How to Make a Heavy Reese Bass in SERUM | Sound Design Tutorial

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Have you ever struggled while creating a heavy Reese bass for Neurofunk or Dubstep? Watch Will making a crunchy, wobbling Reese bass with some tips and tricks using Serum only!
=== Concept of a Reese Bass ===
0:00 intro
0:55 - What is a Reese bass exactly? | Creating a wobbly effect by exploiting the phase cancellation between two slightly detuned saw wave sounds
3:08 - Creating the same wobbly effect with a saw wave and a sine wave for the base frequency of the sine wave
4:11 - Add the reese characteristic by adding distortion with Serum effects
=== How to Manipulate the Reesing Characteristics in Serum Without Post-Proccesing ===
5:17 - Create a macro control for the finetune of the oscillators in opposite directions so the pitch of the oscillators drift apart when the macro is turned up | Control the Reese wobbling speed | Add Distortion back
7:36 - Add a further sine wave frequency with the sub on a higher octave to create reesing in the mid-frequencies and make it more harmonically pure
8:38 - Add noise if you want it to sound more crunchy ;)
8:53 - Control the phase of the sine wave to control the sound of the bass when you first hit the note
9:53 - SERUM EFFECTS |Add a Phaser to hightlight the mid-frequencies similar to a guitar amp | Hyper / Dimension | Chorus to add frequency spread
11:23 - EQ the very high frequencies with a dynamic low-pass that is controlled by the played note
13:15 - Multiband compression | Little reverb
14:00 - Final sound created only in Serum
Happy Producing! :)

[@shashwattyagi8194]

brooo I just needed a reese bass bruhhhhh 😵😵 how do you know what we need 🔥🔥🔥

[@gaffenz1137]

Cause everyone needs a reece

[@CompetitiveWormsArmageddon]

This type of reese is a modern descendant of the original, authentic reese bass. It is called a reese bass because the artist was called Reese(aka Kevin Saunderson) on a track called "Just Another Chance". You can almost perfectly imitate the original reese bass by using 2 triangle waves detuned against one another roughly 35 cents in opposing directions, add a sub to give it some weight, and use a low pass filter. You can play with different waveforms, add distortion, use resampling and various other techniques to generate a more modern "filthy" sort of reese. Although i'm more fond of the authentic reese myself, it's always nice to hear one nonetheless. For anyone that's interested anyway lol.

[@charionv2270]

dude, as someone who's really annoyed by many tutorials in youtube, yours is super helpful. you show the sound in the beginning, and you explain the process really well. thank you.

[@kylethorne1053]

Same. No rocket powered bs here lol

[@blackswan6386]

this is epic

[@metri0n]

Dude you are so much better at explaining your process and the synth you built then most of the people here on KZbin. Been an audio engineer for 8+ years so I know all the terminology but tons of these people slap "Beginner tutorial" or some shit in their headline then rush through what they built while word vomiting audio engineer terminology. Appreciate the video bud

[@ThreadedNail]

I cant believe Ive never made a reese bass. Really glad this is the tutorial I found, great job.

[@NicolasPL_]

I really appreciate how well you explained the concept.

[@thomas854]

Damn, sick explanation man! I much prefer tutorials that go into the "theory" behind sounds and encourage the viewer to explore the concept instead of just copy/pasting values. Well done!

[@scottbarnaby6325]

This is exactly what I was looking for!

[@perrybryan]

Your tutorials are the best of em

[@Joe-fn9mi]

Really.. really... really helpful and clear. Normally I skip to the bit where I can copy the settings, but on this video, I kept jumping back to see what you had to say. Then I just went to the start and watched it through entirely and learnt loads.

[@timelul7552]

Dude, i hope you keep on doing stuff like this, super helpful and understandable the way you explain !

[@muszy8802]

thank you so much man

[@albaalvarezribugent]

Loving the sound! Wicked! Please make more videos!

[@EdSoloUK]

Great tip on the 2 osc being a sine wave

[@classicallysudhanshu8418]

it was a great video man! probably, every producer needed this tutorial

[@sean_wave]

Great stuff. Thanks.

[@josephwood2098]

Great mate. Thanks!

[@kalithena88]

I love your explanation! I didn’t skip at all. I think the technical explanation adds depth to the knowledge

[@owaismusicofficial]

Thank you so much! exactly what i needed for this track im working on

[@Paradoxers333]

Very informative man🔥

[@martinariza7562]

piece of tutorial. one of the best on the internet

[@ilovejapan717]

i think everyone in the world just needed this

[@Lipesilviano]

Dude thank for explaining how to REESE like a boss!! thanks a lot!!! Keep up the great work man!!!

[@Phanter141]

I was searching a tutorial like this and finally I found you! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@TheUnreal666]

best tutorial, liked subscribed! Thanks

[@bryanhingerton3766]

The Note tracking on the low pass filter is genius! Never would've thought of that, great tutorial.

[@Ghosthack]

Thank you!

[@skinz2820]

Yes he also could’ve just turned on the filter and clicked key tracking

[@eyeseller]

Nice Man 💓

[@anttipylsymusic]

Very good tutorial, thanks!

[@precision_official]

Cool tutorials man!

[@driftingaway]

awesome tutorial

[@filippetrucha5422]

Detuning saw tooth with sine wave on the higher octave, how did I not think of it before.. 😳 Thanks man, sick tut.

[@kaktusparty6305]

That was really useful ^_^

[@ling6701]

Awesome. Thank you.

[@TheFredette14]

Dope! Thank You!

[@theosgift654]

it's useful, thanks! Its really great that you make videos about such heavy genres like DnB and Dubstep!

[@broeseph]

Wow, been wondering how to control the phase oscillations like this. Those macros on the fine tune and the start work wonders! Thank you.

[@ottoc8895]

Quality tutorial

[@themandownstairs4765]

I love tutorials like this because they show you the dynamics of how the sound is made. i can't afford serum so tutorials that teach me the dynamics of the sound and how to apply them are very transferable and help a lot. thanks!

[@samshntrash]

Man harmor just as good.

[@raicoknight9804]

Very nice thx :D

[@davidriesmeyer248]

ghost hack bless us with your knowledge

[@duplieren5104]

Thank you sir

[@p.i.9685]

thank you

[@nill_music]

UUUUUUOOOOOOUU AMAZING

[@itsalnsound]

Thanks !

[@bakedecake]

I really like your way of explaining. Really clear and concise without any of that obnoxious KZbin personality bullshit.

[@PetrolBastard]

Thank you!

[@gravityyyyyyyyyy]

thank you

[@devangmaheshwari3902]

that sound in cinematic or film score below the orchestral brass.damnnnnn.

[@oliverarsic4864]

definetly a dope reese-tutorial!

[@tuncayefelacinel2616]

YESSS

[@PresumablyTunes]

You should make a ghosthack skin for Serum, I think it'd look pretty dope

[@Ghosthack]

Good idea ;)

[@elevate8212]

@@Ghosthack did you make one?

[@wamlenders]

Hey man, this is was a great tutorial! Definitely one of the better reese basses in comparison to other tutorials. Only thing i can't figure out is how to get it to go faster in terms of movement on the lower octaves, the fastest i can get it by playing with the macro on for example F3 is still pretty slow, do you know how to fix that? Thanks anyway man

[@theyoutubechannel2927]

this sound is so good people would pay money to have that as a preset

[@spencerburns1075]

This is the wayy we BALL

[@FishyDnB]

Nice reese

[@richardadamson6642]

can you please show us how to use a Reese base in a drop . thanks

[@charlievondoomwalker6360]

what is that buku sounding bass you use in the intro to this video? Is there a tutorial on that? I've been chasing that for a minute

[@prod.SIMPLEA]

TH A NK S

[@DAUA_mp3]

Do you think you could make this on PhasePlant (if you have it)?

[@sa-le4mj]

Do you have any packs on your website that have Reese basses or Hardwave presets in them? I was looking around, but I wasn't sure which packs to invest in.

[@WangleLine]

HEAVY reese bass

[@GOLDMAJOR71NL]

What mic u using to u tune?

[@Bengraziano]

You should check out Eastghost. A lot of his songs have the really gritty and wide Reese basses that sound beautiful. Charons Cacophony, Magnolia, and Omniscient, They are great examples.

[@musicbyfacet405]

lol he hit that "This is the way we ball - Lil Flip" at the end

[@sol3cito33]

Could someone please kindly make a "Witch House" Reese Serum preset?

[@samshntrash]

Harmor is where its at :)

[@shehananjana]

Basic concept of binaural beats too !

[@user-mv1mc9lu8u]

первое полезное видео по риз басу, respect from russia

[@odealianaffairs9001]

just recreated this in vital, sounds perfect

[@auncor8889]

man i make mine way more basic than this. nice job sounds great

[@zayzubz7923]

wehn i put my macros on they dont do anything? cant figure out why

[@Trooper900100]

download for this sound?

[@MikeIVIV]

need an id on the neurofunk tune at the end. that is crazy!!!

[@youwot2430]

innit weapon of a tune mate

[@Yourmotwashum]

hey guys is this the same as growl bass?

[@Purgatorium8]

14:40 uhhh boiii

[@klarckt8132]

"whisper in ghost tone" Williammmm Don't forget to use a kick in the noise and pitch it downnnnnnNNN!!!!

[@musicbydenchik]

can we get the preset?

[@chappie__]

"See it doesn't wobble very fast down there"

[@lizzard_caps917]

why did he stop with spectral sound or whatever that name of the channel was?

[@lizzard_caps917]

@@OfficialQuerppMusic kinda sad tbh... i prefered spectral sounds bc he was a little on the edgy side over there

[@eskii6565]

He’s employed by ghost hack, and he does still post music it’s just not as frequent rn!

[@spektralsound7704]

KZbin was never quite career material for me, it was simply something that I enjoyed doing in highschool (when I had the time). And when I graduated and had to get multiple jobs, other things in my life started to stack up and time for setting up, recording, and editing videos unfortunately fell behind. I appreciate everyone who enjoyed the Spektral Sound uploads

[@Ghosthack]

We as Ghosthack are extremely proud to say that Will from Spektral Sound is now a huge part of our company :) He still does killer sound design tutorials (only on another channel) and he can also pour his creativity into our sample libraries. We are more than happy to have him in our team ♥ 👍

[@lizzard_caps917]

@@spektralsound7704 are you going to stream on here¿

[@stefangoodwin290]

I literally don't understand. I followed along EVERYTHING, even to the point of having percentages the same, and mine lacks significant bass weight in comparrision? I have the same octaves and everything... I'm so annoyed/confused

[@Arhidilius]

Kinda late to answer, but audio quality in youtube is low compared to serum, so maybe low quality works as an exciter in this case. Try importing as mp3, maybe that way there be more bass

[@wezembeats7425]

5:56 Beethoven?

[@vxdhu3651]

i don't know why but the default serum bass noise with the saw waves makes me physically uncomfortable. is that normal lmao

[@gangstakittie7699]

This makes my ears hurt so much lol