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Adam Hart wrote: > Any thoughts or advice as to how to process > the [drum machine] sound before it hits my PA?"" ...to which Rick Walker replied with some of the best advice you'll find anywhere. I would humbly add the following: 1) Rick wrote: > remember that drummers tend to have one hand stronger than another hand. When I program prominent fills on snare or toms, I often take the time to set up two different pads for each drum - a "left hand" pad and a "right hand" pad. The left will be marginally softer and tuned marginally differently. I will also offset the left hand so it's just a bit slower (2%-5%) than a perfect subdivision of the beat. Sounds human to me! 2) Another "humanizing" trick is to record the bass and ride (cymbal/hi-hat) WITH quantization, and the snare WITHOUT. 3) Pull out some CDs with great drum tracks and A/B your patterns. Tune, tune, tune those drums to match what you hear. Balance, balance, balance too. 4) Overlay multiple drums with very slight offsets to get more reality. My favorite "sandwich" is a piccolo snare tuned down a bit for snap, a timbale for ring, and a way down-tuned deep snare, mixed very softly, for snare rattle. 5) Don't pan too hard left or right. I only have two tunes on my web site, but they both have drum machine tracks. Here are links: http://www.thecoyote.org/index.cfm?go=1&component=music-download&id=173686 http://www.thecoyote.org/index.cfm?go=1&component=music-download&id=105737 No, they're not looping tracks, so sue me for off-topic content ;-) Douglas Baldwin, coyote-at-large www.thecoyote.org coyotelk@optonline.net "The volume knob on your telepathy is your morality." - Stephen Gaskin, The Farm