Why Pros BASS Sound SO GOOD? Here is the secret..
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- Опубліковано 21 тра 2024
- Today we are taking a look at 3 of the best low end and basses of 2024 and demystify what makes thems o good.
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00:00 Your are in the right place for bass
00:40 MRAK - Speranza bass
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You are such a good producer and have so much music knowledge.
Aww thank you! ❤🙏
@@Alice-Efe Hey Alice, I bought Atlas and the sound quality is absolutely stunning! Next time I'd be willing to pay a lot more money if you do something like this but with presets for Pigments, Serum or whatever synth is used by many of us because for me the main challenge is to understand how you build those layers. Love your work :)
@@Redemption808 Thank you!
I will probably do something like that in the close future. Main problem with this one was I used a lot of external gear (not that it matter so much but I was thinking it could be nice for the people qho bought it). So it wasnt possible to include project files.
But next time, I will probably just use pigments to make them all with Ableton FX so you have also project files.
@@Alice-Efe love to read this, much appreciated 🙂
For anyone trying to do this in Vital, it's a little different - you have to leave phase randomization at zero and assign the RAND key modulator to the phase of both OSCs, at 100%. (not Rand1 or Rand2, it's the RAND in the lower right corner). Everything else is the same, except there's no shortcut to remove the fundamental so you have to do it by hand (2nd partial from the far left on the top row of the wavetable editor, drag it to zero)
Apparently Vital doesn't synchronize phase randomization between OSCs like Serum does, so you get inconsistent phase coherence on each note (aka phasey/weak/inconsistent bass) unless you do it this way - but this method produces the exact same results.
This video was a total game changer for me, thank you so much Alice!🤩
hi thanks so much for this, i don't have serum. just to confirm, do you set phase to 0 and then assign phase of both oscillators to RAND at 100% modulation? or do you leave it at 180 phase and then make the modulation bipolar? or does it not matter...
my guess is it doesn't matter, as the reason you're doing this is just to make sure both oscillators are at the same phase at all times so we don't get phase cancellation whilst maintaining the panned bass?
thank you:))
So to remove the fundamental you're removing the tallest column in the wavetable editor and just leaving the harmonics?
@@EPHEM11To get this effect, just leave one oscillator's phase at 0 and then tweak the other oscillator's phase until you find a sweet spot where the 2 oscillators sum together in a way you are happy with for the song. As long as RAND is modulating the phase of both oscillators by the same amount, the phase coherency will stay the same from note to note and you'll get a consistent sound. If you leave them both at zero, they will always be the same and won't make a stereo sound, so it's necessary to change the phase of one of the oscillators
@@Rzn8958 The fundamental isn't necessarily always going to be the tallest column in the wavetable editor, but it will always be the 2nd column from the far-left, in the upper harmonic editor (the column on the far left is volume - I'm not sure why they designed it this way) - just remove that/turn it down to zero and you'll be left with all the harmonics but no fundamental. Personally I like to use a 2nd instance of Vital to have a sine wave sub on a dedicated track
thank you, that's sort of what i ended up doing :))
Bass is reason i give up every day
Honestly. You think this will be the easiest part of the project going in 😅
Go for feeling, leave mixing for later. Dont get stuck on anything too long. Leave the track alone for a while or do sound design, search for samples, keep moving.
Oh damn I feel you 😢
Kick too
😂
Its so good to see you are still doing these tutorials. I cannot think of anyone else who has such great pro tips 😊
Thank you! I just like making them 😊
She is very educated producer and teacher, this sort of stuff is golddust for young producers just starting out
@@WorksopGimp he
Another great vid! And thanks for all of your sharings - all of them are helping a lot!! You're doing so great - let the flow be with you!!!
Hey Alice, I first learned how to complete the bass sound design by removing the fundamental from your previous video, but even then unison didn't always give the sound I wanted. This is a game changer :) Nice tips
Good tutorial very detailed and well explained...nice one!
Thanks a lot for the tips. Also, this video helped me come up with a cool idea for a bassline, thanks!
I appreciate this, thank you!! Liked and subscribed!
Nice inspiration to improve my trance-producing skills. I like the way you do your youtube-channel. Rock on! 😎
Amazing stuff and very well explained! Love your channel! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Simply perfect technique, works amazing! Thank you so much Alice!
Thanks Alice, you do the best tutorials! Keep up the great work.
Thanks again great channel always helpful ❤
Awesome video, thanks once again 🙌
I appreciate this tip! Thank You so much!
Great freaking video! Thank you so much. This solved the phasing issue I was having during mastering 🎉
I love how you explain why a change is made, instead of just doing it without any context. Your tutorials are always great and I always learn. Thank you ❤
This is the best way to teach! Great explanation, good examples and how to remake them. Keep it onnnn
wow I used to see your videos a long time ago, you've changed so much omg!!! I'm so happy for you, keep it up queen ❤❤
Welcome back and thank you! 😊 things are bit changed here ✌️
Thanks a lot for the production pro tips !!
Amazing tips. Thank you! ❤❤
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome video as always! Keep up the great work, you are a blessing to this community!
Thank you! I will do my best to keep posting. 😊
@@Alice-Efeplease don't stop. I just discovered your channel and was very impressed with this video. You packed a huge amount of very useful information into a short space of time, and I'm looking forward to learning lots more stuff from you. I have been somewhat stuck in a rock format for many years, but I'm finally allowing myself to go back to using electronic sounds as I did in the 1990s. I have a lot to catch up on, so if the rest of your videos are of this calibre I'm going to be looking at them for some time to come. One thing that confused me with this one, though, was the rolling bassline in the first example. The MIDI data showed alternating eighth-note octaves, but the rhythm of the sound didn't seem to match that. Was that the result of a dotted delay or something along those lines?
This is a big one! Will def rewatch this, so many helpful gems, thank you!
Second time is the charm 😊
Thanks a lot for the video
Gracias Alice! Excelente data! Saludos desde Argentina
Soooo helpful thank you ! 🔥
love your enthusiasm :) great bass tips
OMG FINALLY SOMEONE NAILED IT!!! I AM SO THANKFUL... YOU NAILED IT HERE! THANKS FOR SPREADING THE KNOWLEDGE
Thank you! Excellent tip! I will experiment this.. 🫶
Great, as usual, thanks! Dumb question about the first one - we start off splitting out the bass to stereo, then spend a bunch of later steps trying to bring it back more mono. Why not just leave it more mono in the first place?
Very very cool thanks allot!!!
Sick one! Thanks fam
Great tips! ❤
Amazing, been wondering how to do this for many years, thank you
Hi Alice, i'm following your Channel long time. You've always very interesting and helpful content. You are getting more pro every time. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Love your channel ❤
Great tutorial!
Thank You! Will try it right now!
Good luck!
Thanks for the tip on how to make a solid, clean bassline with punch and not mush. simple and a way easier technique than i've heard from others.
Great video, learned some more how to improve 🙏
Thx for this!
Huge thanks, this is amazing
Outstanding tip
Just wanna know if there is a way of performing the first one in pigments as there is no pan knob on the oscillators
Thanks a ton for your videos
Damn I needed this 😩 thanks 🙏🔥
As always, killer content. The precision sculpting of the synths is just amazing. I really loved when you called Ring Modulaion "trial and error" cause it's very relatable :D
By the way, would be very interesting to see a video on RM in particular.
awesome video!
I often overlook the science of harmonics involved in music, great this information would give me many solutions
Great video thank you Alice
Amazing content!
Another excellent video. Absolutely one of the best synth bass theorists on all of you tube, Alice. I salute you.
This video is gold! Also, your video editing is great. The hard work you put into it shows.
Your Videos are such a blessing ❤
Great tips and video, thank you!
Where can I find that serum skin?!
It is on Mercurial Tones 😊
@@Alice-Efe thank you!!!
I even had forgotten you can edit the waveforms in Serum haha.. nice video.
you just saved me so much freakin time! i was literally trying to figure out how to not make my bass so scattered. You always coming through when i need it
haha happy to help!
Really cool, learned a lot. ^^ Thank you.
There are a few songs, that i also find really interesting in how they got produced. Its beyond other sounds and it really makes we wonder how they could achieve that.
One is Aurora (DJ IBON Remix) and the other is Mikkel Rev - Amneo.
The second one is actually more interesting, because basically all of the instruments are so subtle but still give out everything that is required to make it a "sound" ^^. I find it unbelievable how everything adds up together. For me this is art.
And the first one i find so interesting because it has crazy reverb effects. It sounds like there is an insane reverb over every single instrument, still the song never sounds too messy. And for whatever reason all those reverb effects dont come into each others way.
Bass has reverb, kicks have reverb, hihats have reverb, BG noise has reverb. And everytime big amounts too.
Its a mistery how those songs got produced.
Maybe someone else picks up on my curiousity and talks about how those songs are made. Maybe just a few of the instruments.
THat would be really cool ^^
PS: both songs shoud be listened to with headphones, theres an endless amount of subtle stuff in.
Great tip with the stereo bassline! Is there a reason why you leave the phase randomization on both osc on? :)
Thank youuuu!!!
Thank you for this very instructive video Alice, as always !
I have a question for you : Do you think it would be possible to reproduce this technique with an Ableton stock synthesizer like Wavetable or Meld for example ?
I have been following your channel for a very long time now and your content is always top notch quality, please keep it up
that was sick ty
Hi Alice! Im confused on the chain for the MRAK pro bass, is it set to mono? I'm not getting the same mono result on the imager! Thanks!
@Elice-Efe Thanks for the great video. Could you maybe show, how to achieve this with Massive X?
I am watching videos for an long time, almost 20 years..and i am telling you, your tips are amazing❤
This great thanks…i don’t really wrap my mind around fundamentals yet but i get that you remove harmonic therefore creating more of unified pitch, meaning the same root note on different octave, is this right?
are eq8 linear phase capable? ive been doing a little poking around about cutting bass without using linear phase EQs and even changed my project template to all pro q3 doing the cuts on the groups and i can tell a dif in the end phase results
alice i doing it for 26 years and creating basslines nobody knows how
Haha aren't we all just bunch of people turning knobs and hoping for the best 😊✌
One more idea: The phase shift is basically a tiny delay between left and right. You can get something similar if you add a band splitter after the synth and add a Haas fx in the upper band(s) only
will try this one is cool. Thx! 😱
Good luck! ✨
Been making music for 30 years, ran a pro studio for 10 of those and never seen this before. Best music production tips on YT .
Thank's 😊
LOVE YOU , YOU helped me alot and you Don’t know it❤
Love your passion, it's contagious. I don't produce but now I need to remix something to do that fu**ing Amazing bassline. What do you use? I'm beginner on producing but would like to use only workstation made for Linux. For ethic decision. Can you suggest something?
Huge one ! Merci !
very cool the pro part from the first base, i learend some new stuff, with the phase to bring one the sides, but isnt it better for the contro, to make the random level of the phase to zero?
Thank you!)
not a mastering engineer and prolly not qualified to explain this to ppl, but I thought I'd try and clarify. The difference between the unison and panning trick mostly boils down to the unison using different pitches on the left and right to crate wideness, and the pan trick using different phase. The unison also has more movement, but that's the gist of it. That still means that there's going to be phasing with the pan trick when it's in mono though (which there will be in any type of wideness ever, because that's literally what makes it wide) and it's still dangerous to use too much if you want it to be djable. The reason that you might want to use this trick instead of unison is that it's much less chaotic because there's no any movement or detune. Anyway, great video, Alice! You've helped me learn so much music stuff, and know that your videos are amazing resources for aspiring producers!!!!
very interesting :) im gonna try this
Your 'how to' videos always leave me with a smile. So good.
So good ❤ . Much love from SriLanka
Do we have the same result if we take the ozone imager and force it to be more in the center while keeping a little width?
Glad I found this channel, well done. sub!
Glad you did! Welcome aboard! 😊
As always TOP!
I really like your videos (subscribed long ago 😇) and you have so much great knowledge that everyone can benefit from. I just wish that this focus on being "pro" would stop across all youtube music production videos. It make it seem like music is some kind of game or competition to get to the top. But of course it is so much more than that.
Awesome as all your content. But I have seen the remove fundamental tipp elsewhere. It can be used to keep focus on heavy unisono patches ... interestingly enough even Surge XT (free synth) has a WT of a saw with removed fundamental on board ... anyway, I enjoy your content. Sometimes these advertisement phrases "secret pro tipp" or "only here" that are used all over the internet make me go mehhh.
Btw: I started to use the combo of ISOL8 (five band splitter) and PsyScope (free, beat synced oscilloscope), which I plug in to the bass band of ISOL8 to visually control kick and subbass level... it's free an thus can replace SubNinja...
Can it be this one: studio.ua-cam.com/users/shortsXsMn5Jo0wJY 😊
The unique thing in the video was not about removing fundementals but manual phase shifting 2 oscillators and panning them again manually and not using unison. I think that didnt come through well in the video, I should probably have made it more clear.
@@Alice-Efeprobably you're right. If it's for the phase shift then I might have missed the warning that you might end up canceling out when monoing if the delta is 180 degree in total.
Anyways - I'm just adding "random" things that come to my mind ... your content is great!
I really like your videos and appreciate your hard work, the contents of your videos are great! One thing which i don't understand is that the videos always consist of so many fast and hectic cuts / text changing and a lot of effects. It feels like it is in timewarp. This makes me hard to concentrate on the content.
Been trying to recreate the clean stereo Speranza sound since I first heard the track. Thank you for this!
Glad I could help! 😊
Just found your channel, subbed baby! ❤🥰
Yep shes right gonna use that
Gorgeous ❤
(And those bass lines too)
😅
The difference in the bass is amazing well done thank you
Hi Alice...another great video! Can you tell me if the Speranza style bass is something that can be copied using Ableton Wavetable? Thanks.
Mostly yes, but not the "remove fundemental" part. What you can do is just downloading Vital and removing fundemental on their wavetabe editor. Than exporting the wavetable from Vital and importing into Ableton wavetable afterward. Then using that wavetable for top layers. That should work 😊
@@Alice-EfeAh yes…I forgot that I had Vital! Thank you for the reminder and thank you for the reply.
Top stuff…keep them coming ✊🏻
This is THE BEST video I have ever seen. You are my new BEST FRIEND! ❤❤❤❤
This video made me sub!
I love your content so much Alice, you're a star
Aww thank you!
you are amazing !!
I don't know how to apply this with Pigments or my Prophet Rev2. Do they all support those functions with phase adaption and removing the fundamental? Can someone please explain for one of those two synths? Would be much appreciated :)
How about lowering the Randomness of both waves in serum? Does this make a change in the final sound?
Random makes the sound more dynamic. Given that we want the "top" layer to be autentic and stereo.
As we removed the fundemental from top layer and sub is already mono, there is really no need to make the top layer more static and robotic by taking away random.
@@Alice-Efe makes sense…thanks Alice!
You look absolutely stunning in that thumbnail! If i wouldnt know... Also, great video yet again!
Great tips... but just some advice, refrain from saying things like "i'm the first" to do something in the future. 😅
I've watched a LOT of masterclasses and tutorials over the years by those pros themselves, and none of them create bass lines like this (that I've seen)
They're all very simple, but just very well executed. Generally if it's overly complicated, it's probably not the way to do it.
But there's always room for new ways! And will be trying some of these methods out for sure!
That MRAK trick is great! I already knew about it... I believe Dash Glitch might have discussed it, which is probably where I got the idea. It really does help to separate out the fundamental in these situations.