Actually, this is a fairly serious subject. I have found after years in the studio that very abrupt and pointed sounds such as claves used for clicks can be extremely bad for two reasons: 1. they tend to bleed into any mic source 2. they tend to contribute to ear fatigue and in long term scenarios hearing damage! This is especially true for drummers. (A common trick is to have the drummer use in-ear or smaller headphones while placing larger hearing protectors over these. This way the ambient drum sounds are diminished enough so that the musician doesn't have to blow his ears out while tracking in order to hear the beat.) Use a mellow hi hat sample and be glad you did! DF ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Barse <wickeys@e...> To: <logic-users@onelist.com> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 1999 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [LUG] Metronome samples > From: "Rick Barse" <wickeys@e...> > > > > From: "Christopher E. Liu" <fcqmax@t...> > > > > Are there any good metronome sounds? I sampled the Logic computer > metronome > > click and haven been triggering it through SampleCell, but I don't think > > it's that great. Anybody using a sample of a real metronome? What > > alternative metronome sounds work well? > > > > I like to use claves because they cut through most textures so well. Higher > pitch and higher velocity on the downbeat of each bar, lower pitch and lower > velocity on the remaining beats. One of the many cool things about Logic is > the ability to assign any sound in your MIDI setup to the metronome in about > 5 or 10 seconds. I started doing this back in 1993, having great fun > surprising the hell out of my drummer with string pizzicati,vox samples, > whatever would make him laugh. > > Yours in Kensington, > > Rick Barse > wickeys@e... > > > > --------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ---------------------------- > > Show your ONElist SPIRIT! > <a href=" http://clickme.onelist.com/ad/tshirt2 ">Click Here</a> > With a new ONElist SHIRT available through our website. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >