Hey skids, sorry actually what i meant to call you was
Mika 3 cuz i saw the name on your nowhere page when i went to grab 'Perfectly Clear' for Waldo's demo show. That is the name of your band right? Does the baby make your Mika 4 or did the kid sit in on the jam?
They sound real because they are real. I finally dragged all the cymbals off the kit in the living room next to my DAW and just recorded them.
Those mistimed crashes, were probably the few newly added real cymbal hits i mixed in with the canned ones to see if anybody would notice a difference. Honestly when i listen to the isolated drum tracks i don't detect much on an isolated crash, but that section in the beginning, yes huge difference.
Daf - Thanks for coming, i know you thought the drums on Cold City were awful so i figured this would be a step in the right direction.
I think some people are reacting as if I asked "Hey is this a step up from Tito Puente?" whereas all i wanted to know was "Is this a step up from my previous 'organic' style kits"
I probably shouldn't have said anything at all, have you ever noticed how when you specifically point something out people jump all over it?
Anyway, you did hear v2, in v3 i replaced the intro 'canned' cymbals with real ones, but no need to go back i didn't change much else except i brought down the level of the kick/hat in verse one.
As far as pocket / groove thing i hear ya, i tried to go back and do takes where it was just "boom - tat - boom - ta-tat" or something and i just kept wanting to hear it changing up more/syncopating. I'm sure I'll have other tunes where I'll want that, but in this case I just couldn't feel it.
I'm glad you liked the rest of the parts, I guess now i don't fret as much about those it's like i have an area to fixate upon which is good to be aware of. Thank you.
erichenryus - Like i explained earlier.
I edited the takes in the Fruity Loops piano roll, I can see the beats and I can shift by 24/th increments of 16th notes (a shift almost imperceptable to the human ears).
It's not timing issues, you just don't like the way i drum. Sorry to hear it but I'm glad at least you enjoyed the rest.
Maybe go back and check these things you say are off are you sure they're not in unison with a bass line, or maybe synchronized with a guitar riff that's doing the same thing?
Well i modified several things that i felt the clinic was right about in terms of the drums and remixed a few times, but i've listened to this song about 300 times over the last week. The drums sound good to me the way they are now, i don't feel they need to be redone so I guess i'm no longer worried about them.
