Check out part 1 here "How to mix kicks": th-cam.com/video/Sa9jEey1c3o/w-d-xo.html ☑️ Get Fabfilter Pro Q3 here: www.pluginboutique.com/meta_product/2-Effects/16-EQ/4957-FabFilter-Pro-Q-3?a_aid=5d496680b59cd ☑️ Get the LFO tool here: www.pluginboutique.com/product/2-Effects/33-Modulator/824-Xfer-LFO-Tool-Modulator-Effect?a_aid=5d496680b59cd ☑️ Download the free SPAN plugin: www.voxengo.com/product/span/ Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/firewalkmusic Want professional feedback on your track? Mixing or Mastering? www.fiverr.com/firewalk
Honestly dude, you explain things in such depth yet make it really easy to understand. This is a truly outstanding video that I'm gonna refer to a lot when mixing stuff. Thank you!!!
Chris Perkins Remember, Always Use Your Ears When Mixing, Not Your Eyes. This Is A Great Template To Start With, Making Adjustments To Fit Your Genre, And Personal Style.
This is an old video but for some reason i always look for tuts from Firewalk The way he explain not to long or not to quick. Just perfect! A great FL teacher! 👍
Thanks! Glad you like the videos! The great thing with videos like this is that even though they are not brand new, the content is still as relevant today as when they were made. If I were to make a video about this today, then I would have done it exactly the same way :)
Hey man, great job on these videos. I remember months ago, I had great ideas but my mixing was so terrible that everything I made sounded like complete garbage. Then I found this channel and the results are freaking phenomenal. Your videos have helped me go from knowing nothing, to the point where I can produce some decent results. Thank you. This is by far THE GREATEST tutorial chanel for producers on TH-cam.
Thank you, I'm very glad to hear that. That's why I started this channel in the first place, so it's great to hear that people find the videos helpful! :)
i can say that after watch your (how to mix series )and this , my song finally start sounding like a song , thank you FireWalk, love your channel so much.....
Create an aux for you bass track and add the rbass plugin, set it to the root note of your track... go a step further and create another aux send from your bass track and set that to x2 the freq of the first Rbass for even higher harmonics. Mix the three tracks to taste paying attention to their combined.. then Smile
Hey man, thanks for getting to the point. A lot of these YTers want to tell a story or act a certain way(loud and obnoxious) for views and I end up Xing the video 30secs in. Its nice to see a video thats not pretension. Time is money 💯
Great tutorial FireWalker, appreciate it to explain us all. Also i love the way we can see on the timeline the main titles so if we are in search for tsomething specific info we can fast forward to it.❤💯
Thanks, glad you like the videos. I know there are a number of people using other daws who watch these videos, so I always try to make my mixing videos and such relevant for everyone :)
Really great video. I got to know many things by this video. We thank you for putting in so much of time and research to help producers like us. I also am requesting a lot regarding mixing noise to EDMs. And it's importance. Please do make a video on that too. Thank you 😀
I know. But I generally find it easier to just use a list rather than load another EQ and then start menu diving to find all the frequencies, besides, I wanted to show the coloration between frequencies and notes. There's also a lot of people watching these mixing videos who's using other daws than FL Studio, and for that reason it's usually better to use simple tools that everyone can use, and not just FL studio owners :)
Great video tutorials here, and I don't even use FL Studio! Your voice is great...it's kind of a cross between the narrator for "How It's Made", and the guy who narrates "MotorWeek"!!!
4 years ago I couldn't grasp this,4 Years later I'm saying ooooooh that's what firewalk talking about i get it now...on the flip side of this is help to those like me who love to have a punchy sub bass following your bass notes of a melodic pattern in your compositions
Brilliant video this has helped me massively with processing my sub bass, i just wondered why you move the eq with low and hi cut to the bottom at the end?
Solid concepts. Though I would say that on the demo song on this video you don't really need compression because the notes never change, and you don't really need side chaining because your subs on the offbeat anyways and doesn't even start until the kick is pretty much gone and stops before the kick sweeps down into the sub region (and in many cases this can be accomplished more cleanly/simpler just by adjusting the envelopes on the subsynth)✌️
Not sure if u touched on this but I’d like to add something that is pretty important for low end. Don’t use plugins that make everything go to mono by summing the left and right channels. E.g. don’t set the low end band of ozone’s imager to 100% narrow. Because if there’s side info it’ll just sum it to mono and sound bad, so u haven’t achieved anything. I think the safest way is to just use mid side eq and do a high pass of the side frequencies. Great stuff!
That's true, but in this case we're using a sub bass, which in most cases are just a (more or less) pure sine, and those don't tend to have much side information, so it won't change much when summed to mono. In other cases though, you're better off just putting the ultra low frequencies in mono and then let everything else be spread out a bit. :)
Thanks Firewalk! I like your example of the frequency identification based on the Key of the bass and then boost while taking the ones that are not in the scale of F. This was fine for the dance beat, how will it work for example on a song in the key of F, as there are many chords that will apply in a song For eg. F, Am, Dm, A#, C as a normal progression? Which frequencies do we work in this case?
Wow I feel so dull. I've been mixing for 7 years and I EQ in all sorts of ways, but for some reason I always was trying to get my sub bass to be cleaner through heavy handed notches. I just didn't even think of lightly touching up the fundamentals. Facepalm.... thanks!
It's not always needed. However, for basses that sounds a bit "detuned" or that just doesn't sit quite right with the other sounds, this trick can make all the difference :)
Hi! Nice tutorials you have made. Could you do tutorial with maximus? I have used it a lot but I still feel like you could open it´s secrects in short tutorial.
Can someone help me figure out /learn more about what is happening at 7:47 -9:27 please . I get the idea but I have little to know practice , know how or how to know which frequency aren’t in f minor etc . The frequency chart from earlier im guessing ( along with a graph/ chart showing the f minor keys etc ) is how I can more or less how I will figure out by process of elimination which of what notes ( I don’t know how well or NOT I’m explaining this LOL. ) are technically in or not in f minor-- looking forward to practicing this ASAP-- I cant wait to watch more of your channel . So glad I found this and you !! ( I’ve never full grasped some stuff in this area of producing . You have the perfect way of explaining it more my brain . 🙏 grateful !! Thanks again.
There are helpers in the piano roll to show you the various scales, which will then be indicated when choosen. You can also download midi files to help you, by making ghost notes, and you can also just google any scale, like "A minor scale" for example, and it will tell you the notes in that scale.
Hi. Thank you for such an insightful and genuinely useful tutorial, very much valued. Subscribed. Please could I ask, with regard of removing unwanted frequencies of the sub bass (in accord with the musical scale), how would you adapt this technique such as when the sub bass is not just a constant as it is here, but say if it is a pattern/shifting etc? My guess is automation with the EQ’ing that tracks the corresponding note changes, unless there’s any easier method?? Thank you guys kindly
The idea is to just make small subtle changes to make the root note sound good. By removing frequencies that's not in the scale, it shouldn't interfere with any of the notes in the scale but will instead help to make it sound more in key overall. I wouldn't use this technique on leads for example, but for a sub bass with low frequencies it's no problem.
super detailed video!!! I have a question though.When you took out the unwanted frequencies and boosted the frequency which is in the key,what will I do in the situation where I have a bassline consisting of more than one note?
Hi, it's the root note, and the corrections are minor so you shouldn't have do worry about it. If you want to know the key of a track just by listening to it you could use a piano and start pressing keys constantly while the chord progressions go by. Once you find the key you can press constantly, and it sounds good regardless of which chord is playing, you've most likely found the key of the track. Therefore, boosting the fundamental frequencies of the root note, and taking out some of those that's not in the scale won't have a negative effect when the notes change.
Fl stock plugins will give you the same result folks.. eq (boost and cut) then FL waveshaper for light saturation then another eq to remove some of the higher harmonics added from saturation then a compressor/limiter to control the volume and give it a light glue...sidechain with grosssbeat. learn your DAW stock plugins they might not look as fancy but they do the same job😎👍
FL Studio have some great plugins to begin with, and it's true that you'll be able to get most things done with the stock plugins. That said, some third party plugins can offer things that the stock plugins can't. For example the Pro Q plugin offers 96 dB pr octave slopes, which is ideal for reducing resonant frequencies and such. PEQ2 can't produce slopes that steep, so you'll end up taking out a much wider frequency range. In terms of compressors, they all basically do the same thing, but there's still much difference in how they sound. Some emulate analogue gear and add warmth that others don't and so on. In the end of the day though, we're all different and we all perceive sound differently, so I always tell people to just use whatever plugin they like. :)
@@FireWalkMusic do a blind test using stock and 3rd party plugins ...99% of punters wont notice and the other 1% wont care ,,,I have used most and yeah the fancy ones can get you there quicker sometimes ..there is no right or wrong in the tools used to be creative...use what you like, Im just letting the young producers out there know(probably your main demographic )that are on a budget.... they don't need to buy the latest vsts with all the bells and whistles to produce good music ...luxury not a necessity 😉👍
They didn't. Modern music production can' really be compared to the way it used to be. Even the pros didn't have access to the kind of processing and tools the average bedroom producer has today. Back in the early days there was no EQ at all. If you listen to some old trance classics from the 90's and compare them to modern tracks, you'll hear that they lack crispness and sound a bit muddy overall.
great video, couple questions. When using EQ to remove some of the notes not found in the scale, what happens when the bass is playing a different note, as the EQ is static, would it cause any of the other notes to sound worse? The other question is when adding LFO tool to the kick, because your cutting off the end of the kick would you then need to reintroduce sub content? Thanks!
Presumably you'll be using notes that's within the scale you're in, so lowering harmonics that's outside of the scale shouldn't interfere with any important tonal frequencies. This will ensure that the sub bass sounds more in key overall. Regarding the kick, in this case the lfo tool only removes the last part of the tale from the kick, so no important low end content is lost. This avoids overlap between the kick and the sub, and creates a stronger low end overall.
Question! When iam recording vocals, fl Studio randomly chooses the track to record to on the playlist, can " I " choose a specific track to record to on the playlist??
And what is the processing order for saturation? Should I put my saturation plugin before or after the compression? It seems to make more sense to put it after, but I have no clue what the proper technique is.
The order of the processing is important and produces a very different result. Generally, when it comes to plugins before or after a compressor the general rule is the same as with EQ, when you place it before the compressor it generally produces a warmer and rounder sound, but when placed after the compressor it often produces a cleaner and clearer sound. It all depends on what you're after. :)
Hi, can you please make tutorial on how to make a mixing template for beats, (kick, 808, clap, snare, hi hat, open hat, percs & more)? Would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
Nice, any tutorial about what quality should be send to Spotify ,iTunes ,beatport, they have different file format and different peak level,label distributer only want 1 single wav file. So how the music streaming site process my audio.thanx
I was really digging the video until I saw you use Bing at around 4 minutes.. Had to leave after that. lol jk phenomenal video, you're a great instructor.
haha :P Actually I use Chrome as my default browser, but it's so messed up with all kind of crap so I decided to use explorer for the purpose of this video, since it's nice and clean :D
I chedked the effect ot TP Basslane to make the subbass mono. Turns out it doesnt actually put everything below 100hz to mono if u put the knob to 100. The problem with this is that it has a tiny 6db/octave slope. So there will still be plenty of stereo information available. I don't know about a free VST to solve this but with fabfilter pro-q u can use 96db/octave slopes and mono-fy it with that.
Hey, this is quit common for most of these plugins. The reason is that a steep slope of 96dB pr octave will change the sound very abruptly, and can cause issues, for example if you have a bass note playing F, which will end up right above the threshold, and then it goes down to a C which will end up below the threshold. The two will then sound very different. By having a gradual slope the change happens more gradually and won't be so noticeable.
Hey, first: thanks for the tutorials - they are great! :) I just have a (maybe dumb) question regarding TP BassLane: couldn't you just put it on the master in the end of the mix and set it to like 100hz? So that you have every frequency in this spectrum in Mono?
There are no dumb questions, just dumb answers. :) At least that's what my mom used to tell me. Yes, you are correct. You could do that. you usually want different things to have different amount of mono information. It's generally a good idea to make sure that everything below 80 hz is mono, so in that regard you could use that on the Master. However, you want various other elements to have everything below say 200 hz in mono, and some things 100 and so on. There's no harm in doing both :)
@@FireWalkMusic Thanks for the response! Haha, my mom used to say that, too. I think I just wasn't sure and thought it might be a drastical thing to do. :) Ah ok, that does make sense! Overall I really want to thank you again. You answered a lot of questions that I had when it comes to mixing. I wish you all the best for the future and keep the high quality content that you deliver. Greetings from Germany/Berlin! :)
Are you refering to the text hints? It's just some general compression hints. Most people don't use the fruity compressor and gain is usually just used to compensate for any volume loss, since compression in general tend to make a sound quieter by nature. Some plugins will be slightly different in the way they operate, but at the end of the day they generally do exactly the same thing.
Check out part 1 here "How to mix kicks": th-cam.com/video/Sa9jEey1c3o/w-d-xo.html
☑️ Get Fabfilter Pro Q3 here:
www.pluginboutique.com/meta_product/2-Effects/16-EQ/4957-FabFilter-Pro-Q-3?a_aid=5d496680b59cd
☑️ Get the LFO tool here:
www.pluginboutique.com/product/2-Effects/33-Modulator/824-Xfer-LFO-Tool-Modulator-Effect?a_aid=5d496680b59cd
☑️ Download the free SPAN plugin:
www.voxengo.com/product/span/
Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/firewalkmusic
Want professional feedback on your track? Mixing or Mastering? www.fiverr.com/firewalk
Wow cool ok thanks
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Honestly dude, you explain things in such depth yet make it really easy to understand. This is a truly outstanding video that I'm gonna refer to a lot when mixing stuff. Thank you!!!
Thanks! Glad you found it useful. I always try to make things as simple as possible. :)
Chris Perkins Remember, Always Use Your Ears When Mixing, Not Your Eyes.
This Is A Great Template To Start With, Making Adjustments To Fit Your Genre, And Personal Style.
Yo bro I couldn't find the TP bass line in FL studio, 2:44
@@KTrill-xs2md It's not an FL Studio plugin but is a free VST you can download, just Google it 👍
This is an old video but for some reason i always look for tuts from Firewalk The way he explain not to long or not to quick. Just perfect! A great FL teacher! 👍
Thanks! Glad you like the videos! The great thing with videos like this is that even though they are not brand new, the content is still as relevant today as when they were made. If I were to make a video about this today, then I would have done it exactly the same way :)
Hey man, great job on these videos. I remember months ago, I had great ideas but my mixing was so terrible that everything I made sounded like complete garbage. Then I found this channel and the results are freaking phenomenal. Your videos have helped me go from knowing nothing, to the point where I can produce some decent results. Thank you. This is by far THE GREATEST tutorial chanel for producers on TH-cam.
Thank you, I'm very glad to hear that. That's why I started this channel in the first place, so it's great to hear that people find the videos helpful! :)
i can say that after watch your (how to mix series )and this , my song finally start sounding like a song , thank you FireWalk, love your channel so much.....
Thanks! Glad you found the videos useful :)
*Legend back with sick tutorials*
Thanks! :)
Omg thank you for this! Life changing . That frequency chart though! Thanks a million . Something big clicked
You're welcome :)
you've drastically improved the way I handle my bass from now on, Thank you so much! This is incredible
You're welcome! Glad you found it helpful :)
Create an aux for you bass track and add the rbass plugin, set it to the root note of your track... go a step further and create another aux send from your bass track and set that to x2 the freq of the first Rbass for even higher harmonics. Mix the three tracks to taste paying attention to their combined.. then Smile
hi chris
Wonderful and in depth. I love the sense of professionalism. Thank you very much!
Thanks! Glad you liked it :)
Just found these tutorials / Massive thanks for explaining things in a clear and straightforward way / This will help me a lot :)
You're welcome. Glad you found it helpful :)
Hey man, thanks for getting to the point. A lot of these YTers want to tell a story or act a certain way(loud and obnoxious) for views and I end up Xing the video 30secs in. Its nice to see a video thats not pretension. Time is money 💯
Great tutorial FireWalker, appreciate it to explain us all. Also i love the way we can see on the timeline the main titles so if we are in search for tsomething specific info we can fast forward to it.❤💯
Thanks! Glad you liked it 😀
Thank you for great tutorials. Simple easy explanation gives all the necessary information.
Thanks, glad you liked the video :)
thanks for this!! its very useful tips and amazing content full of knowledge and wisdom,subscribed!
you're so clear and straightforward, thanks!
Thanks, you're welcome
These kind of tutorials... love them. Very helpfull
Glad you like the videos! :)
Very impressive video an you explain all this things about bass ,this video really help me to sort out bass and kick Thank you!!
Thanks, glad you found it helpful :)
The videos you make are great! Thank you!
Thanks! Glad you like them :)
Thank u so much!💯
This helped me so much, thanks once again.
You're welcome
Solid. Thank you!
You're the best FireWalk, great advanced and easy to understand tutorial !!
Thanks! Glad you liked it :)
Yo bro I couldn't find the TP bass line in FL studio, @
@@KTrill-xs2md Hi, it's not a native FL Studio plugin. I believe you can find the download link in the video description. It's a free plugin.
in the age where everyone is just making content for engagement its difficult to find such high quality content to learn from thankyou guruji
Interesting and rare infromation in here. Thank you!
You're welcome. Glad you liked the video :)
you are a legend thank you so much for sharing your knowledge 🙏🏾
You're welcome :)
thank you for your tutorials, ive learned so much from watching your tutorials
Some excellent tips here!
Glad you liked it! 🙂
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge!
You're welcome :)
smart to hunt for frequency not in the scale, never thought about this!
Incredible tutorials thanks so much
Thanks, you're welcome :)
Great job, thank u for the help
This is gold 🥇
Glad you found it helpful! :)
This is gold, Thank you
Thanks! Glad you liked it :)
Great Video!!!
Glad you enjoyed it
Great videos !!
Thanks :)
THANK YOU FOR THE CLASS!
@@LloydMajor you're welcome 😊
AMAZING tutorial !!!
Thanks! Glad you liked it :)
Thanks man! I don't even have FL studio,I'm Presonus Studio One user but I don't skip single video from *FireWalk* .
🔥 👣
Thanks, glad you like the videos. I know there are a number of people using other daws who watch these videos, so I always try to make my mixing videos and such relevant for everyone :)
Lol, Same Here Mate. Except I've Been Loving & Using This #FLStudio Shit & It's Awesome 😉
I Now Use #StudioOne For My Vocals & For Mastering 🙂
these videos are gems
Thanks, glad you found my videos helpful :)
Really great video. I got to know many things by this video. We thank you for putting in so much of time and research to help producers like us. I also am requesting a lot regarding mixing noise to EDMs. And it's importance. Please do make a video on that too. Thank you 😀
Thanks, glad you like the videos, and thanks for the suggestion, I'll put it on my list. :)
@@FireWalkMusic Thank you very much. I appreciate your help
Thanks dude! Really helpful!
You're welcome :)
The tutorial I want to know..
Keep sharing
Glad you liked it:)
Perfect tutorials
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iam an ableton user, but this video is so clear and precise and very informative.. great work..
Thanks! Glad you liked it 😊
tnx 4 tips....another good one
You're welcome :)
4:04 You can Find the Fundamental frequencies in parametric EQ by right clicking a Band and Selecting Key......
I know. But I generally find it easier to just use a list rather than load another EQ and then start menu diving to find all the frequencies, besides, I wanted to show the coloration between frequencies and notes. There's also a lot of people watching these mixing videos who's using other daws than FL Studio, and for that reason it's usually better to use simple tools that everyone can use, and not just FL studio owners :)
Mate thankyou so much, exactly what i was looking for, my bass sounded so flat and not it sounds proffesional
Glad you found it helpful! :)
Great video tutorials here, and I don't even use FL Studio! Your voice is great...it's kind of a cross between the narrator for "How It's Made", and the guy who narrates "MotorWeek"!!!
Thanks! :)
4 years ago I couldn't grasp this,4 Years later I'm saying ooooooh that's what firewalk talking about i get it now...on the flip side of this is help to those like me who love to have a punchy sub bass following your bass notes of a melodic pattern in your compositions
Brilliant video this has helped me massively with processing my sub bass, i just wondered why you move the eq with low and hi cut to the bottom at the end?
Thanks you helped me
Glad you found it helpful :)
I never though of the scale reference. Genius.
Glad you found it helpful :)
Solid concepts. Though I would say that on the demo song on this video you don't really need compression because the notes never change, and you don't really need side chaining because your subs on the offbeat anyways and doesn't even start until the kick is pretty much gone and stops before the kick sweeps down into the sub region (and in many cases this can be accomplished more cleanly/simpler just by adjusting the envelopes on the subsynth)✌️
Thanks!
You're welcome :)
Great teacher
Thanks! :)
Helpful!
Thanks :)
Very clear, thanks! Can you also do a video on mixing 808's?
Thanks. It's on my list, but I can't guarantee when it will be
I've been turning these into Kshmr chain presets XD Thanks very much
Not sure if u touched on this but I’d like to add something that is pretty important for low end. Don’t use plugins that make everything go to mono by summing the left and right channels. E.g. don’t set the low end band of ozone’s imager to 100% narrow. Because if there’s side info it’ll just sum it to mono and sound bad, so u haven’t achieved anything. I think the safest way is to just use mid side eq and do a high pass of the side frequencies. Great stuff!
That's true, but in this case we're using a sub bass, which in most cases are just a (more or less) pure sine, and those don't tend to have much side information, so it won't change much when summed to mono. In other cases though, you're better off just putting the ultra low frequencies in mono and then let everything else be spread out a bit. :)
good video :)
Thanks 🙂
Thanks Firewalk! I like your example of the frequency identification based on the Key of the bass and then boost while taking the ones that are not in the scale of F. This was fine for the dance beat, how will it work for example on a song in the key of F, as there are many chords that will apply in a song For eg. F, Am, Dm, A#, C as a normal progression? Which frequencies do we work in this case?
There's a preset for setting mono bass frequency in the Patcher plug in within FL Studio also btw.
Good tip! 😀
I like how u explain
Thanks 😀
Thanks
You're welcome :)
Thanks for this video. Any video on mix levelling?
Yes, here: th-cam.com/video/6mW_W2L9ado/w-d-xo.html
I have a whole Playlist filled with mixing tutorials :)
Thankyou
You're welcome :)
That's my channel! Legend!!
Thanks :)
3:58 “If you google frequencies of notes”
*uses Bing
You need to bing frequencies of notes :P
@@FireWalkMusic :|P
Wow I feel so dull. I've been mixing for 7 years and I EQ in all sorts of ways, but for some reason I always was trying to get my sub bass to be cleaner through heavy handed notches. I just didn't even think of lightly touching up the fundamentals. Facepalm.... thanks!
It's not always needed. However, for basses that sounds a bit "detuned" or that just doesn't sit quite right with the other sounds, this trick can make all the difference :)
Hi mate. 08:08 How do I know what frequencies ARE NOT in my scale? Thanks & keep up the great work!
i can call this video "THE BEST FROM THE BEST"
Thanks! Glad you liked it :)
Hi! Nice tutorials you have made. Could you do tutorial with maximus? I have used it a lot but I still feel like you could open it´s secrects in short tutorial.
Thanks! Yes, I have more videos about maximus planned.
Well, R.I.P my sleep schedule.
you had one of those???
@@chris8651 😂
Sorry about that :P
I’m tellin ya
Well bro obviously ur doing it for improvement so props to you m8
Can someone help me figure out /learn more about what is happening at 7:47 -9:27 please . I get the idea but I have little to know practice , know how or how to know which frequency aren’t in f minor etc . The frequency chart from earlier im guessing ( along with a graph/ chart showing the f minor keys etc ) is how I can more or less how I will figure out by process of elimination which of what notes ( I don’t know how well or NOT I’m explaining this LOL. ) are technically in or not in f minor-- looking forward to practicing this ASAP-- I cant wait to watch more of your channel . So glad I found this and you !! ( I’ve never full grasped some stuff in this area of producing . You have the perfect way of explaining it more my brain . 🙏 grateful !! Thanks again.
There are helpers in the piano roll to show you the various scales, which will then be indicated when choosen. You can also download midi files to help you, by making ghost notes, and you can also just google any scale, like "A minor scale" for example, and it will tell you the notes in that scale.
Thanks so much !!!
Noobs producer watches tutorial of pros and pros watches from fire walk
So I just watch directly yours ;)
Haha :D
Hi. Thank you for such an insightful and genuinely useful tutorial, very much valued. Subscribed.
Please could I ask, with regard of removing unwanted frequencies of the sub bass (in accord with the musical scale), how would you adapt this technique such as when the sub bass is not just a constant as it is here, but say if it is a pattern/shifting
etc? My guess is automation with the EQ’ing that tracks the corresponding note changes, unless there’s any easier method??
Thank you guys kindly
The idea is to just make small subtle changes to make the root note sound good. By removing frequencies that's not in the scale, it shouldn't interfere with any of the notes in the scale but will instead help to make it sound more in key overall. I wouldn't use this technique on leads for example, but for a sub bass with low frequencies it's no problem.
@@FireWalkMusic Thank you very much for the reply and advice duly noted!
Which main level should the main bass be when i eq it i usually have it on 12 DB
super detailed video!!! I have a question though.When you took out the unwanted frequencies and boosted the frequency which is in the key,what will I do in the situation where I have a bassline consisting of more than one note?
Hi, it's the root note, and the corrections are minor so you shouldn't have do worry about it. If you want to know the key of a track just by listening to it you could use a piano and start pressing keys constantly while the chord progressions go by. Once you find the key you can press constantly, and it sounds good regardless of which chord is playing, you've most likely found the key of the track. Therefore, boosting the fundamental frequencies of the root note, and taking out some of those that's not in the scale won't have a negative effect when the notes change.
Fl stock plugins will give you the same result folks.. eq (boost and cut) then FL waveshaper for light saturation then another eq to remove some of the higher harmonics added from saturation then a compressor/limiter to control the volume and give it a light glue...sidechain with grosssbeat. learn your DAW stock plugins they might not look as fancy but they do the same job😎👍
FL Studio have some great plugins to begin with, and it's true that you'll be able to get most things done with the stock plugins. That said, some third party plugins can offer things that the stock plugins can't. For example the Pro Q plugin offers 96 dB pr octave slopes, which is ideal for reducing resonant frequencies and such. PEQ2 can't produce slopes that steep, so you'll end up taking out a much wider frequency range. In terms of compressors, they all basically do the same thing, but there's still much difference in how they sound. Some emulate analogue gear and add warmth that others don't and so on.
In the end of the day though, we're all different and we all perceive sound differently, so I always tell people to just use whatever plugin they like. :)
@@FireWalkMusic do a blind test using stock and 3rd party plugins ...99% of punters wont notice and the other 1% wont care ,,,I have used most and yeah the fancy ones can get you there quicker sometimes ..there is no right or wrong in the tools used to be creative...use what you like, Im just letting the young producers out there know(probably your main demographic )that are on a budget.... they don't need to buy the latest vsts with all the bells and whistles to produce good music ...luxury not a necessity 😉👍
Hello, can you please make a tutorial on how to fit pad in the mix nicely and getting pad level right?
I might just do that. In the meantime, I do have a video on how to EQ pads: th-cam.com/video/BL4TxGUDu9Y/w-d-xo.html
It's cool how you EQ precisely to the notes depending on the scale, I just wonder how analog producers from the 80s and 90s did it without fab filter!
They didn't. Modern music production can' really be compared to the way it used to be. Even the pros didn't have access to the kind of processing and tools the average bedroom producer has today. Back in the early days there was no EQ at all. If you listen to some old trance classics from the 90's and compare them to modern tracks, you'll hear that they lack crispness and sound a bit muddy overall.
@@FireWalkMusic Woah, what? There seriously was a time in electronic music where there was no EQing?
How can i do surgical eq when there is no high peaks only there is smooth curve peaks in sub bass??
great video, couple questions. When using EQ to remove some of the notes not found in the scale, what happens when the bass is playing a different note, as the EQ is static, would it cause any of the other notes to sound worse? The other question is when adding LFO tool to the kick, because your cutting off the end of the kick would you then need to reintroduce sub content? Thanks!
Presumably you'll be using notes that's within the scale you're in, so lowering harmonics that's outside of the scale shouldn't interfere with any important tonal frequencies. This will ensure that the sub bass sounds more in key overall.
Regarding the kick, in this case the lfo tool only removes the last part of the tale from the kick, so no important low end content is lost. This avoids overlap between the kick and the sub, and creates a stronger low end overall.
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Thanks :)
Question! When iam recording vocals, fl Studio randomly chooses the track to record to on the playlist, can " I " choose a specific track to record to on the playlist??
You need to make a new (empty) pattern first, then insert that pattern into the playlist and press record. It will then be recorded into that pattern.
Thanks for the tutorial. Could you also make a music theory tutorial?
You're welcome. This is planned, but I'm not sure when it will be yet.
@@FireWalkMusic Ok
And what is the processing order for saturation? Should I put my saturation plugin before or after the compression? It seems to make more sense to put it after, but I have no clue what the proper technique is.
The order of the processing is important and produces a very different result. Generally, when it comes to plugins before or after a compressor the general rule is the same as with EQ, when you place it before the compressor it generally produces a warmer and rounder sound, but when placed after the compressor it often produces a cleaner and clearer sound. It all depends on what you're after. :)
Hi, can you please make tutorial on how to make a mixing template for beats, (kick, 808, clap, snare, hi hat, open hat, percs & more)? Would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
Thanks for the suggestion. It's on my list :)
Nice, any tutorial about what quality should be send to Spotify ,iTunes ,beatport, they have different file format and different peak level,label distributer only want 1 single wav file. So how the music streaming site process my audio.thanx
Good suggestion, I'll put it on my list :)
I was really digging the video until I saw you use Bing at around 4 minutes.. Had to leave after that.
lol jk phenomenal video, you're a great instructor.
haha :P Actually I use Chrome as my default browser, but it's so messed up with all kind of crap so I decided to use explorer for the purpose of this video, since it's nice and clean :D
You should show us how it sounds with the RBass and without it at the same volume
(Since we perceive louder sounds to sound better)
RBass makes your low end less deep but makes it mores clearer in the midrange.
The deepest base you can get is an unprocessed Sinewave
I chedked the effect ot TP Basslane to make the subbass mono. Turns out it doesnt actually put everything below 100hz to mono if u put the knob to 100. The problem with this is that it has a tiny 6db/octave slope. So there will still be plenty of stereo information available.
I don't know about a free VST to solve this but with fabfilter pro-q u can use 96db/octave slopes and mono-fy it with that.
Hey, this is quit common for most of these plugins. The reason is that a steep slope of 96dB pr octave will change the sound very abruptly, and can cause issues, for example if you have a bass note playing F, which will end up right above the threshold, and then it goes down to a C which will end up below the threshold. The two will then sound very different. By having a gradual slope the change happens more gradually and won't be so noticeable.
would you still suggest R Bass doe sub enhancement or something newer?
thanks you FireWalk,, I can replace ''renaissance bass" with something ? Because I don't have it :(
Yes, there are many similar plugins, like the loair plugin for example
how is turning everything to the right mono?
Hey,
first: thanks for the tutorials - they are great! :)
I just have a (maybe dumb) question regarding TP BassLane:
couldn't you just put it on the master in the end of the mix and set it to like 100hz?
So that you have every frequency in this spectrum in Mono?
There are no dumb questions, just dumb answers. :) At least that's what my mom used to tell me. Yes, you are correct. You could do that. you usually want different things to have different amount of mono information. It's generally a good idea to make sure that everything below 80 hz is mono, so in that regard you could use that on the Master. However, you want various other elements to have everything below say 200 hz in mono, and some things 100 and so on.
There's no harm in doing both :)
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Thanks for the response!
Haha,
my mom used to say that, too.
I think I just wasn't sure and thought it might be a drastical thing to do. :)
Ah ok, that does make sense!
Overall I really want to thank you again.
You answered a lot of questions that I had when it comes to mixing.
I wish you all the best for the future and keep the high quality content that you deliver.
Greetings from Germany/Berlin! :)
@@KaMui1987 Thanks! Much appreciated :) I will!
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Thanks :)
What about adding a saturator on the bass for fattening and adding harmonies.
This is often done on mid bass. It can also be done on sub bass, but in that case I would probably split the bands
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Isn't the gain knob on FL compressor the pre gain? I believe if you raise it, you'll see the input wave increase, not the output.
Are you refering to the text hints? It's just some general compression hints. Most people don't use the fruity compressor and gain is usually just used to compensate for any volume loss, since compression in general tend to make a sound quieter by nature. Some plugins will be slightly different in the way they operate, but at the end of the day they generally do exactly the same thing.
I usually use maximus for making sub bass to mono
That works well too! :)