►Get My Serum Sound Bank: bit.ly/inthemixstore ▶TIME STAMPS 1) 808 Time - 1:30 Originally from the TR 808 drum machine, we will synthesise it from a basic Sine wave. This is a common bass used in many genres of music. Originally widespread in hip hop, it has now moved into pop music with full force and you'll likely hear this sort of bass in the charts and as the exclusive bass sound from any producer with the prefix "lil". 2) Pluck / House Bass Time - 6:40 Very common in dance and house music. This pluck bass provides a really solid foundation to the song and is easily heard on smaller monitor systems too! Use a simple Square, Sine or Saw wave and adjust the filter envelope to give a really solid pluck. Try using a lower octave than I used in the video (Headphones were tricking me with the bass!) 3) Growl Bass Time - 11:30 A fundamental of many genres including dance and dubstep. This bass is impossible to miss and thanks to its rich harmonic content, it will sound clear even on small phone speakers. Use a single Saw wave for the bass and a stereo spread of saw waves in a higher octave to make a really wide and professional sounding bass. Be careful with stereo widening effects and check-in mono to make sure the bass sounds as epic in the real world as it does in your studio! 4) Sub Time - 15:40 A classic. Use a sine wave and play low octaves. Try adding distortion (tube, tape, preamp) to make it cut through on smaller speakers. Sidechain to the kick and it'll be perfect. Get all my bass presets here for free, no signup, no purchase or anything like that! Enjoy :) bit.ly/basspresets
In case you're wondering why you should keep low frequencies in *MONO*, here's a little physics info. The wavelength of sound increases with decreasing frequency. At 330Hz the wavelength is around ~1m (speed of sound: 330 m/s). Everything below that, has even larger wavelength, up to 10m for sub bass frequencies. The way stereo enhancing generates the sensation of "width" is by separating the left and right audio channel and running them slightly out of phase. In nature our brain uses phase difference to locate the origin of a sound, since any noise coming from anywhere but straight in front or behind the head will travel slightly longer to the ear facing away. The brain corrects for these differences and derives spatial information from it. Reverb or echo is processed in a similar fashion and allows us to approximate the size of the room the sound's coming from. The problems with stereo widening effects occur when we try to simulate the distance of the two channels, close to the wavelength of the sound. A 100Hz signal has a wavelength of ~3m, if we apply a stereo effect to simulate a distance of 1.5m (pretty common monitor setup), the phase of one channel lags exactly half a wavelength behind the other, in case of a sine wave this results in total annihilation of both waves. Depending on your speaker setup and your position you'll experience total silence. A mono signal will not produce any annihilation as long as you're the same distance from left and right speaker away. Large venues and festivals combat this phenomenon by staggering the phase of the different sub woofers so that very little dead zones occur. The required measurements and calculations are performed well in advance of any event and depend on location and speaker setup. Now if you wanna play your absolute banger with maximum * W I D T H * on such a calibrated system you'll most likely fuck up everyone's day. The phases of your channels are added to the phase of the setup, rendering the calibration useless. Half the audience won't be able to hear any bass, the technicians will be running around looking for a bad cable or a fried amplifier and the mixer will be pacing all around the venue until he's able to calculate the exact amount of stereo width you used to fuck up your mix. Higher frequencies have much smaller wavelengths and are generally more chaotic reducing the size of potential dead spots and decreasing the overall likelihood of wave annihilation. Virtual Riot actually has a story from when he played a track live with a serum bassline and a width of non 0. He was not happy.
After 2-4 months of searching, I have finally found a video where someone explains how to create THAT specific Deep House pluck. Thank you so much Michael :') thank you
The search is over! I find that you can get really creative with the wave shapes too, warping the square a bit etc can make it sound totally unique to you :)
Hello Michael, I am one of your subscribers all the way from Nigeria. I only stumbled on your channel a few weeks ago and my production skills have literarily improved these past few weeks. Thank you for the lessons and for being a blessing to me.
Can I just say how much I love that you timestamp your tutorials? Seriously, well done. Too many tuts have the voice too quiet, the audio too loud, low framerate, minutes of unimportant stuff or overly technical jargon to look impressive. You make great stuff, I'm glad I subbed.
A message to In the mix: Just because a video doesn’t have a lot of views, doesn’t mean it’s not good enough!! This video is so very helpful to every one of us who want a good bass in our music Please, keep up the hard work and we all support you!!
Again, I thank you, you are an outstanding member of the human race, once again, you have helped me understand things more clearly and consequently enabled me to transition your exceptionally, and consistently valuable information into the Great work that is the absolute joy of creating music. You are the most helpful and informative source that I know of. May you go far brother. Kindest of Regards and Respect. Thank You
This channel is absolutely essential for aspiring producers and sound designers. I really appreciate the depth of your explanation with each piece you change. Most tutorial videos don't explain WHAT the effects they add are doing and I love that you take the sound design approach because we have plenty of quality content on how to structure the sounds but not how to make them.
man just got back into all this since messing around with my mates back nearly 15 years ago!! life got in the way lol .. Thank you massively for doing what you do bro your'e a genius and a great help. cheers.
I was on RU-vid last night; searching for any kind of tutorial on sound design. Today you upload this video, I feel so blessed haha. Honestly I've learnt every usable piece of information on production from your channel. Thank you for what you do!!
Thanks! I have a sound design series with 2 more videos in it, beginner and advanced. You can find it on the main page if you scroll down a bit. Thanks again :)
Hey Michael! This comment is not adding anything to what's already being said. But look at just how many people are being helped by you. We love you for your dedication in these stuff. You are really the guiding angel for many beginners out here! I'm just here to appreciate your work and summing up all the comments down (or up) there. YOU ARE DOING AN AMAZING JOB!!
Me: *creates full sound design course Michael: Hold my beer... Good job man! Keep them coming, sound design is a whole universe. Consider a video about foley, that's really fun to do.
I will never come close to your skill mate! But I hope I do the topic justice! (Anyone who doesn't know who Olbaid is, he is responsible for most of the best FL Studio presets available in the stock synths, so definitely check out his channel)
@@inthemix Thanks man, you are so kind! I would like to make more videos about this topic in english but Im not as fluent speaking it hahaha. Anyway I think you are doing an excelent work here, keep it up! Cheers
@@@OlbaidMusic I own FL and I see all your presets for Sytrus and Flex and I love them, would you be able to make some presets for use in old skool hardcore (91-94) and Jungle/DnB (94-98) please. I'm an old skool raver from UK and would love to make a banger that would fit into a set from back in the day.
You probably hear this often but I just wanted to tell you you're terribly underrated and I really enjoy your content. It's informative, straight forward and high quality which isn't something you see often. Keep it up and may your career reach heights you could never imagine
Oh I go with Vital. It has 3 Oscillators (not a sub), 2 Filters, 6 Envelopes (yeah, the other 3 are hidden) and 8 LFOs! (yep, these too!), 4 Randomizers with controls (seem to be only 2, those too hidden, and unique to Vital as a wavetable synth) and 4 Macros! All those envelopes, LFOs, randomizers and macros can be hooked on to pretty much any modulat-able control! There's a randomizer for the randomizer (and other stuff). It just gives random values and doesn't have any controls that guide it how to 'create' the random values. All this and a pitch wheel, mod wheel, note tracking, velocity and so much to modulate things! And it's so so competitive to Serum, feel so grateful to Tytel. It can really create all those sounds we see being created on Serum out there. One drawback is there that currently only 8 effects are present. And I guess a few controls are either missing or different.
Good tutorial. As a dormant EDM producer, I remember bass design being quite addictive due to how prominent it is in the mix (sort of like a metal head chugging away on rhythm guitar through a great amp). I remember rolling basslines being my favorite due to how difficult it is to nail a fat sound with 16th notes at 133+bpm tempos (hint: it requires strategic layering).
wish i would have seen this before wasting so much time and money on plugins. This was basics, but to me it was game changing simplification to my workflow. Thank you!
Been watching all your work, you really are the man. Inspiring and explanatory in layman’s terms . I’m totally new to producing and you have helped me get the bug so much. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Today you uploaded this video I decided to watch all the three videos of sound design. And I just loved this world is crazy how we can manipulate sound. And thank you so much the way you teach is just perfect for me. So thanks for uploading this videos ❤️
By far the best tutorial channel. Your lofi tutorial helped me finally get started. I had absolutely no music exp lol so intimated by FL studio but you explained it so well. Keep up the good work. Don’t change the way you make the videos. Very clear and easy to follow
it's getting clearer as i started watching your first video up to this point - i'm near to your latest video -you make complicated things in FL Studio simple to understand.. thank you so much -number zero fan here... :D
Btw for the sub bass if you add a square wave in osc b and make it one octave up than the sub bass and filter it out a bit it can make your sub bass powerfull
I'd love to see some kinda tutorial on how to add more percussive elements to a song. I've always loved the way you produce your music - those hi hats and all the other stuff. I can also hear all this crazy stuff everywhere but I struggle creating any of that on my own so my tracks just end up being boring.
Much love Michael, please make a comprehensive course or series about sound design from very basic to advanced level of achieving any sounds as desire, or any recommendations of related sources will be appreciated ☺️
Really helpful and insightful tutorials. Appreciate that you are using Serum for lots of them which is obvs very relevant. Nice clear manner and well paced. Thank you so much for doing these!
Thanks for this, Im making a g funk bass and I want to add some growl and although the growl bass you have is more suited for EDM, it gave me a little idea of the process. Now the rest is in my hands.
thank you so much. from theses videos i can now make any bass using my synth. quite a way to start. am an aspiring producer using cakewalk but whatever you say here adds up.
6:00 With serum, you can't use the glide notes in the piano rack, so don't forget to turn up a bit the porta knob in serum, check mono and legato, and stack the normal notes in the piano rack to do the pitch bending effect we can hear on the 1st 808 pattern
