The Secret to the Skrillex Sound

Learn how to make Dubstep in Ableton Live in the style of @Skrillex in this Dubstep tutorial.

In this step-by-step Dubstep production tutorial, I use just the stock plugins that come with Ableton Live 11 - breaking apart the track "Rumble" by Skrillex, @Fredagainagain and Flowdan - and you can download it for free and play ’til your little heart’s content – breaking apart my methods and using them yourself.

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If you’ve ever wondered how to make music like Skrillex, this will give you an insight into how to achieve similar results.

This isn’t only a tutorial on how to make Dubstep, Grime and Trap in Ableton Live, though…you can use the same methods in FL Studio or Logic X, to produce your own house music in the style of Skrillex and other Dubstep artists.

In this tutorial, we cover…

00:00 - Skrillex secrets
00:57 - Rumble bass
05:37 - Beats
09:35 - Processing drum effects
14:24 - Extra snare layering
16:09 - Tonal percussion
19:26 - Reverse kick bass
21:45 - Growl bass
25:17 - Top-end screech
31:40 - Vocals
34:25 - the 5 secrets of Skrillex

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[ameer]

Skrillex went from super busy songs to embracing minimalism

[iambrynx]

Skrillex really is one of the most legendary producers 🙌🙌🙌

[krispysox]

As an old geezer, I'm not a fan of this particular Skrillex track but love much of his work. Love your Chan btw, been binging for a few weeks and I've learned stuff I didn't know for 30 years of amateur musical experimentation. :)

[dannyunixanalyst]

Every video I always reach the end and wish you'd play the finished track, for those of us who don't have the tools to download and listen. Great stuff.

[apollyon]

Everyone is forgetting that fred again likely was fingertapping that kick beat. He likely captured fred again's fingerdrumming performance for that sequence. Among other sections of the song. But seeing everyone (hundreds of clips)try to recreate this with zero acknowledgement that fred again is present on this track in terms of sound selection design and application is astounding. This is now a grammy winning track.

[DonnieSix]

Your content keeps getting better Will!

[jon.wilson]

Will doing a Skrillex video is an instant like from me

[wavesounds]

i'm so old he will always be that guy from from first to last to me

[gravityx]

"and thats what a skrillex is" 😂

[VentureNW]

Will stepping out of his wheel house a bit... love it! Keep on changing the genres up! Thank you

[christopherhines]

I really hope you see this because I love your tutorials, could you do a tutorial on how people like Carpenter Brut and Perturbator mix their tracks to be so loud? Im so confused because everyone tells me to shove everything into limiters which causes certain issues but I also am under the impression that my mix needs to peak at -3db for mastering. I'm so lost and would really appreciate your knowledge on the topic

[bruhdawg]

Yeah he is. GTA said that when they showed him Red Lips he immediately wanted to remix the song and made 5 different versions. Insane.

[dimensionplus]

Great video! I've learned something, got entertained and had fun! - Thanks a lot!

[abbihux]

Skrillex is such an inspiration to me! Thanks so much for the video Will :)

[Ejicle]

this video was soooo helpful… simple but complex..

[adammichael]

"it sounds dodgy" (is actually death metal kick pattern)😁- putting a sub like that under real/sampled kicks is a neat trick I use for metal drums, but as you've said getting that tuning and envelope right is key

[mjlblake]

Thank you for this. So many great little insights. If you want to do a short, I’d love to see your take on his Missy Elliot sub bass, kick layering. There’s a great midrange base wobble in there somewhere that’s been bothering me for months now and I still can’t make my own take on it in vital.

Keep bringing the joy

[gulagwarlord]

Nice... I asked you to do this about a year ago and you pointed me to your techno rumble bass video. Good stuff.

[kontemplatemusic]

You do real8se that scrilex took this technique straight out of Depeche Mode drum book? They were doing it since the 80s.