User Manual

Groove Agent 3
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Humanise
Even though the musical tracks feeding Groove Agent
have been created with great care, imagination and
musicality, you may want to give your drumming a bit
more natural variation. This knob gradually makes the
instrument play more “inaccurately” in terms of timing
and dynamics.
The normal position for this knob is to the far left.
Ambience
This knob is one of the highlights of Groove Agent!
All the acoustic drums and percussion instruments
were recorded using a mix of several techniques:
• Every instrument close miked, giving a very dry sound.
• Every instrument recorded through the overhead microphones, giving
a rather dry sound but with a sweet stereo image.
• Every instrument recorded through the ambience microphones, posi-
tioned approximately 2 meters from the source. This gave us a warm,
roomy sound with a controlled amount of “air”.
• Every instrument recorded through a pair of distant mikes, placed over
7 meters away. Now we’re talking room! These recordings give a def-
inite hall atmosphere. Roomy? Yes, definitely!
• The analogue and digital drums sounds have electronic and electro-
mechanical reverb added to them.
Now, while editing the sound archive for Groove Agent, we carefully
chose the ambience recording that should go with every dry source.
For the 50s kit, we used the close-up microphones for drums and hi-
hat and the overheads for the cymbals. We then added the distant re-
cordings for ambience. This gave us a chance to create old sounding,
roomy, acoustic kits for that vintage sound.