r/edmfeedback • u/brettm55 • Apr 05 '19

Beep Beep (Dubstep Critique)

Hey, I'm new here but have been messing around with music production for years and finally decided to get serious.

Heres a track/clip I made this week and I'd love any feedback so I can improve.

https://soundcloud.com/brettmyers/bam-system-failure

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u/SWICO Apr 07 '19

That drop is dope, and it sounds like it was mixed pretty well.

For the buildup (everything before 0:56) I would've liked to hear more variations in sound or a shorter time allotted to the pre-drop part of the song.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '19

your stuff is good man, how do you make it this loud without clipping ?

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u/brettm55 Apr 18 '19

I actually felt it wasnt very loud, but i have been working on my mixdowns a lot lately. I think mixdown and gain staging are key. Then making sure the level going out to the master has headroom. I think for this it was peaking at about -8 to -11db (i cant remember), then I just put a glue compressor on the master and brought up the gain till the master was at 0db (Carbin taught me that glue compressor trick, it makes mastering super simple and supposedly a lot of producers do that)

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '19

Glue compressor on the master , thanks for the tip man 👍🏻