Man back then they had to work so hard just to get a delay stereo effect on the melody. They had to use 2 channels just for that. For context, now days in a DAW you can just apply an effect like delay and the programs handles it for you. We have so much control over how our music sounds.
If the notes are short enough, you could get a delay effect in the same channel as the main melody. For instance, BGM 2 of the NES Silver Surfer game does that, as well as a few small instances in “The Rival” from Shovel Knight.
0:38 I see where people say that channel 4 sounds like a “western whistle” but the way I’ve always heard it was as a subtle nod to the original Tarzan yell and the way it fluctuates in a similar manner in the Aquatic Ruin. You are in a forested area after all.
To be fair, the "western whistle" itself is based on a couple guys going "aa-AA aa-AA aaaahh" The theme song for the Good Bad & Ugly does use the whistle, but I don't think the version heard in the original film has the flute play the full "four notes then fall." In other words, if the yell heard in Good Bad & Ugly was based in part on what's known as the Tarzan yell, then in a roundabout way, both interpretations would be correct. Personally, I think it could very well be referencing both. GBU is based in Mexico, part of Latin America, and Aquatic Ruin is very much a Latin tune. However, as you said, Aquatic Ruin is based in a sort of rainforest, jungle-like area.
@@tahutoa I see your point, but I’d connect the little fluctuations as a Tazarn thing (being in a tropical rainforest as you referred to it) and the music following a Spanish vibe considering the Amazon Rainforest is in South America.
@@BasedPureblood I mean, it's the main melody, of course it's strong... Personally, I'll go with the counter-melody and harmony right at the the beginning on channel 3
This and Hill Top are definitely my favourites in the entire game. Aquatic Ruin because the music and visuals are really nice and it's relaxing to play, and Hill Top for the visuals and music too, and it's really fun too.
I feel bad for knowing 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly' music reference in Mirage Saloon in no time but it took me a bajillion years to remember it from this, DESPITE ME PLAYING SONIC 2 FOR MUCH LONGER THAN SONIC MANIA AND THIS BEING MY FAVORITE TRACK!
I love those deconstructions! Can definitely hear some lambada and samba influences in there. All in all, Sonic compostions are beautifully inspired. Marble Zone from Sonic 1 would be an interesting candidate for deconstruction as well.
This song is amazing when deconstructed. Without channels 1 and 2 it's like a completely different song. The jungle/wilderness vibe is gone and it sounds very samba. Channel 3 definitely has big time Latin flair. Super cool.
SHAME ON ME FOR FALLING IN THE GUNK IN CHEMICAL PLANT BEFORE MAKING IT HERE I WOULD JUST STAND THERE WAITING FOR THE GOSHDARN PLATFORM ID JUMP AND FALL!
Channel 4 is just a sine wave, very interesting. And I didn't notice it before listening to this deconstruction, especially since there is a square wave played on top of it.
Channel 3 alone sounds almost like the beginning of an act 2 remix As time goes on more of the melody would get added in, starting with channel 1, so forth and so on
People always said this sounded very western and tango, but I've always viewed as very tribal and Indian like like especially this flute noise here 0:38
I've been watching through a tone of these and they are amazing to watch since I'm trying to learn more about FM synthesis. One recent tidbit I discovered is that FM instruments sound really good with reverb added, and it looks like most of the Sonic songs have one of the FM channels dedicate to providing some reverb to one of the other channels. It's happening with the "lead" instrument here (Channel 2), happens in a bunch of S3K stuff too. Maybe that's part of the Sonic secret sauce.
Indeed. When I think of the essence of Sonic soundtracks, it's always about the pumpin' funky bass, harmonic support from varied instruments alternating in two channels, and the 'reverbed' leads. And boy this sauce delivered.
I have the some issue. The rythym and drums suggest salsa, while the instrumentation gives an old western vibe. I would lean further toward the salsa/latin end. The bassline, chord progression and rythym are the majority of the song and they're very salsa/latin.
Thanks for this. This being one of my favourite tracks of the game I don't get the second and third bits of this breakdown. They could have been combined or put together with the third so as not to lose the awesome groove set by the first segment. Would love to hear some kind of remake! Cheers!
Sometimes SALSAesque, sometimes LAMBADAesque, sometimes SPANISHesque. It's hard to get more latin than this. I wished the levels weren't that short. Amazing work.
Three flute notes. People : omg western Latin songs, mostly Peruvian, are known to use flute. But I understand that these three notes might remind you one of the most well known western Bgm.
I actually hate this level more than any other in Sonic 2 (except Death Egg). The water sucks, the foreground scroll effect is off putting and that sringboard where you leap out of the water in those stupidly placed badniks that send down PISSES ME OFF! Anyway music's great with that drumroll and claps in the DAC and a deep bass. Metropolis Zone Oscilloscope Deconstruction next pretty please with half a cake on top.
There is a way to not touch the water at all and thats to take the top path. No hate at all if its your least favorite stage, as I'm not a fan of oil ocean
The instruments definitely give off that tango vibe, and I love it.
Tango? The h3ll are you sayin?
DAC be like: *[Furiously Clapping]*
Like those clap “rolls” in Donkey Konga.
*CLAPCLAPCLAPCLCLAP*
Honestly the best part of this song
@@DoctorPoopenFarten correction: the only part of the song we care about
@@RealFoxTrotFox Ur worng
Man back then they had to work so hard just to get a delay stereo effect on the melody. They had to use 2 channels just for that. For context, now days in a DAW you can just apply an effect like delay and the programs handles it for you. We have so much control over how our music sounds.
Even i do that when making genesis tracks with DefleMask
Music sounds worse now days
If the notes are short enough, you could get a delay effect in the same channel as the main melody. For instance, BGM 2 of the NES Silver Surfer game does that, as well as a few small instances in “The Rival” from Shovel Knight.
0:38
I see where people say that channel 4 sounds like a “western whistle” but the way I’ve always heard it was as a subtle nod to the original Tarzan yell and the way it fluctuates in a similar manner in the Aquatic Ruin. You are in a forested area after all.
That's a very good point, and now it's the way I hear this. It just makes sense.
it is simply a sine wave
@@4b06chongshunhang4
Your point?
To be fair, the "western whistle" itself is based on a couple guys going "aa-AA aa-AA aaaahh"
The theme song for the Good Bad & Ugly does use the whistle, but I don't think the version heard in the original film has the flute play the full "four notes then fall."
In other words, if the yell heard in Good Bad & Ugly was based in part on what's known as the Tarzan yell, then in a roundabout way, both interpretations would be correct.
Personally, I think it could very well be referencing both. GBU is based in Mexico, part of Latin America, and Aquatic Ruin is very much a Latin tune. However, as you said, Aquatic Ruin is based in a sort of rainforest, jungle-like area.
@@tahutoa
I see your point, but I’d connect the little fluctuations as a Tazarn thing (being in a tropical rainforest as you referred to it) and the music following a Spanish vibe considering the Amazon Rainforest is in South America.
Spaghetti Western + Argentinian Tango = this theme.
It also sounds greek
@@rofidel178 kinda
i get more of a Greek vibe
argentino papa
Yeah also a bit Ancient Greek
0:46 is a part of why Aquatic Ruin is my favorite Sonic 2 zone.
Honestly, same
I like the 2:26 because it's strong.
@@BasedPureblood I mean, it's the main melody, of course it's strong... Personally, I'll go with the counter-melody and harmony right at the the beginning on channel 3
2:48 is just my favorite because it sounds like some intense song that someone made for their loved one
For me 3:03 is strange...
1:14 the aquatic ruins 8 bit ❤
The PSG channels really went off on this one😳
But what about that DAC channel though?
@@Exosphere2.0 The DAC was pretty weak on this one
Mystic Cave too.
@@LunaOfTheStarsMusic Whaaaat??
@@LunaOfTheStarsMusic ?¿?¿¿?????????
Amazing how a simple echo with channel 2 really makes the whole song for me. The depth and atmosphere added by such a subtle effect is amazing.
This and Hill Top are definitely my favourites in the entire game. Aquatic Ruin because the music and visuals are really nice and it's relaxing to play, and Hill Top for the visuals and music too, and it's really fun too.
The beginning made me wonder if my left speaker had broke.
The chips in the Genesis can do hard panning from the left, right, and center.
4:02 I LIKE THIS PART
As always in Sonic tracks, when Bass and DAC come, they take it all over.
Those are the parts I wait for
Me too 3:03
I feel bad for knowing 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly' music reference in Mirage Saloon in no time but it took me a bajillion years to remember it from this, DESPITE ME PLAYING SONIC 2 FOR MUCH LONGER THAN SONIC MANIA AND THIS BEING MY FAVORITE TRACK!
Yo at 3:40 channel 3 and 4 was on point 🔥 🔥 🔥.
I love those deconstructions! Can definitely hear some lambada and samba influences in there. All in all, Sonic compostions are beautifully inspired. Marble Zone from Sonic 1 would be an interesting candidate for deconstruction as well.
This music was originaly going to be used for a desret level but suprisenly it fits very well for aquatiq ruin
Thanks for the colonoscopy decontruction!
😂 autocorrect strikes again!
Colonoscopy? srsly wtf
Its oscilloscope
@@JNSStudios autocorrect more like autofailure !!!
xD
@@thiccdoge2002 r/whooosh
This song is amazing when deconstructed. Without channels 1 and 2 it's like a completely different song. The jungle/wilderness vibe is gone and it sounds very samba. Channel 3 definitely has big time Latin flair. Super cool.
by far my favourite song in the game.
it's so complex yet still fits together perfectly.
3:03
Announcer: Fight!!😈
Guess the reference.😉
@scrubthispie You're correct.😎
(Sorry for replying a month later😅)
Unrelated smh
My first guess was cuphead.
@@quinnblade6631 Which boss theme has the same beat? 🙂
@@SailorSunshine it's similar to floral fury
3:02 Channel 0: Allow me to introduce myself
0:38 mirage salloon
Your right it does
Or every western movie lol
1 act
I didn't hear it.
Yes
When well used like this, the Genesis' sound system is amazing.
I like this catchy song! Does anyone else like it, too?
I do!
I never wanted to leave the zone
SHAME ON ME FOR FALLING IN THE GUNK IN CHEMICAL PLANT BEFORE MAKING IT HERE I WOULD JUST STAND THERE WAITING FOR THE GOSHDARN PLATFORM ID JUMP AND FALL!
Channel 0: Bass
Channel 1/2: Soprano
Channel 3: Alto
Channel 4: Tenor
shouldnt 0 be baritone
@@tl1882 r/wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh
@@IcedCakes-X r/wooooshwith4osandnoh r/notawoooosh
**engine start**
**sonic woosh from you to there**
Channel 4 is just a sine wave, very interesting. And I didn't notice it before listening to this deconstruction, especially since there is a square wave played on top of it.
In the first part of the song, anyway.
Wow! I didn't realize how layered this song was!
The DAC sounds like claps
it is
lol
Are we sure it's not meant to be castanets?
Hearing the PSG’s is so cool. An 8 bit version of this song would be sick
Oh man these videos are a godsend to those trying to remaster them.
I love when PSG 0 and 1 sync up.
Channel 3 alone sounds almost like the beginning of an act 2 remix
As time goes on more of the melody would get added in, starting with channel 1, so forth and so on
Jahn Davis remix?
At the beginning it almost sounds like palmtree panic past
People always said this sounded very western and tango, but I've always viewed as very tribal and Indian like like especially this flute noise here 0:38
Same I sometimes get that vibe
I like to come to time to time just to loop or restart these deconstructions. They're just too catchy.
I've been watching through a tone of these and they are amazing to watch since I'm trying to learn more about FM synthesis. One recent tidbit I discovered is that FM instruments sound really good with reverb added, and it looks like most of the Sonic songs have one of the FM channels dedicate to providing some reverb to one of the other channels. It's happening with the "lead" instrument here (Channel 2), happens in a bunch of S3K stuff too. Maybe that's part of the Sonic secret sauce.
Indeed. When I think of the essence of Sonic soundtracks, it's always about the pumpin' funky bass, harmonic support from varied instruments alternating in two channels, and the 'reverbed' leads. And boy this sauce delivered.
Yeah, and you can use that one trick to add either reverb or delay depending on how far you offset the notes
Sonic secret sauce
So many different things going on in this piece. I have always loved this one in a different way.
0:36 aha, there's the clave.
This is awesome! you should do metropolis zone next! 👍
I think he's already done that.
@@Desmaad not an ossciloscope
as an ossciloscope
ua-cam.com/video/S1jpkumxZrY/v-deo.html
I knew something (PSG 0&1) was harmonizing with the tenor part (channel 3), but I could never quite make it out in game. Thanks for this.
3:02
Put on 0.75 speed and it sounds like a tribe music
Yoooooooo!!!! Whoever did this I love you till the end of times!!!! This is pure amazing!!!!
neat. would love to see something like this on anything from the PvZ soundtrack.
Listening to the beginning with just channel 3 made me feel like my left ear was clogged.
Hearing this with channel 1 missing this has such a salsa like feel to it
honestly, one of my favorite Zones in 2.
i still can't figure out what musical genre is this
I have the some issue. The rythym and drums suggest salsa, while the instrumentation gives an old western vibe. I would lean further toward the salsa/latin end. The bassline, chord progression and rythym are the majority of the song and they're very salsa/latin.
@@mr.megadrive6881 Which is weird for a set of largely Greek-seeming ruins.
Desmaad as a Greek I’m not even sure what Ancient Greek music sounds like
@@Desmaad Could be Roman ruins, hence the Latin connection.
@@_kardus yeah me too, it kinda reminds me aslo of jazz pop from 50's and early 60's
i cant get this theme out of my head, its too good
I'm fucking crying, this is too good.
Bring me back to 1995 😭
Floral Fury from Cuphead at 2:13
thats not funny.
@@JerpyTH It's not a joke, dumba**
@@leadpaintlunatic let him alone dont give him the atention he needs
I can KINDA hear it
What from What?
Yoooooo i love this song
Labyrinth Zone 2. Basically a whole lot better.
6:06 EVERYBODY NOW!!
0:40 wait... I recognized this rhythm from somewhere 🤔
The sine sweep-line sound on channel 4 is pretty cool
The clave on PSG3 is so dope
Thanks for this. This being one of my favourite tracks of the game I don't get the second and third bits of this breakdown. They could have been combined or put together with the third so as not to lose the awesome groove set by the first segment. Would love to hear some kind of remake! Cheers!
Love the thicc bass sound in channel 0
Sometimes SALSAesque, sometimes LAMBADAesque, sometimes SPANISHesque. It's hard to get more latin than this. I wished the levels weren't that short. Amazing work.
gotta love that wild wild west whistle!
I don’t hear it..
*in a water level*
I swear to god it’s there, it’s at the very start of the song, after the first 7 main notes
@@Morhamms357 I know I was just saying it's ironic that it's in a water level
This was so beautiful to watch and listen to.
Olé!
3:39 sounds like it could be the Start of the act 2 theme
I had no idea that this game had snare bass and also Tom’s in its drums the times I have never heard before but now I can’t hear them :-)
YES! It starts off with the best part!
Three flute notes.
People : omg western
Latin songs, mostly Peruvian, are known to use flute.
But I understand that these three notes might remind you one of the most well known western Bgm.
I really like this awesome song, it's like conga xd
Bro that channel 3 one is fire
0:43 funk brazil. This is hit sound is brazilian
Funk is THE WORST
@@G.S._ funk this is cultural and critic bad, i'm not like this is categoric music.
@@davibarbosadasilva.0703 ok eu sei que vc é br, sem ofensa, treina um pouquinho mais o ingles, ok? E eu tava falando minha opiniao sobre funk ._.
Existem muitos BRs aqui no carpathia hehe, bom saber disso. Se tretar com algum gringo já sei quem chamar
My friend who sends me all of your videos wants other series to make it to the channel. Love the content btw.
PSG 0 PSG1 and PSG 3 singing together make the song sound like it's an 8bit version
Damn right ear frels good at 0:00
One of my favorite Sonic 2 Tunes!
Star Light Zone next
You could've said please...
For those of you trying to figure out some inspiration:
Chick Corea - Spain
0:00 Ch3
0:37 Ch4, PSG3
1:13 All PSGs
1:50 Ch1
2:26 Ch1, Ch2
3:02 Ch0, DAC
3:40 Ch3, Ch4, Ch0, DAC
4:16 PSG0, PSG1, Ch3, Ch4, Ch0, DAC
4:53 Ch1, PSG0, PSG1, Ch3, Ch4, Ch0, DAC
5:29 Ch1, Ch2, PSG0, PSG1, Ch3, Ch4, Ch0, DAC
6:06 Every channel
Some latin rythm 👏👏👏👏
Yep
The DAC sounds much like a mix of bass and maybe a snare while Channel 0 is a mix of bass and a high hat
Channel 3 is so cute
WOO! I like it!
Esto es magnífico, epico
No esperaba encontrarme otro hispanohablante por aca jeje
@@alexpuerroxd4802 viejo, los buenos gustos no tienen fronteras
@@234BANDICOOT jaja
Ok :)
@@alexpuerroxd4802 animo, a disfrutar los ost
@@234BANDICOOT eso haré :)
Menos mal que me las descargué con una pagina jejeje
The DAC is making all the camping sounds
0:00 lava reef
Kinda???
@ Romiori yo profile photo tho
I actually hate this level more than any other in Sonic 2 (except Death Egg). The water sucks, the foreground scroll effect is off putting and that sringboard where you leap out of the water in those stupidly placed badniks that send down PISSES ME OFF! Anyway music's great with that drumroll and claps in the DAC and a deep bass. Metropolis Zone Oscilloscope Deconstruction next pretty please with half a cake on top.
Git gud
There is a way to not touch the water at all and thats to take the top path. No hate at all if its your least favorite stage, as I'm not a fan of oil ocean
You stroke? Aquatic ruin is my most favorite zone. I just need to run and few jumps and boom! Done in 21 seconds
This Song Sounds Exactly Like The Cantina Band Music from Star Wars Episode IV: a New Hope!
Am I the only one who hears Lava reef at the beginning?
psg 3:is a funk🎶
1:33
Is already theme worthy on its own 😂
Sonic 2 if it was on the nes
Such an underrated song....
Since when?
In the sonic 2 beta, most of the instruments are much more pronounced and not drowned out like in the original.
6:05 is the complete version
3:02 💖
this brings back memories
Jurassic Park 2 (1997) Aquatic Ruin Zone
DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW HE GAINED ACCESS TO ALL THE INDIVIDUAL SOUND CHANNELS ?
channel 0 be hittin diferent
I love humming the missing parts
Same. Idk why it's fun lol
who let the sine waves out of their cage
*SEGA*
Or was it Sonic Team?
DAC: Time to do some latin claps
When 3:02 comes in, I can't be the only person that tried to mimic the base line sound wave with my hands, right?
My favorite soundtrack❤️❤️