This Mistake Is RUINING Your Beats!

[@NavieD]

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[@buddysmoken490]

I got the free kit and it's great I been playing with it for 2 days now . I love the kicks . I'm going to join discord now and maybe if I get my courage up will submit something. But I watched last week and that chats brutal lol .

[@lildog5360]

This homie more real than 90% of content makers out here

[@NavieD]

Hahah thanks man, just trying my best to help

[@sagradothesound]

100% agree ✊🏽

[@ArnaudKenfack]

He is the 10% reverb signal that makes all the difference, but don't put him on a send :)

[@rngnodal9316]

@@lordeowstheking Swear 🤣

[@prod.solidsnxke8495]

True

[@msrpmusic303]

Dude, let me tell you why your videos are so much better than other beat makers: you are concise and to the point. You tell us everything we need to know without any filler. A lot of the people doing this style of content think we need to see a 20 minute vlog of themselves making cold brewed coffee with 5 minutes of half-assed tutorial thrown on there. To make matters worse, they can barely describe what they're doing. I learn something from all of your videos! Great stuff Navie!

[@NavieD]

Hahah thanks Sean. Yeah, personally I get annoyed whenever I watch a video and only 10% of it is actually valuable. So I try my best to respect your guys' time and get to the point

[@TimothyW8]

2 clicks, and...

[@s8nTheGawd]

@ kyle beats 😂😂😂😂

[@nicolamadurno123]

Another cool thing u can make with reverb in melodies is sidechaining the reverb signal to the dry one

[@NavieD]

Oooh cool tip my friend, thank you for sharing

[@KidEskomo]

Thank you for helping the producer community ❤️

[@NavieD]

Thank you for always showing up Eskomo 👌 its people like yourself that keeps the channel going

[@KidEskomo]

Navie D. No problem bro keep on uploading you can only grow from here

[@DG-qq4hz]

Finally I understand the purpose of doing it that way! I've seen some tutorials but couldn't really get of what are the benefits of doing it, besides being able to control the overall volume of effect. Also didn't know about the % loss of the sound after reverb, very useful!

[@FEVERDREAM1983]

Wow and out of all the damned tutorials on KZbin this is the first time I've ever heard it explained like this and it has changed my damned world. Thanks man.

[@NavieD]

Ayyy thank you man. I am happy this video has helped at least one person

[@bepiisboy2911]

You can set up a reverb track so you can solo just the reverb channel. To do this use fruit send on the main effecrs channel and route to the one you want to send to, with the green knob on 0%, then selct the chanell in fruity send

[@TenaciousDM]

Reminds me a little of parallel compression...which I always have to look up how to do each time

[@NavieD]

Hahah yeah, it's somewhat like parallel compression with the sends and whatnot. I tried my best to explain since it can be confusing

[@thisisalbe]

It's basically parallel processing. Great for all the reasons he shared. Mainly you keep control of your original signal and layer on the FX. Good news is you can then automate the send to make room where it may clash with another sound or vocal. 🎉

[@FrederikAlkema]

This is an very useful explanation of why you should use side channels and how you can use them. Good examples, they really make it clear!

[@NavieD]

Awesome, glad I was able to explain it well Frederikoooooo

[@eszetbeats9866]

100% quality content as always... I knew how to use sends for reverbs and other FX. But you provided a lot of creative ideas, too. 🙂 I definitely will try to manipulate my delay and reverb sends a lot more to eventually (or hopefully) create some crazy unique sounds. Thank you! 👌

[@NavieD]

Hahah yeah the possibilities are endless when you use sends. It can really add an additional layer onto your beat that can have it sounding a lot more full

[@therealjunyur]

This is crazy good info, this whole video just changed everything but specifically the sample reverb just changed my whole game can’t wait to widen my beats with these tricks. Appreciate you Navie 🔥

[@alidarxx]

I was blown away at the difference once I figured that out myself. Not only you get a lot of room and uniformity between the sounds, you also save up a bunch of CPU load. You can also do this for amp simulations if you have multiple instruments going in at the same amp with same settings, just turn off the send to the master.

[@NavieD]

I like the way you think Scott

[@alidarxx]

@@NavieD Love your videos bro.

[@DThompson55]

I started doing this with reverb last year, it helps a lot. Another thing that helped my reverb track was to adjust predelay in the reverb so it trails anywhere from 20-80ms.

[@HazyJ28]

Fun fact for anyone trying out this parallel processing technique for the first time: You can actually set this up in Patcher, which will give you a bit more granular control, allow you to set up custom control surfaces linked to any parameter (you can even customize what your knobs and dials look like, including the color of them), and best of all, it frees up Mixer FX Inserts! You'd be surprised how quickly you can burn through ten of them! lol. Just have fun experimenting! That's what music is all about!

[@L_Valentino]

I use reaper, but your so good at explaining shit I can figure out what your saying and apply it to my DAW thanks Navie your goated

[@pighater951]

Appreciate how you brake this down too understand in a simple way you have helped with my drums now reverb &; snare💪💯👍

[@NavieD]

Glad to help! Also, why do you hate pigs?

[@salamalvi3690]

Really like your content man ! Started watching since a week or 2 and it really has blown me away. (p.s I love sweet dreams and sit n pray ! )

[@NavieD]

Thank you Salam, happy to see you're enjoying my vidssss

[@radthibideaux9978]

You can also put fruity send at the very top of the effects chain on your main snare sound and send the completely dry sound before any fx to the reverb/fx send with sidechaining. If you use the mixer routing it's sending the sound post fx instead of pre.

[@NavieD]

Oooh smart smart. Thank you boss!

[@jade3866]

I love your channel, straight to the point with actual practical skills. I’ve learned so much just from watching a few of your videos

[@centaurlweyster5429]

HELLL YEAH 🔥🔥🔥🔥THIS WAS SO HELPFUL, ITS THE FIRST TIME I EVER SEEN THIS TRICK IMMA USE IT IN MY BEAT RIGHT NOW🔥

[@NavieD]

👌👌 Hopefully your snares can crack all that much more now in your beats with this trick

[@centaurlweyster5429]

@@NavieD I would fix it but somethimg F'd up happened Me and.my bro were updating our Fl studio turns out it wiped out all of our project files,so now we can't fix any beat🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@NavieD]

Ohhhh nooo tell me you back up your beats. I back my stuff up like once a month

[@centaurlweyster5429]

@@NavieD No i didnt man its all gone😔😔😶😶 but i take it as a new beggining anyway

[@lemaye]

@@NavieD Do you happen to have a video covering your backup routines?

[@user-lt2rw5nr9s]

I only have one reverb send set up in my template. When I was starting, someone said having different reverbs didn't sound cohesive, so that's what I went with. I could see the benefit to this if you do crazy effects on an individual sound's reverb.

[@NavieD]

"someone said having different reverbs didn't sound cohesive" Hm, this sounds like nonsense to me. I use different reverbs and different settings throughout my beat. Each one provides different properties for different situations

[@tomasgulbinas8304]

@@NavieD I do think there's some truth to that though. I think the best way is to combine these two ideas by having a different send for your short reverb, long reverb, etc. That way you can still use the type of reverb that works best for a sound and still get that cohesive "glue".

[@harambo88]

@@NavieD i think, you use different reverbs with different intentions rendering that rule obsolet. ppl that just randomly put plugins in the insert can benefit from that rule. like all rules it isnt written in stone

[@idesel]

That routing technique is nice👌, keeps you from messing up your original sound.

[@NavieD]

Yessir, this way you don't have to worry about weakening the original sound with whatever effects you want to add on top

[@buddysmoken490]

Great video I been struggling with reverb on anything but guitar's. I never tried it on snares though I often prefer dry snares.

[@NavieD]

Yeah slapping reverb on snares can really help create a nice ambient texture, really useful for spacey types of beats

[@sanxbeats]

Your explanations are always on point 🎯 making it easy to understand

[@NavieD]

Thank you SanX!

[@christhackston9144]

Good ideas! Could you achieve the same result using Patcher to save mixer space?

[@NavieD]

Hmmm I am not sure, I might have to look into that. I know Patcher has a unique way of adding effects onto sounds, but if it still uses a single dry/wet or mix dial, then you will run into the same problem.

[@IDRIS-Music]

Lol didn't know about that dry signal stuff. This is a very good tip !!! Thanks bro keep it up

[@NavieD]

Yeah, it really messed up a lot of my beats before I knew about it too. Hopefully you can avoid the same disaster

[@IDRIS-Music]

@@NavieD Navie I went on researching and most guides on youtube dont mention this. Most people have reverb on the same channel track. PS: I am now using patcher so that I wont have to route stuff to a different channel track. I can now do paralell processing in patcher with the reverb.

[@realraven2000]

congrats, it looks like you reinvented the FX send using an insert routing. when you add a send in Cubase it does exactly that.

[@heavykilla3067]

Keep this up brother, thanks for all tips and everything. Really appreciate your hard work and time put In this💯❤️🙏🏼

[@NavieD]

Absolutely my friend. Thank you for checking my videos out!

[@matthieub3973]

Isn't that what the MIX knob does? If you put your reverb as your last slot directly on your insert or send the signal to a separate insert then turn down the fader, you're basically doing the same thing. So unless you want to isolate the reverb part of your signal in order to apply effects and such, don't worry about it...a lot of it is placebo because it goes back to the old "proper" way of adding FXs when MIX/WET wasn't an option.

[@NavieD]

The mix knob, generally, lets you control how much of the signal you want to convert to the "reverb" signal. So if you set it to 20%, you are taking 20% of your original signal and losing it, and having it "converted" to a reverbed version of the sound. So if you did a lot of work to make your sound as loud and impactful as possible, you would be losing 20% of it by using mix (which isn't always a bad thing - this is just more focused on if you really want your drums to be loud)

[@matthieub3973]

@@NavieD Thanks for replying Navie D! I see what you're saying. I guess it all boils down to what the mix knob is actually doing to your signal. I always thought it superposed the clean signal over the "reverbed" version of your signal according to the percentage you set, kind of saving you the complicated traditional routing that you described. If that is not what the mix knob is doing however, then we absolutely need to use a separate channel! Thank you for clarifying

[@CoolBoyShane]

You're really good at this, and watching this inspires me to learn more about music composition and production :)

[@scottymac3634]

A lot of the 'rules'of reverb and other effects and techniques are based on music made by bands. Sampled and/or electronic music is different and has its own requirements. Good video, well taught.

[@lakhasingh647]

All I want to say.... God bless you man..😎

[@NavieD]

👌👌👌 Thank you DXB, you are a legend

[@miltunes]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@NavieD]

No problem Donny ol' boy, I am glad to help!

[@arthur_lincolnn]

Your videos are amazing bro! Can you do a tutorial about distortion and saturation?

[@NavieD]

Hmm good idea. It took me a long time before I realized how useful and important saturation was. I should spread the word

[@RobinJohnson]

You my friend are getting your bell RUNG!

[@NavieD]

Well gatdamn Robin, thank you for ringing my bell!

[@Jaykeng]

Really useful video. Just asking what type of beat is the demo beat in this video? It's fire btw :D

[@NavieD]

Hahah thanks man. No idea what genre I'd call it really, I just make whatever sounds cool to me

[@jaymeal123]

First! Question, when are you doing another live listen? I missed the one a few days back. I’d love to submit a track for you to listen to and critique.

[@NavieD]

The next one will probably be in 2 weeks (the 19th). Thanks for watching and commenting my friend

[@CortneyWarren2050]

Thanks Navie D

[@NavieD]

You're welcome Cortney!

[@hibidihibidiha]

You are just one of a kind

[@swagonmax]

Mans got some gems !

[@NavieD]

💪

[@seadog38582]

another amazing video! You really do a great job explaining everything and it is really inspiring, but could you do a side chain tutorial?

[@NavieD]

Thank you man, I was a bit worried during the section where I explain routing to other inserts. I hope it wasn't too confusing

[@seadog38582]

@@NavieD nah I think it was alright, I understood it so I think everybody got it :)

[@RufianBeatmaker]

I think it was last week when you mention that drum understanding is crucial, i've been struggling with this topic for a long time now, i'm starting to realize maybe i'm not good enough for this shit

[@NavieD]

Don't give up my friend. Just gotta keep learning and trying out different things. It'll click in if you keep going, you'll see

[@RufianBeatmaker]

@@NavieD yesterday was a very bad day for me. Thanks man!

[@NavieD]

Ah, it happens to all of us. I've had bad weeks/months. But that's normal for the process. Gotta get through the bad ideas before you get to the good ones.

[@Kllaaa]

I never used reverb on my samples because it sounded so muddy, but not anymoreeeeee😬

[@NavieD]

It can be helpful if you use it sparingly on your samples. But yeah, it can become hard to control depending on the sample

[@ejazbeats9353]

omg great beat again thanks bro i really like ur beat types pls make more videos about writing melodies thanks

[@NavieD]

Thanks man! I actually don't really do much melody composition on my beats, most of the songs are done through heavy loop manipulation

[@ejazbeats9353]

@@NavieD anyway big fan

[@NavieD]

👌 Thank you boss, I am glad you enjoy my videos

[@julianstrasser483]

On valhalla vintage verb you can decide the frequency range of the reverb

[@NavieD]

The mix knob is what you want to look out for when thinking about what I covered in this video

[@ivan-marojevlahovic1337]

Great! Thank you!!

[@DEDSREIS]

You're the oracle of beatmaking. What you think about Drum Room presets with very low decay on the drums, do you think it still is a situation that can be bad to the drums?

[@anuragsahu6482]

Learned a lot from your tutorials, can you make a vocal processing tutorial from stock fl plugins. Thanks

[@tofuthepug]

Great tutorial I'm am now a fan ! Is the technical term for what you are doing called parallel processing ? Just for those ppl who don't us fl and would like to apply this technique. Thank u

[@NavieD]

Thank you so much Tofu! Glad to have you on board. And yes, you are correct. This is considered a parallel processing technique!

[@magdhamada679]

Great idea... Please if you can do a tutorial about music genres main idea...

[@NavieD]

Thanks Magd. What do you mean, the difference between each music genre?

[@magdhamada679]

@@NavieD i mean how to make for example progressive music , hip hop and main differences drums used something like that , music theory to some extent in them ...

[@NavieD]

Hmm that would be interesting. A lot of it is based on drum structuring, BPM, etc. That might be a cool video idea 😏

[@goonner80]

GOLD !!!

[@NavieD]

🥇🥇🥇

[@jonnyd2009]

Legend best tutorials on youtube thank you

[@NavieD]

Thank you Jonny! Glad you're enjoying the videossss

[@diego_jause]

To the point 👌🔊👌🔊👌

[@NavieD]

Glad you enjoyed the vid Diegoooo

[@diego_jause]

@@NavieD Great work man 🙌🙌🙌💪💪💪

[@Santheone]

So informative keep it up!!

[@derrickwayne4627]

i have an issue where my playlist just adds some invisible reverb and decay at a certain point in the song but nothing changes at that point, i quadruple checked everything, PLEASE HELP

[@NavieD]

Hm. It's possible that you were changing some parameters when you had the record button turned on, and it recorded this as automation. In your browser, go to Current Projects, Patterns, and at the bottom there might be a reverb event. Try deleting it and see if that works

[@derrickwayne4627]

@@NavieD thanks for the reply! yea i had an old automation clip that i deleted but it was still in the playlist in that project location lol

[@ammanwes9595]

Yo I know you just used this beat as an example but that shit really hits 😂 you have a finished version of this anywhere? Also, great vid as always. Love the channel 👌🏽

[@NavieD]

Hahah thanks man. It's literally just sitting on my computer

[@SlumV1llain]

@@NavieD Please do something with it, it's really dope, as an mc, I'd love to kill that beat.

[@GanzyChannel]

Question: how would this work when you want stems of the beat? Would the channel with reverb be seperate?

[@CrCr-cl4rk]

I m not sure about the loss of the snare you re explaining. I mean, u have the original signal and the effect signal and u mix these 2 together whether u r doing on the same channel or using an extra. If u loose some of the snare signal u can gain it and use the mix knob to get the exact same levels of both signals u 'd have with the extra channel. Let me know if I understood something wrong. Thanks for the video anyways was extremely helpful!🙏

[@mislam13]

I’ve been waiting for this

[@NavieD]

Hopefully it's lived up to the wait 👌

[@mislam13]

@@NavieD oh it did, this technique made a few of my other beats sound better.

[@NavieD]

Glad to hear it! You should come through the beat review I do in that case

[@VishYourBeat]

Please make tutorial on izotope ozone imager

[@dollario]

Interesting video bro ! 💪

[@NavieD]

DDB! Haven't seen you in a minute. Thanks for watching man

[@mythism3467]

i use delay more frequently than reverb

[@NavieD]

This would apply to delay as well, since many delay plugins also have the same deal with the single dry/wet knob

[@KarasamaBeats]

This is what people call parallel compression yea ? btw Could you do a "Kick" compression tutorial vid if u din yet ? this haunts me quite a bit . U did a great video on compression with those paper animations, but when it comes to the Kick, m a bit confused with the amount to put on it . And for compressing a drum kick i still follow the parallel compression concept or apply it straight to its own channel ?

[@NavieD]

No sir, this is not parallel compression. The same things would apply for a kick drum, it's got a similar shape to what I drew

[@KarasamaBeats]

@@NavieD oh dear i gotta get some theory cleared out asap then . Thnx man !!!

[@vishalbeeki5235]

i literally never thought of doing this lol

[@NavieD]

Hahah yeah, it's something that I never really realized was making a mess of my beats for the longest time

[@ts4gv]

You, Andrew Huang, Dan Worrall of FabFilter, and You Suck at Producing are the only production-related channels that I can stomach lol. Everybody else is incredibly unfunny and/or completely unable to communicate good information concisely. (Sorry for the negative comment but I mean it as a compliment to you haha) Keep it up!!! much appreciated

[@NavieD]

Well I am just glad you are finding some of us helpful my friend. Also, I can be incredibly unfunny at times as well, just you wait!

[@ts4gv]

@@NavieD Lmao looking forward to it 👍

[@epi2994]

Best explanation for this technique i've seen so far. I should really start using it. Watch out for crazy reverbs on the next stream :D

[@NavieD]

Hahaha what have I done? There is gonna be reverb everywhere now

[@soulbringer-official]

I clicked on this video because I thought it was Derek from the Veritasium channel. I think that's why they got into the frutiloops program.

[@dennismuller4220]

Does this "string" has something to do with Bus? Or how are Bus(ses) working?

[@lemaye]

Bus mixing in FL Studio! FINALLY

[@NavieD]

Yeeee it can really help you out of a pickle when you use it

[@yournextflex]

you 're awesome

[@NavieD]

❤ thanks RMK

[@whoizdani]

what if you route your snare to a drum bus, and then, you only want to apply reverb on the snare? it's route to this track or sidechain?

[@rxpmbeats7453]

Can I use fruity reverb in absence of that valhalla room reverb?

[@HLEGENDBEATS]

I can't have all this plugins in my FL studio 💔 If you can Try to help us by using stock FL studio plugins if you can

[@xMaSSxHyST3RiA]

G.O.A.T.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@NavieD]

🐐

[@dataphreak]

How is this different from a mixer send?

[@Aluarth]

Reverb on the master ftw!😂

[@mythism3467]

just remembered my very first beat in 2016

[@NavieD]

Hahah that sounds like it could be trouble my friend

[@Aluarth]

@@NavieD Reverb and soundgoodizer on the master, say no more

[@NavieD]

Hahah what have I done?! Lord have mercy

[@adame.7370]

2016 reverb and soundgoodizer on the master.. nostalgic

[@vishalbeeki5235]

gems

[@davidjangmusic]

thx bro~! would this technique be similar to side-chaining?

[@NavieD]

Side-chaining is done similarly, but for a different reason. This is more of a technique to get control of how much effects you want on your sound, whereas sidechaining is a technique to get control of the volumes of your sound

[@davidjangmusic]

@@NavieD Thank you so much!! it helped a lot :)

[@lconthebeat]

So in other words you are sort of ''layering'' your snare where you have the clean one playing and reverbed one playing

[@railster]

Is the same for ableton live?

[@NavieD]

This concept applies no matter what type of beat you make. How you do it in Ableton may be different though

[@adhishsreeniband8226]

Does this work on vocals as well?

[@NavieD]

Yessir, this concept applies to all sounds

[@yibo705]

subscribed

[@NavieD]

Glad to have you on board Yibo

[@zenex3820]

again, if you want hard hitting drums, pick hard hitting drum sounds its not that hard comparing to adding a bunch of effects like distortion fatener or even layering.

[@mehmetcanbicen12]

if i can make a beat someday, it will be thanks to you lol

[@NavieD]

You could make a beat today if you really wanted to

[@mehmetcanbicen12]

@@NavieD man you will be first to know. I will be sending you my first beat for a roast session hopefully it gets picked tho :D

[@amandalphonse1597]

Wassup! Could I send my FLP for a quick review?

[@NavieD]

Hey Amand, I am planning on doing a video where I fix peoples beats. Send your FLP to naviebeats at gmail and put the subject line as fix my beat

[@amandalphonse1597]

@@NavieD Thanks! I'll do so.

[@amandalphonse1597]

@@NavieD Done!

[@amandalphonse1597]

@@NavieD I've already sent. Sorry for the delay.

[@lilnightvision3637]

C U Next Tuesday

[@mattsanchez2044]

USE BUSES AND SENDS!

[@NavieD]

you are correct

[@Oncipian]

Me who barely uses reverb:

[@NavieD]

Then you are safe from these evils my friend

[@jrobbin24]

I wish you had beats on your page instead of that techno stuff

[@rallerallesson408]

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