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Hi,

Dunno whether this has been discussed before but I thought I'd share something I have been doing with all my latest solo recordings.

Usually I record with a band so that's a different discussion but when I am recording at home, in my living room, I usually don't have a drummer or drumkit available.

I am not that fond of programming drums. I used to do it, sometimes with good results, sometimes not. It always took a lot of time as well, and when I want to record I want to record, and not program drums. I never got the midi clock to work at my recorder to work either so I always needed to have the drumpart ready before I could start to record. If I wanted to have the different drumsounds on different tracks on the recorder (not just a stereo track) it was even more work.

So at one point in time I started using a diffence approach, it goes like this:

  • Program 1 bar of drums.
  • Record the first track, bass or rythm guitar while listening to the drums. Do not record the drums.
  • Record a second track, or a third or whatever.
  • Attach a keyboard with touch sensitivity to a sound module or whatever and find a nice bass drum patch.
  • Record a nice bass drum track while playing it with your index finger on the keyboard.
  • Record a snare track in the same way.
  • Record cymbal or any other drum track same way.
  • (re-) record any track; so let the guitar respond to the snare or the bass to the bassdrum or the other way around.

So as a result you will have the different drumsounds on different tracks responding to your other tracks and vice versa. I find it a very fast method and you get a drumtrack that you just not could have programmed anyway.

Am I the only one who does this ? Shocked

I haven't seperated the drums onto different tracks, but I've done manual electronic drums, from a keyboard.
Touch sensitivity is quite crucial.

Cheese is great.

My old (non-surf) band made a CD five or so years ago, where we tracked the drums first and then built the rest of the pieces track by track. We got a ways into it and discovered the kick drum was all over the place on ALL the songs (after getting all the drum trax recorded and then letting the drummer go!). The rest of the drumming was all right, so I simply retracked the kick drum tapping a keyboard. It worked fine - I could lock right in with the bass.

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