Dissecting Skrillex's Ableton Project - Mumbai Power 

Fun Fact: OTT's "Amount" knob actually isn't a dry/wet. It just adjusts the global range and ratio of all three freq bands (as far as I know). Because a true dry/wet would cause phasing issues at the crossover points.

You can tell someone’s a skrillex fan when they call Fuji opener ‘ping pong’

the reference tracks are actually being routed through the external outs not the master so that way when listening back to the references it goes direct to your audio interface and not through the master as to not get touched by the mastering effects.

That vocal preset is from the first Pro-L. If you own both, in Pro L2's preset menu theres a separate drop down for presets from the first Pro-L

Love this! But what fantasy world are we living in where Ableton launches in .2 seconds?

That Pro L2 preset "Vocal - Transparent MTK" is in the "V1 Preset Folder" under the Single Channel submenu

Dude thank you for pointing out all the routing techniques. So genius!!

Man, I love coming back to this video. You're an absolute legend for doing this!

he was using ozone 5 to refrence the frequency spectrum with other songs, hence the refrence tracks section the reason why he uses specifically ozone 5 is cause its the latest version of ozone that lets you analyze the frequency spectrum of multiple refrence tracks at the same time. for some reason in the newer versions on ozone they only allow for one refrence track for you to analyze, which is really inefficient.

Thanks so much for making this. The concepts you pointed out I hadn't noticed since i'm not an ableton user, but since implementing them in my own daw, it has been a game changer

Very comprehensive analysis AHEE! Love it. Thanks for taking the time out!

skrillex has always been really good at transitions throughout his song to keep you interested.

I cant wait til he makes a master class. Could be 5 years out but you know its coming!

180 tracks! My mac would have froze and set on fire at 70😂😂

great video man i appreciate you for going through the whole thing

Thank you SO much, this was amazing! You pointed out a lot of stuff that I had missed completely. The routing is super interesting and seems like it keeps the process a lot cleaner from a signal flow perspective.

so cool coming back to this and picking up little nuances and tips as i learn more and more....love this

Bro! This is so good. Thanks, such a good breakdown of whats going on.

omg thank you so much for this video, just got Ableton 10 installed and was looking for some inspiration to get back in the spirit of it and get inspired.. & this video is perfect was always wondering how he set things up, super near to see! hope to see more videos like this. :)) Thanku so much

insight is an analyser- its before ozone 5 because he's measuring the loudness before applying his last limiter

Yo man, when I clicked the video I thought "ah just another random dude playing the skrillex video" but I must say that you did a nice job in finding out interesting key elements. Well done!

Really dope video, will be checking out your downloads! 👊🏼

180 tracks, thats insane

Fantastic breakdown video

I've revisited this video many times. Very interesting and informative m8!

this is gold! nice work. he has groups within groups within groups. i thought that would introduce latency or cpu issues.

Thanks so much for doing this man, great stuff :)

best analysis by far, subbed

Just trying to comprehend whats going is making me go insane. This is sweet info for anyone wanting to up their music knowledge. Awesome vid!

Two of my pals and I made the urban dance vocals pack . 😂😂😂

Thank you so much for this Chris

Great job brother! Great break down

this was incredibly insightful thank you.

Yeah dude by far one the best mix talk on Ableton this year so far niceee u killing and shout to Skrillex

Thanks for consistently uploading helpful videos

Thanks for all these videos man! That robot maker sounds dope, I gotta get that. Would also love to see you breakdown how to get some classic G Jones or EPROM dirty bass sounds.

Very interesting video, really enjoyed it man

Great video thanks for making it!

ur bass ship sounds are iconic man

Man you did all the work that I wanted to do! Appreciate you man

11:31 That preset is in the "Single Channel" folder from Pro-L 1. If anyone wants those presets: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Z-AXauK5CFUwr3yUwI3M3sKBT20gkWA5?usp=sharing

20:00 hello hearing damage

Yeah that gain staging is brilliant going to start messing w this

Gracias tenia dudas sobre su proyecto, desde latino america te escuchan crack !

The Pro - L preset, if I'm not mistaken, is actually from Pro - L1. He probably just copied it over from the first one to Pro - L2 or maybe both use the same preset folder I'm not sure. (It's in "Single Channel" category)

To fix Ableton's broken solo behavior while using this bussing technique try using Return Tracks instead of Audio Channels ;)

yooooo... thanks man... also the vocal mtk preset on L2 is in the V1 preset folder-> single folder-> vocal transparent mtk!!

thank you so much i really need explanation on how he made those chains and why

it's pretty genius this gain staging idea to build volume and retain clarity but it requires so much organisation and understanding of the spiderweb of processing, if i had one spliff i would be stumped

Good inside there. Thanks for that.

This is a fantastic video.

Wassup Aliens! I just uploaded a new video on how to setup your gain staging like Skrillex does in Mumbai Power. Watch it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-St5ACSqiiVw.html

This is awesome bro!!

There's a link directly from BWB on his youtube vid that takes you to the paypal you're speaking of. It looks sketch but it does provide the samples when you buy it.

박사님이 천연기념물에 대해 설명해주는것 같아 I feel like A professor giving speech about an natural monument

WOW Great work bro i feel that you aport value content!!!!

Not sure if anyone really knew this but I'll shed some light on it. -This isn't Sonny's computer. It's his friend and Manager Andrew's. -I'm close to certain that any subfolders he has on THIS computer won't open much because the files just aren't there. -The Ableton Loading screen is sped up a bit. -If you watch when Sonny hovers over the Vocals you can see the file in the bottom left reads ".mp3". Yes, an Mp3 files for the vocals. -The only automation noted in this entire song is the filter sweep at the end from high to low. that's it. These are just a few small things I noticed and I don't use Ableton much. I also make music but commenting on my Gaming channel. OfficialJBish is the music channel.

Really appreciate the time you took to put this vid together g!

awesome vid!

I'm 4 years late to this. Thanks so much !!

Super Dope Buddie!!!!! Thanks Man for making This. It Helped Me A LOTT!!!!!. Great Job Buddie!!!

22:00 Jungle AAZ would probably be some Jungle samples from AAZAR

This is EPIC!

great video, im wondering if you could talk more about your theories on whats going on in the premaster and group chains, and also how to go about routing this. i thought i knew how but had some trouble.

Cheers, thanks AHEE

The Fab Filter preset [Vocal- Transparent MTK] isn't in L2 its from the previous version presets folder :)

What crazy routing.

he uses the same proL2 preset for both vocal chops and bass, and that sauce is mine now

Pretty sure he's using Ozone 5 as well as Insight for mesuring. He doesn't use it for any type of volume optimisation whatsoever (makes sense since it comes after Insight) Ozone 5 EQ is awesome for seeing clearly what's going on with your full spectrum and mesure EQ with reference tracks, you can have snapshots of all those Just guessing here tho haha

Btw... most of the magic with this stuff is done with saturation and clipping. Sure... there's compressors all over the place too... but it's a combination. Maybe you've figured that out since this video so I don't know. It's slowly becoming common knowledge.

possible video on gain staging and particularly -- aux(s) , pre master, basic chain in ableton?

Thanks !!

thanks g!

8:15 i listened to the track before watching this video at your request and noticed the heys so this made me feel special lol

I was finally able to find the mysterious Vocal Transparent MTK preset!

Hey AHEE, thank you for the video. Could you maybe upload a video how to setup those bus channels that are pre master ? I don't get it really routing wise. I would dig it so much

At 11:42 the signal is in the left side man! It's not shoing mono stereo , the whole spectrum! Idk it's kinda confusion 😅

16:04 From my experience, Ozone 5 sometimes clips when you use EQ, Multiband Comp...etc and the maximiser all together. To have one Ozone doing all the effects and another only to do the maximizing is a workaround for this issue.

Well Done! My Friend

you could do a 4k video since the original skrillex video is in 4K so you can show more details on the image when zooming.

Oh what a shame they didn’t get into the premaster channel.

there is no settings on camelphat. its used as a clipper.

bruh my face when he said camel fat on the master

19:10 isnt that fx chain with the amp on the "4 minutes of good vibes" track? not the kalimba?

Does anyone know where I can find that Prime Loops Urban & Dance Vocal Pack? It seems to be gone from every site I end up on searching for.

maybe the last ozone on the master is using the audio codec preview?

thank you

CamelPhat could've been automated for the distortion effect at the start of the second drop, I really doubt that he uses it as an harmonic exciter

If have a camelphat maybe its for give armonics and a sligthly dist fx to the master. In hardstyle is very useful for leads and mixing. Maybe in bass music works same

I still prefer the sound of ozone 5 to ozone 8 especially with the MB compression

Kaoss is the kaoss pad, it's good for adding additional effects, just sounds good. Its not the venue in vegas. Lol.

Dope

don't know ableton, but good to learn just how important careful routing choices can be...

Hey man! Would love to possibly do a collab video of you’re down! Nice to have some like minded and knowledgeable people on here. Big ups man ✌🏼

Hey man this video is the shit !!! Thanks bro

You pointed out some cool things that I didn’t see 😁

Loved this vid man✊🏼Hey Ahee, are you still uploading packs to Splice??

Ozone Insight just a monitor of levels

make one on the other one too

Thanks