recommend me some really well produced dubstep to reference

[Bodega]

In terms of stuff that sounds amazing and clean on a big system - which I would hope is the point of all this - there's nobody better than Headhunter in "bass music" in general.

Not so much Addison Groove, which can be a bit cluttered, but the Headhunter stuff is just so fucking clean. When a Headhunter tune comes on you know it because every part is in *exactly* the right place, sonically.

While it's very far from being dubstep, Charlie May or Roland Klinkenberg stuff from about 2002-2004 is just crushingly well produced. Check Klinkenberg's "Bounce & @" or Scrambled for example. They sound a bit thin on headphones but absolutely savage on a big system.

[Siderealdb]

Not like the song? No heresy here please. IMO all those 70's albums sound way too good to compare dubstep to. Rumors by fleetwood mac, try and get that bass sound.

I had an instant appreciation for the song TBO, but I know that for some it's an acquired taste. As far as music from that era goes, and Steely Dan especially, I find it kind of depressing that with all of the tools at our disposal we can't make, or don't seem to be making, tunes with that level of sonic clarity and precision. As far as "bass heavy music" is concerned, they had some pretty wicked basses back in the day, and they wrote songs where it complemented the rest of the instruments, not just loud bass for the sake of it, or for that massive system everyone has . Additionally, I'm not saying that I'm even remotely close to this level, but it's something I'm working on.

[Sharmaji]

Not like the song? No heresy here please. IMO all those 70's albums sound way too good to compare dubstep to. Rumors by fleetwood mac, try and get that bass sound.

I had an instant appreciation for the song TBO, but I know that for some it's an acquired taste. As far as music from that era goes, and Steely Dan especially, I find it kind of depressing that with all of the tools at our disposal we can't make, or don't seem to be making, tunes with that level of sonic clarity and precision. As far as "bass heavy music" is concerned, they had some pretty wicked basses back in the day, and they wrote songs where it complemented the rest of the instruments, not just loud bass for the sake of it, or for that massive system everyone has . Additionally, I'm not saying that I'm even remotely close to this level, but it's something I'm working on.

both steely (aja in particular) & Fleetwood Mac had AMAZING arrangements at every level-- not just what elements are playing together but where the kick & hihat are in each measure, which instrument is playing which inversion of the chord, etc.

Steely also had Jeff Porcaro, Jim Keltner, Bernard Purdie, Steve Gadd, and Jerry Marotta on kit, just to name a few. They tend to sound funkier than FL studio quantized to 1/16ths

[Lethargik]

i just use Nero's Innocence....

they fill the spectrum, and all the djs drop it so it can't be badly mixed....