Synth Analysis/Tutorial - 70's PBS Logo Theme

[@dantelovesbeatrice]

This is tremendous! // I had no clue (in the 1970's) - what made those alien-noises. (Thank you!) One-other piece of music (which used to play - during 'PBS's station-credits) - was a combination of bell+music wah+pedal.

[@mtk170]

I used to hum that intro as a kid. I think this is my introduction into synth music.

[@EddieMillerStudios]

The last one was spot on.

[@mediacreationsusa]

very very good - remember too, back in the early 70's, watching tape saturation was the big issue with recording anything, but esp something like the purity of a synth, so yes, it sounded a lot deader since the recording engineers at the time would have also added additional compression and limiting in the control room. old timers hated these "electronic noise boxes" lol - I love the VCS-3! one of the best synths ever made.

[@Genshi]

Excellent breakdown of that PBS sound! I grew up watching (and listening) to all those shows in the 1970s and must have heard that sound tens of thousands of times!

[@Scarpia9111]

Wow, whenever or wherever I hear that familiar tune I know exactly what it is! I'm better because of PBS

[@ScottWozniak]

Brilliant! I grew up in New York City in the '70s and remember this vividly! Great breakdown! 👍🏻

[@jeshkam]

I'm so jealous. I always wanted to be a kid in the 1970s America and a teenager in the 1980s US.

[@0e0]

my friends down the road from me are building a clone of one in their workshop.it's really fun to watch the process..

[@sbinette3]

Your intro music is very reminiscent of an early 80s computer TV program opening, Love it, you even got the wow and flutter of the old skool video tapes used in the day

[@jeshkam]

Exactly, I absolutely love it.

[@mootbooxle]

you just sold me the RC-20! Been thinking of trying it for a while. That sounded great!

[@Digiphex]

Yeah it does quite a bit more than I showed and has a variety of vinyl and tape sims.

[@AssemblerAudio]

Wow, you got a really good result in reproducing that PBS sound effect! Great work 👍

[@VincentM_01]

epic analysis

[@MelissaServicePack7Lucky7]

This is all totally confusing to me, but I find it so fascinating. Thank you for explaining this. I love the old pbs logo and the sounds that went with it. Your voice sounds like the guy who who speak at the end of "Mr. Rogers" neighborhood and say "Mister Rogers Neighborhood is brough to you by this and other public television stations".

[@jeshkam]

I absolutely love the old logo too, and the 1984 one as well. The brand new (2019) is a return to form imo.

[@MadameSomnambule]

"and by the Sears Roebuck Foundation." That name's been stuck in my brain since preschool, and I grew up in the late 90s and early 2000s.

[@MelissaServicePack7Lucky7]

@@MadameSomnambule there’s an old Sears near my house and the doors still say “Sears and Roebuck”. I’m a bit older than you. I was born in 77.

[@gman1290]

Very insightful video! Really enjoyed it.

[@gianlucamarchese]

Brilliant explanation, I think that the 2 versions instead of better they sound just different. I loved the lo-finess of Retro Touch but the pitch modulation of Sampler more.

[@nsjx]

agreed

[@dman030]

thats great, fun and interesting how to get these classic sounds today. thanks. i bet you could do a whole series like this. :-)

[@pbs7315]

excellent analysis! 🙌

[@blueity.]

NBC LOGO

[@TGGaineyProductions]

Beautiful. You have a brought back a lot of childhood memories. Now I want to support my PBS station.

[@fredturd]

Great tutorial, and you got those upper octave jumps/embellishments correct, but wasn't the chord and volume swell multitracked with a monophonic synth?😀

[@rahmel2009]

I think it is saying Public Broad-cast-ing Ser-vice!

[@seanseanseanseansean]

Wow, this should be a whole series. Oscar The Grouch™ gave this video a thumbs-down.

[@jadstudiosofficial]

P-Head approves of this

[@dormaettu302]

Excellent tutorial

[@matthewclark9652]

The pop trio America "Only In Your Heart" (from 1972 "Homecoming") & the remix version (from 1975 "History: America's Greatest Hits") brought me here!!!!

[@BVHunter]

Could you do a synth analysis on the Reading Rainbow intro theme song?

[@MelissaServicePack7Lucky7]

tlhat's a great idea!!!!

[@puppetsnob]

Hanna Barbara logo next! :)

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

That was a Fender Rhodes electric piano.

[@MockeryManor]

Amazing!

[@dimensionstomorrow]

I absolutely love your channel. I’m really big into the synth sounds from 1970s documentaries and shows like In Search Of, and Boards of Canada as well. I recently got a Moog Grandmother, which I love. I’m thinking that for my next synth, I should go with something polyphonic. I was looking at the Sequential Take 5, and was wondering if you think it would be a good choice for these kinds of old 1970s and early 1980s TV logo, documentary synth sounds. Thanks for any other input you might have.

[@Digiphex]

Yeah, the Take 5 looks quite capable. For the BOC sound, you could use the TAL VST's of the BOC Tools or the real SH-101, Juno, and MPC.

[@dimensionstomorrow]

@@Digiphex Thanks very much. I appreciate the help and very much look forward to more theory and analysis videos. I’ve really been enjoying your music theory vids in particular, particularly in the context of these old synth sounds.

[@TheSteveSteele]

This might be a question for Redit but I’m looking for the music from an early ‘70s black and white PBS “please stand by” screen. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen this but from what I remember it was a drawing or oil painting of a street light or lamp and possibly over a park bench. The music sounded similar to the hit Orinoco Flow by Enya from the ‘90s. In fact it sounds like a remake, (in my memory. I could be remembering this wrong but when I first heard the Enya tune it instantly brought me back to this PBS tune. Does anyone recall this? Does this jog anyone’s memory? It would have been broadcast in the early ‘70s. I don’t know if it was a local station’s sign and music or if it was used for all PBS stations. I’d love to hear this tune again. I found it very hypnotic as a young kid.

[@loser2466]

Interesting story must be lost media

[@ninagreen100]

This man ironicly sounds like mr rogers and also good cover

[@--..__]

Underrated channel

[@louietartanelli7413]

Very nice. I enjoyed this upload 100%

[@cstump5082]

This was great. Now do the WGBH (Gershon Kingsley) bumper!

[@Digiphex]

He seems to combine a sine wave LFO to pitch rather than an envelope, and he also uses a square wave LFO to pitch as well. Definitely related to or inspired by the PBS theme.

[@p-headtheobjectthingy5232]

Do another synth analysis/tutorial video

[@STATICCA]

Thanks for this I learned a lot!

[@AldenMoellerInc]

What synth emulator are you using/ does it cost money?

[@Digiphex]

I used the iPad app of the VCS and the PC/Mac VST Sylenth. They cost money.

[@jefflawford1832]

I want this as my ring tone!

[@AlexBallMusic]

This was fun! Great video.

[@MrOuija-rr8kq]

So that lfo-pitch sound isn’t from the warbling/downgrading of the vhs tape (or whatever it was recorded on)?

[@TrentJordan3198]

You should show remake how ELO made the telephone dial tone for the "Telephone Line" song since they made the tone with a Moog synthesizer for the song (no they did not record the dial tone off the phone).

[@Digiphex]

It is a random square wave LFO routed to the pitch. It might be too simple for a video.

[@SyncdAlien]

Loving this, very interesting! 👍 Subscribing to you now! 👍

[@NECHOII]

*I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR A PBS STATION WITH THIS JINGLE! **0:00*

[@AldenMoellerInc]

this is about as close as you can get to that kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKq9gIGwg62Ghdk

[@SmudgerEntertainment]

Is there a way to do the notes at the end of the theme using iVCS3 and not Sylenth? If so, how?

[@garyjones2675]

I want to know what they used for all the Golden Harvest intros . 🤔🤓

[@EddieMillerStudios]

You should try doing the Screen Gems logo.

[@martithompson1950]

Sounds little like lowdown by boz scaggs

[@grape1097]

Could you analyze the PBS ThinkAbout theme?

[@ajkandy]

The synth parts on that are likely a string synth (Solina or similar) through a phaser pedal for the pads, and a monosynth for the “brass” lead, with slow attack and portamento. I think there’s a monosynth sequence in there as well, playing a looping line, sounds like a sawtooth with a bit of an oscillating filter adding bitey distortion?

[@zach9999]

what app are you using to emulate the synth?

[@Aguscas2012]

9:27

[@gusttavochannel]

What's the apps

[@slopptoe999]

what is the tone of the intro

[@bonadeaism]

I pay $100 for this theme!

[@MuzikJunky]

Hm, it wasn’t Eric Siday who composed the music???? Peace.

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

Paul Alan Levi

[@isabeld.paredes4923]

Siday wrote Plenipotentiary, which was used when PBS was still NET (National Educational Television) in the late 1960's, possibly the early 1970's before the change of name in 1971

[@phaspsproductionspbs-klask1025]

9:27 thank me later

[@murahachibu]

Any softsynths that can do sounds like your intro?

[@Digiphex]

A TAL Bassline with the TAL UNO can do just about any sound from the 70's to 90's. The key is the processing so it doesn't sound crisp. I have a few videos on LO-FI sound.

[@exonax4188]

7:56

[@blueity.]

App link

[@selchap3054]

1st note thumbed.