play all notes at the same time, sustain some) maybe I soon will. As always, thanks for your insights and the accompanying 'lesson'. I've always loved this soundtrack, I think I'll put it on now. Cheers Freddy
Loving the Avon pictures and hoping that mic holder is a nod to Warrant :D. Thanks for all these videos man, really great to see you explore emotions linked to the best medium in the world.
On the 12" records stuff, I miss it too. I miss the 80's radio. The singles had some cool stuff going on too. Elton John's Passengers stands out in my mind by a mile. I miss walking into woolworths and thinking man even phil collins has a cool record sleeve these days :D. I remember pinning the sleeves to my wall as a kid growing up, lets not even go down the path of gatefold's. Although there's a special place in my heart for Maiden's Seventh Son. Bugger, I've gone down that road so now you should too. I'd so appreciate a video of you picking a top 20 in chronological order and speaking to the back stories of how you found the band and what it means to you. To your point, with that passion, you kinda need to. No better way to show those that have never bought anything what it means and meant. Just to add, back then we had nothing else. Maybe a photo or interview in nme or melody maker or the 2am rock show (recorded) or the one week a month when the chart show could be arsed to show a fringe chart. The mystique was real, the hunger to find out got fed a morsel. I stared into those photos and art for hours, not because I wanted to be like them but to enhance my time spent with the art, music and picture. It felt necessary. I'm glad I did and so are you. What a channel, thank you!
Thanks for this amazing comment. I love your comment about “…even Phil Collins has a cool record sleeve these days…” So true. I finally got all my records from storage a few days ago. There was some water damage but surprisingly I don’t care nearly as much as I thought I would. What I mean is that it feels okay to have a damaged sleeve that was the physical copy I bought at the time - it’s almost a battle scar. I wouldn’t dream of replacing it with a pristine sleeve because, well, that’s not the point. The other thing that surprised me was that there are a few records that were never mine and somehow wound up in my collection and I *really* want to get rid of them. Some of the records are really good, but they’re not mine. So I’m in the hilarious situation of keeping records that I bought but which were awful, while getting rid of really good records that I never bought. It must be because I want it to be authentic, warts and all.
Ah - the “Cherry Pie” mic flag? Great guess with Warrant, but actually it was just yet another Twin Peaks reference as Dale Cooper (the FBI Agent) used to eat a lot of cherry pie 😂
@@DistortThePreamp Wow, hadn't thought about that but yet again that's how we did it. We shared. at times (a lot of times) copied. When you purchased something you stood by it, warts and all as you say. If it was good though, we'd share it. I miss that, god I didn't know how much I miss that till you said. Thanks for the Warrant comment, my mind goes there as after electro it's guitar all the way. Thanks so much for the channel, it's a lovely balance of passion, art and professionalism.
Ah, man. I had a sh*tty day. When I opened youtube I saw you had a new video out. Title sounded great. So I grabbed a beer and starting watching. Had to smile at the cultural similarities we apparently have - a common love for pop, you speaking about a Smiths show, and now David Lynch. And then the video itself was just sheer brilliance, teaching me something I didn't yet know. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
And one thing about records: In the age of streaming music, nobody listens to a whole album anymore - that concept of putting a record on and then actually listening to the whole thing has just died with the CD and easy skipping.
Oh it’s just fantastic music! I don’t know if you noticed but all of the incidental background music was also based on Twin Peaks themes. In fact making this video caused me to rediscover ‘Into The Night’ which I’d forgotten about!
Great video, especially the end. I lament selling and giving away my record collection. I went to a record store recently, the nostalgic feeling I had as I started flipping through the records, something my 24 year old couldn’t understand.
It’s still an amazing feeling. I never ever flipped through CDs the same way. I know loads of people in the industry from pretty much all aspects - bands, engineers, producers, label managers, a&r, everyone. They all hated CDs as a format. But there was sooooooooo much money in it. The profits were insane.
Sorry for the delay in replying - it’s all a bit full on at this end! I will check it out! And 80s Nee Wave/Goth is obviously what you find when you cut me open ;)
What a great video, especially the end :-) For me there's an other reason I like vinyl over CDs: the 20 minute tension bow of a side, much better than over 60 minutes CDs
I *completely* agree with this. I remember an interview with Billy Corgan where he was moaning about streaming and there being no limit to album lengths. The quote was something like “I wish we could go back to the old days of only 17 tracks on an album”. You can imagine what I thought: I’m used to 18-22 mins a side before the vinyl sound quality gets compromised.
Great episode... the slow envelope stuff made me think about how I'm going to record my Microbrute into the Yamaha A3K sampler for poly playback when I finally get back to using it again, and try get some of this into it. I was whining about you being hard to hear sometimes on the last video when the music was playing, but I had none of that this time, even though there's music playing throughout -- all good stuff!
Oh fantastic! You weren’t whining at all! It was all good feedback, and I was grateful :) Let me know how the microbrute sampling goes. I’ve got a MiniBrute and I tried very briefly to sample it to make poly sounds but it didn’t work very well. I now understand that I was driving the oscillators too hard with was getting that classic ‘Arturia’ sound and that doesn’t work very well with chords (unless you do a lot of pre-filtering). I’m sure you’ll do a better job and the A3000 is a very interesting sampler!
@@DistortThePreamp Thank you -- some interesting tips there. I've sampled it before but I probably tolerate a lot more 'error' than you! I like artifacts and things that don't quite fit -- but also don't really know how to work around them where it might well help me, so will refer back here. The A3000 is fantastic, just a bit of a cumbersome interface... and terrible failure-prone encoder knobs!
The Twin peaks soundtrack is such an iconic piece, especially also in the movie "fire walk with me" as some of the music in that is just so good too. I also love Vinyl records and CDs, i have over 3000 of each, but i do use Apple Music for most of my music these days, i can stream it in the car and can carry a huge selection with me at any one time. I do still buy records and CDs too though as i love having a physical copy.
That’s a very large collection! So I have to ask, how are they ordered? Alphabetically by artist? How do you treat bands that start with “The”? Do you file CD singles next to albums? Have you considered organising by colour?
@@DistortThePreamp yes they are ordered by artist. I ignore the “the” and just go for the band name. Yes ordering them by colour would also be nice aesthetically but then finding the record you want might be a nightmare. Your videos are really good and very interesting. I liked the one about the Duran Duran synth part. Also the fact you like the banshees too. Nice mix
Bravo! Well done. I have a favorite synth pad sound I want to know more about because I'm a guitar guy and don't know much about synth. It's the sound Tony Hymas used on Jeff Beck's "Two Rivers".
Ah yes. If you mean the main pad then I would describe that as a classic ‘Juno Pad’ type sound. The Juno only has one envelope so you use the same settings to control the filter and also the amp. The attack is soft enough not to be hard, but not so slow you hear a filter sweep. The slight wobble comes from the Juno chorus, and possibly a bit of LFO on the filter (though maybe not). The filter cutoff is set quite low so the sound is dark and there’s probably no (or not much) resonance. However, I’m just checking that you don’t mean the ambient sound over the intro? Because that’s actually not synth at all! Quiz: do you know what that is?
@@DistortThePreamp I would have guessed that was a synth in the intro or maybe reverb off a sustained guitar chord? There are two main pad sounds throughout. One warmer in the vocal range and one thinner in the strings range. together they remind me of Godley and Creme's "Cry". The overall reverb on both songs has a magical quality. I'd guess they were done at the same studio through the same plates??
I’m pretty sure it’s a guitar through a reverb but the reverb has a ‘hold’ setting so you get an infinitive build up of sound. Before digital reverbs with hold settings you could get a similar effect by turning the feedback up on a delay pedal so the sound sort of self-oscillates. But I’m pretty sure this is a looping reverb :)
By accident, I've stumbled upon this video. And suddenly, it came to my mind: "Laura's Theme" was used as the basis for "Go" by Moby. This song caught me immediately when I heard it for the first time back in the days. This was such an emotional techno track that it made you want to cry. And it was massive. When it came out, I didn't think of Twin Peaks. In fact, I've never seen the series. Yes, shame on me.
"Go" made me change my musical journey. As a trained drummer I switched to keyboards and computer in 1992. This was the time of Commodore Amiga. When it broke, I was unemployed, so I could not replace it. Then other things were more important. And so, I went back to making music during the Pandemic. In May last year, I've switched to Ableton. And there, I use a 3rd party synthesizer called Diva. One of the stock patches there is Dream Synth -> Beauty Pad. And THIS IS the "Soundtrack". Well, I have something to play with.
And what you said about buying 12 inches, is absolutely correct. One of the most important records in my entire life is "Disintegration" by The Cure. I have it as 180 g Double LP. You won't get a sound any close to this recording when you stream the same album. This is such a dense sound. Back in the days when the German Wall came down, this album was one of the first I bought with D-Mark, not with the money of the GDR. I was in tears when the cassette I bought broke. And I am so lucky that I bought this special edition of the album.
Music nowadays is only something like lift music. As I said earlier, I make myself music. It is EDM music. And I want to add benefits to every track, so it is more like lift music from Spotify. But I know that this is not the main reason why music is consumed. This was very different back in the days when Twin Peaks came out. So, in the end, I want to thank you for this amazing video.
Laura's Theme gave me goosebumps when I watched the show as a kid. I’m 48 now, and it STILL gives me goosebumps.
Me too. It’s amazing how simple music and simple sound can be so moving.
The last 8 minutes of this video are THE THING. the art, the memories, the thought and beauty that went into the process of making the album a complete experience. Before even MTV. No words..... Thank you @DistortThePreamp .
Thank you so much! 🙏🙏🙏
I came across this video simply because the title caught my attention, but I ended up finding a wonderful exposition of wisdom, science, technique, and philosophy. Congratulations, you did a truly magnificent and inspiring job.
Thank you.
Thank you so much! That’s very kind! Really appreciate you watching and taking the time to comment :)
same!
Exactly the same for me : )
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You’re the highlight of TH-cam every week! Again amazing. ❤❤❤
That’s very kind! And I wish it was every week! At the moment it’s every 2.5 weeks 🙄
@@DistortThePreamp i noticed the pauses but it doesn’t matter if it’s a bit longer :) better that and good! Too much randomness on youtube sadly and too few where it’s from the heart and can be felt. It can be heavy sometimes to create anyway. Still looking forward to it!
I will try harder though!
@@DistortThePreamp if it helps you, maybe its time for patreon :)
Yes, call it nostalgia but the time before even CDs - somehow there was a real connection to the music and the people who made the music. It was an event going down to the music store to choose an album to buy; browsing from a-z, sometimes for up to hours! Reading all the info - and if it was a double album (or a double sleeved single album), what a bonus! Getting up to turn the album over. The whole process felt ceremonial. I'm not going to say "back in my day" - but I do miss it.
One of my favorite TV shows of all time with one of my favorite scores of all time. Thanks for this deep dive into Laura's Theme and the soundtrack patch. I'll be spending part of the day now recreating it on all my synths!
Oh amazing! Which synths! Please let me know how you get on!
@@DistortThePreamp The closest I've got is with Dreadbox Nymphes. The attack stage can only get to about 15 seconds but it sounds very nice regardless. Furthest away was Arturia Microfreak, its envelope is shorter and it's filter is paraphonic so it's a very different vibe!
Historical Nostalgia is a really fascinating concept isn't it? I also reckon Melancholia to be perhaps the most sophisticated and interesting emotion a human can experience. I'm constantly trying to evoke it within my music making. Really enjoyable and informative video, thanks.
Thank you! I hadn’t come across ‘historical nostalgia’ as a term before Dr. Garrido mentioned it. But I was definitely familiar with the idea. And I agree about melancholia.
As a 27 year old, I'm one of the few people of my generation that bought CDs, classmates always looked at me weird when I said I bought CDs (started when I was roughly 13-14). I stopped buying CDs roughly around 2014 when I made a spotify account. There is a 10 year gap in my music collection. Half a year ago I started collecting CDs again and I'm trying to retroactively buy CDs I would've bought if it weren't for spotify.
I also have a modest vinyl collection (most of the vinyl I have were given to me by people getting rid of their records). And I did also notice that the bigger 12 inches of artwork really let's you "immerse" into the artwork, if you will. But I like the CD format better because of the absence of clicks and pops and no fidelity issues when you get closer to the center of the record etc.
I think both CDs and vinyls do indeed do a good job of forcing people to listen to the full album instead of just one song. Often on albums I find that the non hits are a lot of the times (in my eyes) better than the hit on the album
Best albums are better than the individual songs in the album. It can be a ”story” or joyrney that is forsed by the individual songs.
It is like reading a book, instead of reading one chapter of that book.
You’re right. CDs really changed the way albums were sequenced. With vinyl, it wasn’t just that there were two sides - the closer you got to the middle the lower the quality (which is not as widely appreciated as it should be). So the standard practice was to put slower songs at the ends of the sides, and the most important songs at the beginning. Then when CDs came along for a while nobody knew how to sequence the pace. Should it still be in two halves? Or one continuous long musical narrative? And of course CD albums could be longer which was both good and bad because, honestly, 17 songs is too many for me to absorb. Really appreciate your interesting comment.
Why not just download the tracks and burn them to blank CDs? Exactly the same thing and saves you lots of money!
@@ChrisUlrich-w3d charity shops is how I've done it - one or two bucks per CD.
@@DistortThePreampThe police were experts at this sequencing. On something like Ghost in the Machine they start a side with a single to grab your attention “spirits in the material world”, finish on something epic “Darkness”, but also put a quality song in the middle “Invisible sun” so you don’t lose interest.
"Let's go back to 1990" yes please🥰🤣
We should all be so lucky 😂
I’d love to go back to 1990, so I could better appreciate that decade’s music all the more.
And THIS should silence all the 'presets are bad' snobs once and for all. Our Italian pride Badalamenti wrote those magical pieces which still stand today, gifting us with strong emotions, and he did it with synthesizers, silencing again some other snobs thinking only 'real' (whatever that means) instruments can be truly emotional. It's not what you use, it's HOW you use it.
Exactly! It’s about ‘playing’ a sound. When a sound responds dynamically to a good player, you can do amazing things.
It’s like people who scoff at the DX7, they don’t understand how dynamic the patches are. It’s about the player and what they do with the sound :)
Exactly. I have no more words to say, other than to repeat "Exactly." With an exclamation mark: "Exactly!"
@@DistortThePreamp Exactly
@@DistortThePreamp Thanks!!! Don't get me wrong - I LOOOVE sound design and acoustic instruments, they are both awesome in every way, yet, if patch no. 123 is the sound you need, why waste time reinventing the wheel? And sound waves are sound waves, a Strat through an amp is artificial as well, compared to an unmic'd classical guita but they both can make you laugh, cry or jump up and dance or whatever.
I was just about to make the same point about guitars. It’s cool when guitarists get new sounds. But nobody complains when a strat sounds like a strat 😂
I have both vinyls and CDs. To me, the most important thing about them, isn't the looking at the artwork, but the "ritual" of having to get out a physical medium, put it on the turntable or into the CD-player, and turn it on. You've commited to listen to THAT album. If you're suddenly unsure if it's what you wanted to listen to after all, there's a certain minimum of work required to swap music, so you end up actually listening to the whole thing anyway, and usually, it turns out it was the right thing after all. And inside the cover, there's usually information about who plays what on which track, or where it was recorded and who did the mixing and mastering etc. All this gives you a more intimate insight and deeper connection to the music.
That ritual means a lot to me too. It's very nice to, as you say, select something physical and put it on...
Fantastic work! You bring something to YT not previously found by other synth/recording enthusiasts. Cheers!
And I miss the sleeves inside the record covers. What a delight it was to pull out the sleeve of a new LP to find the lyrics of each track.
Or, if it was an insane release by 4AD, sometimes even printing on the *inside* of the front cover that nobody could see unless they pulled the sleeve apart 😂 I have a Lush record like that.
@@DistortThePreamp a soul mine of information!
Omg, you just opened a door in ny brain! Thank you for this!! I really appreciate the methodical and purposeful way you present this video. I just subscribed!
Oh amazing! This makes me so happy! 🙏
Fantastic work! That sounds epic and lovely.I appreciate you sharing the technique of slow filter opening as part of the chord structure. Thank you!
@@ChrisMills-AmbientSpace Thank you! That’s the kind of critical detail that’s easy to miss. And really is *the whole point* of how the sound works. Easily overlooked because, to the causal observer, notes are just played on keys. One doesn’t notice how some of the notes are suspended.
I was that kid who was eager to get home from playing outside in time to watch Twin Peaks episodes in entirety. Never missed one episode. Was also mesmerized by Angelo Badalamenti’s tracks as well as that haunting synthpad. Nostalgia of a really good kind. Thanks for bringing this up.
Do you mind me asking whether you were in the UK or the US? Here in the UK it all went a bit wrong and they stopped broadcasting after 8 episodes. Because there was no internet we didn’t know what was happening. I watched some more later but I think there’s a huge chunk I still haven’t seen. Really glad you liked the video, and thank you for taking the time to comment!
You certainly can deliver the emotional power - Incredible. That's fantastic.
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much ❤ I was waiting for your next episode just as you were waiting for the new episode of Twin Peaks. So yes please do some more because your episodes are just as good as Twin Peaks - just in realm of music and synthesizer’s 😍🤩😍
This is a very kind thing to say! I think I’m going to have to learn how to make videos more quickly though - three weeks was too long!
Going by the goosepimples, yes you can get close to that emotional hit of Laura's Theme. I only watched Twin Peaks later in life (after I watched Mulholland Drive which still rates as perhaps my all time favorite movie) as I was only 7 in 1990, a bit too young to be watching Twin Peaks. I remember the theme though as my mum would watch it, and I could hear it through the closed lounge door, drifting up the stairs into my box room. I had no idea what it was, but it always got me, and after finding it through Mulholland Drive, it too became a very important piece of music in my life. Thank you for your TH-cam channel, it's just an absolute pleasure to watch. I can't play music for toffee but music is a huge part of my life and your videos and stories connect with me in ways few do. I don't call it content, because content is wallpaper, there but not respected or remarked upon. I respect your work and videos. Thank you.
We don't stop here 😊
Sorry for the delay in responding - it’s very hard to keep up with the comments. Thank you so much for this comment. It’s really great to get things like this, and I appreciate you taking the time. All the Lynch stuff is excellent obviously, and after making this video I resolved to watch Twin Peaks again!
Extraordinary analysis. Thanks so much.
That’s very kind :)
Brilliant! I have been historically into the exact same base of music you have in that record collection. lol. I've been making this stuff just about as long too. You're right. It is STILL a major part of my life and identity. There's always something to learn. :) Thank you.
Oh fantastic! Sorry it took me so long to respond… I’ve been swamped… Yes, I still play these records. As well as listening to new music too…
I don’t know who this is, but this was the most enjoyable YT video I’ve seen in a while. So I liked and subscribed. 12” vinyl was the best due to the covers. It didn’t matter if I had looked over it a dozen times I would still examine the artwork or credits/anecdotes or lyrics, etc. while losing myself in the music.
I was also impressed on the section about nostalgia especially nostalgia for a period we didn’t even experience. What’s more, when he made the observation that there are younger people who are nostalgic over a time period that was a main chunk of my life. My mind was slightly blown by this. At almost 60 time is moving so fast I can barely keep up.
Oh and of course the probable reason this video was recommended…the synth information and Twin Peaks’ “Laura’s Theme”.
Thank you so much! I’m trying to find a way of making videos quicker, and comments like this really keep me going 🙏🙏🙏
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You’re very welcome.
This is one of the most helpful music education videos about synthesisers I ever came across. Invaluable for a beginner, thank you so much for uploading!
Thank you so much! And sorry it’s taking me so long to get out new videos…
This was cool -- I have an XP-50 and I found the Soundtrack patch on there but it's a bit different. Still fun to play along!
Does the patch have an added fifth? In other words if you play a C does the patch play a C and a G?
Just wanted to add a comment to say I’m already loving the mixture of subject matter on this channel - really looking forward to the next instalment, keep up the good work, squire!
Thank you! Very kind comment! Sorry for the delay - swamped!
@@DistortThePreamp Most welcome, sir! Speaking as a wannabe musician, I’m still only just scratching the surface of music production using Ableton, and am still equally un-proficient with my synth hardware (for shame!), but I’ve been a synth geek for 3-4 decades.
So I fully appreciate the tutorial-esque ‘how to’ angle, and will no doubt find benefit from your advice and experiences. I’m equally enjoying the “closer look” at specific tracks/albums / artists within the sphere of the electronica genre; it’s an interesting and engaging dual-purpose niche that you’re carving for yourself here on YT. More of the same, please! 🙏😄
It's a very emotional video and tanks for explain your opinions . I love vinyl lp's and now I know why...
Thank you! 🙏🙏
Thanks for this very instructive video !!! Twin Peaks is one of the best series ever made for TV. Lynch is a master of light and sound, and he helps us dive deeply into our emotional depths. I have several synthesizers, and they always reward me for my research of sound. Your version of the Laura theme was very good. Thanks again !!!
Thank you! Very much appreciated :)
This is amazing! Your enthusiasm is infectious! Love your work
Thank you! That’s very kind!
Thanks for what turned out to be a very moving and from-the-heart video. I've just watched it all the way through, and now I'm going to watch it all the way through again! I'm also going to watch some Twin Peaks later as that TV series seemed to completely pass me by and I know nothing about it at all except the name - which is familiar. Thanks again for a brilliant synth-twisted video. This is the best synth channel on TH-cam.
Oh thank you so much! I’m feeling a little tense at the moment because I’m about to release a video that has literally nothing to do with synths which might confuse people a bit. But I really appreciate your amazing words. So kind, and very supportive.
I have always been amazed by the simplicity, yet high emotional power, of this theme. Thanks for this.
Beautiful sound, beautiful chords, beautiful voicings… the Grammy was very well deserved!
This is the best synth video I've seen in a long time. Wow. What a great content and performance.
That’s a very kind thing to say. Very much appreciated.
I'm not a musician. I can't play an instrument. I have no idea what half of this equipment is... yet still.... I can't stop watching. You share my passion for the 80s... and musical tastes, sure, but that's not it.... but I have just realised what it is: You're a damned good teacher. You have a great voice, and your passion for the time, the music and the emotions and the sounds of this great time in my life make it totally magnetic. I've learned so much stuff that makes me revisit some of my favourite tracks from this amazing time in musical history, and it's like I've had my ears syringed; I'm listening to them anew, with more awareness. So... i just wanted to say thank you.
Thank you David, that’s incredibly kind! My whole goal is to appeal as much to non-musicians as musicians, so comments like yours mean a lot! Very much appreciated :)
Congratulations you went (almost) to another level with this one's production, the whole "nostalgia" parts sounds like an investigation which of course reminisces with the TV series, very well done!
@@AntonMochalin Thanks Anton! Very much appreciated! Comments like this make it easier to get out of bed in the morning :)
Thanks for bringing in a genuine researcher and expert. Top notch and above the fray on youtube.
Such an amazing and informative channel! Also, I just learned why I feel nostalgic for Japanese City Pop even though I never experienced it (Historical Nostalgia). Looking forward to the next video.
Thank you so much! I hadn’t heard of ‘historical nostalgia’ either before that interview. It explains a lot…
Wonderful explanation and recreation of that iconic theme. Congratulations!!!
Thank you so much!
Thanks for giving attention to the fantastic production of television from early 90s or late 80s. The music was super important in Twin Peaks. And you explain it very good IMO. So glad I found this video. Thumbs up!
Thank you so much! That’s very kind! Really appreciate you watching, and taking the time to comment :)
I totally agree about the vinyl experience, you would read the sleeve notes and look at the artwork on the bus home, so were already immersed before even playing the music. The album was consumed in its entirety as the artist intended, and it really meant something. I miss that experience.
Really comes close to capturing the feeling of Laura's theme. Well done and thank you for the video.
Thank you! Really appreciate it!
This was the first music that I bought on my own. There was something magical about it. It was on a cassette not even CD.
I'm really enjoying your videos. Your presentation of topics feels so sincere and genuine and you help bring an excitement to powering on a synth to exlore their endless possibilities. Looking forward to more. Cheers from Texas USA.
It's the size. Show someone an old 3x5 photo and they'll smile. Not much bigger than a phone, at least the ones nowadays. Put a big, coffee-table photo book in front of someone and something magical happens. So much bigger, so much more detail. It takes up more of your field of view. Same goes for movies and VHS/DVD. 😉
@@davidturner5 So true.
@@DistortThePreamp Its just good nostalgia on fresh climates, I live under tropical humidity, a well-sealed CD, protected from fungi, is more convenient. I have thrown away some records, it is difficult to keep them here.
i started learning sound synthesis around 2 years ago and watched hundreds of videos on youtube, but your channel I find most interesting, informative and inspiring! Thank you for your great work!
Thank you so much! Synthesis is very rewarding and not as hard as people make out. You’ve probably got it susssed now, but if you haven’t I would recommend learning how to throw up the ‘utility’ sounds like pluck, bass, leads, and so on. Are you using soft synths or a physical synth with knobs?
I think this now my favourite YT channel. The content is full of personal anecdotes, music history, musical education and musical experience all delivered as if if were just you and I sitting in your studio. But importantly, it's entertaining. And, of course, let's not forget the little Easter eggs (like cherry pie) that abound! Many thanks - a gem in a sea of mediocrity.
This makes me incredibly happy! Comments like this get saved for a scrapbook btw :)
I'm Italian and I have to use a translator, but listening to your voice and your way of explaining is a pleasure for my heart, in 1990 I was 9 years old and when I saw Twin Peaks I felt the same emotions as you,
Another sound that touched my emotions during childhood is the synth sound used in "The Show
Must Go On" by Queen..
This is great video, you are a wonderful person thank you!!
Andrea
Hi Andrea! I am very pleased that you were able to use a translator to translate the English captions. Sorry that I am not able to do the video in Italian, but I am very grateful to you for watching. Thank you also for making a comment!
@@DistortThePreamp thank goodness that current technology can break down language barriers,
your channel is a real gem for us fans, thank you !
Andrea
🙏🙏🙏
This channel is so interesting ! Thanks for your work, can't wait to see more 🙂
@@ZE_Real_Spacepadrille Thank you! I’m having a bit of a production issue at the moment (in that I’m not getting the videos out fast enough) but I really appreciate your supportive comment :)
@@DistortThePreamp Don't put any pressure on you shoulders, make your stuff at you pace, we all love it like that ;-) It is easy to see that any of your video needs a time of reflexion, preparation, and cannot be done "on the go". Slow attack, slow release, good stuff 🙂
07:48 - the word for feeling nostalgic for a time you haven't felt is anemoia. I had to look for it a few years ago as I remember old music from before my childhood that my dad would play and still play today.
It's one word for it. Svetlana Boym considers it a form of 'reflective nostalgia' - either way, it all falls under the umbrella of nostalgia in function.
What a wonderful soundtrack. Haunting and mystical. Nightingale is so beautiful.
It’s so beautiful. So is Into The Night.
The Julee Cruise album Floating Into the Night is one of my all-time favorites. I played Nightingale on repeat for hours.
Thank you for sharing very nicely all these profound thoughts.
That’s very kind! 🙏🙏🙏
amazing video!! I am 53 years old. I am from Chile in South America, and in 1992, when Twin Peaks was on chilean local tv, I had exactly the same musical feeling that is explained here. I have been learnig music and buying synths since then. Greetings my friend.
Massive twin peaks fan. I found a preset on the Softtube model 84 which is almost Laura Palmer theme without editing
Oh brilliant! Im sure that’s good enough! In my view its never about getting the *exact* same sound anyway - just about understanding how the sound works, why it makes us feel the way it does, and then capturing the spirit of that with something else :)
Makes sense … the 106 isn’t a million miles away from the JX-8P / MKS-70 … (actually, they’re more like just 16 months apart, to be more precise 😊)
Massive was not used in making this video or the Twin Peaks soundtrack. Haha, just making a VST joke. I actually recently purchased the OLD Massive, for a few bucks...
As time goes bye,we lose more than we gain , and, as we age, this fact becomes clearer.
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I'm just a random viewer but I think the intro music you created with the same preset as Laura's theme is overwhelming and manages to surpass the nostalgia and mystery of the original. You made 30 simple seconds of speech turn into something epic that made me repeat the introduction over and over again.
That’s very kind! I based it on ‘Into The Night’ which was another one of the themes on the Twin Peaks soundtrack, though I played it in a different key and with different sounds, and slightly differently. It was a very interesting experience doing the background music as I did each piece live looking at the screen and trying to fit phrases around what I was saying. I’m so glad you liked it :)
I love your channel, and this video really moved me, Twin Peaks and old Roland analogs are maybe the two best things happened to the cultural history in the last half decade! Very well done videos, keep it up!
It’s amazing how much Roland got right. Not that I don’t like my Yamahas and Korgs too, but the Rolands are very special. I was talking to a producer the other day and we were noting how good the Roland sound designers were when presets came in. They hired amazing people who worked hard. Modern synths have apalling presets.
@@DistortThePreamp True, and not just the analogs, but for example, the D-50 presets are also pure magic.
I had a D-50 back when it came out (late 80s) and I loved it at the time, but then in the 90s I decided that I hated the sounds because they were too cold. Now I’m back to loving them! The Fantasia patch is magical, and is all over Technique (New Order)
@@DistortThePreamp yeah, actually the D-50 is very dark and warm, not the typical “digital synth sound”. But it’s not analog either, it has it’s own category :) Actually it sounds also very twin peaksy
Wow, truly wonderful! This one was really good. Lots of great info that I didn’t know. This was very special. I always enjoy your videos, you care about music and what it means to you and you communicate that to the viewer. Thoroughly awesome! Thanks 🙏 👍
That’s really kind! I’m pleased you’ve got a guitar in your picture. I’m doing a quick video where I go through my Smiths record collection and I’m slightly terrified that all the synth players are going to turn off in disgust 😂
@@DistortThePreamp no worries my friend, you’ll do great!! Ps it’s a Fender Precision bass. I play guitar too but bass is my passion. I love synths too but they aren’t my primary instrument. I sure appreciate great synth content like your videos though, cheers 👍
Ps I’ve been meaning to tell you, your video on the Drawmer delay units was absolutely fantastic. I really got a lot out of that one. AND Drawmers seem to be relatively cheap too, if I opted to go for outboard gear….I just don’t have the room in my apt for them but they sure sound neat!!
Another excellent video! I was lucky enough to pick up a Roland D-110 for £50 last year, instantly fell in love with the Soundtrack patch, fantastic stuff!
That’s an insane price! Does the soundtrack patch sound similar to the one I was playing on the JX-8P? I’m asking because Roland made a lot of changes to it over the years. For example, with the D-50 they added a fifth…
@@DistortThePreamp couldn't believe my luck, complete with all literature from its original owner! Not sure, I'll have to fire it up and check but as far as I know it should be identical to the D-50.
Oh please check!
@@RANDOMLOOPGENERATOR It won't be identical to the D50 version although there should be more than a passing "resemblance" to it. I do own a D10 but it lost all of its patches when I replaced the battery and can't say that I remember its Soundtrack preset. I do however remember the D10's default patch; Warm Pad Fades, on start up. I don't care what any of the D10's detractors say; that was a beautiful sounding patch.
Wow, what a great in depth look at musical expression and emotion. I'm from Western Sydney and it was wonderful to see our universities involved in your videos. Thanks again!!
Awesome! Sandra Garrido was a total star! The first time I interviewed her I forgot to press record. It was a mortifying moment. She was very understanding.
@@DistortThePreamp haha that's great we do try to be chilled in Australia
Is there any chance that you'll look into Depeche Mode production techniques? 🤔 I've always been curious of their drum programming since they also use acoustic kits, but the layering of hi-hats is phenomenal.
Wow, such a great episode. I love the words you use to describe sounds - so eloquent. I also love my DM12 - for a c̶h̶e̶a̶p̶ inexpensive synth it's pretty darn powerful (and 12 voices!). I did get rid of my vinyl a couple of decades ago, fortunately I kept all of my (hundreds) of cassettes which date back to the early 80s. I can remember recording some of the songs off the local radio station or a friends LP, not to mention my band stuff from high school in the 80s. They are my journal.
That’s a fantastic journal but are the tapes still okay? I played all my old cassettes about a year ago and they had all de-magnetised. Of course I have no idea where they were stored. No doubt next to a magnet 😂 Thank you for the kind words about the episode. And thanks for calling it an ‘episode’. That’s definitely what I’m trying to make :)
Can’t wait to try and design this sound. Thank you my brother 😎
Oh you are so welcome! Let me know if you have problems…
For me at least, the reason I get nostalgic when going through a record collection, is the fact that those albums existed during the time frame when the music itself came out. It is as if you are holding a piece of "it" in your hand. Knowing that when a song you liked came out in 1979, 1980, '82 or whenever, the record you are holding in your hand existed somewhere out there in the world has a certain meaning. Somehow it feels as though it narrows the gap between now and the past and puts you a little closer to a time long gone. Twenty years ago, I purchased a Roland synth that was owned by an artist who I very much admired. To this day, that thing can't make a bad sound and inspires a sense of creativity like nothing else I own. It's probably psychological, but interesting none the less, and at least to me, very real.
This is giving me ideas for pad sound design for some trance pad patches for future soundbanks
Thanks!
Oh that’s fantastic! Makes me very happy :)
of course i started crying like a child every time it went in major chords. And became motionless in silence while the tears would run down my cheeks. Well played, sir
Just stumbled into your channel, this is awesome stuff. Thanks
So pleased that you like the videos :) Makes it all worthwhile :)
Ah, man. Fantastic. Badalamenti was a genius. Lynch is no musical slouch, either. What a team.
Been on a bit of a Lynchian kick with my daughter, watching the entire Twin Peaks set, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway. So great to be able to share the experience.
Keep up the great work.
OMG Absolutely Amazing! I was just watching The Return and looking out at the mist on the pines on the hill this morning and BOOM!!! ❤ Your work man! 🎶oh and the Rio arpeggio one was spot on!
Oh that’s awesome to hear! I really appreciate you watching and taking the time to comment. It means a lot.
"Go!"
I really miss it, too. LPs that is.
Flipping thru someones records was an intimate exchange & I miss that kind of intimacy with my mates.
I know. And I can’t see any way that it’s gonna come back. I’m not a Luddite, and I live technology, but it’s a little sad.
My heart skipped a beat when I saw the Twin Peaks soundtrack. It's always held a special place for me for exactly the reasons you've discussed. A beautiful performance by you too. Also, adding to what you said about Vinyl, so many times when I was younger, I would buy an Album based purely on the release of 1 single or just because I loved the artwork. Sometimes, I found the album not entirely to my taste, but, because I'd bought it, I'd persevere with it, try to hear what the artist could hear. Not all of them, but most of those albums are now the most treasured items I own. Like you said, I would just skip it now and never hear it again.
Yes, I’m really aware that I do that (skip tracks). I try very hard to listen to albums as they were ‘intended’ to be listen to, but it’s so easy not to do that. That’s for your kind worlds about the performance :)
I literally just played a somewhat beat-up one they were selling used at Guitar Center! I also do have the Twin Peaks soundtrack CD from when it originally came out! Nostalgia and many excellent music memories! Thank you for this excellent video!
A beat up JX-8P? Awesome! The aftertouch never works but personally I don’t think that’s a big deal or worth fixing. But it definitely has my favourite set of presets. And generally speaking I don’t like presets!
Absolutely loved this. Particularly the part about record sleeves at the end. I too remember queuing at HMV in Oxford Street… Is that even there any more?
I wasn’t sure but I’ve just looked and apparently it reopened Nov 2023 after a four year absence (when it basically went bust in 2019)! Maybe I’ll go this weekend and see what they’re selling. Hopefully records, rather than video games and t-shirts ;)
Your demeanor is like the soundtrack patch. Very calm and cool. I dig it man.
What an amazing compliment! That my demeanour is like “soundtrack”! So kind! And very flattering! 🙏
Great video. Very well spoken and emotional. The DeepMind may be a cheap synth (especially in comparison to overpriced vintage synths) but it actually hits way above his weight class. Very underrated by many people. Bought mine 2 years ago, love it and will never sell it. Thank you for such high level content.
Yes, I didn’t mean to sound disparaging about the DeeoMind. Calling it cheap was supposed to be a sort of compliment. I was sort of saying that you don’t need expensive gear to make expensive sounds…
Hey man! Great content. Your channel is by far one of the most interesting ones I've seen in a long time. Keep 'em coming. ~ Cheers!
Thank you very much! I’m debating whether to reply to the (very small number of haters) and against my better judgement find myself writing justifications. I should stop that.
From the start of the video, until 'I love carboard'...this video had so many levels. Haha, loved it 😎
Thank you so much! Glad you liked the “cardboard” comments! All very heartfelt.
Thanks for making this video. We recently visited the Pacific North West, so had Laura’s Theme on repeat as we visited places from Twin Peaks! I don’t think it was mentioned in the video but I think you’re touching upon themes of ‘hauntology’ here too.
So good. Just amazing 👍
Thank you so much! 🙏🙏🙏
My first synth was a Roland JX-3P, and my friend had a JX-8P. I think even my keyboard had the Soundtrack patch.
But I later had an XP-10 and later a Fantom X6, and now an original Go:Keys and JD-Xi. The Roland keyboards had classic pad sounds, and lots of the newer ones have them, too.
Roland had a guy called Eric Persing with the job title Chief Sound Designer who was in charge of creating all these sounds. So many of the presets were fantastic and still stand up today. I can’t imagine a modern synth company or soft synth plugin manufacturer investing such huge resources in preset creation which is probably why they’re all so shockingly terrible! But this might be another reason why music from that period was so good - the synthesisers were not just machines, they were instruments that came with fantastic sounds.
I seem to remember a video clip of Angelo and David working together to come up with this theme and it was initially composed on a rhodes electric piano and it also sounded amazing and deeply emotional. Absolutely love the music from Twin Peaks, thanks for making this video
Thanks for the amazing "secrets" behind the synth music history love your content
Thank you so much!
@@DistortThePreamp I already put it into practice in my next song :))
Amazing! That’s so awesome!
Fantastic music , emulates an atmosfere in all parts of story . Been watching it over Summer at 91 , in age of 24 . The music has more influence cos the tension in the ''air'' shows the war will come in my Town ! You put me in a big dilema with JX8P , cos , as i found out , it was D 50
@@crnogor Thank you so much! Which do you think was D-50? The D-50 came later and although Roland had a patch called “soundtrack” it sounded quite a lot different and, for example, had an added fifth. This was basically due to everybody misunderstanding what the main patch used for Slave to the Rhythm (Grace Jones) was 😂
@@DistortThePreamp Well come ! I can't discus with you about that cos i have no direct exp. with those instruments , just in theory ! I was in intrest which stuffs they use and find the video where Man mentioned Emulator II for phase bass , DX 7 MKS rack , D 50 . What do you mean , D 50 came later ? IT come out on market 87
That’s right, 1987. The Roland JX-8P was a couple of years earlier in 85. Whereas the JX-8P was a standard sort of analog synth, the D-50 had a new technology called LA synthesis where it had a really short sample followed by synthesis. But the story about the D-50 “soundtrack” patch is a little weird - it was relatively well known that the soundtrack patch had been used for the chords on Slave to the Rythm. BUT what wasn’t really understood is that most of the sound came from another layered patch which had a fifth added. When Roland recreated the soundtrack patch on the D-50 they added the fifth (and made a few other changes) basically just so people could play Slave to the Rhythm. So all that happened just because people had got the wrong main patch.
when i grew up it was all about cassettes ... you had albums on cassette with a wee paper cover and a miniture pic of the album... and you made your own !
I bought a tape deck recently to do some transfers of old demo tapes and of course all of my tapes were largely de-magnetised. I didn’t realise at the time (because we weren’t told) that the albums you bought on tape had a presumed life of about a decade whereas vinyl can last for a very long time.
@@DistortThePreamp that's strange - my 1985 Portastudio tapes are still playable (now I've repaired my 244 😀). TDK HSX and SF. Have yours been sitting in a strong magnetic field at some point?
What a great video! I'm a relatively new subscriber and am thoroughly enjoying your channel. I love the way each episode makes me feel like I've been on a journey with you and learned something useful and interesting along the way. Intelligent, thoughtful, interesting and awesome content. Thank you
Oh that’s fantastic to hear! My goal is to try to make entertainment content with a focus on music production, rather than just deep technical dives. So I really appreciate your comment :)
What a joy to find your channel.
That’s an incredibly kind thing to say! Thank you so much! I really appreciate you watching and taking the time to comment :)
Great video, subbed. IIRC the soundtrack was done on an MKS-70, which is basically 2 8Ps in a 2u box. Safe to say this soundtrack is one of the reasons it is still a staple, to this day, in the racks of top film composers. The 8P & 70 are still steals comparatively. Roland also have the boutique JX-08, which is 2 8Ps with 4 more voices and last but not least, there is also the freeware VST PG-8X that does an excellent job emulating as well.
That's exactly right -- it was done on an MKS-70 :) I've heard great things about the PG-8X but I can't get it to run on my system because it's a modern Mac and the OS doesn't recognise the developer and refuses to pass it. Oh well! You're also right that the 8P is still fairly cheap for what it is. The aftertouch has usually gone but I wouldn't bother fixing that -- I'm not a fan of early aftertouch which is very crude and difficult to control (although I'm not a massive fan of current AT either). Best thing is to find an 8P going cheap because the AT is broken and "needs fixing", and then don't bother fixing it!
Nice! Love my JX 8P, killer synth!
Never let it go! Do you programme it? Or just use the (mostly amazing) presets?
I think you nailed it, sir! Great vid and a very interesting insight into why we feel nostalgic about certain things. Totally agree with you about vinyl versus streaming. There's no process involved with streaming. It's instant gratification and that's what people are getting used to nowadays. I do however have an 18 year old niece who is buying vinyl and cd's from boot sales and charity shops because she prefers to have a physical product, so there's hope! :)
That’s very exciting (about your niece buying vinyl). There’s been a ‘dirty secret’ in the industry about the vinyl resurgence which is that, apparently, most of the people who buy records don’t have record players and are buying them just to collect. But this is the first year that I’ve started to believe that maybe it really is coming back…
Amazing how such a 'relative' simple pad, played in the right way, can transform a bunch of notes into an emotional journey.
And it's not only you, they picked this sound on purpose. They probably already knew (or instinctly felt) what the expert said.
I've got the JX-8P as a vst, with the fenomenal Soundtrack patch. I haven't dared to use it in a track, yet. But now I now how (do NOT play all notes at the same time, sustain some) maybe I soon will.
As always, thanks for your insights and the accompanying 'lesson'.
I've always loved this soundtrack, I think I'll put it on now.
Cheers Freddy
That’s exactly right. Are you using Roland Cloud? Or the PG-8X?
@@DistortThePreamp I'm using the PG-8X from ML-VST (it's free, but very good).
Your closing comment hit hard. Youre right. Cardboard for life!
Oh that’s such a good t-shirt slogan: cardboard for life!
So dude used the soundtrack setting to make a soundtrack, and won an award for it.
When you put it like that… 😂😂😂
Yes. Sometimes less is more. And the Roland JX 8 and 10 are so awesome sounding.
@@AmbiguousMotion You're right. Less is more.
I understand Jump (Van Halen) was just an Oberheim factory preset … … … 😊
Likewise, a lot of Prince’s hits …
@@kierenmoore3236 Good point. Was it the Rock preset? That would be hilarious.
Loving the Avon pictures and hoping that mic holder is a nod to Warrant :D.
Thanks for all these videos man, really great to see you explore emotions linked to the best medium in the world.
On the 12" records stuff, I miss it too. I miss the 80's radio. The singles had some cool stuff going on too. Elton John's Passengers stands out in my mind by a mile.
I miss walking into woolworths and thinking man even phil collins has a cool record sleeve these days :D.
I remember pinning the sleeves to my wall as a kid growing up, lets not even go down the path of gatefold's. Although there's a special place in my heart for Maiden's Seventh Son. Bugger, I've gone down that road so now you should too.
I'd so appreciate a video of you picking a top 20 in chronological order and speaking to the back stories of how you found the band and what it means to you.
To your point, with that passion, you kinda need to. No better way to show those that have never bought anything what it means and meant.
Just to add, back then we had nothing else. Maybe a photo or interview in nme or melody maker or the 2am rock show (recorded) or the one week a month when the chart show could be arsed to show a fringe chart. The mystique was real, the hunger to find out got fed a morsel. I stared into those photos and art for hours, not because I wanted to be like them but to enhance my time spent with the art, music and picture. It felt necessary. I'm glad I did and so are you.
What a channel, thank you!
Thanks for this amazing comment. I love your comment about “…even Phil Collins has a cool record sleeve these days…” So true. I finally got all my records from storage a few days ago. There was some water damage but surprisingly I don’t care nearly as much as I thought I would. What I mean is that it feels okay to have a damaged sleeve that was the physical copy I bought at the time - it’s almost a battle scar. I wouldn’t dream of replacing it with a pristine sleeve because, well, that’s not the point. The other thing that surprised me was that there are a few records that were never mine and somehow wound up in my collection and I *really* want to get rid of them. Some of the records are really good, but they’re not mine. So I’m in the hilarious situation of keeping records that I bought but which were awful, while getting rid of really good records that I never bought. It must be because I want it to be authentic, warts and all.
Ah - the “Cherry Pie” mic flag? Great guess with Warrant, but actually it was just yet another Twin Peaks reference as Dale Cooper (the FBI Agent) used to eat a lot of cherry pie 😂
@@DistortThePreamp Wow, hadn't thought about that but yet again that's how we did it. We shared. at times (a lot of times) copied. When you purchased something you stood by it, warts and all as you say. If it was good though, we'd share it. I miss that, god I didn't know how much I miss that till you said.
Thanks for the Warrant comment, my mind goes there as after electro it's guitar all the way.
Thanks so much for the channel, it's a lovely balance of passion, art and professionalism.
Ah, man.
I had a sh*tty day. When I opened youtube I saw you had a new video out. Title sounded great.
So I grabbed a beer and starting watching. Had to smile at the cultural similarities we apparently have - a common love for pop, you speaking about a Smiths show, and now David Lynch. And then the video itself was just sheer brilliance, teaching me something I didn't yet know. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
And one thing about records:
In the age of streaming music, nobody listens to a whole album anymore - that concept of putting a record on and then actually listening to the whole thing has just died with the CD and easy skipping.
Wow! Beautifully patched and performed. I felt a piece of myself from the past... the mood and memories are sublime.
Thank you! Comments like this help a lot with motivation :)
I love the music in twinPeaks. Thank you so much.
Oh it’s just fantastic music! I don’t know if you noticed but all of the incidental background music was also based on Twin Peaks themes. In fact making this video caused me to rediscover ‘Into The Night’ which I’d forgotten about!
Great video, especially the end. I lament selling and giving away my record collection. I went to a record store recently, the nostalgic feeling I had as I started flipping through the records, something my 24 year old couldn’t understand.
It’s still an amazing feeling. I never ever flipped through CDs the same way. I know loads of people in the industry from pretty much all aspects - bands, engineers, producers, label managers, a&r, everyone. They all hated CDs as a format. But there was sooooooooo much money in it. The profits were insane.
I remember the soundtrack very well from childhood.
It’s so great!
Love your programme man! New follower. I'm a huge 80s New Wave/Gothy music aficionado.
Oh thank you! Very much appreciated :)
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You should check out Peter Steele's bass tone of Type O Negative
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I may be preaching to the choir you may have already heard it
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Cheers from the states
Sorry for the delay in replying - it’s all a bit full on at this end! I will check it out! And 80s Nee Wave/Goth is obviously what you find when you cut me open ;)
What a great video, especially the end :-) For me there's an other reason I like vinyl over CDs: the 20 minute tension bow of a side, much better than over 60 minutes CDs
I *completely* agree with this. I remember an interview with Billy Corgan where he was moaning about streaming and there being no limit to album lengths. The quote was something like “I wish we could go back to the old days of only 17 tracks on an album”. You can imagine what I thought: I’m used to 18-22 mins a side before the vinyl sound quality gets compromised.
Great episode... the slow envelope stuff made me think about how I'm going to record my Microbrute into the Yamaha A3K sampler for poly playback when I finally get back to using it again, and try get some of this into it.
I was whining about you being hard to hear sometimes on the last video when the music was playing, but I had none of that this time, even though there's music playing throughout -- all good stuff!
Oh fantastic! You weren’t whining at all! It was all good feedback, and I was grateful :) Let me know how the microbrute sampling goes. I’ve got a MiniBrute and I tried very briefly to sample it to make poly sounds but it didn’t work very well. I now understand that I was driving the oscillators too hard with was getting that classic ‘Arturia’ sound and that doesn’t work very well with chords (unless you do a lot of pre-filtering). I’m sure you’ll do a better job and the A3000 is a very interesting sampler!
@@DistortThePreamp Thank you -- some interesting tips there. I've sampled it before but I probably tolerate a lot more 'error' than you! I like artifacts and things that don't quite fit -- but also don't really know how to work around them where it might well help me, so will refer back here. The A3000 is fantastic, just a bit of a cumbersome interface... and terrible failure-prone encoder knobs!
This is an excellent clip, sir. Thank you
Oh that’s very kind! Thank you!
The Twin peaks soundtrack is such an iconic piece, especially also in the movie "fire walk with me" as some of the music in that is just so good too. I also love Vinyl records and CDs, i have over 3000 of each, but i do use Apple Music for most of my music these days, i can stream it in the car and can carry a huge selection with me at any one time. I do still buy records and CDs too though as i love having a physical copy.
That’s a very large collection! So I have to ask, how are they ordered? Alphabetically by artist? How do you treat bands that start with “The”? Do you file CD singles next to albums? Have you considered organising by colour?
@@DistortThePreamp yes they are ordered by artist. I ignore the “the” and just go for the band name. Yes ordering them by colour would also be nice aesthetically but then finding the record you want might be a nightmare. Your videos are really good and very interesting. I liked the one about the Duran Duran synth part. Also the fact you like the banshees too. Nice mix
Bravo! Well done. I have a favorite synth pad sound I want to know more about because I'm a guitar guy and don't know much about synth. It's the sound Tony Hymas used on Jeff Beck's "Two Rivers".
Ah yes. If you mean the main pad then I would describe that as a classic ‘Juno Pad’ type sound. The Juno only has one envelope so you use the same settings to control the filter and also the amp. The attack is soft enough not to be hard, but not so slow you hear a filter sweep. The slight wobble comes from the Juno chorus, and possibly a bit of LFO on the filter (though maybe not). The filter cutoff is set quite low so the sound is dark and there’s probably no (or not much) resonance. However, I’m just checking that you don’t mean the ambient sound over the intro? Because that’s actually not synth at all! Quiz: do you know what that is?
@@DistortThePreamp I would have guessed that was a synth in the intro or maybe reverb off a sustained guitar chord? There are two main pad sounds throughout. One warmer in the vocal range and one thinner in the strings range. together they remind me of Godley and Creme's "Cry". The overall reverb on both songs has a magical quality. I'd guess they were done at the same studio through the same plates??
I’m pretty sure it’s a guitar through a reverb but the reverb has a ‘hold’ setting so you get an infinitive build up of sound. Before digital reverbs with hold settings you could get a similar effect by turning the feedback up on a delay pedal so the sound sort of self-oscillates. But I’m pretty sure this is a looping reverb :)