Some foot stomping music and a whole new board mix for the drums to experiment with:
For Eric and as a celebration of having overcome a PC upgrade problem today - Whew! 
Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots - SJL Drums - 7-22-2026.T1.M1 . . .
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Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis - SJL Drums - 7-23-2026.T1.M1 . . .
The mix on this one is worth a listen or 3, IMO . . .
Someday after a While - Carl Verheyen - SJL Drums 7-25-2026.T2.M1 . . .
I think the mixes are improving, don’t you?
One more for tonight.
Dodging the Blues - Carl Verheygen - SJL Drums 7-25-2026.T1.M1 . . .
A slow blues groove - just to see if I can stay in it all the way through . . .
Worth a listen . . .
Every 20 Seconds - Carl Verheyen - SJL Drums 7-26-2026.T1.M1 . . .
2 done and last one a work in progress for tonight’s effort:
In further attempts to refine my drumming - meter/tempo/groove/pocket body-programming I offer this one:
Skip ahead to 2:30 mm:ss for the drums . . .
2nd song completed tonight and have one more after this while it is flowing . . .
Hope these mixes are good because my ears are a bit tired from all the drumming and mixing tonight.
Get through the timing alignment long break while I get back back in sync, please . . . This is something I am still trying to figure out/play:
I’m not dead yet, obviously.
A 1st foray into country tunes:
eeewwww, county
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Totally “AI” for profit generated song.
Or so we are told. What is real any longer? - your perceptions/creations or those of a machine refined by humans with expertise in the field of endeavor?
The clarity of minds that went into creating a “machine” capable of this kind of artistic creativity is mind boggling.
The act of plagiarism is just another way of saying; “I wish I had come up with that”, isn’t it?
So in a sort of rebellion against the machines, I offer a human [me] generated drum track and mix against their “work”.
Emulation of others’ behavior is the highest form admiration/flattery . . . me thinks . . .
One last thought - it is an absolute pleasure/joy/privilege to have this tech available to me because I have been able to grow as drummer/budding sound engineer more in the last couple of years more than in my prior combined existence because I am working with zero egos - just pure perfection as a source and now able focus on an objective.
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Pretty good
Nice mix
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I think you might like this mix better, Eric & co:
(fresh ear mix effort)
Same drumming - just a lot of nuances refined in the mix by changing some cymbal and drum samples/tuning/velocity envelops/decays & spread the freq ranges of the kit out to give greater sonic depth - I’m happy with this mix - hope you enjoy.
Overall, smoother than the mix I did yesterday:
OK, one more AI derived tune (Couldn’t resist the groove - [difficult]).
Got this captured on only the 2nd take at it.
This mix is from the last AI song but re-tuned/mixed to this tune’s needs for my percussion/drumming . . . 
Grab those earbuds/headphones for this ^ one, kids!
Time to get a little weird, with the previous vocalist for Genesis; Peter Gabriel:
I kept thinking my drumming off bad but I kept working on the mix instead, to bring them into the source audio tack without muddying up the production and wound up here with it tonight:
Hope you enjoy . . . on those MDR-7506’s . . . I do . . . .
Tonight’s efforts . . . 2 tonight:
I wasn’t sure about this mix and take 2 days ago so I let it lay and it sounds pretty good to me on fresh ears/headphones:
I had to try to finally nail this one to the wall for some (egotistical/self reliance?) reason and *think* I have succeeded with this 1st take and mix tonight. [after having left it alone for 2 months].
More Peter Gabriel - This is a recent remaster of some of his much earlier work.
This mix sounds good on the Sony MDR-7506’s to me . . . even the drumming . . .
Good woofer test, this one is.
OK, another Peter Gabriel tune that you have probably heard before.
I did one take to get something to mix with then laid down this 2nd take on the drums - I was surprised how it just flowed out without effort - just pure focus . . . (minds’ eye).