Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, thligrdd wrote:

> This is odd. It doesn't sound like this when you just run the drums
> straight into your mixer? I often run gear through my evolver, with a

i don't use a mixer, but yeah, the drums sound pretty much the same coming
out of the 909 as they do coming out of the 909 and going through the
evolver with a "thru" patch loaded. there's nothing wrong with the
evolver... it just seems very sensitive to dynamics and either i'll have
to pay a lot of attention to what i put into it or i'll have to get some
sort of outboard compressor to fix the signal going into the evolver,
which i likely won't do... i'm going for a minimalist gear aesthetic for
once in my life. :)

> Umm, are you sure you don't have anything like the filter cutoff set
> to something below maximum (164)? Since snares have a lot more highs
> than kicks, it's possible that could be set low and you'd hear the
> kicks fine, but the snares would sound dull and a bit faint.

yup... the samples just aren't as intense... they're all normalized and
cranked up and such, but they're just not as sonically large as the
kicks...

if anyone out there has any mp3s that demonstrate the evo processing
drums, i'd love to hear them...

bleep.
out.

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