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Hey this is my first post here and I joined because I figured this would be the best place to ask my question;
I'm in the process of making a few dubstep songs but I'm having picky issues with my wobble-bass. It's not dirty enough. So how do I get the crunchy, metallic overtone to my wobble-bass?

this is a good example:

the metallic-sounding bass starts at 1:07 and goes for a while.

distortion will give you the crunchiness, to get the shimmeryness in it, EQ it, or add some higher end harmonics in the oscialltors of your synth

FM synthesis with unusual waveforms is the best way to go for metallic sounds

^^^ that

Mess about with resonance too.

Thanks for the suggestions, I'm starting to mess around with some of them right now.

Even more suggestions would be awesome too!

Frequency splitting with different distortions on each frequency range.
Good luck

Honestly this is covered in so many places on this forum. I understand your desire to know the answer to your question NOW but pitch in and do a little work by searching, or looking around the forum. Many synths commonly used in all the genres of electronic music will include metallic sounding waveforms that can serve as the basis for harsh hurtful sounds. Also try combining all of the suggestions, subtly to produce a metallic sound. Metallic waveform, into a highly resonant filter, into some distortion, eq'ed of frequency split, maybe a touch of chorus and reverb. Put it together in your own particular mix, and generate your own sound.