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RE: [DTXpress] Re: Layering

2003-08-08 by rdamon@mckinney-usa.com

> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, psmperry@a... wrote:
> > I just starting to get into layering. Any tips or 
> > suggestions? Any combinations that have worked well, especially for 
> the cymbals?
> 
> Perry,
> 
> One of my favorite layering combinations is for my floor tom, I use a low
> tom voice with just a touch of a fat bass drum on v2. Nice resonant thump.
> The key is let your imagination loose and try strange combinations. I have
> user kits 80/81 setup just for experimenting with layering/crossfading on
> various pads, so that I don't accidentally mess up a "good" kit. Something
> like a T\10  -GM1 (detuned 1or 2 notes down, volume 75) + K\18(volume 45),
> just going from memory, so don't quote me. By experimenting you can come
> up with some pretty cruddy sounds, but every now an thing something will
> just click, and wow! 
> 
It's a good thing most of what do is done with headphones on, or the wife
would have shot me or the drum set by now.

> OGD
 
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