On 24 8 2004 at 8:30 pm -0400, Mike Carlyle wrote:
Glad to help, Ben. Above is a link to a new song I'm working on that uses the new kit. It's just a mix of three basic tracks that I will build on with my singer/lyricist collaborator.
That's a great groove Mike (as usual). I particularly dig the bassline in the chorus. Are you playing all the Asus stuff open? sounds like you are moving up to the 4th fret on the D string (for the sus6) eh?
I really like the new "press" or "buzz" snare drum. It's very similar to the idea I first saw presented in the 70's Ludwig Kit. You can hear it as the very first drum sound in the song above. It also appears during some tasty fills that happen throughout the song.
Very nice. The hi hat stuff sounds very realistic too, thanks to different velocities and whatnot.
Note also that I pushed the tempo from 120 to 124 bpm when jumping into what will become the chorus part. This really adds some humanization in my opinion. When I first mapped out this song, I did it on real drums. When listening to tapes, I sped up quit a bit when it came to this same part.
I agree. On first reading (before I had listened to the mp3) I was expecting this might be kind of abrupt and false sounding, but quite the opposite. In fact the difference is so marginal I probably wouldn't have noticed had you not pointed it out. The chorus definitely has more of an "alright let's go" feel to it though which benefits from the pushed tempo, then settling back down a lil after...
I don't know if my notes were saved with the kit. I made some remarks about the 75 meg file size of the nskit7 drumset. I also noted that not all of the drums were needed. Only about 10 percent of the available drums went into my version of the DB kit. More would be overkill.
No notes were preserved at least that I saw -- the zip file only contained the .dbkit, and the "notes/comments/description" field in the drum kit editor was empty. If you want I will add some text to it -- in fact I think that would be a good idea, anybody playing with the kit would probably well be interested. -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca