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Since I'm getting sick of making 'brostep' and the whatnot I've been experimenting with more melodic ideas - however, I would still like to keep it dubstep, and because of that I'm trying to create atmospheres juxtaposed by really shuddering, physical subbass.

I'm talking about the type of basses used by Emika, or James Blake in his song 'Limit to Your Love'. Literally makes windows rattle at how sub-heavy they are! Plenty of other examples as well I'm certain.

I've only been using 3xosc (in FL Studio) with the basic sine wave underneath at low C1 to C2 range, however I want to really know how to make the powerful, physically present subs with unique character!

I've heard some producers use pitched-down samples in regard to this - can anyone shed some light also?

I'm very much an amateur myself and I could be completely wrong but I sometimes just like to make my room shake (I like pissing the neighbors off).

Basically I set up Massive with 3x sine waves all at -12.00 and add a pitch drop, set unison to 4 and apply a tube and a only a very little amount of Dimension Expander and then use Massive EQ and boost about 50hz a little bit.

I too am interested in this, as I feel you can always learn something new in this area. Having a decent sound system in my car I tend to over=analyze every productions low=end and I find it can varu so much from amateur productions to the pro-level stuff. The pro's somehow find a way to make super-powerful subs that sound super clean yet still have some harmonics making them audible on even terrible sound systems. If anyone has any tips I too would like to hear. I've always used sine waves in the past but recently I made a sub patch with a pure square wave that actually sounded pretty good. Do you guys ever use anything other than pure sine waves for subs?

Legend4ry's sub bass tutorial - http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=143648

Should answer all your questions and more.