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All of these drums were created from drum sounds that were either recorded from breaks or ‘borrowed’ from random open drum sounds that you can pretty much find anywhere. I then opened them in Reason and applied a ton of EQ and compression FX to get them to sound how I needed them too. For a while I had been re-applying combinator FX for every Reason session. In other words; for every track, I was re-applying the same FX to each drum as Combinator patches and then re-tweaking them accordingly. Obviously this was KILLING my computer’s memory. Then I had the bright idea to record the drums out and re-load them in as pre-effected sounds — don’t know why I didn’t think of that in the first place. Anyways, this is how Drum Kit Part 1 came about.

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