Awesome, this all makes sense and is helpful.

I think at the end of the day my problem is that my monitors have lame bass-response. So I guess I need to decide whether to invest in some proper monitors or follow jaimelee's example of bootstrapping a random sub and faking it.

altho, writing is completely different to mixing. That is absolutely true in traditional music. If you are writing on a five-line staff for a string quartet, then great, leave the mixing to the engineers. But for dubstep, for bass music, I don't think the separation is as clean-cut. Lots of the bes...

Here's a paradox: Everyone says it's important to mix your tracks on serious studio monitors with even flat stable predictable frequency-response. Like giving your sound a careful clear-eyed up-close no-nonsense inspection. You can hear every little facet, etc etc blah. ON THE OTHER HAND: It seems t...