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I have really gotten into dubstep recently and I decided i wanted to look into trying to teach myself how to use reason.
This is what i have come up with so far. Bear in mind, i dont have any custom samples or patches or anything yet. I just used my own synths that i made in thor etc. Song has no sturcture really atm but i was just playing around with things. Would appreciate it if i could get any criticism or helpful feedback (like links to videos or info on reason etc).

Cheers
BevOh

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When I first used reason I was spending like 2 hours on making 1 garbage 8 bar loop. So if this is your legit first tune then good job. Decent use of presets I guess lol, and its sad that you have better structure than me. But keep working on it and reading the production bible and things will stick and your sound will get better and better.

Good for a start.

Thanks mate
Yeh i just followed a few tutorials and put them all together with my own notes n shit.
Any tutorials info i should check out?

i like the part from about 1:10 onwards.

I like the second bassline.

My tip... don't use IAmThor preset. or imho presets that are super-recognizeable or distinguished that specifically. It's a really specific sound, you should try tweaking the modulators that are getting Thor's formants to talk. I don't remember exactly what that mod matrix was. but check em out, maybe you can get Thor to say something different.

Then its time to study mixing.
Also, you can drag the "E" tab thingy in Reason's sequencer to the end of your track and it will cut off proper without all that silence at the end

reason advice.. take it or leave it but after a couple years of using it daily i would say:
1. dont use the internal limiter but rather make tunes with proper headroom
2. use the 6:2 mixer instead of the 14:2 (or jus rewire to daw is best)
3. learn how to properly layer synths and eq them as u do so using the vocoder and master the mindset of signal splitting, sidechain compression, and using the combi to automate layers of synths instead of jus 1 at a time

find the youtube vid yoni does about the combinator.. jump started my combi game

also! make a folder for your own presets and then u can tweak those later and create more... once u make ur own patches youll never want to use a preset again!!

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wabble wrote:reason advice.. take it or leave it but after a couple years of using it daily i would say:
1. dont use the internal limiter but rather make tunes with proper headroom
2. use the 6:2 mixer instead of the 14:2 (or jus rewire to daw is best)
3. learn how to properly layer synths and eq them as u do so using the vocoder and master the mindset of signal splitting, sidechain compression, and using the combi to automate layers of synths instead of jus 1 at a time

find the youtube vid yoni does about the combinator.. jump started my combi game

What an odd piece of advice.