Everything To Know About Layering Leads..

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[@dicasdoanthony]

Grat tips, mr Z. Thanks! Here are my annotations: combine leads using: frequency spectrum, stereo field, adsr, same bus with compression (ott) and tape saturation (tape delay plugin), low lead: 277hz a 3800hz, unison 1, voice, middle, stereo lead 1 and 2: 200hz a 11000hz, high lead: 1000hz a 9000hz, pluck lead: attack sound, 700hz a 6400hz, saw noise lead: above 1000hz, narrow cut 5000hz.

[@oOMKKOo]

nice one. please show us your BASS layer & drums! really need that🙌🏻

[@TitanzMusic]

He already did it

[@oOMKKOo]

Titanz i meant in this specific track :)

[@achourstar1]

Continue like this, you will defintly be number one as productions tutoriel and hope you will get enough credit to share your songs You disserve it

[@BigZMusic]

Yo thanks a lot man!

[@stevenlim776]

he already does hahahaha....check his Spotify

[@aaronmedberry4308]

By far the most straight forward way to describe layering. Thank you so much!

[@zanderryz]

4 years later and this is still immensely helpful!! Thank you Big Z!

[@TheFirefighter1971]

Thanks for all of the informative tutorials and great stuff you're posting .. very much appreciated .. you're so lovable

[@theJustin-]

Really appreciate all the content you put out Big Z! this was just what I needed for my current mix

[@clancybenedict6647]

Your videos are insanely helpful. You're so good at what you do 😭🙏🏻

[@nitaigaurmusic1204]

After seeing these videos and looking at your tutorials, everything is making sense. Thanks much. How much I can't Explain.

[@OfficialRocNation]

I literally was just struggling with this on my song. Big Z comes thru once again!

[@FranR00]

This is the best leads layering tutorial on youtube

[@davidsandberg5217]

Always learning great stuff from your videos...thanks!

[@Bouy95]

thanks Big Z . All your videos are worth watching and learning .

[@simme4u]

this is so sick! dont forget to bring back some trap as well really loved the droeloe remake!

[@rafaelcamara8704]

I just discovered this channel! Great job! Subscribed! FINALLY SOMEONE WITH LOGIC PRO X TUTORIAL

[@Heinrich2awsome]

Thx it was really helpful. Trying to improve my layering that is why I try a lot of different tutorials.

[@Hockeyguyman]

Solid video man, respect. No whining for subscribers or any bullshit whatsoever. Thank you! subscribed

[@triangle6782]

Nice tips man, i learnt something new. Thanks

[@yogasiva2009]

This is the first time I'm here you nailed it man ... No words subscribed !!! :)

[@BigZMusic]

thanks for watching!

[@jamiebrown6194]

Another excellent tutorial! Thanks

[@shamelit2447]

U are really big!! I love ur productions!

[@joshbond496]

Love this tutorial man, sounds so good I don’t know how you do it every time!!

[@BigZMusic]

thanks for watching man!

[@danecustance2734]

Thanks this was really helpful and easy to follow.

[@JeffreyYoung4]

dude I love your videos. This is super helpful

[@stephenmccann382]

Awesome vid, subscribed and notified. Please upload more!

[@eyalkomorovsky4565]

Sound amazing! Thank you!!

[@electropocalypse5877]

Thank you KZbin for bringing me here! Best tutorials ever. I know this is an old one but I'm wondering, is it best to always stack leads or can you get away without it? I had some mastering issues in the past due to increased loudness from stacking, however I was at this time not EQing enough and I used stacking on the kick drum. I did learn though that bass is where you want to cut the most, followed by mids and then highs. Great video and sorry for the ramble.

[@shoonrobben733]

Whoa, I've never thought to use tape delay as a saturation plugin... that's awesome 👌

[@djfatech]

My friend, always with goods tutorials.

[@petersulc83]

Wow, thanks for this tutorial! It really helps! But please show in some next tutorial how your layer this huge bassline! And drums also :) Thanks!

[@Musicbypinge]

I love your vids so damn much man. Please keep doing this, i just want to learn more after each video. One thing thought that i dont quite understand. I know what that tape delay is, to me its a delay, but you say you are adding tape saturation, what is that exacly and how do you do it? thanks!

[@charliegould7421]

Really helpful, thanks.

[@TheDude-vx6wn]

Great tutorial, thanks!

[@arivirtanen2568]

Dude you have an interesting channel. Glad i found it. Thanks

[@Timbre1]

Would love for you to finish this brooks style track! It’s really good

[@adrienwall5941]

Great video!!! Very helpful!!!

[@SanaxUltd]

Best tutorials on KZbin!👍🎧

[@pedroqofficial879]

Great mate tutorial mate!

[@zethify]

Pls upload this song ! I love this song !😍 Like who agree

[@lukeluke6240]

love this video, can u make a video about these bas in this track , they sound so profesional too!

[@robkasper2997]

Soooo clean, thank you Big Z. Always bumping you at parties

[@BigZMusic]

Dope!

[@BigZMusic]

Dope!

[@neveoney7865]

Hi, great tutorial! Do you also have one where you do the whole track with bass and beat? ...or can you create another one? :-) ...so exactly for this track?

[@AG-ye6pv]

Thank you so much!

[@harmimusic9486]

I really appreciate your tutorials!! They help me out so much! Could you possibly drop the presets for this one, I would like to mess around with them:) Thanks:))

[@Golfindialpha]

Hi, do you remove reverb from each virtual instrument before sending them into your bus reverb? Thanks man. Your videos are really helpful.

[@JulienEarle]

god that is such a good drop

[@EMSGamers]

Cool tutorial man! What was the plug-in for the tape saturation?

[@idab2002]

Big Z does it again. Hey Z, I see that CLA bass is your go-to plug in. Can you make a video on why you are using that plug in and what that does? I am sure many of us curious about the plug in. Thanks!

[@BigZMusic]

It basically just allows you to use only one plug-in to process your bass. and it's so easy to use - it just has compression, distortion, EQ, and a couple other things

[@Chris-ri8pu]

Good stuff man!

[@arjayvebeats3817]

Learned a lot from this one, thanks man!

[@BigZMusic]

thanks ray!

[@rmkbsounds]

WAIT. I think I have heard of this on splice or somewhere ! do you released ?? It is SUPER AWESOME !

[@michaelmalaychuk4489]

amazing!! thanks

[@RabbitintheMoon]

could you also make each preset of serum available and how you processed the reverb

[@kyklone8881]

Amazing! Can you do a tutorial on Foria/Deaf Kev?

[@techhab3139]

Such a good tutorial

I alway learn with u tutorial 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@eddietibert]

Noice! Could you include the samples to the remakes?

[@meli6721]

Talent!!! Please remake Brooks & David Guetta - When You’re Gone🙏🏼

[@fizzy4040]

Thanks for the tutorial.Please make a remake of Axwell-Nobody Else.

[@flowdreas5351]

Hey man I love your videos! Question though: if you want a different melody with a different synth to play later on in the song over the lead melody you just showed, do you delete the higher parts of the original lead melody or do you just pan the new melody slightly to the left/right? In other words, how do you layer different leads throughout the song while still giving each one their space? Oh, and hook em \m/!

[@BigZMusic]

It’s never a good idea to have 2 different lead melodies playing at the same time it’d be way too crowded

[@meli6721]

nice man.. i can hear brooks remix of ''dusk till dawn''

[@frankrosii6008]

This guy unlike the others showing just how to write EDM knows what ppl wanna know

[@sleepyxboy]

3:08 , u also able to do a mono leads with a bunch of voices, by decreasing width of serum oscillator from 100 to 0

[@Hirokee_]

Really informative video and btw you look so nice in this blue shirt

[@andrewdelgado5620]

Yo Big Z, quick question! Do you find there to be a reason not to use track stacks in Logic?

[@mateibratu1841]

Could u possibly do a remake of Retrovisoon - Bring the Beat back? Its honestly one of my favorite songs rn

[@braydenkneze21]

That melody is bonkers

[@Syberdemonn]

thanks m8!!!!!

[@luan2965]

nice one bro

[@esphurrmusic1224]

Selected Style tutorial please!

[@VenoMusic5]

First edit: Great Tutorial Sir

[@hacktivator7906]

What about panning them? Did you use panning? Hope you continue these series with the bass, drums and overall mixing. It sounds AWESOME!

[@BigZMusic]

Yeah sometimes I'll pan one of the lead layers way left and one way right. But you still always want the main sound right in the middle

[@irVz]

Just curious, when layering, do i want to turn off all individual effects, like reverb, delay etc? Should i have them all using the same reverb, delay etc? thanks

[@TheMrDChan]

Can we see how you handle the tape saturation please?

[@t-om2344]

Genius!!!!

[@jaykay__jaykay]

HI ... Big Z are highlead , plucklead ,and white nose stereo sound ? or mono sound? I want to know it

[@the_beamer284]

👐🏻

[@MK-pn3lm]

Hey, could you please explain me why all layers should have the same adsr curve? 😅

[@CestLaVie73]

Could you make video about how get song more airiness. I usually succeed to make remix when I use original song lowcutted pretty steeply but after I mute it my song sounds empty. Thx.

[@BigZMusic]

Not really sure what your problem is, could be reverb or not enough synth layers to fill out the leads/synths, or could be something else

[@muneebj.4010]

Sound Design: some of the notes in the lead sound more punchier as they have a click noise. How do you achieve that?

[@muneebj.4010]

Already tried that but it doesn't have the same effect. The closest I've gone to this sound is by keeping the attack and release minimum. Turning off the legato and doing 'something' which has a reverse legato effect. Add shorter notes also help, just make sure they don't touch other and have atleast 1/8 beat distance b/w

[@sazza8631]

sidechain

[@mishking5]

Add pitch envelope

[@zeph8620]

This was so helpful wtf

[@scottmcculloch4217]

you for hire

[@bobbysantoni2803]

teach me how to use serum better pls so i don't have to be limited to presets

[@TechnoGames001]

Could u do a challenge making a track in fl studio in 1h.

[@wildhomies1968]

How are you not on Spinnin'!

[@arpitthakur45]

he will be

[@mannie2747]

how to make that plucky lead?

[@AutografMusic]

nice tutorial man

[@BigZMusic]

thanks guys, huge fan here!

[@DannyBoyBradley]

You are a fking badass bro!

[@leandrofigueira4015]

Siiiiiiiiiiiick aaaaasssd ffuuuuuuccckkkkkk

[@enlightenedsoul8897]

This track inspired by Mike Williams or Brooks?

[@CardnylMusic]

So... Make sure that every layer serves a purpose 👍👍

[@theunconciousmind7314]

Why don't you just say right in your face bro 😂🔥🔥❤️

[@skpedharrix]

Brook style

[@cjfromgtasanadreas]

ATTAK

[@juanromarioavilesquispe9321]

i use 27 leads tho

[@lexo9294]

Can u start using massive and sylenth 1?

[@tails8684]

By Alex why would he use two different synth plug-ins when he could just use one like serum?

[@lexo9294]

@@tails8684 It would be cool if he used many plugins instead of 1 all the time bro:)

[@tails8684]

By Alex those two synths you named literally do the same exact thing adding more things seems unnecessary imo

[@BigZMusic]

Sorry, I always just wanted to get really good at one synth (which is obviously Serum for me). Once I feel like I've mastered it I'll learn another one really well but for now it will be almost all Serum sorry!

[@lexo9294]

Big Z Thats ok:)

[@MrDemBananas]

Can I use this melody lol

[@edoardozaza1875]

link midi???

[@dennyle1162]

Am I deaf? I can't hear the difference between the core leads and all layers combined.

[@tanishkshrivastava6822]

the lead didnt sound professional at all