Ok recently I've been thinking that there are a huge amount of people making music here from all over the world. Various parts of the UK, Europe, US and we are all inspired by various artists. I'm not sure about other countries but each city in the UK seems to have some kind of different vibe going ...

What DAW do you use? Ableton live 8.2

How long have you been producing for? 3 years

What VSTs do you favour? Ni massive, novation v station, vanguard

What artists/labels would you say most clearly reflect your sound? Hyperdub

Influences (both inside & outside of Dubstep) Dark down-tempo dub ...

hardware generally sounds better. most of the time. tends to have more weight or 'warmth'. but its not some magic solution that will make you amazing

one option worth thinking about is running soft synths (or your whole mix) out of the box through a nice bit of kit, like a valve eq, an fx pedal ...

Well I started programming in Reason over 3 years ago mainly because I liked how the synths and stuff emulated hardware synths with all the buttons etc :). I was hoping to get some hardware and be able to get a feel from it by using the virtual gear in reason.

Ok I moved to ableton and have kind ...

No tracks were left out only named those that didn't provide a name, left polling options to 1 per voter as this poll hosting did not have 3 as an option and didn't want to run the risk of any spamming, cheers.

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No mine was left out for sure, thought it didn't make it to the selection or ...

I'm guessing my entry was intentionally left out to make the comp a bit more balanced

Can people just upload there individual tracks? Or maybe some one else can host them on sc?

Sorry to be rude but what type of support will this give to new dub step artists? Anyone can make a youtube account and post there tracks just like soundcloud. What people really need is a way to get there stuff out to the djs and up on popular sites.

surefya wrote:

nylle wrote:lol someone already voted.................cant even hear them yet!!!

we must have a psychic on our hands

Or friend whores lol

I tried making this track to practice some dub type drum work. Thanks for any feedback

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As a beginner myself, I can confirm the feelings of being overwhelmed by the vast amount of knowledge out there. The demotivation can set in when you have spent a week on a song, and it comes out sounding like shit or not like you had hoped. Thinking about the time you spent and then listening to ...

Ha, that's where you went wrong, dubstep doesn't exist.

dubstep is a construct, an illusion of the collective organisation of moving air in certain specific weights

there's never been anything original about moving air






except farting which is kind of funny

The concept of air is in itself ...

One big problem is that originality comes form experimentation and being experimental is usually a risk. People like Nero don't set out to be experimental, they usually want to keep there name at the top of the charts and gets there tracks played in clubs. People like Horsepower recordings were ...

Yeah, doesn't matter though since what I wanted to say seems wasted on most people.

Dude, what the hell are you talking about?

-If you need to go to a private school to learn basic music theory, you have no hope being a producer.
-Patches and presets are useless for learning because you don't ...

Yeah, doesn't matter though since what I wanted to say seems wasted on most people.

Well I'm just wondering what the benefits of programming your own synth/ using a synth which has already been programmed are?

Another good tip is to not try and make every beat and start tuning synths from scratch, most top artists are don't have honers degrees in music and electronic sound engineering. They pretty much just use whatever easiest to play, try downloading massive and then search for massive dubstep wobble ...

f^$% learning music theory people, this is dubstep not classical music! Their are only a loose set of rules to dubstep but 90% of it is down to feeling. Most dubstep and dance music artists started off DJing for a couple of years. When you can listen to a track and pretty much tell who made it, what ...

Ok maybe I should have said innovative sound. Take this track:

Skream/Benga: The Judgement 2003
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLeFs0NZ3ak

and compare it to (song starts at 1:30)
Skream 'Skream EP' Disfigured Dubz 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUK0kIe6AMA

Hey I was watching an old docu on metalheadz from youtube and one of the guy was saying how people like Dilinja were really innovative with all there tracks. He was also saying if even the top artist did not produce really innovative tracks then other people would quickly take over. Is that true ...