Ultimate Kick and Bass Tutorial by Sonic Elysium

In this tutorial we'll be looking at the most important Kick & Bass issues: analysis, synthesis, processing, phase alignment, phase cancellation, EQing, compression, distortion and more.
Presented by Alexey Sonic Elysium: www.sonicelysium.ru
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[@clownik6138]

we are waiting for more :) one of the best tutorials about kick and bass production for psy producers

[@SonicElysium]

Offer a topic :)

[@afyghan]

this is easily the best K&B tutorial out there, thank you so much. there is nearly no tutorials on that typical punchy psy snare on youtube and not much on percussion in general... that would be a great one:)

[@SonicElysium]

Well, that's more creative question rather than technical. Music is a matter of expression of oneself. I'm focused more on describing certain technical issues, which are common for everybody. But how to create variations in the track is the matter of how to make and develop your own music, your own sound, that is different of others.

[@SonicElysium]

1) find a proper sample 2) cut the lows and certain unpleasant resonances 3) adjust the attack with envelope shaper or 4) apply multiband compression for more fine attack adjustment within a certain frequency range - that's all :)

[@InfiniteEditsHD]

tutorials on fx or pad proccessing?

[@RoBbeRyGraVe]

by far the best tutorial for psytrance kick&bass..well done!

[@xphorm]

This is absolutely the best most in-depth tutorial about the kick and bass I saw so far. Goooood job! Thanks!

[@SebastianGrantElKiva]

After an 8 year journey my productions have finally been finished thanks to this video. Amazing.

[@SonicElysium]

Honestely i'm very happy to hear that! I wish I've had this knowledge when I've started producing myself, so I really understand you. Wish you lots of success with your production!

[@gabrielonedajohann385]

One of the most complete bassline tutorials i've ever seen. Congratulations. I hope see more tutorials coming from you, i guess you have a lot of knowledge to share.

[@SonicElysium]

Thank you! What would you offer as a topic for the next one?

[@gabrielonedajohann385]

Leads, build-ups, fx, snares. You're the boss!

[@alexandrereis7355]

If you got impressed with the low-end engineering, give a listen to Mystic Mugra from Atriohm, and try to recreate that bass. I would be eternally thankful to you

[@lisotunali3807]

@@alexandrereis7355 I know its a year later but man that track is insane. That kick is so incredibly dirty and vulgar, fucking love it

[@lewissteen7514]

So glad I came across this video! I don’t really produce psy trance but the section on phase and matching the waveforms with kick 2 seriously helped me get clean sounding fat kicks, thank you!

[@fredrikuppsall1043]

You rock ! this collects all the stuff that has taken me years to learn and presents it in an easy to learn package. I hope people out there understand how much work has gone in to understanding and sharing this. Also i learnt a new trick :)

[@zeridium9129]

Probably the best Kick and bass tutorial!! Because music is the most important thing!!!

[@XVIV1504]

PLEASE MAKE MORE TUTORIALS, THE WORLD NEEDS YOU NOW MORE THAN EVER

[@option1option118]

This is by far best Psy tutorial i found. So technical and clear . Thank you.

[@mhediseltana]

This the best trance tutorial I ever seen in youtube. Thanks !!!!

[@mage8568]

It’s far the best tutorial I’ve seen for the subject

[@dsknkt1]

By far the most comprehensible and straight forward tutorial on kick and bass. Well done Alexey! It was a pleasure to watch.

[@barneyboyer9364]

Every single producer should be subbed to you man:) thanks for this amazing content. Treasure trove!

[@Tasbo1982]

Incredible tutorial. I think this is the best tutorial i've ever seen on any subject, actually. Many thanks.

[@cryptout]

5 years later this is still a great tutorial.

[@jslimm]

Praising good work is never enough. Thank you so much for this video, my friend! Honestly, I wasn't expecting this much information after years watching tutorials online, but you have given me so many new insights, I'm totally baffled. And now, for a weekend re-re-re-learning how to make kicks and basses

[@FilipPasinecki]

you sir... you are the light at the end of the tunnel. Thank you for sharing this knowledge !

[@Oberjin]

i keep coming back to this one, love it, so in depth and stright forward at the same time. well done!

[@somajuice666]

BEST kick+bass tutorial i have seen! and i have searched so much! Dude you are the born teacher

[@SonicElysium]

Oh thank you so much!)

[@robuck86]

This is a fantastic tutorial of the highest quality. Subscribed and looking forward to more. Thanks!

[@joaowieser5430]

Best Kick & Bass tutorial !! I wish you had continue with this tutorials... thanks !

[@dangayle]

Such a fantastic technical discussion. Thanks!

[@mathiasg.3240]

thank u so much! very well made tutorial! hope to see and hear more from u.. greetz from germany!

[@vonStahlhelm]

Thanks a lot! Thats the best tutorial und drum and bass i have ever looked at.

[@kuba017]

really nice tutorial. Packed with knowledge and practical parts

[@amitturkaspa]

Thank you very much for this. Please add more tutorials, on any subject you choose - For me the best will be "Audio editing special techniques". But honestly any tutorial will be much appreciated.

[@deejayperacio]

I've seen many tutorials on the internet! This is one of those you save on the hard disc for ever kkkkkkkk. Thank you very much, I'm Brazilian and we really appreciate Psytrance. I have a project and I intend to release my first song. This tutorial came at the right time. It is always good to learn from a master. Thank you. Long live psytrance!

[@thebreakfastfactory]

For real some ancient wisdom. Best tutorial on youtube. Thank you for sharing this with us.

[@SonicElysium]

Thank you for your kind words! I really hope this to become the common knowledge. It is like using ADSR envelope or something as simple, usefull and common.

[@asdfgretw123]

very happy to be this videos one thousandth like. Keep them coming mate, great stuff!

[@sheppo]

This is an amazing set of lessons, awesome job!

[@noiseeater-toxicbyte1513]

Great approach man. Very advanced and on point descriptions, subscribed!

[@trancephile2412]

Best tutorial i've found for trance music , thanks alot 🖤

[@wimprezz1]

A fantastic tutorial, this is the real deal. Thank-you for sharing.

[@KiraAndMakani]

best tutorial so far

[@Windovaca]

best tutorial on youtube hands down

[@apex.amatuer]

Thank you for sharing your secrets brother

[@Lumosity83]

This is an awesome tutorial! However I don't understand the part where you sync the exoscope. Could you maybe explain that step again?

[@reinaldogoncalves8937]

Hi man! Were you able to understand it already? I'm having the same issue. Thanks in advance

[@athamz9872]

This is one of the most feet on the ground hands on realistical sound design tutorials I´ve seen. You mostly across genres get some guy designing sounds out of thin air justifying his moves with personal opinion and taste. I the real world you need to have an objective goal which is your reference track which no one uses in their examples. Some of these guys might rightfully have the sound picture craved in their brains and are actually describing how to get there properly but there´s no mathematical proof which makes it hard to tell them apart until you try to do it yourself and put it up against some professional stuff and conclud that they just made a shit sound and you lost 4 hours of your life learning almost nothing. Wonderful! Cheers m8!

[@SonicElysium]

Thanx :)

[@SaifSameer]

Nothing is better than a Russian person teaching you! Very unique person with good knowledge & really like his accent :))

[@Ginkeh]

Thanks for this great tutorial. Extremely useful to me. There`s not to many in-depth tutorials out there on psytrance mixing techniques, so thank you for spending time on helping out newbies like me :)

[@artakan303]

It really seems to be the ultimate one, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge !

[@Zelectrocutica]

English is quite hard to understand. But this is one of the best technical discussion by far. Very in depth. i wating for more tutorial. thank you!

[@davethefartravelled]

Super handy tutorial! ...And I'm also pretty jealous of that A6 you got there... would love to play on one of those someday

[@zivpf]

great video man! very informative and skillfully edited. thank you.

[@fuzzupuzzu]

dude.... ur a legend... heavy engineering skills.... respect!!

[@Biox4r]

Thank you for this fantastic tutorial man! Absolute hammer. Best!

[@energyconverter7984]

very good turorial great tipps&tricks, good and slow teaching, great man! looking forward to some new turorials from you. greetings from germany

[@Bagmand87]

Great tutorial. Please make it a series!

[@nachoquetingui]

Maybe a good tutorial could be about multiband distortion on bass in high bpms music. Thanks for your help doing this!

[@s0n0f4sun]

So many thanks for such a great tutorial! Thank you very much for your sharing your big production skill and some production secrets! One of the best kick&bass tutorials in the Internet! Amazing :D

[@SonicElysium]

Thank you!)

[@godash1279]

Absolute PERFECT tutorial! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[@1samwhich]

Wow! So much good quality content in one tutorial! Thank you so much my friend! Please keep sharing your knowledge

[@luanrod17]

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, it was really an amazing tutorial and definetely helped me and other producers. This end-to-end approach nailed it! Already waiting for more of these, subscribed! :)

[@SonicElysium]

Thanx for your support! What would you like to see in the next one?

[@zed4496]

@@SonicElysium how to balance and give weight and movement to sub bass area making it "pump". a good explanation on that would be very helpful

[@lisanferguson9034]

This is ultimate! Answered so many questions! Very well done! Thanks heaps man! :D

[@DimitroZymosis]

Классный урок, советую всем новичкам.

[@victorpozdersky2743]

Nice tutorial, bro. It shows that even after years of practice there is always something new to learn. =)

[@Wazatsc]

excellent tutorial mate, I hope more to come

[@robertjost4806]

This was an excellent concise and professional tutorial. Alexey clearly has exceptional understanding of the genre, techniques and tools. What learning resources would you recommend for furthering my production Alexey?

[@MrHollabk]

This is by far the best kick/bass tut out there. Any more to come? Would even buy a complete psytrance tut from ya. Nice man!!

[@SonicElysium]

Thanx mate! For sure more will come! What topic would you like to offer for the next one?

[@MrHollabk]

Mate, as long as the tutorials are on the same level like this one, I take every bit and piece of your knowlegde. FX/Arps & Seqs/Melody/Squelches/Vocals/Mixing/Arrangement like everything :) Is there a way to donate you or support you in exchange? You are such a gift bro!

[@SonicElysium]

The best way to support is to share this video wherever you can, so that it could reach more people who really need it. Also, if you have any fellow promoters, I would be very happy to play wherever I am invited. Regarding the topic, considering all that you've just mentioned, the best would be to make the overall psytrance production course :) Really, why not.

[@MrHollabk]

Could not agree more on that. I will for sure share this on my social media accounts and ask my friends to do so as well. A full course would be highly appreciated and as I said, I really dont mind to pay for your effort! Greetings from Austria!

[@moldysann7083]

Woo hoo! Thanks alot for the great information! Looking forward to seeing more tips and tricks in the future! :)

[@benkassus2756]

mate! awesome job! simple, efficient, just a pleasure! thanks

[@ephjaymusic]

absolutely amazing tutorial! Thank you very much!

[@caseybanner6507]

Thanks for the amazingly detailed tutorial, this helped me out a lot :D

[@The-Vay-AADS]

nu bljaaa thank you so much for this video. its simply amazing. well structured, well planned, awesome showcase of everything. :) love it! learned a ton! im having problems getting a nice psytrance kick with NI Massive, because the envelopes dont have the same amount of control as KICK 2, so I got kick 2 because of this video. :) thaaaanks!

[@marsooh302]

Wow great thx for putting so much efforts for this tutorial !

[@KiraAndMakani]

your a magican hope to see you playing soon 🙏..

[@citiesinspace]

Incredibly useful! Great video

[@jojo1865]

This is an amazing tutorial. Thank you so much

[@danielgehr9185]

best tutorial for kick and bass!

[@d_recetherealdecibelrecord8345]

#gamechanger the best tuto i've seen in years. keep it up man, eagering for the next one

[@dolorianpsy]

Thank you very much for sharing the knowledge!

[@elixier.music030]

really really great tutorial - i appreciate so much you are sharing this - thank you! i'd love to see some more - perhaps with some squelch lead design ... ;) wish you a lot of succes for your projects and have a good one!

[@SonicElysium]

Thank you!

[@BarakaBlanka]

Awesome tutorial! Heads up!

[@InstantlyDistant]

thank you for this, it is very informative and helpful!

[@chanex2991]

i have learnt quite a lot. you are a PRO, thank you ..пожалуйста cделай еще какой то туториал )

[@iLeftism]

good job bro, thanks for this! hat's off

[@Doomunit604]

best video on YT

[@viktot98]

Incredible tutorial! greetings from Brazil :D

[@SonicElysium]

Namaste from Russia

[@yossiamsalem9636]

love this tutorial so much man! tnx very much i have 2 question i did not get how you route the click to trigger the scope? im not understand the sentence about the lower harmonics and the compression(21:45), there is any chance to clarify this? tnx again :)

[@SonicElysium]

When you set the "rising" mode in the exoscope, it makes it refresh to the peak signal (the most loud spike of the waveform). I want it to refresh everytime the kick drum hits. So I need to have a loud spike at the beginning of each kick drum sample. To do that, I take another instance of the Sonic Academy Kick2 synth (you may use any other synth, makes no difference). I make a very short and very high-frequency spike (~20kHz), just a short and high sine wave, so that it is almost inaudible and does not distract me. Yet it has to be louder than the kick and bass itself, so that exoscope would react only to the sync spike and refresh everytime the spike hits. "lower harmonics compression" - I wanted to emphasize that compressor does not make the whole signal lower in volume, but in this case it lowers particular harmonics that "stuck out", and makes the whole signal smoother

[@yossiamsalem9636]

got it, thank you man

[@End1m1en]

Не знаю ответит ли кто.. Но интересует мнение насчет приёма что надо якобы бас пропустить пару раз через любой многополосный прибор, покрутив в нём кросфэйды, так он получит некую фазовую обаботку приобретя типа "фирменное" звучание. Эту фичу E-Clip показывает и ещё на некоторых псайтрансовых МК видел. Это реально необходимый приём?

[@nathanbieber2840]

you are the best teacher brother! Thank you!!!!

[@henryrainbower6785]

Best kick&bass on youtube imo

[@henryrainbower6785]

*tutorial

[@Doomunit604]

326 likes no dislike tells everything , most complete kickbass guide on youtube!! cant wait for more !!

[@SonicElysium]

Thank you!

[@recursionloop9304]

Огромное спасибо! Я слышал твои треки вживую на Падме в Питере в ноябре, и бас там звучал просто офигенно. Highly recommended. This time the tutroial is made not by a random KZbin guy with cracked fruityloops but by a real psytrance master.

[@SonicElysium]

Благодарю за тёплые слова, очень рад! :)

[@RidingGreeceMTB]

You are a wonderfull man ! Thanks for the info and the vibes !

[@squezelive8488]

Very nice tutorial !! waiting for more stuff xD

[@sionnachs_workshop]

ye nailed it lad

[@TheAris621]

I still don't understand how you've managed to sync the smexoscope with the 'sample impulse'... Is this doable in any DAW? I use Ableton Live, and I can't seem to get it to work.

[@dexray3929]

Also didn´t get it, would love to use this method to look at my own favourite Kick&basses :) Would love to know a solution for that problem

[@SonicElysium]

When you set the "rising" mode in the exoscope, it makes it refresh to the peak signal (the most loud spike of the waveform). I want it to refresh everytime the kick drum hits. So I need to have a loud spike at the beginning of each kick drum sample. To do that, I take another instance of the Sonic Academy Kick2 synth (you may use any other synth, makes no difference). I make a very short and very high-frequency spike (~20kHz), just a short and high sine wave, so that it is almost inaudible and does not distract me. Yet it has to be louder than the kick and bass itself, so that exoscope would react only to the sync spike and refresh everytime the spike hits. And i route all audio into one channel (k&b group or Stereo Out or whatever) and insert exoscope there.

[@dmt2864]

Oh wow! You just blew my mind! That's brilliant bro! (Pasha Animantra)

[@juicedlive]

cheers m8 really good stuff

[@TheFujac]

@@SonicElysium ahhhhhhhh!!!! a secoond instance of kick2!!! i've been fiddling for months trying to get it to work

[@BillyCosmosis]

Quality breakdown and analysis (y)

[@am3rrr651]

Hello there mate , Can u please explain how you synced the kick impulse retrigger to the "Exoscope" ??? i have been trying to do this in ableton but cant figure it out at all thanks a ton real amazing tutorial! cheers

[@SonicElysium]

When you set the "rising" mode in the exoscope, it makes it refresh to the peak signal (the most loud spike of the waveform). I want it to refresh everytime the kick drum hits. So I need to have a loud spike at the beginning of each kick drum sample. To do that, I take another instance of the Sonic Academy Kick2 synth (you may use any other synth, makes no difference). I make a very short and very high-frequency spike (~20kHz), just a short and high sine wave, so that it is almost inaudible and does not distract me. Yet it has to be louder than the kick and bass itself, so that exoscope would react only to the sync spike and refresh everytime the spike hits. And i route all audio into one channel (k&b group or Stereo Out or whatever) and insert exoscope there.

[@elenaskazkina6582]

Finally I watched it and i want to say you'v made a great job)

[@SonicElysium]

Thanx :)

[@SonicElysium]

О. Лена. Привет :))

[@elenaskazkina6582]

Привет Леша :)) С Новым Годом! тоже юзаю kick2, но для psy бочки больше люблю bassism

[@SonicElysium]

оба хороши, но всё-таки kick2 значительно современнее, и даёт гораздо более широкие возможности!

[@semmiertelmeennek]

Hi Alexey! Really useful tutorial thank you! Although I have a problem.I make a bass and a kick that sounds good to my ears but phase aligning doesn't work for me.I try to tweak the kick to match the bass but it doesn't match no matter what.My question is, to what degree their phase have to match?Sometimes I hit a point where its almost there but tweaking it a bit more just makes it further from alignment.Also I don't get how a soundwave that falls in pitch should match with a soundwave that has consistent frequency.That means half of the kick should be consistently the same pitch as the bass note, but that way the kick sounds bad for my ears.Could you please clear that up for me?

[@Basementkid-music]

Very very good tutorial!!!

[@TracingFlares]

best tutorial on this😊

[@tekbotmusic]

Great tutorial, very helpful :-) I would suggest making a Compression tutorial, Snare tutorial, Leads tutorial and Psy FX tutorial :-) Kind regards

[@SonicElysium]

Keeping that in mind)

[@satorisadhu353]

Thanks a lot for the valuable info

[@eblenmacarim9653]

Thanx, this is an amazing tutorial!

[@adrianbauer2136]

great! thats the information needed

[@fuzzybrain4992]

very good tutorial!! Thanks for the tips :D