My first attempt at dubstep

breakbait · Post by **breakbait** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:35 am

helo,
I started listening to dubstep recently and a few days ago started making a tune. It is only a few bars looped over at the moment and is in the tunes section called FirstDubstepp. It would be much appreciated if you have a listen and give me any constructive critiscism you may have for me. Cheers in advance

auralassassin · Post by **auralassassin** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:52 am

sounds good so far... I don't know what I'd call it, if I'd call it dubstep... it's sounding like it would make a good drum n bass tune as well... like if you broke it down and resampled those drums and went amen style with it...

I want this one to be NAAAAAAAAAAAAAASTY, and it doesn't have to be dubstep to do that... I'm thinking it's more Exile than Vex'd, if you know what I'm saying.

breakbait · Post by **breakbait** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:29 am

It's probably cos I've been making drum and bass for a while now, it must be inbedded in my brain. I'm going for a dark feel to this tune but I'm struggling to come up with new parts. Anyone have any suggestions eg. pads, samples, leads etc.

auralassassin · Post by **auralassassin** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:19 am

I'd like to work on this one... the sound is already there... perhaps some darker pads in the beginning...

I wouldn't mind if this had a really driving, almost drum roll(rather than a break, like just a solid, CONSTANT roll for 32, etc) nothing wrong with amen style ragga business... without the spacey, lofi feel.

dubstep is dealing more with the frequencies that you CAN'T hear. it's on a sonic level that you FEEL...

not saying you don't know this, but FYI:

sound is just waves, which is why mp3 quality counts... the lower the quality, the lower the higher end... you can only hear at certain frequency, so the highs don't make any audible difference in lower quality mp3's. but those higher pitch sounds that you can't hear affect the way that you hear the lower end... it makes all the difference in the world to make sure that you take care of what you CAN'T hear, as well as what you can.

if you take your hand and put it under water and move it really quickly, you can see how the undertow affects the top of the water with that disturbance. same concept... your hand didn't move the water up top, those motion of the lower end wave did.

8bitwonder · Post by **8bitwonder** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:32 am

auralassassin wrote:I'd like to work on this one... the sound is already there... perhaps some darker pads in the beginning...

I wouldn't mind if this had a really driving, almost drum roll(rather than a break, like just a solid, CONSTANT roll for 32, etc) nothing wrong with amen style ragga business... without the spacey, lofi feel.

dubstep is dealing more with the frequencies that you CAN'T hear. it's on a sonic level that you FEEL...

not saying you don't know this, but FYI:

sound is just waves, which is why mp3 quality counts... the lower the quality, the lower the higher end... you can only hear at certain frequency, so the highs don't make any audible difference in lower quality mp3's. but those higher pitch sounds that you can't hear affect the way that you hear the lower end... it makes all the difference in the world to make sure that you take care of what you CAN'T hear, as well as what you can.

if you take your hand and put it under water and move it really quickly, you can see how the undertow affects the top of the water with that disturbance. same concept... your hand didn't move the water up top, those motion of the lower end wave did.

i'd give it a bash too its sounding nice mate...good work

breakbait · Post by **breakbait** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 7:13 pm

I really need to sort out the mix of it cos i've been doin it on headphones. I've just listened to it through my mates system and I know what you mean. I want to get some decent monitors soon which should hopefully help sort out my mixdowns quite a bit. Gonna try workin on it in the next few days and i'll post an update soon. Thanks again for the replies.

razer-wire · Post by **razer-wire** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 8:27 pm

I only just started dubstep and ive been making it on my ps2, check out the post on,anyway i think you should make the bass sound louder and mour dirty, over all its a good first attempent

My first attempt at dubstep

My first attempt at dubstep

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