I forgot to mention if you have a stereo bass that collapses badly to mono, remaking into stereo with any of these methods still doesn't improve the mono, instead you can use a utility plugin to playback only the left or right side as the middle instead of the mono sum , that is a usually a big improvement, and then you can re-stereo it I also totally forgot Steve Duda (Xfer) made a free dimension expander plugin, I had already figured it out by that point and have just been in the habit of using a delay to do it. You can just go grab that instead. At least you know how it works now though!

I watched probably 100 hours of music production tutorials on KZread. I normally don"t write comments, but this just hits different! Thanks for sharing your hard earned knowledge, with the people.

@TheChronoProductions

Жыл бұрын

I second that, lol

@MrJmhess77

Жыл бұрын

@@TheChronoProductions I'll make that 3. Bthelick is a hidden gem. Shhhhh!

@Infinitychillcheers

Жыл бұрын

true true! That's the kind of tutorials we all wanted

@adv8nturenick

3 ай бұрын

I would happily pay for proper tuition

THE GOAT OF MUSIC PRODUCTION TUTORIALS

@joeyschumans

9 ай бұрын

I absolutely agree!

*Important: please bare in mind when I say things like "parallel distortion is not going to work", My advice is largely intended for beginners and these are initial guidelines that will help you (or rather keep you 'out of trouble' ) in a majority of scenarios. I break these 'rules' all the time, because I know why , where , when and how through experience. Until you gather that same experience my advice always errs on the side of caution.

@fradav68

11 ай бұрын

Most helpful instructional vid I've seen on youtube

@hillsjason1

11 ай бұрын

Any chance you might do a video breaking down tracks like “1949” by Honey and Badger? Maybe explaining what elements of those tracks are beginner friendly vs not beginner friendly etc? Hopefully that question makes sense in a way that is relevant to the purpose of your channel 😂

@ampersand64

4 ай бұрын

oops I shoulda read this before commenting. Great work!

@Bthelick

4 ай бұрын

@@ampersand64 haha no worries it's all good. Your education is there for those that seek further clarification , thanks for your contribution. 👊

Been watching vids/producing for nearly a decade and can confirm tutorials like yours feel like they consolidated years…if only I had these back when I started. Newbies you don’t know how good you got it with this dude

I’ve been watching tons of tutorials for the last 7 years, and man, let me tell you, you are the best so far. I wish I had learnt from you since the beginning. Keep going!

@0Human1

Жыл бұрын

TRUE this, feel lucky to have your caliber explaining music to us

This video is Incredible!! I truly love how you explain every bit of your process. Thank You Sir!

Fantastic content as always. Love the channel mate.

Another great video with proper explanation. Love your work 💯

You are my new favorite tutorial channel, damn you're knowledgable and smooth AF teaching, huge appreciation

you're an amazing teacher, thank you for what you're doing for this community.

I have the impression I have just discovered the Holy Grail of “how to” shape sound tutorials. Dude, if I can cal you like this😅, you are the most clear, informative teacher I've heard on YT. THANK YOU for sharing your knowledge.

learning so much here for free, really appreciate the work you are doing!

That's a really tight groove! Love the samples/sounds...

it feels like like im in the club, but im also learning how the beat is working too. Never have i wanted a dj set where the dj explains everything they're doing, this is great!

Watched countless music production channels (and some are actually very good), but I now consider this one as the best. Straight to the point, simple and clear explanations, also very good tastes, no endless "hey guys thanks for blablabla" introduction or 1min VPN advert. PLUS you spend a moment to show your presets and sometimes share patches for free. Experience sharing and generosity at his best, HATS OFF for Bthelick.

@andrewrossy

11 ай бұрын

Cannot agree more …

You have such a unique style what with the constant track playing in the background, really keeps me glued

Amazing tutorial! So many new techniques for me to try!

Being an expert is one, but true mastery is shown in the way someone is willing to, and being capable of transferring knowledge in a way learners are able to follow throughout the process. Coffee ☕️ it is! Thanks 🙏🏻

I was going through this one more time and I can't stress enough how well the content is structured and how you build up from the bass fundamentals (literally) to the stereo field. There are subtle and simple notes (e.g. chorus is practically a delay or distortion energy distribution) that add up to the huge difference in comparison to other similar content out there. Again, happy new year! I am personally looking forward to your future recordings.

Man i love your style of videos. Highly educational and entertaining.

You really have a knack for teaching this stuff! Thank you!

Just found your channel, so far every video I’ve seen is packed with tons of practical tips and tricks. Subbed 🔥

You easily make the best house tutorials on youtube. Thank you so so much!

Thank you so much for creating this, one of the best tutorials on KZread on this topic for sure! ❤ Subscribed!

That "energy pool" analogy with the pink noise has to be THE BEST explanation I have ever heard... and I have studied audio production and engineering, attended many masterclasses (including several tutored by some of the world's biggest producers), and, of course, watched a three billion KZread videos on the subject, over the last 25 years. Fair play! First vid of yours I've ever seen, and you have a new subscriber 👌👌👌

The most I've learned from a single tutorial! brb about to watch all your videos

hey man i just want you to know. you're giving insane advice and for free. plus its so simple to understand. you dont get enough credit, THANK YOU!!! KEEP MAKING TUTORIALS

100% deserve the subs (pun intended) wicked tutorial, the best explanation of bass processing I've seen. Great detail

Amazing content as usual!

I love these videos! Learning so much

I rarely comment on the videos man, but this is pure art. One of the best music production videos I have ever seen. Would love to see you do a track in style of Terminal Underground. Keep up the good work

Best tutorials I’ve found in hundreds upon hundreds of videos THANK YOU 🎉

You are literally the BEST. From the format, to the content, and the way you articulate it all; beautifully done good sir. I would go to say you may be the GOAT in 2023. With 14 years of producing experience, I am finding your tutorials super informative and helpful. Thank you brotha

I’ve been producing for a long time and I’ve gotta say your tutorials are the best I’ve come across. Good for beginners and experienced producers 🔥

This is straight gold! 🔥

Honestly man you are great - what an awesome tutorial! Thanks for that!

I could listen to you all day long such a good tutorial

thanks for sharing your knowledge, this is inspiring ;)

Discoveryng this channel its pobablyone of the best things that has ever happened to my music carreer

wonderful stuff really helpful man! would love to see this kinda indepth look into how u process drums!. already liked, subbed and hit the bell! keep going bro!

Absolutely the best!!! ❤

I start making music when I was 16 and now I m 34. I didnt learn much on youtube but now I found your chanel. Very advanced advise I learn a lot thnx

Amazing tutorial. Great stuff here.

Hands down to the BEST music production tutorials channel 👏🔥

I thought I had everything under control, but the low end still felt a bit of a mystery at times. The scientific explanation in this video made everything super clear. And it is really obvious when you think about it. The STFU tool also made it much better as I used to sidechain everything to the same control. Thank you, now my low end is groovy! :D

What a great Tutorial... Thank you so much!

best Music Education Videos Paid or free I've even Seen keep them coming!!!

clear-simple- and quality tutorial. thnx

keep em coming my guy

This is by far the best tutorials for music production

hell yes love these vids

I love you man thankyou so much this is amazing so underrated

Another vid, another gem

Bthelick is a vibe…locked in my top 5 channels to lose sleep over 🖤😎🙌🍭

20:02 quick correction. Sample rate reduction doesn't cause any ringing! When you just reduce the sample rate to introduce aliasing (which is those higher, metallic tones), it doesn't have any effect on the timing or length of the tones. It simply shifts the higher frequencies (already present in the signal) around the spectrum, similarly to frequency shifters. Still a good tip to use the transient shaper & gate on the aliased harmonics. It sounds unnatural for these high frequencies to sustain so long, because in nature, high frequencies decay faster. So this technique reintroduces some natural sound.

This is really good stuff!

LOVE THIS GUY

Such a great way of explaining ! Easily the best source of knowledge on this platform. Would love to see a video on stereo width in piano house/tech the panning and where certain instruments belong in the mix.

@Bthelick

5 ай бұрын

Regarding panning, I just don't tbh. It's a personal choice but for anything essential to the groove I don't pan for the reason that I don't want people on one side of the club getting a different thing to those on the other. If I have lots of backing vocal layers I usually pan those across the spectrum. For the rest I usually just let stereo things be stereo and that's where the track gets its width from. As for where stuff "belongs" , that's up to you, Do what feels good to you! There's no rules in art (although most might tell you to keep the kick and bass down the middle haha)

🙌🏾 appreciate you G!

Brilliant !

Happy as balls I came across your channel 😻

waoo that is a great video!! thankz fr share your knowledge with us

Best teacher I’ve had so far.

Sick, thank you!

Quality. Thank you!

Amazing! thanks

Thanks again!

So good learned so much

Legend!

your vids r dank bro ❤

love this channel

Thanks u bthelick

Don't want to repeat what has been written here, but this video really is something else. Thanks

I love your videos!!!!

Great one for breakfast this day for me ;-) Thanks

Thank you!!

It’s like he’s taking the exact gaps in my knowledge and filling them in, expertly.

Thanks for the video! Glad I found ZEEK STFU and Wolf Shape plugins. Everything else is really worth watching too

4:26 one thing to note about the phase shift comment... you're using a 24db per octave slope on your highpass! This creates two points of 180° phase shift! One of those points occurs ABOVE the cutoff, so that filter is actually rearranging the phase quite a bit! Not that it matters. The phase relationship of a bass sound is not as predictable as "phase shift bad". Phase shift is bad, but ONLY if the phase has been carefully tuned to maximize headroom previously. Phase shift is also bad if you saturate your bass before you use the filter. It's simple enough to find a good phase relationship between your bass fundamental and its overtones. Just buss the synths, just tweak the phase of the sub, while inspecting the waveform through an oscilloscope, until the peaks are minimized. The reason it's a good idea to separate sub-bass instruments SPECIFICALLY is because when the notes combine, they can cause really long cancellations. Its the same phenomenon as dissonant notes creating "beating", except low frequencies' beating sounds way more noticeable.

mate! these videos are great.

@masonflintmusic

Жыл бұрын

club toilet test lololol

Awesome

Best tutorials online today!

THE CLUB TOILET TEST LOL- I've often thought thats exactly how it sounds but I'm glad you named it.

@mitchiemasha

11 ай бұрын

Aka as the cloak room test!!!

can we have a turtorial about house beat programming, I really love your teaching style

Thank you

Love the tutorial. Would love a tutorial that explains more in depth phase issues, especially with bass and kick. You mention in this video about how LP filters can cause phase issues. Would love more explanation into that.

@Bthelick

Жыл бұрын

I don't need to make one Dan Worral has covered that in depth check out his tutorial.

Insane

i wish you was my neighbour, i would just sit in the background and absorb your knowledge

Thumb up, man.

I’ve been loving watching your videos. Your commentary makes them so valuable! Super impressive how you clearly explain what and why you’re doing things. To clarify your comment about distortions and phase, I’m guessing you’re only talking about distortions that apply some type of eq/filtering under the hood? Simple distortion processes like soft/hard clipping or any sort of waveshaping shouldn’t affect phase whatsoever, yes? Distortions that don’t apply colouring via filtering should be A-ok to mix in parallel, I believe.

@Bthelick

Жыл бұрын

Clippers are usually fine yeah. Regarding distortion there are just too many cases, usually more bad than not to blanket recommend trying it that's all. It's just a rule of thumb to save beginners from getting into trouble, there will always be exceptions. 👊

Very useful stuff. And your diction makes me think of Dan Worrall

@Bthelick

Жыл бұрын

yup I totally tried to copy him haha , I think his diction and pace of delivery are incredible, and a massive part of why he's easy to understand.

amazing video as always!!

I like the approach... Laying out conceptual groundwork can be done just fine in the simplest of manners, then work out the technical details when people understand what the hell is even going on :D This is lost on many well-intentioned mentors. I've been fiddling with FL on and off, and being a wise-ass (ironically speaking anyway) I never gave much thought to the concept of actually trying to learn something. Since getting more serious I've been swimming in big ideas I'm not even ready for with all the info I've been taking in, but this video somehow made a lot of stuff click. Really took a lot from a 22 min clip and will def be checking out the rest! Plus, this vid had a groovy groove to it all along the way. Be careful, or people will start calling you hip! Pew-pew-pew!

Saludos desde México 🇲🇽❤️

@Bthelick

Жыл бұрын

Welcome cassette 👊❤️

A little bit of compression can help too. But I agree that soundesign + tone shaping using effects, stereo effects are the more important part of anything music related actually

@Bthelick

Жыл бұрын

Sure, for a live bass guitar player, but what is there to compress in edm? Most bases produced by a synth don't have any dynamics to compress at all. I haven't needed to compress a bass (or drums) for over half a decade now. I find most who think the compression is helping are usually just getting fooled by the fact it's simply been made louder by the make up gain.

Amazing video as always! For me Voxengo Span displayed completely wrong frequencies for the spikes. Was so confused but switched to ableton's spectrum analyzer plugin and got it working. 😀

@Bthelick

9 ай бұрын

Wrong??? I've never known it to be wrong. Hard to read maybe. I don't use default settings though. I have it set to max RT and a zero slope

I’ll never forget the time I played my new track to a massive crowd in front of my peers and there was no synth on the drop, just kick and bass 😅 Trust the video, ALWAYS check in mono!

“I hope you learned something” man I learned everything Damnn

gem of a fucking channel!

@Bthelick

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I try to keep it more about music though 🤣🤟🙌