Trance Leads Like a Pro | Lead Layering Explained

Lead Layering, lead Stack or simply how to layer your leads for trance music? In this video we will have a look at how to stack your leads like a pro, how you can make your trance leads as big as possible and how to stand out as a trance music producer.
Making a proper lead stack takes time and to make the best lead layers can be tricky. ReOrder has 25 years plus experience in music industry especially in trance music and in this video he teaches you how to layer your leads and how make the best trance leads stack.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:32 - What Will We Do?
01:09 - Chapter 1: Pick Your Main Lead
01:25 - Quick Tip 1: How To Pick The Right Lead Layers?
01:56 - Chapter 2: Adding Next Lead In The Stack
02:41 - Chapter 3: Using EQ To Carve Up The Sound
03:18 - Quick Tip 2: Using Audition Mode To Find "Nice" Frequencies
05:10 - Chapter 4: Adding Higher Pitched Extra Wide Lead
07:02 - Chapter 5: Adding Pluck For More Low Mid Energy
08:25 - Chapter 6: Glueing The Lead Stack Together
09:32 - Quick Tip 3: How Does Reverb Work?
10:21 - Bonus: Download 10 Lead Stacks For Trance Here
10:51 - Chapter 7: Adding Reverb
11:26 - Chapter 8: Glue The Reverb With Leads
12:14 - Chapter 9: Final EQ
15:15 - Chapter 10: Mapping Filters To A Macro
17:01 - Final Listen
17:34 - Wait Till The End:)
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[@reorderdj]

Looking for more lead stacks you can use right away? Click here to preorder: 👇🏻www.readyformasterclass.com/product/pro-trance-lead-stacks-by-reorder/

[@Andrea.Zechmeister]

Reorder will check out Vital have only Serum sound

[@gigelbecali8072]

It will be great if you could continue what you started here, with the lead, and build a full track from it. And go through all the stages of production, mixing, mastering. As a side note, the Macro tips at the end are gold.

[@timhellmann]

Just bought Serum to improve my own trance music, since I find it lacking in quality. Then I found your channel when looking for Serum tutorials. You quickly became my favorite Trance tutorial KZbinr. Thank you so much for helping people create awesome synth sounds and trance music. I really appreciate your work. :)

[@reorderdj]

So happy to read this. Welcome to the family;)

[@maudernmusic]

I don’t make trance and I find so much value in this channel. Thank you!

[@reorderdj]

Happy to hear that! 🫶🏻

[@evanseu4452]

my new youtuber, no BS! REAL NO CLICK BAIT.

[@reorderdj]

Wow! Thanks mate! Really trying to get people known how’s really made and simple;)

[@evanseu4452]

I have spent 4 years learning drum and bass my first love was always trance but I was scared because In my eyes it was so much more technical layer on layer eq making big sounds and not flat but you really have made it seem so simple u don’t understand thank you bro and it helps your pro too …haha you know all the tips and tricks ❤️

[@andyh5518]

Another very helpful video with great detail. Sometimes my trance leads are lacking that "oomph" this really helps. Thank you!

[@jhm8614]

Most beautiful pads ever: Circa-Forever Sean Tyas remix. What a track, wish I could make pads like that.

[@logiclock9483]

Been listening to ReOrder for so many years, great to see such an awesome video of him in action like this. amazing stuff

[@nipikamusic]

I just recently stumbled upon your channel and I must say your tutorials are fantastic! You give great instructions and there's always attention to detail. I'm already implementing a lot of your tips and tricks in my tracks :)

[@angelos6489]

Thanks to readyformasterclass and @ReOrder, I’m getting my first track signed this week! But this video was right on time! My stacks were suffering, and seeing how to carve all the sounds into sitting right really helped me out!

[@reorderdj]

So glad it helped and congrats on signing the first track 🤘🏻

[@charlessomerset9754]

That was a brilliant micro masterclass. You have mangaged to answer an age old question about leads for me in just a few minutes. Amazing.

[@reorderdj]

Great to hear!

[@masqueraver3552]

Never knew could stack leads like that in a rack ..quality 👌

[@rogercastro9140]

Reorder gave me the big opportunity to launch my tracks under his label, thx for you share this videos... att: Another World.

[@tjam.trance]

Some time ago I spent a lot of time to rework my prehistoric knowledge from 2002-2011 after 9 year of break before pandemic time :-) I missed then such a marvelous material as this one ;- ) Now, I will improve it once again, and once again with huge pleasure :-) :-) :-) Thank you Superman :-)

[@jenstornell]

I will buy the pack when it comes out. Love the other Vital pack. Let us know when it's out. But don't stress it.

[@BHeess69]

Always love these quik tip videos. Keep them up! Thanks!!

[@robbielahaye4006]

This guy is so good, I hit the like button without having see the video! 😍

[@reorderdj]

This guy thanks you for your trust 🫶🏻🤣

[@Janis.540]

The sound effects in the intro are absolutely stunning dude 😱

[@reorderdj]

Even the best of us can cut a finger 🤣

[@tfo111]

This is great! I wasn't listening to the frequencies and notes as in depth. I was adding more layers or excessive delay to cover gaps.

[@tadeknowak9858]

Podoba mi się.

[@PrettyGreenMonk]

Im so glad i found this im going to get back into producing after 10/ 12 years away. But take it more seriously and have more fun. These videos are exactly what i need to help . Thank you So so much!! 💥💥

[@reorderdj]

You got this! We can do music in any age;)

[@Sashman077]

Awesome sound. Super useful. Thank you 🙏 👍👍👍

[@goonthamusic]

Always offering useful videos. Thanks mate!

[@reorderdj]

My pleasure!

[@YandeMark1970]

díky brácho za sdílení znalostí!

[@shantambat2311]

Been loving your videos, thanks for this one 👌🏼

[@reorderdj]

Thanks for watching!

[@dasschnitzel7391]

Layering is so overpowered thx for your great tutorials i implementet so much in my psy tracne music

[@scott-richardson]

Love this - totally forgot about grouping in the channel to have multiple copies of my synth rather than separate channels in the mixer then grouped as a bus! Gonna do this from now on so I have just one macro-filter to adjust instead of like 4 - 7 different ones.

[@shoma8510]

That was so helpful. Thank you mate🙏

[@reorderdj]

happy I could help

[@bjornark]

Awesome advice, thanks! It certainly helped me. :)

[@erikbosgra1775]

The end result give me goose bumbs 🧡🔥

[@Keroser1983]

THIS IS AMAZING!!! Thank you

[@VentureNW]

Great stuff ReOrder! A bit of a different approach that I have not seen - I like it!

[@reorderdj]

Thank you very much!

[@vibraniummusic2004]

beautifully explained, thanks a ton man!

[@reorderdj]

Glad it helped!

[@bryanromero7206]

Fantastic content, thanks for sharing with us!! 🙌

[@reorderdj]

More to come!

[@Northern_Project]

Thank you for this very usefull tip! Subscribed.❤

[@jrogers6214]

This is insane, thanks a lot man! Just applied this method to my latest track and it sounds HUGE!

[@reorderdj]

Great to hear! Maybe share a link when is out;)

[@darbomusic]

This is gorgeous. Another stunning lead tutorial ❤

[@reorderdj]

Yay! Thank you!

[@maestromix]

Great tutorial

[@reorderdj]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@mattiamattopromusic]

this has been really helpful to me, I was able to do something similar in Cubase...

[@MarioBrumen]

Well done, thank you :-)

[@neohippie6737]

I make psytrance but it's a great inspiration of how to create uplifting leads, which I could modify for some psytrance as well

[@djvar94]

Love the stacking in the rack though, that is an amazing workflow improvement whilst still being able to work on separate channels :)

[@reorderdj]

Absolutely!

[@trancelabsx]

Thanks so much mate. I have been producing on and off for a fair few years and always let down by my leads. Thanks so so much

[@reorderdj]

Glad to help!

[@Otchengazoom]

Twas cool. Thank you👍✌️👍

[@AlanFullmerMusic]

Massive gold here ⭐

[@denisverkhovsky8602]

Ohh, it’s awesome lesson!

[@reorderdj]

Thanks! 😃

[@wojciechsura]

Hey, ReOrder. Thanks for the fantastic tutorials. If I may suggest a topic for one, I would gladly hear about terminology and specifics of a trance music. In particular what I'd like to hear are properties of trance like tempo, key, the construction of a track (e.g. kick on-beat, hihat off-beat, length of a phrase etc.), what is a drop, what is a breakdown, what are the arps, melody and counter-melody (and others, if there are such ones), what kind of synths play role in a trance (e.g. sub bass, mid bass, leads, pads, plucks etc. and their role), and so on. I'm hopelessly searching for such a compendium everywhere in the Internet and cannot find one :( And I'm not asking for the details on each one, but just an explanation, so that beginners like me can at least have some point of reference to search the topic further. Please consider.

[@DashGlitch]

Great one

[@djvar94]

Also, as Allan Morrow showed, it is sometimes best to strip out the Bass notes from the MIDI sequence so that they don't fill out or distort the synth too much and just put those bass notes on a separate layer instead on their own and just treat those separately. This will also help you out when you're trying to EQ those layers so that you have a clearer, more granular control over the frequencies. Not to mention also separate control over the filtre cutoff and resonance, amp and filtre envelopes as well as all the other parameters in the synth. Another great independent control you'll have is to be able to transpose the synths one from another up or down as you please without affecting the bass notes either.

[@psyforixrecords]

🎉very happy about the video Ill try this never did it before;) but as we all know the Vital VST is a CPU Killer 😅😅😅 So if i layer three or four leads together it might be too much for the laptop xD i was thinking either to resample it or use Sylenth 1 instead wich is more CPU friendly ;) Thanks a lot for the tips my friend will let you know how it came out peace&Love Keep the good trance going Becouse its not many of it now days 😊

[@RangAbdullah]

The macro tip was really neat. PS: I saw you at ASOT. Enjoyed the show! But why did ASOT place all the uplifting artists in the area with worst acoustics?

[@ElectroHouseProducer]

Woooooh🤩

[@JANDEVICE]

Hi, thanks a lot for your videos! where can i get all your sounds you used here in this video (vital synthie) and more? thanks for your answer in advance.

[@fromherebeyond]

Thanks for this video. Isn't there a pretty big potential for phase issues when stacking up like this?

[@zmija1891]

Amazing sounding my Friend and thank you!! But for me, that sound in your video "Pro Melody in 5 Minutes or less" is God like, anyway you could show that one?

[@reorderdj]

Maybe I should give it to people on my patreon 🤔

[@zmija1891]

Or another 18min video about that sound and process like this video. Know i ask a lot of you but it is highly appreciated what you are doing, thanks for all of it!

[@babyfacelokito2469]

Hi do you think you can do a tutorial on how to make a hard driving kick like the one from roman messer - blossom. I assume its some boosted mids with distortion on a normal kick but I cant get it right :)

[@tonyyoto8820]

Simple, useful , gold. Thank you man.

[@reorderdj]

Glad it helped

[@Andry87M]

hi, amazing video. i hava a question, how can i do a synth like "outside world - sunbeam"? i mean that sort of choir. I hope you can help me :)

[@gylp2]

there are a great free altanatice to the maag eq4 called sky blue eq4 by Kiriki-liszt i get really close results to the payed veriasion you use by setting the knops to the same settings as in this video

[@reorderdj]

Thank you very much for the tip! 🫶🏻

[@pblcbflc]

what ableton theme are you using?

[@Danoffsideofficial]

So i see you dont take out the bottom end frequencies from each lead and do it all together at the end of the bus? I have been cutting out the lows of each one? Does that matter? Love your preset banks man!

[@reorderdj]

Well it does in the break. That low end makes it fuller;)

[@Danoffsideofficial]

Yeah makes sense! I normally cut my leads around 100-110hz depending when it’s with everything else but again dependent what I’m looking to achieve but I’ll remember about that in the break in future haha! Loving this channel, needed to touch up on a few things 🙌

[@Danoffsideofficial]

I use FL so what is the best method of having the EQs set different in the breakdown? Automation?

[@markforsberg.official479]

👍

[@fliu5282]

this is ARMIN style. cool awsome. i am looking for Boris Brejcha Minimal Techno/Trance Masterclass. Who is teaching?

[@fliu5282]

With the deep base sound.

[@ilo0076]

💯👍👏

[@EmilyRaceGirl]

Please change my life 😂😂

[@reorderdj]

Yes sir!

[@EmilyRaceGirl]

@@reorderdj your music already does this ❤️🙌🏻

[@floxer6490]

Is there actually a reason why it is not for cubase?

[@reorderdj]

I dont have it? 🥲

[@slikyviky]

I love how he doesnt show us how to actualy make those lead synths

[@mainengine]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🤝🤝

[@djvar94]

I actually don't agree with the approach of boosting to try to find the 'ugly frequencies' because when you're boosting the EQ to the full you'll end up with like 80 EQ bands that are all cutting down, as when you boost EQ bands like that you'll inevitably think that those frequencies sound bad, but that's just because you boosted the crap out of them. Instead, a better approach to this mixing stage is to try and do the opposite: cut away a specific frequency band and see if the sound improves. If instead it sounds lifeless/empty, you know that that's not a band to cut out and you should leave it as it is, or if it sounds good then you could cut it a bit. But always don't just pull out the EQ for absolutely everything, as with all other mixing effects, mixing decisions must have a purpose. Like in your case it's all about balancing the individual layers so that each have their own space in the stack and sound balanced. But just saying to other people who might not know much about mixing in general, if a layer sounds fine as it is, don't just add an EQ and start messing with it. If a layer sounds good as it is just leave it as it is.

[@reorderdj]

That is why i cut only what doesn’t make the whole stack sound nice;)

[@KoVVal222]

in 2003 there was no layering and epic tracks were created that are legendary to this day. For example, Ron Van Den Beuken's work. Now technology advances beyond the limits of human imagination when it comes to the production of electronic music, and yet there are a multitude of releases using the same colors or musical notation. Creativity is lost somewhere, with an emphasis on the desire to make it on the EDM scene at all costs.

[@reorderdj]

Back than we also used HW synths and effects that did not really need any layering as they sounded full as F 🫶🏻💪🏻