Dubstep Tutorial For Sound On Sound Magazine

[kenflex]

Hi,

I'm in the early stages of writing a dubstep feature with tutorials for Sound On Sound magazine and was wondering whether people had an suggestions? SOS mag isn't dance music orientated so I'll be running through basics for the benefit of their readers, but then I will be looking at drum programming and making basslines. I've read loads of cool stuff on this forum and because there's alot of freedom in making dubstep there's no right way to do things, this is something I'm gonna stress in my feature.

I'd love to know what you guys think, nice one.

Ken Flex

[karmacazee]

Cool. Love the mag, taught me a lot!

One thing I would say is, try and get some non-wobble tutorials for the basses. There's a ton of those about, and everytime one of the other magazines cover dubstep, they put in a wobble bass tutorial. I'm not saying leave it out altogether, because it's clearly a big part of the scene

Maybe something about making your sub-basses fat and clear or something? Or maybe just copy and edit the production bible

[kenflex]

I like your style, I've used the production bible a few times and i will probably reference it in my article, if not the bible then this forum in general.

Thats a great suggestion about non wobble basslines - particularly subs, cheers dude.

[Depone]

Also, you could talk about the use of space in a track. Its not that commonly used in most forms of dance music, so its pretty unique to deeper sides of dubstep to not have that "wall of sound".

For reference listen to Kryptic Minds album "One of us" for what i'm getting at. And yeah as said above i think sound on sound is above all that wobble nonsense leave that to the computer music mag. I read SOS on a regular basis and have learnt a lot from it. Peaz

[compact71]

..make sure to mention, that the biggest next thang in dubstep is hiphop!

give them these drumZ 2 start out with:

www.filedropper.com/compactdrumz

cheerz

CoMPACT

[polygonfiction]

Also, you could talk about the use of space in a track.

Seconded. Many of the best Dubstep tunes have wide, spacious mixes and plenty of silence.

[noizy parka]

Maybe talk about the extensive use of filters on the mid of the bass, formants, resonators etc...typically with a sub underneath, high pass of the drums rather than side chaining in a lot of cases too, , and layering your sounds to pain a sonic picture.

[fuzz_2k]

Maybe talk about the extensive use of filters on the mid of the bass, formants, resonators etc...typically with a sub underneath, high pass of the drums rather than side chaining in a lot of cases too, , and layering your sounds to pain a sonic picture.

this

love sos magazine btw

[phrex]

..make sure to mention, that the biggest next thang in dubstep is hiphop!

no?!

[kenflex]

Brilliant stuff guys

I think the spatial aspect of dubstep mixes is a great suggestion, obviously there needs to be the complimentary wobble tutorial thrown in but talking about how the mood is created and how things sit together in the mix is top of the priorities.

thanks again for everyone's suggestions.

[compact71]

..make sure to mention, that the biggest next thang in dubstep is hiphop!

no?!

YeAHYEaH!

4ShO

[Steve_French]

you could mention effects processing (chorusing, delays etc) and how different effects do what to different bass sounds

[drokkr]

Have a look into mentioning;

Subtle percussion
Building tension
Atmospherics and pads
Reverb
Swing

[hipnotikk]

..make sure to mention, that the biggest next thang in dubstep is hiphop!

no?!

YeAHYEaH!

4ShO

thugstep ftw! haha

my advice is to include some tips on mixing dubstep, where everything "should" sit relatively (used loosely since there are diff mixing approaches obviously), maybe layering instruments (snares) for bigger effect? just some thoughts.

[gnome]

Also include some information about resampling I had never read of it anywhere until I joined this forum and is a great tool that can be applied to anything

[compact71]

just 2 make sure that i really dig this thread...need more hiphop drumz maybe vocals snippz 4 sho!

more in an underground kind of hiphop way...

golden era ftw

C

[deadly_habit]

using busses to multiband out your sounds and process separate aspects of them

[compact71]

..and;
multibanD distortion

[grooki]

maybe mention the wide variety of dubstep, because while I like space of dubstep, a big part of wobblers is the wall of sound.

And the percussion. Probably my favorite aspect of dubstep

[LFpHUNK]

not to be a party p00per but....

seems like a great majority of the suggestions made in this thread are applicable to most other styles of EDM. lol.

(waits for disagreement....)