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Re: Rate My Wubs!

Postby NegaNote » 09 Dec 2012 21:49

I've made an EQ cut in that frequency range. Same link. Does it sound better now?
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Re: Rate My Wubs!

Postby Navron » 09 Dec 2012 22:55

Definitely sounds better, but there's still a lot of mid frequencies. By itself it's not bad, but when you incorporate it into a song it will sound muddy with the other instruments.

Try making a parabolic cut from 250Hz-2kHz, but don't make it too drastic (6-8dB should be enough). Give the 2-5kHz region a slight boost (no more than 3dB), and it should sound pretty good.

If you're running the subbass in the same patch as your mid-range bass, then you need to separate out more than just the 250Hz-2kHz region. I usually have a big EQ shelf from 100Hz - 250Hz, with another cut in the mids described above.
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Re: Rate My Wubs!

Postby Strezzkev » 12 Dec 2012 20:31

My sample

https://soundcloud.com/rainbowism/errrr-wub

Room for improvement indeed, it's simple, but I would like it to be more aggressive.

used just the default noise with sytrus and modded it.
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Re: Rate My Wubs!

Postby XXDarkShadow79XX » 13 Dec 2012 05:34

Strezzkev wrote:My sample

https://soundcloud.com/rainbowism/errrr-wub

Room for improvement indeed, it's simple, but I would like it to be more aggressive.

used just the default noise with sytrus and modded it.


Aggressive? YOU'VE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE.

Keep the eq for your wobble the same so your mixdown isn't slaughtered, and add a distortion before it, preferably Camelcrusher if you wanna go free. If you want to make your drop as a whole more aggressive, then you definitely need to add more sounds. It's tough to make a drop that consists of just one dry vowel wobble, so use it in conjunction with other sounds, and don't forget to sequence them properly. Usually a drop wouldn't have a yoi, then a wobble, then a huge roar bass. If you can make that work, than that's awesome, but as a rule of thumb: bigger sounds with lots of harmonics usually come first. (Making the sequence roar, yoi, then wobble) Again, this is just a little beginner tip, and it really does not need to be followed. It's just an easy way to make your drops rougher while still having variety

Once again, to keep your mixdown intact (and to make your drop a bit more focused on the bass sounds themselves, thus making it filthier) I would probably take out the melodic synth in the background. Also, your drop completely lacks a buildup. Maybe you left it out on purpose, but that intro section is kind of pointless then. A simple kick roll and white noise filtered up would have done here.
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Re: Rate My Wubs!

Postby Strezzkev » 13 Dec 2012 13:10

XXDarkShadow79XX wrote:
Strezzkev wrote:My sample

https://soundcloud.com/rainbowism/errrr-wub

Room for improvement indeed, it's simple, but I would like it to be more aggressive.

used just the default noise with sytrus and modded it.


Aggressive? YOU'VE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE.

Keep the eq for your wobble the same so your mixdown isn't slaughtered, and add a distortion before it, preferably Camelcrusher if you wanna go free. If you want to make your drop as a whole more aggressive, then you definitely need to add more sounds. It's tough to make a drop that consists of just one dry vowel wobble, so use it in conjunction with other sounds, and don't forget to sequence them properly. Usually a drop wouldn't have a yoi, then a wobble, then a huge roar bass. If you can make that work, than that's awesome, but as a rule of thumb: bigger sounds with lots of harmonics usually come first. (Making the sequence roar, yoi, then wobble) Again, this is just a little beginner tip, and it really does not need to be followed. It's just an easy way to make your drops rougher while still having variety

Once again, to keep your mixdown intact (and to make your drop a bit more focused on the bass sounds themselves, thus making it filthier) I would probably take out the melodic synth in the background. Also, your drop completely lacks a buildup. Maybe you left it out on purpose, but that intro section is kind of pointless then. A simple kick roll and white noise filtered up would have done here.


ah! perfect! Thank you, if you wouldn't mind, could you get me an example of a roar?
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Re: Rate My Wubs!

Postby XXDarkShadow79XX » 13 Dec 2012 20:07

Strezzkev wrote:
XXDarkShadow79XX wrote:
Strezzkev wrote:My sample

https://soundcloud.com/rainbowism/errrr-wub

Room for improvement indeed, it's simple, but I would like it to be more aggressive.

used just the default noise with sytrus and modded it.


Aggressive? YOU'VE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE.

Keep the eq for your wobble the same so your mixdown isn't slaughtered, and add a distortion before it, preferably Camelcrusher if you wanna go free. If you want to make your drop as a whole more aggressive, then you definitely need to add more sounds. It's tough to make a drop that consists of just one dry vowel wobble, so use it in conjunction with other sounds, and don't forget to sequence them properly. Usually a drop wouldn't have a yoi, then a wobble, then a huge roar bass. If you can make that work, than that's awesome, but as a rule of thumb: bigger sounds with lots of harmonics usually come first. (Making the sequence roar, yoi, then wobble) Again, this is just a little beginner tip, and it really does not need to be followed. It's just an easy way to make your drops rougher while still having variety

Once again, to keep your mixdown intact (and to make your drop a bit more focused on the bass sounds themselves, thus making it filthier) I would probably take out the melodic synth in the background. Also, your drop completely lacks a buildup. Maybe you left it out on purpose, but that intro section is kind of pointless then. A simple kick roll and white noise filtered up would have done here.


ah! perfect! Thank you, if you wouldn't mind, could you get me an example of a roar?


Sure thing! I'd LOVE to! Here:

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/up49v8aycgahx1 ... 20Bass.wav

Mind that when I say "roar" bass I really mean just any massive opener. It obviously doesn't HAVE to be a vowel-y "roar".
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Re: Rate My Wubs!

Postby Omegastick » 14 Dec 2012 17:35

Strezzkev wrote:My sample

https://soundcloud.com/rainbowism/errrr-wub

Room for improvement indeed, it's simple, but I would like it to be more aggressive.

used just the default noise with sytrus and modded it.


The basics are there, it's mostly synth design and a little bit of mixdown now.

If I were you I'd remove those background synths or turn them down so they're peaking around -22--24 db.

After that you just need to make your bass a helluva lot bigger. A solid sub bass (a normal sine wave will do the job, but don't be afraid to be creative, just make sure it doesn't venture too far from the 40hz region) in there will do half the work for you. Then layer your synths with some more, dirtier sounds. I recommend you go into your synth of choice and play with every knob you can until you get some really filthy sounds, that will help your synth design right away 'cause you'll learn the what every single knob does on your synthesizer. For example, I like to use a mix of Ableton's Operator and Sylenth1, and as such I know what every single knob will do to my sound (actually, there are a few I haven't experimented with on Sylenth1, but I intend to later).

But yeah, layer up some filthy bass sounds on your bass and add some harmonics all over the shop, that'll phatten up your sound.

I've been working on a track today, I want to know what you guys have to say about it. It isn't my normal style, it's really rather cliched but it's been an excellent exercise in synth design and drum programming.

https://soundcloud.com/omegastick/untitled-dubstep-wip

(Hehe, listening back on it I need to make those synths more bassy)
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Re: Rate My Wubs!

Postby Strezzkev » 14 Dec 2012 21:53

Oh man! that's huge improvement for me! lol I can't seem to venture away from melodic wawbs,
but here are at least my sounds I've got, what are they rated now?
https://soundcloud.com/rainbowism/wawbs

XXDarkShadow79XX wrote:Keep the eq for your wobble the same so your mixdown isn't slaughtered, and add a distortion before it, preferably Camelcrusher if you wanna go free. If you want to make your drop as a whole more aggressive, then you definitely need to add more sounds. It's tough to make a drop that consists of just one dry vowel wobble, so use it in conjunction with other sounds, and don't forget to sequence them properly. Usually a drop wouldn't have a yoi, then a wobble, then a huge roar bass. If you can make that work, than that's awesome, but as a rule of thumb: bigger sounds with lots of harmonics usually come first. (Making the sequence roar, yoi, then wobble) Again, this is just a little beginner tip, and it really does not need to be followed. It's just an easy way to make your drops rougher while still having variety

Once again, to keep your mixdown intact (and to make your drop a bit more focused on the bass sounds themselves, thus making it filthier) I would probably take out the melodic synth in the background. Also, your drop completely lacks a buildup. Maybe you left it out on purpose, but that intro section is kind of pointless then. A simple kick roll and white noise filtered up would have done here.


^^Thank you

Omegastick wrote:After that you just need to make your bass a helluva lot bigger. A solid sub bass (a normal sine wave will do the job, but don't be afraid to be creative, just make sure it doesn't venture too far from the 40hz region) in there will do half the work for you. Then layer your synths with some more, dirtier sounds. I recommend you go into your synth of choice and play with every knob you can until you get some really filthy sounds, that will help your synth design right away 'cause you'll learn the what every single knob does on your synthesizer. For example, I like to use a mix of Ableton's Operator and Sylenth1, and as such I know what every single knob will do to my sound (actually, there are a few I haven't experimented with on Sylenth1, but I intend to later).


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Re: Rate My Wubs!

Postby Omegastick » 15 Dec 2012 09:02

Strezzkev wrote:Oh man! that's huge improvement for me! lol I can't seem to venture away from melodic wawbs,
but here are at least my sounds I've got, what are they rated now?
https://soundcloud.com/rainbowism/wawbs

Omegastick wrote:After that you just need to make your bass a helluva lot bigger. A solid sub bass (a normal sine wave will do the job, but don't be afraid to be creative, just make sure it doesn't venture too far from the 40hz region) in there will do half the work for you. Then layer your synths with some more, dirtier sounds. I recommend you go into your synth of choice and play with every knob you can until you get some really filthy sounds, that will help your synth design right away 'cause you'll learn the what every single knob does on your synthesizer. For example, I like to use a mix of Ableton's Operator and Sylenth1, and as such I know what every single knob will do to my sound (actually, there are a few I haven't experimented with on Sylenth1, but I intend to later).


^^Thank you


No problemo. It sounds ten times better now. If you're still looking for feedback then you need a bit of a buildup before the drop to build tension. Other than that it's just practice practice practice. I don't really know what specific advice to give you, so keep going and you'll be dropping bass like Skrillex (or not, if that's what you prefer) in no time.
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Re: Rate My Wubs!

Postby Dr. Plague » 04 Feb 2013 05:06

XXDarkShadow79XX wrote:Here:

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/up49v8aycgahx1 ... 20Bass.wav

Mind that when I say "roar" bass I really mean just any massive opener. It obviously doesn't HAVE to be a vowel-y "roar".

Just have to say, that roar is a little messy (for lack of a better word, honestly not trying to use something as negative as that).

Strezzkev wrote:Oh man! that's huge improvement for me! lol I can't seem to venture away from melodic wawbs,
but here are at least my sounds I've got, what are they rated now?
https://soundcloud.com/rainbowism/wawbs

All of your wubs are a little too loud in relation to the kick and snare, but that's just a matter of adjusting the volume. :P I enjoyed that quite a bit... Look forward to seeing you progress with it!

Instead of putting something up here that I should be looking for criticism on, I'm gonna put this little diddle up that I had fun toying around with. Dunno if I'll take it anywhere or just consider it practice. I've never tried making trap before, so I'm a little shaky on the genre clichés and what not and how to really make it work.

https://soundcloud.com/plaguedr/first-try-at-something-trap

I'm not sure how to go about making a decent trap kick... or sub-bass, for that matter...

So yeah, looking mostly for criticism on the synths and their arrangement in general.

Oh, wait, that's what a song is. Heh.
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Re: Rate My Wubs!

Postby XXDarkShadow79XX » 04 Feb 2013 17:35

Dr. Plague wrote:
XXDarkShadow79XX wrote:Here:

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/up49v8aycgahx1 ... 20Bass.wav

Mind that when I say "roar" bass I really mean just any massive opener. It obviously doesn't HAVE to be a vowel-y "roar".

Just have to say, that roar is a little messy (for lack of a better word, honestly not trying to use something as negative as that).


Oh, that's just an example. I didn't EQ it at all.
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Re: Rate My Wubs!

Postby GumsOfGabby » 05 Feb 2013 02:19

Any room for "rating" on this?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/94910162/Wubs.mp3
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Re: Rate My Wubs!

Postby Dr. Plague » 05 Feb 2013 03:02

XXDarkShadow79XX wrote:
Dr. Plague wrote:
XXDarkShadow79XX wrote:Here:

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/up49v8aycgahx1 ... 20Bass.wav

Mind that when I say "roar" bass I really mean just any massive opener. It obviously doesn't HAVE to be a vowel-y "roar".

Just have to say, that roar is a little messy (for lack of a better word, honestly not trying to use something as negative as that).


Oh, that's just an example. I didn't EQ it at all.

For the sake of giving an example to someone who doesn't really know what you're suggesting, I would've EQed it a little so it's not so confusing.
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Re: Rate My Wubs!

Postby Genkar » 08 Feb 2013 21:33

https://soundcloud.com/genkar/untitled-r-r-wip-incredibly
Working on my wubbing tactics. Any feedback?
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Re: Rate My Wubs!

Postby cplbradley » 08 Feb 2013 22:09

OH GOD this is gonna be so fuuuuun :3 I'm a professional Bass dropper :>

Genkar, the wubs aren't bad, just the fact that they are too loud and overpower the drums too much. Fix that. Also that lead synth is really loud too.

Here's one of mine to share: https://soundcloud.com/cplbradley/cowboys-dubstep-drop

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Re: Rate My Wubs!

Postby bmo13 » 10 Feb 2013 05:36

Genkar wrote: https://soundcloud.com/genkar/untitled-r-r-wip-incredibly
Working on my wubbing tactics. Any feedback?


This needs some mastering. When the bass comes in it hits you like a brick wall. While this isn't ALWAYS bad, in this case, it almost completely drowns out the melody. On another note, your drop is pretty solid, but I would turn down the phaser or lfo volume just a bit.


I myself, usually make drum and bass and electro pop, but I suppose I'll provide a snippit of dubstep if that is what is required.

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Re: Rate My Wubs!

Postby Navron » 15 Feb 2013 23:56

Made this patch in FM8 and added some drums to it:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/52284231/heartpiercer.mp3

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Re: Rate My Wubs!

Postby vladnuke » 16 Feb 2013 00:52

Navron wrote:Made this patch in FM8 and added some drums to it:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/52284231/heartpiercer.mp3

Potential?


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Re: Rate My Wubs!

Postby HMage » 16 Feb 2013 05:31

HEI GAIZ I MADE A WUB LEMME KNOW WHAT YA THINK KTHX

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/137524/Permane ... b.aiff.mp3
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Re: Rate My Wubs!

Postby soultensionbenjamin » 16 Feb 2013 19:16

Yeah navy i really like that beat.
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Re: Rate My Wubs!

Postby soultensionbenjamin » 16 Feb 2013 19:16

Yeah navy i really like that beat.
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Re: Rate My Wubs!

Postby Stakeout Punch » 16 Feb 2013 19:18

HMage wrote:HEI GAIZ I MADE A WUB LEMME KNOW WHAT YA THINK KTHX

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/137524/Permane ... b.aiff.mp3

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Re: Rate My Wubs!

Postby Nine Volt » 16 Feb 2013 20:29

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/ihejwcku5wdp0a ... zdUhA&dl=1

Proof that you don't need any VSTs to make dubstep.

Thoughts?
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Re: Rate My Wubs!

Postby EndoriaZeL » 16 Feb 2013 20:32

Nine Volt wrote:https://dl.dropbox.com/s/ihejwcku5wdp0ar/reason%20wubs.wav?token_hash=AAHUhYJyciSC1Nh9-dsC3RUY_YLZE4-qFZ7GxCYQczdUhA&dl=1

Proof that you don't need any VSTs to make dubstep.

Thoughts?


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Re: Rate My Wubs!

Postby Genkar » 16 Feb 2013 20:47

Nine Volt wrote:https://dl.dropbox.com/s/ihejwcku5wdp0ar/reason%20wubs.wav?token_hash=AAHUhYJyciSC1Nh9-dsC3RUY_YLZE4-qFZ7GxCYQczdUhA&dl=1

Proof that you don't need any VSTs to make dubstep.

Thoughts?


That's quite awesome. I enjoy that quite a lot. Drums just need to be louder.
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