- Grime is also 140. Why do they feel so different?
- Counting. Grime runs straight with the snare on 2 and 4, dense hits and dry short tails. Dubstep halves the count, puts the snare on beat three alone, and carries half as much information per bar, letting reverb and silence fill the rest. Prompting half-time, snare on beat three locks the groove far better than a genre name.
- How should a wobble be described?
- Give the modulation numbers. Tie the LFO rate to note values — eighths or triplets — route it to low-pass cutoff and to amplitude, keep resonance moderate, and build the tone from saw layered on sine. Specify that the sub layer stays unmodulated, otherwise the whole bottom end shakes and the pitch disappears.
- Mine sounds noisy rather than deep.
- Usually the mids are overloaded and the reverbs too short. Strip the harmony to one pad, send the snare to a plate or spring of 1.5 seconds or more, and let the tail bleed into the next bar. Then require at least one gap of two beats or longer every eight bars — depth follows the silence.
