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bigfootspartan wrote:DJ: could you please make that conga higher
Me: which conga, there is no conga in this song
DJ: that deep sound
Me: oh you mean the bass (solo'ed it)
DJ: no, that drum sound
Me: oh you mean the kick (solo'ed it)
DJ: no, that deep bongo sound
Me: eehhrr... there is no bongo in this song, i'm pretty sure you mean the bass (muted it) does it still play?
DJ: yeah that's it, the bass
Me: cool, how would you like it? explain "higher" to me
DJ: just higher, so i can hear it better
Me: i make it louder (fader up 3 dB)
DJ: no
Me: ok, (raised the filter frequency in synth) better this way?
DJ: no
Me: let me try this (transposed +5) now???
DJ: no, can't you make it sound like a conga?
Me: ????!!!??? eeehhr no (bass was played legato, thru the whole 4 bars) are you sure you want a conga instead of the bass?
DJ: yes
Me: (muted bass, played some conga sounds) this is a conga, do you still want it?
DJ: no it doesn't sound bassy enough, where is the bass anyway?
Me: i need a cigarette

kaiori breathe wrote:Dubstep as a genre is inherently experimental.

static_cast wrote:

kaiori breathe wrote:Dubstep as a genre is inherently experimental.

deadly habit wrote:

static_cast wrote:

kaiori breathe wrote:Dubstep as a genre is inherently experimental.

heh remember when that used to ring true
oh how i miss those days

zerbaman wrote:What exactly do you deem as experimental?
From the old days, most tunes sounded the same. Just drums and deep sub basslines. Not too much experimentation
Infact, in more recent years, people have been doing different things, trying out newer sounds, styles & influences, experimenting.

A track shouldn't need the sparsest drum arrangement to be classified as experimental imo.

Fused Productions wrote:Me: Hey check out this tune I'm working on!
Friend: That's awesome, the intro is a bit long though and why is it so dark, and slow?
Me: The intro is not long, it's 16 bars.. It's slow because dubstep is made in 140 BPM, and that's slower than that dancefloorshit you listened to.
Friend: No dubstep is fast, fast as fuck.
Me: You must be thinking of DnB?
Frined: Oh yeaaah, why don't you make that?
Me: I like dubstep..
Friend: Why is it dark?
Me:
Friend:

Btw, he noes nothing about producing but he thinks he know everything..

gen_ wrote:Maybe its because I'm still discovering new tunes everyday, but dubstep is still very experimental to me. You look a the transformation from dub to DMZ's Haunted to the commercialization (aka Nero Rusko etc) to the up to the minute Flux Pavilion stuff, not to mention Purple, 8 bit, Glitch, brostep (Datsik, excision), annoying robot noise-step (Skrillex, Bare Noize), not so annoying robot noize-step (16 bit + Propatingz Bablyons Scared for example)

There tons of stuff, its way more diverse than even rock was 10 years after creation.

On topic, the most common one for me is when I'm listening to the freshmen in my college taking about how they made thier tune;

Kid 1: Yeah, so I put some drums on it, compressed them to make them louder, and then stuck a subtractor there and made some sub bass
Kid 2: But my drums never come out that loud when i do that
Kid 1: Thats cos I got this neat trick, set the ratio to 1:1 and turn the gain all the way up, see!
Me:

jrisreal wrote:

Fused Productions wrote:Me: Hey check out this tune I'm working on!
Friend: That's awesome, the intro is a bit long though and why is it so dark, and slow?
Me: The intro is not long, it's 16 bars.. It's slow because dubstep is made in 140 BPM, and that's slower than that dancefloorshit you listened to.
Friend: No dubstep is fast, fast as fuck.
Me: You must be thinking of DnB?
Frined: Oh yeaaah, why don't you make that?
Me: I like dubstep..
Friend: Why is it dark?
Me:
Friend:

Btw, he noes nothing about producing but he thinks he know everything..

haha gold man...gold.
seriously though i hate it when i show my dubsteps to the kids at school and they take the headphones off and walk away before they get past the intro...so impatient

deadly habit wrote:

gen_ wrote:Maybe its because I'm still discovering new tunes everyday, but dubstep is still very experimental to me. You look a the transformation from dub to DMZ's Haunted to the commercialization (aka Nero Rusko etc) to the up to the minute Flux Pavilion stuff, not to mention Purple, 8 bit, Glitch, brostep (Datsik, excision), annoying robot noise-step (Skrillex, Bare Noize), not so annoying robot noize-step (16 bit + Propatingz Bablyons Scared for example)

There tons of stuff, its way more diverse than even rock was 10 years after creation.

On topic, the most common one for me is when I'm listening to the freshmen in my college taking about how they made thier tune;

Kid 1: Yeah, so I put some drums on it, compressed them to make them louder, and then stuck a subtractor there and made some sub bass
Kid 2: But my drums never come out that loud when i do that
Kid 1: Thats cos I got this neat trick, set the ratio to 1:1 and turn the gain all the way up, see!
Me:

jrisreal wrote: i just realized what that was saying!!!!
its called volume, you noobs...im a freshmen in high school and im smarter than you lol

Fused Productions wrote:

jrisreal wrote: i just realized what that was saying!!!!
its called volume, you noobs...im a freshmen in high school and im smarter than you lol

Hmm at what age are you a freshmen? Haha don't blame me I'm Swedish!

ok, this is gonna sound a little wierd but here goes
right now i have no speakers for my laptop and the normal ones are quite shit tbh(like most laptop speakers)
so ive done the age old thing of rigging the headphones to the guitar pickpus and started running it through my amp. just so i can have a little definition to my music.
anyway my question is, can this harm my amp in anyway especially when listening to dubstep
just like how a bass guitar can ruin a guitar amp, can the bass in music do the same
also, inb4 dubstep is shit (even though i know the first post is almost destined to be that :haha: ),

jrisreal wrote:

deadly habit wrote:

gen_ wrote:Maybe its because I'm still discovering new tunes everyday, but dubstep is still very experimental to me. You look a the transformation from dub to DMZ's Haunted to the commercialization (aka Nero Rusko etc) to the up to the minute Flux Pavilion stuff, not to mention Purple, 8 bit, Glitch, brostep (Datsik, excision), annoying robot noise-step (Skrillex, Bare Noize), not so annoying robot noize-step (16 bit + Propatingz Bablyons Scared for example)

There tons of stuff, its way more diverse than even rock was 10 years after creation.

On topic, the most common one for me is when I'm listening to the freshmen in my college taking about how they made thier tune;

Kid 1: Yeah, so I put some drums on it, compressed them to make them louder, and then stuck a subtractor there and made some sub bass
Kid 2: But my drums never come out that loud when i do that
Kid 1: Thats cos I got this neat trick, set the ratio to 1:1 and turn the gain all the way up, see!
Me:

i just realized what that was saying!!!!
its called volume, you noobs...im a freshmen in high school and im smarter than you lol

ChadDub wrote:Duffman!

I remember that as well!

paravrais wrote:

jrisreal wrote:

deadly habit wrote:

gen_ wrote:Maybe its because I'm still discovering new tunes everyday, but dubstep is still very experimental to me. You look a the transformation from dub to DMZ's Haunted to the commercialization (aka Nero Rusko etc) to the up to the minute Flux Pavilion stuff, not to mention Purple, 8 bit, Glitch, brostep (Datsik, excision), annoying robot noise-step (Skrillex, Bare Noize), not so annoying robot noize-step (16 bit + Propatingz Bablyons Scared for example)

There tons of stuff, its way more diverse than even rock was 10 years after creation.

On topic, the most common one for me is when I'm listening to the freshmen in my college taking about how they made thier tune;

Kid 1: Yeah, so I put some drums on it, compressed them to make them louder, and then stuck a subtractor there and made some sub bass
Kid 2: But my drums never come out that loud when i do that
Kid 1: Thats cos I got this neat trick, set the ratio to 1:1 and turn the gain all the way up, see!
That's what ui meant lol. Gain is just volume boost, no?
Me:

i just realized what that was saying!!!!
its called volume, you noobs...im a freshmen in high school and im smarter than you lol

I'm not sure if I understood what you were trying to say but did you just try to claim that it's called 'volume' and not 'gain'? O.o