Sorry if I wasn't clear. When I said bring the drums "forward", I meant make them "louder". Nothing to do with location. And yes, I know how to do that in stereo.

I've got it on speaker--8-3/4" x 1" active two-way monitors with a lot of juice behind them--and I stand by my remarks. The drums need to be louder, to the point that you can feel the kick bass on the downbeats. As it is, at any level it's a kind of "thpp" sound, low mids at best with no power on the bottom. DRUMS ONLY, everything else is fine. EQ may be needed for the bass fundamental and the snare. The snare is a matter of my taste, but the kit as a whole needs to be louder.

For an example of the drum sound I have in mind, listen to "My Familiar", a work of mine in progress. You can hear the drums and bass together from 1:14 to 1:54, with a quasi-organ sound from 4:11 to 4:29, then the drums by themselves from 5:15 to the end. You can click and drag the slider to position yourself. (I'll post the tune elsewhere for comments, which I welcome.)

R.

Last edited by Ryszard; 05/08/09 11:14 AM.
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