6 Ways to Color Bass | Au5

[@JoshMobleyMusic]

This dude is in complete command of his instrument. An incredible sound designer and a gifted composer. Incredibly talented.

[@ChimeTunes]

This thumbnail is excellence 👍

[@pudoo456]

"aliens"

[@KA-G_music]

COLOR BASS GUY!!!

[@danielpaiz175]

Aliens

[@theRiver_joan]

Honestly it was the main reason I clicked on this vid lol. It turned out to be an excellent tutorial tho.

[@DAWNation]

The thumbnail… the intro… the info… the enormous free sample pack… this is just perfect :) You are the hero we need, but the hero we don’t deserve, Mr. 5.

[@MozzyFluorum]

I deserve him

[@donotoliver]

Yeah i deserve him too

[@MozzyFluorum]

@@donotoliver exactly

[@scottglen3148]

why don’t deserve him？

[@MattRid]

AU5 has the beard, has the hair, creates magic out of thin air... In another world this man would be rockin' a staff and cloak.

[@soundbody_official9552]

Lmao when I saw the thumbnail and then read "au5" in the title, I was like who tf is this guy? That's not au5

[@EPsoundsEst2K17]

when the bass is in fact colorful

[@araserwhenthe]

When the bass is indeed most vibrant

[@DanTheMak]

Most rainbow 🌈

[@KiloSecond]

200th like

[@greg4589]

8:36 is the most amazing sound I've ever heard

[@2L3L]

another colorization method i like to use is using soothe2 with the sidechain input as a chord, then with sharpness all the way up and on delta, kinda similar effect to the match eq ones but more convenient since it just runs in realtime without having to record the audio first!

[@2L3L]

@@crow4277 hihihihihihihi!!!

[@au5music]

Same! That technically is an FFT morph as well. You can do the same with Mspectraldynamics in sidechain mode and creating a delta signal with an inverted parallel dry chain, though I decided to omit them from the tutorial for simplicity

[@2L3L]

@@au5music oh awesome! if I ever get mspectraldynamics I'll be sure to try that out haha, thank you this got me thinking if rx spectral denoise would be any good for colorization i love the artefacts it makes lol

[@elbuhdai605]

This is genuinely one of the best "here's how to do this" videos for intermediates and experts that I've ever seen. It's sooo hard to find good tutorials for people who aren't beginners, but you just showed us the plugins, explained briefly what they do, played through a bunch of examples, and gave us a ton of quick ways of doing it for people who know what they're doing but just haven't found the answer yet. I'll be experimenting with these techniques soon. Thank you!

[@haphaz7ard]

That white noise trick for match EQ is super helpful thanks for sharing these techniques!

[@auryle]

T'noight on the Au5 show: we will learn how to colour bass innit

[@GZAPPLE]

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[@auryle]

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[@OmnigonMusic]

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[@kiyu3229]

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[@CmoIsDaNam3i]

With the Vocodex method you can also right click on the graph to enable the hold option and also put on the snap function to snap to any select key so it somewhat acts like the FFT tuners in the sense it will be filtering out the sounds to the graph, which if done according to a scale or what not, will be colorized just like that. Just make sure the amount of bands selected is 96, which is pretty much amount 8 octaves of the entire keyboard. Its pretty dope and can just be layered on anything really.

[@hotel_arcadia]

This is the only tutorial I've found on KZbin that doesn't only show how great these sounds are, but also explains _how_ they sound that way. Thank you so much for the tutorial. Dubstep, riddim, etc. really do require a good understanding of sound design

[@savage7882]

The way you synthesize your tracks is magical. I used to listen to you on monstercat 10 years ago since i was a kid, and the incredible way you create your sound is almost like an unmistakeable signature. Anytime im blindly listening to mixes and one of your tracks comes up i can instantly recognize that you made it despite hearing it for the first time. All the best man, honestly, your songs are jewels decorating everyone's playlists.

[@soundbody_official9552]

I think that's one of the biggest hallmarks for any musician, no matter if it's electronic or whatever...having your own signature sound. You can immediately recognize Ganja White Night, Dirt Monkey with his weird monkey signature, Cliff Burton's bass lines, idk I'm just naming off random artists that pop up in my head but you can definitely hear Au5's signature sound that sets him apart from other producers who try to copy his sound or sound like other artists. Even visual arts you can tell when it's Picasso's work versus someone who is trying to copy his style.

[@Kallyn]

This is gonna be an insane video I can already tell

[@soundbody_official9552]

It's amazing that you aren't gate keeping these techniques that can take producers to another level. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart 🙏

[@alexanderkeffer2107]

I never stop being amazed at how much u do for the dubstep community. You da man Austin Au5!

[@yinyangyt8749]

Your tutorials are always so helpful. Love what you do Austin

[@Gnurklesquimp2]

Bass music or otherwise, one of the biggest challenges is making patches for chord sounds that are far from just being stacks of the same timbre at different intervals, ''coloring'' is a genius concept. I've done some cool stuff with Harmor too, it has a prism that let's you displace harmonics with key-track, great for the resynthesis/wavetable kinda stuff it can do too. Try this: Side A = square, Side B = every other harmonic to make a saw together, shift the harmonics that imply major down a semitone (Sines for reference), put vibrato on side B. You get a gritty, full yet clean pseudo-distorted minor sound, it's super cool. Splitting the harmonics of a saw and affecting them separately is awesome in general!

[@sakurodubs]

really sick tutorial! defo gonna have to try lots of these methods for sure! also there is a max for live plugin called bcresoncrtl that lets you have midi control over the ableton resonator! saves quite a lot of time from doing automations haha

[@Glazami]

Полезно, любю цветной басс, обволакивает, даёт атмосферу присутствия

[@nikokotoulas]

this is on another level... very very thankful for this. trying to learn sound design now and you have so much good stuff, I also bought the course!!

[@death_throes]

You want cool sound design? He's got you.

[@MattRid]

AU5TIN! I keep coming back to this video man, I love watching your tutorials. I have come to love the Melda plugins! Love you work brother!

[@OmnigonMusic]

Imo Au5's tutorials is the best tutorials ever

[@Codeman785]

Thumbnail is perfection

[@noahaguilar8180]

thats the thing w synthesis, you can get slightly different results w differt forms of it, its all about details and decision ibguess 🤩🔥

[@SamAFTher]

everything is so professional, how amazing

[@kpopgigachad]

I've always loved and admired your music Au5. But hearing you articulate the technicalities of what exactly is going on with the sound design let's me know you're a genius. 👏

[@mrmachinehead8059]

You're a fucking wizard and I love you. Blows my mind every time I see these kinds of videos from you.

[@krushendo7194]

This is the best Color Bass tut I've seen. Super helpful.

[@IHCREATES]

If you are watching this you might like DENNET !!! Super solid perspective on making color bass also in tandem with this tutorial!

[@BrianAndersonTT]

The title does not do the content justice. This is SO much more.

[@bokchoiman]

You were my intro into dubstep back in the day. Congrats on your success!

[@ArtEntity]

this is the best sound design video i have ever seen

[@sadhill38again]

really dope video that actually show exacly what we need

[@MattRid]

This is gonna be an awesome school trip! Big thanks, Big love AU5!🌈 psychedelics on standby...

[@AustinZoph]

Listen to tipper instead

[@MattRid]

@@AustinZophmuch prefer OTT lol

[@nokaccino]

@@AustinZoph I only say this cuz you came to Au5's channel to recommend someone else tipper kinda mid

[@AustinZoph]

​@@nokaccino thanks for your two cents, regardless tipper is the gordon ramsay of electronic music

[@nokaccino]

@@AustinZoph ok

[@montysingh412]

Such a beautiful tutorial about colorbass till date..... Love from India

[@dabih4427]

This video is just a pure gold.

[@IceAngel]

I've been getting into the world of color bass since 2021 and those tips truly extend the knowledge of adding colors to any sounds!

[@zegaracosmus]

OH SHIT ITS YOU! ive been listening (and others from our time) for a long ass time i thought you fell off, good to see you, be safe broski

[@joemartens7864]

I can't believe you exist lol like I listened to your music years ago (and every now and then) but never imagined your face. Great video too!

[@NinjinzuGames]

This is the kind of sound design I have been looking to play with , just never knew how to go about it

[@ericp4959]

such a great teacher - thank you Au5!

[@DANETRONICMUSIC]

Rezonator and retune are probably my favorites to use out of all of them. This is an amazing tutorial on Colour bass!!! This genre is really fun to explore and sparks all kinds of creativity!

[@rayelxia]

Thank you for another inspiration and sounds shock... you're my hero

[@gtrfrk443]

I’m so glad to find you on here. Heard a remix from you and Fractal back in Baltimore and always wondered how you achieved these sounds.

[@AGRYGVT]

So much useful info and so detailed explanation! Thank you for this video!

[@nannue]

Absolutely amazing producer. Thank you for this.

[@BodyOfPlayMusic]

Absolute awesomeness

[@hippietrap]

so freaking dope thanks for this and all the amazing tuts!

[@sqwop]

Very cool ideas, reminds me of the time I put drum loops through Razor's vocoder once and played chords through it, sounded great.

[@yuristickney3277]

Love this tutorial! My question is… How do I get vocodex as a standalone vst as you do here? Been trying fl studio vsti but that’s not the same

[@kieranchrismusic]

dude the ozone match EQ thing makes so much more sense to imprint it on a flat white noise signal before transferring to another sound holy shit

[@Makker_1]

Vocodex for the win! That was so good.

[@dirg3music]

What is that spectrograph that you have in the bottom left corner? Thats convenient as hell!

[@rodnee2340]

Au5 is to be studied. Like taking a degree in womp dynamics.😂 a treasure of sound design.

[@DAWIT05]

Thank you for the delicious information.... love you . !

[@Ibbys_space]

8:51 bcReson is a great external m4l device to input midi to stock resonator if you can't purchase rezonator and need a hacky solution!

[@timtimch1884]

Ozone прям как filter работает, круто)

[@43tss]

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[@martin-raison-music-composer]

Your track Cryptochrome is pretty insane by the way !

[@alexacheson8361]

I literally never comment on videos but you in the same tier as Van Gogh. You are on an entirely different level and it's so freaking COOL, thank you for all you do for the good of music as a whole!

[@Liam-dk3iy]

Great video! I was wondering what the cheapest option would be for achieving the best (decent) results in adding color. Each one of those seems pretty expensive to me :(

[@saev6730]

Au5 here again to blow my mind

[@GhostFoxMako]

The intro is killer!

[@jackjackjack26]

very informative, love it!!!

[@crispen_archives]

Absolutely banger tutorial! Even tho I've never been into music production, I still like watching your breakdowns and tutorials, mostly because of INSANE quality and your devotion to your workflow. Just a suggestion - could u make a breakdown of your collaboration with Nasty Purple & Kenny Raye - The Encryption??? I just love this track, would love to see a video about it! (especially considering you remade the whole track only around Nasty Purple's vocals it will be extra interesting!! )

[@digitaltrash_]

Vocodex is so cleeean

[@EverGassinGobstopper]

Was great to see more techniques for the process! Personally, I use mainly the convolver method and love the results 😊

[@brnktv]

Amazing to me that you're willing to give away so many secrets to how you work. Knowing that most people just use loops and presets from Splice, this is really cool to see the art of actually being creative is still alive and well.

[@Alckemy]

Great summary!

[@VansLearningMusic]

So freaking cool and smart man

[@BenCaesar]

EQ match is inspiring 🎉

[@kLxna]

great, now you inspired to open my daw right now

[@CmoIsDaNam3i]

Dope as always Austin. :D Also as an extra one for anyone reading. If you use Harmor at all you can make color bass sounds by going into the global EQ and right clicking the wave type to "Hold", then you can turn off certain frequencies according to any scale you like. Just pay attention to the top right part with the information window in FL (Or I assume equivalent in other DAWS) And since Harmor is an additive synthesis type of plugin turning off those frequencies will no have latency and acts more like a pre-gain per frequency. The only downsides is it can take a bit of time to do this for the entire global EQ section since it doesn't auto-snap to any of those notes and playing notes that are turned off can be sometimes a little inharmonic, but the up side is you can save the files so you only have to do it once. Plus the dope thing is with Harmor you can ofc resample anything. So basically insta-color bass with basically *anything* 😏

[@colorbassdoggo365]

for this technique you can also try nasko's "n-color" snap heap rack. does same thing but with kilohearts plugins, saves your cpu and time. it's an effect rack and not synth (like harmor), so you can slap that on any sound in seconds without resampling

[@CmoIsDaNam3i]

@@colorbassdoggo365 Dope! That sounds awesome! :D

[@mubumubu5975]

I quickly tried this out and didn't get a nice result at all. Kinda sucked spending 10 minutes mapping a scale for it to sound like a distortion plugin.. Did I overlook something?

[@sadiks8195]

For Ableton user, if you want a free resonator more complex than stock Ableton one and with midi input, I made a m4l device called resonathor (still in beta) Thank you for video, really nice to hear A/B of plugins !

[@andrasbarabasmusic]

Man your intro is soooo tight

[@phillywonkz1297]

Sick video dude, thank you!!

[@georgemoore2813]

What’s the spectral analysis tool you’re using called? Looks dope!

[@SSQUIRESOUND]

amazing vid thanks for the insight man!

[@leiocerayt]

For colo(u)ring, I use mostly the chord mode in "Flair" by Native Instruments or Zynaptiq MORPH

[@turbochargedfilms]

Parenthesising the British deviation of the word has got to be one of the most alarmingly American things I've ever witnessed. As a speaker of Queen's, I tip my colonial hat to you 👏

[@Feelstoramusic]

The secrets will be unleashed upon the world

[@matthias8267]

I thought I look like a fckn Hippie but you man... You get the cake 😂😂😂

[@tihkal]

This is sick bro ty! What kind of spectrum analyzer is that btw?

[@vatogomareli]

Great Video!

[@ralog_]

Solid techniques 👍

[@digitaltrash_]

Au5 our spectral scholar physic-chemist, protect at all coasts!

[@Skrenja]

All coasts? Like a tower defense type deal?

[@digitaltrash_]

@@Skrenja ninjas and snipers on the rooftop

[@kroh]

incredible dude. i was a little bit sad that I had learned pretty much everything about music production, but watching this felt like standing on a mountain and seeing everest off in the distance. thanks for something new to learn :D

[@eXpas04]

bro droped like a semester worth of info

[@OperculumAudio]

Thank you a u 5 love your tutorials

[@spiralfractal]

Great tutorial!

[@PeterKeuneVideos]

Where do you download the Spectral resonator??? I went on abletons website and couldnt find it. Can't find it in my Ableton live 12 DAW either.

[@mdnghtppl0000]

legend

[@ArtEntity]

you're just too good 🔥🔥🔥

[@voidamber3850]

how do you use Vocodex without FL? i cant find nothing about, i have the complete FL bundle but currently using Logic Pro :0

[@edjjit]

all great tech, they have their own flavours, some more desirable, fft vocodex and tuners are my favs ;)

[@shetric]

Thanks...very helpful!

[@CarelessPrecision]

this stuff inspires me to make more music

[@HaramosYT]

Man colour bass makes me feel a certain type of way

[@cres_music]

Color da bass!

[@karceri2475]

OMG that Ableton skin, where is that from?

[@flyoverfredusa]

I just drop a like before I even start the video because I know it's always going to be ridiculous !