Why Does OTT Sound So Good?

[@SINISTERMusic]

The magic is in the midrange - Jack Joseph Puig

[@MrFree-vj8qj]

It just adds gain and doesnt let you hear the actual compression. Complete bias

[@paullandais9717]

@@MrFree-vj8qj what do you mean

[@atd9945]

@@MrFree-vj8qjwhat do you mean

[@cornoc]

@@MrFree-vj8qj what do you mean

[@simonesolinas2062]

@@MrFree-vj8qjwhat do you mean

[@MrBillsTunes]

another amazing video. now i have to watch the eq one, too xD

[@MOONRiiSENN]

Honestly 💜

[@odealianaffairs9001]

i didn't expect god himself to be here

[@holehandxuezhang]

live legend

[@prls3081]

I'm so tired of all these youtubers clickbaiting and teaching the same basics in 10 different vids, this channel is just awesome

[@macmanmanny3983]

hmmm imagine how I feel... Thinking this video would be about OTT.. the band.

[@somethingsomething3248]

Bro, your mission to make this channel a place for obscure yet fundamental mixing knowledge is so interesting and unique, but also incredibly useful! Explaining the "why" behind what we do is so often overlooked, and thus, so very much needed right now. Your channel is like the VSauce of music production lol, and I love it! These videos are so complex, but also super fun and interesting and structured very well - where things build on each other and one thing leads seamlessly into the next. They really do fly by! The way you revealed what OTT stood for at 13:34 was just brilliant! Such a fun and engaging way to teach genuinely life-changing concepts in mixing and production! Chef's kiss, and well done! Please keep 'em coming!

[@420minegod2]

VSause of music production!!! Hahaha that’s great and very true

[@aschelocke5287]

​@@420minegod2 or is it 🤨

[@mikesmithz]

Vsauce of music production! You nailed it!

[@remenyhal50]

indeed very unique and gap filling channel! it's so sad that he seems not to make videos anymore

[@punky2deep]

I see a top tier youtuber in the making. I predict 50k by 2022 lets goooo great content bruv

[@melonbase_beats]

Aged like milk

[@byrdmanalb88]

Almost ish

[@BaguaDude]

Poor guy disappeared after the countermeasures were distributed

[@NotSoWiseElder]

You seemed to have stop making videos. Don't stop, these are outstanding.

[@TheHonestTruth]

The amount of work a video like this takes to make is wildly underestimated.. Payoff just not worth it unless subscribers donate

[@jasongravely7217]

@@TheHonestTrutheasy. let’s all donate. Someone find him on another social and tell him we have 100ppl people doing $20/mo.

[@likenicesinging]

@@jasongravely7217 tried, he's just not present anywhere -_-

[@HOVRSofficial]

of all the thousands of production videos i've watched through the years, this might be the new topper. great work, you got a new sub

[@Flashback_Jack]

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[@PoulLarsenmusic]

For future video or A/B testing you can Key map all the OTT's to the the same key. Lets assign the "n" key for each OTT's and when you press "n" it' turns off all the OTT's at the same time with one press. Save time and useful for A/B testing. I use this A lot for A/B testing with multiple Mastering Racks

[@cornoc]

you could also just use an effects rack

[@azteriaaa]

​@@cornocthey didnt just put ott on one sound though

[@cornoc]

@@azteriaaa fair enough, i must have missed that

[@deswestens]

This just gave me the complete technical explanation for something I’ve been doing with a completely different plugin for YEARS. The Disco Smile has been a staple of my vocal sound this whole time and I never truly understood why it works so well or cared to, I just chalked it up to: “eh saturation”. Now that I know I feel like I can go so much more in depth with it in even more areas of my mixes. Thank you 🙏🏽

[@hikibeats]

Some topics from my engineering undergrad subjects like signal processing started to make sense by watching your videos. You truly are a "sound engineer" because you understand it on a scientific level. Thank for these videos! Hoping you make contents again soon.

[@philpetrocelli5191]

Best, most complete discussion of OTT and multiband compression I’ve ever seen. Thanks for this.

[@christopantz]

im really impressed with your ability to put this into literal terms, and not just adjectives that mean nothing. i don’t make electronic music primarily, my main thing is recording live instruments, often on the computer, often on tape. but I have an appreciation and love for dance music and I found this to be very very insightful

[@TianpeiWang]

Now Dan Worrall and sseb are my KZbin top stars

[@electricpaganini]

I like your script. It is educating, while being peppered with interesting facts. Keeps you invested better throughout the video.

[@johndunn7733]

And it gives context. Brilliant stuff

[@morehart505]

And some jokes here and there!

[@loganschexnayder1587]

Please never stop making this incredibly informative content! I’ve found nothing close to this channel in terms of edu quality

[@matthewalp3954]

This is a top-tier video, I'm really glad I stumbled upon it. You're very competent at explaining and bringing in interesting background on top of the technical foundation that you're laying down. Please keep making videos :)

[@Jack-id4qm]

@@sseb_music come back please!

[@supermatt-99]

hey fellow matt

[@erwinm187]

this channel has suddenly turned into one of my favorites. love how detailed and deep you go into topics on music! closest I can think of is dan’s channel

[@jikrochmal1174]

What a gem of a video.

[@yoelwww]

I think this dude made the OG OTT preset.

[@iambaney]

There's a dearth of highly niche and technical audio production education content on KZbin, especially longer-form content like this which includes important contextual information alongside the theory. Thank you for filling the void. Some future topics I would love to see covered in this same style: Dither, its historical role, and its place in modern production; types of panning and their collective contribution to the psychoacoustics of binaural audio.

[@stompinknowledge3968]

This dude just made 5 of the best production videos I've seen re. technicality and then... disappeared. Seriously hope he didn't die through Covid.

[@AutPen38]

I guess he learned that the algorithm (because of the way viewers consume YT vids) kind of punishes high quality authoritative content. The popular channels tend to have surface-level content that leaves you wanting more, but if you spend a while going deeply into a subject, there's nothing much to add in a pointless follow-up a week later. So, ironically, if you make thorough well-planned videos, you end getting fewer subs and clicks, whereas the channels with frequent but shallow clips (shorts etc) get the most views and likes.

[@chuckhatcher9028]

I just discovered your channel last night. Got to say you are one of the best teachers on KZbin. You really know how to lead people through an idea without dumbing it down. Thank you

[@glacierrays]

Only recently discovered your channel, and it's blowing my mind. I'm aware of the (many) flaws in my production but had very little knowledge of how to improve - and I think videos like this are exactly the kind of thing I need to help me take the step to improve my mixing and frequency distribution. So clear and well explained, thank you

[@RustOnWheels]

I used to compose for theater but haven’t been doing much with music but I enjoy watching your videos because it takes me back to my university years when I studied music technology. All of which to say your standard of videos are as high as a university class on music production.

[@KG0313]

I ve been trying making music for few years and watching this i realized i was doing disco smile with the EQ not knowing about it. It just seemd better while i was playing music on my phone,speakers,TV etc. Great video man u got sub for the effort u put into this.This channel is trully something diffrent. I learned something finally.

[@rosschalmers7100]

yooooo lets go homie, this kind of shit makes my brain happy :)

[@robertodagostini4946]

bro im so glad the algorithm recomended your channel. channels like yours who cut the shit are the best

[@gtabro1337]

Great video - love how you're explaining not just processes, but how historically we've reached the conclusion as to why they work.

[@AlbertBalbastreMorte]

One would say he's making the topic thicc and juicy like the OTT.

[@HawksNestYT]

10:40 this is really good info also for automating filters, the resonance effect that kind of acts as an indicator for filter sweeps also can happen unintentionally if you have the filter happening underneath OTT

[@CLdwyer]

This makes for interesting discussion about the impact of vocal compression. The midrange dynamics. Your vids deserve a whole forum for discussion! 👏🏾

[@jamesblair2713]

Thank you, this got me to understand multiband compression as a whole much better. I understood what it did before but now I understand why I should use it.

[@nickdenardo6479]

we are SO lucky. couldn't have said it better and I'm learning and appreciating more day by day.

[@dubfx]

Good stuff man, your video’s are clean and well put. those disco sound systems actually came from the Jamaican Soundsystem culture that began in the late '50s in Jamaica... The dub and reggae sound evolved into hip hop and disco in the USA because the already established black community in America had RnB and jazz etc., and looked down on Jamaican music. While in the UK, there wasn't an already established black community, so the Jamaican's kept working on their sound, which evolved into jungle, dancehall, garage, Dubstep etc

[@ojaix555]

I just stumbled on your channel and it's amazing how well you explain difficult concepts in music production. I'm not very good with the technicalities yet but I find myself learning so much with each of your videos. Thanks a lot.

[@theundeads1]

ayyyyyeee more visual examples than the EQ video, sweet man really helped with understanding it

[@biosdilt1399]

This video is great and teaches how to use OTT without learning the plugin but by understanding it, amazing content

[@youlittlesaget]

Well done man. After watching dozens of OTT videos, this was the most helpful and by far the most interesting.

[@johndunn7733]

The best for me too. By a mile

[@DodaGarcia]

And the most handsome ngl

[@Ericisyourmuse]

The video is awesome! thanks for sharing. Also, I want to emphasize this point again; The sweetness is still in the middle, smile EQ is like sprinkles on top, songs sound better with them, especially for house music, smile EQ is a must, but if the middle is shit, then there is no way OTT can help. So my advice is to treat the sound first before put on OTT.

[@tom_4615]

Dude I just gotta say I love how much detail you go in to and how you actually teach why stuff does what it does, not just that it "just does" Like genuinely your explanations are on the levels of my uni lecturers... you should definitely consider doing a little teaching at a high level in the future, youd be great

[@erikvanzanen]

1st, I was like, 'but what about the phase shifting?' Then, I was like subbed

[@oliverquach9614]

For an obscure topic, I’d love to see a scientific deep dive into vocals. In particular, I’ve always wanted to learn how to make male vocals sound female. Or how to use the dry vocal to create a delay with a audience-singing-along-at-a-concert type of effect. (Chorus plugins dont really achieve what I’m looking for) In all honesty your videos are so well done you could cover just about any topic and I’d watch! These tutorials are honestly among the best I’ve ever seen.

[@SleepingCocoon]

very late to this, but you might want to try vocoding the original signal into noise and layering it with the chorus. i've managed some worryingly realistic crowd vocals this way. combine it with some reverb and you're in business.

[@SleepingCocoon]

@Craisler because crowds don't keep stable pitch and the amount of pitch variance combined with the reverb winds up having a lot of qualities of noise rather than being tonal. you'd also need dozens, if not hundreds of copies through a "copy and adjust" method to achieve a full crowd sound.

[@notaninstrument7707]

Look into how transgender women modify their voices. The channel TransVoiceLesson has great deep dives on things like F1 and F2, the larynx height, etc.

[@cefcephatus]

Thx. I didn't know there's such preset. I used to talk about it on the staff lines and mathematical models. This thing is much easier to say to other people than what I used to.

[@waavhal]

OMG this was one of the best educational videos I've watched in a while! Keep up the good work bro!

[@FarranLee]

I did come here looking for an analysis on Ott. But I'm glad to have learnt about OTT. Thanks!

[@anglach3l]

Solid vid, thanks. I think the reason the disco smile sounds good is because at distance, you lose the proximity effect in the bass, and the high frequencies fall off. The disco smile reverses this with the end result of making you feel like the music is right in front of you. Like moving from the nosebleed seats to standing right in front of the band.

[@ryacky]

Your videos are the best. Thank you! I know it takes a lot of time and effort to make them.

[@nikolaudio]

YO u produce on skrillex quality level that’s fucking SICK imo. Good shit man :D

[@nikolaudio]

@@sseb_music no worries man good stuff :)

[@iksajotien]

Yo man, quick item on the mid frequencies and human percerption of them: Miles Davis actually repeat that in his autobiography a few times - he always focused a lot on the mid registers while listening and playing the music. As usually with him, he was ahead of his time as his intuition and approach is now confirmed by the scientifict facts. Love your channel btw, the mix (he he he) of the music + knowledge is absolutely powerful and you deliver it in a high quality. Thank you!

[@drdank9013]

Best production channel. You actually know what you're talking about and the reasons behind it. A breath of fresh air on KZbin.

[@matttinklermusic]

Dude this video is fantastic, great work!

[@dylanmuller2611]

I love that I get just as much value out of this channel being an FL user even though you aren't using it

[@pickyyeeter]

As a musician and electrical engineer, I'm fascinated by the intersection of art and science, and you balance both perfectly I subscribed before the video was halfway done

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

As a musician and electrical engineer you would love the world of analog synthesizers

[@pickyyeeter]

​@@thewhitefalcon8539 Already there, my friend

[@GeorgyAlekseev]

Another golden vid. I still go back to the eq video to remind myself some parts. Thanks for your works!

[@Jisooee]

Yes, the Man is BACK❗

[@sseb_music]

finally :)

[@wagayuuri9397]

I love everything about your video style, the depth of your explainations is superb.

[@fanyafeng7094]

Thanks. This is golden

[@jasongravely7217]

You’re making me want to go back to school to study this stuff more in depth. This is amazing quality.

[@mjbellantoni]

This was the deep OTT explainer I was looking for.

[@tripwillie2]

I've had this plugin in my tool kit for years and never used it because I didn't know how to make it work for me. Thanks for this video, I'm now a sub. Cheers !

[@joelkulesha8284]

I hope this channel makes a comeback. It's so good

[@LordPfrog]

Bro your bit at the end about how you don't want to just make this another production channel, mission has been accomplished for the videos I've watched so far! Your videos teach me a ton of new stuff as someone who has been an off and on hobby producer for most of my life having watched tons of videos on mixing and stuff.

[@TobisPlayground]

So much knowledge in this, thank you

[@Samtar]

this video was very very way more stronger than i was expecting

[@antonykassis]

1:38 bro just played us the craziest beat while casually sipping his coffee 💀

[@SHONSL]

Psycho acoustics is so important. Glad to see Fletcher Munson curves in audio world explanations.

[@president1k]

one of the best new audio channels I've seen in recent time

[@titogotcoins]

Yo I loved this. I really dig you going back and really going into the history and context of how we got to this point. Keep this stuff coming

[@HawksNestYT]

Worth noting, the midrange you highlighted, from about 150hz-7k contains about 6 octaves, wheras the low is like 2-3 and the high also the same

[@TheDeviceHD]

Insanely good video, thank you very much!

[@spicymemechannel]

You have instantly become my favorite channel.

[@Drvik_]

Thank you for explaining the why behind so much of these tools and the fundamentals of sound that are very overlooked

[@TheWwhhiizzzz]

Man, this is only your 3rd video? Thoroughly well explained and technically accurate content. Good luck with your channel. Subbed!

[@grimwerx9071]

Yoooo. Awesome video. Especially love the little history lessons!

[@zf1615]

Your videos have been really insightful! I wish you'd keep making more, you're filling a gap that's really missing in YT mixing tuition! Total gold! Thanks man

[@bleakneon]

2 out of 2 on your videos. Very helpful and very few people giving info this indepth. Thank you

[@williamodobescu6055]

5:52 the little sample from "Crumb - Plant" is so smooth well done !

[@NoisieBastrdd]

i really hope this channel grows a lot. This info is so interesting, mate. Thanks for sharing this amazing wizardry

[@AARVMUSIC]

Wow the quality of this video is over the top!

[@drodymusic]

Very insightful! Dig the super in-depth tutorials and haven't been educated like this on OTT before. The smiley face EQ is something I learned a long time ago when I learned about engineering. Don't see anyone talking about it, but I keep it in my pocket when I'm working. Would love to see some videos on parallel compression, saturation, or low end mixing.

[@morehart505]

This is so sick finally some actual information i have to take notes on and study

[@bogdird6614]

Man, I will like every single of your videos -- just do more. This stuff is amazing

[@mantisman3396]

holy. shit. thank. you. first video I've seen to explain what OTT is actually doing

[@moritz9855]

I just discovered this channel on my yt homepage and I felt like somebody read my mind when I browsed through abletons plug-ins… Your videos are so awesome, I love the mix between science, maths, music history and producing tips! Definitely unique!!!

[@mltvrsemusic975]

I love how you treat topics in your channel, i like going so deep to really understand how things works in order to use them better!

[@cappie2000]

The band Ott has sound very awesome for years.. so I see why this is awesome.. Ott, Shpongle, etc.. very nice

[@mikesmithz]

Wow - your videos are fire! Please come back and do more lessons. You are so knowledgeable on the subject and you go way more indepth than all the other youtubers. Please make more vids!

[@N.E.U.R.O]

Not only is this video amazing, that drop you made was NASTY man, keep this up, just subscribed!

[@mundelator]

Those videos answer questions I have in mind for years 🙏🏻

[@von...]

The example with the OTT's did sound fatter, but I genuinely like the sound of the track without it at 2:16 It sounds more deep, with more depth, & less generic - in the sense that the "OTT On" example sounded like a cymatics sample pack demo track. But with it off, it sounded like some extra deep, refined & deliberate, connoisseur-grade bass music. Idk, I am listening to the video through my studio monitors w/ a matched reference sub-woofer - so not laptop or phone speakers, which is where OTT really shines. IMO, overuse of OTT makes a song sound 10x better on bad speakers (the majority), all while only making it sound slightly worse to those who have good speakers & know how to tell its being overused (the vast minority).

[@InfamousColinGH]

I was waiting desperately for you to say something about the “smile curve” since the video started. lol Really great analysis of OTT. Definitely the best I’ve seen online.

[@jacquelinedawn9510]

Where did you go? Why did you stop making videos? These are so awesome and it's so refreshing.

[@OmerAssraf]

What I really liked about your videos is that you obviously know your shit. Way to go, waiting for more

[@Proofofart]

Keep killing it homie wasn't overly interested in the topic just love your style knoedge is power 💪

[@chevyash]

bro your videos blow me away my god thank you so much :,)

[@Powhart]

5 seconds into the video and I've already downloaded Xfer OTT and used it in one of my projects

[@aaronramireztenorio8751]

Extremely good explain! I would like to suggest 3 topics: 1) Nightwish resolution and - 2) How to do the calculation for make realistic bass traps and acoustic treatment, especially for small rooms- 3) The most exactly way of how the streaming platforms regulates the audio (There is people saying there is no really important the final lufs, but i believe those -14lufs are there for a reason haha)

[@PeterSather]

This is super interesting. I can't wait to come back to this whenever i start messing around in ableton 😅

[@thephirebird]

Please keep posting!! This channel seems amazing.

[@resye6090]

you're an absolute boss. I will have to watch it few times because my english is quite poor but this is high quality videos, thanks

[@Valkron]

Dude no chance you're only at 5.5k subs, this was easily one of the most comprehensive and informative production videos I've watched on YT in the past few months. Good shit all around, you're slept on. Subbed.

[@HashtagNeil]

Please make more videos.