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I'm really digging tunes with obscure, ethnic sounding plucked instruments, mallets, glassy pianos, glockenspiels etc etc

You only really see them in ambient dubstep though, which for me makes ambient more fun to create compared to brostep. Brostep you're sort of limited to a midrange bass with the drums, a piano intro if you're lucky and some sort of lead.

What about you guys?

i want to get a wooden tounge/slit drum. theyre so sick! plus i have a Shure SM57 so i could record decent sounding samples(if i had the drum lol)

but yeah i get what your saying

I'd like to start recording my own drum samples.... like, ripping paper for a snare or something, layering and FXing it to make it sound sick. But I don't have a recorder sadly.

love the ethnic kinda sound. Im using a sax and trombone and a mandolin in my latest tune, I know there not unusual instruments but Iv not come across many dubstep tunes using them.

jaydot wrote:I'm really digging tunes with obscure, ethnic sounding plucked instruments, mallets, glassy pianos, glockenspiels etc etc

You only really see them in ambient dubstep though, which for me makes ambient more fun to create compared to brostep. Brostep you're sort of limited to a midrange bass with the drums, a piano intro if you're lucky and some sort of lead.

What about you guys?

I've used ErHu samples in several 'brostep' (ish) tracks I've done. Don't limit yourself on what other people are doing! 0.o that's like rule number one.

i really want to try and use timpani's successfully

I don't think it's impossible to use them in brostep really. I think it just requires a bit of work on the producer to make them fit. I agree it does work better in ambient simply because a lot of ethnic style instruments just have amazing feedback when it comes to reverb, delays and time stretching.

Check out some indian dubstep. I've been really getting into a lot of this stuff lately. Love the diversity in the instruments and sounds they use.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdIg_CQbeng <------MumBai Mafia - Warfare Mantra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCnDL8k0820 <-----Nuphlo - Cassiopeia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9E8CoUUFOk <-----Nucleya - Beat 1 (I don't know exactly wtf this is, but I love it.)

I use hang drum in this:
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(It's not mixed down, btw, so leave me alone about how loud they are. I don't feel like mixing this tune, I've moved on) LOL

jaydot wrote:I'm really digging tunes with obscure, ethnic sounding plucked instruments, mallets, glassy pianos, glockenspiels etc etc

i like that tunes too

jaydot wrote:.... like, ripping paper for a snare or something, layering and FXing it to make it sound sick. But I don't have a recorder sadly.

Use sounds from film... Documentaries are the best, because the sounds are isolated: doors opening, closing, rain, people walking, keys jingling... etc... Check these out...

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I also use & to further distort the noises...

Happy sampling!

I'm also really into the ethnic sound this song sparks to mind...

I use a the erhu and sarangi a lot dizu's too and the occasional sarod one shot here and there, kalimba's can have their uses too, mostly i'd use those for layering into drum sounds, sikus, kena's can be fun to work with, and Taiko's have a lot of uses. There's a lot of cool japanese percussive instruments i use too, but I can't for the life of me remember any of their names.

also, what +3 said about documentaries, I'd be fucked without my jingly keys noises and my loading guns. So many nice crispy and crackly noises to use in your 2-step shiz.

I guess it could all be applied to bro-step, I don't really see any reason why you couldn't do it. If I were a less shit producer I'd probably give it a go.

no i only use massive and drum machine hits

deadly habit wrote:no i only use massive and drum machine hits

Lol XD