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For those who work on a variety of different styles of edm (dubstep, dnb, house, downtempo, whatever). Do you ever start say a downtempo track and say to yourself, "That would sound ill over a dnb rhythm" and then change the tune or start a new tune based on that. Or maybe turn a dubstep tune into techno track or some shit. This happens to me on occassion, just wondered if anyone else experiences this.

yea ive done this a few times.

made drums for a dubstep track only to find they sound sik at 175bpm

many times i have made a track at 128 or 140 then tested it out at 140 or 128 and it has sounded much better with a few changes.

of course! that's how the creative process works, imo..

experimenting yields sound that may be suitable for any style, or may be very specific for a style you have in mind.

I've found that if you start writing a perc loop at 140 bpm and switch it to 170 (before you've build percs around the snare etc) it will sound really good. I've almost turned a few dubstep tunes into DnB only to finish them as dubstep

in my case it´s difficult, i mainly work on dubstep but still working on my breakcore side a bit. the tempo i normally use for dubstep is around 140 - 144bpm and when doing breakcore i use around 210 - 220 bpm. if i switch the tempos sounds like a mess, so i prefer to decide what genre im gonna work since the beginning.

if you work on dubstep / house / techno or similar tempo related genres you can easily try in which style sounds better imo

fiziks wrote:For those who work on a variety of different styles of edm (dubstep, dnb, house, downtempo, whatever). Do you ever start say a downtempo track and say to yourself, "That would sound ill over a dnb rhythm" and then change the tune or start a new tune based on that. Or maybe turn a dubstep tune into techno track or some shit. This happens to me on occassion, just wondered if anyone else experiences this.

I very seldom think of what style it's going to be before I start. Only in very broad terms, like I want techno kicks, or sub bass, or breakbeats.

I just make whatever comes into my head. I started out just making dnb, then Breakbeat, and now im on more of a dub tip. Yesterday i made a banging techno track Sidechained to the extremes... anyone?

cardopusher wrote:in my case it´s difficult, i mainly work on dubstep but still working on my breakcore side a bit. the tempo i normally use for dubstep is around 140 - 144bpm and when doing breakcore i use around 210 - 220 bpm. if i switch the tempos sounds like a mess, so i prefer to decide what genre im gonna work since the beginning.

if you work on dubstep / house / techno or similar tempo related genres you can easily try in which style sounds better imo

By the way, Cardopusher, one of the reasons I really like your dubstep is because of the "contamination" it suffers from breakcore. It shows in the editing and the details.

i have this problem a lot, i come from a tech house / breakbeat background, so writing at 140bpm just feels really unnatural to me. hence most of the dubstep-esque tracks i do tend to clock in around 130bpm...

I only make tunes at 142bpm.

yeh its great to dabble in other genres man keeps you inspired i have to be honest but i'm mainly a dnb producer but make dubstep on the side and houseand its fucking surprising what you can learn from making other genres you wouldnt believe how good dnb ambience and filthy basses (reeses) sound when u slow them down.
its mainly because there is no benchmark when it comes to dubstep theres no set standard everyone has to work upto. it doesnt matter if drums are too loud or too quiet or the snare doesnt punch enough, but when producing dnb theres that "noisia/calyx and spor standard" thats been set and everyone has to work up to that or else it sounds pants alongside them.

anyway probs didnt help, just a quick post before work.

Pyre