Hi Carl That's excellent - you prog-monster :) Liked this and thought it worth some comments. The best and most professional job you've done to date I think. All the instruments are mixed really well and there's a lot of atmosphere and power in there. I think you've done well with the db drums - especially the snare bass combination - that sounds to me like a real drummer and fits the other elements perfectly. I know you'll be tweaking the db on this - so to my ears the bits that need work are: The super-fast hi-hat start before the 4 slower ones and snare start. Perhaps a kind of soft rising cymbal would work well here (Fleetwood Mac, Albatross style) (keeping the 4 slower beats). I don't know how easy that is with ns-kit, but I think it would more natural feel to the rising pace of the start. I'd be tempted to put a second strike of the crash cymbal (or other crash cymbal) on the second bass drum beat in the second bar - so it fits in with the bass/guitar. ( |x------|x-x----| or something like that) I like the idea of the ride at 7:18, but for some reason it sounds a bit distracting to me. Maybe its a bit high in the mix or you need to drop a few strikes where the 'real' drummer would be hitting the snare. Or maybe a different ride sound is needed? Just some suggestions. Looking forward to hearing v2 with the other tweaked drums you have planned anyway. All the best Sion ----------------------------------------- Sion Morris Liverpool www.cinnamondesign.co.uk/music/music.html -------------------------------------------
ps - I've been working on a new rock song in GB using exclusively Doggiebox for the drums. It's only a "first draft", with much of the drum part consisting of repeated basic sections except in a few places where I already had an idea about something different. My intention is to go back and bit by bit tweak things around from here. Luckily, this is really easy in Doggiebox -- it's rather harder to tweak my limited ability to sing :) Still, it's not a lot of work with Doggiebox to get a pretty decent and usable drum part for a demo: <http://www.carlaz.com/music/Words_to_the_Wind.mp3>