The Drop Thread // How To Make Drops

[mrusername]

Hey guys,

I'm sure there are tons of posts on drop arrangement etc however I was shocked after looking through the search to not fine one based purely on bass drop openers.
I.e, that first bass you hear when shit gets beefy. Normally a beat long note, either rising up, falling down, filtering in etc...

I have such trouble trying to find good'uns that make a proper impact, does anyone have any advice? patches etc.
Maybe examples of your favs, tutorials found on making them etc..just some general OPENER help please.
What kind of effects do you tend to use on them? (one person mentioned sending all your drop synths to a bus and adding reverb to make them feel together)

Thanks in advance.

[Smiles]

I don't know if you are talking about the breakdown/buildup or the drop... And try youtube there are hundreds of tut's for this.

[mrusername]

I mean the all in drop, when shit gets heavy, not the build up.

And have looked on youtube, but don't really know what what Massive tutorials make for good openers, and they don't mention what effects shuld be added after to make it sound sharper etc.

[mrusername]

Also, what effects to people use to make their bass sound so clear and shiney on the all in drop?

[ehbes]

eq

[dickman69]

I can recreate any bass sound I hear without any problem

[sketchyderek]

Simple drop:

Have no bass and build up...
...then have some bass.

[mrusername]

Can someone please reply properly to the questions I asked in this thread thanks

[ill mindset]

well, what i wanted basicly, is just any vocals or anything to use for the drop. And melodies well.. Sure i can see that. But basicly i wanted some vocals or tips for vocals that we can use for the drop

Write your own songs mang. Things like this can be answered by simply listening to tunes that are out there. Some of you people need to be spoonfed and have your tracks made for you.

[counterparty]

Agreed that a lot of gemini material is extremely cheesy, but can I revive this thread to ask the question... how the heck is he making his own vocals? Seriously thought these were female -- are they just pitched up? Seems to me like that would not sound nearly as good as the sound that you get on "Blue" or "Graduation."

[Soulstep]

probably pitched up and heavily processed

[stevemac]

Production wise, and as I think someone has said, you could emulate the Gemini style pretty well by implementing all the tricks and style and trance producer would do, but at 140bpm.

Nexus 2 would be an obvious choice if you want some of these types of sounds.

[outdropt]

A lot of the stuff said builds the intensity of his tracks but your missing something.

Gemini is a beast on the piano. He is extremely well versed in music theory. Thats why you get this angst or anticipation before the drop.

I would suggest taking a look into chord progressions, circle of fifths, scales, ect.

[Extinct]

Whenever I go and make a drop to a song, I feel like it isn't heavy or loud enough. Even my friend pointed that out earlier today. I'm not sure what to do to fix this. It might be just adding bass or I'm that dumb. Help would be appreciated.
Thanks!

[Mammoth]

More yoys?

[dickman69]

more bass, if its clipping just ignore it

[hhans]

do more drugs

[ephyks]

Find like, 20 sweeping fx, and place them all before your drop. Then put like a small 1/4bar pause before the drop. Then go to your basses, and EQ up your mids and highs, and remove any low end*(<-SUPER IMPORTANT TIP). Find all instances of massive that are running, open them up, and replace all the wave forms with deep throat. Set up all your basses to one channel, and put a distortion on it, and a flanger, and max all the settings out.

Your result is a sick build up, and a crazy growl bassline.

Jokes aside, seriously, your friends are fucking turds. Don't worry about any pleb structure of how to make dubstep that requires "sick drops" and heavy "bass growls". Your "drops" aren't good because you're a new producer. Focus less on trying to make sick drops and more on learning your DAW and other important things like sound design and mixing.

[eldoogle]

Make sure your sub is loud enough, but not too loud now.

[Towany]

Practice...