I’m not sure if you can take this anywhere, I’d leave it where it is. The problem I see is that it’s going to be hard to turn this into a dnb song without totally dropping the original idea and samples. Anyway, it’s your decision and I’ll give you a review.
You started with those half time drums what of course is an option but I’d prefer a little intro without drums as it’s a bit of an abrupt beginning otherwise.
The choice of drumsaples isn’t really the best. the kick is allright though not punchy enough and slightly too quite in the mix. The snare sounds pretty trancy and I think it’s out of place for the creepy mood you started to create. When you’re going to speed up your drums later on you gotta think about some different hat/cymbal action. The hat you’ve got only twice as fast alone is probably not gonna work and sound dull plus empty.
So start with the little intro, make a bildup, bring in the half time drums, make a transition from your half speed drums to the full speed part and then play around with all those parts to make the rest of the structure. Work the drums and then see how your synth/bass fits with it. Maybe add a rougher saw and drop back to the sub in the break….
Very calm mixdown but at least no serious eq problems. Bring the whole thing a bit up. Don’t use a limiter or somthing (the mixdown will prly not benefit from this), just bring the individual elements up to a more audible volume.
hmmm...sound like an 32 bar loop. Here's some advice from someone who has been there all to many times. Start with one idea that really gets you going. I can tell your relying too much on the matrix pattern sequencer for your synth and bass lines. Try to do a bit in the sequencer, eg. draw the midi notes in or get a MIDI keyboard (no idea if you have one already). Speed the track up unless your going for the DUB feel, from 160 to 180 max in my opinion is about right. get some variation on the drums. Make the hi hat get a pause in there and also on the Redrum program the hits with different velocities with the soft, medium, and hard options. ALSO use the dr.Rex to spice ya beats up. Layer those drums and keep resampling, you can find TONS of dr. rex dnb drum loops on the net. Study strong structure by listening to drum n bass. Don't worry ya production will get better with time. Just don't stop and keep trucking. DnB is by far one of the hardest generas to produce and it took me almost three years to produce a track I even have enough balls to post. Also listen to also of drum n bass and get motivated and concepts. Its all about variation and the subtle nuances that keep the listener focused and interested. Anything else just message me all i work with is Reason 4.
cool little intro thing there.........this is pretty cool...sounds very soft as though the intro has been filtered which would be a cool little intro before droppin some PHAT AZ DUBSTEP! Just need some really PUNCH AND BASS AND YOU'D BE SET. Wicked Jonah just make it phat and finish it
try boosting it at 150 - 200hz by about 6db to give it more punch