The OG Growl 🥩 Serum Tutorial

[@aichi337]

I just finished the serum masterclass, was amazing 👌

[@apoplexiamusic]

i started it a long time ago. Need to dive back in!

[@angeltheedmfan6369]

Hey Austin, ever think of returning to NCS?

[@rehdercaglar]

Imagine what processes this man has went through to be like a self educated Serum post doc. And he is now explaining and giving away so many precious advices. Big ups - Wish you the best Au5!

[@fiirasmusic5366]

I know the experimenting part, but he also thinks about it before he makes it, like a designer, as he asks himself, what is a growl, or when he did the pipe thing, imagining a throat

[@JonnyBoy803]

I ain't a sound engineer/producer, but growls are my favorite technique in EDM. Watching it get created from scratch is so satisfying

[@williamfields]

He's like the Bob Ross of synthesis

[@terrarian5166]

there are no mistakes..

[@AVDRE]

yes, exactly lol

[@badhombres1190]

As a fellow man who is also losing his hair, no he's not He's like the jason stathom of synthesis

[@BishopOnTheBeat]

​@@terrarian5166 Just Happy Accidents

[@hockinghillsalive3624]

This is the truest truth I've ever truthed.

[@FatherFunk]

That frequency shifting technique is freaking genius 👏

[@madeyes1237]

for real... blew my mind

[@felixl2110]

funkmeister

[@ErvahNoir]

I use FL studio and was immediately upset I can't do this in such an easy and flawless way

[@madeyes1237]

@@ErvahNoir I use FL too. You might just have to do it a little differently. Maybe using Patcher would work best. You could also just route channels together but that would be extra complicated.

[@Nyptane]

thx for the shoutout 🧔🏻‍♂️👍🏻💚

[@au5music]

Thanks for the inspiration bro!

[@highjumpgd5457]

This is the best growl tutorial I’ve ever seen hands down

[@gd_xl]

AU5 does what every sound design instructor should do: explain the purpose of every step. Perfect.

[@Repayola]

I've literally never seen a better growl tutorial. This is why you are my favorite artist

[@rammsteinrulz16]

Barely Alive: ouchie...

[@Repayola]

@@rammsteinrulz16 great tutorial as well don't get me wrong, seen it multiple times, but I still prefer this one

[@bobyatron7525]

Jesus I'm gonna have to watch this multiple times just to absorb it. I'm reasonably decent with sound design, but it's a treat to watch a someone who's really gotten his mind all the way around a topic explaining his process.

[@kadenic]

Au5 is so cool he's wearing 2 hats at once

[@Lex11778]

closed hat and openhat

[@jackofromsouth]

@@Lex11778 lol

[@Rgzgrt]

why did i read this as "...wearing 2 hi hats at once"

[@lxzer9633]

@@Lex11778 😂😂

[@jrob8306]

I just wanna say thank you for blessing us with your insanely vast knowledge of music production

[@FAREEST]

Even if you don't make growls, there are sooo many gems in this tutorial! Thank you so much for sharing!

[@itsarqum8086]

Whoever did the thumbnail for this one😆, awesome!

[@itsarqum8086]

With the OG AF and Thicc wavetables😩

[@MarkWazowski]

himself

[@AdabatOfficial]

that frequency reshifting technique is super smart! it's like taking the sound to a new dimension and bringing it back-- it'll never be the same after that journey!

[@brandonallen5566]

Whoa, that alt trick to switch all sources modulation using alt is awesome, I never knew that! Amazing tutorial AU5!

[@SonaGheist]

these are really helping me, I've been naive and havnt wanted to look up tutorials in fear it would make me sound like other people. but in truth most of my original basses sound horrible. You explain these things in a way that makes me understand each knob and have made my transition from harmor to serum much better. legend, much love from Bass Capital

[@au5music]

Glad to hear it. Also emulating artists you vibe with is part of finding your own voice and will expedite the process substantially.

[@Victor-lo6dg]

Not every good producer is a good teacher. But you nailed it!! And I love how you compress so much information in such a short video. Thanks Au5 , it really helps me a lot.

[@DJVorborg]

This is one of those videos you can watch 1000 times and learn something new from it every time

[@Squidward93]

The highend graindelay boost is gold

[@SJT]

That thumbnail tho 😁✅😎

[@komodinotubesco]

Au5 is too good. Anyway I may have already said, it but the vocal chop of "Follow You" is stuck with me, I love it. In fact, I remember that the splendid remixes of the EP (like the legendary Volant one), practically all used it unchanged.

[@ericcalmes6071]

What crazy is when you did the skrillex growel at 18min20sec the spec analyzer looks like a skull. Thats bad ass man.

[@shk_grh]

This is the best growl tutorial I've ever seen in my whole life

[@gacekneo]

Best growl sound design explanation I've ever seen

[@DimWow]

this is literaly the only good og/skrillex growl tutorial on youtube, i swear everyone gatekeeps the methods but this is amazing

[@KordTaylor]

👏 You're great at these synth tutorials. Thanks man!

[@djatlasmusik]

au5 and virtual riot tutorial episodes in one week!!!! les goo

[@tylerpierson7327]

Love it. No fancy or expensive plugins, easy to customize and follow, just serum and raw ableton.

[@SOUNDSBYLAITUE]

goat of sound design

[@StormBurnX]

This is nifty! As someone who doesn't have/use Serum I really gotta try and remake this entire process native to Ableton

[@alltube264]

Really awesome tutorial Austin I think one thing you may wanna mess with from time to time is to put the growl in Melodyne and then formant shift it. I've tried a lot of formant shifters over the years for growl sounds and Melodyne's seemed the most genuine and high end to me for a lot of the growls. I know Zynaptiq has Morph (featured on your channel a lot) which can formant shift +/-12 and I had good results using it to further process my growls and give them a darker timbre/growl characteristic but Melodynes algorithm always seemed to have the highest fidelity. If you listen to one of the growls in Skrillex - Rock n Roll at (2:35 in the official upload) it sounds very low and guttural as if its either being pitch shifted or formant shifted I remember hearing that Sonny used Melodyne a lot back in the day (most notably for his vocal chops) but I've theorized that he might've used the formant shift in for a few of his especially dark sounding growls like the one in Rock n Roll It's a long shot for sure and chances are he never used the formant shift feature in Melodyne for growls but I'd definitely urge you to give it a try it as it can absolutely change the timbre of the growls and make them super low and aggressive sounding

[@dub-z-dubzed1329]

the mind of a genius, big respect mate

[@h3llo_wor1d]

this could be the most useful video I've ever watched, actually

[@psychotrout]

I do not own Serum, I do not do sound design but I'm subscribed to your channel since long time cause I like the way you explain this stuff and even if i do not use it that's pretty instructional and many of these concepts can be used elsewhere. So yeah, kick ass!

[@shikoruro]

Based comment

[@Roblox-Music]

If you do not have Ableton for the grain delay to add high end grit, I used the Sin Fold distortion in Serum (not SerumFX) and set it to pre, high-passed around 88%. Have the frequency scale on the distortion to around 104 and put LFO1 to ~34. You can leave the resonance alone but I increased mine to 3.2 for a more guttural effect. Since it's a Sin Fold you don't need much drive so I set it to 11% and the mix to ~60%. This effect is subtle but it did the trick for me ;)

[@austinbigelow5107]

God damn…he is so real

[@Amazingnoah]

The goat of sound design

[@DANETRONICMUSIC]

Damn this is cool! I would love to see a tutorial on inharmonic basses!!

[@distructed1878]

I just love how towards the end the audio visualizer kind off createsthe face of a thing that would fit this growl sound.

[@mercerfamilyadventures4613]

I needed u 20 years ago man, making early dnb.. trying to figure out a reese and hoover.. the shit is magic nowadays. Beware of the power of the dark bass sounds.

[@swagger_jeans]

Swear to God this is the best growl tutorial ever made ❤️

[@renderingu]

Bro you should stream! Fellow person from your town recently getting into production the last few years. You're a legend. Not only for your music, that I didn't even know was you at the time when I found you , but your talent for teaching sound design is golden. Absolutely insane the amount of understanding you have simply from listening to how you word yourself in your explanations. Enough gassing. Appreciate your help always! I'd like to try to support you one day soon for that serum class.

[@0Human1]

would be so sick if Steve Duda brought you onto the dev team for Serum 2...amazing tut as always.

[@ErgotSound]

agreed.

[@Boognish_Bless]

so awesome man. I appreciate these videos so much. So much in fact that I will certainly purchase this master class when I am back from Thailand Although i use LOGIC oppose to Ableton, you still got my support. RESPECT!!!!

[@FollowingStorm0]

YOOOOY Very informative and cool tutorial! I wish you could do a similar tutorial using Vital, as that is my preferred synthesizer of choice. I can't help but be amazed at how proficient you are with synth sound design. It's just routine to you, which tells me you've put in the hours to do this like x1000 times. Very cool. Also, that frequency analyzer looks clean af. Been a listener of your music since like 2011. One love 💜

[@tntblast500]

Does it really matter though? Most Serum stuff translates to Vital near flawlessly.

[@kirad]

this is my first time seeing your videos. your intro was so insane i knew i found the right video lol

[@BodyOfPlayMusic]

amazing breakdown, love the detailed tips!

[@felixlecouey3563]

Wooow I've been searching for this tutorial for 5 years and here it is thanks Austin 🙏

[@ProjectHMF]

Green growls!

[@whoiswolfpack]

One of my favorite EDM artists.

[@mcgritty8842]

Au5 is the guy I wish I could hire as a tutor. So informative, such great way of explaining things, and amazing results!

[@ema6897]

20:54 is low-key the best growl I've ever heard

[@scorpionleader1967]

This is making me seriously considering Serum.

[@pmispeed2]

Au5 has the best sound design videos on KZbin

[@nerdexproject]

Insane he drops these nuggets for us!! Thank you so much!

[@ryan_1314]

not the "weeeeeee" sound when the serum pic slid out of frame in the beginning 💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@auryle]

Tip: There exists a 3rd party version of Corpus by AAS called Objeq Delay. For that throaty sound, I found that the "Beam" mode works best.

[@floatinganarchychannel3204]

Thanks! Amazing tutorial, did you tried PIGMENTS? I think its have some huge potential as well

[@selfdenial3939]

I would absolutely like to see a tutorial on how to make bases like in Eclipse by BTSM

[@sebastiangonzalez3065]

Au5 always killing it!! 🔥

[@liorsilverstein9802]

wow tthis guys experience is out of ordinary

[@globules804]

I think that this is the best serum tutorial ive probably ever seen?

[@mysticartsmelodies]

Hold command/control on draw mode to free form draw 20:20... Holding alt does crazy stuff too

[@DafterHindi]

A explanation of yours on topics like fm, am, pm, ring mod, etc. would be really helpful

[@mylesfulton100]

your intro smashes dude what

[@tenzy8204]

rly nice growl and now lets start to watch serum masterclass :)

[@jedigarrett142]

AU5 should really try this in the synth plugin called Vital since he would still be able to use all his serum wavetables in Vital

[@A-Peace]

amazing!

[@timothymcmahon]

Hey there. Excellent video. Inhave so kany VSTs and am just trying to get down to a handful. Do you think Serum is the best out there in terms of flexibility?

[@AviPFine]

Awesome tutorial, thanks! I'm considering the master class. I use serum alot so this might help me fine tune my skills a bit more. A few I'm still a bit stumped on are really being able to fully 'bake' serum fx into a wavetable where you can clearly hear the fx, and also just getting more comfortable sending samples to the noise osc and successfully resampling that along with whatever wavetable im working on, to make a new wavetable from that.

[@au5music]

Awesome! Keep in mind that serum internally resamples at a sub-tonal frequency, about F-1, so all your effects that you resample with are going to sound much higher pitched when playing the wavetable back at tonal frequencies.

[@DanialEthan]

What spectrum analyzer is that?? So clean

[@zesterfrost_music]

Love your content Man!

[@luwuc]

thank you so much man! I wish I could be as knowable with serum and ableton like u do xd.

[@matthewswain5881]

this man is a genius

[@mariabr8954]

I just learned that I can connect serum's macro to Ableton's macro I also learnt that I can select all eq 8 postitions at once. oh and how to make the growl. thank you. you're an amazing teacher. What video should I watch if I want to learn how make growl hooks?

[@generixphonic]

I've been looking after for this growl forever...

[@rob4iks]

Au5 is the Bob Ross of EDM

[@4lare615]

relateable

[@stdm7964]

Don't even have Serum but I found your intro funny so I stayed 😆

[@zaiologyy]

Yesss OG growll rawrr, let's go.! :))

[@mcbattles]

It makes sense one of the sound design GOATs resembles a literal goat. Awesome tutorial. I can't wait until I can understand it.

[@aaronlavernemusic5998]

I lost my masterclass access and I’ve been trying to get some support for it but it’s been rough. Could use some help to recover it

[@au5music]

Contact [e-mail]

[@YongsenZeng]

hi au5, i guess there is a problem with the school of bass module 1 because i click on whichever course in module 1 it will take me to the home page......

[@ErvahNoir]

I actually don't use Serum but a lot of the concepts you teach in this video I can apply to my synths and generators as well! TY for the tips and also for making Eden, my literal favorite song of all time.

[@lbmusic444]

Nice implementation of the growl in serum. Sounds pretty much like the OG FM8, especially with the aliasing artifacts in the top end textures. Are 2 freq shifters necessary? I’m thinking 1 shifter post corpus and eq will do the same, inverting the ranges essentially cancels out the processing? Thanks for insights and sharing your perspective!

[@au5music]

I explain in the video. 2 frequency shifters in opposing directions cancel out the processing for everything outside of what is constrained between the shifters, which is the point. Shifting only the corpus and eq while leaving the harmonic relationships of the pre-processed sound untouched.

[@MaddieGrace1]

Why did you remove ‘’Myst’ it’s one of my favorites of yours

[@godsick]

I'm looking at the frequency shifter sandwich... what kind of wizardry is this man?

[@pointt-dj]

Cool Bro.

[@NewXTC7]

Thanks dude! You are awesome. Love you man!

[@pixel1beats]

Man, that was Jedi Level!

[@chaosevolution]

Thanks man.

[@domdisko9345]

thanks bro

[@waylobeats21]

was literally just thinking the other day "i wonder if someone finally made a decent smns growl tut" lol

[@tomashcroft7024]

Nice job. Thank you for this. Very Optiv and BTK sound

[@Syphronix]

Epic as always

[@WhizPill]

I think Au5 deserved to be on Lex Fridman’s podcast tbh because IG Grimes and Kanye got a feature, can’t think of anyone more deserving

[@okuboxsamurai]

what is the name of the spectrum vizualizer?

[@stormgamergd3900]

I wanna see a tutorial on a growl bass that mimics the sound of a dark, 4d-sounding black hole. Is it possible to replicate something like that by using these plugins?

[@_maex96_66]

my man! that is brilliant! tusm!

[@3r_Fei]

cool❤really cool

[@zachsteiner]

Oh shit you’re the guy who made Snowblind!! I knew your name sounded familiar. No cap that was one of my absolute favorite tracks of the 2010s. I have so many memories to that song. Thank you for making it, seriously. I’ve gotten into music production myself and you’re a huge inspiration. Can’t wait to check out your tutorials more. Hope you have a good week!