How to design a bass from scratch - Psytrance Bass Sylenth 

Hey mate thank you for watching, I'm glad it was useful to you! I have a lot more tutorials coming your way. Just finishing up my album first, tutorials will follow right after! Some of the upcoming tutorials are actually recorded during the creation of my album so you will get to see how I actually make my tracks, I think they will be really useful as you can also see the creative process of making music and not just the technical parts. be patience and rest assured more tutorials will be released soon! Thanks again.

@@BEZONANCE Can't wait for this, thanks for doing it!

@@BEZONANCE That is great news. will be looking forward to both new album, and tutorials. Wishing you great success with the new album. (really liked the tunes you have out on spotify)

Thanks mate!

I’m glad it was useful!

Thank you for taking the time to share your experience my friend! I'm glad I could help!

cheers mate

glad to hear that my friend! now pay it forward and spread the knowledge :)!

i didnt even think about that

More tutorials on the way :) Just finishing up my album, tutorials will come soon

You are welcome! Glad these are helpful! You can check out my tutorial instagram channel as well there are tons of tutorials there. instagram.com/ableton.expert

yes bass is very simple and delicate, you are welcome!

glad to hear it helped! cheers mate

Thanks that’s a great idea to preserve transient. I have been using volume shaper with 2 bands to do what you suggested, ducking the lower part while maintaining the mid and highs that way you get a bit of groove between the Lower part of bass and kick as they transition into each other. Adjusting the volume (velocity) of each note can help with creating additional groove as well.

Maybe a good idea would be just a shelfing filter for the first bassnote in its own group for the lows and turn it down around 6db

So it doesn't conflict with the kick and you keep the punch

Thank you for your comment! Glad these tutorials are helpful!

yea it does magic indeed!

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anytime brother! keep an eye out for the upcoming tutorials, I’ll be talking some more sound design

Cheers bro! glad to help

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Glad it helped! You are welcome!

I'm glad!

You are welcome! thanks for watching

you are welcome!

You are welcome and thanks for watching

Thank you and you are welcome

working on that but that’s part of a paid course I’m working on as too much time is involved in putting such a course together, I will still upload free tutorials for you guys but wont be complete music writing from start to finish

Paid course sounds serious . When ready please say something ! 😁👌

Also i believe you're fair in this case . Cause all of the stuff you've explained in this video other people selling them already ! So guy's be thankful 😁 PRACE !😈

Sure thing you will hear about it! there is a ton more tutorials for free on my instagram channel @ableton.expert you can check them out as well

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You are welcome! and thanks for the feedback I’ll make sure future videos are more balanced cheers

@@BEZONANCE Thank you :o)

You are welcome! I’m glad it helped. :)

Decay is the time it takes for the sound to go from it’s peak to the sustain level, since your sustain is full then there is no difference between the peak and sustain so the decay will have no audible effect, for it to become a pluck sound needs to go to peak and then decay to 0 or close to 0 sustain so the decay then creates that pluck transient when going from peak to silence (or any level that is significantly lower than the peak), best way to understand this is to draw it on a paper. draw an ADSR envelope on the paper and you can easily visualize it. hope this helps

thank you!

Thank you for your feedback mate. I rarely use sidechaining or lfo tool for this kind of bassline. First 1/16 note is only kick, 2nd 1/16th note is low amplitude bass and decay of the kick so they kind of complement each other. and 3rd and 4th 1/16th notes are only bass (Maybe with a low amplitude tail of the kick which glues everything together) so there is really no need to sidechain here. If you do sidechaining that would be for creative purposes but in terms of being able to get the clean tight kick and bass I like to have full control over kick and bass therefore I use the method shown in this video instead of side chaining.

Hey, Yeah i use saturn extensively for sound design and modulate many parameters depending on the sound I’m after, not so much for this kind of bass but more for sounds with lively texture, as for touching the mix knob again it depends what you are looking for, it definitely has it’s own place, for example if you saturate the sound very aggressively you may want to just mix a tiny bit of it to the original sound so your original sound doesn’t lose it’s power, it really depends

Thank you!

It does help with defining the sound better, so you have better control over each part of the bass and can easily define the transient, punch etc..

Hi and welcome! for the multiband, the idea is to create separation between low mid and highs and give them each more definition. With regards to phase I’d have to go back and watch the video to see why I used phase in this tutorial (it’s been so long), but generally you would use phase for either correcting relationship between 2 overlapping sounds for example if tail of your kick ends after the transient of the Bass. You may also use phase creatively to change the starting point of your waveform, depending on where the initial point of waveform starts the sound can change and in the case of a the bass actually quite drastically I would say, to understand this better just have a sine wave playing, put phase shif on it and watch how it changes in oscilloscope as you change the phase, and listen how the transient and body of the bass change specially between 90 degree phase difference. the. try with a saw wave and hear the difference. Without an acoustically treated room you may not be able to hear the difference but the difference is really huge. Happy learning. Cheers

Hey man, thanks for watching! I probably spent some more time to fine tune the kick from that tutorial to fit better with this bass and I haven’t used anything more than what I showed in the original tutorial it’s just a matter of perfecting it, unfortunately I will not be sharing samples or presets, my purpose is to teach people how to do sound design which is exactly what I shared in these videos, the rest and spending time to come up with solid sounds is up to yourself :), if you have any questions with regards to the tutorial I’d be happy to help.

you can add phase correcting plugins like pha-979 at the end of your chain on eiher kick or bass if needed, sometimes phase shift is needed and sometime time shift (as each plugin may add small delays to the signal so you would need to adjust the track start position which can be done with track delay). I personally like bouncing my Bass after all the processing and EQ and phase is done and placing it precisely where it needs to be

Hey man, you are welcome! Here is some answers! First, are there any other advantages for working with audio and let go of the plugin and midi, other than that velocity trick? Sampled audio has it’s advantages and disanvantages, advantage is your sound will be consistent since you are exporting to sample and using the sample this is particularly useful for kick and bass that you want consistency across your track, other advantage of sample is you see the entire sound and you can see if there is any tails that go to the next 16th that might interfece with your kick or even the transient of your next bass! for example if the fourth 16th of your bass in one bar has a tail it will interfere with the next kick from the next bar and might destroy your kick! When I export my sample it is usually after I have done all my processing I may export to audio so I can place it precisely where it needs to be in relation to the kick and then I’ll make sure to trim the end of the bass if there was any tail added to the sound during saturation and other processing! (This happens all the time and very important to take care of for a solid and clean sounding kick and bass) Would you still work this way if you would have a melodic bass? For melodic bass you can make a multisample instrument by exporting the bass at different notes and then using sampler to create an instrument out of this, then you can easily use midi to write your melodic bass and have the freedom of midi with the consistency from sample. I also find Serum envelope and oscillator (with rand off and phase set) consistent enough that sometimes I just use the Synth and don’t export to audio (can get around the tail issue I explained earlier by adding volume shaper and making sure it doesn’t interfere with the kick), if you are using synth you need to absolutely make sure your amp envelope is set short enough that tail from your bass doesn't go into the start of your next bass and leave a few ms of room even for tail added by additional processing! Tricky balance but possible! Second, I have listen to some of your tracks and among other qualities, they sound really loud. Could you please advise what are the things that makes them loud? I usually work at really low levels, a trick I use to force myself to turn everything down is I use a utility on master channel and set volume to +15 or something, this forces me to turn down the volume on each channel by 15dB so I don’t go into red which I can visually keep an eye on all the time, so essentially I’m mixing at -15dBFS to begin with, as the track gets busier I may turn the utility on master a little down until I reach +9dB at that point I know I still have 9dB of headroom when I turn the utility on the master off at the end of my work, this leaves a ton of headroom at the end for all sorts of processing that is done in mastering. This might be why the tracks are ending up load when they are mastered, also by working at low audio levels I can hear everything better as I’m not distracted by the power of kick and bass! I do use a ton and by that I really mean a ton of distortion and saturation on my sounds to make them more harmonically rich which translates to being louder somewhat! Hope this helps friend!

@@BEZONANCE Hey, mate! Thank you so much for your complex answer! You've been of great help! Keep up the good work! :)

You are welcome!

Hi, I don’t quite understand what you are trying to achieve, maybe record your screen and send me a DM on soundcloud I’ll see if I can help you out. EQ settings are relative to your key and note that you are trying to tame so you can’t just use the exact same settings that you saw in this video for different bass sounds

Thanks man! I sent a message on soundcloud.

not sure if I understand the question, the translation is not that great. but if I understand correctly you are experiencing some delay in hearing the audio. few things to check, check ableton’s preferences and set your buffer to lower number any buffer over 512 samples will introduce noticeable latency. also some plugins introduce latency like fabfilter if set to linear phase and on higher setting or any UAD plugin and many others. You can get a better response by contacting ableton.

On the fly ! FabFilter was the problem. I had no idea what it could be. Many thanks for the attention and wisdom! sorry for English

On the fly! Problem solved is fabfilter!! Thanks!

awesome!

not sure what you have written but thanks for taking the time to leave comment

no brother! :)

thanks for taking the time to provide feedback, I’ll try recording the song at a lower volume next time. What are you listening on?

Listened on some regular 2.1 stereo speakers and tried my ordinary earbuds, was quite difficult following on any of them. Good to see a youtuber appreciating this kind of feedback!

sorry to disturb you!

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Thanks for the comment! Probably not the best kick, the focus of this tutorial was Bass, there is a video I go in depth in designing and reverse engineering kick, you may enjoy having a look at that!