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doomproduction wrote:until dubstep is on level terms technically.. i'm sticking with dnb.

just listen to the bass noises noisia / calyx / spor come out with. dubstep, unfortunately, is nowhere near that!

give it a few years to catch up...

this is a good point. while alot of others are still devoting time to reeces or bouncy shit, those guys are coming up with some fucked up sounds. but to be fair, some of the darker dubstep is catching up.

it's strange how the 'dark' stuff always seem to be the most innovative, regardless of whether your into it.

thankfully dubstep is still young enough to avoid ending up defining it's self through the wobble.

as for what to make, make both...

or do what i sometimes like doing and make half step dnb...sounds abit like dubstep but at a higher tempo so the drums are less static and roll abit more.

lovin both, some of the stuff bein released on both ides is unreal at the moment. dubsteps younger but its already shot up in the scene o quickly to be played alongside dnb headliners!!

havin a hard time justifyin dubstep to most of my mates
but both genres are completely different and have their time and place

dTruk wrote:

doomproduction wrote:until dubstep is on level terms technically.. i'm sticking with dnb.

just listen to the bass noises noisia / calyx / spor come out with. dubstep, unfortunately, is nowhere near that!

give it a few years to catch up...

this is a good point.

To be honest, I see that as a good reason to make dubstep. I like the sounds kind of equally, but I know that to make a reasonable sounding dnb tune (particularly in a mainstream sort of style) I'd have to spend bloody ages working at the technical side of getting the drums to sound just right and all that sort of stuff, whereas with dubstep it's a lot easier to just focus on the ideas.

Also, I think the more 'technically advanced' it gets, the harder it gets to come up with something original and good, because after ten or fifteen years of evolution the basic reese tunes sound really really effective, and trying to come up with something different that doesn't sound weak in comparison is comparatively difficult. Whereas dubstep tunes don't have that level of across the board refinement, so people can still bust out something totally new and off the wall.

delements wrote:Really into both but Im not sure which one I want to devote my attention to should I make both and see which one I have a better instinct for or anything else?

suggestions

thanks

Same boat as me. Its the cost of vinyl that makes the decision difficult. I cant afford to dj both and id never leave vinyl

im just producing both at the moment. Dubstep tends to take the agressivness out of my dnb so i produce soulful liquid dnb and dirty dubstep. Its nice to have a break from doing just one style loads