secret serum tutorial #1

[@SteveDuda1]

nice video :) The FFT import modes tend to work better for sound effects/textures/drumloops/spoken word and such (it captures windows of spectra and converts those to wavetables, whereas the other modes are more 'copying' the source data). So the normal modes tend to win out for pitched sounds such as bass one-shots. For pitched one-shots I recommend typing the root note in to the formula editor and dragging in. There will be a new import mode added soon which is a lot more intelligent with phase/pitch analysis, and will probably more or less make the current 'normal' modes obsolete.

[@SQUNTO]

wow thank you so much for replying!!! I am honored :) Great tips and info, stoked for the new import mode!

[@staygosound]

@@SQUNTO This video has been blessed by the Steve Duda himself. wowwweeee

[@mitch150]

Damn im excited for this new mode :)

[@TheBlashMusic]

Steve Duda I always find my self using 2-3 compressors in my fx chains in Ableton, But I can’t do this in serum alone since it is limited to a single instance of the compressor (as far as I know). Is there anything you can do about this? Thanks!

[@AntandraMusic]

Oh, nice! Can't wait for the new updates. Sounds really interesting. Been loving using all the modes ever since I bought Serum. FFT modes do have more of a textured/vocal quality.

[@brandonfitzgerald6330]

That fletcher munson curve EQ tip is priceless knowledge!

[@AntandraMusic]

I learned about that fletcher munson curve graph recently, and really was a huge game changer! The lines in the EQ finally started to make sense. I like using dynamic EQ like the one in Neutron 2 to take out the harshness as well.

[@brandonfitzgerald6330]

@@AntandraMusic Why specifically the dynamic eq? And not abletons or other stock daws eq

[@AntandraMusic]

@@brandonfitzgerald6330 Because it leaves some of the harsh frequency under a certain threshold which can sound good, but then will cut if it gets too loud. Other EQs just cut all the time which can also work depending on the sound.

[@DrPepper776]

i was fucking shocked honestly. i love seeing when producers employ actual science into their music instead of basing off of what sounds good. Also another EQ technique that's similar is "pink noise" eq'ing. look up fox stevenson tutorial on disciple to check out how he does it. sounds amazing

[@mattuhmatics]

Died when you found out the OTT was enabled at 12:50, silly little things like that are reassuring to see for a novice producer like myself. This was refreshing and exactly the kind of content I was looking for to step up my serum knowledge. Thank you for sharing your secrets.

[@FBICheesy]

Please post more, finding it very hard to find tutorials that are this advanced that also go into post production, from GOOD artists. These tutorials are so rare. Thank you

[@LEVRAN]

Dope...

[@Khswart1]

"anyway, yeah its not very good but sometimes i like to experiement" bruh... that was better than anything ive done in the months ive been trying to learn this stuff

[@joshdgrzech9511]

REALLY REALLY good video. Your music is not my style, but you're obviously talented. One of the best videos I've seen on Serum, PLEASE keep teaching

[@KuroBassPromotions]

Always nice to see producers do this

[@alexmoscatelli149]

Damn dude, this tutorial is great! It also shows how much passion you have for music, like the Fletcher Munson thing.. that was so cool!

[@crow_music]

I discovered lately that you can make an LFO shape and drag it onto the wavetable and it makes a new wavetable from what you made in the LFO :D

[@blancmull3886]

Crow yo how the fuck do you do that

[@crow_music]

@@blancmull3886 by doing exactly what I said

[@vawser6289]

FFT stands for Fast Fourier Transform and it plots amplitude as a function of frequency. I would definitely recommend learning about it if you're going to utilise it's features! :D

[@drkastenbrot]

Amplitude and Phase over frequency for any periodic waveform

[@albertp9318]

Can you go over how you create bass patterns like the call and the response with 2 different sounds? Also how to layer basses would be nice!

[@scottarcari5161]

Way better video than most, clean teaching skills

[@BenFeinVlogs]

me just now finding this... 😂😍

[@brandonfitzgerald6330]

yo nice melda productions folder! didnt think I'd find anyone else who was into their plugins!

[@jpennel25]

gotta love the free plugins

[@micro2cool]

Deadmau5 uses them

[@marscrasher]

noisia love their plugins

[@CrustaceousB]

ive been trying desperately to make my own bass sounds for weeks and ive been failing constsntly... then i found this video.... you basically told me exactly what i was missing. thank you sir!!~!!!!!!

[@Brandonheat1]

NOBODY: SQUNTO: *OPENS OBS* JUST WANNA MAKE SURE WE STILL RECORDING

[@SQUNTO]

brandon herrarte Lololol yes

[@aydenhill7191]

love your tutorials bro!! super keen for more of your wisdom!

[@Rayan2Soleil]

Man I definitely need this OTT Ableton patch for the mid/sides, it sounds so good !

[@kalylewilliams7367]

when is the next tutorial coming! learning from you is fairly easy for me to comprehend considering the way you teach and will go out of the way to say why you do certain things and what the results will be.

[@LEVRAN]

Nice vid...

[@clxud1]

Bruh This tutorial was Really great and useful. Please,Do more stuff like this!

[@5pillars254]

This video changed my life. Thank you so much.

[@TheNBCC12]

Super sick dude, i've seen your old comments on the OG mr bill vids seems like things have come full circle haha

[@edmmusic7280]

fucking amazing tutorial , i would love to see more about SUB BASS usage to make track feel moving big .

[@aame6643]

You can’t be a true producer if you don’t have torrent in the background

[@akeeb8611]

Good sir, keep at this and ur gonna blow up on KZbin. Quality tutorial sir. Thank youuu.

[@ecotoser]

Great tutorial

[@patrickjonsson-good2588]

really cool tutorial, I feel like your processing methods are quite similar to mine so this was extra useful and interesting for me. you definitely earned a sub.

[@brandonfitzgerald6330]

Also for anyone wondering about "tonal Delay" it is when you play your delay time in milliseconds and by having a short "ms timing" it causes the audio signal to be replayed rapidly again and again causing a metallic tonal resonance. Depending on your millsecond timing you can tune the tonality of the delay to the key of your track. Most people dont care about properly tuning your delays to your basses but alas there is no real correct way to do any of this so go bananas with this info! Thanks for these tutorial squnto

[@brandonfitzgerald6330]

Also for anyone using OTT after a tonal delay the OTT will multiply the power of the delayed signal. So turning down your delayed Millisecond timing will fix this issue if anyone has problems!

[@spynasaurus5194]

@@brandonfitzgerald6330 Chorus and Flanger do the same thing, but with a modulating delay time and/or multiple delays!

[@brandonfitzgerald6330]

I find that chorus and flanger don't have such a clean tone and harder to dial in than tonal delay. Plus to many people go right to flangers and chorus but I still appreciate you posting this because it's true

[@spynasaurus5194]

@@brandonfitzgerald6330 It's a scientific fact chorus and flanger do the same thing at different speeds. I didn't say it sounds the same, but you can make them sound the same sometimes depending on the specific VSTs parameters. You should know this to understand the effects. The roots of dubstep are in dub, and a cornerstone of dub is delay, especially with long tails and automated time, which is akin to the modern use of modulated flanger depth, delay, and rate; modulated chorus delay and/or depth, and tonal delay made with delay effects. The descriptions of flanger and delay on image-line say "Fruity Chorus is an effect created by the slight detuning of one or more *delayed copies of the input sound* (similar to a choir of voices). Controls adjust the rate, time offset, shape and depth of detune." and "Depth - Controls the chorus delay modulation. The chorus delay will be swept between delay and delay+depth. *If this value is zero, the chorus will remain 'static'* as the delay modulation will stay constant" which means it will make tonal delay just like a normal delay VST if the depth is set to 0. If you watch AU5's "static chorus" video, you will see him do this with Serum chorus. "Flanging is a form of phase cancellation created by combining multiple, variously delayed copies of the input sound." So flanger uses delay at a different rate to phase cancel frequencies, making a comb filter accross the frequency spectrum, typically not done with chorus or delay, but you can do it with chorus and delay as well. Phasers do the same, but with a phaseshifted copy of the sound. It's all delay!

[@ericdavidjiu-jitsu3777]

I know myself and plenty would love the Fletcher-Munson EQ and the Mid/Side Rack OTT rack(This is something I'm trying to learn more on)

[@Symphoniics]

This is one of the most helpful Serum tutorials I've ever watched. Thank you. If possible, would you be willing to share the Fletcher-Munson EQ Eight and the OTT rack? I don't trust myself to make them as precisely as you. lol

[@unclerickybass]

Bro I have been waiting so long for someone to say its ok to mix loud as fuck with bass music and bring it down at the end. THANK YOU! @SQUNTO Amazing tutorial!

[@jerryatricks1]

@11:30 - "Just drinkin' a beer, chillin out over here makin churros." - Dude! 🤣🤣🤣

[@brandonfitzgerald6330]

I also find it cleaner when I turn my rate and phase down on my flanger and phasers. I think they sound a lot better as "static" fx. Where as leaving the rate up will cause the Flanger to have an LFO and leaving the phase where its at will make the FX pan from side to side. Makes the sounds a little cleaner IMO

[@mrmeowbeats7842]

FFT stands for Fast Fourier Transform and it has to do with the theory that all sound can be made up of sine waves at different amplitudes, frequencies and phases, although I'm not too sure what the numbers afterwards mean.

[@AFRoSHEENT3ARCMICHAEL69]

That's not a theory at all since, like light, it's mostly a wave.

[@tonyxpajamas]

Just downloaded Serum yesterday and I can't believe Squnto put out a great workflow video on it today

[@jesusvaldez2559]

Thanks for the tutorial! It really helps alot

[@Skyefaux]

Oh I see touch designer down there. Do you make touch designer tutorials

[@emptyspace5934]

is this Badklaat - Knuckle Sandwich bass tutorial lmaooo

[@Mikerochipz]

Watching you @ Lost Lands made me realize youre a wizard harry.. i know you value face to face but i would love some more of these bad boys when you have time ^_^

[@yyyy12344]

22:46 what time is good for other keys?

[@filipcao818]

Wow this was really informative. Thank you!

[@fl33k59]

Hey man, i really appreciate your content and really, your personality. Thank you for sharing. Are you able to share those presets you referred to in regards to the Fletcher Munson curve and the mid-side OTT rack?

[@maxparent6773]

Awesome tutorial, any chance we can get that OTT rack you have? :)

[@chillan3t188]

@SQUNTO can i get a link to your ott mid side splitter plzzz you said you would include it i will love you forever!

[@manofgoat]

12:40 general serum workflow

[@MFFLCollector]

nice.

[@mikedizzy9081]

you mentioned maybe a link to your mid-side rack? that would be dope!!

[@officialbammusic]

@23:35 make sure to be at MAX volume

[@drelephanttube]

FFT = Fast Fourier Transform. It analyses the sample and breaks it into 1024 frequency bands.

[@LEVRAN]

Is there any preset for this unique eq for fl studio? Or pro eq 2/3

[@Sool101]

Did I hear this exact sample as a template for Creature from Liquid Stranger..?

[@ellmango]

cool video but there was a lot of dead air! if you wanted to improve one thing that would be my suggestion!

[@xOBS3SS10NX]

Thanks for this tutorial! Could you link us a DL to the EQ cruve and the OTT mid side rack? Would save a lot of time trying to recreate that. Appreciate you

[@residualtrip3003]

Is G clip still a Serum product? or was that serum uk 64 blah blah blah just what you saved it as in the folder? Didn't know there were harmonic limiters but thats dope.

[@griffingibson4389]

Dude can you post the Fletcher Munson preset for the eq? And a link to to G clip would be helpful as well. Phenomenal tutorial btw.

[@wa2k360]

Idk if youtube will delete this but here www.gvst.co.uk/gclip.htm

[@ohlosha]

Awesome man! Lots of good info in here!

[@htb123times]

Oh Losha LOL what’s up bro 😁

[@Shaaan]

Just a noob question I use fl so will Fletcher munson curve work the same with Parametric EQ 2 as in the video ?

[@samuelbagshaw6385]

SnivvyGreasy YT probably but idk if you can use the scaling the same, I have no idea.

[@bist5018]

Yes you can. Every EQ works the same way (except for Dynamic EQ's). Just google the Fletcher Munson curve and try to copy it in the Parametric EQ 2

[@DoctorU613]

"The less fucks you give, the less attached you are to the outcome" Fucking Perfect!

[@Akathanuge]

Possible for us to get a DL for that mid/side OTT youve got there??

[@reroute379]

Its very easy to create on your own. Its basic audio effect rack with 2 chains. The mid chain first uses a utility to set the signal to mono and a default OTT multiband compressor preset. The side chain has a utility set to full stereo, a default OTT preset and an EQ eight with a 48 low cut. Squinto then mapped both OTT's time, amount and output controls to macros. Enjoy!

[@damionnormand1540]

@@reroute379 You should actually flip your utility to Mid/Side mode and do your separation that way, makes it a little cleaner. Cheers!

[@reroute379]

@@damionnormand1540 Right you are, i forgot that the mid/side mode is hidden with a left click on the width knob. Wish it was a button though

[@Brandonheat1]

SUPER AMAZING TUTORIAL CANT WAIT TO SEE MORE

[@joshvandermeer2012]

this helped a tonne cheers dude !!

[@jakehandorf9226]

very nice my guy

[@SS_BS_TS]

Fuck yes your the goat for this🙏🏾 please make more!

[@nated4182]

all these tutorials are wild as fuck u are the man

[@domitsunami2325]

Can you add the side ott link in the description

[@emptyspace5934]

After putting ott and eq'ing yes its sound really big and bring harmonics. But when im listening to pro tracks it doesnt sound that high in the final result. So what they do? Just bring the volume down or what?

[@brokearmusic9516]

I think in the final track u got all of the others instruments and sounds playing so its makes the bass less loud maybe

[@JosephBacons]

Please do a phase plant tutorial!! :)

[@ericdavidjiu-jitsu3777]

Well, I just completely cleared my schedule for the next hour

[@allegiant-el]

Wow!!!!

[@cameronweatherill7427]

how do u know what delay time is what root note/key

[@SteveDuda1]

musiccalculator.com/#generate-note-hertz-table or you can type the note number in Serum's formula parser in the WT editor and it will calculate the HZ for you :) . 1000/Hz = time in milliseconds

[@itwasalladream7816]

@@SteveDuda1 holy fuck it's Steve Duda

[@DubstepMag]

really interesting, thank you !

[@MrZasori]

Yeaaaah boï! We need more of this

[@tysonjoseph131]

Wheres the OTT Rack Link??

[@samvictoria100]

Yo my guy! Can you post the mid/side OTT?

[@ArcticWolfOfficial]

25:17 Lmfao

[@mariapopel]

Light meaning feat and other

[@Ravelife]

Thanks man appreciate the video

[@devin8215]

does anyone know how to make the fletcher munson curve? i searched all over google and cant find it

[@PlainStrider55]

Oh

[@rafaelperez6837]

How do you import audio with FL Studio? Ive tried but those FFTs or menu wont show up any advice anyone?

[@ZefParisoto]

VR taught me this already :3

[@mariapopel]

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[@wa2k360]

spamming OTT's and that fletcher munson curve shit is cwazy bwo also the fact that the mixdown is usually the final product

[@wa2k360]

I learn big things bwo tank u

[@DieACritik]

finally a good fucking video!

[@beaubreezy2371]

Amazing content, thank you

[@manofgoat]

thank you mango

[@joshuacampbell17]

FFT stands for Fast Fourier Transform

[@juanlozano7623]

yooo drop that mid & side ott rack pls

[@Pa-ow1nj]

nice tutorial thank you :D !!

[@Cryptiiix]

FFT means fast Fourier transform!

[@supernovibesmusic8515]

thanks for this tutorial :)

[@kingkebo3960]

phleeb

[@wildcxtdub2520]

phleeeeeeebbbb

[@michaelfoy6831]

disclaimer ..... 23 minutes in if your wearing headphones... turn the volume down loool

[@judgedredd9445]

thanks so much bro

[@jpennel25]

I recreated the mid-side ott rack, drive.google.com/file/d/1S9TreP8skZKVOmIRRMY50BeRCiyAHNCj/view?usp=sharing Munson EQ, i didn't recreate this just convince drive.google.com/file/d/12A7EtuTPnZgtCnQUyCIpO3oLdx7U-cvH/view?usp=sharing

[@oddsphere]

bless your soul

[@makroalt5028]

ott is built into ableton... check the multiband compressor, ding dong :)

[@jpennel25]

23:36 wise words from the riddim shrink

[@MrWobblesStreams]

Omfg yes squnto

[@thegammawave1213]

squnto i fkg love u thx for the tutorial

[@iTzLiru]

I used that same sample and i still cant get that same bassy sound you had when you first open'd up serum what else are you HIDING!? SQUNTO!