Hello, Osolator Sync here, and if you are a regular viewer of the channel, it will not escape your attention that I have recently welcomed a new synth into my collection, and that is the Behringer DeepMind 6. Now true to its name, the DeepMind 6 is an incredibly deep synth with lots and lots of sound design potential, and I'm certainly going to be featuring this video a lot on the channel because there is a lot to talk about. Beyond the panel here, there's so much depth to the sound design potential, and I want to really do a deep dive into what you can achieve with this synth. But I thought for the first formal video of this synth on the channel, we would go and do one of our patch from scratch videos, and I think we'd all be lying to ourselves if we didn't think the first thing that we were going to create on a analog polysynth was a pad sound, so that is exactly what we are going to do today. So I'm going to start by holding down the PROG button and hitting compare, and what that will do is give us an initialized patch. Like that. Okay, so at the moment we are only hearing one of the oscillator, but we are hearing both waveforms, so oscillator one can do a sawtooth wave and a square wave with pulse width modulation. So I'm going to turn off the sawtooth wave to begin with, so we get this lovely hollow square wave sound here. Now obviously with any square wave, we want to get some of that pulse width modulation going in, that lovely crispy chorusing sound, some of this here. Now obviously at the moment, I'm having to wiggle the knob myself, which I don't really want to have to do, so what we really want to do is get this to be driven by one of our LFOs. That's easy to do, all we need to do is go into the edit menu for the oscillators, make sure we're on oscillator one, and we're going to go to our pulse width modulation source here, and we're going to switch over to one of our LFOs. I'm going to use LFO two, just because I usually use LFO one for pitch wobble. What that means is now this slider here doesn't set the actual pulse width, rather what it does is it's a depth for the modulation. So if we turn this up a bit and turn up our rate on LFO two, we start getting that lovely crispy chorusing sound, which is just so lovely. Okay, so I'm going to leave the sawtooth off for the moment, just because I think sometimes it can be a bit overpowering, but we might bring it back in once we've got some other parameters working for us. So we've got a second oscillator here. So oscillator two is always a square way, but it's got this cool tone mod thing that can happen. So let's bring that into the mix a little bit. So at the moment it's set an octave below, so it's kind of a sub oscillator. We could also bring the pitch closer to the middle here. So there we are, it's just sort of slightly detuned. We can, with any of the parameters, once you've moved it with the slider, if you want fine adjustment, you can use this knob here. So I think it's probably, we push it a bit more. It's a bit fuzzier at the bottom end then. Okay, that's a nice sort of starting point for our sound. Obviously, the moment's a bit bright, so let's head over to the VCF here and we'll bring the filter down. Now obviously that's too dark in general, but we can open it up using the envelope. Okay, so by default the VCF is connected to this second envelope here. It says VCF here, it's really known as envelope two inside. So at the moment it's not been affected by the envelope, but we can bring it up. Now I want to have this tussle of a womp happening, so I'm just going to lengthen the attack a little bit. Maybe we want to leave it resting somewhere a little bit darker. Okay, so it's dropping too fast down there, so that's nice. Please excuse all this white key playing that I'm doing here. This is all going to be in the key of CS, in fact. Okay, let's also go to the VCA, so that's kind of our loudness envelope. I'm just going to soften the attack not much. Don't want it to be like a swell, I just want it to be a little less. Yeah, and let's give it a big old release because it's a pad sound. Okay, so it's darkening too quickly. That's because the release on the VCF envelope is probably too short. It could go longer. There we go. Epic. Right, let's give that a little bit of resonance because I just want to get a little character on that sweep. Okay, so that now feels like it's getting too bright. So I'm just going to on the VCF envelope spring. Actually, we'll just bring the envelope amount down a little bit here, actually. Nice. Okay, so now we've got all of that in place. Let's just see what happens if we bring in the saw teeth as well. Let's see if it improves or whether it just sort of muddles it. Okay, I could dig that. Yes, okay, I like that. Now, one of the things you might have noticed when I boosted the resonance here is that things, the bottom end's kind of dropped off, which can be cool on pads, but this feels like one of those big warm pads, I think. So on the high pass filter here, we've got this boost switch. And what that does is it gives you a big old bottom end boost, which can help compensate for high resonance or higher resonance here on the VCF. So without it and with it. Lovely. Okay, now, one of the things I've noticed just while I've been playing with it is if I play the notes sort of too lightly, it's almost no sound. Like that jump there is when I play hard versus playing lightly. It's too much for me, like I think that probably creates more trouble rather than making it particularly expressive. Now we can do something about that. In the VCA edit here, we've got this velocity sensitivity here. Now, so this governs how much, how hard you hit the notes is going to open up the VCA. And the moment it's opening up too much, so we can drop that down a bit. So now if I play lightly, we still get a nice loud sound if I play hard. We still get a louder sound, but it's not that sort of same level of jump. Okay, the other thing that's in the VCA here that I'm going to take advantage of right now is this pan spread. So what this does is it, because we've got these six voices, pan spread is going to spread those voices out across the stereo range, and that will give us some lovely spatialization into our sound. So I'm just going to turn that up a bit. Let's try it there. Okay, let's give you an opportunity to hear without. Then as we turn it up, if you're listening on headphones, things have got wider. Things have got too wide. It feels like the midsection has kind of dropped out. Anyone else feel that's still a bit too bright, maybe? Let's bring down this envelope mount again. Yeah, that's nice. Now that we haven't got quite the same level of expression with velocity on the VCA, let's dial some of that back in by going into the VCA here. We've got the same thing here. We've got the velocity sensitivity for the VCA and what that does similarly to the VCA, it governs how much velocity is going to open up the filter. So let's basically crank that. So now if I play lightly, brighter and louder. Nice. Okay, so one of the tricks that we have on the DeepMind 6 for making things sound in air quotes, more analog is in this Poly menu here and we've got this oscillator drift setting here and what this does is it makes the individual oscillators kind of randomly detune themselves between themselves. So when we were setting the pitch of oscillator 1, that was making sure that... sorry, pitch of oscillator 2, that was making sure that oscillator was always out of tune with oscillator 1 by a fixed amount and what this oscillator drift does is it will put things out of tune randomly between the voices and that can kind of add a nice warmth and chorusing. It can also make things sound totally broken. So if we put it, if we turn it to 0, which is where we are at the moment, we have that sound and as we turn it up, oops, wrong slider, you can hear it starts to sound out of tune and broken and horrible and why would you ever want to do that? But if we find a nice sweet spot where we just get a bit of detune somewhere around there, it's too much still I think. I can hear that it's out of tune. I just want to get to the point where you can't hear that it's out of tune but it's just adding that little bit of chorusing. Yeah, something like that. Okay, so I'm just going to save that because I'm quite enjoying this patch. So let's talk about a bit of pitch wobble so it would be nice maybe to get a little bit of vibrato happening. Now by default the oscillators, if we go into the edit menu, you can see here that their pitch mod source is set to LFO1 by default so that's fine and what that means is if you turn up the pitch mod slider here, that's going to introduce some vibrato at the moment LFO is running very slow so let's speed that up a bit so we can hear it a bit more normally.  It might start to get a bit seasick so what I'd like to do rather than having that on all the time is actually assign that to my modulation wheel instead. Really simple to do so I'm just going to turn the pitch mod back down here. If we go into the edit menu again for oscillator 1 we have this parameter here which says wheel to pitch mod and that defines how much turning up the wheel is going to basically move that slider up. So what I like to do in this situation is I put my mod wheel at full and then I'll turn up this parameter until I find the spot where I'm getting that nice amount of wobbling. A bit more, a bit braver because it's on the mod wheel we can adjust it on the fly. Yeah, so what that means now is that I can have that original sort of straight sound but I can bring that vibrato in and it's much finer control than the pitch mod control had because if you saw before it was barely on really and making those finer adjustments is quite tricky but now we've got all of those nice steps in between like that. Nice. Now we've got this high pass filter here which allows us to dial out some of the bottom end. Don't think we need it in this patch but with the boost on you can kind of use it to pull out some of the lower mids. Maybe it's a bit like that. Sort of tidied up the lower mids a tiny bit. Yep, okay, we'll have that. So we're just sort of in the final stretch of this pad I think where we're sort of fine tuning things a little bit. Let's see how it sounds on higher octaves. I like that. I think it could be a bit brighter on the higher octaves and that's really easy to do. Here on the VCF section we've got this keyboard slider and what that does is it gives you your keyboard tracking for your filter so by turning it up we're going to open up the filter the higher up we go on the keyboard and also conversely the lower we go on the keyboard it will close the filter off as well. So we'll just maybe find a sweet spot there but we've still got the velocity sensitivity on the filter so if we want to get darker here we can still do it. Let's just double check how that's affected our lower registers. I think it's only made them cooler. Nice. Okay so what else can we do? Well we've got this noise here, we've got a noise source now obviously turning it all the way up. It's going to sound like we've got a windstorm which you don't really want but I always find on pads there's a little bit of noise to create a little bit of fizz. What it can do is help emphasise what the filter is doing. Can you hear there that the filter sweep just seems slightly more prominent now? Doesn't really sound like we've got a noise mixed in as such it's just sort of made that filter a bit sort of... buzzier. Nice. Okay so final step really at this point I think is probably to head into the effects here. Now Beringer have really spoiled us with the effects here we've got four instances of T.C. Electronic and Clark Technic effects algorithms built in here which is bonkers. It is easy to be tempted to throw too many effects on now I think all we really need in this pad patch to kind of finish it off would just be a little bit of reverb at the end so I'm going to scroll through here I'm going to go ahead and pick a plate reverb now obviously that's made things big and epic arguably it's made things too big and epic and it's going to sort of stick out in a mix a bit too much so we've got this master level control when we're in send mode and let's just dial this back to a point where we're getting that character and that width but without things becoming sort of overbearing it really doesn't need much even that might be a bit too much so let's hear what that's doing if we bypass that so this is without it this is with it just adding a bit of richness, a little bit of width and of course we could go in here and we could sort of do the deep editing but I kind of like the way that it's sounding on that default setting to be honest so I am tempted just to leave it if we add some of that pitch wobble I bet that sounds real nice with the reverb now lovely okay so that is a patch from scratch a nice classic pad sound for DeepMine 6 we really are only scratching the surface with the stuff that we've looked at here we've mostly stuck to the front panel we've gone into the edit menu just to tweak things a little bit and maybe re-root some sources here and there but in general everything that we've kind of seen here is more or less achievable sort of on the front panel at least the main sort of body of the sound now there's so much more we have to talk about for this synth but we can possibly do it one in one video so if you enjoyed this sort of introduction to the DeepMine 6 please do hit the thumbs up button on this video make sure you are subscribed if you are interested in seeing a bunch more videos on this quite wonderful synth also let me know in the comments if there are specific things that you want to see or hear for this synth I'm happy to take requests as it were there's so much to explore so if you want to guide where you want me to go then that's absolutely fine and I will be happy to try and accommodate any requests other than that guys thank you so much for joining me on this first step of my journey with the DeepMine 6 take care and I will see you again soon bye bye


Hey everyone, Lee Lowell here, smartoptioncell.com. Welcome back to another edition of our Saturday Synopsis. Today is Saturday, August 20th, 2022. What do we do? What do we do here at the Saturday Synopsis? Well, I show you the charts. I've been doing this for 30 years. I make these free videos because I wanna help you become a better and smarter trader, whether that's trading stocks, trading options. I'm here to show you how to read charts. And in the Saturday Synopsis, it's all about technical analysis. I'm a chart reader. So I wanna show you what I look for, patterns I look for, the technical indicators that I use in my charts. So these are all for free, trying to help you become a better trader. So let's just jump right in like we always do. And we look at charts. We look at the indexes. We look at individual stocks. I wanna show you what I'm seeing and what you could possibly do to make a better trade out of what you're seeing on the screen. So what you see here is my charts. I use daily charts. And I just have simple open, high, low, closed bars. On the screen here, you see some lines. I got three moving averages. I got a 20-day, 50-day, 200-day moving average, all simple. The blue is the 20, the red is the 50. And this orange or green line is, can't really tell the color, is the 200-day moving average down here. I have the 14-day RSI indicator, which is an overbought, oversold indicator. It tells you when things are getting heated up or when things are just truly oversold. And that's all I use. And it helps me gauge which way the market is moving. We also put in these channels, these lines that you can see here. You can see the market's in a channel going up, going down here, and then this nasty one right here. So let's talk about what the market's been doing. And as you know, basically since January 1st, which is back here, the market has been at a downtrend. And we use the SPY, which is the exchange traded front for the S&P 500 as our best overview of the market as a whole. Okay, so since January, things have been coming down. But recently in the last two months, we've had sort of this V-shape recovery right here. Market's been going back up. Now, if you've been watching my videos for a while, you know that we had the downtrend here. And just as we were popping out here towards the middle of July, third week of July, the market was coming up and outside of the downtrending channel. So that was good. I was remarking about how we're starting to get some movement upwards. And then as you can see, we've had this nice move all the way up. And the last week or two, I've been talking about how the market is probably gonna get through this 417 area right here. Said if it can hold above that for a little bit, it's gonna start moving up towards the 432 area and intersecting with the 200 day moving average. So we got this here. The market moved up. Just touching the top edge of the channel, intersecting with the 200 day moving average right near the 432 level, you can see at the top of the bar here is the high of the day. And so hit about 432, maybe just under it. And then it got knocked back down. We talked about how we'll probably see some consolidation, some pullback, some sideways action. So that's what we're seeing in the general market. What's coming up next? Well, we're gonna have some pullback here. What we may see is the market may pull back to the bottom edge of the channel and also the 200 day, the 20 day moving average, which is right here. So I'm thinking we're gonna see some pullback, maybe to the 415 level, somewhere right in the middle, somewhere between 410, 420. And you can see here's the 20 day moving average. Here's the bottom edge of the channel. Market's pulling back. So I'm thinking right around here, maybe 415 level, we may see a pullback. And then after that, hoping that the market's gonna start to jump and move back higher for all time highs right around the 480 level. Typically summer, August, September, usually weaker periods, seasonality for the market. So August, September, we may have some more pullback here, maybe some sideways action, but let's use this 417 level as our next line in the sand, market can come down, maybe a little bit lower than that intersect with the 20 day in the bottom edge of the channel. And then hopefully we'll see the market move higher from there. Let's look at the triple cues, NASDAQ, same thing. Got the downtrend. And I highlighted this area right here is only because April, starting in April was just a nasty part of the downtrend. Started back here in January. Everyone's been all up in arms the last seven months or so, but we've had this nice recovery. Some are calling it just a bear market bounce. Some people are calling for the market to come off again and then get down to new lows. I'm not sure if I'm not sure if I'm agreeing with that. I don't think we're gonna see new lows again. I just think all the bad news that's been out there, inflation, interest rates, COVID, war on Ukraine, supply chain issues. I think all those things have been, they're old news now, even though it's still there, but everyone has had a chance to adapt to that, understand what it's all about. Companies are once again adapting to that new environment. And I think the market just realized, okay, it's just time to go back up again. Companies are having decent earnings, which means they're profitable, they're putting out good products, people are still buying those products. So if a company is having good earnings quarter after quarter, the share price has to follow. That's just how it works. So down here, the market just decided, all the bad news, we're looking forward to better times and we've been going up. So we had the little pullback this week, but that was, I don't think that was a surprise to anybody if you look at the SPY again, you can see. Sometimes market trades on technical areas. A 200-day moving average is a big area on a chart. And so when a market moves up towards it, it's gonna find some resistance while it's moving up. If it was falling back down, it would find some support there. But for now, get some profit-taking. The market's come up a long way in a short period of time. I think there's just some profit-taking, some selling off, and we'll probably find some support right in that 410, 420 area in the next week or so. And then hopefully we'll keep going. So getting back to the Qs, same thing, got the V-shape recovery, coming back to the bottom edge of the channel, maybe around 320, we may see some sport pull in here, and then maybe a bounce. Let's look at some individual stocks as we always do. We look at the bigger names because those are popular, that's what people like to trade. Let's look at Apple real quick. Apple's just been a monster since the middle of June. Look at this beautiful V-shape recovery. Look at that.  As the market started to come out of this downtrending channel, here was a nice area. If you're buying it on pullbacks, and you'll see in the channels, it goes from top to bottom. And so if you're a buyer, and once it got out of the downtrending channel, right around here, if you wanted to take a stab, you could have bought around 135 or so. It goes up, pulls back again, another chance in the low 140s, and then it just rallied up. Here's the all-time highs for Apple, maybe around $183 a share. It's gonna get there, but we're gonna have this little pullback first, maybe to the 20-day moving average here. I mean, maybe 165 or so, we'll see depending on how the overall market is pulling things up or down. That's Apple. Let's look at Tesla. You know, Tesla's just a beast. People love Tesla. You know, the last couple of months I've been talking about this $700 level as a magnet area. And it was drawing this congestion pattern here, range is getting tighter and tighter, typically means it's gonna blast through it one way or the other, blast it to the upside, got to the 200-day moving average area of $900 a share. That's where it had been flirting with the last week or two. And it came off this week just like everything else, but intersecting with the 20-day moving average right here. So maybe it'll find some support this week, maybe move higher depending on what everything else is doing. So that's Tesla. Let's look at Amazon. Amazon here had to support just above $100 a share. We talk about this all the time, but it's just rallied right off of that. Once again, finding the resistance, let me pull this down a little, right at the 200-day moving average.  Here's the 20-day right here, the up-sloping 20-day, right around maybe $136, $136 a share, may pull back to that area, get a bounce and continue higher. So that's what we're hoping. AMD, I always talk about AMD. We've got a trade on AMD in our newsletters. We do some put selling, some put option credit spreads, that's what we do here. Let's bring up our website real quick, smartoptionseller.com. If you don't know anything about put selling, because that's what our main gig is, go to our website, go to putsellingbasics, download or put your name and email address here. We'll send you a free guide, it's a 30-some odd page, free guide that I wrote about how to sell, put options, what they are, why they're so great. That's what we do here. So get your name in here, we'll send you an email. Inside that email will be a link to download the PDF that I wrote. And if you don't go get in on this page, if you're anywhere else within our website, you'll get, there'll be a pop-up box you can put in your name and email address as well. This page just talks a little bit more about what it is. Our services tab right here, here's our two newsletters, we sell naked puts, we sell put option spreads, and our one-on-one coaching, if you need a little help getting to that next level. Let's go back to the chart. So here's AMD. You can see it was in this long downtrend. You can see the channel bounces from top to bottom, top to bottom, okay? Here, it got out of the channel, moved above it finally. And we can look at it this way, it's making this little congestion pattern right here, okay? So it's gonna pop one way or the other to the downside or the upside. If it comes to the downside, it's got now the top of this channel could act as some support, right along with the 50-day moving average here. You can see this line, 50-day. So if it does come off again, maybe $87.88 a year should be the bottom. If it pops to the upside along with the rest of the market then it's gonna gun for the 200-day moving average right around $111 a year, $112 a year. I like to see it move higher. I'm bullish on AMD, I love AMD. We also have some trades on AMD, we want it to go higher. So we watch AMD. Let's look at some of our stalwarts. We look at Disney.  I'd been a buyer at 130, came down a lot more than that. I may have nibbled a little bit here and there on some more, but I'm waiting to see what happened. Found the rounded bottom, moved back up. And here's you've got your 200-day lurking above. Got up to about $125, $126 a share. That's a nice recovery from the lows at $90. In the long run, I'm holding. I know Disney's gonna go higher. Let's look at Nike, another name brand known around the world. I was in the downtrend. It's now has started this new uptrend, but balancing right or finding support right on the bottom edge of the channel. Here's the 20-day moving average. Let me see if I could zoom in a little on this new feature here. Let's see what happens. That's a pretty good zoom. Let's run that back. Didn't like that so much. You can see here, 20-day moving average, bottom of channel, finding support right around $113 a share. Let's see if it's gonna bounce and move up with the rest of the market. What else we got? Coca-Cola. We love Coca-Cola as a company. Profitable company here was the congestion pattern I probably drew sometime in the recent past, starting to break above it, which is a good thing. Momentum usually keeps going in that direction. Here's all-time highs right around $67 a share. I think Coca-Cola is gonna gun for that and make all-time new highs. So let's see what other stocks we have. What do we have? Amazon. Amazon, just above $100 a share. Found the support and moving up. Found the resistance at the 200-day moving average. Starting to pull back. Here's the 20-day. See if it finds some support there. Let's look at our list here. Netflix. Netflix coming off the bottom. Here's the bottom support. Rallied pretty good. Here's the next line in the sand. Here's the 20-day moving average. Will it hold there and bounce with everything else? If it does, it's got a lot of room to run up to this next leg here to this area, probably around 335 or so, where we meet the bottom edges of these days right here. So if it bounces, it's gonna go. And at some point it's gonna connect with the 200-day moving average. So Netflix may have found its bottom finally. Let's see. Who? Let me look through the list here. Intel, still down in the dumps. That's why I like AMD a lot better. You can see Intel just on the downtrend. AMD also in a downtrend as well, but stronger than Intel. You can see AMD had been going up, got caught January just like everything else, but Intel, both chip stocks, has just been going down, down, down, down. I like AMD better in that space. Verizon, I wanna get in on Verizon, but not yet, it's scraping along the lows. So no go on Verizon yet. Let's see what else we have. Oracle, doing okay, coming upon resistance right at the 200-day moving average. People, if you don't know about moving averages, the 200-day moving average is like the Mac Daddy of moving averages. It's a big one. Everyone falls at 200-day. So you'll see lots of support or resistance happening right around that level. I mean, look how picture-perfect it is. Found resistance right at the 200-day. So that's Oracle, but it's had a good move. It's had a good move off the bottom. Cisco had a good week, earnings came out. Had a nice pop here. So Cisco kind of in no man's land, filled the gap here, but left the gap here. Who knows if it'll come back down and fill this gap or it may just keep going for that 200-day moving average. Let's see what else we have in our list. Let's go. We do look at the healthcare sector. Eli Lilly, Bristol Myers, Pfizer, Merck. They're all hanging around doing well. We talk about the XLV, which is the exchange traded fund for the healthcare index for the healthcare sector. If you want a good smattering of all those, you can just trade the XLV. Costco doing well. McDonald's doing well. Getting your all-time highs. Pepsi, also another stalwart. Good dividend paying stocks there. We talk about those. Here we go, Warren Buffett. Let's talk about Warren Buffett. His Berkshire Hathaway class B shares found the resistance right at the 200-day moving hours like we talked about, but coming down to the bottom leg of the channel and he got the 20-day lurking below. So could be finding support right here ready for that next bounce. If you don't know about the Warren Buffett report that I wrote, go to our website on the More tab, click on Shop. This is a different kind of options strategy. The secret to buying Warren Buffett for pennies on the dollar. Very intriguing option trading strategy may interest you. Another report that I wrote about Warren Buffett. Stock could be hitting some support ready for that next leg higher. Let's see what else we got here. Twitter, not a fan. Meta slash Facebook, not a huge fan. IBM doing okay. Google also, let's look at Google. Has the channel that we've drawn popped just above it, but pulled back this week. But you can see once again here, right, on the 20-day moving average. These moving averages act like magnets when a stock moves up or moves down. Let's see if it has the support and gets, if it can get above this channel, it should be able to go towards the 200-day moving average as the next spot. You know, we use these charts to help us figure out when it's time to get in and out of trade. Since we're more bullishly oriented with our put sells and our put selling spreads, we wait for the stocks to pull back to either the bottom edge of the channel or the bottom edge of pulling back to a moving average, anticipating the next bounce. You know, that's how we use our timing patterns, right? So if you were looking for Google and you want to get bullish, you would look for a bounce, you know, off the support areas or within the channel. And you can see stock going up here. You can go back to the SPY, way back here when my chart fills in, look at this beautiful channel. You can play this thing, the bounces, the tops, you can sell the position, buy again at the bottom. That's just, you know, what we're looking for. And, you know, if the SPY pulls back this week a little bit more to this area and we see it starting to bounce, that's our cue that the markets probably can get ready for its next leg higher and then we can either get into more bullish positions at that point. It just gives us a better indicator of timing. Helps your timing a little bit. All right, so on these other stocks in here, you know, Riot and Mara, these are the Bitcoin stocks. Bitcoin's pulling back this week, lost a couple of thousand dollars per coin as far as valuation. Clorox hanging around, Colgate looking pretty good. All right, so that's about it for the Saturday synopsis going through the charts. And once again, here, let's pull up the SPY. Get ready for next week.  And then I'd like to see it go. Like to see it make a run to all time new highs towards the end of the year. All right, that's all for me today. I hope this video has been helpful. Give me a thumbs up, leave me a comment in this YouTube video. Don't forget to subscribe, hit that red subscribe button. Send me an email, I'll always answer. Try to help you out. That's what I'm here to do. I want you to become a better trader. And that's it. I hope everyone has a great weekend and a great trading week ahead. I'll see everyone next Saturday. This is Lee Lowell signing off.


Thanks for checking out this movie review video. So this is for the 1989 film sleepaway camp to unhappy campers and this is kind of the further evolution of the Psychosis of Angela Baker To be honest, I mean this film obviously most people are not gonna like it as much as the first one I don't think I like it as much as the first one But there are things to really like and in many ways it feels like this was kind of the logical move For doing a sequel to sleepaway camp. So anyway, I'll get more into that type of stuff But first I need to say I watch this on the shutter streaming service They have all three of the sleepaway camp films on there at the moment when I'm doing this review and I would recommend watching them I'm gonna do reviews for all of them. I already have a review up for the first sleep sleepaway camp doing this one now And then I will have sleepaway camp three Teenage wasteland. That's what it's called. I'll be doing that one So this one's directed by Michael a Simpson who did films impure thoughts Funland and sleepaway camp three teenage wasteland It was written by Fritz Gordon who also wrote Sleepaway camp three. So we have that to look forward to and this was after if you want More information on kind of like the franchise in general and all the films in the series I talked about that in the first review For regular sleepaway camp. So go back and check that out because I'm not gonna rehash all of it It's definitely worth listening to so this was kind of after it had been sold off by hits it Hiltzik who was the originator of the first sleepaway camp. So then Trying to cash in on this Angela in this one is not played by Felissa Rose from what I've read online It was kind of a situation where Felissa Rose they Actually oddly enough didn't really feel like she brought her a game and she was really right for that role at the time but also there was a component of she was Really getting ready to go to college. So they're they're kind of theorizing that The reason that she didn't have the chops that they were looking for she wasn't all that interested at that point She was looking to do other things in her life mainly going off to college. So And but obviously she ends up coming back much later not in the third one But the other ones that are hard to get a hold of so Angela in this one is played by Pamela Springsteen Yes relation to Bruce Springsteen. It's actually her is a sister. So that's kind of cool I mean, she's obviously more famous than he is at least for our horror folks I don't listen to any Bruce Springsteen actually. I mean the guy's talented no doubt But like I don't listen to him. So for me the more popular Springsteen is Pamela Springsteen Which not many people probably say but she was also in fast times at Ridgemont High Which I love and then she comes back to reprise her role as Angela in Sleepaway camp three. So I'll be talking about that when I do that review now the budget for this one is actually $100,000 higher than the first sleepaway camp Which is kind of weird because in certain ways it doesn't feel like there's more money in it in certain ways It feels like there's potentially less money in it because the practical effects are not as good and they don't show as much I feel like there's there's some moments where there's some good practical effects But a lot there isn't because by and large they cut away from the kills quite a bit Which you know, they cut away to a degree in the in the original film But they always were showing a good amount of time of the aftermath of what happened in the first one And they do that a little bit in this one, but not nearly as much So it's kind of mind-blowing that it's a hundred thousand dollars more budget on this one And it's kind of less done in certain ways But you also have to realize that this was done six years after that so adjusting for inflation blah, blah, blah But it was still more money. So I feel like there should have been more done. Anyway So the shooting they actually shot in Waco, Georgia at a YMCA youth camp So different location, but they're saying even though it's in Georgia They're calling it New York and they're saying it's not far from where camp Erewack was in the story I like how Like immediately in this film they kind of address the events of the first film But they do it in this in in a very authentic way to integrate into the story Which is you know sitting around the campfire talking about Angela Baker as not naming her but talking about Angela as kind of like an urban legend at this point And that's something that happens at camps. Well, I don't know if it does any more but did when I went to camp back in the day That was something there was always these urban legends and a lot of the times they were Rooted in something that actually happened, but then things just get you know exaggerated But obviously in this film those things are not Exaggerated those things actually happened But a lot of people probably within the story think that it's exaggerated until they find out the hard way It's not because Angela is there and she's killing people So that's a good way to start things But it's also a good way to kind of get people back up to speed to give a refresher because it had been six years since The last film so it's good for a refresher But also good for anyone who just happened to start watching the film and hasn't seen the first one So it kind of lays all the ground the groundwork for what you needed to know This sequel basically turns Angela into Jason Voorhees to be honest going around and dispatching bad camp Or she even actually says to Uncle John the head of the camp that she's gonna get rid of the bad campers So you know that's just another one of those those moments of like veiled comments about killing Campers which there are a lot of them in this sometimes Angela does them sometimes other people do them And I think those are nice funny moments that they kind of add in there like the ironic comments that obviously The the characters don't get it other than Angela But the audience members get it so you get you know a nice little chuckle out of it But yeah, so she's basically turned into Jason Voorhees at this point But it's you know, what are you gonna do basically and and that's what I kind of wrote down is like most slasher sequels This is the only real logical move at this point after the mystery of the first film is basically over it just becomes turning to Fun kills and just guessing who's gonna get it next now that said I think that they kind of missed the mark a little bit on this because Sure, it's all about the kills sure It's all about who's gonna get it next and you pretty much know who until the end when things just unravel totally with Angela not like she wasn't already unraveling but or totally unraveled but um Yeah, it just kind of um They fall short on it because Since it's the sequel and you don't have anything that people are trying to guess you know Who the killer is obviously you need more interest and more interest would come mainly with better kills And I would argue that they're not better kills for the most part in this except the outhouse toilet one is Is pretty awesome and gross and funny But other than that they're not that great at kills and I think they're overall not better than the first sleep boy camp The other thing is you need to up the gore factor You need to up the practical effects you need to show the kills and they don't do that So they're not delivering you need to go bigger you need to go better And they just don't do it with that what they do deliver on to try and make up for that is a lot more nudity A lot more sexual content now for someone like me like I don't really care, you know, I'm almost 40 years old at this point um I don't really care about seeing nudity and sex in film to be honest I'm kind of over it at this point in my life Uh, give me the gore give me the practical effects. That's what I want to see. That's the fun stuff So I think they kind of screwed up in a few ways with this But that said I still enjoy the film and there are a lot of things to like about it Even like the overall story works. It definitely works.  Um, she walks up in the woods and there's no way they wouldn't hear She's like right next to them and they're still unaware that she's there And there's a lot of that in this film where like she's right there and people would definitely know that she's there But you know, then again, it's 80s horror and that's kind of what they did people were unbelievably oblivious And it's like they almost didn't have any senses Definitely no sensibility Uh, the funny thing about this is they were burnouts. So guess what they got burned how she sets them on fire Now they should have shown that type of thing Obviously, they didn't need to actually do any stunts where they set someone on fire They could just set a dummy on fire or something or show it from far enough away that you can't make out what it actually is Um, yeah, just another one of those missed opportunities It doesn't really make sense when angela says she's sending campers home Because she's making herself a prime suspect for when they're found dead if they're found dead and even if they're not found dead The fact that people will know that they're missing at some point She has told people that she was the last person to see them. She sent them home So it doesn't really jive. It doesn't really make sense because she's usually very smart about their killing um, it's all the very end obviously, but That just seems like a plot hole to me that she would just be telling oh, well, I sent them home I sent them home It would make more sense if she's like, I don't know they went off They they went missing or you know, they ran away or something like that instead of I sent them home And I was the last person to see them You know, it's just weird Ah the good old panty raid that was talked about in many films back in this time But I don't think it was it ever happened The other thing is even though it was talked about in films a lot back in in this time period I don't think it was ever shown. So the fact that they actually put a panty raid on Screen is kind of funny kind of weird um Yeah, it just occurred to me while I was watching I was just like, you know, I talked about panty raids a lot I don't think that was ever a real thing. It was just something that film Created and then sleep away camp two actually put it on the screen, which I don't think anyone else really did that But I'm probably wrong. You put a comment down there Uh, Mary says she'd rather die than apologize Okay Be careful what you ask for because that's exactly what happens So this was another one of those prime moments with the drill killing that they should have been showing that that's a prime good kill Right there. Yes, they show her, you know, like put putting it in the Direction of Mary and the blood flying on her, but that's not enough not in a sequel. It's not enough The intentionally comedic moments actually work for the most part in this That's what I was kind of talking about with those kind of veiled comments in the dialogue about like campers getting killed or off Or sent away stuff like that The nods to freddy jason and leather face in this are fun moments.  We're very self-aware as a slasher film. We're going to make fun of ourselves a little bit I like that that that was a nice moment What a terrible clumsy sex scene in the bathroom That bathroom one where they're like getting it on They start by just showing like their calves down to their feet on the floor of the bathroom Just like too long of a scene too clumsy and fumbling and just You know, when you're giving us extra sex scenes like the sex scenes are bad in this too That's the other thing like I understand just showing more nudity because that's what they did back then That's something people really looked for in horror films back then.   It doesn't need to be super graphic It's gross enough with how they hinted at things and then how they put like the fake leeches on and like the fake poop And everything like that like it's done well enough that they didn't have to go crazy High budget for that particular kill and it's effective So we just needed more of those types of kills and we just didn't get them But that one is I mean, that's probably my favorite part of the film to be honest Angela has a motive to go after bad campers But she ends up making up a reason When she realizes she's almost going to get caught that the first girl in particular where she says you talk too much And she has a very strict code of ethics with her killing up until that point It's only people who are being bad Then this girl's not being bad at all. So she finds something in her head while she's looking for something to kill her with She comes up with something to kind of Justify it to herself of oh well, she talks too much and that's a bad thing Anyway, so then she kills her and that kind of actually is the turning point where it kicks her Into this tailspin where she then is kind of just like Um, it's kind of like she she at that point just Gives into the fact that she just likes killing prior to that It seems like it's a necessity that she has to teach these people a lesson She has to make them good again by killing them and cleansing them of their bad deeds And to her it's it's You know, it's it's a more morality thing. It's a code of ethics But then once she kills that person who she basically made up a reason for It's like everything's out the window at that point and she kind of admits to herself internally that oh well I just like killing so at this point. I already dispatched this person Let's just kill more people. Let's let's just satisfy the urges And that's what happens, you know, she goes and she just kills people for no reason throughout the rest of the film The happy camper song montage is pretty awful in this and it's unbelievably drawn out At this point, you're actually not showing the audience anything new or anything useful It's poorly done and they should have just not had that in the film at all I mean, I guess it's supposed to show that she's like further losing it But you could have done that with a much shorter scene Or you didn't even need to do that because we were already seeing that by who she killed So totally ineffective pointless and annoying. They should have taken that out I do like the touch of angela keeping all the bodies in the condemned cabin And you kind of get the idea that she was hiding out at that cabin and living in that condemned cabin Before the camp started and that she probably just like walked out of the woods Found uncle john and was like, hey, i'm a local. I showed up. Um, do you need a counselor? Because she it seemed she was already living there because she had all the canned food there And there was running water all that stuff. So I thought that was kind of an interesting aspect to the story And that's where I was saying earlier like there's good stuff about the story overall It's a good story and it works as the sequel, you know for what you could really do for a sequel To be honest, it's just that they miss the mark a lot with some of the other things they did It's like she views people as cleansed and no longer bad as she's killed them You kind of see that with the way she interacts with the dead bodies in that condemned cabin She starts treating them as friends at that point Bad campers are bad campers and she wants nothing to do with them except kill them And then once that happens, it's like they're friends And You you also see in her mind that she Like she feels like they're still alive at that point and to her they're actually potentially even more alive at that point because Prior to that she kind of views them as Dead people walking anyway because she's like bad person. I'm gonna kill them So I thought that was an interesting touch as well um I think that they should have ended it when angela killed everyone in the cabin and then she closes the dark cabin and It's it's the one where uncle john was and the guy hanging by his neck in this in the corner I think when she's leaving she says something like sleep tight campers or something like that and then it's dark They should have just ended it there because I think after that it just gets too drawn out It doesn't have the impact that I think they were going for It would have been a much better ending when she just leaves that cabin and it's dark That's what I was looking for Plus it obviously sets you up for another one, which you know, they do that at the end But I just think it would have been better earlier ended So some overall thoughts at the end about this What sucks about this film is that they keep cutting away from the actual kills This happened in the first one But those kills were more interesting and you saw the aftermath quite a bit more For a sequel you need to up the ani and this this actually takes a step back from the original film in that way You're not going to be able to have as much story like we talked about already and you need to recognize that What little bit of story they have like I was saying it's good It does work for being the sequel But they just needed those better kills those more interesting kills the unflinching kills and up that blood That's what was needed for this for it to be much better This is from the long film era of painting sex as making you a terrible person And it's a stigma.  Thankfully. So there's nothing wrong with sex. It's nature people. We're good Um, so I'm I'm just glad that Especially the genre the horror genre is starting to get over that that stuff we can still do slashers But we don't need to make it that if you have sex you get killed Just saying anyways, so uh out of five stars with this film I think I have to do this the same type of rating as I did with the first one Which is where I give it two ratings I'll give it the rating of as an actual film in the pantheon of all films And then as a so good. It's bad film where I rate it so For uh overall in the pantheon of films I'm gonna give it one and a half stars. Uh, it's not terrible. It's not good So yeah, but for the so good. It's bad I'm gonna give it a two and a half I'm between a two and a half and a three, but I think I'm gonna go with the two and a half because it just Disappointed me too much for what they should have done and where they could have gone That said like I've been saying I still enjoy it. I still think it's fun And it's been a while since I've seen the third one. I think I enjoy the third one as well But I'll find out for sure when I when I sit down and watch it for the review And you'll find out when I do that review So anyway, thanks everyone for checking this out. I really do appreciate it. Put some comments down there Let's talk about this movie the whole franchise movies whatever you want to talk about But do me a quick favor and hit that subscribe button because it means a lot to me It means a lot to my channel to help things grow To you it's literally like a second. It's painless. 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