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Midrange?
I keep hearing this term 'midrange dubstep', trying to understand the meaning. Someone explain this. I keep hearing about this like its a threat or something.
Dubstep:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5n286vlgKs
Midrange Dubstep:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKnieLAGnQs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5n286vlgKs
Midrange Dubstep:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKnieLAGnQs
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Re: Midrange?
term noobs use for emphasis on midrange freq wise despite sub endHalo Skycrash wrote:I keep hearing this term 'midrange dubstep', trying to understand the meaning. Someone explain this. I keep hearing about this like its a threat or something.
very rarely will you hear an all midrange bass tune
kinda a hate term round here like clownstep to dnb that's been embraced
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midrange = cack. si? non?
in all truth, the sense of 'dubbiness' and also 'rootedness' lies in the sub, dancers get their motion from the hihats and things up in that 6k register... but the rest of it-- ie, your SONG-- lies in the midrange. you can cack it up, or you can, you know... do somethin' different. or leave it out entirely (i point you to coki and mala's interview on dubstep warz in 2006).
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in all truth, the sense of 'dubbiness' and also 'rootedness' lies in the sub, dancers get their motion from the hihats and things up in that 6k register... but the rest of it-- ie, your SONG-- lies in the midrange. you can cack it up, or you can, you know... do somethin' different. or leave it out entirely (i point you to coki and mala's interview on dubstep warz in 2006).
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faaaaaaail. ¬_¬ But yeah, I was interested to see what all this midrange cackery was all about... I thought when you said it, you meant like Rusko - The Moaners, not that Skream track... Although technically you're right lolFreq Juggler wrote:+1Tripwire22 wrote:there a link on that?
shame on me.. i never knew dmz was coki and mala
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Xzazael wrote:Dubstep:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5n286vlgKs
Midrange Dubstep:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKnieLAGnQs
Ok, I see with this example you sent. OK, there difference of frequency range on the bass hook. To be honest, what a lame way to judge a song. On it's frequency range? This reminds me of the IDM forum and how snobby that was (that was waaay worse). The site had this mission statement saying , "You can submit your song to our site and we will tell you if your song is IDM." Pure comedy!!!
I make music and do use a spectral analyzer, but never go, "shit, we are getting to midrange boys!" I just make something I hear in my head, that simple.
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the issue at stake with a particular frequency range being emphasized
is the fact that when you go on a night out and you're hearing tunes played out on a gigantic rig there is an enormous difference between how long your ears can physically tolerate the midrange band of frequencies amplified at high volume (which is not very long at all) as opposed to an entire night of music where these textures are absent -- the "bottom of the ocean" effect that is acheived by producers who eschew the midrange almost entirely being the preferred sonic dwelling place for the eyes-down contingent of dubsteppers and where the comparison line is drawn for the midrange cacklash
is the fact that when you go on a night out and you're hearing tunes played out on a gigantic rig there is an enormous difference between how long your ears can physically tolerate the midrange band of frequencies amplified at high volume (which is not very long at all) as opposed to an entire night of music where these textures are absent -- the "bottom of the ocean" effect that is acheived by producers who eschew the midrange almost entirely being the preferred sonic dwelling place for the eyes-down contingent of dubsteppers and where the comparison line is drawn for the midrange cacklash
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hit the nail on the head.TeReKeTe wrote:midrange = cack. si? non?
in all truth, the sense of 'dubbiness' and also 'rootedness' lies in the sub, dancers get their motion from the hihats and things up in that 6k register... but the rest of it-- ie, your SONG-- lies in the midrange. you can cack it up, or you can, you know... do somethin' different. or leave it out entirely (i point you to coki and mala's interview on dubstep warz in 2006).
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the 'cack' that people deride is simply what dubstep puts in place of skank and vocals.
obviously some of it is literally cack, but its breeze to deride midrange sounds in general. if you want pure minimal sub dub all the time then there are labels that cater for that, no need to get all upset when people want to have something to dance to...
i like both sides of it, but will eventually get bored with a lack of mids, though too much all the time can do my head in also.
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I don't really have a problem with "midrange" dubstep, but then I'm not in front of a giant rig.
My problem has always been with the absolute cack, where you can tell they just put 4 fruity fast distortions on it to make it sound intolerable
My problem has always been with the absolute cack, where you can tell they just put 4 fruity fast distortions on it to make it sound intolerable
http://www.myspace.com/djdewalttwo oh one wrote: Don't use that M word in here! It's not music, geez! It's undagrarnd, yeah?
Thems tracks you 'eard, not music, yeah, lol, yeah, innit?
http://www.soundcloud.com/dpdub
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