What a great way to spend a Sunday! Any chance of you uploading a few clips so we can hear what the analog versions sound like? I'd love to hear the difference between the two analog versions and compare them to the digital version.
Thanks in advance.
Ed
--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, jesper <jesper@...> wrote:
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> Hi list!
>
> Two months ago I had the cealing window in my studio changed. This meant
> unhooking a lot of gear and afterwards plenty of cleaning. Now almost
> everything is back in place...
>
> Today it was time to test the drum synts. I made a simple two bar loop
> with four different triggers in Cubase (basically bass, snare, hihat and
> cymbal (at least in theory)), fed the triggers to the first machine and
> the output(s) to the mixer. When one proved OK I moved on and soon
> arrived in my "corner or clappers". This was the first time I really
> A-B-tested the two first versions of the Clap Trap (along with E-H Clap
> Track and Crash Pad). A sudden mayhem of claps and crashes appeared but
> with some tweaking I arrived at this conclusion:
> I don't think that mark 1 and mark 2 are identical (even without the
> humanizer) or it's just my machines. I find mark 1 rougher, courser and,
> well, meaner. Mark 2 is just as good but different. A little more
> well-behaved maybe. I ended up tweaking them so that the older brother
> played a classic disco clap ensemble while the younger sibling added
> finger snaps. The humanizer sure is good for finger snap sounds!
>
> Just wanted to share this Sunday experience. :D
>
> And while at it: That's one expensive disco clap:
> http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290585086395
>
> p.s. Thomas, the Syndrum pedal assembly works great with the 478. Lovely
> with the sustain kill switch! d.s.
>
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> electronically yours, jesper
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