If you're still trying to go for the dubstep genre, you need to work on your kicks and snares. You still need to work on your actual musical compositions as well; I don't hear any transition or melodies. Do this: listen to a popular dubstep song carefully for how the punchy the drums sound. Then, take a kick sample and set it to it's own mixer. Manipulate the sample so that you get a short abrupt sound that makes your subs go off. Add an equalizer and lower your mid frequencies. Add a compressor and set the threshold to approx -30 dB, set the ratio to 10:1, set the attack to 0 ms and the release to around 100 ms - add enough gain so that you can hear the drums at the right volume. Start with those settings but tweak them until you get the right kick. Once you've done drum kicks, add a bit of reverb to the snares so that you hear a tiny bit of resonance. Do the same for the snares with the compressor. Work on drums until you know you've got a good enough sound.
As for your composition, you need to add other lead instruments in there. You have a lot of mush in the bass clef, but not enough going on in the treble clef. Try adding in a piano synth to make it interesting. You need to keep your audience's attention - a cool sounding bass can only do that for a few seconds. You need to add in new sounds and transitions to keep them interested and thinking. Don't give up - I know you're still young and still experimenting. You just need to put your head in the right direction. Don't worry about what you think people want to hear - just think about a tune that you think is really catchy and try to emulate it. Good music isn't just what the mainstream culture likes - it's about expression of self in such a way that no one else has expressed in a piece before. I know you're trying to be a good producer but you can't keep your audience's attention without being a good musician as well.
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