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godly · Post by **godly** » Fri Dec 16, 2016 1:03 pm

Good info here also
http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/ ... eim-obx-a/

So if you listen to the various interpretations people have from the sound, it's indeed a holy grail, seems simple but it isn't.
It's way more simple to make a complex Synth path. Lol

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Fri Dec 16, 2016 1:06 pm

It boggles my mind how some people don't understand why the Jump intro is iconic. And for me to try to explain it would be a total waste of my time.

godly · Post by **godly** » Fri Dec 16, 2016 1:19 pm

Another iconic sound

https://soundcloud.com/sven-godlike/god ... ate-ways-1

fluffy_little_something · Fri Dec 16, 2016 1:20 pm

wagtunes wrote:It boggles my mind how some people don't understand why the Jump intro is iconic. And for me to try to explain it would be a total waste of my time.

The song became famous, hence the intro became the famous, hence the synth sound became famous.
Few songs have intros as such, thus they always strike out, like with Foreigner's (or rather Thomas Dolby's) famous intro on I've been waiting for a girl like you.

godly · Post by **godly** » Fri Dec 16, 2016 1:24 pm

fluffy_little_something wrote: Few songs have intros as such, thus they always strike out, like with Foreigner's (or rather Thomas Dolby's) famous intro on I've been waiting for a girl like you.

Mmmmm i get the chills everytime I hear that intro.

https://soundcloud.com/sven-godlike/god ... -waiting-1

fluffy_little_something · Fri Dec 16, 2016 1:26 pm

godly wrote:Good info here also
http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/ ... eim-obx-a/

So if you listen to the various interpretations people have from the sound, it's indeed a holy grail, seems simple but it isn't.
It's way more simple to make a complex Synth path. Lol

Sorry, I don't share that view at all. it is no holy grail at all, it is simple. Just because people can't nail it 100% (which is no surprise when they use other synths or plugins, in this sense almost every original sound would be a holy grail because nailing it 100% is almost impossible), doesn't mean it is a holy grail, special, or whatever.

fluffy_little_something · Fri Dec 16, 2016 1:28 pm

godly wrote:
fluffy_little_something wrote: Few songs have intros as such, thus they always strike out, like with Foreigner's (or rather Thomas Dolby's) famous intro on I've been waiting for a girl like you.
Mmmmm i get the chills everytime I hear that intro.

https://soundcloud.com/sven-godlike/god ... -waiting-1

Well done there

Yes, I also love that intro, it has so much more class than the Jump one...

fluffy_little_something · Fri Dec 16, 2016 1:31 pm

Interestingly, both rock bands adopted synths for the first time back then if I am not mistaken.

godly · Post by **godly** » Fri Dec 16, 2016 1:35 pm

fluffy_little_something wrote:Interestingly, both rock bands adopted synths for the first time back then if I am not mistaken.

Yes, very nice Synth parts in those rock bands. Like Foreigner Cold as ice, that Synth.
Or also Pink Floyd has iconic sounds of course.

godly · Post by **godly** » Fri Dec 16, 2016 1:37 pm

fluffy_little_something wrote:
godly wrote:
fluffy_little_something wrote: Few songs have intros as such, thus they always strike out, like with Foreigner's (or rather Thomas Dolby's) famous intro on I've been waiting for a girl like you.
Mmmmm i get the chills everytime I hear that intro.

https://soundcloud.com/sven-godlike/god ... -waiting-1
Well done there

Yes, I also love that intro, it has so much more class than the Jump one...

That's a matter of taste but I see your point.
Pity that when they play it live it's not so iconic, but was because synths those days didn't have presets probably?

fischkopf · Post by **fischkopf** » Fri Dec 16, 2016 2:17 pm

digitalboytn wrote:How to get that Van Halen sound ?

An Oberheim and a big bag of coke

OBXD emulates this patch just fine, no need for a real Oberheim.

Vectorman · Post by **Vectorman** » Fri Dec 16, 2016 9:39 pm

The real intro to "Jump" is "1984," eh? More Obie goodness.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sat Dec 17, 2016 12:27 am

Mutant wrote:
Teksonik wrote:Close but 11 years too late........
LOL why 11 ? Jump will never die !

*Only 2 years necro, didn't want to create a new thread just to post my mp3.

A bump is as good as jump

It is an interesting thread history:
-Created in Feb 2005
-Bumped in Feb 2006
-Bumped in Oct 2014
-And bumped again in Dec 2016

As a user all in favour of necroing threads, I am impressed

scumflesh · Post by **scumflesh** » Tue Jan 31, 2017 7:17 pm

Jump is not bad,
but I prefer the first albums.

I'm listening to a live from 1978

masterhiggins · Post by **masterhiggins** » Tue Jan 31, 2017 7:55 pm

It's a little-known fact that the synth intro for "Jump" plays an integral part in migraine research. Few other sounds can induce them so easily.

How do I get Van Halen "Jump" sound?