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"John L Rice" wrote:

The way I do it these days is much more sensible. I build my parts up with
a drum machine and cut an audio track for reference. Then I play along with
the drum machine track with my real drums until I get a good performance.
Then I spend a few weeks getting individual samples of each drum and cymbal
being struck many different ways and I find that heavy use of autotune on
the toms is helpful. Then I load up Drumagog and replace everything I
played with the samples I created. Then I'll chop the tracks into one
measure chunks and slide them around to get the right feel. Afterwards I'll
apply a few passes of L2 processing and then record a stereo submix to a
tape machine for warmth. I'll then play back the tape in the other room and
put the phone receiver next to the speakers so I can call myself on my cell
phone and use the earpiece output to record a new stereo mix for funkiness.
I'll mix the 'warm' and 'funky' tracks together and then give it all a
couple more passes through the L2 to make it sound 'fresh'. It's a lot of
work but worth it although I've found most of our songs sound better without
any of my drum tracks at all . . . .I'm not sure why yet.

John L Rice

I also favour the simple approach.