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Over the last week or so I've been spending my spare music time on really striving for better drum programming and production quality. I'm trying to not become contented with drum loops that are close enough but trying to really nail the feel and accents, fixing offbeat feels or swing feels where they don't belong, and balance the velocities on the various drum parts throughout the song to match the dynamic and arrangement of the piece.

I also figured out how to route specific drum sounds from the main VST track to other channels for side chain processing. Right now I have kick and toms to their own bus, snare to it's own bus, and brass and room & overhead mic to it's own bus, with a parallel "dry master" bus that contains all drum paths unaffected. On each side chain bus I'm applying processing in different ways to support the type of drum sound the bus controls, and blending those various buses with the dry master to find the right balance between raw sampled sounds and compressed/processed sounds.

Throughout the process I've learned a lot of things. Moving forward I will take these things into new projects with quicker workflow and precision.

cool

So, can I get you to do some "how-to" vids since Jer won't comply?



Dude - we gotta get together so's I can leach some skillz. Would watch anytime

GRIMESPACE wrote:So, can I get you to do some "how-to" vids since Jer won't comply?



Dude - we gotta get together so's I can leach some skillz. Would watch anytime

Come down! We can totally schedule it. Bring my half panel!

(i know you got a lot going on right now)

Dude... I plugged into the boogie last night for the first time in ages... I looked over at the Marshall and my pedalboard, which haven't been plugged in since the MapFest back in March

The half panel WILL make it to you before you sell the 2x12, I swear

..... I'm selling it this weekend....

SERIOUSLY?

yeah, so you need to ship it overnight...

Oh shiiiiii.....

....so sorry, man

....you know I'll make it up to ya on the flipside

I'm joking dude. You said you would get it to me before I sold it so I was going along with that premise... anyway

That cab is going nowhere. It works really well with the Jube. Except that half back would put it juuuust in the right spot

I'm so gullible

Does it work better than the Randall cab?

Not really. Same basic tone cause same speaker but the Randall is a bigger more massive overall sound. That's great in a big room but it sucks in a smaller room. The 2x12 gets to the point of a little speaker breakup. Just a hair. And it's at the right volume for when the amp's power section starts to fatten up. The half back would do good things.

MR RUBATO wrote:The half back will do good things.

Fixed

Yeah Thank Christ , on a side note I was jamming with Formal Archer last week and I played the kit with my bare hands , it was so fucking Bonham . \m/\m/

sound examples?
vst plugin used?