Snare Envy

[earthboundrec]

I guess I'm a little lost on the "negative pressure". Can you elaborate on that?

 

[NL5]

The "suck" is the natural waveform the drum creates though.
Think about it... you are usually ABOVE the snare drum. You hit the snare drum and the first thing the skin does is travel DOWN with the stick - creating negative pressure.

Ok - heres maybe (I stress MAYBE) a better way to think about where a drums sound comes from. Stand on the front side of the kick and listen to it, then stand on the back side. Where does the "bigger" sound come from - the "pulse" side, not the suck side - they both are close, but the pulse is defonetlt better IMHO.

 

[bleyrad]

Not always! My kick drum sounds better from the throne.
This is entirely just dependent on the design of the kick and the room through... the interaction of bass modes both inside and outside the drum. Nothing to do with the first pressure impulse, which we can't hear on its own anyway.

We hear WAVEFORMS, a continuous movement of energy, not a single plus-or-minus pressure burst. I'm pretty sure one would be completely indistinguishable from the other, if all other factors were equal.