Adding character to drum machines...

[Gary Phillips <gary@friendlyspider.com>]

Most of you pros are already familiar with this trick, but I'll throw it
out there anyway while this thread is active:
A very inexpensive way to "live up" drum machines is to run the dry
output through a flanger on a long but not too deep sweep.  Then
run that output through your reverb.  This way you can get subtle
(or not so) seemingly random changes in the timbre of the drums.
You want to do it before reverb because the flange effect will be
too noticeable on sustained sounds -unless you want that.
This works great on drum machine open & closed hi-hats.
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gary
@friendlyspider.com