In his latest video, composer & synthesist Anthony Marinelli takes an in-depth look at how to recreate the sliding melody synth sound from Roy Ayers’ classic track, Everybody Loves the Sunshine.
Marinelli demonstrates how to recreate this sound using the ARP 2600, but notes that you could get similar results with a Minimoog and other synths. Along the way, he covers the oscillator tunings and performance techniques that are essential to creating this classic sound.
He also explores how the track’s arrangement makes space for the lead, complementing the song’s rhythm section.
Check out the video, and share your thoughts on it in the comments!
Anthony busting out with quality videos regularly these days. It’s grown to be a really fun channel.
Marinelli gets viewers by aiming high and making great videos about synthesis. A class act.
I’m sick of the Youtube ‘synthfluencer’ types that go viral by focusing on fake controversies and clickbait.
Or ones that like to make the whole channel about themselves & their personality. Cough Dr Mix, Tim Shoebridge etc.
oh, don’t stop there…. better yet, post a VIDEO of it!
Really enjoyable patch breakdown. Thanks.
Oh, I don’t know. Shoebridge is one of those reviewers I always check out. He comes at things from his own angle, but I always seem to benefit from his useful ideas. I hear you about click baiters, but I find him instructive. He’s like the flip side of Nick Batt. Tim is reserved; Nick is more congenial. Both come across like real fans who teach well. One of us, gooble gobble!
He doesn’t mean bad but Marinelli’s pacing enfuriates me constantly, he continuously gets stuck on very, extremely simple parameters and has an american style of bigging them up as if they were miracles while causing extreme facepalmery. Skipping through i managed to take it all in in less than 2min. But as said, it is a blessing to have different styles for different people.
Spoken like a typical genZ attention-deprieved phone addict.
If you reflect on Marinelli’s vast body of work, his projects spanning almost every musical genre, and indeed his noble pedigree, you may get an inkling that a video like this is not just about bare information. There’s wikipedia, or chatgpt, for the latter.
This is a true artist speaking to you, and it’s good to shut up, take your finger off the screen, and just listen. Yes, we all know about detuning. But listen to his exact words, his adjectives, his hand-gestures — you may learn something.
His style isn’t particularly American. It’s much more Italian. The way he talks, uttering seemingly straightforward statements but with lots of modulation and soul, it reminds me of the way Italian art historians teach.