On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, grant horne wrote:
quoted 3 lines and geordan drummond and i have both thought> and geordan drummond and i have both thought
> separately about sampling high school marching band drum lines. i attempted
> it once and it sounded terrible.
Is it because they were bad players, because you couldn't get a clean
sample (free of audience noise), or because the timbres of the drums
didn't work? The last 2 of these problems would be pretty much
insurmountable, I think, but in the case of the first, have you thought
of the Concord Blue Devils? Eight (or is it ten, can't remember) snare
drummers playing a roll so precisely synchronized you can hear every
individual stroke... there must be a use for that sound somewhere!
Tiddly winks-- James, ex-band geek
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