My band is working on a 14 minute-long song, and I just pieced together the drums from a set of patterns played by our friend, who is ok at drums, for the middle 4 minutes of the piece.
Can you tell me how I can make these drums sound better, with a Manitoba/Caribou-type vibe? (If you don't know these bands, check them out first) The drums begin about 30 seconds into the mp3 clip:
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~mmanger/VoodkaMiddleDemo.mp3
And can someone tell me whether the saxophone sounds bad? I kinda think it does, but I can't decide what instrument to replace it with. Suggestions?
DISCLAIMERS: I'm mostly looking for drum comments here, though I would love to hear other advice too. I'm pretty good at cutting stuff up in protools, but this is my first time ever making my own drum tracks from samples. I've never programmed drums or anything....As you will hear, some of these beats cannot be performed live without two drummers. This was done on an MBox. I know the imagery and stereo placement is currently terrible. Everything is in the middle still...;) And my band started working on this track before I even knew what the loudness war was. With four sets of 4-track (two mono, onestereo) drum takes layered over each other, I'm not going for clarity here. The mix is pretty raw, but I'd appreciate your comments. Phew.
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