$UICIDEBOY$ - I NO LONGER FEAR THE RAZOR GUARDING MY HEEL | Pad Synth Patch Remake

Remaking the pad synth from the 2015 song "I NO LONGER FEAR THE RAZOR GUARDING MY HEEL" by $UICIDEBOY$ can be an exciting challenge for any synthesizer enthusiast. Here’s how you can create the "I NO LONGER FEAR THE RAZOR GUARDING MY HEEL" pad patch and play this iconic sound on most hardware or software subtractive synthesizers (Serum, Vital, Pigments, Prophet, Korg, Moog, etc). We've included the preset download directly for your convenience, but we strongly recommend you use our programming tutorial to recreate it yourself.

Original Audio

That massive, dense pad opens $uicideboy$’s “I No Longer Fear the Razor Guarding My Heel.” It appears immediately as a sustained, harmonically rich pad with a subtle amp swell and heavy long reverb that creates a second, washy layer. The timbre is rounder in the low register and brighter higher up, indicating a key-tracked low-pass filter. Reverb with noticeable pre-delay lets the wash fade in behind the initial attack, producing an echo-like secondary pad.

Our Remake of The Pad Synth sound

This audio clip is how close we've matched the original tone of the pad synth from the song "I NO LONGER FEAR THE RAZOR GUARDING MY HEEL" by $UICIDEBOY$, giving you a reference point as you design your own synthesizer preset. Play it as often as you need to familiarize yourself with the nuances of the sound.

Synth Patch Programming Recipe

Getting Started

• Start by initializing your synthesizer to a plain saw with no filter, modulation or effects. For soft synths use the "init"/"default" preset or the the button to reset allx parameters to their default factory values.
• No two synths are exactly alike, so treat the values below as approximate, and use your ear.
• Percentage values (e.g. 50%) represent the relative position of a knob or slider within its full range. The full range of each parameter may differ from synth to synth, so use your ear.

Voices

• Voice Mode: Poly 3

Oscillator Setup

Oscillator 1

• Mix: 71%
• Wavetable: Saws for Days
• Wave Frame: 217
• Routing: Filter 1
• Unison Voices: 2
• Unison Detune: 1%
• Unison Stereo Spread: 100%

Oscillator 3

• Mix: 69%
• Wavetable: Basic Shapes
• Wave Frame: Sine (position 0)
• Routing: Filter 1
• Phase: 55°
• Morph:
• Spectral Morph Amount: 47%

Filter Settings

Filter 1

• Model: Analog
• Style: 24dB Slope
• Blend: Low Pass (0)
• Cutoff: 83% (3721.103 Hz)
• Resonance: 0%
• Keytrack: 100%
• Modulations:
• Velocity → Cutoff

Envelope Settings

Envelope 1 (Amp)

• Attack: 659 ms
• Sustain: 100%
• Release: 895 ms
• Attack Curve: Exponential

Effects Processing (Ordered)

Compressor

• Mode: Default (Multiband)
• Mix: Default (100%)
• Attack: Default (50%)
• Release: Default (50%)
• Low Values
• Low Gain: 16 dB
• Low Upper Ratio: 90%
• Band Values
• Band Gain: 12 dB
• Band Upper Ratio: 86%
• High Values
• High Gain: 8 dB

Eq

• Band Cutoff: 612.032 Hz
• Band Resonance: 22%
• Band Gain: -8 dB

Chorus

• Voices: 4
• Sync: Default (Tempo)
• Tempo: Default (4/1)
• Depth: Default (50%)
• Delay 1: Default (2.0 ms)
• Delay 2: Default (7.8 ms)
• Feedback: 0%
• Mix: 27%
• Cutoff: 1370.3 Hz
• Spread: 0.33

Filter Fx

• Mix: Default (100%)
• Model: Analog
• Style: 12dB Slope
• Blend: Low Pass (0)
• Cutoff: 98% (11581.07 Hz)
• Resonance: 0%

Reverb

• Mix: 60%
• Size: 99%
• Chorus Amount: 10%
• Chorus Frequency: Default (0.250 Hz)
• Time: 4.733 s
• Delay: 0.300 s
• High Shelf Cutoff: 64% (936.118 Hz)
• High Shelf Gain: -2 dB
• Low Shelf Cutoff: 2% (9.426 Hz)
• Pre High Cutoff: 76% (2217.346 Hz)
• Pre Low Cutoff: 30% (73.785 Hz)

Note: the patch settings may slightly differ in the Syntorial challenge.

Explore More

• I Want to Die in New Orleans (Wikipedia)
• $uicideboy$ – I Want To Die In New Orleans (Discogs)
• I No Longer Fear the Razor Guarding My Heel (Genius lyrics page)
• I Want to Die in New Orleans (Wikiwand)
• I No Longer Fear the Razor Guarding My Heel (Album of the Year)

Preset Downloads

Don't want to learn synth programming now? Use our synth preset as your starting point and tweak it from there. Register an account with Audible Genius and download the presets for free for the following synths:

• Vital

Comments

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