Sound Design 01: Sine Compression

An overview of the infamous "sine compression" bass. Don't forget to sub for more sound design videos!
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[@VorsoMusic]

Nolan's 3 Easy Simple Steps to Pine Compression: 1. Find your perfect pine cone, must be at least 4 - 5 cm across and must not still be attached to tree 2. Hold the pine cone firmly between your thumb and index finger of your left hand 3. Begin to apply pressure to the pine cone until it becomes a flat 2 dimensional disc And there you have it, your very own compressed pine. Can be used as a frisbee or placemat, or can be used to replace your parents

[@arthurkolodinsky738]

Instructions unclear. Made future bass. Dang it.

[@apoplexiamusic]

it can also be used for biscuit joining of wooden planks!

[@artraven]

can you go into a bit more detail for the replacing parents step, thanks

[@freashty]

I was wondering how girls made those necklaces

[@user-tk7iu8vq5o]

You know that planet in Rick & Morty where everything is pine shaped is gonna evolve to have this be the main topic

[@defconsound2565]

Yay! You've explained in 18min what I've wasted the last 6 years of my life unsuccessfully trying to figure out

[@zachmartin1811]

Same :(

[@baruchrotbart3936]

same except 8 years for me 🤷‍♂

[@dankesthours182]

so excited to see you work, have caught the streams with you and bill, have heard your stuff on and off for years, much respect and so glad you took the time

[@macrondo5852]

2:35 Snotch Filter

[@andylee4245]

Listened to your music for a while now, because I was always mind-blown at the sound design of your songs. I thought you couldn't possibly have tutorials because most professional producers want to keep their tricks a secret. So stumbling upon your youtube channel was like finding a pot of gold. Thank you for your tutorials; it's inspiring me to get back into making music again!

[@ExposureDJ]

Such a great tutorial and so sound of you to give the rack out for free, maximum respect!

[@akuro2685]

So happy to see you making tutorials. Thanks so much!

[@kory443]

So glad I found this. Really looking forward to more of your videos. Thank you!

[@Magneticartgallery]

This is a really great tutorial. Just upped my game 10x. Subscribed, thanks for the rack!

[@FordDnb]

Sick man!

[@zburzycki]

Thats totally awesome that you give away the rack! What a scholar and gentlemen

[@marcobiraghi]

Awesome explanation! For your rack if you take only the phase 4 and use the phase knob to automate the on/off of each phase rack you can save some cpu

[@happytyler41892]

Wow thanks so much for making these tutorials. By the way your track with Culprate is the craziest production i've heard!

[@6r0k3n5t3ps]

My new fav YT channel..

[@JeremyGreysmark]

That was definitely super interesting the way you showed every step,! Thanks for making this :)

[@happilyconfuseddog8951]

helllll yeah, glad your making tuts again mang

[@i0waska34]

Had a lot of fun following along with this, good ass video homie definitely coming back for more tutorials.

[@salexmatei]

I did now know of this technique, very insightful, thanks!

[@rhinoskin7550]

This is gold. Thank you for sharing this

[@tapekiller642]

Very good video mate, keep going!

[@DUSKOsound]

I had no idea you were up to this. Awesome

[@HeinrichYoshio]

thx 4 the informative & concise vid! also i'm ur 1K sub, gratZ~ ⭐️

[@QLTEQ]

my dude you are an awesome teacher

[@DJPastaYaY]

Very good tutorial

[@jacobl8042]

I've been meaning to check out your videos. Wishing I would have forever ago. Holy shit

[@LawrenceAaronLuther]

Great video much appreciated!

[@blankhandy]

Cant you make the width consitent by changing from a log view to a linear view in EQ eight? 8:40 its logical the bands move closer together since al the high frequencies are squeezed in the final few centimeters

[@armaturesmusic]

Really really well explained. Can't wait to get this into some techno.

[@lawless4078]

Got it?

[@idek2452]

thanks for the videos!

[@TheAris621]

This is great! Thanks a ton!

[@GravitasCreate]

Fantastic.

[@bryanhingerton3766]

Incredible

[@mrhelixx8944]

Paid good money for that rack 😜❣️❣️ Worth every penny brother Thank you for everything you do!

[@andylee4245]

Frequent, could you possibly do a tutorial of parallel filtering? One of your bass designs in your sound cloud was called "Parallel Filtering + All The Goods." It sounds like sine compression as demonstrated in this tutorial, but with more crunch and juicyness.

[@inspir.edmusic]

gotta try this technique myself. What’s interesting is I feel like the first couple glue compressors your used aren’t doing any compressing at all. The needle isn’t moving so they are essentially just soft clippers.

[@luximperium4164]

I always love messing around with compression for the purpose of sound design rather than mixing. Smashing the shit out of sounds can yield some cool results.

[@rockyrabboy]

Your music is out of this world man~! the world needs to know xD

[@User74]

Thank you !

[@Hickzy]

What a legend thanks man

[@polliwobble]

Dude thank you. You rock 🙏💜

[@fayella6790]

I need this Ableton skin ALSO great tutorial!

[@c-a-a-r-l]

Damn son. THIS is SICK.

[@brianzimmerman6774]

great video ty

[@richardtyson100]

the DL isn;t working for me so i'm trying to recreate the rack. can somebody explain to me how to use chain selector thing to go through the different phases?

[@Alongcameshifty1]

Hi there, I was wondering whether there are any similar plugins you would recommend to create this type of bass sound? I tried to use Logic's standard compressor but it didn't have soft clip distortion on it and also the notch filter in Ableton seems to do a better job than Logic one? Many thanks

[@DodZz666]

very cool

[@pocketjams12]

Thanks a lot!

[@apoplexiamusic]

is this technique the same you used for that crazy bass in the DnB song from heard in your album preview?

[@NikiGehrer]

thank you very much

[@zZMazeZz]

Great tutorials

[@Rhekluse]

Cheers mate

[@xaviankimbrough8059]

Sick!

[@aydo8]

Dude what the fuck i am so goddamn late to this but holy shit this blew my mind with the way it works. Ingenius!

[@TheOfficalAndI]

really nice tutorial. I've put multiple chains of this into a rack and now can make any bass sound into a neuro bass. Also i am lazy so there are lfos already automating the parameters xD

[@MonsterDubClub]

Incredible stuff! Thanks man, your a fucking GENIUS

[@123string4]

The eq band covers the same amount of frequencies regardless of where it is on the spectrum. The dots look like they get closer together because the spectrum has a logarithmic scale.

[@YaGenezis]

yeah, this idiot doesn't know what he's doing ) gotta love the american 'bros' talking about audio and 'neurofunk'... turn a few knobs and push a couple of buttons and all of the sudden they think they're the shit )) part of that is these hysterical kids commenting shit like 'wow, bro that is amazing'... it isn't, dude.. that's like basic shit and nowhere near the quality of a track released on a proper label.. speaking of which.. where are your releases, 'bro'? )) oh you don't have any, that's what I thought... this question always makes these youtubers mad 'cause they know they'll never get a release on a proper label )) so yeah, your 'educational' videos and business will never get you anywhere, unless all you want is an ego inflated by 14 year olds impressed with so little...so yeah.. peace, I'm out ))

[@Vwlpe]

He's the owner of Upscale Recordings and all of its roster has been releasing better, more original music than 99% of anything out there. A lot of producers look up to these guys technically. Feel like a jackass yet? Go listen to your Marshmello and stfu

[@YaGenezis]

Hahahaha.... Upscale Records? Who the fuck is that? )) I had to google it, no joke. Apparently it's a tiny label from the US, around 6000 followers on twitter hahahaha... Also listened to a couple of tracks. It's a generic, low quality copy of European drum'n'bass which doesn't surprise me since after watching this guy's videos I immediately had an idea of what kind of 'producer' this guy is... For the drums he grabs a few samples from sample packs released by the big names in Europe, arranges them in a generic pattern and then goes for a hi-hat loop from another sample pack )) Bass, he just distorts the shit out of it and slaps a notch filter, repeats the process... pfff, lazy much? Oh and... his basses have way too much high end, pierces my ears. Is this the technicality you admire? I feel sorry for you )) Jackass? )) Haha, American 'Neurofunk' (it's drum'n'bass you fags!!) community is a big joke ))) I have no clue who is that Marshmello bloke but I can tell I've been listening to jungle/drum'n'bass since 1994 and released tunes on some of the most respected labels in the scene so yeah, kid... keep being an idiot and admiring mediocre copies of the real thing ))

[@Vwlpe]

Not surprised someone like you would choose the number of followers someone has as a refference to how good or professional they are. Alright bud, link me to something you'd call high quality production.

[@AnUnwrittenEvent]

генезис wow dude, are you that unhappy with your life? You're pathetic

[@trexightshows]

i cant figure out how to ope the sine compressor

[@barnosho1611]

Why 480p?

[@codingwjake776]

Reduces CPU usage so Ableton doesn't lag and crackle horribly would be my assumption

[@MilezAwxy]

@@codingwjake776 that's why buffers exists.

[@jurrevandenberg2928]

This was really usefull thanks a lot, your music is fucking wicked man. Bigup!!

[@Unanythang]

Nasty af. Thanks

[@michaelmccullum7952]

was this always in 480p? lol I remember being able to see the daw better the first time i watched this tutorial

[@gtautis]

Great tutorial, even though I use FL studio there's stuff I can easily apply there.

[@samp.5111]

what would you use instead of that overdrive vst?

[@AmityHardstyle]

Sam P. Waveshaper

[@andylee4245]

Are you able to recreate this technique in FL studio? What would you use instead of the glue compressor and filter he uses? Also the amp and dynamics, i guess everything lol.

[@avokado1386]

for the filter just use the parametric eq 2; as a compressor you can use ott (not a native fl plugin but it's free, so..), maximus or the fruity compressor there are also fruity fast distortion, fruity blood overdrive, camelcrusher, camelphat etc almost everything described in this tutorial can be achieved in fl studio

[@KS-kb2nj]

Fruity Love Filter has a waveshaper.

[@bndsh_tde_brknmds]

Pls, reupload the rack

[@aenehofficial]

hey guys could anyone reupload frequent's rack plz? current link doesnt work anymore. thank u

[@Lepoutreur]

You're saying the width between the two dots in EQ Eight can never be consistent because the dots get closer to each other... It might be a stupid question but isn't that just a visual "trick" on account of the bands in a parametric EQ gradually getting tighter the higher (in Hz) you go because each band has to cover more and more frequencies ? Like you know, in the low end say you have 20Hz per cm but in the top end, a cm covers like 10K Hz. So in the end the width stays the same frequency-wise, you just visually see it get tighter but it doesn't affect the frequency "gap" ... Right ?

[@apoplexiamusic]

ça créé vraiment un gap...en augmentant la fréquence quand tu boost ou tu coupes, tu remarques vraiment le décalage ou le rapprochement des bandes. le mouvement de l'automation est linéaire, mais le changement de fréquence par rapport à ce mouvement est exponentiel, alors tu peux jamais avoir une corrélation fixe... je l'explique pas clairement, mais si tu essaie d'automate deux bandes en parallèle, le facteur linéaire du knob versus l'augmentation exponentiel de la fréquence associé aux données du knob fait que ça chie...

[@Lepoutreur]

Je vois, au temps pour moi ! Merci de l'explication :)

[@Lepoutreur]

I see... Strange. But sorry, does the EQ8 sound like it looks ? Does it really sounds like it goes from two peaks with a gap in between to a huge, single peak ?

[@apoplexiamusic]

Frequent i can't figure out why eq8 does that... but as i tried badly explaining to Maxime in French, it could come from the way that the knob controlling the frequency is programmed. Like the has a linear movement that tries to best accommodate a very exponential increase in the frequency range the higher you go up

[@intikon3103]

you know i think you may be right! so if the bandwidth wanted to be maintained as he wants then you would want to have the knobs be logarithmic when they actually do seem linear right now. interesting

[@laf7915]

where do you get this ableton skin?

[@Sanguinor_Energy]

really cool man, subbed.

[@codyrong1259]

The downloaded file is a Document type file that doesn't open in Live. Changing the extension to .adg also doesn't work. Is there something wrong with the file itself? Great tutorial btw!

[@jtedprhizzm]

been stareing at a gray dot for like an hour does the rack actually exist?

[@filip5154]

Frequent please, i need this. Bring it back, where can i find it? I will pay everything for it.

[@AuburnnSkies]

Whoa. Mind sharing a link to this skin? Absolutely adore the darker themes, but I've only got a few.

[@Frequentaudio]

Definitely, this skin is the best I've found by a long shot: pureav.deviantart.com/art/Ableton-Live-9-Skin-589338351

[@AuburnnSkies]

What are your intensity and hue values? Something like 100%/220?

[@thelinkofperfectioncharity9469]

Your KZbin channel vocal chain actually lit!

[@NothingNowhereNoOne]

Do you work on GOML?

[@frankrobertson226]

YOU ARE THE FUCKING BEST BRO

[@elijahr_1998]

480p...

[@samwhitecloak1211]

wats an accent bass?

[@futurebeats898]

Subbed! 👋

[@CatDaddyProducer]

how does one accomplish this on fl studios

[@rhinoskin7550]

This is fundamental information about sound design.. Idk why KZbin insists on showing me a bunch of extra plug-ins.. Lol

[@neonblack211]

Why is soft clipping so important for this technique ?

[@YatsuraHeadOn]

Any way of doing this in cubase ? since there is no multi effect rack :(

[@maybury78]

Check out Venus Theory's tutorials, he uses Cubase

[@BluntstepTV]

"Preset can not be loaded. It is probably broken." :(

[@thisisthedefinition]

"sine compression" bass...don't forget to..."sub". Clever girl!

[@w00die00]

Is the rack still available to download, the link says page not found?

[@Frequentaudio]

Fixed it sorry about that

[@w00die00]

@@Frequentaudio Woah, nice, thank you very much, did not expect to get an answer on a 6 year old video :D

Good vid

[@lonelykid7691]

Once I add that rack and do more automation, it sounds like I lose a lot of the dynamics I had.

[@Erliortmejurur]

This is because it's full of saturators and compressors :)

[@TB-vj1un]

“So I’m gonna notch it again”

[@elishelly119]

how do you set your operator do have those settings off rip?

[@ghostplayermusic]

Just right click on Operator and click “save as default preset”

[@elishelly119]

@@ghostplayermusic Thanks!

[@ChrisPBacon-me3wv]

8:51 wrong. it's just a log scale. the interval does not change.

[@NeZversSounds]

It should be sine soft clip bass. A soft clip is saturation/ distortion and not compression.

[@wojciech2279]

You know that distortion is a specific kind of compression, right?

[@NeZversSounds]

Wojciech Kaftanowicz I know that some people keep missinterpret like that. Compression is time based volume shaping and he made his point clearly that you get that effect not with compression but with CLIPPING. Distortion is artifacts from wave shaping and only way to get distortion from actual compression is running into super fast attack and release (a.k.a limiter), but there's a catch - because compression is time based and same with notes, achieved distortion is varying with notes (low notes distort but on higher compressor can't react fast enough).

[@splatsquatch3934]

cool nezvers

[@urigeheadmot1196]

NeZversTutorials BOOM, that‘s some knowledge right there

[@matthewholloway81]

"snotch filter"

[@grandagitator]

rack download broke, is there any other way to get a copy?

[@Razzileful]

it's still on the site but at a different link. go to the homepage to find

[@grandagitator]

@@Razzileful bless

[@No-to4kd]

good shit brah

[@NF2K]

Around 8:30 where you're demonstrating the inconsistent width of the macro'd bands in EQ8, you can keep the width constant by lowering the Max value for the second Mapping. Or if you were just demonstrating how it works for Saturn then ignore me :)

[@YaGenezis]

no, the dots on the eq are moving like that 'cause the spectrum uses a logarithmic scale (i.e. the actual physical distance gets shorter as you go up in the frequency spectrum) so the guy in this video doesn't know what he's talking about, the distance between the frequencies is the same as he goes up or down the spectrum. Like I said, 'cause the spectrum is logarithmic, that's how you represent it visually in a correct manner. American 'youtube neurofunk bros' don't know shit about audio, use only their eyes instead of ears and brain ))

[@frqncymusic]

Is there an alternative to amp that works pretty good?

[@richardtyson100]

just use a small amount of camel phat

[@stephenward2743]

Guitar Rig 5 works too

[@splatsquatch3934]

erosion for the win

[@carldubcats3385]

Any distortion plugin will do. Trash 2 is one of the favs for Neurofunk.

[@Unanythang]

tried to follow step by step an mine sounds nothing like it :( oh well. cool tutorial tho

[@kjetilbirkeland1]

Spine compression

[@lonelykid7691]

I think I get better results when I don't use the rack

[@bankajimusic4482]

[@Yizak]

This video is sooo informative. Hope you get that verification you're looking for :)