Opinion Poll
Jack Joseph Puig | Tracking Drums
‘To maximize impact, drum transients should always begin with a positive pressure waveform.’
I’m somewhat curious about this - should the wave we actually hear is made from the speaker cone moving backwards and forwards, and vibrating the air. What we hear is the speaker moving backwards and forwards for several cycles to do this. Did people care about this before they could see a waveform in a DAW? is it audible if we flip phase on tracks or even entire mixes?
I want to believe it has an impact, but I suspect that the direction the speaker is pushing or pulling for such a short period of time is negligible. I think more of the impact of this is having a system/habit for your drum transients and sticking to it. If you make sure you’re transients are all positive when tracking/mixing… you’re probably also taking the time to make sure everything is in phase with each other
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