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I loved your opening catch phrase in this video, " I'm excited to show you what I worked on today in producing for a year" -- future dj stream perhaps?

Sick! Keep it going man

Never seen your channel before, saw a video recommended by THE ALGORHTYHM, mouse hovered, skipped in on the small preview, saw that Vital skin, heard that bass, and had me thinking hang on what VST is that?, and that wide base, hmmmm 👍 CLICK. Then noticed it was Vital and was in for the full video. Good job. If you only been doing this for an hour a day for 194 days, nice one 👍DAW tinkerage is one the best hobbies you can have, I love it, and who knows, 1 video/song goes viral and your wallet could be a lot happier for 1 to 2 years. Keep up the great work, and have fun 👍

i love the vital skin, i didnt even pay attention to the fact that vital supported skins

Hey man, which video shows you making the "Yuh bass" at 3.24. You said you really liked that sound and you made it 'yesterday' so I went back through some previous videos but no luck

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Ça tue !

I think that your bass' are getting fatter and moving closer to that pro wide bass sound youre looking for. But from what Ive seen, youre aiming to do this with a single vital instance per bass sound. www.youtube.com/@InverseAudioUK has some excellent tutorials about layering basses to achieve different functions.

From what I understand, the heavy emphasis on basses needing to be mono is a holdover from vinyl. Too much stereo width would make the play head hop out of its track. Nowadays it's more for if your song is played live and the sound guy doesn't mono everything under 80 or 150Hz like he's "supposed to". And that's only done because of phase shifting problems that *could* occur. I've never played live, but that's what I've read. Also, Metrik has a lot more white noise than your song. He has that shimmery reverb on the snare and hi-hat that you don't have. In the snippet you played, either the hi hat's reverb or the snare's reverb is always happening. He also has white noise risers/fallers between his sections. That could be filling out the square more.

You could lose the 2nd & 3rd 8 bar loops. I find that dnb works best when you delete the ok bits and keep the awesome parts. Short tracks are super popular right now.

Sounding so good! Keep it up man.

oooooh that drop at 1:51 was sick

I accept the cool sunglasses as a substitute

Caleb! I just wanted to say I'm super proud of where you are in life. I used to be one of your guitar students when I was a kid! A lot has changed in my life (came out as trans, embraced the Judaism of my father's family, got hurt but then got better meeting my partner) but I'm so glad to see you seem to be doing well :)) I remember all the cool indie game soundtracks you used to show me and it's so cool what you've made of your life. Mazel tov and best wishes! -Cat

There's no sub bass.

Why did you give me the finger at 6:26? JK, love your videos.

First of all, sorry for the wall of text A really important thing to take notice of when sounds start to approach the extremes of the stereo field is bad mono compatibility (when sounds get phase cancellation issues when played in mono). I don't know about Logic but usually DAWs have built in tools you can use to check mono compatibility. When played in headphones it isn't much of a problem bc both sides are isolated from each other, but it starts to get tricky once you move to speakers, especially professional rigs like in clubs and festivals which in fact are set up to only play the mono signal to avoid phasing issues. You already covered the basics by making the sub mono, but there's still a lot of information you might be losing in the mid to high frequencies which is basically unavoidable unless you have completely different sounds panned left and right. Regarding that Venjent track, if you listen to that track in mono you will find out that the bass sound noticeably less complex but it still sounds good. After analyzing the mid/side channels, I think what's going on is that he is stacking at least two bass sounds, one focused on the mid information (doesn't need to be completely mono except for the sub) and a top bass that is much brighter and completely wide (this one actually almost completely disappears in mono).First of all, sorry for the wall of text and for nerding out a lot, but I think this is good advice.

I think it would be ccol if the shape of the sounds were the subtext of a song. Like the song would be about something else, but over the course of the song you show off different shapes of music. In sketch comedy, you might write a scene with 3 beats and each beat kinda builds off another. Make the song you want, but use the skill as the structure to build off

To get the verb in vital sounding good modulate the time to the off position its noiceeeeee

Did you try splitting it at a mid to upper freq and process it differntly? More distortion on the upper part? Did you slap OTT (free vst) on it? some go crazy and put 2xOTT on it.

Probably a yes/no situation on the Vital bug. Likely, under the hood, it's using a decimal point to represent the number in the unison percent (and other places). If that's the case, it's showing a rounded whole number. It shows 0%, but it's actually 0.3% or something along those lines. So, technically, probably not a bug in that it is working as intended. But also probably a bug since it doesn't do what the user expects it to.

The High end details in Venjent's bass sound like down sampling. You would have to only down sample the high end somehow.

Seems like adding saturation makes the giornometer dance pretty good. I bet with some reverb and the Wider plugin from Infected Mushroom you get get it pretty filled out. Also, just parroting what other mixing tutorials say, if you've got really dry snare/hat/ride samples, putting them into a drum buss with a little touch of reverb to put them into a "room" sounds good and would fill out the sides on the gonionmeter also.

People who use modular would sometimes do a patch for left and recreate it for right. So there would be a slight difference. I've seen Junky XL (Tom Holkenborg) do this in his old studio in one of his videos. If you just turn the degre of the sine wave, you could have areas of cancelation or overlapping, with more complex sounds this shouldn't be an issue.

Can you elaborate on the Goniometer? Is it a VST? Is it part of Logic? Is there a free version or is it part of vital? I used vision 4x from noisia so far... Thx and good break thrugh!

thanks for your help here :) much apreciated, glad to be getting back into this

Does your bass have a square osc in it? It sounds kind of squarey-, I feel like a DnB bass is closer to a reese bass with two detuned saws

Hell yeah I love watching you turn knobs

its fun!

You can see Bishu is using 2 main oscilators and a sub oscilator for his bass. I've noticed your basses often consist of one oscilator that is heavily modulated, but it lacks base in a form of more stable low frequency oscilators.

Lesgoooooooo what consistency boom

the amount of stereo base in that >.< Yeah it sounds great, but not gonna work well in a club

Inspiring!!!

envious you have the best production office

Where can I get that Vital skin?

Awesome great job, keep it up!

I got bossfight on apple music! Its kinda got a kavinsky vibe i get from nightcall but for what feels like a side scroller

Feels perfect for a Bionicle soundtrack

Heyyy I did that once! I need to log back in and check what's going on.

Nice, thats a great start of a tune, id say it needs a sub and a counter melody, some arrangement work, and indeed, you have a tune there. Your vids keep getting recommended, so you must be doing something right, I'll be checking in every once in a while!

Would have loved to hear a filter over the bas... One experiment you might want to try is making a bass the old school way: It started with a tone generator. Then use eq, filter, phaser and so on to make it sound cool. Export and use the effects again... repeat the cycle again and again. Then put it in a sampler and animate some more effects. Ad in parallel a simple mono sub bass... have fun!

-12 semitones was regarding the comb filter. You can change the cutoff of a comb filter with the lower slider (under the filter visualization). Setting it to -12 semitones makes the sound more bassy and gives it more body. I also didn't specify in my original comment that I set the resonance of the comb filter to 0% (slider on the side of the filter). I used the pulse wave from Basic Shapes (the shorter one that's on the last frame of the wavetable) - it's a simpler shape that sounds more like a roar.

Great job man! Love this challenge idea and the track sounds great <3

Loving this series. I do have to know - where can I get that Vital skin? 😅

So I hope this comment comes off as theory over criticism but when it comes to drum n bass there are a lot of things to consider (that I’ve learned). For one, having overlapping drums with tails is the number one groove killer. Since dnb is so fast you are always competing for space; helping all your drums be super staccato will give you breathing room for your other elements. Second is also phrasing, have a really simple call and response is the meat and potatoes of almost every genre of dnb. Just like the drums, having intention with the controlling the sounds you phrase will help it all come together. Think less is more rather than stacking synths. If you are going for the suuuuuper melodic approach to dnb then reserve the energy of your drums and pull out the low end. You’d also want to back off the energy of your sub bass so it becomes more about the mid range elements. Think like gaming mixes. Hope some of that helps shape what you’re looking for

I need to learn how to do buses.

It's a good vibe. I feel like you're very good at making bright, upbeat music whereas I'm stuck on patterns of melancholy and melodrama. XD

My 8 year old, Caleb, is enamored with this! For the past few weeks he's spent hours and hours making music on the iPad in Garageband. It's so cool for him to see someone doing it on a professional level. It's sounding great, keep up the good work!

Mad scientist in the lab vibes this video, learning NEW stuff must be enjoyable just on its own

Just as you are a strings fan, I am a shining fuzz fan xD Also, even though hacked, really like the final effect of the panning delay. And if you're ever desperate for a vocal, I can send you one HAH!