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K-dub
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Really good stuff. Love the piano. Nice job. Has a real nice sheen to it that sounds professional. The drums are really tight and clear. Are they real drums recorded? They sound very real. If they are fake, I'd love to know how you accomplished that sound.
They're Superior Drummer 2, GZ ... and the whole sound heard here is straight out of the program using the included effects and mixer.
I normally send that mix to a drum sub bus. Across the drum sub bus, I first lay some compression, followed by a brick limiter set high to just trim any transient tops. Once the mix starts to gel, I'll play between the compressor and the limiter in order to get the right push in the mix.
I've got a large library of midi clips I've collected over the years, but if memory serves me right, these patterns were included w/ SD2.
I was forced into an experiment recently where ... and I don't know why, my SD2 stopped loading. It had worked previously, but suddenly I couldn't get the sounds to load. (Updating to the 64 bit version fixed it)
Anyways, in order to play the drum track I'd assemble for the piece I was working on, I had to load Session Drummer instead of SD2 (while I was figuring things out).
I like Session Drummer, and I've used it before ... but oh my, there was a vast WORLD of difference. SD2 just has an incredible amount of velocity layers that when heard side by side w/ Session Drummer, blew Session Drummer out of the water like a Pro basketball team taking on an 8th grade squad. I couldn't believe how SD2 just opened up the sound and nuance of the performance. I simply made things sound real versus ever so slightly canned.
In any case, it was an eye opener for me.
I probably over answered your question. I hope that helped anyways

Kev-