KVR Audio

Potatistoppen · Post by **Potatistoppen** » Wed Dec 24, 2014 9:39 pm

I have wondered for a long time how to create the nice lead sound from Faithless - God is a DJ. I'm not very good at recreating a sound with a synth. What are the parameters used to create this sound?

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Wed Dec 24, 2014 10:21 pm

That's mostly about the reverb. A sine wave with some pitch modulation and maybe another layered sound for the attack would probably do it.

FWIW, Insomnia was little more than the Roland Pizzagogo preset with a ton of delay and reverb on it. Rob Lee has made presets based on Faithless sounds, you could ask him if he did God is a DJ and how he did it.

btw, for anyone who wants to throw in suggestions:

Tricky-Loops · Post by **Tricky-Loops** » Wed Dec 24, 2014 10:31 pm

The lead sound is made with the Roland JP-8000...

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Wed Dec 24, 2014 11:15 pm

No, it was a JD.

Tricky-Loops · Post by **Tricky-Loops** » Wed Dec 24, 2014 11:24 pm

Kriminal wrote:No, it was a JD.

The pizzicato lead in "Insomnia" probably, but not in "God is a DJ"...

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Wed Dec 24, 2014 11:28 pm

Well, whatever it was, I think anything with good envelopes and reverb should be able to cop it. DCAM's Fusor with Breverb loaded into its effects slot would nail that sound.

deastman · Post by **deastman** » Thu Dec 25, 2014 12:12 am

Like Uncle E said, its just a sine wave or maybe a triangle wave with an lfo slightly modulating the oscillator frequency to give it that wobbly sound. To me, the attack of the amplitude envelope actually sounds a little bit slow, so there isn't a really sharp, well-defined snap to the note onset. Then bury the whole thing in reverb.

Maomoondog · Post by **Maomoondog** » Mon Dec 29, 2014 9:28 pm

A Roland JV-2080. A slightly modified preset. There is also a varaiation of the preset on one of the floppy disc's that came with the XP80 / 60. In some video's Sister Bliss can be seen playing it on a JP8000 and also in later video's she is playing it on a Fantom, on the "Passing the batton" tour (2011) she is playing a JP8000

Maomoondog · Post by **Maomoondog** » Mon Dec 29, 2014 9:30 pm

Tricky-Loops wrote:
Kriminal wrote:No, it was a JD.
The pizzicato lead in "Insomnia" probably, but not in "God is a DJ"...

That was a JV1080

neshel · Post by **neshel** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 10:20 pm

It's so obviously generic, lots of things could do it. I know that much. All of it is early-80s based.

AasmundSchei · Post by **AasmundSchei** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 12:41 pm

Hello and sorry for posting in a old thread. Im about to remix this track and looking into redesingning the synth myself. I found a YouTube video of the JV1080
patches: . Could it be that patch that she uses?