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Legendary wrote:90% of crowds are stupid students who want to get off their face an listen to wobble and jump up and down so finding the audience could be a trouble these days

you say it like its a bad thing

Hurtdeer wrote:you need to explore the scene a lot more dude

i didnt get into dubstep "because of the wobble", i listen to other dubstep... i agree thats theres loadsa dubstep without wobble & i gess dubstep can only progress without this mid-range "mainstream wobble" everyones babblin on about.

but its a sound in dubstep that seems to cement a track to that genre and its prob the first thing to pick on for people getting into the genre, therefore this "recent trend" is cos of the popularity right? bringing dubstep to more people right?

which is a good thing none the less... wotever ne of you "underground" producers say

Kode9 & Spaceape's album has hardly any wobbles in it...
But to be onest, i'm sort of a newcomer to dubstep. And the wobbles made me addicted to the genre. I jusat love the automated wobble, but indeed it can get annoying. I guess if it's on 140 bpm with the "slow" snare and lots a bass it's dubstep! (please correct me if i'm wrong)

peaz

HiggzBozon wrote:Kode9 & Spaceape's album has hardly any wobbles in it...
But to be onest, i'm sort of a newcomer to dubstep. And the wobbles made me addicted to the genre. I jusat love the automated wobble, but indeed it can get annoying. I guess if it's on 140 bpm with the "slow" snare and lots a bass it's dubstep! (please correct me if i'm wrong)

peaz

Doesn't even need the halfstep snare strictly. It's a very, very loose genre. Lots of people, especially those not making for the dancefloor, break the 140bpm 'rule' too.

This thread reeks of narrow horizons. Wobblers are good in their place (and I'll still defend Eastern Jam to the hilt!), but if you even think to ask this question you haven't done enough digging around into the scene yet!

JEEEZ!!!
Dub tends to sub a lot ....and wub is merely a style of dubstep no?
defining exact terms is you expressing your preference.....surly

1wub is great
2 autotune ruining hiphop vocals?
= just listen listen listen and have a history lesson.....
coz all tricks have been or will be used in all music

beware dubstep is a mere infant....drum and bass used to "mooo" and "hooover" a lot....but does it still?
yes, and a shit load more......

danish drum n bass band F.U.K.T. have also made a few dubstep / dubsteppish tracks as far as i know, havent heard the new stuff though... and theres just as much dubstep with just a clean sub as theres is rusko-stylish stuff

You coulc just use a synth in a live a proper instrument band to create the wobble if you wanted to.

Alty wrote:You coulc just use a synth in a live a proper instrument band to create the wobble if you wanted to.

Or that wobble bass rowing machine.

Magma wrote:

HiggzBozon wrote:Kode9 & Spaceape's album has hardly any wobbles in it...
But to be onest, i'm sort of a newcomer to dubstep. And the wobbles made me addicted to the genre. I jusat love the automated wobble, but indeed it can get annoying. I guess if it's on 140 bpm with the "slow" snare and lots a bass it's dubstep! (please correct me if i'm wrong)

peaz

Doesn't even need the halfstep snare strictly. It's a very, very loose genre. Lots of people, especially those not making for the dancefloor, break the 140bpm 'rule' too.

+1

nowaysj wrote:Count me as a bass playing non wobbler. I occasionally do a wobble or two. And love listening to a good wobbler, but not incessantly so.

me too... wobbles aren't essential. an extended wobble for the sake of being dubsteppy doesn't necessarily do more for the track...

i think the definition of dubstep should rely nearly solely on the beat and tempo, as this is how it is for all other electronic music genres. adding too much more criteria creates all these meaningless and overlapping sub-genres...

The wub does appear in a lot of the most famous dubstep tunes.

But if you look back a few years, it's almost non-existent. I suppose at that point people didn't have such a regimented view of what constituted dubstep.
I think of dubstep as a genre still undergoing evolution; it's sad to hear some of the wobble-fests that get released nowadays, they lack any subtlety.
Older tunes, by Digital Mystikz, Loefah, Skream etc set a pretty good precendent. They were diverse, so I don't see why so many people seek to restrict themselves nowadays.

I guess wobble is best used sparingly, for greatest effect. A tune can be a fucking banger and not have wobble in it.

Dubstep ≠ 140bpm+wobble+syncopated drum beat.