Is it considered cheating if you use drum triggers?...

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Triggers: Cheating or not?

You may have seen my last thread about needing some advice on triggers. Which leads me to my next question....

If you use triggers/module to simulate real drum sounds (as opposed to effected sounds such as techno, etc...) is that cheating?

I come in on both sides of this. I feel like a non-hacker if I use triggers because it isn't real. BUT, I can't tune drums worth a donkey. I've always been the guy to say "IT'S GOT TO BE GENUINE!" but now i'm a hypocrit cause I'm using triggers.

Thoughts??

-Clintage :cool:
 
i personally try my best to get my own sounds, it's just more gratifying to me (at least when i get them right)
but......

people wayyyyyyy better than me use triggers/samples and i can toatally see why


come to the dark side..........
 
Well..

That, of course, depends.
If you are the Chemical brothers then "No" - it is definitely not cheating !!

If you have a bumper sticker on your car that says ,"My other ride is your MOM.....and oh by the way - I Will NEVER EVER USE FUCKING DRUM TRIGGERS CAUSE ITS CHEATING...kinda like what your mom's doing to your Dad with me..."
Then yes - Its cheating.

Seriously man - if your gonna feel guilty, then don't do it.

Otherwise, just use em to you hearts content. Just the other day I put a Fruilty Loops beat to my friends song and now it sounds like Jungle techno...and I fucking hate that kind of music....but when I did it, it was kinda cool!! :eek: :eek: so I kept it.

So who cares if you don’t care - Nobody. There's purists out there everywhere (can anyone say tube vs solid state????), but trying new stuff is what recordings all about. The 69 position wouldn’t exist today if someone hadn't had the mind to say "Fuck the Missionary"....errr.....ummm....you know what I mean....

There’s few hard and fast rules in recording, and drum triggers are not one of them.
Good luck
 
Clintage said:
Triggers: Cheating or not?

You may have seen my last thread about needing some advice on triggers. Which leads me to my next question....

If you use triggers/module to simulate real drum sounds (as opposed to effected sounds such as techno, etc...) is that cheating?

I come in on both sides of this. I feel like a non-hacker if I use triggers because it isn't real. BUT, I can't tune drums worth a donkey. I've always been the guy to say "IT'S GOT TO BE GENUINE!" but now i'm a hypocrit cause I'm using triggers.

Thoughts??

-Clintage :cool:

Are you kidding? There are so many touring acts using triggers that it isn't funny.

Do you think a keyboard player using a synthesizer is cheating?

Triggers can be a blessing and a headache at the same time - especially if you are using some of the more "economical" sound modules out there.

I've always been for triggering, especially live because quite frankly a lot of the soundsystems in clubs either have really bad processing gear, or the soundman has no idea how to really use it.

Probably half of the modern music uses triggered sounds, or they use "track replacement", where the recorded track is used to trigger another drum sample.

The real question is, do you like what the end product sounds like?
If so, then use the triggers and don't worry about it.

and If somebody makes a fuss about it just say "Welcome to the 21st. Century!" :p


Tim
 
Well Said

Tim Brown said:
Are you kidding? There are so many touring acts using triggers that it isn't funny.

Do you think a keyboard player using a synthesizer is cheating?

Triggers can be a blessing and a headache at the same time - especially if you are using some of the more "economical" sound modules out there.

I've always been for triggering, especially live because quite frankly a lot of the soundsystems in clubs either have really bad processing gear, or the soundman has no idea how to really use it.

Probably half of the modern music uses triggered sounds, or they use "track replacement", where the recorded track is used to trigger another drum sample.

The real question is, do you like what the end product sounds like?
If so, then use the triggers and don't worry about it.

and If somebody makes a fuss about it just say "Welcome to the 21st. Century!" :p


Tim

My friend's are pro and they get some help off the Kick to bump it up :D
Digis work nice also. :rolleyes:
 
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