7 Steps to The Perfect Bass
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- čas přidán 1. 06. 2024
- ►► Learn how to make any bass with my 12-Step Sound Design Bible (FREE): bit.ly/3vLlk1E. Bass is the foundation of any modern track, and in this video I show you how you can pick the perfect bass sound for your track.
Whether you are producing house, techno, trance, drum ’n’ bass - or any other genre - locking in your bass early on really helps define the vibe and direction of the track.
In this video I share my bass selection process, to take some of the guesswork out of it and speed up the whole production process.
Here are the 7 steps:
1. Deciding on the vibe / bass category
2. Programming the bass line
3. Hot-swapping the sounds
4. A/B testing
5. Separating the sub-bass / mid-bass
6. Augmenting the bass
7. Processing the bass
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In this tutorial, we cover…
00:00 - Intro
01:25 - The 4 Main Bass Categories
05:30 - Preparation
07:50 - Vibe and Hierarchy
08:52 - Choosing your Bass Category
14:02 - Building Basses from Scratch
14:38 - Synth Presets
17:22 - Happy Accidents
18:00 - ROMplers / Sampler patches
18:55 - Using One-Shot Samples
22:06 - Augmenting the Bass
25:16 - Sub Bass Split
26:38 - Bass Effects
28:25- 5 Powerful Bass Patterns
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Don't forget Modo Bass (Bass guitars). That's my favourite at the moment
Thank you for the great video, Will! Inspiring as usual. I use mostly Sylenth for my (off beat) sub bass (trance) and Sylenth and Spire for mid basses.
@@djGreenALERT Oooh, nice! I'll have to check that out! Thanks for sharing :)
@@forceamourmusic I love Sylenth!
For me the best VST Synth is Sylenth1 from LennarDigital, that is versatile and bunch of soundbanks if you buy. The best VST Synth for the industry.
Too i liked Dune 3, Synthmaster Player, Spire, i hate Diva- UHE for high CPU usage.
My fav no doubt is Sylenth1, my style of EDM prod is : Techno, Trance, House, Acid
Change simpler to sampler and change the root to match what your sample is labeled and presto. Sample is in key. Then you can even change it back to the simpler after that.
also - there's lots of conflict with advice for the bassline. Some folks say the bass should not play a melody; that's for the top line. But others say the bass should tell a story (bootsy collins). I oftentimes find my bass lines being quite intricate and doing a lot of heavy lifting for melody and that's the way I like it.
Another thing about basslines is they control the mode of the song - just moving the root note can change the feel of the song entirely
I’ve been learning music production on my own for a year now and it’s overwhelming figuring out what to work on when there are so many videos and courses out there. I really feel your videos are so amazing and insightful. Filled with lots of information but still easy to follow along and understand. I’m considering signing up to your course!
For me, the key point in this video is "The more music you actively listen to, the more you'll understand" and the point about 'originality'. I was able to take a lot from this. The track featured in the video, I would buy. Super great video. BTW, Will, love the facial hair.
Thank you, really glad you found the video helpful!
Unfortunately, I had to shave the beard the other day. I am almost sorry but not quite 😅
Clear, concise and really helpful! Keep on doing what you’re doing🙌
Thank you, really appreciate the support! 🙂🙌🏻
Hey Will, many thanks for your video which is, as usual, inspiring. And the fact that you always have the smile on your face is also really nice. Keep up the good work man !
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching and for the kind words of support :)
mate, i started liking your videos before even watching, that's how much i appreciate what you do, thanks a lot!
Ah, thank you so much, I really appreciate the kind words of support!
Hope you find the content useful too!
Amazing video, thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge in such a refreshing way 🙏🏼
this is my favorite demo track ive ever heard in a tutorial. that vocal is so nice!
Thank you, Ben, it is indeed lush!
Just brilliant! Thank you.
You're very welcome! Glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
This helped so much! Thank you so much!
You're welcome, glad it was helpful! 🙂🙌🏻
Great vid Will, thanks bro and amen.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
Excellent teacher. Learning a lot from your channel..thanks! 👍🏼
Really glad you found them helpful! Anything else in particular you’re struggling with and would like me to cover on the channel?
Phase Plant has quickly become my go to Synth for almost everything at this point
Phase Plant seem to getting more and more popular! 🙂
Maaaan, 🙏🙏🙏 I see you improved your look , your studio look , your videos 🔥🔥🔥 everything look very professional , happy for you )) and thanks for all information, brother 🙏
You're welcome, glad you find the video helpful!
I like to improve every day and I will keep improving in 2023 :)
Another killer tutorial once again! Big thanks Will !
You're welcome, glad you liked it! 🙂🙌🏻
This is a great video! Falcon is my favorite synth, I like how all of the patches are all in one bank (thousands) so I can search for whatever genre I need at the time Falcon also includes my UVI Workstation patches as well. My second favorite synth is VPS avenger. With Falcon I like the patch library but with VPS Avenger I like creating sounds from scratch.
Lately I’ve been using AAS Ultra Analog for bass along with FL Sytrus. Sytrus can also import solid bass and non tx81z version of lately bass.
Fantastic tutorial. Very useful tips.
Awesome, glad it was helpful! 🙂🙌🏻
Top quality like always👌
Thank you 🙌 Really appreciate the support! 🙂
Another interesting topic for a tutorial would be "Working with voice samples" since many starting producers are limited to use those. Where to find good samples? How to embed them to your song? And most importantly: How to adjust them to fit the desired vibe, without losing the human feel of it?
Anyway, this was a great combination of tips where I nodded and thought "That's how I do it." and tips where I was surprised I didn't know them yet!
Great suggestion, I will add this to my poll and see how many people actually want to see a video on this! 👌🏻
@@EDMTips YES YES YES! I too would love to see a tutorial about using vocal samples and how to make them sit well in the mix and blend in with the rest of your track. 🙏🏻
I have something to learn from every your video. Thank you.
i like the way you explain things, really helpful advice :)
Cheers, glad you found it helpful! 🙂
Thanks for the helpful video
You're welcome, glad you find it helpful! 🙂🙌🏻
Thanks a lot - starting following :)
You're welcome and welcome aboard! 🙌🏻
Drum and Bass, usually liquid or neuro - I adore Phase Plant. It's like having a DAW inside your DAW specifically for sound design. Personally, it greatly improved my ability to craft detailed bass as it comes with routing lanes and multiband splitting built into it. If you're already falling into the sound design pit, it's a must-own imo. (if the price puts you off you can rent to own it)
Yeah, that's a killer - I haven't used that for a few years. I saw Axwell using it in a Future Music tutorial once (I think)
Class once again Sir!
Thanks, Ryan, glad you enjoyed it! 🙂🙌🏻
Kijken video van mij
Great tips as ever.
I love serum and mainly produce psytrance.
I love it because you can easily create multiple variations of one sound with minimal effort.
Thanks for sharing!! Serum is a solid, ubiquitous choice :)
Should probably rephrase this and say that I find the visual aspect of the set up in serum easier to navigate than a rotary and fader based synth.
Learning to use one synth helped me a lot over the years. NI Massive was my go to.
I like to bounce between Massive and Serum. A favorite of mine is TAL Uno. It's simple and fast to make bass and everything you could want.
Thanks for the great vid
You're welcome! Glad you liked it!
Totally agree, sticking to one or two synths will allow you to improve faster!
This was awesome dude. Thanks. Subbed :)
Well, looks like I've done my job then! 😉 Thanks for subscribing and I hope you continue to enjoy the content! 🙌🏻
Thankyou friend 🤗🥰
You're very welcome! 🙂
Hey Will, I'm a huge fan of your channel, you have helped me a lot over the last two years. I really love your trance videos especially. Could you make a tutorial about making hypertrance like Volant and nuphory? Nobody on youtube has covered them and songs like Final Gate, Hypertrance and Exoplanet keep blowing my mind.
Thank you for watching my videos and supporting the channel!
I will check them out! :)
@@EDMTips I hope you'll like it!
Excellent video!
Thank you, I am glad you liked it! 🙂🙌🏻
Great contents thank you so much
You're welcome, Joel, glad you found this helpful! 🙂
I only recently started producing music, so I am still experimenting with what I want to make. At the moment I am addicted to hardcore and hard dance music. Genres like Hardstyle, Melodic Speedcore and Frenchcore frequently feature a super distorted kick with a long tail, that also functions as the bass. Of course sometimes this effect is achieved by building the "punch" and "tail" of the kick separately and then sampling them, but it is also common to just start with a regular kick sample(usually a 909 or something similar.)
One of my favorite synths for bass is a really old 32 bit plugin called Mainliner. It's capable of some amazing sub sounds once you can tame its dynamics.
Thanks for sharing, I will check it out :)
My favourite synth for bass is my Moog Voyager - really great bottom end.
I spend 90% of my time on the bass. Obsessed.
I already see merch coming out soon - "Bass obsessed" 😎
@@EDMTips im down with that
Nice vid 👍
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks Will
You're very welcome! 🙂
Great tutorial and excellent tune! Is it going to be released? I can't wait to hear the full version.
Thank you, glad you liked it!
I hope to finish som of the tunes this year :)
@@EDMTips That tune sounds like it would fit in with FSOE UV quite well :) I'm really liking it, keep us posted lol !
Discovered your channel recently and I’ve already learned a lot. Not sure if you already have a video on this, but would love to learn how to make a great mashup. I’m working on one with instrumentals/vocals that I ripped and idk how to make it sound professional, remove bleeding vocals. Would really appreciate you covering this in a future video!
Thank you, Arson, I am glad my videos have helped you so far!
Great suggestion, I will add this to my to-do list 😎
Love your films 🔥🎶👌
Appreciate it! 🙌🙏
amazing!
Thanks, glad you liked it! 🙂🙌🏻
"Assign LFO's all over the place"
lol, I actually choked on my drink when I heard that,
My job here is done then 😁
As a big fan of it and its amazing sounding in any song, I have to admit that Serum is my go-to VST. With its powerful synthesis capabilities, it's practically my personal sound design laboratory. I can whip up any sound I need with ease and finesse, making it my top pick for any project.
I have to agree with you - I use Serum most of the time and can create pretty much any sound I need/want
Most over-rated synth ever that one, piss poor filter with which sound like 15 year old algorithms inside, and uses way too much cpu for what it does.
@@wibblewobble1934super easy to use though
Great video. I mostly use Serum and Nexus but also use Massive a fair bit. I produce Complextro and Dubstep.
Thanks for sharing, TGA!
The big Will.........never disappoints....❤❤❤
Appreciate it! 🙌🙏
To much good 👏👏👏 I would like if you can do a video about Trance Bass 🙂
Thank you
You're welcome, glad it was helpful!
Serum was my go to synth, bought Ana2 today though so am having fun with that. I find it easier to get something nice out of it a lot quicker.
Ana2 is a great synth! What genre of music are you producing?
@@EDMTips UK Hardcore, DnB. anything over 170bpm generally.
in regards to your question. lately ive been usin a reese patch with logic studios 'alchemy' but generally id use spectrasonics omnisphere bass patches, then tweak an adjust to the track.
Nice! Thank you for letting me know, it's really helpful :)
Great video as always. I missed 1 thing, you didn't include the typical Trance bass, Camelphat's For a Feeling is a good example.
another nice vid WILLIAM!! 😜
Appreciate it! 🙌🙏 Thanks as always for watching and supporting!
@@EDMTips no problemo!!
thanks
Hey! I am using serum, really like this synth🙂. Learning to master it completely! I produce mostly house & techno music. Really wanna find a way to add my personal touch to it and develop my genre. Thanks for the tutorial!❤
You're welcome, glad you liked it! 🙂🙌🏻
Bass is the most challenging sound for me in general. I use MPC Software so I have hundreds of options to choose from.
Thanks for sharing, I'll check it out :)
Great tutorial! Thx! Let me ask a question about sub bass separation: What if i decided to create a straight 4x4 techno rumble kick and i wanna make it sound as fat as possible and as clean as possible before sending into the master limiter..so should i add a parallel separate sub bass channel to make kick sound fat in sub lows freq(40-55 hz)? should it be two channels: with just a kick with rumble(with cutted sub lows(40-55hz) and the second with just cutted subs...and then maybe rout them in another bus to glue together(using glue comp for example)...?
Nice Content :)
I personally prefer serum for Sounddesign, but Ana is also a great choice especially for the formant filters. I'm searching for Drumsamples for Trance, is there any not too expensive Pack which you can recommend?
Watch Alan Morrow
0:50 I love that base sound so much, i tried to create that kind of base since I heard "Mohican Sun - Don't Wait". You added something since you made the tutorial didn't you? wish you had shown how to make this one but great Video anyway!
Sylenth1 is the best VST Synth in the game, for all the EDM styles 🤟💯💫💥💥💥
That's quite a statement!
As a bit of a hybrid, you can have a smooth, steady bass, but with a filter or similar opening to create a bit of a rhythm to it in the way a plucked bass would.
Totally, great shout!
my short term goal is to watch 20 of your videos, follow them through completely and then I'm going to give my first song a shot, this is my 8th video so far, THANK YOU
Sounds good, Diego, keep up at it!
My favourite synth for bass Ableton live Wavetable
Solid choice!
Goat🙏🏻
Appreciate it! 🙌🙏
In Sylenth1 I trust, I know the PlugIn in and Out. Its a little bit old fashioned, but its still a good option for basic basses in my techno productions.
The Sylenth use you must! 😎
@@EDMTips 😂
Hey Will, how are you bro? Love your channel! Tkss for sharing so many nice stuffs. I'm trying to download the design bible but the e-mail never gets to me. Would you help me with any other way to get it?
I think this must be my favourite tutorial of all the ones you've made, so far - and that really says a lot!
Awesome! I am glad my videos have helped you so far!
And thank you for complimenting my beard 🧔♂️👍🏻
You cant say if its right or wrong, Beauty is in ear of the beholder.
Hey, I like the acid bass at 0:43 😂 Perhaps it's my love of that sound in early trance. Just turn it down a couple dB haha.
Top!
ERS Iblit > perfecto bass.
As requested, Iblit is monophonic and a bit Moogish, but with a right PWM and combination of oscillators, can create a very controlable sub-bass layer to reinforce the existing one.
It's an old plug-in from Andreas Ersson.
I've used this little tool for years to create funk, pop, electronica, electro, progrock and hundreds of tracks.
Sometimes, i've included in tracks i received to mix on demand, creating an easier to mix low end. Results are always fine.
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Opinions on sub bass, instead of using 2 serum channels like you did, is it ok to make a midi channel with operator for instance, just deep sub sine wav to fill that low end? Pros cons?
what would you called a running bass like you can find in trance and melodic house? is it plucky too?
i like VPS Avenger with his 8 Osc !
Oooh, interesting, I''l check it out!
What genre of music are you producing?
IK Multimedia ModoBass is fantastic
Thanks, I'll check it out! 🙂
I love 808
Yep, me too!
Tal bassline is the go to for authentic old school house.
Great suggestion, thank you!
Love ya will
Appreciate it! 🙌🙏
As a bass player since the 80's, I find this super interesting. EDM bass is such a strange beast. I'd like to work on EDM projects using "real" bass sounds (whatever it means) with the right effects added on top of it. To make it BIG, but SEXY and LIVE at the same time.
I'm especially exploring doubling my bass with VSTi instruments (Massive, Serum, Vital...), using Melodyne or VariAudio to create MIDI from my live performances. It currently forces me to simplify my bass playing, or edit the generated MIDI a lot. I'd like to find ways to make that process much simpler.
Watch some live videos of the bassist from Sunsquabi
In music production, i know for fact, there is never such thing like "wrong" or "right". Just general rules of convention. Sometimes "wrong" could be a huge idea and you're dropping it into the garbage.
Well. Either you have listeners or you won't. 😇
I truly believe in this ideology, we need to stop saying things ain't right.
That's true in Production..not in Mixing and Mastering if you want it to sound like record ready
@@foodstampz Daft Punk teaches. In an interview they said that the strong sidechain compression on samples was an actual mixing error. That sidechain made their sound imprint that producers still copying nowadays. When i made Bucci Bag in 2003, was a total mess in terms of mixing but the general feeling was catchy. It became a good international hit anyway. It's the idea that counts and the general feel that a track can transmit to the listeners. No "right" no "wrong" here. Just the capacity to produce "sound feelings", and it's mostly instinctive.
I loved 'Bucci Bag', but I'd kind of forgotten the hypnotic bass synth groove. (I just had to listen to it again and now I'm having electroclash flashbacks). The most memorable parts of that track for me were the vocal (so much attitude) and that ear-splitting snare/clap. Great track, Andrea. Straight off the plane from LA!
Gonna listen to duke dumont's i got u after this. Almost forgot about this track, This was from my teen days.
It's a nice track! 😎
@@EDMTips makes me feel heavy mate. A couple of other tracks of that era like sigma nobody to love or ready for your love by gorgon city. Miss that time :)
Mate what is the house tune from the right/wrong example?
To answer Will's Q: fave 3rd party synth = Serum & Pigments 3 (will eventually get to 4). My genre = dnb.
Meanwhile
Re: the dude with the over-gauge urban primitive earlobes that seems to randomly pop up on Will's b-roll (e.g. 5:33): Who tfk is he & *why* does randomly he appear in Will's vids? What's his origin story? How did he arrive at his curated his look & how long a process was *that* (e.g. wardrobe & facial hair stylez)? Does he have male pattern baldness (see: hat) & does he ever see daylight? Why does he always wear shades? Is he Burner? (methinks maybe?)
So many questions lol
Lol, this is a very deep rabbit hole 😁
Beautiful ❤️❤️😘
Thanks, I appreciate the support! 🙂🙌🏻
Korg Ms 20..synth
Impact soundworks Bass Sculptor..sound tool
Boz digital labs bark of dog.. Sound tool.
Span on master channel check your correlation meter and side low end..
Nice! Love it 🤘🏻
A casio PT-1 mini for lo-fi!! ;o
How did I miss this omnipresent synth 😂
Ableton operator is capable of simulating most all synthesizers. For that I consider it the best of the best.
Good point!
@@EDMTips really enjoying your channel. Excellent 🤙🏼 🤙🏼 🤙🏼
i use spire for bass...sometimes diva :)
Great choices! 👌🏻
0:30 jesus the first one sound 50x better than the “right” one, reminds me of salmon cannon by nanoray, love how the “wrong” one sounds way better
Thanks for the feedback!
Love You Will
Appreciate it! 🙌🙏
Man did you record the vocals in the first son or are they acapallas from some website?
Where can i find yout finished songs?
What do you think about multi band stereo imaging.
It’s great! I tend to use it just in the master channel
17:33 when she messages you back
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Still using Sylenth an awful lot. Never let me down.
Solid choice! What genre of music you're producing?
I think Will's begun TRT! Look at that beard! ;)
Moral of the story; it's about the pjaooow's and bjaoow's , the thoof's and the dhoof's!
I can concur with that 😊