+Protostar Yes, both are true. There's a bazillion and 12 Reese methods but many of them go beyond the scope of a 10'ish minute video. I would love to talk about band splitting - resampling - incorporating FM, etc. But those will have to come in later videos. Thanks for giving people the EQ tip here via the comments! /ryan

Propellerhead of course, was not correcting you in any way, was merely giving some useful extra tips for reese processing to anybody that reads the comments ^_^

+Protostar Totally! I love extra tips - that's what makes the Reason community so awesome is that this isn't a monologue by me, but rather a dialogue between all of us making music together. /ryan

+Propellerhead This is going to be a series? Sick!

+wampanon2 +Propellerhead Hoping so too... this came at just the right time..! Nice one.

+soviut It's new in Reason 8 so you haven't been missing it all this time. :) /ryan

Propellerhead Ah, well it's a welcome addition.

+Propellerhead seriously awesome thing to add!

back then that was the default

6:35 if anyone is curious

what version of reason is in this video? I'm still in 3.0 :(

+iChillSphere Glad I could help! Just follow along step by step and you'll get the hang of it in no time. And don't be afraid to experiment like I mention at the end of the video. You won't blow anything up so you might as well see what little changes can do to the sound. /ryan

theclassick1 lol don't be lazy man. Put some time into it and learn!

+Pushed Button That's a nice idea. Consider it in my mental suggestion box. :)

+James Keanan Sigh... people have been barking up that tree for ages, and the result is sadly "probably never." It's a deliberate design decision to enhance stability and rack integration. Which personally, I hate. I adore Reason and would love to use it exclusively, but there are VSTs out there which just don't have a Prop Shop equivalent. So we're all stuck using ReWire, which just isn't as good as keeping everything in one DAW. Shame.

Yea, I love reason to bits, I've been using it for years, but the quality of my sound improve dramatically when I started using Ableton and VST. It's so sad to say but its the honest truth. Still use Reason to edit samples though, the NNXT sample editor it amazing! And Rewire works ok, but like you said, its not one DAW.

+James Keanan if they ever do i would only use reason i would be happy with it not being as stable too

+James Keanan Can you please tell how exactly your sound improve? What ist it?

Ableton has such a fuller sound, in reason I would layer about 3-5 synths and it would still feel like it was missing something, its felt bland, flavourless. In Ableton, I layer 2 synths and it feels complete, its full, and it has flavour. Its hard to describe through words. Also the things I can do to samples in Ableton are outstanding compared to the sampling in Reason. I absoulutely love reason so much and also will because it was the first software I've ever used, but my move was strategic. And I honestly don't regret it. Many other producers have had Improved sound since changing. Deorro used reason when he was Ton!c, listen to how his sound has change. KSHMR used reason when he was Cyronizzy in The Cataracs, listen to how his sound has changed. Dj Dago used reason and look how his sound has changed since changing softwares. I'm not in anyway slating Reason or Propellerhead, I highly recommended them to anyone wanting to get into production. I just know that for me personally and for many other producers, Ableton has a more professional take on solid production and workflow. But their Interface and the layout/design/look will never match Reason's. Props to reason and users

+Pytox That plinky plonky melody? That's a preset from Tom Pritchard's AWESOME Thor Sound Design ReFill. /ryan

+Rik J if you're using an older version it's called 'initialise patch'... otherwise i don't know..

+TheBurdenCarrier But I just showed you how to make the patch in like 10 minutes. :) /ryan

+Propellerhead I just asked for the same thing. For people like myself who've been following Reason tutorials since the wonderful days of James Bernard it was always an added bonus to have the patch or link after.

+Propellerhead - The patch would be really useful. I have been through the tutorial 3 times now and I am just not getting the same sound, not sure what I am doing wrong. My effort is here www.dropbox.com/s/f5xqogmwsevbszi/DirtyReeseBass.reason?dl=0

+PauLtus B Audiomatic can be thought of sorta like the new trend towards photo filters which do a bunch of stuff at once to create a "mood" look for your photo. In the same way, Audiomatic has a ton of effect DSP under the hood that results in a series of mood sounds - giving your signal some vibe. In this case, Audiomatic enhances our bottom end most importantly but there's also an element of glue that it brings to our sound - which happens because of a complex philosophical reason relating to EQ's effect on phase relationships in sounds... but I'll spare you the nerdier diatribe.

***** "but I'll spare you the nerdier diatribe." Please don't :"). What I assume it's some compression and equalizing..?

+PauLtus B Okay but you asked for it!! We all know that Equalization is about boosting or cutting the amplitude of certain frequencies in a signal - and that boost isn't limited to that one frequency but rather a range of frequencies which surround that central point. And that range is either fixed (in the case of graphic EQ) or adjustable in the case of parametric EQ. But what does boosting or cutting frequency ranges actually do? In short, it alters the phase relationship of those frequencies and the way they interact with the frequencies adjacent to them. In other words, one abstract way to describe EQ is that it's a targeted phase manipulation of our signal. So why does EQ in the mastering phase of production often get referred to as "gluing a track together?" Well quite simply because when we EQ a master signal - like we are in this combinator by putting it on the mixer's output - we're applying the same phase relationships across every sound that is part of this signal. Suddenly all sounds share a common trait - the same phase manipulated EQ relationship. And to our ears, this commonly shared trait creates a more uniform sound that describe as glue. In visual photo editing, I often do a similar technique... adding a little "film grain" and color settings to a composite of multiple layers to visually trick our eyes into seeing the composite as one image. I'll forgive you if you stopped reading halfway through. ;)

***** Thank you! It's quite clear really. I just don't know the unit since I'm still using Reason 7.

+PauLtus B Yeah well if I can make an upgrade pitch... :) Audiomatic is a really awesome tool for giving sounds that glue. And yes, it's a whole host of stuff going on under the hood - EQ a multiple and various stages in the process, compression, ring modulation, transient shaping, and a ton of stuff that's beyond my comprehension. But rather than think of it like that, I always tell people to just think of it like Instagram. Do you like the way this suite of sounds impacts your signal... or this other one?

+Parin Gupta RTFM lol

+Junglist Robert it was 4 at night... I was being stupid!

+Parin Gupta haha no prob man

omg i came into the comments to say the same thing