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Usually, in dubstep, the drop is all about IMPACT
How do you get impact? There are a number of ways to do this. Like others have mentioned above, making things quieter before they drop is good. Risers of any description ie white noise. Or maybe even take your main mid bass synth, strip it back and run a filter over it?

Personal fave of mine tho is silence. A bit of silence then BAM, offers the contrast from nothing, to all and gives you that impact

TBH tho everyone will have their own workflows and methods so its about finding yours using a combination of some of the methods in this thread

BudSpencertron wrote:

SUCH a tune....back when I first discovered skunk I used to listen to this tune on repeat and draw all over the walls...Memories

jeah autechre basicly brought me into electronic music beside boc and plaid ;it was hard being the only 12 year old listening to idm in bavaria back than ,but now i see all the homophobe. from back than listen to some
brostep and think they are so clever, just makes me angry!

I just draw notes in and see how they sound and keep repeating this until one bar sounds good its basically a matter of experimentaton and just trialling different combinations.. I usually load all my synths up before I come to the drop then just edit them if needed and go mental

FuzionDubstep wrote:I just draw notes in and see how they sound and keep repeating this until one bar sounds good its basically a matter of experimentaton and just trialling different combinations.. I usually load all my synths up before I come to the drop then just edit them if needed and go mental

ah, so thats how you write brostep- i had been wondering whether monkeys could do it but now i know!

My drops tend to just be my intro with sub added- a few more hats and added sample hits

hutyluty wrote:

FuzionDubstep wrote:I just draw notes in and see how they sound and keep repeating this until one bar sounds good its basically a matter of experimentaton and just trialling different combinations.. I usually load all my synths up before I come to the drop then just edit them if needed and go mental

ah, so thats how you write brostep- i had been wondering whether monkeys could do it but now i know!

My drops tend to just be my intro with sub added- a few more hats and added sample hits

lol hating bro?

FuzionDubstep wrote:

hutyluty wrote:

FuzionDubstep wrote:I just draw notes in and see how they sound and keep repeating this until one bar sounds good its basically a matter of experimentaton and just trialling different combinations.. I usually load all my synths up before I come to the drop then just edit them if needed and go mental

ah, so thats how you write brostep- i had been wondering whether monkeys could do it but now i know!

My drops tend to just be my intro with sub added- a few more hats and added sample hits

lol hating bro?

yes.

hutyluty wrote:

FuzionDubstep wrote:

hutyluty wrote:

FuzionDubstep wrote:I just draw notes in and see how they sound and keep repeating this until one bar sounds good its basically a matter of experimentaton and just trialling different combinations.. I usually load all my synths up before I come to the drop then just edit them if needed and go mental

ah, so thats how you write brostep- i had been wondering whether monkeys could do it but now i know!

My drops tend to just be my intro with sub added- a few more hats and added sample hits

lol hating bro?

yes.

why? haven't done anything to you bro..

In breakdown sections I also like to add a good bit of atmospherics.
If you have reaktor theres a really good instrument in it called metaphysical, it completely mashes audio files, try playing around with it and then using a high pass and or band pass filter to work it into your breakdown.

just jealous of your musical successes and millions of soundcloud comments while i trail along in the dust with nothing :'(

ya huty idk why ur haiting man. iv never seen fuzion post anything but positive things...hate on me if anything

hutyluty wrote:just jealous of your musical successes and millions of soundcloud comments while i trail along in the dust with nothing :'(

ha ha well soundcloud comments don't mean everything I like your stuff its really original trust me keep doing your own thing and you'll get noticed

lyons238 wrote:ya huty idk why ur haiting man. iv never seen fuzion post anything but positive things...hate on me if anything

ive already hated on you before man- gotta keep my hating fresh

darigan wrote:In breakdown sections I also like to add a good bit of atmospherics.
If you have reaktor theres a really good instrument in it called metaphysical, it completely mashes audio files, try playing around with it and then using a high pass and or band pass filter to work it into your breakdown.

breakdowns what i struggle on- i want to introduce the elements of the second drop, but dont want to give the whole thing away if you know what i mean

FuzionDubstep wrote:

hutyluty wrote:just jealous of your musical successes and millions of soundcloud comments while i trail along in the dust with nothing :'(

ha ha well soundcloud comments don't mean everything I like your stuff its really original trust me keep doing your own thing and you'll get noticed

cheers man, i dont know cant hate on anyone nowadays, everyones too nice

If you hate on my I swear to God

My favorite way of doing drops is doing a 32 bar thing with a little melody going on, and then at the last 4 bars, only play the melody, but make it a little different, then BAM DROP YO ASS SON.

ChadDub wrote:My favorite way of doing drops is doing a 32 bar thing with a little melody going on, and then at the last 4 bars, only play the melody, but make it a little different, then BAM DROP YO ASS SON.

that sounds like a good way of doing things, could you do a tutorial?