my first T&C post -- "Gimme Your Money (Hand It Over)"

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very cool, very smooth....

dig it!
 
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gahdamn.
That's some hot business. I like the drumkit a lot, was it addictive drums?
 
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ginormous said:
I layered ________ on top of __________ with a few old-school analog studio tricks I picked up along the way.
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I have noticed that any single software "auto-drummer" plug-in tends to have a detectable artificiality about it. Combining elements of two (or more) plug-ins seems to be more acceptable to the ear. It does not even matter if one of the plug-ins uses unrealistic/electronic sounds.
 
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Funkfingers said:
I have noticed that any single software "auto-drummer" plug-in tends to have a detectable artificiality about it. Combining elements of two (or more) plug-ins seems to be more acceptable to the ear. It does not even matter if one of the plug-ins uses unrealistic/electronic sounds.
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The sound is certainly one 'tell', as the poker players would say. Another one is if the timing is so on the money that it sounds stiff and sterile. In one studio I worked in back in the 90's, they had MIDI drum pads hooked up to a Alesis HR-16. It helped to have something to keep the human feel, the heartbeat.
 
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Gotta quantize and run everything through room verbs and compressions....such a pain. I say keep it how it is. Nothing wrong with a robot drummer as long as you cop to it. Call yourself funktronica.

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jon the art guy said:
Gotta quantize and run everything through room verbs and compressions....such a pain. I say keep it how it is. Nothing wrong with a robot drummer as long as you cop to it. Call yourself funktronica.

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If that's what you're going for, yeah. I've done some dance and rap tunes that sound like R2-D2 ate a James Brown CD.

On songs like this, I need a decent drum sound but don't have an acoustically suitable space (or understanding apartment neighbors who won't pound on the walls if I turn up past 3), so I've got to do a little sleight of hand. I've been doing this since the 90s. There are "humanize" settings on sequencers that slip the timings around, and I can set the quantize percentages so they're not so tight.
 
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ginormous said:
If that's what you're going for, yeah. I've done some dance and rap tunes that sound like R2-D2 ate a James Brown CD.

On songs like this, I need a decent drum sound but don't have an acoustically suitable space (or understanding apartment neighbors who won't pound on the walls if I turn up past 3), so I've got to do a little sleight of hand. I've been doing this since the 90s. There are "humanize" settings on sequencers that slip the timings around, and I can set the quantize percentages so they're not so tight.
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This is why I've just been teaching myself drums. I'm on an e-kit right now (actually, the e-kit is in a pile in the back room waiting for the 2yo to not want to murder it). I have never been satisfied with midi drums that come across as humanistic, even after humanize/quantize tweaks happen, so I'm just gonna do it myself. I just got the boys a Yamaha DD55 which I will be regularly stealing from them to lay tracks down into a sequencer to pipe out of an Alesis DM8 brain. It's got pretty good sounds and compression, delay and reverb.

I'm going to have to listen to your recording with headphones on tonight. The only suggestion I would have on the drums is the snare. See if you can find a plugin with a brush or a really deep or "jazz" snare. SuperDrumFX is a free one that sounds pretty good and can be loaded with samples of your choosing. It's almost always the snare that gets me in computer drums. hi hats can really bite too.

Or don't listen to me; it sounds awesome to me. :D
 
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I've downloaded SuperDrumFX, and as soon as I get a chance to RTFM I'll test drive it.

I've also got DrumCore Free in my back pocket, and it's got a very fat, mid-90s sounding Ludwig kit. I'll use that on something else.

In the meantime, I'm working on some holiday stuff -- I've got an idea for a funk adaptation of a Tchaikovsky "Nutcracker" theme.
 
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ginormous said:
There are "humanize" settings on sequencers that slip the timings around, and I can set the quantize percentages so they're not so tight.
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+1

Most DAW recording software has a Swing percentage control for loop-based percussive plug-in instruments. Spectrasonics Stylus RMX allows the deliberate randomisation of individual elements within a complex, repetitive groove. Even a non-drummer can overdub some minor percussion. This will install some human artefacts. Acoustic guitar, low in the mix, has the same effect.
 
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Nice, really cool. I like it a lot. Smooth, groovy, and a little humor. We must hear more tunes.
 
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This is totally Aces, Reg!!! :bigthumb:

I got hit with a inkling of a mix of Robben Ford, Larry Carlton (solo) and Steely, as mentioned. But just a great track....vocal, guitar tone, and playing...

Were the lyrics inspired by a real life circumstance?
 
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The lyrics were based on an amalgamation of my own and others' experiences... I've never carried in real life.

I did stare down a guy with a knife, one time. I held nothing but high school textbooks. He blinked, I kept walking.
 
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