drewdrops wrote:calyx spent years getting that bass sound!!! Do the man a favour leave it on the record!

I'm sorry, are you from the past?

boomnoise wrote:Dubstep Upstarts Vol. 1

Um... no... don't like that at all! I've been releasing as Upstart for several years now and I submitted a track to this comp (which didn't make it) under that name. Bit too much like rubbing it in!

doomstep wrote:come on all the Australian massive, stand up ... I'm sure there's some deep deep south people here ... not just Sydney heads ...

damn fuckin right, doomstep! M-L-to tha-B-N, northside represent. Alla brunswick massive put up ya lighta!

(was that convincing?)

Music Box wrote:would the korg ms-20 be suitable for the bass sound.

Yeah - that'll work great! But the key is to play with the sound! Dial up a preset, sure - but modify it, effect it and mangle it until it sounds great! Check out this tutorial for some tips...

2 That distinctive bass sound the heavy wer wer sound. hows it achevied ha - i forgot this bit! everyone seems to ask that question... maybe we should put together a production FAQ? :D Whatever VCO's (tone generators) you use (square waves are pretty much the shit), mostly you'll want to be using a...

i like using clicky hiphop snares (like Dre's work for Eminem or Timbaland/Neptunes style clap+snare layers) and a tight 'thud'-sounding kick with a fair bit of low end. For hats, a really techno-ish closed hihat (like a 909 kind of sound), low in the mix and maybe with reverb or delay gives a feel ...

amd athlonxp 3000+ cruddy abit onboard sound because my pro card flaked BCR2000 control surface (don't believe the anti-Behringer hype - for the price this unit is AWESOME) Yamaha DX21 (shite to program, so I use it as a controller) Roland SH101 (bruk) Korg Poly800 (bruk) buzz tracker (sequencing) l...

dubmugga wrote:
...still send it over, I'll convert it to beautiful kiwi dollars and you get a limited edition dubstep t-shirt in return of which currently there are only 7 in existence

ha - i can send you kiwi money... i've got lots of old buttons lying around!

dubmugga wrote:BUY A FUCKING T SHIRT YOU CHEAP stnuc !!!

subtle eh ???

i'll buy a tshirt, you hairy sheepshagging kiwi prick, when i can pay in real money and not northern hemisphere monkey tokens!

actually, i was thinking about doing screwed+chopped (houston-style) remixes of jungle tracks... pitched right down and heavy effects. How awesome would 'Super Sharp Shooter' or something sound dubbed-out and slooooowwwwwww....?

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and the to argue that modern d&b has suffered from too much thought is laughable. current d&b is on the whole, caustic noisy excessively functional dancefloor music. i dont suggest going introspective/abstract, i'm just suggesting if people thought a bit more about what's possible at 174 bp...

Ok, with a little googling, I found this on a blog page: As a producer I’m fascinated and excited by the ‘halfstep’ rhythm pattern emerging in dubstep, which inverts the characteristic jungle technique of running a dub bassline at between 75 and 95 bpm while the percussion operates at 150-190 bp...

i joined to get in touch with the scene and the sound - there's not much here in MLBN (unless you really like tek house and pop hiphop) so i wanted to get hold of producers and listen to what other people think/do/say. ...dubstep for me is more about the dub than the step and dub is universal ha. ye...

boomnoise wrote:top stuff. very atmostpheric. especially like the way the vocal sample punctuates the track.

ha. cheers! good to know that - i actually thought it was the weakest part...

not sure of the protocol for this, but this is a little experiment i threw together - War Stepper (yes, "Upstart" is me!)

Any feedback would be awesome. Hope you like it!