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More dubstep! Used a bunch of samples from the PROTON Reason Refill for this, but besides that it's all original stuff. Also, there's a guitar line in the breakdown, it's cheesy and it sucks, I know. But making that sound cool without an actual guitar to play it on, is damn hard!
Anyways, enjoy. :)
PS: Thumbnail picture was totally plagiarized.
Anyways, enjoy. :)
PS: Thumbnail picture was totally plagiarized.
Category Music / Other Music
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 120 x 120px
File Size 5.79 MB
The composition for a dubstep track has all of the elements, and the instruments all sound pretty good. What you do seem to be lacking is some EQ depth, which is to say, everything feels kind of flat and lacks a lot of overal depth. Try making an EQ for each of your midi and sample tracks with triggers set in the 90hz, 250hz, 800hz, 2500hz and 8000hz ranges and try to play around with bringing forward each of your sounds, while subduing them in others on your other tracks. i.e. if your guitar is most prominent in the 500hz range, bump your 250 and 800hz up on that track, and lower on the others.
Furthermore, your drums lack a ton of punch to them that seems to dominate the genre. Try setting a compressor on your master track sidechained to your snare hit, so everytime that snare hits, the rest of the track will slightly duck down it's volume to let it come through. That should give it a great snap and make your good track a great one. Good luck!
Furthermore, your drums lack a ton of punch to them that seems to dominate the genre. Try setting a compressor on your master track sidechained to your snare hit, so everytime that snare hits, the rest of the track will slightly duck down it's volume to let it come through. That should give it a great snap and make your good track a great one. Good luck!
Thanks, I appreciate the feedback, but I know the mastering in this song isn't perfect. Didn't really want to spend a lot of time tweaking each track to perfection, hehe. Maybe tomorrow, when it's y'know, not three in the morning. :P
Using a compressor like that in Reason, tends to take away the punch instead of highlighting it. But I don't like drums that are overly present anyways. A beat is a beat, it defines the rhythm and tempo, the snare doesn't have to be the loudest sound in the mix for it to successfully do so.
That trick with the EQs, I haven't really done before (well I've used EQs before obviously, just never to separate the tracks into different bands), so I'll try that and probably post whatever I come up with.
Using a compressor like that in Reason, tends to take away the punch instead of highlighting it. But I don't like drums that are overly present anyways. A beat is a beat, it defines the rhythm and tempo, the snare doesn't have to be the loudest sound in the mix for it to successfully do so.
That trick with the EQs, I haven't really done before (well I've used EQs before obviously, just never to separate the tracks into different bands), so I'll try that and probably post whatever I come up with.
Ive actually started recently dipping my drums more into the background to give the main basses more room to play. I'm noticing that alot of modern dub artists seem to have minimal drums that lack punch. So if ya ask me, you still hit the nail on the head here. Not all dub has to follow the same formula :p
Making the snare louder than the rest of the track, tends to pass it off as a foreground sound. And since it's just basically the same thing repeated over and over, that gets boring pretty quickly. It's more logical to put the basses in the foreground, though I wouldn't say either way is wrong, it just produces a very different result.
Sidechain in Dubstep - get a kick in the groin. Completely unnecessary. I'm listening on my sub-par Sony headphones and the snare has plenty of snap to it. All it could really use is a little mid/high boost on the EQ.
On composition - the Arp at the beginning and later at 3:41 doesn't really belong. Its a bit of a vintage sound for the dubstep grimeyness you've got going on after. Bit too rave/trance oriented - sounds slightly dated. Just my opinion though, of course. Loving the pad around 2:45ish though.
In relation to it sounding "flat" - thats a bit of a Reason characteristic so I can't rate you down there, I'd be tempted to suggest taking your mixdowns into another sound editor and tweaking EQ and dynamics there, not sure if you do?
Overall though, more awesome dubstep!
On composition - the Arp at the beginning and later at 3:41 doesn't really belong. Its a bit of a vintage sound for the dubstep grimeyness you've got going on after. Bit too rave/trance oriented - sounds slightly dated. Just my opinion though, of course. Loving the pad around 2:45ish though.
In relation to it sounding "flat" - thats a bit of a Reason characteristic so I can't rate you down there, I'd be tempted to suggest taking your mixdowns into another sound editor and tweaking EQ and dynamics there, not sure if you do?
Overall though, more awesome dubstep!
Yeah, I guess it isn't very standard for dubstep to have sounds like that... Theoretically, it works though (it's a basic chord progression that focuses on the perfect intervals, so it works with the diminished tones of the bass), and it breaks away from the grimeyness a bit.
I always thought Reason had a thin sound... but I don't use anything else for editing. I never really looked into it much but I also don't want to end up having to go through lots of loops to get a song finished. If you know something that would work well with Reason though, please do tell!
And thanks, glad you liked it.
I always thought Reason had a thin sound... but I don't use anything else for editing. I never really looked into it much but I also don't want to end up having to go through lots of loops to get a song finished. If you know something that would work well with Reason though, please do tell!
And thanks, glad you liked it.
Yeah, it works technically, the synth used is unorthodox. Breaking moulds is never a bad thing though!
In terms of mastering, Reason can do it but its quite hard. An option is to export the tracks individually as wav and throw them into another daw. Mix and master in that using VST eqs/compressors.
If you want, I can run it through my mastering stack and see what happens? Note me if you want, it would be good to take a crack at a different genre.
In terms of mastering, Reason can do it but its quite hard. An option is to export the tracks individually as wav and throw them into another daw. Mix and master in that using VST eqs/compressors.
If you want, I can run it through my mastering stack and see what happens? Note me if you want, it would be good to take a crack at a different genre.
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