yeah...i get that. all's i'm saying is that approach kinda leaves the drums/ the drummer hanging out there by a twig off the side of a cliff in gusting wind and getting pelted w golfball sized hale .
so, the drummer laid down a trk that's pretty clearly free time...and then you laid something pre recorded over it....something that was played in strict "drum time"?
.....yeah, ya know.....i gotta say that to my ears and sensibilities....that kinda makes it sounds like the drummer ain't playing $hit, and can't PLAY for $hit. glad that wasn't ME playing those drums and ya did that, cos we'd have to talk about some things!
and that's esp exacerbated....when you have the drums so low in the mix. ( yes, i understand you did that so the downbeats could speak and so it wasn't total gibberish w the two different time feels)
tell ya what....i'd be more interested in hearing you play something WITH the drum trk that lined up WITH it.
i don't think there's any need to be creative messing w shifting time schemes and such devices...to be creative.
from what little i heard of that drum trk...it sounds pretty damn cool and i think it deserves something played WITH IT instead of grafted on to it. yikes..that sounds kinda Harsh, don't it?!! sorry about that.
