Got this amazing bass sound by accident

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[@andrewhuang]

Let me know what you think of Oblivion! ✨fanlink.to/OblivionByAndrewHuang

[@375-Productions]

Just listened, it's SICK!!! Just added to my main playlist!!!! So awesome

[@oowaz]

I LOVE IT

[@sickboi11111]

Proper Nintendo64 vibes, love it! I really want to hear a Three Trapped Tigers or Lewis Cole bootleg / remix of it

[@JalikMetagram]

I absolutely love it ! I kept listening to the first in your latest video on a loop 🤩 Did you ended up choosing the name in the comments 👀 ?

[@TimLathen]

Sick ! How the h___ can it be so busy and still sound so good.

[@nkozi]

the frequency split is honestly the secret to any good bass sound

[@Swenglish]

Yup. Especially if you've got some stereo stuff going on. Always mono the lows. Nobody's got two subwoofers.

[@h3llo_wor1d]

I love how deadmau5 makes his basses ngl, the sub under the high of the bass sounds so amazing

[@drkastenbrot]

@@Swenglish stereo sub can be wonderful on headphones, so maybe not always

[@Swenglish]

@@drkastenbrot Mixing music exclusively for headphones is a pretty specific scenario.

[@Chex_Mex]

​@@Swenglishto be honest though, I bet the majority of people hearing your music will be doing so through headphones/earbuds

[@riccardobassani7405]

sounds like a hybrid between synth and electric bass, love it

[@stelthtenau]

a*

[@riccardobassani7405]

@@stelthtenau my bad

[@kaitlyn__L]

Yeah, it’s got the envelope and tonal characteristics of being plucked, but the distortion and saturation like a synth bass filter stage

[@fgrey-]

i love these tiny sound design videos

[@penguinnoodle]

This has a very Louis Cole vibe going to it. Great track!

[@anteros__]

Was just about to comment that!

[@AureliennnProust]

High praise !

[@GizzyDillespee]

Hi prays

[@colehetzel5003]

real

[@TachyBunker]

Never imagined something like a low beef / high beef thing on a send, but it makes quite some sense, to give things more glue than singular tracks low/high beefing.

[@andrewhuang]

Yah that’s totally it, it’s always about the glue!

[@landonh3535]

I played bass professionally from a teenager until switching to semi pro after about 15 years and honestly your original bass tone sounds great as a stasrting point. You should not be embarrassed by that at all. That source sound really made it so you were able to make it into a final form that is really awesome. The amount of people I replaced on records who did not have hands to get that original tone and timing is pretty high. No way the final result would be that good if the source sucked, so nicely done!! :)

[@Drrolfski]

When I first heard this bassline I was wowed. Funky AF.

[@SolStateMusic]

Sounds great, love your envelope-follower-formant trick.

[@partirparlesarmoires]

This reminds me that this trick of splitting the bass sound between the lows and the highs is something I learned from you and applied in my song "September air" (by Villa Vide, my artist name). Then I applied saturation to the lows and Juno Chorus to the highs 🙂 It was a great piece of advice, many thanks to you !

[@chandlermiller3944]

dropping micro video knowledge on us is the best. The duel processing is just such a brilliant way to get sounds just the way you want it.

[@AppaBoy]

That frequency split trick is genius

[@AbleinAbleton]

Funky stuff Andrew. Happy accidents are the best!

[@deejayransom]

If only there was a way to make them not accidental

[@AbleinAbleton]

@@deejayransom that's what my channel attempts to do :)

[@futur_sunds]

Sounds like a classic 303 bass. I love it!

[@superdoodjj]

This is my favorite Andrew Huang track so far! Awesome work.

[@lorenzopullella]

Love it, sounds like future funk 🤩

[@DanKindopp]

3 years of courses and Andrew breaks it down in 4 minutes. Such a great lesson, easy to follow and leaves a ton of space to make it your own.

[@Nyitemare]

Boss sound, really love the envelope follower idea

[@All_Together_Now]

It’s like you make Jazz EDM, like most people out in the world wouldn’t like this music but the producer nerds eat up the abundance of extra noises and weird time signature combos and stuff you do - even though its not to my taste you and your music are a very interesting part of the conversation :)

[@mjKlaim]

I just learned myriad of things watching this less-than-5 minutes video, I'm amazed

[@alexanderpiano1506]

I started watching your videos over a year ago. It’s so cool to be able to nod and follow everything you talked about in this video. Learned a lot from your videos and your studio class. Thanks Andrew!

[@stanislawrybinski]

as a bass player, I appreciate this.

[@mislearned_salamander]

Not only a great sound, but a sick riff

[@infn8loopmusic]

Whoah this is awesome! You can definitely hear the dynamics of the picking and the strings. It still comes through but also totally sounds like an awesome synth bass. This is such an amazing way to create a rubbery bass with bite but without getting too harsh

[@velcro4836]

So hyped to finally see how you did this, I've been eager to see how you did it since you mentioned it in a recent vid. Thanks so much for sharing! I never would have considered formant shifting a bass.

[@computrhead]

This bass line is fantastic. And I learned something along the way. Thank you.

[@EpicGamer-uv9fw]

Definitely one of my new favourites of your music. Hits so hard.

[@MicheleZuccarelliGennasi]

I loved the "music production" zoom in

[@maetattersall9423]

It’s super cool! Glad to see you’re still doing well ❤

[@MrDo2an]

Excellent sound, very creative and inspiring ideas, thank you, Andrew!

[@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES]

Straight to the point. Just a great sound! All those details really add up. Love it

[@Dylan-Juhan]

This is next level effects processing

[@julioagueros]

love the short and sweet video. Learnt a couple of things in such a short time :)

[@wolfboy_777]

The legend uploads! Never would've thought of this!

[@andrewpappas9311]

That definitely does sound awesome, super funky as well

[@TonyDavis69]

Very nice work! Gives me Snarky Puppy vibes.

[@infn8loopmusic]

My most happy accidental invention so far was when I ran an instrument with a slow and deep detune into a soft auto tune. It gives the most amazing wobbly warbling sound because sometimes depending on the modulation it would either slide up or down a semitone. It worked best with blues and harmonic minor because it effected those notes that want so badly to resolve up or down a semitone. Give it a shot!

[@DJCook1990]

Love the idea of using sends for high and low saturation on tracks. Thank you for all the awesome tips!

[@lavenderllamamusic]

Distorting the highs unlocks a bit of that cronchy Justice sound

[@K0r0n1s]

All those small polishing steps, really cool insights :-)

[@tolfpeck]

i enjoy these quick videos

[@floatinganarchychannel3204]

Juciy indeed :) amazing sound design here! The low distortion is silky and dirty,love that tone!

[@MrMusic238]

Reminds me of when you weave paper in between the strings. Cool vibe!

[@choshgairoanhorse1859]

Hey Andrew, love this bass. Love how you made it! 😀👍🏼🎸

[@FlyingJolly]

Great little song.

[@Pixoshiru]

My favourite track of yours so far!

[@Roxegold]

OMG, that shirt looks so cozy!!!!

[@rabidrabbittt]

friendly reminder that paralell eq is fine even though it creates phase cancellation/shifting, if it sounds better it sounds better!

[@DYNAMIX.]

Awesome, as always Andrew!!!

[@tokyotrap2579]

FIREEEE!!!!! Cool bassline technique!!!! Thanks

[@throwingshapes6490]

That track sounds sick!!

[@becauseisaac]

Thanks Andrew! Good stuff.

[@Jack_Wolfe]

Oblivion is amazing. Giving me Oliver Buckland vibes!

[@swonic]

Started the video because I wanted to hear the sound. But kept watching because hearing it over and over again inside the process was just so satisfying :D

[@ivanfaigenbom5300]

damn i was missing you so much and boom epic bass video. It remembered to an older video of you talking about a song that has the same "bass speed trick" Bounce fill is the track. Epic

[@neuroblossom]

that formant thing is genius

[@Phadddy]

Thank you so much for telling us that you played the bass line in slower, because you cannot play that fast. I always thought that you are "perfect at everything", now I don't feel bad anymore about playing things in slower. And I also enjoy how the sound becomes more crisp.

[@sanyo_neezy]

Thank you so much for the idea with the Chia Pudding! It litterally changed my life! You really do have an impact on the world

[@sanyo_neezy]

(also you obviously really inspire me musically and I wrote a couple of songs only thanks to you :D)

[@OfficialStevenCravis]

This is so cool, Andrew!

[@syredonyx9953]

Remimds me of my days surfing the comms of PocketBandPro❤

[@kymtastical]

"me: trying my best, very slow" relatable

[@MrMarcLaflamme]

Channeling Squarepusher with that bass.

[@toblexson5020]

Just the mention of splitting the highs and lows makes me want to see an effects pedal that does that. Could be used as a harsh filter, or to send to different amps, or apply effects to the different parts. Although you would also want a combiner pedal too I guess.

[@toblexson5020]

@@urproblem Might be able to use one of them basses with stereo output? Run them through individual filters and effects, and then merge back together. I think a simple merge pedal would just be 2 input jacks wired to one output? Although thinking about it, would a filter circuit just sending to two outputs rather than to output and ground work for the splitter? If so even a novice could wire that up.

[@majormercator]

I had this exact same thought after I saw Andrew's original video on this idea. I've since bought the EHX Tri-parallel mixer, which allows you to split your signal using effects loops. The crucial feature is that each input has an EQ knob, so you can filter the lows to one loop and the highs to another loop. Otherwise I think you'd need 2 EQ pedals and 2 splitter pedals to achieve the same thing. It can do more than this trick, but this was the basic idea I got it for

[@jorisnouvellon7400]

The dark glass X distortion can do that, splitting the Low and the high, even if I think it can only compress the low, and distort only the high. Otherwise I think I could manage to do it with my source audio eq2, other pedals after, and something to sum up the two signal at the end (or using two amps)

[@SlyHikari03]

Roland 303 kinda vibe. Love it

[@1andonlydasilent1]

Bruh..... I love that bass on Oblivion it's FWYAH (🔥)

[@Scoots1994]

I split my low and high frequencies on my bass pedal board with a KMA Tyler pedal. It made a HUGE difference in the tones I can get live.

[@MooImABunny]

damn Oblivion sounds really great. I'll be honest, I've been following you on and off, and I remember some songs in the past that I liked but a lot, despite being great, wasn't really my taste. I'd appreciate it, but I wouldn't be listening to it randomly. but this one is really good, I'm glad you brought my attention to it and I'm gonna listen to it a lot. good stuff

[@daneelcram6085]

So awesome. Great baseline any way you cut it but YAY, MUSIC PRODUCTION 🎶

[@joecm]

Strong Kount/Kaelin Ellis 'Caffeine' vibes on this track

[@stefanpomplun3348]

great E-Bass / Synth sound! Love the idea to saturate the low end instead of usually just saturate the high :)

[@archonicmakes]

Another really cool bass sound is putting slightly detuned unison on a sine wave. Try it with Vital or whatever other softsynth you use!

[@timpeetoom2199]

Yes! I’ve been using the warp trick on toms alot to make them shorter and then distort the living hell out off em and that makes em thumpy en short but still agressive

[@aaroncourier6452]

i love music in general, but sometimes i just *love* music

[@Icomposeme]

IHNY2 is probably the best plugin I've ever purchased. Also, great vid!

[@zhimingchow2034]

Louis Cole vibes, love the track!

[@dryued6874]

That T-shirt looks exactly how this bass sounds.

[@geekehUK]

Very slap bass, I like it. I don't know why (except I think they may be in the same time signature) but the vibe reminded me of The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You, which is weird because I don't think I've heard it in probably about a decade.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

Neat sound

[@connect_music_yvr]

yaas been missing this kind of content

[@CoRektOh]

That track sounds like a Street Fighter level. lol Good one. Cheers

[@bblir]

If this whole process was a bass pedal it would be one hell of an awesome bass pedal

[@gordeevious]

Sick!!!!🔥🔥🔥

[@madvikins]

Aways explains so good 👍🏼 I don't even use Ableton but this would work in any DAW.

[@EpsteezyFoSheezy]

Jérémi Panneton has a wonderful writeup on how the "phase accurate" frequency splitting technique that you suggest does actually alter phase. Still a useful parallel processing trick, but one should still be mindful of phase issues, especially on basses.

[@sean_wave]

envelope follower is actually the sauce

[@static-san]

I've got a sampled bass instrument I use sometimes that I liked to use with some light distortion or something. It was good but not great. But this gives me ideas about revisiting it! Especially the parallel bus trick...

[@midisynthminds]

You are my hero! LOL! But it's true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your videos are brilliant.

[@JustSnowglow]

Absolutely nothing wrong with your playing since it clearly got the job done 👍 It's all about the final product imo

[@stadiagamer9689]

great track and great workflow. your homepage does not force ssl.

[@jbonillaguitar]

cool idea

[@MicahBuzanMUSIC]

Organic meets electronic

[@antoniostramaglia1316]

woOOow, very cooL

[@moresnqp]

i have to check out that perfect phase thingy, i always attempt it but end with failure lol

[@IdoBerg]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@mk_rexx]

I think the low/high splitting is similar to how the darkglass tone works but I think the distortion is applied to the mids(?) because traditional bass distortion always just thins the lows too much.

[@seanhannan8509]

Sounds like Just A Souvenir-era Squarepusher to me.

[@DaikiGuitar]

nice!

[@11rfpro]

BASS!

[@musicrenz24]

cool video! I think everything in music happens by accident :D

[@pacmusik.]

Waiting for the full video about how you make oblivion