this is so good.  love your playing. great music.   I have noticed in listening to this and your other songs,  that there is a difference with the real drums.  they sound better. 

Hugh Mann
this is so good.  love your playing. great music.   I have noticed in listening to this and your other songs,  that there is a difference with the real drums.  they sound better. 

Thanks Hugh!  Yeah, the real drums beat the digital drums big time. That was one of the things I wanted to do this song for. To hear both in the same song, where it would be real obvious what the strengths and weaknesses are with both kits of drums.
 
This song made me realize that I don't like that Ludwig Black Beauty snare I was using in Superior Drummer 2 as much as I thought I liked it.  Because of this song, I went searching through all the 30 or more different snare drums I have in all the expansion libraries for Superior, and found this one that I like better. It's a 1964 Ludwig wooden snare from the "Roots" expansion pack for Superior Drummer 2.
 
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Have you tried getting a sampler and sampling your own drums?

Glenn, this is a terrific piece, and I really like that progression.  The mix sounds good on both my speakers and headphones.  Can't wait for more.

Wayfarer
Have you tried getting a sampler and sampling your own drums?

It has crossed my mind.  I used to own a cocktail drum kit, and I sampled it several years ago, but I only did simple one shot samples for it.  If I were to try and sample my Ludwig kit, I would want to do it up right with multi-samples of varying velocity, and setup round-robins so the samples get rotated and not play the same one repeatedly.
 
I recently bought the full version of Kontakt, so I now have something I could use to create a pretty cool set of samples for. Finding the time to invest in doing it is the biggest issue I really have.

Lynn
Glenn, this is a terrific piece, and I really like that progression.  The mix sounds good on both my speakers and headphones.  Can't wait for more.

Thanks Lynn!  I learned a lot from doing this song, and hopefully it will improve the sound of both the acoustic and digital drums I use in the future.