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What do you guys think of my first dubstep tune? Honest opinions please, thats the only way i can get better, advice on making dubstep please?
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sexy wobbles. But i think the clap could use less reverb:)

Thanks man, ive been working on the YAYA bass too, and haha i thought the same about those claps

Clap isn't to bad. there is something bouncing around to much tho, and its generally seems very quiet with no kick drum or its pretty much eq'd in sub frequencies. Yeah your kick is definitely not hitting like it should. Better EQ on that would probably help a ton. and make it sound thicker and louder.

Whats bouncing around is my kick, and thanks i need to do better mixing and EQing

IF you don't mind could you take a look at my newer tune I've been working on this weekend. Would appreciate it a ton I just need other peoples hears sometimes I rationalize things.

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Not bad, i think you should put more variety in the drums though, and a little bit more loudness, like wild wobble and yaya bass lol, but thats just my opinion.

Yeah I have all the basses down I just wanna learn melodies which is hard to find info on when everyones talking about bass lol! Most those basses are In Massive and are fairly simple to learn without using patches.

Yea, the melodies are kinda hard, but i just use a automation clip for the speed knob in FL Studio, i use Sytrus for my wobbles and Harmless for my YAYAs

Yeah I can use analogue in Ableton too but Id rather learn them on a better sounding synth thats not so automated.

Yo mate, to be just honest with you, the tune totally sucks...

BUT

You are new to production, so we are not here to break you down, but to guide you

First off, try making a solid beat: get some good headphones or even monitors (if you're getting serious on production) that give good response on what you are doing, you'll hear that you did something totally wrong in your beat: only your clap is at the right volume here, the kick should be louder, the bass should be louder, the trancy lead abit louder.

So you made a beat (including kick, snare, hats) , now start adding your bassline (preferably very very basic, wobbles or not doesn't really matter), make sure you listen carefully to how it fits in between the beat you made. If you think the whole fits well, add a melody, again listen carefully and adjust the volumes

Repeat, and practice alot. Once you got the hang of how to make a simple, SOLID beat, you can go move on to the next step, sounddesign of your basslines/melodies etc etc

Goodluck man, hope you get there one day!

I think what needs to be said has already been said, musically I like what is gonig on, rythmically I do not and in a lot of dubstep I would argue that rythm is more important due to the nature of the genre. as Reign said, playing with how the drums and bass interact is key to creating a good groove and making a song that doesn't sound stagnant. That said it sounds a lot like my first tune hahah, keep at it and really focus on learning about mixing in order to make your tune louder and better.

reignz wrote:Yo mate, to be just honest with you, the tune totally sucks...

BUT

You are new to production, so we are not here to break you down, but to guide you

First off, try making a solid beat: get some good headphones or even monitors (if you're getting serious on production) that give good response on what you are doing, you'll hear that you did something totally wrong in your beat: only your clap is at the right volume here, the kick should be louder, the bass should be louder, the trancy lead abit louder.

So you made a beat (including kick, snare, hats) , now start adding your bassline (preferably very very basic, wobbles or not doesn't really matter), make sure you listen carefully to how it fits in between the beat you made. If you think the whole fits well, add a melody, again listen carefully and adjust the volumes

Repeat, and practice alot. Once you got the hang of how to make a simple, SOLID beat, you can go move on to the next step, sounddesign of your basslines/melodies etc etc

Goodluck man, hope you get there one day!

Thanks man, i have the Beats by Dre headphones, are those good? and your saying the wobbles should be on beat?

it looks like your master fader is at like -12, so that's off. Other than that, try to have more than one instrument playing at a time, and everything everybody else said. Check my thread here or my SC?

reignz wrote:
Thanks man, i have the Beats by Dre headphones, are those good? and your saying the wobbles should be on beat?

From what I've heard those suck pretty bad for production because they exaggerate the bass so what you hear as a booming bass we hear as meh, but they will work fine for now because you are learning the ropes. As you get more experienced you will learn your gear's traits and be able to work around them, good luck.