Behind The Drums - Tears For Fears "Shout" Linndrum with Drumulator Digirock Eproms

[@everpuremusic]

That moment, when you hear those bells kick in the first time on this solo drum recreation... I was a teenager when this was a massive hit on the radio in 1985. And I have heard and listened to this song countless times since then. But the magic of those bells just hits me every time - still 40 years later.

[@jaycareaga9929]

Not bells sounds like a triangle.

[@jasonmfalconer]

Yes yes. Who knew dissecting things that you have heard a million times voukd be such fun. More please from all 80s kids

[@daddyfalldown9209]

I got misty-eyed watching this video. I got a knock-off Walkman when I was 14 and Big Chair, still a fairly new release, was one of the first cassettes I bought. I must’ve listened to it ten million times and 41 years later the sound of the intro hi-hat and bells still thrills me. It’s wonderful to see how it was made. Thank you!

[@CVsoundlabs]

Thank you so much for watching. New episode next week.

[@everpuremusic]

Haha - I just noticed that I wrote almost exactly the same comment... 🙈

[@danieltrochei4544]

Awesome, this channel will blow up if you can maintain this professional recreation of iconic music

[@CVsoundlabs]

@@danieltrochei4544 thank you! I hope you are correct. Episode 2 coming next week.

[@NorthAnchor]

I agree! Good stuff!

[@TeddyLeppard]

There’s decades of music to focus on, so I think this channel has a bright future.

[@japhyvansan]

OK, this is officially the most nerdy thing I've ever seen on KZbin or at least gotta be way up there. I loved it. Great job. Keep going super cool regarding the when the levy breaks sample.

[@JeffCappelletti-e6l]

Behringer actually bought a Yamaha DX-1 and a Linn Drum at an auction. The case that the Linn Drum was in also contained a bunch of Eprom chips for the Linn Drum. The drums for Shout were included. Behringer is making those sounds as a soundbank for their Linn Drum clone. Behringer's clone is going to be released very soon.

[@BIZARBIES]

Been waiting for 5+ years for it! 😢

[@njm2557]

Just released yesterday

[@BIZARBIES]

@njm2557 I saw! Hopefully they will be out in January!

[@sirsilver1968]

According to Andertons the LM Drum will be in stock 10th Jan, cant wait 😎

[@sincinati]

The same drums were used on Never Let Me Down Again, also engineered by Dave Bascombe

[@CVsoundlabs]

@@sincinati yup! I will be covering Depeche Mode in future episodes.

[@laptopdj]

My kind of video❤

[@marguskiis7711]

Depeche just reused some TfF stuff.

[@KyleJon]

Amazing at how quickly a hit drum track was created!! 10/10

[@TryptychUK]

It's so damned spot-on, even the KZbin detection filter even thought it was TFF.

[@marcelb7259]

When you started to play those triangle I got a chill ! Such memories, thank you for this incredible demo and your research work. Cheers from Canada.

[@MacCekko]

Yeah, "a chill", exactly what I felt as well. A chill!!

[@theharshtruth8563]

That snare is so iconic. So many hip hop songs used it right after Tears for Fears made it famous. "Pee Wee's Dance" By Joeski Love, Whodini "Funky Beat", Beastie Boys "Beastie Groove", Run-DMC "Walk this Way" and countless others but my favorite will always be Tears for Fears "Shout" (US 12" Remix)

[@avace917]

Michael Jackson's The Way You Make Me Feel and Janet's Control also used them

[@MaximusNYC]

Art of Noise used it too.

[@DmitryGorbushin]

Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again

[@gahan101]

@@DmitryGorbushin I was gonna name it too. Similar drums cos similar producer: Dave Bascombe.

[@michaelg6641]

​@@MaximusNYCl saw them live in Detroit back in the day...played those records over and over

[@discodave6153]

Excellent video. With so many elements you’d think the drum track would sound too busy but it all works. Those bell sounds made me smile, such a nostalgic sequence

[@ndlouder]

What a machine...love the Linndrum!

[@jetlag_beats]

Insane, how recognizable a song is... just by hearing the first sounds of this legendary drum machine!

[@jimbotron70]

That's a trademark for '80s songs

[@asafriesberg2775]

Well, Shazam detected your track as Shout by Tears for fears.

[@sw6188]

Ha! I just tried it as well and got an immediate match on Shout - the extended version.

[@stormstudios8281]

Amazing. Cover whatever you wish. This series will become an instant classic.

[@VANDYKEDAN]

WOW! Fantastic!!!! You packed so much into that five and half minutes. Super enjoyable to watch. Thank you.

[@csscott9803]

Excellent drum beat

[@chrisjohnston2439]

I hope you make millions...you deserve it. Thanks for what youre doing!!

[@aeromender]

That’s cool! My favorite album. I was 19 in the Army stationed in Germany. Played the vinyl in our barracks :-) Great times.

[@GeoTactics]

Awesome... pure gold. I did some drum machine programming beats in the 1980s- 1990s. My first drum machine was an Oberheim DX, and it had interchangeable eproms also. I really liked the sound but its short coming was that it was released just prior to Midi being implemented. My next drums machines were the Korg DDD-1, Alesis HR-16 and later the SR-16. I also used a variety of Simmons and later Roland electronic drums, and even had a tiny Mattel Synsonics Drums. Between these and various keyboards and samplers I really had a great variety of drum sounds. The best part of the Linn, as well as my machines, was the ability to loop 4 or 8 bars (or more) and "add" sounds as you went. I sometimes recorded the snare hits "live" while recording on 2inch 24tracks to get a more realistic vibe or feel instead of being quantized. All the days... thank you for the video and sending me down a long forgotten era of my life.

[@isitjustmeorwhat9748]

Bruce Forat is a legend. I once purchased an MPC60 II, which worked well but later started having issues. Bruce installed a brighter display, new pads and pots, and boosted the outputs. Afterward, he connected me with Rodger Linn, and I got the 3.10 chips, which turned the MPC60 II into a MPC3000. 👍 Keep up the great work, BTW, anything from Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis would be awesome.

[@amulpatel]

man that sound .. nothing beats the 80s sound designers

[@selectfourteen]

Nothing beats the 80's.

[@jnorten]

I'm a bit of a sample nerd and I just always assumed all these artists sampled When the Levee breaks themselves, I had no idea someone made eproms for drum machines with those.

[@gregoryallen0001]

this info in the video about the pre-sets coming from LZ.. so casually mentioned...MESSED UP MY WHOLE MIIIIIND

[@antoniodelarosa8850]

Soy guitarrista y estudié ingeniería electrónica en los ochentas. Ese equipo es de la época. Era lo más moderno que había. En el laboratorio de electrónica en la materia de Diseño de Circuitos Electrónicos las programamos con Macroensamblador para un Sistema Mínimo para un, microprocesador Z80. Era muy versátil para las velocidades. Podías borrarlas solo retirando el Tag, que le diera la luz del sol y estaba lista para grabar. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Buen video.👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@CottonBud]

Brilliant research and authentic recreation. And to the point! Superb stuff. 👍

[@MikeLuke]

Brilliant new channel! Subscribed immediately. Let the episodes follow, Nick.

[@guitardave]

That awesome, what a great video! Any chance you could do one showing how you’ve used the compressor and reverb?

[@PowerRedBullTypology]

interesting story: I actually sampled the drums from when the levee breaks and used software to separate the different sounds (as i did not have any stems from them). The separator (regroover pro ) did a great job and separated the kick, snare and the shakers that was used on it. I hardly knew song but instantly felt it was about the most epic sounding ' natural' drum. I found out that when you speed up the when the levy break drums in the analog manner, meaning that when you speed up the sounds get higher in pitch and the slower you play them the lower pitched they get, that the reason it sounds so big is basically just because it is a slowed down recording of a drum set. If you speed it up, it stops sounding big and bombastic but rather sounds like a nromal drum recording. I think for this reason it sounds most natural if you use these essentially slowed down samples in a quite slow bpm , or at least make the kick and the beat not follow each other too quickly but leave some time in between because that naturally happens when you slow down a drum groove. A morphed real sample usually sounds much more interesting than one fully digitally created one, but even better if you do stuff to it so that it still retains the interesting non simplistic sounding elements and character that fully digital drums usually completely lack. I think the also epic sounding drums from the track from bjork ' army of me' sound also big, and if i remember correctly (but not sure, years ago) it was also just a regular drum that was slowed down in an analog manner. The last drum I find sound big and epic in a similar way is from the puff daddy cover from kashmir from led zeppelin song , ' come with me' sound also very big, but I am not sure how they fully did it as its not simply a slowed down version. Maybe they used other methods. Would you know which to make it sound so big? (puff daddy - come with me) Do you happen to have these bell sounds, toms and such and such as separate recordings maybe, without them being overplayed by each other? I'd love hear them in an isolated manner seperate . While these sort very big sounding drums are great, it can be challenge to find equally big sounding other drum elements to use along with them. Also, i'd love to hear if you know more songs that have such type of drums...the slow, ultra big sounding, yet acoustic sounding drums.

[@jmar4403]

I remember those sounds. I bought a LinnDrum when they first came out and it was stored at my mom's house through the '90s. I had Bruce Forat set it up for MIDI along with a Rhodes Chroma around '93. When my mom sold her house she reminded me I had some gear that I should pick up. About 20 years ago, I donated it to the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, CA. It was an awesome piece of gear.

[@CVsoundlabs]

Hell yea. Thanks for sharing. The Linndrum is one of my favorite pieces of gear ever made. New episode will be out this week.

[@signalenergie]

This is pure awesomeness. Thank you so much for uploading this video.

[@Haze763]

I still have my original Oberhiem DX that I paid around $1100 for in 1983. I'll never sell it. I've heard New Order used one back in the 80s. They probably had the more expensive DMX which had more options. I just subscribed. This is some great stuff!!!

[@spoony303]

Fascinating video! Always wondered how much of Shout was drum machines, vs the acoustic drum tom fills towards the end of the track. Now I know - it was mostly drum machine! Great channel, looking forward to more!

[@MattMosquito]

Brilliant work Bruce! What a rhythm it was... and still is. You know it's good because the drums alone are all you need for that big song feeling.

[@garydvisualz]

Outstanding. Right down to the Zep origins of those samples. Great fun.

[@Earshoes777]

This is awesome, the nuts and bolts behind such a recognizable sound. So cool to see how it was created . Looking forward to more content.

[@CVsoundlabs]

Thank you! New episode this week.

[@tihinter]

Wonderful recreation and fantastic research about those details

[@eugeniorocha8470]

Congrats!I loved the video! We need more!

[@winstontk]

This channel is FANTASTIC! Thank you so much for this, sir.

[@alleykat6273]

Ive always theorized that they sampled the Linn and Emu directly into the CMI, giving them the ability to use any machine, including a Led Zeppelin vinyl

[@NYyazoofan]

Absolutely fantastic...well done.

[@Matt28932]

Amazing reconstruction! ❤🤩👏👍✌

[@ROKZLEON]

Dude! Seriously impressive! Love this series. 👍🏻

[@transmitterimages8638]

So great, so great. Thank you for this!

[@CR3271]

Amazing! That album is still in my regular listening rotation.

[@bassadelica]

My Emu Drumulator was stock with those Levee Breaks kick and snare samples. The amount of hits generated from samples of that one song is pretty amazing

[@symbiat0]

I see Captain Pikant has some competition 😏 I travelled back to the UK 2 years ago and found my original vinyl copy of Songs From The Big Chair. Still a great album. Of course it came back to the US with me!

[@EnricoDePaoli]

Awesome stories, sounds and programming 🤠🤩

[@LIGHTintheHALLS]

Amazing! You cracked the tone code with that one. Well done!

[@noscope1876]

I can’t believe that this is the first video on your channel, because the production quality is very good! Keep up the good work!

[@CVsoundlabs]

Thank you so much! New episode this week.

[@SergioCabrer]

Amazing recreation, congratulations!

[@kz1000ps]

Beautiful. It also has to be said that "Bell 2" became a workhorse sound of Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis as they started to define what would become New Jack Swing with their productions for Janet, Alexander O'Neal, Cherrelle, SOS Band, New Edition, etc. etc. Ya gotta love all those alternate EPROMs 🤩

[@falconbravo66]

After watching this video carefully I subscribed to your channel! Greetings from Brazil! 🤝

[@sonicstate]

Great video 👏 Shared on Sonicstate today!

[@CVsoundlabs]

@@sonicstate thank you so much for the kind words on your website! Means a lot!

[@shadowfall2823]

Great video! You did some excellent research to dig up the exact sounds used. Hope to see more videos like this. Subbed.

[@CVsoundlabs]

@@shadowfall2823 really appreciate it! Episode 2 will be out next week.

[@meucanalmix]

it's too bad that this video ends! amazing content. subbed

[@malcolmgoldie]

Great video, nice work!

[@isaiascarvalho8451]

MY GOD, IT'S MY TEEN AGE hahaha!!! SO MANY DETAILS, SEPARATED SOUNDS. WONDERFUL TERRIFIC, MAN!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH TO SHARE IT WITH US 👍🙂👍 😊 !!!!

[@Mr.Loewenzahn]

Wow that video was amazing. Would love to see some more 80s stuff!

[@Jiglo71]

Nice! I love that this is going to be a series. Subscribed, thanks.

[@EmanuelMianpsicologo]

Great video! I thought it was all Fairlight, and I was wrong! Thanx

[@IvanEngler]

still sounds fantastic today! so sich in texture.

[@walmind]

Wow! So nice!

[@briankonash8438]

Fantastic work!

[@CVsoundlabs]

@@briankonash8438 thank you! Episode 2 coming soon.

[@SMacGregor-n1p]

That was amazing... And to learn that the original samples for the "Digi Drums" EPROM kit were samples of John Bonham plus some custom / matching recordings of toms is some really cool knowledge. Thanks for the great vid!

[@CVsoundlabs]

Thanks for watching! Episode 2 will be out next week.

[@CR-sj7xd]

Roland Orzabal often mentions the use of the when levee breaks snare sound. Fish out of Water drums are from that sample, but taken from a sample and loops CD at the time. I think he used again on their more recent songs.

[@erichollar5503]

Terrific video. If you can do anything on Naked Eyes first album, that would be fantastic. I love all the sounds and textures they used, including the drums.

[@jimbotron70]

Voices in my head

[@sjay4673]

Great stuff! Looking forward to more of your content!👍

[@CVsoundlabs]

Thank you! New episode will be out this week.

[@mrgalaxia12]

amazing work!!

[@TheRickdoggie]

Great video!! I totally forgot that Digidrums was the beginning of Digidesign.

[@Jacqueal]

It seems no one ever used just the stock sounds in these machines. And that's dope.

[@thevellocet]

Fantastic video! Really looking forward to your future videos.

[@CVsoundlabs]

Thank you so much! New episode will be out this week.

[@tomlechat3778]

Yes yes yes. ...TFF 4 ever. Linn drum 4 ever. Groove machine.intuitive

[@commodore74]

Geat first video. Nailed it!

[@CVsoundlabs]

@@commodore74 thank you! New episode next week.

[@commodore74]

@@CVsoundlabs Excellent!

[@SG1980s]

Great video! Looking forward to watching more.

[@CVsoundlabs]

Thank you! New episode will be out this week.

[@artprojectsnz]

Good stuff….as an 80s drum programmer it’s great to see your dedication to the art. Keep it up. Oh…maybe some Prince tracks? Kiss?

[@CVsoundlabs]

Thank you so much! Means a lot. I’ve dedicated the past 10 years to learning these machines. New episode will be out this week.

[@PerfDayToday]

Ok.. THAT’s cool. Thanks for the history lesson. More please. Subbed.

[@leonardorodriguez1297]

Aboslutely amazing!

[@stevedoesnt]

Amazing production value! Subscribed!

[@JamBurglar]

Crushing that drum programming!!! 🤯

[@languageacquire4279]

You have made my dream come true, to know how the hell this was done, I congratulate you and thank you infinitely, for me you are a boss who helps humanity a lot.🎉😊😮

[@k.manoelmuniz4618]

Great video! KEEP more of THIS coming!! A-ha ,pet shop boys ...etc...

[@marceumere]

I always thought, that beyond being this is a Great song, this remind me A LOT to a Genesis Style song, That drum pattern for me, sounds like Phil Collins, specially if you pay attention on " Second home by the sea " and the synths used and the Phrasing lines, are so Tony Banks Style. Thank You and Greetings from Argentina

[@kristhompson8112]

Outstanding

[@ChrisStrobel]

Great job 😍 I’d be grateful if you could take a look at “Par Avion” by Mike & The Mechanics… I’ve always been wondering whether it’s a CR-78 they’re using on that track.

[@donc4238]

Great job!

[@TechnoEmpire]

So well done!

[@CVsoundlabs]

@@TechnoEmpire thank you so much! I actually bought my Linn 9000 from you guys back around 2015!

[@TechnoEmpire]

@@CVsoundlabs Oh wow, very cool! Looking forward to the video you do of the 9000!

[@silverfiltersoundlab]

Instant like and sub. Great work. Loved hearing them build

[@bomleny]

That was awesome! Great video Looking forward to more Depeche Mode New Order The Cure Front 242

[@Ashfaq1999]

Great video nick. I was fortunate to have a Linndrum with this excellent eprom set. It sadly got damaged due a burnout. I eventually bought a sequential drumtracks & recaptured that great sound again.

[@CVsoundlabs]

Thank you! I’m sorry to hear about your Linndrum. The Drumtraks is great tho! New episode will be out this week.

[@Ashfaq1999]

@ Many thanks. Looking forward to the new episode 👍

[@DJ-EFKA]

Excellent ! Thanks ❤

[@PivotsBand]

HELL YES! Instant fan of this YT channel .... do one on any Depeche Mode ! :)

[@CVsoundlabs]

Thank you! I will definitely be covering Depeche Mode in future episodes.

[@PivotsBand]

Yess! Can’t wait for your next video 😊 Also, the sounds on that chip are utterly amazing! We would love to put them on a Roland SPDs and have a live jam with them! Are you going to put them online somewhere for people to play around with?

[@toddhamby]

That was so fun! Great job!

[@kannon3979]

I'm loving the content.

[@danmist]

This is one of the first songs I played drums to when I was about 8 years old. I always wondered how that drum track was created- it sounded too real to be a drum machine, but it was!

[@strickland306]

Yes! More of this please!

[@Modernaire]

Ahh yes the 🌟LM-2🌟!!!!🤩

[@BounceChord]

Awesome video! More more more!! Something I’ve always wondered is how drum machines were recorded in the 80s. It’s so simple now to solo everything and then move it into place.

[@CVsoundlabs]

Thank you! New episode this week.

[@Jay.Ramone]

Love it. Great job.

[@davidchouinard9268]

kick-ass performance (and great research!) multiple thumbs up 👍👍👍

[@CVsoundlabs]

Thank you! New episode will be out next week.

[@mantis834]

Love this, great work! I wonder if these same Linn units used on their debut album "The Hurting", which also has some great drum programming throughout. So many great tracks to dissect for future videos, a few of the top of my head: Men Without Hats "Safety Dance" Alphaville "Big in Japan" Soft Cell "Torch" Depeche Mode "Never Let Me Down Again"