How did YOU learn to make dubstep?

[Dystinkt]

heard skream, tried to copy him and failed. heard coki, tried to copy him and failed. now i just kind of do my own thing, 2 years later.

[Anne Droid]

played bass in a metal band, then moved away, band dissolved, slowly started getting into dnb/dubstep and wanted a way to keep making music bc i loved it and i loved playing live. now i make bass w a comp instead of a guitar lol... hopefully will get to play live again some day!

[lloydy]

My mate started a music tech course,he give me a copy of reason 2.5 and i just went from there.Put money into getting logic and my first mac,started out making rubbish dnb tunes and couldn't really work anything out so just really focused on sound design.Found dubstep and just really found the tempo so more expressive to work in and now love making tunes.Its a bastard really because my pals just got a residency at some dnb night and wants me to get back into making jump up.Hes getting on nights with some big names so its tempting but i don't know if i wanna go back to that tempo.

[jaydot]

Through practice/trial and error and a push in the right direction, through constructive criticism and advice, mainly from this forum.

[nnny]

Boyinaband...

I still have the very first tune I made following that 7 day lesson thing. Utter shite.

Joined this forum, that's when my producing actually started to get better haha!

[RightOnTime27]

I was browsing a random forum posting in a thread titled: "What song are you listening to right now", I was getting ready to post in it (at the time I wasn't even into any sort of electronic music mainly like punkrock and stuff), but the post right before mine was of this video:


I didn't even know what dubstep was at that point, I'd seen the word thrown around but didn't even know it was a genre of music, so I listened out of curiosity and was completely blown away. I had never heard anything like it before. After that video I got really heavy into dubstep, which eventually got me into all other genres of electronic music.

I thought about making a dubstep track for the hell of it... and I did... it was terrible, but fun to make. So I kept at it, kept practicing and I've got my method down.

PBN Head?

Ah nvm old forum I was really active in had a thread like that

[Mammoth]

played bass in a metal band, then moved away, band dissolved, slowly started getting into dnb/dubstep and wanted a way to keep making music bc i loved it and i loved playing live. now i make bass w a comp instead of a guitar lol... hopefully will get to play live again some day!

same life story

[Sine69]

All you DSF stnuc and youtube

[DJ Crackle]

I started way back in my Reason days, before I really listened to enough dubstep to classify what it should sound like in my head, or really had enough production knowledge to produce what I had in my head, had I known what I was going for. Pretty much the only part I got right as far as my first dubstep track being "dubstep" was the halftime drum beat @ 140. At this point, I'd classify it much more as a hip-hop track than dubstep, though that's certainly not a bad thing as I still listen to that faaaaaar more than my other early attempts.
Then I think I really started trying a lot harder when I decided I didn't really like Rusko's Hide & Seek so decided to make my own. This was also when I first got Cubase, and things took more of a downward curve there than before. Lol. But after a loooot of persistence & recreation of shit I saw on youtube, as well as countless hours spent here while working the most boring job of my life, I was finally able to start making shit I could say I was proud of.

[jrisreal]

Massive > Modern Talking > ??? > Here I am.

naw, I keed. Started making hiphop beats and rapping back in the 6th grade. Was using ACID Music Studio 7.0 at the time (yes, a legit copy). They sounded like crap, I blamed it on the program, because I had a defective copy. Went on to DL a pirated FL Studio 9. Used that for a couple years, got into dubstep last summer. Tried making some dubstep tracks on a cracked FL Studio...turned out crap. Came to this forum, learned to mix and whatnot. Bought a legit FL Studio 10. Here I am.

[mikeyp]

this forum. started off with youtube tutorials but that was a slow moving train.

[render]

First heard stuff like Skrillex, then got into the real underground shit like Flux, Dr. P, Zed's Dead. It blew my mind, and I knew this would be my life. I got rid of all my other music and listened to UKF mashups for a month straight to prepare. Pirated FL studio (they should be paying ME for my music), got sick of all the complicated shit (What the hell is midi?) and signed up for http://www.dubturbo.com. Now I'm a wobble wizard; I got those wubs, womps, yois, whatever, yer all gonna be hearing my shit real soon.

The epicness of this post is off the chart.

+1

[filtersnake]

played bass in a metal band, then moved away, band dissolved, slowly started getting into dnb/dubstep and wanted a way to keep making music bc i loved it and i loved playing live. now i make bass w a comp instead of a guitar lol... hopefully will get to play live again some day!

same life story

make that x3 haha

[RandoRando]

already been making beats since 06, in '10 stumbled across a "post your best dubstep tracks" thread on 4chan, Had no idea what that term meant. It was Printer Jam by barbarix. Started making it in july of '10.

[highgain]

A combination of Youtube Video (You gotta scroll through pages to find real informative ones)
And hours of sound-design mixed with the threads on here.

I've been a rock musician for 5 years now and EDM had always been something on my playlists all throughout my years of recording/writing/gigging so it was only natural that I'd make a transition into it eventually.

[eldoogle]

Knew about dubstep for a bit, then Caspas essential mix came out. I went from ed banger/electro house to dubstep. Nowadays I hardly ever find electro I like. I read a lot, some youtube tutorials. Now for the most part I mess around and read from here, sometimes DOA, but mostly I make my own stuff despite not being a pro.

[highgain]

Nowadays I hardly ever find electro I like.

Not being into the "electro house" sound anymore, did you get into the new justice album? I think its a awesome new direction for them.

[eldoogle]

No but I don't have much of an opinion. I never downloaded it even though Cross was amazing.

[highgain]

hmm Go check out the tune Ohio on youtube or something if you get the time, its got alot of throw back vibe to classic rock and a bit of slow jam to it really awesome stuff.

[B-Frank]

When I was about 15 (now 23, sigh...) a mate of mine told me to get on Kazaa (the program before limewire LOL) and download fruity loops. Was completely useless with it and had no idea to structure a song. Fiddled with it for 10 minutes every couple of months then I finally decided to learn about actual music production with a few friends a few years later.