bdickens
Why bother? Why not just use some sample library like EZ Drummer & be done with it? Or an electronic kit?
It amazes me, today's obsession with this stuff. A drum kit is just that. A drum KIT. Everything is SUPPOSED to blend together. And I say this as a metalhead. The very genre that is probably the worst offender as far as drum replacement.
Too subjective. Personally, I prefer wide open kits with good separation left and right. Too much blending makes it sound boring and processed, to me. Drums are the most disappointing instrument in most modern music today. Flat, non-dynamic, overly compressed and straight up the middle with trash can sounding cymbals. Can hardly stand it.
And I don't know about expensive electronic kits, but I played an electronic kit for a couple years and it was just horrid. I had to quantize everything, no matter how simple or complicated the track because of problematic trigger delays, ruining any sense of human feel. What's the point of capturing a performance if you have to go right back to quantizing and hours of editing to recreate natural dynamics all over again?