DEEP HOUSE MASTERCLASS - How To Make Deep House 2023

[@hannahbackward]

Wow! When I join Patreon would I be able to study the project files for this song?

[@dilbydj]

No, not this song. Only the ones I make for KZbin tutorials. This is a released track. But you will find lots of useful stuff on Patreon.

[@hannahbackward]

@@dilbydj Thank you! I was just hoping to study some Live project files as a learning experience to see how pros do it. There are a few companies who sell Ableton project files but they leave a lot to de desired. The crazy thing is there are many good ones for other DAWs.

[@dilbydj]

@@hannahbackward I am in the process of creating a masterclass that will be a start to finish track along with project files. Probably between 4-7 hours of content. But it takes time to produce. Of course I will announce it on the channel when it's done.

[@hannahbackward]

@@dilbydj That sounds excellent. I'll watch for it. I've done many before and they make two common mistakes--they will include rendered audio clips of the very stuff you wanted to learn to make or they forget there's an audience trying to follow along and start making changes without explaining what they are doing or what they did. I don't expect you will do either and I'm just venting because of a recent experience, lol.

[@dilbydj]

@@hannahbackward Yeah, I can see how that would be frustrating. There are probably 3 reasons for the audio clips. 1 they recorded it from hardware when making it so only have the audio. 2 it's from a loop or sample and they are trying to hide the fact they use loops or avoid getting caught sampling something. 3 they created it by running the sound through an fx unit or plugin and manipulated it live to get the sound, so they only have the audio.

[@djnikobeats]

This is GOLD! Not only are you a great producer and sound engineer, but also an inspiring teacher and great communicator. 👏

[@dilbydj]

Thanks Niko ✌️

[@ZaurGT]

''I don't play piano. I just put the stuff in by hand, and listen to what works''. Thats goooooood

[@alfredosotoz]

I don't even remember how I landed to your videos, so far I have seen like 4-5 videos and I like them all. So you are a great producer and sound engineer but the best is you have teacher communication skills, feels like I'm on a personalized session. Killer combo!

[@imfgr5324]

Dilby you have one of the most qualitative channel for music production. Your mix down and sound design are very serious

[@dilbydj]

Thanks mate ✌️

[@kidnubz3230]

It's crazy cause I wanted to learn DJing got a DDJ400 didn't last but I feel like this is one of the songs I practiced mixing with and here I am as a 20+ year hobby producer switching genres trying to learn deep house and here it is.. xD

[@dilbydj]

Awesome buddy 👊

[@kidnubz3230]

lol Awesome music and video boss@@dilbydj

[@humanmask]

I am glad that I found you. I started producing music a little bit more than a year ago, I am improving fast but still a lot of work and practice to do of course. Now I feel I am at the stage where I have to find out what genre of music I want to produce. I like so many different genres, from drum & bass, techno, hiphop, trap and of course house too. My idea was to make quality house music but so far I haven't found somebody who has similar style and also teaching it on youtube on a very effective way. Till now. I like your music too, because it's an ideally balanced mixture of the best things of the house music. Little bit classic, little bit deep but still party music, a pinch of techyness, a little hipnotic, nice vocals... I want the same, just of course with my sound, implement my style. So I can't wait to learn a lot from you. Big ups

[@madmanj.official]

Great vid. You can call everything simple stuff, but it is next level stuff. , the hardest part usually is to find the matching sounds to make the groove.

[@dilbydj]

Very true! Thanks for tuning in mate ✌️

[@ionicamarian352]

I really love to see a real pro showing stuff. Good job Dilby, you're making great music!

[@dilbydj]

You're welcome

[@cmsslee]

Arrangement is my biggest challenge - going to try your method from now on it makes a lot of sense. Great content as usual 👊🏼

[@dilbydj]

You can do it!

[@dodoarsenalfc]

having that many songs on top 100 beatport, and sharing this for free, I love you and your contribution to the EDM, pretty sure some awesome producers in the future are going to reference you for your classes

[@dilbydj]

Haha, thanks buddy. It's my pleasure 😁

[@sparklism]

Dilby, this channel is brilliant for intermediate producers - I love it. The track is great too. More of this, please!

[@dilbydj]

Glad you like it

[@AnthonyHuttley]

Man how good is the dark round voyager preset! It's amazing how much less is more. You keep saying "super simple stuff" but the way you add layers and modulation is not super simple stuff. It's genius. Thank you so much for this. All extremely helpful.

[@dilbydj]

Thanks mate. I appreciate what you're saying and you're right, it may be simple, but it doesn't mean it's easy. My point is that the techniques I use are not out of reach of most producers and often done in the quickest and easiest way (using a one shot sample instead of sound designing in a synth for example). I see a lot of people focusing on complicating things and making them more elaborate, often at the cost of forgoing creativity and songwriting.

[@AnthonyHuttley]

@@dilbydj Gotcha, that is definitely a valid point. Also... Overcomplicating things. 🙋‍♂️😂. Thanks again man. I just found you thanks to Dowden, and I'm glad I did. Peace! ✌️

[@allseven5177]

What a treat, thanks Dilby. Lost my way in recent years creating music that I enjoy listening to, but nowhere near as much as this clean rolling digital deep snappy house (for want of a better desription). I'm going to use this class to see what I can come up with.

[@dilbydj]

Good stuff mate!

[@SlayerDarkRaver]

I love what you said about arrangement. I'm having issues arranging those 5+ min tracks since I blow out all the sounds to fast. Definitely think what you said will help ❤

[@Nicklz5555]

Really good stuff !! 😁 Thank you for all the content ! Will be watching more of your vids . Cheers mate

[@richardhodson6910]

I bought your track on Beatport..... Now to steal your kick ;)

[@dilbydj]

Do it!

[@MORIAH_B]

more deep house please 🔥

[@ВладиславГорбулин-и1ь]

It's a treasure! Biggest thank you, Dilby!

[@dilbydj]

You're welcome

[@JasonPriebe]

Thank you so much for this breakdown! Your melodic elements and basslines always play so nicely with and against each other. I can only hope to produce rhythms half as good as yours!

[@dilbydj]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@adidai]

Thanks for this video Mr. Dilby! The track is huge and the breakdown of the track will be extremely helpful. Loving your videos!

[@dilbydj]

Great to hear!

[@TechnobyKeidaux]

Ive really improved thanks to your videos this past year. Really appreciate it, watching this new one made me realize just how much I didnt get the first couple times watching you produce. Thank you so much and keep it up

[@dilbydj]

Great to hear!

[@rajeshmirage]

Fantastic video - thank you for sharing this!!

[@dakinimusic]

thank you so much for sharing with us contents like this!

[@Karl_Hogarth]

Brilliant and very helpful Masterclass Dilby. Many thanks (back to Tantra 1 I see 😉)

[@dilbydj]

Nah, it's an old project.

[@AVGVS808]

Dilby! how a great professor you are i love your content and your music!!

[@philippdoublep5041]

It is great to see workflow of real released chart track! Thank you very much to share us! You are Master!!)

[@dilbydj]

Glad you like it!

[@adriafalco]

Best content for music production man, always loving it!!

[@dilbydj]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@matthewkelly4728]

Great video. I have a question about your use of busses as opposed to using a return channel to achieve the same result. You bus each group of sounds to its own bus, and then add the effects you want to said bus. Why not use a return channel for that? Do you find your method gives you something a return channel doesn't? Thanks!

[@dilbydj]

With the drum bus for example, I route all the drums into that channel and the processing is applied to the 100% of the dry signal. If I send all drums to a return channel the unprocessed drums play PLUS whatever processing I do on the return channel.

[@matthewkelly4728]

@@dilbydj That makes sense, thank you. But then why not put all your processing for your drums on the drum group channel?

[@dilbydj]

@@matthewkelly4728 Same reason. I want the drums to play dry and have the reverb added. I also lightly sidechain the drum verb to the drum bus. I find it gets a cleaner end result

[@JuanPerez-wt7ux]

Amazing video! Thanks for these tutorials! One quick question. Usually, how much time do you spend in making the whole track?

[@dilbydj]

It really depends from track to track. But I make a bunch of sketches and then decide what to finish. So usually the main idea takes 2-4 hours

[@Dacoljr]

Saving this for later when I at least understand one thing you said lol

[@SaloméBlervaque-h6s]

Amazing masterclass!! Could you do a produce like Bondage Music as a next tutorial please?

[@dilbydj]

This is pretty similar to something I would release on Bondage Music.

[@chema__gonzalez__]

absolutely amazing lesson. thank you so much!

[@robinderoode]

You are AMAZING!

[@jaysundj]

Thank you Dilby, as always!

[@dilbydj]

My pleasure!

[@jackpreston2121]

Sick videos bro really helping me with the production

[@dilbydj]

Glad to hear it!

[@Electroaurora]

Perfect.

[@ChristianLast-yi4zi]

Hi Dilby I’m really enjoying your master classes and love your tracks, just a question for you, I’m looking into getting a dedicated laptop for Ableton and wanted your opinion on getting a Mac or pc, as I’m more used to using a pc why would I change to Mac, are Mac’s better or can I get a decent pc? 👍

[@dilbydj]

I use PC. I have a super powerful desktop that I put together myself for less than the price of a second hand MacBook. I switched a few years back as I don't want to support Apple anymore. I disagree with the way they try to stop users upgrading or repairing and charge of outrageous prices, way a above market norms, for generic components and labour.

[@cliffnboyzy]

Great. Thank you 🙏

[@dilbydj]

You're welcome 😊

[@techno303808909]

@Dilby Love your tutorials wanted to sign up on patreon but the essential ones ar full? is this going to be available soon? Finally have a release coming up and want to speed up think you can help me out :)

[@dilbydj]

Check my website www.wkndaudio.com

[@curre039]

AMAZING TUTORIAL

[@gothfrog69]

Great video. Do you process your kick with the rest of the percussion? Or do you keep keep the kick + bass in one buss, and process the rest of the percussion in another bus? (by percussion I mean hats, claps, percs, etc)

[@dilbydj]

Bass and kick together

[@JilleneLuce]

Did I miss which program you are using ???

[@slawomirbialecki2275]

thank you !

[@dilbydj]

You're welcome!

[@ADEREZO]

Thanks man!!

[@dilbydj]

No problem!

[@poletteh.2803]

Nice song

[@petehuda7457]

Which headphones is this?

[@hamedeep]

Hey bro ♥️ is that your kicks in drum bus ? If your answer is yes , so how you have also kick and bass bus ?

[@dilbydj]

I don't put the kick in the drum bus

[@hamedeep]

@@dilbydj ty so much

[@IzakayaDeployment]

33:00 That String, so typical, so important but I do not know where to find it

[@dilbydj]

That one was recorded from a Roland JP1010 but you can find similar sounds in the Korg M1 plugin. Or just search Splice or Loopcloud for a string sample and find one you like.

[@thepdc3372]

Question - Ive seen producers that use a small amount of side chain compression on their claps (sidechained to the kicks) to make room for the kick. Its a real subtle effect. Has anyone else used this method?

[@dilbydj]

Just turn down the clap 😂 I can see a problem with this idea. Anytime you pull out the kick, the limiter is going to pull the volume of the clap up. This makes the clap louder in those parts. If you add sidechain compression to the equation, it is going to make this effect even more extreme.

[@thepdc3372]

@@dilbydj not if you use a side chain channel

[@thepdc3372]

@@dilbydj not if you use a muted side chain channel. Try it out it’s mint as.

[@dilbydj]

@@thepdc3372 Then just see my first comment, turn the clap down. If you are ducking the clap on every kick then all you are doing is turning down the volume every time it plays, so if you just lower the clap volume the sidechain becomes redundant.

[@madmanj.official]

better move the clap some milliseconds, so the transient is not on the same spot as the kick, why would anyone sidechain the clap on the kick if it's on the same spot?

[@osuna1234]

❤❤❤

[@ralphdrees4413]

Forgive my ignorance of the current iterations of whatever we are calling genres, but in the early 00’s this would have been called progressive house. It’s a great track. I bought it. Just so confused by what people are calling progressive today and what people are calling deep today. Confused about a lot though actually. 2 days into recovering from a serious concussion so pay no mind 😂 Edit: my entire point was to say great track. Picked it up. Not sure why I said all that other shit lol

[@dilbydj]

Hahahaha 😂 I know exactly what you're saying. When I first started collecting vinyl in the early 2000’s the stuff I bought was called Progressive House. These days if I called this progressive house I would have a million people in the comments telling me I'm wrong 😂.

[@Roland_Tr909_Swing]

​​​​@@dilbydj at 52 im old enough to remember when it was either house ,NY garage , acid or detroit techno...1988..you would have loved it Dilby.

[@thefunkydeep446]

I’ve been calling this stuff “deep tech” since it’s got a little more energy than deep house but deeper vibes than tech house. Think that’s where it’s classified on most sites like Traxsource

[@Carlho80]

Yup progressive house and then tech house has been ruined with Beatport sticking in US EDM shite in them categories. Electronica/Organic House/Indie House/Melodic techno is now where I like to go for my old school DJ Global Underground style mixes.

[@thepdc3372]

Does anyone out there use SHS101 roland cloud for bass?

[@davidvulich]

Where can I download the template???

[@dilbydj]

It's not a template, it's a track I released.

[@davidvulich]

@@dilbydj hey dilby. Nevermind, I just subscribed on Patreon and found the Ableton template. Thanks bro.

[@blaugemusic9228]

🥂🙏👏👏👏

[@sfg206]

Video should be renamed : "How to MIX deep house track"

[@dilbydj]

Ok

[@dilbydj]

Under Your Skin EP: www.beatport.com/release/under-your-skin/4020246 The reference track, Frink - Sense [Bondage-Music]: www.beatport.com/track/sense-original-mix/8968673

[@deluxenz]

Hey Dilby, aren’t you from Wellington bro? You’re super familiar

[@dilbydj]

@@deluxenz Yeah, I lived there for about 10 years until 2012

[@deluxenz]

@@dilbydj I never forget a face. I used to MC for Bass Frontiers and pretty sure I saw you at a lot of gigs and venues around the city.

[@iambadd]

You have a beautiful face, but could you make it a bit smaller so we can see the groove / swing settings too? :)

[@dilbydj]

Noted

[@thebicycleman8062]

Not gona lie this sounds like the MOST GENERIC house song u could possibly make! I mean it's as if he was trying to see if he can make the most predictable generic house song ever made. People complain about how A.I will be cheating but this is the exact reason why a.i is able to now produce something identical to this. It's because humans themselves were just recycling each others generic shit and A.I is really REALLY good at detecting generic patterns, the better a.i can do something jus means there were MORE people recycling the same thing thus increasing the data for the a.i to perfect.

[@dilbydj]

Drop a link to your Spotify pal. Or better yet to your video showing how you do it properly. Time to walk the walk.

[@thebicycleman8062]

​@@dilbydj however the "educational" content of this video is great, my comment was strictly about the actual song itself as a song

[@dilbydj]

@@thebicycleman8062 I'm still interested to check your stuff mate. Drop a link.