Dubstepforum.com

I'm a guitarist in a metal band so I don't normally write electronic music but my friend showed me a Mt. Eden song a bit ago. Upon browsing this forum I saw there were a lot of dubstep elitists here, so I figured this would be the best place for honest feedback. Feel free to rip this track to shreds if you like I love all criticism good, but especially bad because it helps me improve as a musician. I've been listening to dubstep (and a good amount of brostep apparently) recently and I'm debating getting into making some. I tossed this together in about an hour using fruity loops over a year ago so the mixing sucks but I'm looking for feedback mainly on the musical value. If you care to have me respond to one of your topics/songs I gladly would just for some response on this. Anyway, enough with the rambling here is the song.

http://www.purevolume.com/zacharyshade <<it's the 3rd song titled 4/4/11. It didn't even get a name because I threw it together so quick haha.

wut

it reminds me of a jewish wedding lol. sounds really unorganized :/

...try leaving the guitar out and working with more repetition and loops, making the changeups more subtle. this is a problem i faced when i started producing, i'm a bass guitarist and my first project was like melody/changeup overload. work on giving your track flow, make a part of it that sounds different than the rest, even if it means just removing/adding some percussion.

look up youtube videos on arrangement and composition for electronic music, as well as mixing. if that was your first attempt at making something you're off to a decent start. you have to put the "i'm a guitarist solo tiem" thing out of your mind because producing music means you are the entire band. become a regular in this thread http://dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=190115 and remember to post 3 feedbacks before posting up your stuff. good luck

Not bad, if it had percussion that gelled and had flow it could be good. Keep working on designing sounds and flowing, grooving percussion.

no.

as rule of thumb, its "dubstep" if it has 140bpm, a sub bass, and wubs and usually a drop

great melodies and snappy snare! for one of your firsts its quite good. keep at it

iconDubstep wrote:as rule of thumb, its "dubstep" if it has 140bpm, a sub bass, and wubs and usually a drop

noooo, dubstep is whatever you want it too be maaaaaaann.

rezora wrote:

iconDubstep wrote:as rule of thumb, its "dubstep" if it has 140bpm, a sub bass, and wubs and usually a drop

noooo, dubstep is whatever you want it too be maaaaaaann.

Wut? Noo it isn't, if I wrote a heavy metal song i wouldn't call it dubstep just cause I wanted it to be

Dubstep is a half time beat on a 140bpm (which is why some people make it on a 70bpm full time beat, but yeah traditionally it's 140), the 'wubs' don't have to be LFO'd or 'talking' but it's a habit dubstep seems to have picked up, and the bass 'drop' is just a modern term for the song getting going after the intro, although it's usually as action oriented as possible cause some immensely heavy surprise sound is what catches people's attention.

This tracks weird man, not necessarily weird in a good way.
Sounds like a schizophrenic clown at a carnival.
work on your transition game, as far as making it all flow together, drops and such.
the choice of sounds to accent the dubstep bass is kinda weird too, way contradictory, which works sometimes, but not in this case.
Not kidding though, it could work for a new age circus act, background music for trapeze artists type shit.
keep at man and best of luck

iconDubstep wrote:as rule of thumb, its "dubstep" if it has 140bpm, a sub bass, and wubs and usually a drop

Are you fucking serious??

Marzz wrote:

iconDubstep wrote:as rule of thumb, its "dubstep" if it has 140bpm, a sub bass, and wubs and usually a drop

Are you fucking serious??

What's so wrong about this? Are YOU serious? Lemme ask you that. Sure it varies, but don't break out the alpaca for that mane.

Thanks everyone for the feedback. My co-worker actually said a few months back that I should call this "political carnival" and add in sound clips like "I did not have sex with that women" and other famous lies, so the circus comments I can totally see. Maybe I'll come around here more and actually produce some tracks in my free time, for a bunch of dick elitists you guys seem like good guys