The Drop Thread // How To Make Drops

[Eat Bass]

im gonna go out on a limb and say he was talking out his ass on the whole 4 years of skill ting.....

i agree. if you have 4 years of experience in FL and don't know how to make something "low and deep" sounding, then you're fucked.

[ehbes]

im gonna go out on a limb and say he was talking out his ass on the whole 4 years of skill ting.....

i agree. if you have 4 years of experience in FL and don't know how to make something "low and deep" sounding, then you're fucked.

judging off of what the op has asked I'm surprised he can open up fl let alone attempt to learn it...

[Immerse]

thanks for the plugin recommendation, sounds like something cool to experiment with. yay free plugs. the same guy makes a plug called s(m)exescope or something like that, it analyzes sounds and displays an updating waveform. awesome for midi that you dont want to flatten or to see how Fx effect the waveform, like compression.

[OttoMatik]

Hey Guys, I've made some intro's for brostep tunes with buildups and all but I keep having this one problem:
After the buildup, I never know what to do for the first bassline/wobble.
It's like, if I put a sound, it never fits in there.

Got any tips for the first wobble/bassline after the buildup?

Also, I can never seem to make a proper arrangement of wobbles/basslines to make a brostep tune, like they never fit together.
Any tips on making them fit together better?

Thanks

[syrup]

sub bass

[OttoMatik]

sub bass

So I should just stick a sub bass under all the basslines from the first bassline to the last to make them flow better together?

[ehbes]

Just make loud and obnoxious sounds with a sub underneath

[OttoMatik]

Ok thanks for the advice, anything else I should be doing?

[ehbes]

Add so subtle white noise during the drop to make te mix sound fuller

[OttoMatik]

Add so subtle white noise during the drop to make te mix sound fuller

Ok thanks, I will try that out later

[JTMMusicuk]

hit things with a hammer

[Hircine]

learn synthesis

[ehbes]

learn synthesis

Who needs that c'mon now..

[Undrig]

have the low end presence be like 30% of what the drop will have. then highpass out that before the drop happens. Not always about the strength of the drop itself, but the lack of strength from everything playing before it happens.

Honestly tho, just the way you describe your attempt at a process comes across as so paint-by-numbers, it's no wonder you're getting stuck. Screw around and have fun instead of following a formula a-to-b.

[Theo Void]

learn synthesis

Who needs that c'mon now..

Honestly, "Learn synthesis" is the correct answer! No guff.

[ehbes]

learn synthesis

Who needs that c'mon now..

Honestly, "Learn synthesis" is the correct answer! No guff.

This is why we needed the sarcasim font....

[OttoMatik]

have the low end presence be like 30% of what the drop will have. then highpass out that before the drop happens. Not always about the strength of the drop itself, but the lack of strength from everything playing before it happens.

Honestly tho, just the way you describe your attempt at a process comes across as so paint-by-numbers, it's no wonder you're getting stuck. Screw around and have fun instead of following a formula a-to-b.

Ok well it looks like I gotta do way more experimenting then
Thanks for the help

[syrup]

sub bass

So I should just stick a sub bass under all the basslines from the first bassline to the last to make them flow better together?

Well it's common to have bass on a bass drop so yeah. (cut the lows on your leads and make a separate track with sub playing the same notes as leads etc etc)

[OttoMatik]

sub bass

So I should just stick a sub bass under all the basslines from the first bassline to the last to make them flow better together?

Well it's common to have bass on a bass drop so yeah. (cut the lows on your leads and make a separate track with sub playing the same notes as leads etc etc)

Ok thanks =]

[blinx]

stop worrying about wobbles/lfos/automation. Just find/make a bass patch but dont wobble it at first, write your basslines melody and musical phrasing first. Then after you have the melody down and flowing right edit the shit out of lfos/envlopes and get creative with your lfo partterns and sequences. DOnt jsut rinse and repeat the same 1/4th wobble into 1/8th wobble over and over. Really cut the midi up over several instances of your bass synth just with different rate variations. THis is how i do my basslines and its just gotten easier. The less i worry about raging face right away and focus on melody and musical stuff then you make that music rage your face off lol. Its easier to fit lfos together when you have the big picture (melodY) sketeched already too.