[Cover] DeadMau5 - Cthulhu Sleeps (Synth)

Just a technical exercise. I wondered how I could recreate the lead synth in Cthulhu Sleeps by Deadmau5. Made with Sylenth1 in Ableton Live. I'm fairly happy with this. It's FAR from perfect, and doesnt do the original justice, but it was good fun and it's not too bad.

In terms of what it actually involves, its 2 oscillators, a square and a saw, with 2 LFOs. 1 LFO REALLY quickly oscillates the pitch about 3 semitones each side of the note played, at something like 50-100hZ, and then a second LFO that is a Sine wave timed at 8th notes that bring the cutoff up AND overall pitch up by about 2 semitones. Bit of distortion and EQing and you get this :)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• deadmau5
• cthulhu
• sleeps
• lead
• synth
• cover
• ableton
• live
• sylenth

[fullaces90]

this is awesome dude! so how did you get that great sounding buzz sound that comes on the "4 te" of the beat? you know "DUM DUM!" did you do it in sylenth? i cant make anything sound that good... :/

[joelsack]

@fullaces90 That's literally just a clean saw lead, no effects other than a compressor and a bit of EQing. Just a single oscillator saw wave.

[AddictiveRhythm]

You´re very good at creating the sounds.

Now be creative!

[joelsack]

@AddictiveRhythm youtube.com/user/ JacredOfficial

[DafTacoustics]

I'm not serious into music production or anything, but I like to mess around with it as a habbit....could you explain why certain some of your volume meters are colored blue, and the added benefit you get out of doing that?

[joelsack]

@DafTacoustics Certainly. If a track is blue on this it means the audio is being sent to another track rather than directly to the master. In this case, 2 tracks are being sent to Return A (not master) for further processing. Return A is the blue track on the right, that audio is being sent to Return B and then Return B sends all of that to the master channel. It's so I can process multiple tracks with the same effects by running them through one track and into the master. Hope that helps! :)

[DJHardStatic]

In the actual song, does anybody know (or knows how to make) the sound at 4:10? There is a reverb and delay attached to it. It is also used in Get In The Cart, Pig.

[RollyU]

how about a preset?

[PotentSyncDan]

you should open source your project. could learn alot from what you did with that and how you use sylenth1 (for someone like me who just got it)

[mmGh0st]

I was wondering how to synthesize this sound. Nice work!

[EvolX1997]

Cool! Can you upload flp and samples please!

[BLAZE45]

do you have a tutorial on how to make the synth? I dont really understand your instructions in the description 

[DeanKennyMusic]

Watch ur levels mannnnn, otherwise really good :)

[AlternateLives]

That's better than anything I could come up with. After trying flangers, scratchers, an others without getting anywhere, it's nice to know (about) how it's done!

[fullaces90]

@joelsack thanks! :D