i think it's going back gradually. it isn't actually louder for some reasons. and there's always the volume knob to adjust to taste.

generally speaking when i was in a club some months ago, i had the impression the kickdrums sounded very very samish. i dunno it must have had sth. to do with the club compression methinks. they sounded very 'attacky'. like nails. i had the impression that i wouldn't have mattered what the kick sounded to begin with. as they were all samified through the p.a. maybe that's down to 909 business. and some of the simple 909 open hats really pissed me off, somehow. why not take a different sound. use real sounds, i think, we should all experiment in using new drum sounds, ie. real drumsets or even better, a mixture of both, either via layering or by using a synthesized kick with a natural highat or sth. we could get experimental with the basics....


sorry for ranting, just imo :lol: