What Could Be Better - Dub
30s preview
- BPM
- 138
- Open Key
- 8d
- Energy
- 96/100
- Pop
- 2/100
- Length
- 6:35
- Released
- 2016
- Album
- What Could Be Better
- Genre
- Trance
- Loudness
- -7.3 dB
- Dynamics
- 10.5 dB
- ISRC
- NLA5K1600034
Key, BPM and audio features: model-based audio analysis · how we measure · catalogue updated July 2026
Other versions
- What Could Be Betteroriginal3B · 138
Against the original (3B at 138 BPM), this version holds the same tempo in the same key.
What Could Be Better - Dub runs 138 BPM in D♭ major (3B), a driving up-tempo trance record. The feel is dark and driving. The mix is almost entirely instrumental. Its spectrum is weighted to the sub and kick, with a heavy low end. A 2016 production that still circulates in sets. More bass-heavy than 78% of Talla 2XLC's catalogue. In a set it works best as a peak-time weapon.
Sonic profile
Frequency spectrum
amplitude · bass → treble
- 36%
- Low
- 30-130 Hz
- 27%
- Low-mid
- 130-570 Hz
- 21%
- Upper-mid
- 570 Hz-2.5 kHz
- 16%
- High
- 2.5-11 kHz
FAQ
What key is What Could Be Better - Dub in?
What Could Be Better - Dub by Talla 2XLC is in D♭ major, or 3B on the Camelot wheel.
What BPM is What Could Be Better - Dub?
What Could Be Better - Dub runs at 138 BPM, a driving up-tempo track.
What mixes well with What Could Be Better - Dub?
From 3B it blends harmonically with 4B, 3A, 2B. Moving to 4B lifts the energy a step.
Is What Could Be Better - Dub good for peak time?
With energy 96 out of 100 at 138 BPM, it works best as a peak-time weapon.
Mixes harmonically
3B → 2B · 4B · 3AFrom 3B, 4B (A♭ major) lifts the energy a step; 3A (B♭ minor) settles into the relative minor; 2B (F♯ major) cools the energy down a step.
How to mix it
In 3B at 138 BPM: 4B (A♭ major) — move to 4B to push the floor harder; 3A (B♭ minor) — switch to 3A for a mood change without losing the groove; 2B (F♯ major) — drop to 2B to bring the room down gently.
Pitch range at ±6%: 130-146 BPM — anything in that window beatmatches without sounding stretched.
Key on the fader: without key lock (Master Tempo on CDJs), above roughly +5% it plays a semitone higher, so treat it as 10B rather than 3B; below -5% it reads as 8B. With key lock on, it stays 3B across the whole range.
Programming: a peak-time weapon — save it for the main stretch (energy 96/100).
Similar tempo
Within ±3 BPM of 138 — beatmatch without a big tempo pull.
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