truekimbo2 said:

if you take something like just a kick sound, you will never find that level of perfection in someone playing a real drum kit.

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truekimbo2 said:

you can say disagreed, but a drummer isn't using a graphic EQ to go through every frequency of every drum sound.  He's not setting panning on each note, pitch on each note.  He's not adjusting the attack/sustain/decay/release of each note.  chopping up pieces of notes.  playing in perfect time.  He's not taking the cymbal and applying a carvern like reverb at just the 1000-9000hz range every third bar.

i dunno, it goes on and on like that.  i mean i understand different strokes for different folks, but in terms of pure intention, electronic musicians are way more concerned with the actual sound than people who play instruments.  I dunno, for me once i learned to listen for that stuff, i just can't listen to most analog stuff.

i mean, on albums you definitely get alot of that stuff, but again it has nothing to do with the actual drumming. 

live you can get a tight sound guy, and lots of effects to give something a distinct quality, but it just doesn't match.

edit: i dunno, for me drum sounds and sub bass frequencies are really where digital completely clobbers real instruments.  I'd be willing to grant that for other stuff, real instruments have completely different harmonics and so on that basically can't be matched by digital reproduction.

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