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Midrange?
Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:50 pm
by halo skycrash
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.
Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:00 pm
by xzazael
Re: Midrange?
Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:12 pm
by deadly_habit
Halo 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.
term noobs use for emphasis on midrange freq wise despite sub end
very rarely will you hear an all midrange bass tune
kinda a hate term round here like clownstep to dnb that's been embraced
Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:24 pm
by Brisance
Everything that Habit creates
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:28 am
by xzazael
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:46 am
by deadly_habit
Brisance wrote:Everything that Habit gets releasedo
fixed i have plenty of other shit that chilled and sib laden
your just not on the list to whom it gets sent to
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:15 am
by Sharmaji
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).
D
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:19 am
by tripwire22
there a link on that?
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 6:55 am
by freq juggler
Tripwire22 wrote:there a link on that?
+1
shame on me.. i never knew dmz was coki and mala
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 7:05 am
by lowpass
Freq Juggler wrote:Tripwire22 wrote:there a link on that?
+1
shame on me.. i never knew dmz was coki and mala
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 8:02 am
by Dub_Fiend
Freq Juggler wrote:Tripwire22 wrote:there a link on that?
+1
shame on me.. i never knew dmz was coki and mala
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 lol
Dub Fiend
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:24 pm
by halo skycrash
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.
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:37 pm
by jolly wailer
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
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:34 pm
by paradigm_x
Jolly Wailer wrote:cacklash
edit - agree with ya whole post btw..
on doa there was a huge hating on 200hz at one point
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:24 pm
by legend4ry
I quite like 200hz
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:49 pm
by deadly_habit
Paradigm X wrote:Jolly Wailer wrote:cacklash
edit - agree with ya whole post btw..
on doa there was a huge hating on 200hz at one point
the infamous pendusnare
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:58 pm
by halo skycrash
Yeah, the Rusko basslines get a little on the banal side.
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 5:12 pm
by the dub lemon
Deadly Habit wrote:sib laden
Is he Osama's brother?
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 9:11 pm
by POND LIFE
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).
D
hit the nail on the head.
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.
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:51 pm
by xzazael
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
