The content you put out is once again absolutely stunning! Most creators would make 10 videos out of it, stretching the content to 10 minutes each. You are such a beautiful spirit sharing all this knowledge with us, Alice! ❤️
Wow. The EQ-8 scale trick is really amazing. I've been using Ableton for a few years and never realized that this was even a thing. Always discovering new amazing tricks thanks to your amazing and straight forward content. Thank you!
You've earned a sub. I'm so glad people like you put up these comprehensive tutorials. However pro one may be, to keep studying what you know and learning more is always the goal.
adding this to my tutorials playlist. Really struggling with base so this is very very helpful. Also can’t wait to get your Techno and Subtractive Synth courses. Your content is a tremendous help keep it up!
I was a traditional singer songwriter type musician who found ableton and it unlocked a deeper creative world I had been looking for. Mixing has been my greatest challenge. These videos are helping me achieve my ideas and given me the confidence to tackle things I may not have tried to approach before. For real thank you for working so hard on this. I’ll be taking your courses 💪💪💪
There are so many gems in this tutorial! I'm not even an electronic music producer (I mainly focus on reggaeton and hip hop) but your tips helped clear up my mix so much! Thank you Alice!!!
Reverb and ping pong delay plus stereo expander on sub bass frequencies diffuses the phase and blends the kick and bass together with perfect mono compatibility
Yet another brilliant video for any level of producer. I thought 'yeah I will maybe learn something at level 8' because I've been producing, mixing and mastering for 30 plus years. Let me tell you, I learned things well before level 8. Great work, Alice. Again! edit: one of the most important things you say here , which is insaney important and lots of people will ignore: LISTEN to it. Don't keep making changes just because it looks better on a visual EQ. LISTEN.
Hi Alice! first i'd like to say that you are absolutly awesome for being your true self! 👍 #respect If everybody was true to them self the world would be far greater.. And i tought i knew allot allready producing for like 25 years as a hobby....with some releaes in the past...but i never really took it tonthe next level.... because i need to work to pay the bills... but you gave me back the power to go for it... so thanks for you great tutorials... they will sure add extra life to my music. keep up the great work! thank you 🙏
I just wanna say thank you so much for your dedication and drive to your channel and content. You are clear about the subjects, you elaborate and guide us through your screen to explain everything; you’re just awesome! Can’t wait to see what you have in store for us this summer 😎
The advice you give are so crazy... I have 18 month of intensive music production, and I would say I reach the point where I start to be able to get the best from what you teach us... Thx Alice!!! Bisous de PAris ma belle!
i am digging yt for music tipps for over 10 years and your are one of my 5 Goat channels ! because you are so quick and so deatailed in your tutorial style outstanding to me.
Wow tips 5-8 are GAME CHANGERS!!!! And the quality and structure of your tutorials are so amazing, I really enjoy how you pace and demonstrate the information you're presenting to us, super helpful and easy to follow. thank you again : )
Hello. Thanks for uploading these useful videos, they are really helpful. Can you upload one about techno kick layering? To get more thicker kicks. Thank you and greetings from Venezuela. Peace✌🏻
Alice thank you for your long lasting quality in the content you upload I've been watching for over two years now and I get a lot of value in each of your videos. Just one constructive critique if you allow me. In this particular video I had to boost up the volume to hear proper details in the low end (I use open beyer dynamic headphones) But because of raising the volume, the voice high pitched accents turned out to be too high for me and in occasions quite harsh for the ear. You must know better than I do, but I think that it should be easy to fix this with a "de-esser" in the voice channel. Anyway thanks for the vid . great content like always.
Did anyone else get lost at the end of 'Level 3' pertaining to when she said, "sidechain the bass itself"? Did she mean literally sidechain the bass to itself or to the efx? Can someone explain this process? Thanks so much Alice for sharing this in depth tutorial. Great content as always! Love and light.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us Alice ! The point 5 wiith the inversion Eq and the last with the smooth bass are some great mastering tricks.
Back in 1992 when i created records with my amiga 600, you just where busy with volumes and sequencing. Nowadays you need to have a phd to even create a kick and base groove 🤣🤣
Awesome tutorial as usually Alice!! Did jump onto your low end course yesterday, looks fantastic and contains very good content! Looking forward to dig deeper with the help of your material 👍👍👍👍
I don't often leave comments on CZcams but your work is definitely worth the time writing one! Thank you for everything you put out and all the effort that goes into it. Hope you have a good day! :)
Thanks for the video, amazing as usual 🙌 A question I have, when you set your kick around -7db and your bass around -12db, what level in decibel do you target for the overall mix ? (-6db, 0db, other?)
your overall mix should never be higher than -6db - this is because it leaves those six decibels for the mastering engineer (me!) and makes my job much easier. If you are mixing it yourself and mastering it yourself, there are no hard and fast rules on this, but i would always recommend leaving some room for the mastering.
@@AKAtAGG thank you sticky. Yes but since it's all digital nowadays, (I think) I could also target -1db, make sure it doesn't clip, then use a gain reduction to target the level asked by the mastering engineer. My question was more related to mixing and levels in techno. The relation between the different elements in loudness. But I had the answer and it's around -6db ;)
nice ... Akai Force has a Humanitize Button ... and it`s cool But I just started to work with Akai Force, my used DAW ist FL Studio....and they constantly evolve things. Even tho I love to watch your Vids and it is ok for me to translate it in FL Language. Thx and keep producing! 👌💚
0:50 its a good thing to use utility and get down the volume and not from the direct volume of the channel. Thats because the direct volume of the channel its not accurate and sometimes for example you get down -4db and if you check with a utility you will see that its not 4db that it brought down.
Very useful, but I've got a bit of a question on the group processing: I am used to Glue Compressing all my drums in a drumbuss. If you make a Kick & Bass group, would you also do group compression on the rest of the drums, and if so, how: are there 2 groups in parallel (1= kick&bass, 2= all other drums), or is the kick&bass group a subgroup of the entire drumbuss, or is there another option I am not seeing?
I just watched a lot of CZcams videos I wasn't really comprehending. Maybe I'm just tired, and will have to look at them all over again tomorrow :P That's a LOT of attention to detail... Should I just focus on arranging the music first? I mean, last time I made a substantial piece, it got so cluttered that I didn't know where to start balancing it other than making the quiet tracks louder, resulting in escalation making everything progressively louder. Honestly, I didn't really plan out what I was doing, and I have no idea where I went wrong or how I can get a good idea of what the EQ looks like so I can manage it. Every time I get into a DAW, it's like I'm just doing literally everything by the seat of my pants and I am just horrible at it. I can't have a musical idea for 10 seconds without listening to the trash I make and completely forgetting how it was supposed to sound, and all the instruments on there suck. But anyway, yeah, I should probably stop being self-taught because I clearly have SO MUCH to learn. This one is about mastering, right? Sigh... I'm about to take so long just to know what I'm doing so I can properly think about mastering stuff
Also, Throwin that Pro MB on 100-250ish band of the bass and synth busses with about 3db ish of compression Works just good in dance music as it does on bass/guitars. 🤟
Very helpful vid as always - thanks!! I would love to see a video where darker basslines like in "Coeus - Superia" are explained. No matter what I try, I just cannot reproduce this bassline or even tell how many layers there are
Nice Video. Maybe you can explain us the balance of kick/base and the other frequencies for different genres? (Techno, Techhouse, house, afro, minimal tech, melodic house)
The content you put out is once again absolutely stunning! Most creators would make 10 videos out of it, stretching the content to 10 minutes each. You are such a beautiful spirit sharing all this knowledge with us, Alice! ❤️
Glad you enjoy it Obie, thanks a lot for the nice words and support! ✨☺
I agree. I'm so glad I found this channel
Wow. The EQ-8 scale trick is really amazing. I've been using Ableton for a few years and never realized that this was even a thing. Always discovering new amazing tricks thanks to your amazing and straight forward content. Thank you!
Your tutorials a worth a lot! So many very good tricks and background information! :-)
this is very common (most of the pros do it) in psytrance production
You've earned a sub. I'm so glad people like you put up these comprehensive tutorials. However pro one may be, to keep studying what you know and learning more is always the goal.
Super de acuerdo!🙌
adding this to my tutorials playlist. Really struggling with base so this is very very helpful. Also can’t wait to get your Techno and Subtractive Synth courses. Your content is a tremendous help keep it up!
Hope the courses help, cheers Eli! 😊🙌
I love this format, a number of steps with really practical tips of increasing level.
Cheers Pontus. There will be more videos like this coming.
I was a traditional singer songwriter type musician who found ableton and it unlocked a deeper creative world I had been looking for. Mixing has been my greatest challenge. These videos are helping me achieve my ideas and given me the confidence to tackle things I may not have tried to approach before. For real thank you for working so hard on this. I’ll be taking your courses 💪💪💪
1. Bass -3dB/-6dB below kick
2. Sidechain with lookahead (10ms) to create space before the kick hits
There are so many gems in this tutorial! I'm not even an electronic music producer (I mainly focus on reggaeton and hip hop) but your tips helped clear up my mix so much! Thank you Alice!!!
Reverb and ping pong delay plus stereo expander on sub bass frequencies diffuses the phase and blends the kick and bass together with perfect mono compatibility
just what i needed...youtube is the encyclopedia for electronic musicians....and you have top level entrys on that...thanks!!!
Definitely! You has tons of creators providing really great information on music production. and thanks a lot for your nice words ☺🎶
great tutorial! level 5 with the EQ shape inversion was genius 👌
It is an easy trick for seperation, glad you liked it! 😊✨
Yeah i liked this as well. Super interesting. Can't wait to try!!
Keep it up Alice! Much respect from Turkey!
Every video you drop has some gem that completly changes the game for me. The duplicate/reverse eq trick is incredible, thank you!
Alice, you are both a master of your craft and a gifted teacher - so grateful that you share your knowledge and passion
Yet another brilliant video for any level of producer. I thought 'yeah I will maybe learn something at level 8' because I've been producing, mixing and mastering for 30 plus years. Let me tell you, I learned things well before level 8. Great work, Alice. Again! edit: one of the most important things you say here , which is insaney important and lots of people will ignore: LISTEN to it. Don't keep making changes just because it looks better on a visual EQ. LISTEN.
Alice Your experience, talent, knowledge both as an Engineer and Producer is Incredible Thank you for all your amazing videos You are Awesome
Amazing tips, Finally someone explained it with numbers!
My friend, your tutorials are the best in Dance on CZcams - insane knowledge and talent
Hi Alice! first i'd like to say that you are absolutly awesome for being your true self! 👍 #respect If everybody was true to them self the world would be far greater..
And i tought i knew allot allready producing for like 25 years as a hobby....with some releaes in the past...but i never really took it tonthe next level.... because i need to work to pay the bills... but you gave me back the power to go for it... so thanks for you great tutorials... they will sure add extra life to my music.
keep up the great work! thank you 🙏
My new favorite channel on CZcams 🙂🙂
Pro at work here ! These tweaks are so subtle I don't hear the difference for most of them
I just wanna say thank you so much for your dedication and drive to your channel and content. You are clear about the subjects, you elaborate and guide us through your screen to explain everything; you’re just awesome! Can’t wait to see what you have in store for us this summer 😎
The advice you give are so crazy... I have 18 month of intensive music production, and I would say I reach the point where I start to be able to get the best from what you teach us... Thx Alice!!! Bisous de PAris ma belle!
i am digging yt for music tipps for over 10 years and your are one of my 5 Goat channels ! because you are so quick and so deatailed in your tutorial style outstanding to me.
Thank you Reachy! Appreciate the feedback. ☺💚
Just discovered your channel. Pure gold after just two videos and no wasted time! Subbed.
never found tutorials inspiring, until i found yours. amazing videos on this channel!
Wow tips 5-8 are GAME CHANGERS!!!! And the quality and structure of your tutorials are so amazing, I really enjoy how you pace and demonstrate the information you're presenting to us, super helpful and easy to follow. thank you again : )
Glad you like them Adriana. cheers to you! 💚🎶
Learned a lot from this video and it's quite enjoyable too. I'm a subscriber now!
wow that scale feature of the eq! I was searching for this for ages! Thank you! 😀🙏🏼💜
You just blew my mind with the "homemade" dynamic EQ! Thanks for another great guide.
SHE JUST DROPPED A BOMB WITH "YouLean Loudness Meter" QUOTE
Now, I can say that I love you 😍
Thousands thanks by your help.
Hello. Thanks for uploading these useful videos, they are really helpful.
Can you upload one about techno kick layering? To get more thicker kicks. Thank you and greetings from Venezuela. Peace✌🏻
Definitely interesting topic. I will add this one as an option to our upcoming community pools. 😊
@@Alice-Efe thank you for having the suggestion in count🙌🏻
Just found your channel. Wow! Thank you so much, your content is superb - I’m learning A LOT!! 🙌🏻
Aww thank you, welcome to our community!
I'm loving this channel...
You have a fantastic teaching style. Your content is superb. Thank you so much!
Looking great 👍. Thank you for the great work
Love your tutorials and great advice, really superb. But man do I miss your old voice.
As always writing a comment to support the channel
Alice thank you for your long lasting quality in the content you upload I've been watching for over two years now and I get a lot of value in each of your videos.
Just one constructive critique if you allow me.
In this particular video I had to boost up the volume to hear proper details in the low end (I use open beyer dynamic headphones)
But because of raising the volume, the voice high pitched accents turned out to be too high for me and in occasions quite harsh for the ear.
You must know better than I do, but I think that it should be easy to fix this with a "de-esser" in the voice channel.
Anyway thanks for the vid . great content like always.
You look great! Woooow! And your videos are real informative!
Aww thank you Pauluz! 😊🎉
Ableton EQ "Scale" feature is sooo cool, thanks for the insight! :)
Best channel hands down for music production! 🔥🔥🔥
Courses look amazing too
You’re amazing thank you for this! ❤️
Did anyone else get lost at the end of 'Level 3' pertaining to when she said, "sidechain the bass itself"? Did she mean literally sidechain the bass to itself or to the efx? Can someone explain this process? Thanks so much Alice for sharing this in depth tutorial. Great content as always! Love and light.
Your videos are always very insightful and professional. I appreciate the tips!
omg flipping the Eq upside down is a game changer! thansk
Happy to help Benjamin! ☺🎶
You are brilliant.I started dancing straight away !
You're too good on this!!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us Alice !
The point 5 wiith the inversion Eq and the last with the smooth bass are some great mastering tricks.
Dude you make awesome tutorials but this one takes the biscuit!!! Learned so much. Cheers my dear!
Nice one. Sub smoothing is something I often overlook. Great stuff.
Cheers! 😊✌
Nice content, so much worth knowledge u shared. Thank you
I really enjoy and learn with your videos Alice! Congrats
Back in 1992 when i created records with my amiga 600, you just where busy with volumes and sequencing. Nowadays you need to have a phd to even create a kick and base groove 🤣🤣
Awesome Tutorial! There are at least 3 Tipps I've never thought of! Great work Alice! 👌🏼
So glad, cheers Tobias!
Alice, this is fantastic!
This is absolutely amazing, thanks for sharing this tips
Alice never dissapoints 💕 Super useful. Have a great weekend!
Awesome tutorial as usually Alice!! Did jump onto your low end course yesterday, looks fantastic and contains very good content! Looking forward to dig deeper with the help of your material 👍👍👍👍
Thank you for enrolling my low end course Jonas! Hope it helps you clear out things in Melodic Techno low end. And thanks a ton for nice words! ☺
This is gold! Thanks 😃
Super helpful, I really like the attenuation/EQ on the kick in Level 5
Nice video!! Just what I was looking for, and the genre I need for my mixes. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!!
YOURE AWWESOME. ILL DEFINITELY HAVE TO OPEN ABLETON MORE NOW WHEN I'M MIXING MY SUBBASS N KICK
dO YOU KNOW ANY OTHER EQ PLUGINS THAT HAVE THAT SCALE BUTTON LIKE EQ-8?
I don't often leave comments on CZcams but your work is definitely worth the time writing one!
Thank you for everything you put out and all the effort that goes into it.
Hope you have a good day! :)
Aww thanks a ton! I really appreciate that you take your time and wrote it here.
Cheers Ardrop! 😊🙌
Thanks for the video, amazing as usual 🙌
A question I have, when you set your kick around -7db and your bass around -12db, what level in decibel do you target for the overall mix ? (-6db, 0db, other?)
your overall mix should never be higher than -6db - this is because it leaves those six decibels for the mastering engineer (me!) and makes my job much easier. If you are mixing it yourself and mastering it yourself, there are no hard and fast rules on this, but i would always recommend leaving some room for the mastering.
@@AKAtAGG thank you sticky. Yes but since it's all digital nowadays, (I think) I could also target -1db, make sure it doesn't clip, then use a gain reduction to target the level asked by the mastering engineer.
My question was more related to mixing and levels in techno. The relation between the different elements in loudness. But I had the answer and it's around -6db ;)
Hey Alice, awesome once again, I was not aware of the reverse function with eq 8, that was ace, thank you so much :)
Thanks a lot ! Very helpful ! 🔥
nice ... Akai Force has a Humanitize Button ... and it`s cool But I just started to work with Akai Force, my used DAW ist FL Studio....and they constantly evolve things. Even tho I love to watch your Vids and it is ok for me to translate it in FL Language. Thx and keep producing! 👌💚
Thanx Alice ...
Excellent! Thanks a lot !
The final steps was deep. I need to watch and practice this at least 5 more times. lol
0:50 its a good thing to use utility and get down the volume and not from the direct volume of the channel. Thats because the direct volume of the channel its not accurate and sometimes for example you get down -4db and if you check with a utility you will see that its not 4db that it brought down.
Just wow. That negative eq curve trick is unreal! You rule! 😀
Thank you John! 💚
Very useful, but I've got a bit of a question on the group processing: I am used to Glue Compressing all my drums in a drumbuss. If you make a Kick & Bass group, would you also do group compression on the rest of the drums, and if so, how: are there 2 groups in parallel (1= kick&bass, 2= all other drums), or is the kick&bass group a subgroup of the entire drumbuss, or is there another option I am not seeing?
I just watched a lot of CZcams videos I wasn't really comprehending. Maybe I'm just tired, and will have to look at them all over again tomorrow :P
That's a LOT of attention to detail... Should I just focus on arranging the music first? I mean, last time I made a substantial piece, it got so cluttered that I didn't know where to start balancing it other than making the quiet tracks louder, resulting in escalation making everything progressively louder. Honestly, I didn't really plan out what I was doing, and I have no idea where I went wrong or how I can get a good idea of what the EQ looks like so I can manage it. Every time I get into a DAW, it's like I'm just doing literally everything by the seat of my pants and I am just horrible at it. I can't have a musical idea for 10 seconds without listening to the trash I make and completely forgetting how it was supposed to sound, and all the instruments on there suck. But anyway, yeah, I should probably stop being self-taught because I clearly have SO MUCH to learn. This one is about mastering, right? Sigh... I'm about to take so long just to know what I'm doing so I can properly think about mastering stuff
I'd buy a whole range of useful and informative posters like that!
Thank you very much for your content
your voice sounds like really good ASMR.
Thanks ! Crazy one !
This is gold 🪙
Also, Throwin that Pro MB on 100-250ish band of the bass and synth busses with about 3db ish of compression Works just good in dance music as it does on bass/guitars. 🤟
dear god that was a lot
this will be very useful for people who are able to keep up with it (i'm not quite there yet)
Pls make some trance tutorial
best content ever
Amazing work 😮
this is super! thanks a lot!
Very helpful vid as always - thanks!! I would love to see a video where darker basslines like in "Coeus - Superia" are explained. No matter what I try, I just cannot reproduce this bassline or even tell how many layers there are
so useful thank you!
Looking sharp alice!
Thank you!
You're an amazing person.
thank you a lot, dropping bombs here
Thank you very much!!!
Your explanation helped me a lot.
This is so sick!!!!
Thank you very much!
Thank you !
Really learnt lot from no body share this kinda sauce for free 🚀
Nice Video. Maybe you can explain us the balance of kick/base and the other frequencies for different genres? (Techno, Techhouse, house, afro, minimal tech, melodic house)