Dubstep Tutorial For Sound On Sound Magazine

[kenflex]

Yeah a lot of the suggestions can be applied to all forms of music but it's the contents of those topics that's different. No suggestion is a bad one and I want to know what people like me, who make dubstep, wanna read. A lot of people who read sound on sound won't be fans of dubstep and will come from vastly different sonic backgrounds so I think it's important to show people what goes into making a genre that's exploded in popularity over the years, and also correct the doubters who think dubstep is just wobbles.

Again, thanks for everyones suggestions.

[nowaysj]

Space, as has been mentioned, and seconded, needs to be discussed.

But that's only one aspect of the holy trinity - "space, bass, and pace".

And above all, please emphasize that dubstep is more than dance music, it is an expressive art form. A coffin is being built around dubstep; don't take part in that process. Please don't dish out formulaic drivel about the snare has to go here and the kick has to go there. None of that is true. The best dubstep producers continue to make new beats and incorporate new sounds, all the while staying in that spaced out heavy heavy slow fast groove.

It wouldn't hurt to distinguish dub from dubstep. It would be really helpful to discuss the genres that contributed to dubstep and the ways in which their musical features have contributed to the diversity of beats and sounds within dubstep today.

[stereotactic]

Words that are popping into my head...

Creating space - Which has been mentioned

Swing/Shuffle

The importance of percussion

The way dubstep tracks evolve and progress

Creative use of effects

Re-sampling

These are what I would want to read about in a dubstep article. Also, a list of seminal tracks and background would be good. I've only got into dubstep in the last year or two after moving away from D n B, and it is evolving so fast it would be great to get a brief history of tracks which shaped the scene.

[futures_untold]

The only two absolute constants I can think of in dubstep is the extreme focus on bass and ensuring the beat is roughly 140bpm...

I would provide box outs with tips on different styles of dubstep. The first, sub led mellow dubstep, the second, wobble bass dubstep, the third, filthy digital/midrange cack/brostep. (In fact, that is roughly the development of dubstep over the last few years anyway).

The main article could look at the development of the sound including references to important tracks highlighting elements of those tracks.

Midnight Request Line is nothing like an Excision track, yet both are 'dubstep'. Both are sounds are equally important to dubstep as a genre, and both are equally valid. I think parallels can be draw between dubstep and drum 'n' bass with regards to the 'rollers', 'jump-up' and 'tech/neuro' styles.

By giving specific box outs for different bass styles, you can focus on alternative drum programming techniques and explaining that dubstep is as much about marrying different inpsirations together as it is about basslines and 140bpm tempos...

Good luck!

Pat

[Sharmaji]

DREAD BASS.

there's umpteen production tutorials out there, especially d&b ones, that focus on the endless amounts of tech-geek knob twiddling that goes into creating a bass sound du jour. dubstep is more than that, i think you'd be doing everyone a great service to point this out. Sure, a huge chunk of dubstep these days is halftime beats and brutal electro manipulation-- but do we need any more of it? Should that be the baseline of what "is" dubstep?

Get them to think beyond this, to think about the vibe and mood of a tune and we'll have better dubstep in the world. seriously. it's that important.

[FSTZ]

wow...

sos referencing our production bible

very nice

[deadly_habit]

oh and triplets

[futures_untold]

+1 on the triplets

[silentk]

+1 on the triplets

[nowaysj]

[Tangka]

EPIC...

at first...

[Depone]

back to the original post. Please please please, dont make it a generic "kick on one snares on 3" type affair. I would like to see it being more experimental, and interesting rather than informative. Just my views

[grooki]

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....)

STFU

[subindex]

how to make dubstep:

lfo - cutoff mod mashup boom boom snare

in the word of gordan ramsey, one dutty as fuck dubstep tune

DONE!

HOPE YOU USE THIS

[karmacazee]

Oh, and you HAVE to get an alpaca in there somewhere.

[Depone]

YES please incorporate a picture of an alpaca in the magazine, dont care how you do it, it could be made from an article arrangement, i dont care. Its a bit of an In joke here, and deserves a mention.

[FSTZ]

+1 on the alpaca!

[antipode]

It wouldn't hurt to distinguish dub from dubstep.

DREAD BASS.

+1 on the alpaca!

Please please please, dont make it a generic "kick on one snares on 3" type affair.

[evu]

stop making those dubstep tutorials please..
net is already full of it...
dubstep has enough tutorials..
if someone wants to be big dubstep superstar just go to google and type "dubstep tutorial"
after few days of reading you will become "the wobble god"

one day tutorials will kill dubstep

[tathagata]

The absolutely essential ingredient in dubstep is alpacas.