3 Kick and Bass Secrets Every Music Producer MUST Learn!
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- This is THE definitive Low-end, kick and bass, sub bass tutorial. It’s the bedrock foundation of any electronic dance music track, so once and for all - here’s how to do it right - all the way from sound design, through composition, layering and mixing.
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In this tutorial, we cover…
00:00 - The importance of getting the low-end right
01:02 - Step 1.1 - Waveform
01:51 - Step 1.2 - Pitch
02:21 - Step 1.3 - Harmonics
04:22 - Step 1.4 - EQ
04:44 - Part 2 - Layering
04:57 - Step 2.1 - Sound Selection
10:27 - Step 2.2 - Levels
12:00 - Step 2.3 - EQ
14:55 - Part 3: Mixing
15:17 - Step 3.1: Balancing
15:14 - Step 3.2: Sidechaining
22:37 - Step 3.3: Mono vs Stereo
22:57 - Step 3.4: Final EQ
26:00 - Picking the perfect bass for your track
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Great video! Also: loving the new video layout showing the macro and micro focus and how far into the concept it is. Wonderful job!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! 🙂🙌🏻
Honestly! it is unbelievable with what positive energy and passion you do all this and thank you so much because my level has become much better in a very short time
So glad this has helped you! Thank you for the kind words it means a lot :)
Welcome Nick. Great start with this fabulous tutorial
Excellent video, very well explained. Learnt lots. The very last section on EQ was new to me.
Super nice one! Thanks Nick for really in-dept tips & tricks. I liked the Serum tip with the add-on process and FX macros the most. Great video
Cheers, Thomas, glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
Thanks as always for watching and supporting the channel! 🙌🏻
this was great thanks. I would love to see an in-depth tutorial on the multiband sidechain compression!
I learned so much from this thanks Nick. I've taught myself production for 9 months now, and haven't really spent any substantial time tweaking low-end like this. I've tried all of the techniques on the current track I'm working on, and WOW, my mix sounds so much louder and punchier! it actually hits just about as hard as the reference track I'm using. My love of this craft just went up a notch or two based on this! Great content thank you.
This is great, I am really glad you found this helpful! :)
Anything else in particular you’re struggling with and would like us to cover on the channel?
That is so great to hear! really glad this helped thank you for the kind words :) Cheers!
Very clear and useful. Thank you.
Wow! This is probabably the best music production video I've watched this year! Lot's of priceless gems. Fantastic work guys and thanks for the info!
BOOM! We're both stoked to hear that! Anything else you would like us to cover on the channel? :)
@@EDMTips Haha, it really was an outstanding video. As for anything else... Would love to know more about mono compatability ranging from choosing correct sounds to what things affect it such as layering, effects etc and how to deal with issues related to this. Thanks again for the videos. SM
Great idea, I will add this to the list :)
Juste le meilleur tuto de toute la chaîne concernant le Low end 👏
It help me a lot to understand more and to be confident on what I’m doing.
Thanks Will for all your work 💯
You're very welcome, I am really glad you found this helpful 🙂🙌🏻
Great video! Good job on your first video, Nick!
Totally agree! Thanks for watching and supporting the channel, Judge! 🙂🙌🏻
This was an excellent video, thank you, you're a great teacher
Cheers, glad you found it helpful! 🙂🙌🏻
Im going through playlist and first time I have seen you. Amazing quality from both .
Thank you so much, we really appreciate the support!
Amazing video! Thanks again Will!
You're welcome! Glad you found it helpful 🙂
Thanks as usual for watching and supporting the channel 🙌🏻
Nicely done ❤
TOP ! Great video ! Thanks !
Thank you, I am glad you enjoyed! Anything else you would like Nick to cover in the future? :)
Thanks for this great Video ,Nick
Amen!
I am eternally grateful for this video, thank you very much.
You're welcome, glad you found it helpful!
Thanks for watching and supporting the channel 🙂
Amazing tutorial again Will! thanks a lot
You're welcome, Emiran, I am glad you found it useful 🙂
Epic tutorial! Nicely done!
Cheers, glad you liked it!
Thank you as always for watching and supporting the channel! :)
super concise explanation. well done.
Thank you, glad it was helpful! 🙂
nice tips!
I need to play around with mid-side eq more.
Nice, saving this for reference
Awesome, glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
Wills made a friend
Hah, I deserve friends too, you know 😎
Glad you found it helpful! Thanks for watching and supporting!
Brand new to this world! Really appreciate the video
Awesome, glad you found it helpful! Anything else in particular you’re struggling with and would like us to cover on the channel?
Superb! As always
Thank you, glad you found it helpful! 🙌🏻
Nice video, well explained!!!
Thank you, glad you liked it! 🙂🙌🏻
By the way... you have the most important channel in this topic. THANKS A LOT. It took me years to get a somehow nice result. BUT: You made my music sound better in just a couple of tutorials. YOU ARE THE BEST!!!
Thank you….I’m really glad I’ve helped! 🙌🙌
This was a friggin awesome video!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! 🙂🙌🏻
Nice tutorial!
I did remixing for several large labels and was also an artist on them in various capacities. I like my bass with a low cut at 50hz and my kick at 40hz before I do anything else like parralel compression and or side chaining. This lets the bass sit on top of the kick from the get go, anything lower than about 35 Hz robs energy of your track and will mask other elements, I always have my lowest element rolled off below 40Hz and then when mastering have the lows rolled off at 35Hz just for safety sake.
Yours is my favourite channel about music production.
Ah, cheers! Thank you for watching and supporting the channel 🙂
Very helpfull - many Thanks Nick
Glad you found it useful! 🙂🙌🏻
Glad you enjoyed! lots more to come.
I saw that 😎
great video !!! Just one thought for the MID Side part: the elliptical equalizer filter (most plugins have it as a "mono maker" ) is more precise and depends on the frequency spectrum of the mix, bringing less Phase issues than the current way of the MID SIDE LOW pass filters
My goodness I can apply this to any Genre❗️✊🏾
Thanks
Absolutely! Glad you found it helpful :)
Anything else in particular you’re struggling with and would like us to cover on the channel?
Nice video. I completely forgot about the Mid Side function on the EQ 8.. Thanks!
Indeed! The EQ8 is way more powerful than it seems at first glance! Happy to help!
Nick has been my mentor for years. He’s incredible, so cool to see him on here!!!
He is awesome, i agree to you ❤❤❤
Totally agree :)
What were your results? 🥳😏
@@tommyfreudenthal8084 well any success I’ve achieved I can definitely attribute to Nick’s mentorship, 3+ mil streams, festivals, club shows, etc…
Rock on!
Excellent merci beaucoup ! 👌
You're welcome, glad it was helpful 🙂🙌🏻
It's funny how this guy mixes almost exactly the way I do. But I still learned quite a bit. Thanks!
You're welcome, glad you found it helpful 🙌🏻
Super useful! Would love to see how to put together the rack for the multiband compression from scratch.
Great idea! Perhaps we can do this in a future video :)
Great tutorial
Cheers, glad you found it helpful! Anything else in particular you’re struggling with and would like me to cover on the channel?
Awesome video Nick bro ❤❤❤
Cheers, glad you liked it! 🙌🏻
@@EDMTips yes very much, he's been a friend now from long time ❤️
I watched a whole lot videos on bass level balancing etc. an I really have to say this one covers a whole lot.
And it does it so well! So thanks for the energy you guys put into this one!
Only thing I can imagine is to add informations about using an oscilloscope to analyse phase issues between kick and sub bass.
You're welcome, glad you found it helpful :)
Thanks for the info, I will try it out!
@@EDMTipsyeah, would be awesome to see a video about it on your channel.
The best free oscilloscopes for comparing multiple waveforms etc. on Mac could be occularScope and on Windows PSYSCOPE.
The best payed one could be Oszillos Mega Scope.
I will add this to my very long list and let's see what's going to happen :)
Hi Will! Great video as always! Do you think you could show us how to make a song like operation blade from public domain please.
Niiiiice vid William!!!! Hope your well bro x
Cheers, Jay! I am well :)
Thanks as always for watching and supporting the channel!
@@EDMTips no problemo pal
thanks !!
You're welcome! 😊
his chain is interesting bro, like 3 sidechains. great.
Some great Infos right there...👍👍👍 Thx for sharing...🍻🍻🍻
I love the Mid-Side EQ. In FL Studio you can find the Mid-Side EQ as a preset in Patcher. Great tool and very underrated...👍
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Great tip! Thanks for the info! 🙌🏻
Excellent video! The bit about Multiband compression is where I didn't quite get it - did he load multiple plugins on separate Bass groups or 3 plugins on just Bass mix group and solo each band?
My boy has the whole AU5 preset library :D
Very nice!
Thank you, glad you liked it!🙂🙌🏻
This is tonnes useful. The m/s EQ trick was new to me and makes quite a difference, the bass gets clearer in the stereo field. And the multiband sidechain compression tip is also a gem.
Thank you, we're super stoked you liked it! 🙌🏻
Did you put the eq m/s in the master mix or the master bass mix ?
great my friend ✌☺🙌
Thank you, glad you liked it! 🙂🙌🏻
very useful tips .... i wonder if we can have a download link for the multi sidechain rack its awesome
Good idea! I’ll sort it tomorrow :)
We like Nick! Good choice Will
Stoked to hear that! Anything else you'd like Nick to cover on the channel? :)
@@EDMTips Just give him a free leash m8..I trust him as much as I trust u😀
No leashes were used in the making of this video 😎😁
Great video. Thanks a lot. Bass layering was completely new to me, as well as using the m/s on the master (if I got that right). I usually use m/s-eq on tracks, but obviosly this seems to be more effective and time/cpu-saving.
I'm pretty new in producing and ableton, so what about a little tutorial about multiband side-chaining and how to set up a rack like he did on our own?
Another question, what about you analyzing and rating tracks, you're viewers send you? Maybe in a different series of videos, where you pick out some examples for good and Bad mixing and mastering and show us how to make it better and where the mistakes are? I think this would be a good way to demonstrate how to avoid common mistakes, you don't even think about anymore.
Have a nice day folks. Big thx for your channel, i've learned a lot here.
These are great suggestions, I will add them to my list! :)
With regards to reviewing tracks, we do it inside the EDM TIps Academy each week and this is where we provide our students with more value, so for now, we will keep it this way :)
Thanks for watching and supporting the channel, really appreciate it! :)
@@EDMTips thanks for your answer 🙂 reviewing for "student-only" makes sense 🙂
Great tips, for sure!!!
Thank you!
I suggest you give the Devious Machine DUCK plugin a try.
It has lookahead, highpass lowpass frequency filters, MIDI, sound, and DAW clock triggering.
I think you'll like it....
Awesome, glad you liked it!
Great suggestion, we will check it out! :)
this is professional
Appreciate it! 🙌🙏
There is so much detailed and useful information 😶🌫😱😳
Stoked you found this helpful! Anything else you’d like us to cover on the channel? 🙂
Hey. I am just happy people with such knowledge share it and inspire us to make music. :) But if I am to choose something I don't know a lot of, it will probably be creating the atmosphere and the background sounds and effects. I can choose my main sounds, but the mix sounds a bit simple and I am not sure how to make it sound more complex and interesting.
Great idea, Peter, I will add this to my list :)
Nick de Grace - i mean common: that name has to stand for huge quality! :D Thanks a lot, Nick!
100% true! :)
its really helpful this thanks, i seem too have my bass sounding pretty good in ableton but as soon as i export the track i seem too get a lot of rumble that i cant here while in ableton, theres obviously a reason for this but i dont have a clue what it is?
Wow could he do a instrument mixing video too 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thanks for the suggestion! We'll add this to our list :)
Hey with that final EQ on the master, wont the Mid part take out the Sub bass for club speakers?
You should release this song!!
7:12 how do you get the blue light band to show up on the noise level knob? Is there some switch?
Awesome video! Question: Why remove the lowest fundamental of mid range if you’re going to high pass that part out anyway?
Even though the chance is minor, it still makes a difference in the way the distortion works. Distortion usually changes for me based on if I remove the fundamental or not.
Does "Lead - Swarm" come with Serum or is that a separate preset you have to get? I can't find it in my menus. :(
was just in the studio with a great producer and he told me for sidchaine always use the mix to 100 in kickstart 2 but i feel u want a bit of base to mix with the kick.... maybe to 90 how do u guys feel
It depends on the kick, the bass, and the effect you’re going for
Is the sub bass frequencies from 0-80hz?
Is it worth picking a kick that doesn't have the same fundamental frequency as the sub? Or does sidechaining make that not really matter?
Always try to pick a sub bass and kick that have different fundamental frequencies.
You can make anything "work," but in the case of overlapping frequencies, you're just going to be peeling back unavoidable masking as opposed to avoiding masking completely
Also, unless your bassline is a single note repeat, you're going to find that each note has a different perceived loudness based on how much it is or isn't being masked by the kick.
You can address all of these issues with the right FX to some degree, but your better bet will always be to pick non-conflicting elements from the start of a project
Sine for life
🙂🙌🏻
Wow! thanks Nick. This really helped me, my bass always sounded like I have no bass at all. But after applying this technique my speakers are literally rumbling.
Perfect! Glad it was helpful! :)
Anything else you're struggling with and would like Nick or me to cover on the channel?
8:18 what is "OTT"?
Does this work for Pop?
Does this apply to trap? Do we have to do this with our 808s to get our kicks blending nicely
This could defintely apply to almost any genre. Using a second distorted layer on top of your clean 808 would work nicely together.
@@INITIATE_MUSICawesome 👌 👏 👍 appreciate your help 🙏
What Nick said :)
Nice video, probably aimed more for beginners. Same info I've seen over the last 10 years on TH-cam - cheers!
Cheers for the feedback, really appreciate it! 🙌🏻
How does one properly layer a techno rumble with a more melodic sounding bassline?
Probably filter out the low end of the melodic bassline
It would be a rare track that has both, though. Are you sure you need that?
3:33
Is Shaun White now a music teacher?!😅
I had to look him up! 😆
Hey i know. Just get a top flight analog synth. Who would have thought of that!
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Crazy how you haven’t teached him the natural color of bass 😂
I blinked and you went from sub-bass to having two more layers. When did I miss the third one?
Tactical comment no 2.
6:50 filter before you distort.
This is amazing.
Thank you, glad you found it helpful! 🙂
do a GEE LEE tutorial
What's your favourite track of his? I'll check him out
@@EDMTips fast life
All these newbies would be screwed without a digital read out or spectrum analyser. Use your ears and get used to it without the visuals
We all have to start somewhere. If you tell a beginner producer to use their ears, that will lead to a lot of unnecessary grief, I am afraid.
Now Put in mono 😅
Hey i like your videos and hit the like button on this one + subscribed but to say "this is the most in depth low end tutorial you will find anywhere on the internet" is well untrue.. as a producer with 7 years of experience this is not super in depth but more intermediate.... Not a huge fan of the dishonest sales pitch
why you guys always Layer your bassline sound ? i mean is it really that necessary ? maybe on this genre only i guess...very specific method,not helpfull for my genre of choice.i apply some of these methods already,but this guy has no idea of phase alignment,its not only "we use sidechain and its ready" because this applies only for that specific baseline,as where in different midi notes you need to avoid phase cancellation which is a completely different part which i didnt see anywhere being mentioned...
I followed EDM Tips to see William here. Hope you respect that in the future. With all due respect dear Nick can have his own channel. Thanks
Thanks for the feedback, Brian!
Nick is a part of EDM Tips and has a wealth of knowledge to share :)
Damn precise and efective tutorial🫶🏽🙃 thanks a lot
You're welcome, Dani, glad you found it helpful! 🙌🏻