why are dubstep drum so plasticy every dubstep track i hear on sound cloud or ukf has the exact same drums

why do they sound so plastic

is it just to balance the frequencies ???


its really getting boring

 

Can't really be sure for that genre, but rule of thumb is that everybody is referencing the same stuffs a.k.a "this is how drums should sounds like" and it's become the norm, so that leads to more uniform sound, maybe there is actual reason for all this, all I know that it's a widely spread thing among all genres mostly, when something just works and people are trying to come close to that and call it done, leaving no further exploration and just settling down with norm….that's how most creative ideas are done, but that's just another issue.

 

INTRO
Dubstep is an interesting musical phenomenon.
Because when the previous musical styles took a lot of time on research of its structure, Dubstep - is very easy
to understood and recreate.
Plus early people made music on different tools - there was big area of the creation. But now all dubstep-electro producers use ONLY the Massive
(at the best also FM8).
DRUMS
Drums dynamics is killed. The sound is aggresive pressed by the compressor in maximum parameters,(parallel or serial) and distortion.
and in 95% of cases different drums before processing sound is very identical and boring after processing.
The second reason - youtube tutorials. Thousands of musicians watch same tutorials and working on same software -
is the main reason of of wild monotony of modern electronic music.

 

dude dubstep is a very very very broad genre! it all depends on how ignorant you want to be. if you think all dubstep is just screeching wobbles etc.
most of it comes from dub ie. king tubby etc so i dont know how you can call such drums "plasticy"

 

Depends on teh tracks you're listening to... Indeed there are many similar sounding pieces, but if you take a closer look at the genre you will discover much more then the stuff you hear at UKF. Also sub-genres offering complete new worlds... At least to me.

 

@OP- ok, the good thing is you know what you dont like, so make some dubstep yourself and make it awesome like how you think it should be.

than post it here.

this, this, a thousand times this

well said eternal!


i could generalize every rap song to be like lil wayne or every pop song to be like will.i.am as well, and they are not the best representatives of their genres, right?


im one of the old schoolers when it comes to dubstep, for me its all about the bass and crazy ass off the wall rhythms, with a firm hold on traditional dub reggae mentality (even if it doesnt show in the composition) my favorite dubstep is the experimental kind you can get really high to and dreeeeaaaammm

 

While copycat-ing is responsible for a lot of tracks having this kind of drum, there is originally a technical reason to it. "Dubstep" is all about the bass.

And it's not only a deep sub-bass, but contains a lot of mid and high frequency energy to get the grit and disto sound. It simply takes up all the space and you only have so much headroom. You have to make decisions on which sounds to devote that headroom to in each frequency band. You could craft the lushest drum sounds possible but, competing with the bass, they'd never cut through the mix. The low-mids that give punch to drums are where the trademark dubstep bass wobble starts. The bass is more important so the drums are sacrified. There are probably loads of dubstep tracks produced with big drums and a big wide dirty bass but they rarely get to a place where you hear them because they end up sounding like audio mush. The good-sounding tracks with big drums have a bass that is more restricted in some bands or more akin to a true dub sub-bass. You just can't have it all. Mixing is all about sacrifice.

JC

 

If you’re bored change the station lol I think if you listen to mainstream, same as pop 40 manufactured shite, what do you expect? Everyone is using the same techniques to eq and compress their drums, also a lot of producers sample their kicks from already produced tracks nuff said!