How to Make Your Bass Lines More Exciting with Layering

In this video, we dive into the world of Layering. With this simple technique, we can turn any standard bassline into something much more interesting!

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0:00 Intro & Preview
0:42 How it Works
3:25 Layer 2
4:43 Layer 3
6:29 Processing
8:30 Layer 4
11:18 Processing Layer 4
12:08 Glue It All Together
13:58 Finishing Comments

[ryanbent]

I've always wondered how to create these different tones in bass lines. Great stuff!

[mojophonic]

Interesting... I usually just added full layers with different sounds. This technique of breaking up a single bass track is very creative. Thanks!

[quintenchen]

This guy has the best ableton tutorial on the internet . I was trying to learn from another channel and the guy just jumped around without explaining anything .

[morin]

This is a fucking gold mine! Thanks a lot!

[byondmusic]

Awesome tutorial, helped me so much! Keep going!! 🙏🏼🔥🔥

[charlesogridley]

Sick! I’ve been looking for an easy way to vary up my elements over time. I’ll be using this workflow 🤙🏻

[Bruce]

Bit late to the party but this is a great helpful tutorial, thanks a lot.

[SazLowify]

What's the track at the beginning?

[mattmaurer]

This was awesome. But I still don't fully understand how creating a chain on the echo/saturator and then mixing in the "wet" & dry is any different than just using the "mix" knob on the actual effect? Using the mix seems to balance the levels of the effect vs the dry. I guess creating a send gives you more control in that it keeps the dry 100% and then only adjusts the volume of the wet? So... mix knob = if you want more wet, it by default will lower the dry? But then... couldn't you find the sweet spot on the "mix" knob that in effect is identical to what you pick using the chain/send? Eg: 6% on mix knob would sound identical to 0dB dry and -16dB wet on the chain?

[ozboomer_au]

In this video, you've 'split' sections of the bar across different sounds in different tracks. When would you simply double parts (or not)? For example, instead of 'moving' beat 4 to a different track, you'd simply 'copy' it and have, for example, different EQ treatments? I'm just thinking in terms of sound design 'options', CPU loading (I understand freezing can get around that a bit) and the amount of control you might need/want/can make-do with... Another very helpful video... Thanks!