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hello and welcome back to the channel

today I'm going to be sharing a really

interesting bass mixing and production

technique I'm going to show two ways to

achieve this the first is very simple

and can be done in any door the second

is more complex it's specifically for FL

studio' but it might just work perfectly

with the way you like to think about

these things and produce so let's just

dive right in and find out more what

we're gonna specifically do in this

tutorial is not standard sidechain

compression we're actually only going to

be side-chaining the low end of the bass

so I'll spend a minute explaining why we

want to do this but if you already know

why just skip ahead to these times for

the main bulk of the tutorial so let's

quickly just take a listen to what we're

working with today you can hear the bass

and the kick and a few other instruments

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so if I just Solo in on the base you can

hear and see that it has lots of

frequencies in the space we've got sub

frequencies and mid and high frequencies

that give it this really nice texture if

I were to use regular sidechain

compression using the fruity limiter

plug-in for instance I've got a tutorial

here showing how to do that the bass

would end up sounding like this on its

own

and that's a very familiar sound

dance music relies on it it's a really

cool technique there's nothing wrong

with it but there are these particular

times maybe one in ten occasions where

that really dramatic push and pull sort

of pumping sound is not what you want in

your track you want something more

subtle and you want the top end of the

bass to remain constant and only the sub

to move out of the way of the kick and

that's precisely what we're going to be

doing in this video

the first technique can be done in any

door it's really simple gives you a lot

of control though so just make sure that

your kick and your bass are going to two

separate channels on the mixer just like

this simple as that

don't worry about this drums channel

here there's no complex routing for this

technique we don't need to do anything

on the kick channel so go to the bass

channel and load an EQ just whatever EQ

you like using you can use pretty much

any one I'm just going to use the fruity

EQ I'm just going to select a different

preset this three bands preset because

it simplifies the view a little bit now

what we want to do is basically automate

this low band so that it just ducks down

whenever a kick occurs in your EQ

plug-in once you've got the band

selected just navigate to whatever you

can control the band's gain on this

plug-in it's here it might be a

numerical readout on your plug-in all

we're gonna do is create an automation

clip for that particular control simple

as that right click create automation

clip as you can see on my playlist of

small automation Clips been created if

your automation clip was created and it

was super big like this just drag it

from the right hand side until it's

smaller just the length of your kick

drum really now what we're going to do

is on every single kick drum all we have

to do is just automate that up-and-down

there is a trick to make this easier so

what I'm going to do is go back into the

EQ I'm going to make sure that this is

on zero and I'm going to copy the value

now go back to the automation clip

double left click and on maximum value

up here just right click and paste the

value so with both of these on the same

screen now the top of the automation

clip is actually zero and dragging to

the bottom is pretty much negative

infinity I suppose so now all you need

to do is add points and create a curve

that starts low and

goes back up to zero game and you're

just gonna take that automation clip and

you're just going to paste it over onto

every single kick so wherever you have a

kick you're just going to keep clicking

the automation clip in now if I loop

this round you'll just see that gain is

being removed from the base every single

time a kick hits but we still have a

really nice mid and high end to that

base so now all you need to do is just

fine-tune your envelope look at the

length of your kick drum see where you

sort of want your frequencies to start

fading back in the idea behind this

technique is that it's more transparent

so it's not as in-your-face let's take a

listen and of course you can adjust the

frequency up here so that you're

reducing even more of the bass

frequencies now I've seen people do this

with both a low shelf and also just a

low sort of dipping filter like this my

advice is just use whichever one sounds

best so really listen closely make sure

there's no clicks pumps make sure it

doesn't sound phase II or chorus or any

nonsense like that and you'll be just

fine I particularly like this first

method for when you want an enormous

amount of control just to get it

sounding exactly the way you want

however it's not perfect for every

situation it's great if the kick drums

on a always doing the same pattern but

if you have very complex drums the

automation clips can become really

complicated so I'm gonna reset all of

this and start again so the second

method is a little bit more involved but

there's not really any complex routing

or anything like that so again kick and

bass need to be on separate channels

this time on the kick channel we're

gonna add in a plugin I like adding it

onto the first insert and I'm going to

select a plug-in is called the fruity

peak controller it should be right near

the top in the controller section fruity

peak controller so it adds in like this

make sure that it's unmuted because

sometimes it starts off muted and what

I'm gonna do is initially just change

the bass control until it's at 50 now

you can see that at the top left hand

corner of FL Studio just make sure it's

at 50 or if you can't get it type in the

value 50 and I'll get it there for you

now if I just solo the kick and player

it's gonna mute it you can see that it's

detecting each time the kick is hitting

one of the reasons why it's called a

peat controller I just muted it because

you didn't really need to hear it but

this doesn't alter the sound of the kick

in any way so next on your bass Channel

we're going to load up an EQ I'm just

going to use fruity parametric EQ 2

again because it's really simple it's

dark it's a free plugin so here we go

we're gonna do the same thing as last

time I'm just gonna grab the first band

here and this time instead of creating

an automation clip for it I'm going to

right click and select link to

controller now this bit starts confusing

people a lot but just bear with me it is

more simple than it seems

don't worry about any of this nonsense

just look for internal controller ok and

now I've got a load of different

automation clips because this is a real

project I'm working with so look for the

controller plugins fruity peak

controller on the kick channel and

select peak control peak the next step

is that on the mapping formula press

this little arrow here that's a left

click and select inverted that just

means that every time there's a peak

instead of the controller raising the

value it's going to lower the value

instead hit accept now let's see what

the EQ does

it's automatically doing it for us now

to make sure that it's removing the

right frequencies just grab the

frequency dial here something that I

really like about this technique is that

if you move your kick drums around it

automatically detects where those that

Peaks are and it does all the rest for

you see there's no automation Clips

let's go over a few important controls

the most important one to be honest is

this volume control here so less less

gain reduction more very dramatic gain

reduction now when you're adjusting this

be sure to listen out for clicks pops

any stuff like that because sometimes if

you push this too far the EQ doesn't

respond very smoothly to it so just bear

that in mind always let your ears guide

you with these techniques don't just do

something because I tell you which

values to type in okay so if I listen to

the music now what you'll notice is that

there's a little bit more room for the

kick but the nice sort of continuous

growl of the bass doesn't stop so the

track just has a lot more momentum to it

so let's listen to that

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[Music]

so that's everything for today but just

remember just because you've got this

technique now you don't want to use it

in every song it's only appropriate in

certain situations and often a typical

sidechain often actually does sound

better especially in genres like dance

music where it really creates a lot of

push and pull in the whole track this is

just for those more ambient times more

subtle times when you want to control

your low-end without going crazy and for

anyone wondering that bass is included

in my new serum sound pack which I've

left a link to in the description but

thank you very much for watching I hope

you have a great week I'm probably off

to get a haircut because this is going a

bit crazy here and I hope to see you in

the next video too

bye for now so if I open up an EQ on my

bass oh no come on don't crash you don't

have to crash come on No May Oh flippin

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