Hardstyle Layering Basics - 6 Tips for HUGE Leads!

[@donaldvisbeen]

"Bringing your ugly friend as a wingman" the accuracy of that joke is insane 🤣🤣

[@Sawer]

ahhaahha i know right :D

[@dopedeala666]

always had problems layering those, thanks for this thorough explanation

[@Sawer]

Welcome :D Hope this helps!

[@MrTentoo]

Jouw content is echt goud man, grappig en leerzaam keeeeep it up

[@Sawer]

Eyy thanks man!

[@delzmusic1937]

Finally the day to learn has come! Really sick info as allways mate!

[@Sawer]

Ahahahah thanks bud!

[@TrollFunMineMafia]

You have such a unique way to talk about stuffs. Makes me want to watch your videos just for that alone. Great Vid as always, keep up the epic work u do

[@Sawer]

Really appriciate hearing this man :)

[@ewolutiondj]

Love the frequent content lately a lot! 🙂

[@Sawer]

Now lets hope ideas dont run dry :D

[@dzkazoe5943]

didn't know this technic for sidechain a lead to a hardstyle kick punch, thx brob

[@Sawer]

Ye definitly a game changer for clearer transient for me! Should probably do a full tutorial on this but I bet you can figure everything out about it from this video :)

[@CrystalKyryn]

Good Video, You do pretty much what i do but formatted differently, i do reverb and delay in 1 mixer channel, and usually i add a stereo shaper to get thicc reverb and delay

[@Sawer]

Oeh I gotta try that out, thanks for the tip :D

[@bitcrushrdj]

So interesting to see how people does it. My chain is a bit weird. All lead synths routes to a single channel, add OTT (or other compression) to the dry signal, low cut, then something for the brightness (I recommend fresh air). I then route this dry signal to my reverb and and delay channel, and then merge them all in a bus, and add sidechain compression to the end of the chain.

[@Sawer]

Oeh I gotta check out this Fresh Air :D

[@georgthormann4362]

Why are u using a shortened kick sample to sc the Lead Bus after addding rev and delay? Could you not just use a lfo tool or kickstart to get that same effect? Great video tho that part just confused me a bit! Keep it up man

[@Sawer]

The sample is an easy way to make it trigger on kickrolls. I should definitly redo my sidechaining video lol!

[@georgthormann4362]

@@Sawer ahhh yeah that makes sense! Thank you for clarifying

[@M4A1Speedstar]

I'm a bit confused, in the end there should be: full harmony (all 3 lines) as one sound top line, different sound 1 middle line, different sound 2 bottom line, different sound 3 ? and all of those playing together? Not sure if i got that right. You also seem to be having 6 different tracks playing together in the end, so I think I'm missing something here. Any response would be super appreciated :)

[@Sawer]

So I got these all playing together: - Main leads (10-11-12) these play the melody and form the main character/vibe - Full harmony (13) this plays chords made around every melody note. This can be seperateded in two more lines - Harmonic support (14-15) these are lines seperated from the full harmony and really add richness. All of this plays together for the big sound :) I plan to do a video on harmonies in specific :)

[@M4A1Speedstar]

@@Sawer So in the end, the main leads are all different sounds that fit together and play the exact same melody. Then the full harmony are the chords which are another sound, and the harmonic support are the middle and bottom lines so to say which are also different sounds from the full harmony. In the end there should be 6 different lead sounds?

[@Ghames69]

😂gotta love the side jokes wat een held

[@Sawer]

😂thanks for noticing🤤

[@Ghames69]

@@Sawer 💪😏🫡

[@naughtyducky6325]

5:10 I think higher leads sound better but not that one

[@Sawer]

Interesting! Tho i agree I should have used a better example probably :)

[@xpm9657]

amazing! what is the song name in 1:13?

[@Sawer]

A weird happy birthday song I did for someone xD

[@xpm9657]

@@Sawer it sounds so good :D

[@lucawichmann4295]

it sounds a lot like the start of the cambodia melody, i legit thought you made a cambodia remix :( (maybe this should happen)

[@Sawer]

@@lucawichmann4295 ill look into it :D

[@niccoloboccafogli7016]

yeah bro in fact the joke wasn'mixed so well 🤣🤣

[@Sawer]

ahahaha whoops

[@QatyDance]

Name of intro track 😊?

[@Sawer]

Selfmade, more on that in my Mid intro and Buildup videos :) May need to do more on it tho lol!

[@krank3869]

0:55 HAHAHAAHHA GENIUS COMPARISON 😆

[@Sawer]

Always a roll of the dice with those jokes! Glad it landed :D

[@krank3869]

@@Sawer that's one of the reasons why i keep coming back hahahah

[@Sawer]

@@krank3869 ahhaha glad :D

[@Sawer]

What topic do you want me to talk about next?

[@delzmusic1937]

How to make nice jokes xD love your humor mate 😂

[@Sawer]

@@delzmusic1937 fuck i kinda should do a 1st of april video right?

[@georgthormann4362]

Can we get a video about your mix/master routine? I got a few questions already: When mixing and gainstaging, do you try to get to around -6db and just add that back during the mastering process? Or is that bad advice i just internalised? How loud should i push my track in the end? I know my drops should hit around -0.1 db but how much quieter should i keep the other parts of the song? What levels of dynmic range should i stride for in my final master? Hope you can help a new producer out! Cheers mate!

[@Sawer]

@@georgthormann4362 when mixing I aim between -6 and -3. The advice you got is good! Definitly good idea to do a video or two on this, might do a video collab with a mastering expert:)

[@georgthormann4362]

@@Sawer Thank you so much man! Appreciate it

[@haz0806]

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[@Sawer]

Hell yeah!

[@wilmerschouten9453]

'kutsound' hahahahaha lol when youre secretly dutch 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Sawer]

Shhh keep it down, its supposed to be a secret😂😂😂

[@wilmerschouten9453]

@Sawer lol and 'preventing is better then fixing' is originally a nederlands spreekwoord too, volgens mij Lol

[@Sawer]

Zou wel kunnen ja😅