RUSKO ON HOW TO MAKE DUBSTEP

by Matt Shadetek

Midrange wobble hooligan Rusko breaks down some of his dubstep production methods on YouTube.  He goes through in a pretty detailed way talking about how to program the shuffled beats in dubstep, how to make wobble bass, how to mix beats and general production process stuff.  I like his music although I imagine there are a lot of dubstep people who will think he’s bastardizing the scene since the stuff he makes is very main-floor friday night mass appeal dubstep.  I like it although I think there will be a lot of people coming behind him trying to make ‘banging dubstep’ and making a lot of horrible music, like what happened with d’n'b after Ed Rush & Optical introduced the whole No U Turn techstep sound.  Regardless though, whatever style you’re making, if you’re trying to make powerful beat based music he is giving away a lot of good knowledge here.  Respect to him for pulling back the curtain.  Real producers who are confident in themselves don’t need to keep ‘production secrets’.

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March 30th, 2009. bass, beats, dubstep, everything, production, secret knowledge, videos, youtube | 5 comments »

5 Responses

1. gex Says:
   March 31st, 2009 at 9:21 am

   these guys want you to do a similar video matt.

   http://winksound.com/

2. Lomami Says:
   April 1st, 2009 at 4:40 am

   Point of convergence: You dated the end of d’n'b (as a vanguard music can I say?) at the wormhole album of Ed Rush and Optical ten years ago: since that, they stopped shaping the future… And d’n'b parties turn into techno parties (withey folks taking pills going to listen to repetitive sounds). God I miss the nineties jungle parties! Anyway, now we have tropical storms! Much better.
   PROPS TO THE NEW DADS! Peace from Paris

3. Powerstrip Circus » Rusko @ Studio B : Finger on the Pulse Party Says:
   April 7th, 2009 at 4:17 am

   [...] Transatlantic dubstep Mothra, Rusko will be at Studio B this Friday. His recent youtube tutorials have been spreading like my credit card debt all over the intertets as of late. Check them out if you feel like you need some inspo… Check the flyer here. (videos via dutty artz) [...]

4. cbm Says:
   March 1st, 2010 at 11:54 am

   hahahaha, this guy made his own duck sounds… hahahaha. props!

5. nate Says:
   November 28th, 2010 at 5:39 pm

   yo man, the vids have been tkaen down, anyway of getting the original?

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