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[Damian Blunt]

With the same heads a smaller diameter drum, such as a 12 or 13″ snare, will naturally be higher pitched than a similar tensioned 14″ drum. The depth of the snare does not affect pitch, which is dictated by head tension, but will affect the timbre. It is quite common for drummers to tune piccolo snares low to achieve a deep fat sound. I was not at the Darkness recording session but it does not surprise me that the 7×13″ Drum Gear snare sounds higher pitched.

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Both those EZX’s have crash and mute articulations only for the crash cymbals

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You can set up a CC Zone pad to split between rim only and rimshot using CC16 (see attached screenshot). You do have to be accurate with your rimshots as it is much easier to trigger a rim only than with an acoustic snare.

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The presets that have a ‘no bus fx’ option have no effects on the master bus whereas the regular ones do. Master bus compression/tape/limiting etc. can all add glue to a drum sound that is impossible to achieve by treating individual drum channels/busses.

However if you select multi-out with the regular preset the master bus effects will still be present on outputs 1 and 2. This would mean that (usually) the kick drum alone would be treated with effects that are intended for the drum mix as a whole. So we offer an option where the master bus fx are removed to avoid this scenario.

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