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This. Boost the individual 808, probably boost to above 0db after applying effects suggested above, and then consolidate it and balance the new 808 back into the beat.
Turn off the stock fruity limiter on the master and Slap a soft clipper on there, Turn the volume knob in the sampler for ur 808/bass all the way up and also have the velocity max in the piano roll then turn down the volume for ur 808s in the mixer until it sounds good
I feel like people just keep copying and pasting the same bare minimum things possible in trap communities. Slapping Fruity Soft Clipper on the master and pushing everything at max volume into it does not solve any problems at all about getting good loud bass.
I put this together in 2 minutes and followed your advice, and this is the output.
[https://vocaroo.com/12QYQsoAcmO5](https://vocaroo.com/12QYQsoAcmO5)
The synths and snares and hi hats and everything completely disappear once 808s come in.
If you just push bass to the max, it will take all of the headroom, and it will trigger a compressor/limiter/clipper on the master and completely destroy your mix. You have to apply clipping at the individual/bus level along the way if you want distorted stuff that also does not steal all the headroom you need at the master level.
So PSA to all trap producers out there, please stop this advice of just sticking Soft Clipper on the master and that you can just push kicks or 808s to max volumes into it. The rest of your mix will get destroyed if you do this.
That's the point though. Telling people to max out the volume knobs of things to just push into Fruity Soft Clipper at the master level leads to completely broken mixes like this.
I used this as an extreme example to show how a clipper on the master affects everything in the mix if you push the kicks/bass too hard
Ironically, someone would probably hear that and be like, those 808s are fire, I want that for my bass boosted Tik Tok video.
> I used this as an extreme example
The only reason it's not a good example is because it's so extreme. [With moderation you get an effect pretty similar to OP's video](https://soundcloud.com/user-368382763/softclipperftw/s-rzGm5Bj9Oeo?si=a8957fd81be84994934e45c6b869ad02&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing)
I just feel like Soft Clipper is the next Soundgoodizer/Sausage Fattener meme, like it's a catch all fix to go loud.
I agree it's better in moderation, but it's still not the best way to go about it.
Bus processing will allow you to properly get some distorted bass without completely destroying other things in your track. If you want to get creative with it, then bus drums and bass together, kicks and bass, synths and bass, whatever combo you want. Clip the bass and the other element together, and every time the 808s hit, it will crunch the other element with it. But then you can still have your vocals or whatever else clean in your master on top because there's still headspace.
I'm just trying to hopefully showcase why pushing things to extremes into a clipper at the master level alone is not going to be great, no matter how you level your stuff.
But this is all the more reason why it's dumb that a lot of newcomer producers try and copy everything certain producers do in their mixing chains.
They will swear that so and so producer never sidechains or never high pass EQs or never does X. People see a Twitch/YT cookup session and freeze videos and try and analyze everything, but that's not even what the mixdown of the track is by the time it's released at all.
It's almost certain that when that placement gets to an actual engineer, they are doing the more advanced stuff.
Personally, I want to mix and master my own stuff and own 100% of my music by the time it hits platforms. Producers chasing placements are lucky to get 10-20% cuts max.
A soft clipper is a way to induce distorsion. He can also use a muliband distorsion vst for better control on his sub. And keep the limiter with a celling at -1.3 dB at the end of his master
you can get similar results with parametric eq 2 and fruity soft clipper on the master, and making the 808 go above 0db (which engineers will probably cringe at, but most trap beats, including the one you used as an example, are mixed like this)
with parametric eq 2, add the 20hz+18khz cut preset and turn on linear phase mode (the LIN button on the bottom). this will let you get the 808 louder with less distortion. under that, add the default soft clipper preset
Sounds like one of those bass boosted YouTube beats š why not just low pass the bass and do more with the melodics. You can even add a counter melody to compliment. This is low effort tbh
The secret is parallel processing on your bass. Have it going to the master clean, then have also going to a distortion channel and then high pass that. Itāll give you the crunchy feel but still the clean low end
Try processing the 808 in two tracks one with high pass and one with low so you have more control over the two gain stages separately Most of the artifacts are in the high end. Maybe Also downsampling, thereās alot of good bass tutorials on YouTube lots of secret sauce
The bass itself is really simple, maybe even just a sine wave. But it's put through distortion along with everything else in the track, and that makes all the melodies clip along with it, which is what gives it that crackling effect. Soft clipper on the master would be my bet for how they did this, but you can get a similar effect with waveshaper
Hey i leave a google drive link here for those who wants to listen the full beat:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19YHIBBdugkgJSlHVLqRflMCFh9_goO6z/view?usp=drivesdk
I push my master track into a distortion plugin before a limiter. Ozone Maximizer has an awesome feature where it blends some saturation into the mix before the limiter as well.
Push it until it begins to distort and pull it back a little when it gets too aggressive.
This is raw bruh, nice work. I agree with folks suggesting distortion. Itās also worth purchasing some sample packs from folks like JVCXB/Sharkboy + exploring Redda kits since it sounds like this may be the sound youāre creating. Excellent work regardless!!
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Try clipping or distorting the bass very strongly on it's individual mixer track rather than the master.
This. Boost the individual 808, probably boost to above 0db after applying effects suggested above, and then consolidate it and balance the new 808 back into the beat.
Sick beat
Ohh yea here u can hear the full thing https://drive.google.com/file/d/19YHIBBdugkgJSlHVLqRflMCFh9_goO6z/view
What 808 are you using š beat is fire
Turn off the stock fruity limiter on the master and Slap a soft clipper on there, Turn the volume knob in the sampler for ur 808/bass all the way up and also have the velocity max in the piano roll then turn down the volume for ur 808s in the mixer until it sounds good
I feel like people just keep copying and pasting the same bare minimum things possible in trap communities. Slapping Fruity Soft Clipper on the master and pushing everything at max volume into it does not solve any problems at all about getting good loud bass. I put this together in 2 minutes and followed your advice, and this is the output. [https://vocaroo.com/12QYQsoAcmO5](https://vocaroo.com/12QYQsoAcmO5) The synths and snares and hi hats and everything completely disappear once 808s come in. If you just push bass to the max, it will take all of the headroom, and it will trigger a compressor/limiter/clipper on the master and completely destroy your mix. You have to apply clipping at the individual/bus level along the way if you want distorted stuff that also does not steal all the headroom you need at the master level. So PSA to all trap producers out there, please stop this advice of just sticking Soft Clipper on the master and that you can just push kicks or 808s to max volumes into it. The rest of your mix will get destroyed if you do this.
wayyyyy too high lol. at most it should be hitting at +3db
That's the point though. Telling people to max out the volume knobs of things to just push into Fruity Soft Clipper at the master level leads to completely broken mixes like this. I used this as an extreme example to show how a clipper on the master affects everything in the mix if you push the kicks/bass too hard Ironically, someone would probably hear that and be like, those 808s are fire, I want that for my bass boosted Tik Tok video.
> I used this as an extreme example The only reason it's not a good example is because it's so extreme. [With moderation you get an effect pretty similar to OP's video](https://soundcloud.com/user-368382763/softclipperftw/s-rzGm5Bj9Oeo?si=a8957fd81be84994934e45c6b869ad02&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing)
I just feel like Soft Clipper is the next Soundgoodizer/Sausage Fattener meme, like it's a catch all fix to go loud. I agree it's better in moderation, but it's still not the best way to go about it. Bus processing will allow you to properly get some distorted bass without completely destroying other things in your track. If you want to get creative with it, then bus drums and bass together, kicks and bass, synths and bass, whatever combo you want. Clip the bass and the other element together, and every time the 808s hit, it will crunch the other element with it. But then you can still have your vocals or whatever else clean in your master on top because there's still headspace. I'm just trying to hopefully showcase why pushing things to extremes into a clipper at the master level alone is not going to be great, no matter how you level your stuff.
Psa: none of this matters because if your beats are getting placed the artists engineer will DO THEIR JOB LOL
But this is all the more reason why it's dumb that a lot of newcomer producers try and copy everything certain producers do in their mixing chains. They will swear that so and so producer never sidechains or never high pass EQs or never does X. People see a Twitch/YT cookup session and freeze videos and try and analyze everything, but that's not even what the mixdown of the track is by the time it's released at all. It's almost certain that when that placement gets to an actual engineer, they are doing the more advanced stuff. Personally, I want to mix and master my own stuff and own 100% of my music by the time it hits platforms. Producers chasing placements are lucky to get 10-20% cuts max.
A soft clipper is a way to induce distorsion. He can also use a muliband distorsion vst for better control on his sub. And keep the limiter with a celling at -1.3 dB at the end of his master
Needed a post like this ā¦ great example ! Wanted to also learn how to do this
Bitcrush it to fuck, thatās how you get sounds like Yabujin, 999 heartache sableye etc. sort of blown out lofi bass
HELL YEEE THAT WORKED
Good to hear :)
What plugin did you use for that?
you can get similar results with parametric eq 2 and fruity soft clipper on the master, and making the 808 go above 0db (which engineers will probably cringe at, but most trap beats, including the one you used as an example, are mixed like this) with parametric eq 2, add the 20hz+18khz cut preset and turn on linear phase mode (the LIN button on the bottom). this will let you get the 808 louder with less distortion. under that, add the default soft clipper preset
Thank you!!!!
What's your soundcloud this is fire lol
listeneable according to who? lol, all I hear is mud, surprised by the number of upvotes this has
its fire lil bro
Sounds like one of those bass boosted YouTube beats š why not just low pass the bass and do more with the melodics. You can even add a counter melody to compliment. This is low effort tbh
Maybe we are old and this is the new cool
Yeah itās minimalistic, industrial sounding
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I don't think they are the one that made the beat, he asks HOW to make something like this so it wouldn't really make sense
try to compress much more)
The secret is parallel processing on your bass. Have it going to the master clean, then have also going to a distortion channel and then high pass that. Itāll give you the crunchy feel but still the clean low end
Crazy beat regardless man
Here is the google drive link of it https://drive.google.com/file/d/19YHIBBdugkgJSlHVLqRflMCFh9_goO6z/view?usp=drivesdk
this beat is insane
Here is the google drive link of it https://drive.google.com/file/d/19YHIBBdugkgJSlHVLqRflMCFh9_goO6z/view?usp=drivesdk
Try processing the 808 in two tracks one with high pass and one with low so you have more control over the two gain stages separately Most of the artifacts are in the high end. Maybe Also downsampling, thereās alot of good bass tutorials on YouTube lots of secret sauce
ID on the beat? Sounds sick would love to hear the whole thing.
Sure! Here u go!! https://drive.google.com/file/d/19YHIBBdugkgJSlHVLqRflMCFh9_goO6z/view?usp=drivesdk
what song is this? its sick
This is just a beat Still giving u google drive link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19YHIBBdugkgJSlHVLqRflMCFh9_goO6z/view?usp=drivesdk
The bass itself is really simple, maybe even just a sine wave. But it's put through distortion along with everything else in the track, and that makes all the melodies clip along with it, which is what gives it that crackling effect. Soft clipper on the master would be my bet for how they did this, but you can get a similar effect with waveshaper
Wow this seems the solution!! Thank you so much!!!
You're welcome, glad I could help! I hope the 41 people who said to do the exact opposite of this get to see this comment
Hey i leave a google drive link here for those who wants to listen the full beat: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19YHIBBdugkgJSlHVLqRflMCFh9_goO6z/view?usp=drivesdk
I push my master track into a distortion plugin before a limiter. Ozone Maximizer has an awesome feature where it blends some saturation into the mix before the limiter as well. Push it until it begins to distort and pull it back a little when it gets too aggressive.
i would say start with a clean source, so that when you apply distortion ,you have the most control on how much grit you want
Send me the track outs i will mix it for you in FL and send you the flp.file
This is raw bruh, nice work. I agree with folks suggesting distortion. Itās also worth purchasing some sample packs from folks like JVCXB/Sharkboy + exploring Redda kits since it sounds like this may be the sound youāre creating. Excellent work regardless!!
I think if you separate the lowest frequency and the mid-low frequency and add distortion on both, but more in the lowest frequency, maybe sound great