Tips of making dark sounds for Dubstep

[Uncle Mike]

just rip a fucking sample sound you like off the internet and put that bitch into soundforge.
<<<<<<<<<<<<<then use it, simple as that

[gnome]

one word: WATERPHONE

lol but really, look around at some rare instruments, make your own. shit you can make a digeridoo type of thing with some giant PVC, and a stick. take some big pieces of thin metal, drill holes in them, use wire to string them up to a tree, and clank them together, record and add reverb. make your own spring reverb in between the two pieces of metal with the pvc tube as a resonator (metal preferred for spookiness really). circuitbend a toy and add a pot to the timer to pitch it way down (and bug the hell out of people playing it constantly =). glitch out your sega genesis by removing the cartridge while its loading and insert another one. record your dishwasher and mutate it with plugins til it sounds like a monstertruck/chainsaw (dont steal this idea i havent done it yet!). get into reaktor and just start putting modules together not knowing what the hell youre doing. check freesound.org, download like 500 samples and layer only the creepiest shit together in interesting ways (least inventive). build your own homemade analog/digital synth out of chips (CMOS 4000 series!!!!!!!!!) and pots etc (check out lunetta forums on electro-music.com). or just detune some square waves in massive and be like everyone else..

..you can make anything dark with the right timbres and textures. like someone said earlier, dissonance is everything. invent your own spooky digitally if not physically. mashup as many plugins as you can use on an element of your track youre not happy with but dont want to just delete. timestretching, distortion channels, pitching down, combo plugins, etc. Pluggo is awesome sometimes for completely changing a sound. and of course, a good tasteful reverb/dly can make a nonscary sound MUCH more edgey, just don't overdo it/overuse it. god knows i do sometimes.

You have so many cool ideas lol. Wish I had a field recorder

[Rickmansworth]

be sure to incorporate the 7th key on the harmonic minor scale when writing your melody... detuned everything with plenty of verb.

[tripaddict]

second tutorial is more applicable

enjoy

[Hide_One]

Chimera vst is big for dark sounds...

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/2289.html

I dont completely understand what i'm doing with this noise-driven synth thing, but sometimes not knowing what you're doing can be a good thing.

The presets are great for tweaking