Re: Re: Making drum machine sound real?
Blue Bear Sound said:
I have yet to achieve good results by bashing my drummers head into the drum machine...
I'm in the same boat as you to-see-me
I hate my drum machine
I find my curiosity piqued by drumkit from hell, and sampling and stuff, but I don't have a clue.
I have tried a few things. The best way so far is to painstakingly program each part by itself...ie a whole song of just the snare pattern...then a whole song of just the kick...etc etc...and then you can have each piece on its own track to mess with. From there you can add effects to each piece...ie compress the snare, distort the kick etc etc...
also when doing this, you can move the individual tracks around, giving it that real offtime, or humanized feel, that is so often inherent in a live drum sound.
uhh...I only mention all of the above if you have multitracking ability. As far as what effects, again, I don't have a damn clue.
but, I have gotten better results this way than by recording the whole section of drums on one track.
whatever happens, by all means come post your best results, I need serious help when it comes to drum stuff