On 04/08/2006 14:08, Sion Morris wrote:
I know its prog in spirit! :)
True enough :)
Yes - a soft rising cymbal with a little bit of variation should sound good - a bit like a cymbal crash played backwards, but with tiny variations.
I'll have to mess with that. Could be the sort of thing where mallets would be nice; I used to love messing about with mallet-cymbal crescendos whenever I got near the drummer's kit :) Very atmospheric and dramatic. 'Course, this means I'd have to sit down and edit the dbkit to include a pile of mallet-ride samples, which might take a while. In the meantime, perhaps I'll mess with some stick-ride crescendo things ....
Tch! was looking at the wrong info on the track - but yes the bit at 4:39 is where I mean. After hearing it on headphones, I think its not too bad though and may just be a bit high in the mix as you say. [...] Yes I'm always reducing the brass sounds right down - sometimes exporting separately!
Yeah, I've been a little too lazy to export separately! :} I'm just using straight-up stereo output from DB, and trying to balance the kit to work that way. Replacing the current selection of ride-bell samples with slightly lower velocity samples might help things balance out. (Ever since I started testing this dbkit with the ns_kit7 samples back in April, I've been continuously shifting the brass towards lower velocity samples. It's been a bit weird to balance, since of course different pieces have different quiet<->loud ranges, but I want the dbkit to offer up reasonably intuitive numerically based velocity choices, such that when one selects velocity 12 of one cymbal it ought to sound about as loud as velocity 12 of another cymbal.) I oughta post an MP3 of just the drums, as output by db alone .... Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson mailto:cea@carlaz.com http://www.carlaz.com/