Making Brostep/Dubstep for the first time, critiques welcome

[Dabrenn]

I'm not a huge fan of Brostep/Dubstep, but I think it's about time I tried my hand at making some so here it is (just the drop).

http://soundcloud.com/dabrenn/brostep-drop-wip

I'm not very happy with it and its just more of a skeleton with very little variation, which if i decide to move forward with it, I'll change up a ton more, but I'd love to get some feedback and advice from some people more into the genre.

Be as mean as you want, I need it :D and thank you so much for listening.

P.S. D-BLUE GLITCH IS A PAIN TO WORK WITH SOMETIMES

[EDIT] I'm working with Ableton Live

[Friv]

I'm not a huge fan of Brostep/Dubstep, but I think it's about time I tried my hand at making some so here it is (just the drop).

http://soundcloud.com/dabrenn/brostep-drop-wip

I'm not very happy with it and its just more of a skeleton with very little variation, which if i decide to move forward with it, I'll change up a ton more, but I'd love to get some feedback and advice from some people more into the genre.

Be as mean as you want, I need it and thank you so much for listening.

P.S. D-BLUE GLITCH IS A PAIN TO WORK WITH SOMETIMES

I think you could benefit from adding some sidechain from your basses to the drums. I would help, but I don't know what DAW you use.

[Also, next time make sure you use the "music" subforum for critique (don't worry it's fine).]

[Dabrenn]

one of the first things i noticed is that its missing sub bass (im really picking about this) i don't know anything about bro step so thats all i have : P

I have a sub bass in there, maybe I need to boost the volume a little bit. it's more of a constant bwahhhhh that anything changing, its really just there for the presence.

I think you could benefit from adding some sidechain from your basses to the drums. I would help, but I don't know what DAW you use.

Which basses are you talking about? I really only have one (sort of twoish) deep bass sounds outside of my kick and it is sidechained to my kick currently.

I use Ableton Live.

[Also, next time make sure you use the "music" subforum for critique (don't worry it's fine).]

I wasn't sure where to put this since it was such a short little loop, nowhere near a finished song and I'm more looking for critique very particularly on the drop, so that's why I decided to drop it here. In hindsight, you were probably right.

[Navron]

The subbass shouldn't be there just for presence. It's the power behind every single bass sound you have. Some of the higher pitched sounds don't really need it, but it's important for your subbass to follow the same modulation as your mid-range basses. Otherwise, if you were to play on a nice big stereo system, all the crowd would hear is a constant "blahhh" of the subbass, completely drowning out the modulation of your other basses.

The sound quality of this video isn't that great, but that actually helps illustrate this concept. The subbass here is so loud it completely muffles the camera mic, however, if you listen, you can see that in every song these 2 play, the subbass is perfectly timed up with the main mid-range sounds.



Another thing to consider with subbass, is that it's lazy. You can't modulate a subbass too fast, or jump around notes too much. Doing so will muddy up the subbass frequencies pretty fast.

If you have some really fast wubs (like 16ths), try modulating the subbass at 8ths. That way your subbass will still provide punch to your main modulation, without getting sluggish.

Other than that, I personally feel your main bass could use a step down on the octave. Right now it feels a bit too high, and a bit too clean for brostep.