Moog Taurus meets the Dubstep-ish Wobble

Stock Tuba and Taurus presets (for starters). After experimenting for a bit I would say it can be done but preferably with a separate controller for the various parameters. Plus it would look pretty cool on stage to be stompin out a bass groove while dialing in the wobble up top. Maybe an overdrive pedal and some chorus or a short delay if you wanted to be a little more trendy. Oh, and a fat compressor.

For some reason there was a bit of latency when selecting the mod speed (sorry the display is totally glared out in the video). It took a beat or so to catch up. Don't know if this was related to the MIDI source clock or just a glitch. Also you may notice the whole thing froze up at the end. I had to turn it off & back on. Hopefully that doesn't happen very often...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Moog
• Taurus
• dubstep
• wobble
• maybe

[m7c]

Overrated? Sometimes. Overdone? Probably. But remember that label also applies to the beat that's often used with the wobbly bass (obviously not appearing in this video) along with a few other elements.

It kills me that this has so many hits, more than all my other videos put together! I'm going to add the word 'dubstep' to all videos going forward! That or 'boobs'. Maybe 'dubstep boobs'. That would break 100k for sure!

[Seishinbunretsusho]

With all due respect, buying one of the handful of sets of Taurus 3 pedals and using it only for dubstep is like buying a rare vintage car for only picking up the kids from school.

I do feel that, given the character of the set of pedals, it's pretty suited to dubstep (dirty bass, good filter, LFO, etc.) I don't dislike dubstep per se (I do, however, have a moral opposition to it), but I really hope you're going to do more with that than modulate the filter for 5 minutes at every performance.

[m7c]

@Seishinbunretsusho Actually this was a one time thing. Just to see how it sounded. I agree with what you're saying but still think it would look pretty cool center stage, blowing minds & what not...

[m7c]

@Seishinbunretsusho EOTO. It's not all they do but it's certainly part of the mix.

[mar400071]

@Seishinbunretsusho excision.... any of the shambhla mixes besides maybe 2011

[Seishinbunretsusho]

@RogueRotting360 You, sir, are hearing far more interesting dubstep than I am. Care to point me in the right direction?

[RogueRotting360]

@Seishinbunretsusho There's a lot more to dubstep than low pass filter modulation, although it's arguably one of the key staples. There's also the triplet figures (usually towards the end of the bar) and the gradual "stutter"-like subdivision of the 4/4 meter (quarter, 8th, 16 notes and their triplet counterparts), bass drops, sub bass (usually a sine wave), use of the tritone (the "diabolus in music"), bass portamenti, a tempo of around 138-142 bpm, and so on.

[Seishinbunretsusho]

@RogueRotting360 I don't feel like a label surrounding filter modulation is necessary. I do enjoy the sounds dubstep produces, but I feel like it in and of itself is overrated; I don't think the presence of filter modulation really merits a new genre entirely.

[RogueRotting360]

@Seishinbunretsusho "Moral opposition." Could you please explain?

[VonWarwick]

Almost sounds like Mr. Scruff on Ninja tune, or Mr. Oizo's first couple tracks lmao. Add more distortion to the patch at 2:30 and you have the bass sound from Analog Worms Attack.

[DeskopT]

@Seishinbunretsusho this is too funny.