whats goin on everyone

[bass ventura]

i am struggling to get my name out there i am a dub-step producer id like for people to check me out and give me some advice and what not or just listen but anyways www.myspace.com/thegoodbassventura thanks alot

[pandacub]

yes yes fella! how you goin'?

Im writing this in bits as I listen to parts of your tunes, write a bit, listen a bit, write a bit etc etc
so appologies if I write something then have to correct myself later

rite...
nowhere near blake rarity dub...
all the elements are there, the break is crisp, the vocal has got a nice feel to it, the bass wobbles are nice and cheeky but the one thing I'd say is that there need to be a lot more space in the mix...

there are sections where the kicks drop out, and the break drops out for a abar or so at at a time, but if you listen you other tracks the breaks and stuff dont run constantly... instead of running it for 8bars (for example) you sould run it for half a bar, and drop it out at the snare... doing that gives a stronger sense of the 'step' part of the dance...

as well there are few bits that see alot of things in at the same time...
rite say, say you've got the snare, the break, the bass tone, the wobble, and a few variations of the vocal... and the occational bass dive and white noise rise... so thats (counting 7 or 8 different things...)
if you pick 2 elements and try to work out an interaction between tehm for the first part of the track, then for the next section pick two more and do something similar... that way you can give you tune a greater sense of progression...

dubstep is all about clever inter-relationships between hits, sounds and elements...

but yeah man, the sounds are all there, its just the space in the mix...

what do you use to produce with?

if you also can, have a think about getting a little bit of reverb or something to tie the ambience of the track together...


hope some of thats been useful,


safe



p.cubby

[bass ventura]

thanks alot chubby for the pointers man i really really appreciate it i will take in what you said and tryin doin more of that and right now i just use reason 4 with a midi controller, sometimes fruity loops for certain things and cool edit pro for vocal lines and such i dunno its a very basic thing i got goin on now id like to go somewhere with it but as of right now i am just having a blast making music but yea man thanks alot for the help man

[pandacub]

thats not a basic setup at all!! thats more than enough...

reason 4 is used so widespread through out all genres of electronic/ bassline-y music...

another thing that its always fun doing is setting some parameters of the synths to a knob or dial on your midid controller...
like on the malstrom right click on the filter frequency dial (furthest right (I cant remember if its a or b)) and another one on the modulation rate on the right hand oscilator (these two parameters sound nice when messesd around with together)

choose the 'edit overide...' option on the menu that pops up and click on the 'learn from control surface' option, then move a dial on the controller and click ok... then if you play the bassline you've already played in with the red button on the malstrom's sequencer track, (not the one on the lane with the notes on)
press record you can change the parameters as you go thru the tune...

and take as long as you need to get just the rite energy levels into your drops...

having things change around the sequence of notes happens a lot in loads of dubstep, bassline, techno, you name it...


I'm sorry if that was too basic for you...its just something i found helped with my stuff...


yeah as I said, hope it helped and look foward to hearing how your style progresses...