Your dubstep/production loves/hates

[jolly wailer]

hating aggy tunes with a snare on 2 and 4 .. hearing alot of them these days



seemed like the whole point of dubstep was stripping the beat back, making the most with the least elements..



also hate people who refer to formulaic cack as "progression" .. "the sound is just progressing" etc.

[FSTZ]

formulaic cack

haha

[-drix-]

love making drum patterns. (even though recently they have been getting more and more similar to each other)

love perfecting a 16/32 bar loop with slight changes and incidentals

hate never being able to leave a tune alone

hate spending ages getting a sound out and losing the will to carry on making the tune

[ninjadog]

Hate that I can't get whats in my head out properly. Love the results sometimes.
Love to smoke a joint before I make some music. Hate that I play with some reverbed sounds for a few hours instead.

[skwiggo]

by mc wayne » Thu May 13, 2010 3:35 pm
skwiggo wrote:
Hate: boring rhythms - you can bro with polyrhythms it just takes a bit of thought
Im a brostep producer, and I always try and make sure my drums sound interesting unlike most of the big name brostep i've heard

Haha I have heard plenty of 'brostep' with interesting rhythms too . I've only noticed that a few as you say 'big name' producers seem to pay more attention to the resampled basslines than the drums in their productions.

Word.
although I hate it when I cram a track full of polyrhythms and other complicated details and after turning all the faders up, realize overall it sounds like the Tasmanian Devil peaking on acid.

Hahahaha thats a good one and it's so true. I find getting all the elements right in a track sooo hard you have to strip everything back sometimes.

[back2onett]

another one for my list

Hate: making drums and a lead and then not being able to add anything else without cluttering up the track and generally shitifying it

[Basic A]

Dubstep loves and hates...

Hate producing... Love DJing...
Hate producing dubstep... love writing music...
Hate writing drums and basslines... love writing melodies...
Hate using electronic equipment... love my guitar... love my new xylophone...
Hate using organic equipment... love Oatmeal now that Im using it... love the new sample packs I just got off freesound...
Love getting random soundcloud comments and cant help but grin when someone says Ive inspired them or theyve had some kind of experience to my tunes... hate the idea of releasing now, hate the idea of playing out...
Love dubstep... hate dubstep...
Hate dance music... Love electronics...
Love dance music... hate real music...
Hate electronics... love ska and the blues...
Yeah love ska and the blues.

[philly]

Love making beats.

Hate making songs.

Haha im always battling this, its like the fun parts over, i got my ideas across now i gotta structure add variety,
"nah ill make something new and better and finish this later."

[Y_H]

Love: the freedom to mesh different genre's/sounds/whatever together
Love: SUB
Love: Interesting rhythms
Love: I'm gonna disagree with most of you and pick claps cause they rule. Love snares too tho
Love: WOODBLOCKS

Hate: the over popularization of certain sounds
Hate: boring rhythms - you can bro with polyrhythms it just takes a bit of thought

this!

[jaydot]

I love the emphasis on a fat snare.

this, and generally hate when it's a clap instead.

Allow claps in place of snares.

[Hurtdeer]

I love how there is no rules and I can basically do whatever I want

and i hate nothing because i'm just a big fucking hippie at the end of the day

[nruen]

A sparse, reverberating drum line is just beautiful...Especially with a layered snare, little delayed claps and a few hats...Delicious.

Also love Albino3
Synth1

I love having a rhythm with brilliant drums, bass and pads but I hate when I'm not able to expand on it and take it places.

[deadly_habit]

having a session going great and then getting stuck
that and hearing something in your head and by the time you try to get it down you forgot it

[Basic A]

Hate having friends and social obligations when Im trying to work. Here I am, rolling deep on an idea for a collab, and Im about to have to lug a backpack around with headphones and a laptop in it all night just to be able to keep going... Why my presence is then needed in the room, I have no idea, its not like Im being social... but thats whats pissing me off right now... and now heres tom with the weather.

[deadly_habit]

Hate having friends and social obligations when Im trying to work. Here I am, rolling deep on an idea for a collab, and Im about to have to lug a backpack around with headphones and a laptop in it all night just to be able to keep going... Why my presence is then needed in the room, I have no idea, its not like Im being social... but thats whats pissing me off right now... and now heres tom with the weather.

heh and this is why i neglect that shit and live like a hermit for weeks on end
gonna have a quick spurt of this and honestly soon i hope to join a commune and live off the grid for awhile
i've grown tired of depending on jobs i grow to hate to get food shelter etc when i can learn how to do it on my own
going out partying etc is losing it's appeal too

[resykle]

Love it when a track comes together
Love it when you find the perfect sample to use
Love it when hitting a random key actually does what you want it to

Hate it when you run out of ideas of where to go in a track
Hate it when you go to sleep, wake up the next day, listen to your shit again and realize it sucks

[deadly_habit]

Love it when a track comes together
Love it when you find the perfect sample to use
Love it when hitting a random key actually does what you want it to

Hate it when you run out of ideas of where to go in a track
Hate it when you go to sleep, wake up the next day, listen to your shit again and realize it sucks

good first post. welcome
i have so many done or close to done tunes, but my rule of thumb is if i don't dig it on repeat or after a month of listening to it, i'm not going to send or put it out, because at the end of the day i write for myself and it's great when other people like it too.

[tavravlavish]

Hate that I never have enough time to do it