My answer is a drummers answer and a flam is normally played with the grace note (quieter) before the beat so the louder note is on the beat. And same approach whether a right or left flam. Quantizing is up to you (as most drummers won’t quantize – in order to keep human feel and groove) but normally you would quantize the main hit of the flam to be on the beat.
Thanks for this info. It also led me to realize, on my cheap kit, my first hit’s velocity was registering too high (equal) in many cases. I can pull that down a bit while tightening up the flam – way more natural.
This post was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by jlstudio1.
It seems like a basic question to me, which in essence is, is it possible to tune an actual snare, like the Wuhan (or in general), down down a forth and have it still sound good? I had hoped many drummers would know.
I discovered the other forums, like the Pub, after I had already posted here. You are correct, that it would have been the better place, but I needed to get the technical info here first to inform the snare question.
I would say it has value though, and will inform my decisions. Thanks for the info.
I appreciate these responses, however the main question remains – could the black Wuhan snare (in real life) ever be tuned down to -:05 (i’m guessing that’s semitones?)
I believe the “processed” button is an algorithm that is trying to emulate a tuned snare, unlike the unprocessed, which is just slowing down the sample.
