What BPM do you produce at and why?

[Lineages]

A majority of my tunes are either 123.123, or 132.123
Just cause I like to do it like that. lol

[arXter]

I usually err on the slow side of garage (120-130). No target tempo since I get the feel of the rhythm in my head first and tap it out using the tap tempo feature otherwise it's hard to record the drum track live when the tempo isn't exactly how I imagine the beat to be.

[djscratchin]

I'm nuts so I make anything from 126 BPM to 200 BPM

[dtbrock666]

134 cos thats what i think sounds best for my style
Lojt

[beebmun]

134 cos thats what i think sounds best for my style
Lojt

Big up the people around 134!

[THWGI]

Actually, 70 and 140 are the same tempo...
65 and 130, then 140 and 280...
and 90 with 180.
wich is 45 and then contains all those under, as they are very small multiples..
then if your songs can range from 90 to 180,
even say, 100 to 170.
You in fact play in, as said before, from 0.00000000000001 to 999.999999999
personally i say 100, 170.
: )
depends on the groove you look to achieve..

[Stealth Elf]

Actually, 70 and 140 are the same tempo...
65 and 130, then 140 and 280...
and 90 with 180.
wich is 45 and then contains all those under, as they are very small multiples..
then if your songs can range from 90 to 180,
even say, 100 to 170.
You in fact play in, as said before, from 0.00000000000001 to 999.999999999
personally i say 100, 170.
: )
depends on the groove you look to achieve..

Um...no.

[THWGI]

Um...no.

Um... yes!
It's mathematical.
You'll just put your kicks at different places!

[Stealth Elf]

Um...no.

Um... yes!
It's mathematical.
You'll just put your kicks at different places!

They are not the same tempo. You can mix 70bpm tunes perfectly with those at 140 because 70 is half of 140 but that doesn't make them the same. If you say a song at 140 is at 70 then you are wrong. Plain and simple I'm afraid.

[Stealth Elf]

134 cos thats what i think sounds best for my style
Lojt

Big up the people around 134!

I recently moved up from 134 to 135. LIVIN' LIFE ON A KNIFE EDGE.

[ToneBox]

Um...no.

Um... yes!
It's mathematical.
You'll just put your kicks at different places!

sorry but you don't know shit about maths.

[beebmun]

134 cos thats what i think sounds best for my style
Lojt

Big up the people around 134!

I recently moved up from 134 to 135. LIVIN' LIFE ON A KNIFE EDGE.

:O LIVIN LA VIDA LOCA

[Whyrez]

For the last 3 years I've altered my standard template to move up 1 BPM every year I'm now up to 136. On the rare occasion I do switch it up to either suit a particular vocal or because I'm getting weirded out by the 136 zone

[Whyrez]

Um...no.

Um... yes!
It's mathematical.
You'll just put your kicks at different places!

They are not the same tempo. You can mix 70bpm tunes perfectly with those at 140 because 70 is half of 140 but that doesn't make them the same. If you say a song at 140 is at 70 then you are wrong. Plain and simple I'm afraid.

Hhmm... There's not much difference really man... Just that a 1/16 note in 70 would be a 1/32 in 140... I'm sure this gets really weird and non-mathematically possible when you reach a certain tempo really fast or really slow, but this close together I don't suppose there's much difference...

When swing, improvisation, loose playing etc. comes into play it can get a bit confusing too...

[Stealth Elf]

For me it's important to remember that although similar the two tempos are not the same. You can say 'oh you just have twice as many kicks' but...that's the point...that's what tempo means. It's beats per minute, if you have twice as many that's a different tempo. The drums (and kick/snare especially) are almost always the most important rhythmic element in a track but in dubstep that often isn't true and this makes people confused. Because the track has a half time kick/snare combo they start to think the song is in 70 but actually the rest of the track is still following a 140 rhythm. If you listen to other genres you will notice the whole track following a coherent rhythm around the tempo and if you change it to a different tempo that changes the song, this is why drum & bass remixes of hip hop songs work so well. Try making a DnB tune with your DAW set to 80 (or if you play in a band with a metronome playing at 80) and see what happens.

I'm not explaining this as well as I could but trust it *does* matter.

(Josh, I know you don't need this explained to you in such a basic way, this is more for other people's benefit. :p)