Ah, the first of probably a few contentious subjects! If you are under 40, this may mean nothing to you. If you are over 40, the word 'sample' may mean something entirely different... So, you know that lovely electronic kit you own? How are those sounds made? How do they come to be
Asking for trouble? Ok, so its not what I said we'd look at this time, but in the last few days a crosstalk issue cropped up with someone who got hold of me through the site for advice, so I though it would be fitting to have a look at it. So Crosstalk
Ok, so time for another setting you might have seen inside you module that you might not be 100% clear about. Lets look at Reject Time. Lets imagine you put a trigger on an acoustic drum. And lets say (just for fun) its a big, low tuned 16” tom. Now, lets say that you dont
Uh oh! BIG audience... cue BIG polyphony problem... Okay, so here's our next subject – polyphony. So what on earth is polyphony? Well, it comes from two Greek words, 'poly' meaning 'many', and, 'phony', meaning notes, and for us drummers it just means how many notes can your drum module play at the
Okay, so here's another subject which might initially seem rather boring and inconsequential, but is actually very important for the feel (not so much sound, importantly) of your electronic kit. So what we actually mean by a dynamic curve? Well, if you think about playing an acoustic drum, when you hit quietly, the drum responds
THIS is a threshold... of sorts I know I mentioned that we'd look at Velocity Curves this month but having had a think about it, it would make much more sense to look at those interestingly named Thresholds. Thresholds? Ok, so you've probably seen that in your module (although it may be
Well, that's a weird thing to be writing a blog about surely? Gain? Are you sure? Absolutely. Its one of the most misunderstood things when it comes to electronic drums. Get it wrong and your pads act like switches – hit them and they make a noise at one level. Get it correct and you
Time to Read The Flippin' Manual? (ahem!) Is owning an electronic drum kit (or any electronic drum product for that matter) the pinnacle, or aim, of wanting one? What I mean is, if you've been hankering for the best bit of electronic gear you can afford, is the moment you actually get
Yes, this really does have relevance to the piece - it beeps when I leave the door open. Have you ever wondered how your electronic drum pads work? No! Stop! Don’t hit the back button! This might be something which could be useful. Honest! Hopefully a little bit of knowledge in this area
Nobody likes a sound limiter... I heard a track the other day which made me really think. It was put up onto social media by a drummer who presumably had just got his first serious electronic kit and had replaced all the drum parts on his function bands web site music with new
