Tutorial: How to make neuro reece bass in Massive & Ableton Live

In this video tutorial we use Native Instruments Massive to make the first part of our neurofunk / neuro-hop reece bass. We use 3 oscillators: the melofant, dirty throat, and scrapyard. Envelopes on the wavetable positions help us create movement in the sound, and ring modulation from the mod oscillator helps to fill things out. Envelopes with longer attack times are used in place of sidechaining on the amplitude and lowpass filter. This helps the bass to get out of the way of the kick drum. Finishing things off, we use a parabolic shaper, brauner tube for saturation, and the dimension expander to add space around the sound.

Tutorial by Vespers, Certified Ableton Trainer.

[danielcowart]

Your tutorials are WAY higher quality than any I've ever checked out.

Thank you

[djcj]

damn vesper outta nowhere with exactly what i've been looking for for the last 6 months! nailed it

[MagsTheJedi]

Seriously dude, I can only repeat the comments others have made. You are in a select group of people that includes Tom Cosm and Mr Bill who are totally expanding my mind on a daily basis. I learn as much from watching your attitude and mindset towards your music as I do from the actual instruction, and I get a fair bit from that. :)

Keep doing what you do man, I'll keep watching.

[JayFunkY]

ive been waiting for someone to do this lol. im glad it's you because you're pretty much the best on the net at teaching this stuff. awesome song too man!

[DerpySwag]

hey, i recently commented on part 2 of your studio building series! earlier today, i opened up an old dubstep track I made back in 2014, and I had actually used this neuro reece bass tut to make the sound!! i love how all those years ago I was being inspired to do my own sound design and create cool and interesting tracks, and now I'm yet again being motivated and inspired to learn about audio engineering, BY THE SAME

[mario.alarcon]

niiiice. It's so great that you take the time to explain WHAT you are exactly doing on your tutorials it really helps understanding a lot better ;)

[waynealex]

YOUR THE MAN!!!! been dying to know how to get this sound.... thanks bro...

[harperrn]

Yes I was referring to the lead bass at 1:57, and i would definitely buy both the ableton templates for this track as well as the "realistic hats/big fat boss snares" video's track...whenever they get released that is...

and a little tutorial on synths with arpeggiated patches would be greatly appreciated as well...definitely a subject im currently lacking knowledge in, but ill look into it.

idk how you find time to do everything that you do, but i sure as hell am grateful for it.

[Xoot]

sounds really nice, even the new intro with the huge stereo panning. koan sound are one of my favs as well. I'm still wondering how they made/make such sophisticated music being that young.

[BassAddictist]

You just earned yourself another subscriber!

[philipknowles]

funky shit m8!! like the percussion and especially the bassline, iv been trying to make stuff sound big for ages no hopefully a step closer to achieving that.

[vyq]

Wow Thanks man really well explained and showed! Really appreciate that tutorial :D
Already opened part2!

[nuKsBe]

#2 It's better to simply see on which frequency you want to apply your effect and then determine the Q. If you wan't to glue your chanels afterward, applying effects on the master will really help (some compression is nice in this case), and you can also add some of the full initial signal in.
I usualy prefer using sharp Q whichever is the frequency because I have a better control on where my effects are applied.

[harperrn]

thank you so much for everything you do, is there anyway you could describe the bass production that occurs at 1:57, right after the part these videos are about?

also how do you make those short percussive stabs that occur in between the neuro bass notes?

[HoODBoy]

awesome awesome tutorials mate. wish i could join the workshop but im using fl studio, but i really like the idead, big ups man!

[TheAngrywhore]

Vespers, when you're layering sounds for a bass or some kind of lead, is it better to use steep EQ cuts when separating the frequencies(particularly for low end, like layering a low mid sound with a separate sub bass)? I've always thought that smoother Q's when layering would help the sounds gel together, but for low mid sounds, smooth Q's still leave some very quiet info going on in the sub frequencies, and I'm not sure if that would help gel it together, or sound muddy on bigger systems.

[DARKNESSofD]

Do you think you could do a tutorial on how to make a vocal bass drop like Knife Party does in there song "Sleaze"? And great job on the track, especially the drums, they have a perfect amount of re-verb on them making them stick out clearly.

[jaybrah]

Have you sent Massive to any mixers? Mine sounds very different. It sounds dull and without any sub bass.

[nuKsBe]

#3 There is less phasing so it should sound cleaner. Then I process the master signal to glue it alltougether. Compression is nice, but you can also add distortion, filtering modulation, … But in most of the case, I don't put the sub signal into the master signal to keep it clean.

[FrakBeats]

Hey man, I've been looking everywhere for a video that shows different ways to modulate and effect your bass patches. Do you think you could do a video on a couple different techniques? To farther explain what I mean. Right after your first bass sound whenever you play it, the second time it comes in..it does this weird pitch sounding wobble. I always make bass patches that sound pretty good, but then I never know how to modulate it to make all those cool different sounds haha.