Making Dub Techno From Scratch 

No intro, no facecam, no voiceover, just pure method. I wish more educational videos were like this. Thank you, Yan 🙏🏻

Dub Techno has to be my favorite techno subgenre so it is amazing to see you do this!!!!!

Yan's style is just pure techno culture

Set your master bus glue compressor to 30ms attack, .1ms release, ratio of 4:1. Standard settings for a tight punchy mix with that SSL glue. This is a VCA style compressor so the knee is linked to the ratio. If the music follows a grid set the release to .1 if it is live set it to auto. Your mix will sound much better 💯

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! Your tutorials are clean, clear and concise without jargon or unnecessary extras. There are far too many tutorials or 'advice' videos on here that are ego-centric and make new producers feel inadequate and unconfident. The very fact that you are sharing ideas that are solely based on Ableton stock plug-ins and also share the sample pack with which you made these amazing songs reflects the sort of artist you are. Willing to share the gift of making extraordinary music, but in a way that is so very easy to understand and apply. I have benefited massively from your videos and will continue to do so in the future. Eternal gratitude for what you are doing Yan.

Yan omg ty so much for this!! I've been dipping my toes in dub techno for a while but been struggling to find decent tutorials on some things about it, tyyyyyy

Never stop making this!!!!! Thank you so much!!!

Thanks again man you never fail to impress!

Yes Yan! i love this stuff. Really useful man

Never have I learned so much in such a short time. Thank you!!!

great tutorial, the best on dub techno that i've seen yet. excellent idea to start off by setting up the sidechain channel, and also adding the pad last. efficient way to avoid building up a bunch of muddy frequencies. cheers! hope to see some more of these types of tutorials

Great work! Can definitely hear your own style in this. :)

I didn't dare to wish for this video to come out. And yet here it is. The low hi-hat techno clap is such a good tip ! 22:25 historical moment 26:05 hysterical moment

Amazing tutorial. Thanks Yan!

holy shit it actually sound so good at the end 🔥 thnx for this video just started producing and it helps a tonne 😊

Cooking better than Gordon Ramsay 😍

omg man, such an inspiration... thank you so much for this video

raw process! its so helpful! thanks to share it.

A very appropriate name... "Urban Spirit" ! Thank you for one more amazing content, Yan !

I just learned so much. Now I'm gonna have to watch it again on a bigger screen :)

Your mix always sounds sooo clean, im loving the project!

You're the man, Yan!

Very much appreciate this Yan ty ty ty

brilliant as usual!!

Intetesting with the pitched down hihat in the end of the pattern. Didn't realise that's how you make that kind of sound. So the hat obviously has to be a noise based one. And I guess that you can get a similar sound with claps. Pitched down acoustic hats/cymbals can also give something I know. I tend to pitch down samples a lot to get a more lofi sort of sound. But hadn't thought of using it as a variation for drum sounds. Now I'm suddenly inspired 🤔

this is incredible!

I remember the first time I have listened a track made by Yan, now I'm watching a tutorial by him. Thanks!

Great work mate!

I love how all your midi tracks start with a full on reverb enabled. I wonder if you actually leave it on like that when coming up with ideas. It does immediately showcase how the sound affects the reverb, I should try that :) I always find it difficult to apply the appropriate reverb, so much possibilities, and I never know which sounds 'better'.

nice track! digging this faster site of dubtechno

incredible atmosphere

Keep this bro, Your’e dope

Groove is impeccable

its like youre reading my mind! i was listening to substance the other and wondering how to make dub techno!! yan man !!!!

Thnx !

Yaaaaasssss new videoo 🔥

Interesting. I've never tried four on-the-floor kicks in my Dub techno tracks. Usually half time 140-142 bpm. It's a lot more languid and has a lot of space. I like the way you carve out a sonic place for each element. I just lay everything out quickly to get the patterns, grooves and then work out eq and sonic space. Thanks for the tutorial. More!

32 minutes? Thank you, Sir.

fucking awesome man congrats!

great video, thanks a lot

Amazing!

Always on top

Also would you think to reveal of producing aspects of "freefall" ? It would be very cool.

Would you do a tutorial about how to make that sliding background visual? It would be cool to know. Thankss

yan, I'm curious about the way you use the utility mid side, can you explain sometime? Thank you !

dub techno with a dab of yan cook sauce

Великолепно! Спасибо тебе техно-друг, что делишься.

Fucking amazing sounds

I like it when it goes Boom Boom Boom Boom.

fast and aggressive for tru dub techno

❤️‍🔥

Great 👍🖤

Fucking yan cook techno amazing

Hey Yan, it‘s such a beautiful track. What is Chord made of? If one would like to create it with ableton stock instruments?

Thats niceee

Immediate question: How did you change the colour of your cursor????

How do you know the numbers to put in? Do you just know what will sound right or did you prepare a walk through?

saint cook

Mannn Yan Cook is fireeee! but I have a question, I am quite new to this, why on all channels he puts a Utility and changes the Width to 'M / S mode' and tilts the knob towards 'M'? greetings from Colombia, Yan is a gianttt. #Respect

Man that reminds me of old Dave Clarke fire 🔥

Jesus!!😮

Would you ever do a video on mastering?

What is the sub bass ? I have looked but have no sub samples similar to this in my library. Is it part of a kick ?Thanks for the Vid :D

So when you export you mix for mastering, do you leave the eq and compressor on? Or do you bypass them before rendering?

ok but how do you to that chord sample you already have??

but i was wondering why do u put reverbs on individual midi clips instead of sending them to return tracks. is there any reasson for that?

this is gold mining channell for all beginners

hi, your dub chord samples also available in one of the packs? if yes, in which one?

Yan - why utility for volume controls? Curious

What version of Live is this?

I can not use limiter like your usage. Everybody makes us scared to use them freely like you.

Theres a thing called Auxillery buses, You dont need to insert reverb on every single channel dude.

I am the 666th like.

Ничё непонятно

Nice tune! It just way too fast for dub techno. Turn the bpm down a bit and you feel the difference.

dude, you forgot to unmute your voicetrack...

Excellent tips! However, this techno track has taken some drugs to speed its bpms, isn’t it. 110 with such kick would make move a Buddha.

How is this dub ?

this is not dub techno, sorry