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. -- electronically yours, jesper - -- --- ---- ----- ---- --- -- - www.electronic-obsession.se
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Clapping heaven
2011-07-17 by jesper