I use Fruity Balance and just use Volume Automation instead of proper sidechaining

To be honest i never heard the original startup theme, but your version is amazing! The only thing that i would tell you is that the lead is a little bit too quiet for my taste when the drum comes in

Sounds awesome! I couldnt think of anything you could do better

https://soundcloud.com/julian-krohne/dubstep-for-reddit-wip

Me and someone else are working on this for the reddit collab competition (nothing serious, just getting experienced by working with others).
It was supposed to be chillstep and now we need feedback (as i am quite a beginner, most problems are probably found in the mixing and mastering area).
What i know that this needs: fills in the first half of the drop and decent crash cymbals (still didnt find any decent samples ).

Thanks a lot!

Thanks for the replies guys
Well i agree with the hihats, i often have trouble with how to treat my hihats that they dont sound shitty
Never thought about the chords clashing with the chords thing, i always thought the kick is just bad
The thing about the off key pad is a really stupid mistake; I used a vocal sample and pitched it on the same note but i forgot to pitch them into key after that, i have fixed it in my version but now the pad is either way too high or way too low if i want it to be in key. This also explains why the bassline is off key because i used the pad as a reference.
I dont really know what you mean by engaging, i wanted to make a kinda laid back track and i had some ideas so i got that long probably should have introduced more chord progressions or melodies to keep it more interesting
I dont really have any type of musical background besides the music classes you have at highschool (i pretty much forgot 90% of what i learned there) but i would like to learn the basics of playing the piano one day.
Still thank you for the honest feedback guys