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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Distant Drums
Message-ID: <7556@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 88 19:37:01 GMT
References: <620005@otter.hple.hp.com> <7235@cisunx.UUCP> <1528@sugar.UUCP>
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
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In article <1528@sugar.UUCP>, karl@sugar.UUCP (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
> No way is the fundamental of a tight snare over 7.5K.  7.5K is really
> quite a high frequency in the audio spectrum, only an octave and a third
> away from being inaudible.  (You need to hear it all for it to be really
> high fi, of course.)
 
You've obviously never heard me play.  :->


Ok, maybe not the fundamental of the drum heads, but for the gut on the
bottom head, I'll bet it's up there.  Besides, ever notice the sound of
the snare drum on, say, the dealer instrument demo disks or a DMCS song?
The drum is tuned _really_ low, the fat, sloppy sound of a second rate,
low budget rock band.  And the sampled sound quality still stinks.

Try sampling a good drum corps, sometime.  We're talking _tight_ drum
heads.  Sounds awful.  I know.  I've done it.


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Eric Kennedy
ejkst@cisunx.UUCP