Top 6 Tech House Bass Sounds 2023

[@steven-1k1k1]

i love how you are explaining why you are doing each step instead of just saying "filter cutoff at 68 hz, resonance should be about here" an flying by everything. I'm not trying to make a copy of their bass, i want to learn how its done and what each step is impacting!

[@Bthelick]

Yes thankyou! Anyone who gives absolute numbers always fails to understand context. 👊

[@Bthelick]

I forgot to mention; also don't use unison for bass sounds that need to contain solid lows, It's the same as combining oscillators. Big phase problems! Apologies guys for the late upload and "LIES?" edit mistake in the intro 🤣🤣 , the video got out of hand! I was going to do sound design and processing in the same video , but I ran out of time :(. Tune in next week for pt2 👊🙏

[@ryanbent9368]

Yes - processing would be great!

[@alastair9835]

Dude finding your channel was a fucking blessing😂Ive never seen such cohesive and detailed sound design videos, keep this up man

[@LaGiangMusic]

You teach not how to buy a fish but how to use a fishing rod. Awesome channel and for those who are looking for the most important answer - how music works

[@carlcranmer9465]

Seconded…thank you

[@AlecWyld]

Man, you deserve massive growth. If you keep videos like this up youll have it. Best informational content on this that I've found. I love that Chris Lake bass, god damn.

[@edubblesspirit]

I don’t know if you go through these older comments, but I’ve watched this video so many times. As a total beginner I’ve tried to recreate these basses with stock Ableton instruments. And by following your explanations to create these sounds, outside of vital, it has totally gotten me out of the “I have no idea what I’m doing” mindset when opening a synth.

[@Bthelick]

Nice one glad to hear it. Yes many synths do the same thing tbh that's why I'm not precious about which I use. Btw I do have two videos of synth tutorials covering the basics of synthesis if you haven't seen them. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZvZpIF9jt-rbZYsi=o4yISO5NBtkA_Zb9 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqWkoJZqr5qBbdEsi=pSZ91NnlvRIHo-7w

[@DanHaycocks]

For my money, you are the best educator in your field 🎉

[@DanHaycocks]

I've been through the tutorial meticulously and love it. Learnt so much. Q. Where did you get the 04 - Sin Square from? btw I'm totally new to VItal :) ...and loving that also! Thanks.

[@Bthelick]

Oh good question, that one might not be native to vital. I do have several free packs installed. (Echo sound works is a good one) I also copied the wavetable libraries from Serum and Massive and ableton's own Wavetable over and I think it's from one of those. If you don't own those plugins Google is your friend for the wavetables 😉

[@G3ra300]

m8, u have quickly become my new favorite youtuber. thank u for the sick vids

[@Bthelick]

Thank you! ❤️🙏👊

[@CarloDanger]

Agree 💯 must watch every video

[@DanHaycocks]

Agreed 🎉

[@CarloDanger]

More of this more of everything, really love the hard deep sounds of Kream and Drove

[@ERIXHde]

kream is insane🔥

[@connormacdermott8067]

Definitely want KREAM. Also Nora en pure style would be great

[@MORRILL_MUSIC]

your brain has all the answers I need to make better music. The ability to completely breakdown a track and understand all the elements seems so hard but so useful.

[@oscillatorstorm]

Already 6k? You doubled in a week! This is getting awesome!

[@PreFusah]

20k right now

[@oscillatorstorm]

@@PreFusah Big numbers!

[@Bittamin]

Dude is fire

[@NikitaAndJeka]

36,4 k 😶‍🌫️

[@R1PPA-C]

50.1🚀

[@efunchen]

Love all the little tidbits of knowledge you sprinkle throughout-“if you didn’t know…”

[@don_huzan]

I love your channel. Seriously, it’s been the best production channel. Why you may ask? The way you break down the theory, the way you explain and walk through things, the logic behind the decisions. Nothing is left unturned. You’re a natural teacher - and it shows through your ease of explanation. Which also gives insight to your knowledge and experience. Thank you.

[@PilzE.]

These tutorials are simply mid blowing!!! My cap is doffed to you, Sir.

[@izzle-xk6sy]

Hey bro just started my music career and you are a blessing sent from the heavens for this. Arigato!

[@djovercut]

This is so great and the best timing - I literally am working on this now and I saw last week's video yesterday and now this today haha. I am really happy I found this channel, you are very good ex plaining and demoing these things in a way that is easy to understand, not boring, but you don't distract the viewer and you aren't trying to show off, you just know what you're doing and it's educational and fun to watch these. I recently upgraded from 15 year old KRK Rokkits to Adam A7V, got room treatment, and now I found these. Needless to say, my tech house bass is sounding WAAAAY better now. :)

[@Bthelick]

Aww thanks 🙏👊. Yeah room treatment is the key! I learned that the hard way in my first bedroom studio. I was getting paid well to mix as a side hustle so I upgraded my baby tannoys to £1600 Adam p33 (which I still use to this day). And I kid you not it didn't sound any different. That's when I developed the rule of thumb "spend as much on treatment as monitors"

[@AntonioVians]

Awesome tutorial! It would be cool with Wheats and Niteplan style basses

[@josham350]

You should release a Vital preset pack please 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@NielsTheTerminatorFeijen]

Nice videos mate!! Quality! Any chance you can do or have a video that dives deeper into that biscuit persuccusve sound and how to make it faster and slower and crazy tricks like what Essel is doing in Lennon and also the Bongoloco track from Bruno Furlan for example? Thanks!!!

[@Bthelick]

Hey Niles just letting you know I'll be going into that sound on the live stream tomorrow , the vod will up afterwards if you miss the stream. 👊👊

[@Cloudkiker97]

Only just found the channel, but it's now my #1 favourite thing to watch on KZbin. You're a legend mate, cheers

[@djrandalldean]

lately it's been taking me hours to watch a 25 min video because you are dishing out nuggets of insight every 3-5 seconds and I have to keep pausing to try it then I return for the next 3 seconds where you show another gem that requires another five or ten minutes of tinkering. This is going to save me a ton of time vs. hunting through presets to find the right bass sound. I feel like i can get exactly what i need out of Vital now. Thanks again.

[@Bonn5656]

U are 'Dan Worrall' of tech house, amazing! Ty Sir

[@Bthelick]

Dan is the man! That means a lot thankyou 🙏👊

[@princygooner]

ONE OF THE BEST BASS SOUND DESIGN LESSON ON YT!! PLEASE MAKE ONE ON EUROTRASH (YELLOW CLAW) 😍🙏

[@brandonstojanovic5086]

I just wanna say thanks to u brother. One of your vids popped up on my feed and it’s inspired me to get back into making music. There was so much that was hard to understand without proper musical knowledge yet here you are, able to explain everything and show us exactly what gets changed with every little tweak. Much appreciated

[@Bthelick]

Thanks Brandon , great to hear, welcome back! 👊

[@CurtScendo]

This is such a great video. Thank you.

[@codysimental4894]

The absolute best music production channel on the internet. Wishin you the best man, thank you isn’t enough for all the help! Please don’t stop 🤜🏽🤛🏽

[@kieranmchugh172]

This is great stuff. I can see myself coming back to this time and time again. Thanks.

[@nex.fiascobeats]

God sent. Amazing video. Immaculate flow and insight. I’m a beginner so this is everything for me. Truly appreciate you

[@brosifmcjoseph644]

So happy I found your channel! Is there any chance you could do a video on common drum fills for house music and where they are typically placed on the grid? I tend to struggle with that

[@LachlanMoss]

I like this type of video, showing how to make various sounds.

[@andrewhansen-zerr1792]

Your work is absolutely incredible. I think it's about due time you upload a tutorial for all us Gorgon City fans on how they put together that slick rumble bass in the voodoo drop. Please and thank you. Much love from Canada.

[@ProdJmisk]

Amazing, thank you!

[@Olegianz]

Woo! Thank you!

[@wanurs]

Awesome video, would love to see your take on creating tech-house leads/hooks, with some call & response tips and tricks perhaps

[@Kasa_muzik]

Hey, I’m new to this channel, have I really enjoy the simplicity in the teaching - would great if you could make a video on tech house drums & percussion programming … and choosing the right sounds for the genre… 🙏🏻🏠🎶

[@hyperbeast3102]

Hey, I'd love to see a video on how to create bass like Raja in his song Brahman, his bass is killer and I'd love tips on recreating it! Thanks

[@jaysundj]

Hidden gem this guy.

[@a.m.612]

You’re a legend dude

[@Bendy2K]

Bro. You know your eggs. Subbed - biggups!

[@MrQuinn1210]

🙌 Nothing but great

[@DjPrimeberry]

You’re on 🔥🔥🔥

[@Bthelick]

Oh no Fire!??! Where!?? I haven't backed up my projects àhhhhhhhhrrrrrhhh

[@Montoya.S]

Amazing! I love tour channel

[@vatican2397]

thanks!

[@JonathanClark99]

Mind blown. Thank you for your wisdom!

[@connormacdermott8067]

Best channel I’ve found on KZbin for production advice. Thanks 🙏

[@Bthelick]

I wouldn't consider this production, but I'll certainly take the compliment thank you! ❤️🙏👊

[@promatrix561]

Hey man great stuff! I was wondering if you could make a tutorial on how to do minimal tech baselines such as “Tuffi flutti by Elleot” or subbass for tech house on VITAL. I love your channel man and these baselines are so powerful and so groovy

[@mattmavromusic]

So glad I found this channel! Love everything you've been covering lately

[@MenUruMTA]

This channel is pure gold 🤩

[@connormacdermott8067]

Would love a video about how to process kicks. And similar to this vid showing examples of various kicks in house songs and how to recreate them.

[@Bthelick]

It's a very very short video! Listen to reference, pick a similar kick sample, set volume to same as reference. Move on. Any processing can only make things worse and harder.

[@beatsby666sane]

I haven't seen this high quality production in a tutorial video before. It's insane! Keep up the good work and keep them coming! I'm curious how the bass is so deep with the Westend / Noizu bassline, is it a long tailed kick that is bringing the deep low end to the mix?

[@Bthelick]

Sub separation. I go over it in the next video

[@buzzandjim4265]

Love love love

[@MaTTiiBeaTz]

💯🔥Love the your video’s but I wish you used serum for these demonstrations. Great work hope to see more in the future🙏🏻

[@Bthelick]

Why would I though? Vital is the same but it's easier to use, has an extra oscillator and is free. Just go grab it! Or You can always copy what I'm doing in Vital directly with Serum as long as I'm not using that 3rd oscillator.

[@MaTTiiBeaTz]

@@Bthelick I understand, thanks for teaching us these techniques.

[@_Soutch]

Great video!! Can’t wait for pt. 2!! I’d also love to see a video on tech house leads

[@ThePhantomJack]

Request! - programming shakers - groove/swing in tech house/house Great vid as always!!

[@Bthelick]

programming shakers...

[@Bthelick]

Jokes aside yeah we should do another groove video.

[@NaesLondon]

Yo where did you come from, these videos are top notch! Instant sub

[@bassyjay6281]

if i had you on fL mate id be made up! none the less things like this are all good as i have serum your a gem Btheclick

[@Bthelick]

🙏. It should be applicable across any daw tbh. I try to teach in principles more than techniques.

[@bassyjay6281]

ive been a big fan of your channel mate since i first discovered it!! you seem to explain things in a way that i can digest easily 😎 @@Bthelick

[@technotics6512]

Thanks so much, any chance you can provide a similar tutorial in serum?

[@Bthelick]

Watch my synth videos, it's all the same .

[@jdubbz_uk]

Amazing video Chief! Loving the explanations, both visual & verbal, of how you've recreated different bass sounds. Also, massive thanks for sharing the link for the ESW wavetables pack. Can't wait for the next part. Huge congrats too on the subs increase 🙌

[@rossheninger]

Can you do one of these recreations for “All over my body” that just came out Friday

[@SoulVelocity]

Great video :)

[@matsu_music]

Amazing videos,!!

[@w00d5m4n]

nice vids mate i dnt make much house these days but ur paul woolford vids inspired me

[@PavanMS87]

Please can you make a similar video for Boris Brejcha basslines? That would be incredible. Thank you ❤🎉

[@massivefpv7751]

Yes Boris Brejcha! 🙌

[@AlexAldorf]

really really good! been struggling with getting down that Biscuit sub groove for years ! this really helped me out! thanks man

[@SteveAthletics]

Feaky AWESOME what you do! Could you please demake Ferdinand Weber & Fabich - Aalijah. The Track has a very strong Piano Riff.

[@thafunki1]

thanks this is great

[@goatsub8115]

Excellent analysis and instruction! Also, really pleased you're showing it on Vital. Thankyou.

[@MDullahan]

Another belter video mate. And look at those subs fly! ✈💪

[@bankooluva2]

thanks for another smash hit 🫡

[@SAXON_OFC]

I love your tutorials! some of the only that really make sense to me. if possible can you make one on uk garage, similar to the style of salute. been super interested in this style of music. thank you!

[@Bthelick]

yeah I'm slowly getting round to making that video. Although there's lots of sides to garage now. any artists in particular you like?

[@SAXON_OFC]

@@Bthelick Salute!

[@PavanMS87]

Absolutely increbidle. God bless you mate.

[@philipp5014]

I don't even know how to produce music, but still find this interesting

[@thashillutchmeenarrain2372]

I don't comment often but you deserve the sub my dude!

[@Bthelick]

Welcome and thankyou for the support!

[@leandroTavioCabrera]

Can you show us how to make a full tech house track? Thanks!

[@gabeyanez-c7l]

Can you release Tech House Drums samples you use... super Clean quality. BTW you made me download & love VITAL with this Presets you made..

[@Bthelick]

I can't, they're not my drums! I can tell you what I always find useful though. Mark knight 4±5, kshmr vol3, Thomas Penton, defected copyright.

[@gabeyanez-c7l]

@@Bthelick your amazing thanks i will looked them up.. do you happen to know how there labeled im going to buy the packs right now depending on whats where

[@gabeyanez-c7l]

@@Bthelick or did you mean there acually someones samples from an artist that let you use them for the purpose of this tutorial? im thinking these drums sound to Professional & polished to come from these packs that replicate the same vibe from these artist

[@Bthelick]

@@gabeyanez-c7l no I mean those are the names of the packs (from memory). The mark knight are part of toolroom trademark series. I have vol 4 and 5. Thomas Penton is the essential series drums and percussion. "Defected house - copyright. " And "kshmr vol.3" I think all are on loop masters or splice.

[@Eric15d]

Really binging your videos right now. Helps a lot! I would really appreciate a video about drums. I have probably seen every video on house drums on youtube, but still my drums sound unprofessional

[@Bthelick]

Yeah you ain't the only one! I'm still struggling to conceptualize that video, as I can't really help with sound, it just comes with time and lots and lots of referencing. There's no processing advice I can pass on because I don't really do any, it's all in the selection, but how to teach that? I can certainly talk about groove though. I'll keep thinking.

[@Eric15d]

@@Bthelick thank you!! You are literally so underrated 🔥

[@sadface]

This makes so much sense, I have been approaching my bass the complete wrong way. Thank you so much for this series!

[@JHAN-DJ-ue3kd]

Can you explain exactly what you did at 8:05? Or perhaps I should go to a more beginner video. Tks.

[@Bthelick]

Sorry I didn't make this clear. I'm adjusting the amount envelope 3 sends to pitch. But via a macro, to make it easier to adjust the pitch to all oscillators at the same time. Vital has a 'quirk' where if you drag an envelope to pitch, and then drag the same envelope to the next oscillator's pitch, for some reason the range is different. So I prefer to re-adjust all the ranges on the matrix tab, its just easier to do all 3 at once with the macro knob. hope that make sense. let me know if you need a video

[@JHAN-DJ-ue3kd]

@@Bthelick awesome. thanks!!!

[@imflying2953]

very interesting channel. how you analyze stuff. particularly the music theory behind some of these videos is different than any other channel i've found on dance music. love the technical stuff just as much but the theory stuff is great.

[@heatsourcemusic2539]

You're a genius dude! These videos are gold

[@michaeljaques2510]

Another great video - i've learnt so much from your videos. Please keep them coming.

[@justletmeplaygodamnit9355]

Really good job. Need the drum samples you are using in the Biscits section! Please share

[@Bthelick]

Have a look at my house drums tutorial

[@justletmeplaygodamnit9355]

Dont know what to excatly look for in the tutorial? 🙂@@Bthelick

[@Bthelick]

@@justletmeplaygodamnit9355 well the whole thing really, but from about 12:00 I explain that the drums for all those track plots were just shared generic ones between all of the different tracks, and I only swapped 1 sample here or there which I identified were key to the groove. Moral of the story is practically anything will work if you learn to recognise groove, and sound function. Seeking specific samples is never going to work out unless you're remaking the same thing, as charging the context around a sound changes the sound itself.

[@masonflintmusic]

MATE! this is great! thank you

[@flembake]

How do you send the Envelope to Oscillator Pitch as done at 08:00, but in serum? I've been following along able to do everything else in Serum but this one has me stumped.

[@Bthelick]

Drag an envelope (any other than env 1) up to top right of an oscillator, make sure course pitch is selected. And make sure the modulation is in the positive direction.

[@pushtoenter4174]

Great stuff as always.

[@turn-a-kit5408]

🔥🔥🔥

[@tonarecfpv]

Thank you for all the efforts you put on your videos!

[@buitanomusic]

epic videos !!!

[@iDeKz]

Hey! Any chance for future videos we could check out some 135 garage tracks? Been noticing a mass amount of garage / uk artists coming on to the scene lately like MPH, Sammy Virji, Dr Cryptic etc! LOVE these videos man 🙏🏻🔥

[@a.m.612]

Could you please do drums next?

[@Bthelick]

working on it! 👊

[@luisharter6347]

Thanks man, your vids are really helpful! Keep up the good work ❤️

[@danieljaeger2982]

where can I learn to use vital well enough to follow this? I'm having a hard time getting the sine to morph to square.

[@Bthelick]

Ah That might be from a different wave table, not the included ones. Grab the 2 free echo sound works packs. In the mean time I have two synth tutorials which should help. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZvZpIF9jt-rbZYsi=n4kbiEHW0fKJJVRI And kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqWkoJZqr5qBbdEsi=jseOf68p8k92Wodi

[@JackArctic]

Sick video! I'd love to know how you made that lead in the biscits song

[@Bthelick]

Hey Jack sorry for the late response I couldn't remember where you commented. I explained this sound live on my live sound design challenge video at the 30 min mark 👊

[@tjjsilver]

Wow - great video man! What is the software instrument you are using to create the sounds?

[@Bthelick]

The synth is called Vital , it's free. Links in the description 👊

[@aidanf1132]

For the biscuits Bass, there is not the same triangle wavetable in serum, what would you recommend for serum

[@Bthelick]

It does, select the "basic shapes" wavetable. And Scan through it's in there 👊

[@akialmusicofficial]

Hey! Hope you doing well! Could yo explain more about how to make Arabic sounding Melodies? It is quite confusing! (Musical theory).

[@akialmusicofficial]

References like Ashes- chapter and verse or meduza upside down!

[@rik-keymusic160]

HI, thanks for all this info man! one question... i can't find the sample pack you mentioned for the Dom Dolla bass...

[@Bthelick]

They are in "get the sounds" in the description. They aren't samples. they're synth presets for the free synth vital. If I made samples you'd potentially owe me recording royalties or I would have to sell them as royalties free. (See my vid on why I can't release free samples)

[@Shibuiaa]

great tutorial on sound design! thanks! btw: which version of VITAL did you use? the presets can not be opened with 1.0.8 😇

[@Bthelick]

Can't remember right now, but just grab the latest one it definitely works in that. 1.5 something. (Fyi I've seen some People think they need to pay for access to the latest but that's not the case just download as normal)

[@Shibuiaa]

@@Bthelick fantastic. thank you very much!!!

[@Mononoken]

Hello again! Would you mind explaining how you sent the 3rd envelope to the osc pitch on the noizu bass?! I’m having trouble recreating it

[@Bthelick]

Just drag an envelope to oscillator course pitch ,(the leftmost of the two pitch numbers) Because I was sending it to multiple oscillators I assigned it all to a macro knob here so I could demonstrate it quickly and all at once.

[@Mononoken]

@@Bthelick that’s exactly what I thought ya did! And I’m pretty sure I did the same, I believe the parameter colors are what was confusing me (the red circle vs mine being purple) thank yo uso much for actually helping! Buying yo ya coffee rn!

[@podpodpod6722]

highlight reel of 2023 is finding this channel

[@YOUNGGIOTTO]

this might be a really stupid question but would you still sidechain your bass to your kicks? working on the noizu sound right now. i feel like if you're adding the small things like the pitch envelope it wouldn't be able to be heard on the kick hits if you sidechained your bass, or would I be incorrect?

[@Bthelick]

You're right. It's always a compromise because at master level with these guys the kick will usually hit peak. so something has to give, those pitch envelopes etc still matter in between kicks though and depending on the release character of the sound and the kick shape / relationship psychoacoustically you may still perceive the same sound behind the kick even if it is ducked for a moment. Have a look at my bass processing video I talk about it there some more

[@YOUNGGIOTTO]

@@Bthelick thank you so much for your response! you really are my favorite music youtuber. I'm gonna take a look for sure