Ok, pet-peeve time...
First a disclaimer: IANAD (I am not a drummer) at least not
yet. But I have played guitar for a long time, sing, etc.
Question: Say someone recorded five songs and played "real"
drums on four of them and eDrums on one. Then they put those songs
up on a web site with a vote mechanism so that people could try to
pick which was was the eDrum track.
How much better than random chance (20%) do you think people
could really do?
What if the responses were grouped based on:
a) General Music Listening Public
b) Musicians
c) Experienced Drummers
Personally, I think that it is MUCH harder to tell the difference
than is often claimed. I think some people like to imply ownership
of "magic music ears" as some kind of musican ego complex. This has
its own flavor in guitar land ("Dude, maple fretboards sound SOOO
different than rosewood!").
From my little bit of experience, eDrums do have some
disadvantages, but this primarily has to do with input expressiveness
(ex: High Hat control and Cymbal rolls), but as for output I just
can't see 16/44 samples of real drums sounding "so electronic".
Frankly, I think Roland/Yamaha should do my little experiment
with the TD-20/DTXTremeIIS on their websites... I think the results
would be to their advantage from a marketing perspective.
Or is it just that I was in the bathroom when God handed out the
magic musican ears?Message
Is it real or Memorex?
2004-01-19 by jjcorley0000