You know mate? Even Datsik said "Be original" and is trying to get away from the sounds he made so famous.
Right now, I'm building up a collection of distortion plugins. I have the CMT Crusher and Frohmage and Camel Crusher. Nice ones indeed. Trying out some AcmeBarGig stuff. REALLY LOVE Voxengo Boogex. There are also some decent plugins in FL Studio (Blood Overdrive for instance and the waveshaper and Fast Distortion and Fruity Squeeze) I've never thought about before.
A good practise I discovered is putting Fruity Limiter in slot 8 of the synth's mixer channel right after crafting a sound within said synth. This way you can't accidentally damage your ears if, say, one of the distortion plugins is a little unstable and produces unexpected spikes (that and keeping the volume low).
Datsik also chops and splices his bass samples. That's another good practice!
I think one of the things I'll try to incorporate is a Nintendo-sounding pulse down low (hardly any bass content even if it's in the bass range) mixed with a triangle from an analogue synth for a bit of body. I hope Dubstep never becomes commercial! You can express any type of emotion with this genre if the tracks I heard from Beatport are any indication. Everything from clean to grit to meloncholy to exciting and everything in between!
Datsik is more on the "exciting" side of things, but it's not appropriate if to have a thick wobble, say, you're trying to characterise a sad feeling.
Now that I know the "secret ingredient" for shaping Excision/Datsik basslines (resampling), it's simply time to deviate from that and see what original stuff I can come up with.
