How To MIX and MASTER For BASS Music/DUBSTEP (Loud, FAT, Clean)

How to mix and master for bass music, dubstep, and riddim. Full track breakdown. I hope you guys enjoy all the knowledge I’ve learned while attending audio engineering school @ SAE Miami and practicing over the years. Remember this is for aggressive loud dubstep not the old stuff. Please ask questions in the comments. We are boosting the track as much as possible basically just to match all our favorite artists. Shout out Marauda, Chassi, Muerte, and Prosecute. These are advanced mixing and mastering techniques that are used in heavy Dubstep, riddim, hybrid trap, and other bass music EDM genres. Remember in this music we are making it as loud as possible and clean, so that means we have to find a balance of distortion and harmony lol. Anyways thank you guys for all the support, watch my previous videos for how to make everything from scratch, and come talk with me on discord! :)
**secret pro tip: reduce alias phasing when your tracks have maximum distortion by adding a 32x oversampling clipping plugin (v-clip) to the master to create ultimate headroom (future video coming soon!)**
Tip 2: Use the Amp Effect and activate “Dual” to make the sound FAT and STEREO
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[@zufi422]

thank you so much for this information, i love your channel and music. please keep it coming!

[@Dripment]

Thank you so much!! Appreciate you 😊🙏🏽

[@popcornbreak9583]

thanks I love you videos they have helped me tremendously 😊

[@Dripment]

Happy to help! lemme know if you ever need anything!! 😇

[@zacharylevi5621]

Very Helpful

[@jordandaniels2924]

Your videos have been very helpful! Great content man, keep it up! I'll try to get good enough to collab one day!

[@Dripment]

That’s what I love to hear, thank you! Keep grinding man you will get there 😄

[@chadjackson561]

LOVE IT!!!!

[@Dripment]

Good I’m glad man thanks for watching

[@shubhamsingh6037oct]

BRO I WAS LITERALLY LOOKING FOR THIS THE WHOLE DAY ;_; THANK U FOR READING MY MIND

[@Dripment]

perfect timing!!! :)

[@shubhamsingh6037oct]

@@Dripment hehe btw this track's fire

[@Dripment]

@@shubhamsingh6037oct thanks man, love this track its insane lol

[@shubhamsingh6037oct]

@@Dripment YESSIR 🔥🔥

[@eurometrixproductions7]

Keep it up Dripment!

[@Dripment]

Will do! 😈

[@manofgoat]

The good tips

[@mkjaerkjersson7749]

Always love a Dripment video

[@Dripment]

thank you!!! :) glad you like em

[@luciferianjesuslover9453]

Great video

[@Dripment]

Thanks man 😊

[@blvzeboyMusic]

dude the fakeout sounded WAY BETTER with no sidechain!

[@leslienambo9818]

Wow, these videos are so helpful for me right now. Thanks for making them! A friend of yours recently suggested I check out your music stuff. So glad I did. :D

[@Dripment]

Ah I love to hear that! Thank you much glad you enjoy 😁😁🔥🙏🏽 lemme know if you ever need help with anything!

[@daygodubz6497]

Where did you learn so much knowledge? Great video btw

[@Dripment]

Thank you, I learn from a lot of tutorials from my favorite producers and other KZbin tutorials, i Also DJ and I went to audio engineering school in Miami

[@jz288]

@@Dripment out of interest in audio engineering school. Was it worth it? Did you learn everything you could’ve learned on KZbin?

[@jordanrattanavong2655]

Thank you! Will you make a video on how to get a balanced mix? I always struggle with setting volumes in my dubstep mixes.

[@Dripment]

Yes I will make a video about that!!

[@vincecrow4512]

Kick, snare, and mid basses clipped off at 0db. Sub fundamental sitting somewhere between -6 and -3 on a spectrum analyzer on the master, everything else bring up underneath that by ear.

[@WidenedEye]

@@vincecrow4512if this is the vincent crow I think it is, then I trust this 1000%

[@thespacekyd]

This is perfect because coming from a more wakaan style bass music trying make to hybrid trap and riddim mastering work always was a bit hard for me. This helped me understand it a lot more. But I had one question, and that is when your doing these EQs that you do, you seem to cut the same low frequencies multiple times along the chain on each track. Why would you do this instead of tjust grouping them together and cutting all the lows at once on the group chain?

[@Dripment]

Yes good question, so when you cut the lows on the eq 8 it doesn’t cut it completely it just turns it down a lot if you need it to be completely cut then adding multiple helps a lot

[@Dvrkstvr]

Just posted in discord about disss

[@brendenleeblair]

Chris Pontius of dubstep

[@Dripment]

Lolol nice

[@jordanjoestar76]

HELP! Great vid but which LUF value should I be looking at to not exceed 6.5 for my sub? You say “max” but there’s 2 LUF maxes (momentary and short term) and one dB True Peak Max. Also, can I just turn up my master if my mods/limiters made my sound way quieter than I’d like (to save time) or will that ruin my track? Svdden Death is about +10 LUFS and +10db louder than mine and even though my sound is vastly different, I’m making dubstep nonetheless.

[@Dripment]

Ok so yes you can use short term cause that is the most recent luf value and that i would measure. nowadays the intro should be in single digits and drops should be like -5 luf to -2 luf in loudness. dont turn up the master though you need to use compression and saturation on each track. then create busses to send signals to groups if needed to make things cleaner and have more control to get loud. you also have to layer a lot, audio effects can only go so far so you start layering lows mids and highs when making basses for example and also layer mono and stereo signals like all the time for a loud full sound.

[@jordanjoestar76]

@@DripmentI’ve done sooo much of that stuff (saturator, EQ, OTT) but it appears my work is still not done. Ty for the speedy response! Back on the grind after breakfast.

[@goneastraymusic]

Out of curiosity why do you clip all your basses of you may want some at a different volume? Do you just turn it down after you clip it if you want it quiter?

[@goneastraymusic]

If*

[@Dripment]

Yeah that’s right I turn it down after I clip it if I need it quieter, I usually add a utility to the track to do that

[@piredz9171]

How much is the peak in the mix approximately? I usually work with the peak around -3db but I'm not quite sure I do it right

[@Dripment]

the peak is at 0db. we are making loud heavy bass music so its diff than all other genres in relation to headroom and loudness levels. ill make a seperate video on this next. But dont measure your loudness levels using DB its not accurate all the time. Use loudness levels (LUFS) using free youlean plug in to measure true peaks.

[@piredz9171]

@@Dripment many thanks for the explanation 🙏 Can't wait for the video, keep it up!!

[@swaggingswagster5357]

you can also use glue compressor and click on clip instead of JSTCLIP right?

[@Dripment]

no the algorithm is different and doesn't handle heavy peaks or distortion the same, works fine on regular sounds

[@swaggingswagster5357]

@@Dripment wow thanks for quick answer!

[@ewokzdubstep]

I followed this and was able to hit -6 lufs however my waveform is so small compared to my reference tracks. My kicks and claps are barely half the tallness of every song waveform

[@Dripment]

Make sure you master isn’t turned down or any groups or busses please that’s usually the issue

[@ewokzdubstep]

@@Dripment Master is correct volume. I don't have groups. I used Aweminus drums from his Avant pack. I turned them up really loud and still they still are short. Should I use other drum samples?

[@ewokzdubstep]

It seems no one else has this problem. I wonder what im doing wrong

[@hRM3zMusic]

So when you say "this is bass music it tends to be really louse, if this was any other music it would be a like -9" is this referring to gain staging?

[@Dripment]

Good question so gain staging is a very vague term just talking about volume faders usually which is handy in mixing and mastering simpler genres like hip hop and pop. With dubstep we have to do more than just gain stage if we are making more complex projects with huge layer stacks, gain or volume on a track, is one small piece of the mix. Also all of this becomes more complex when you understand its genre dependent so Tearout and heavy RIDDIM are way louder and clipping around -3 lufs and is a huge difference from the trippy wubs like of the trees music at -10 lufs. Because of the dynamics differences we have to mix them differently! And gain staging is like what the mastering and mixing engineers do when they receive stems to mix. The mixing we do includes the techniques they do + a lot more because we can mix as we go and also make the sound do whatever we need with sound design and the daw 🔥😊🤘🏽

[@KAMVKAZI]

how can i get that more high end presets

[@Dripment]

i got it from like a xlnt video a long time ago!! i just copied the settings, reach out to me directly and i can help you with it!!

[@KAMVKAZI]

thank u bro @@Dripment

[@Luckyrrul]

LUFs for reverb?? 👀

[@Dripment]

It’s never too loud and actually will vary per song so it will be best to always test diff reverb settings and see what is best for that moment in time

[@djronakdelhi]

Do you mix and master your tracks in headphones only?

[@Dripment]

Yes you need too, the other way you can trust monitors and a sub is if you build a room within a room and build a perfect studio setting to reduce all reflections to make the sound true to what you are hearing. That is expensive to do so headphones are by far the cheapest easiest route to mix properly for all sources

[@djronakdelhi]

@@Dripment you are right but whenever i mix and master in headphones and then play in speakers it's just sounds alot different like everything messed up..but in headphones sounds fine..why's that and does it happens with you?

[@vin3421]

@@djronakdelhiuse a reference track, you try and match how the reference track sounds in the headphones, small speakers etc. and isolate different frequency ranges like say 300-4000hz mid range or just the 0-300 range

[@djronakdelhi]

@@vin3421 yes i started doing that and it's a game changer. Even just isolating the frequencies and get the volume balance right , the track comes to life

[@pimpslapish]

what the fuck was that chachi song holy shiiiiiiiiit

[@Dripment]

Glad you like it brother, it’s uploaded on Spotify and SoundCloud it’s called “darkside”

[@turbofrigger]

ableton has 32bit floating ceiling. there is something like 62db headroom above the top of the channel strip. just not the master.

[@Dripment]

Where are you getting this information from?

[@turbofrigger]

@@Dripment the manual. Also verified myself. Go into settings and turn audio bit depth to 32. Put a sine wave on a track. Make sure it's at unity and hitting zero. Put a clean limiter on your master. Put 2 utility plugins on the sine wave track. Turn them up until you find distortion. Should be at least 60db of additional gain before you hear any distortion.

[@turbofrigger]

@@Dripment Decap does a decent breakdown kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYjKXnWgiad1iJY

[@Dripment]

@@turbofrigger wow thats awesome, thank you dude

[@flyoverfredusa]

not bothered about going over 0 on the true peak ?

[@Dripment]

not bothered at all when making bass music (other genres like house/ hip hop i do care), i use jst clip to clip the sound at 0db on the master, with this much distortion and loudness levels you wouldn't worry about it unless it sounds bad. Remember to always test your song on multiple sources (ex. car sub, iphone headphones, laptop speakers)