Originally Posted by BIG JIM MERRILEES

All that said there is nothing like playing live with a real band using real instruments......sadly in recording that is almost a thing of the past.


Not in our case for the most part! (Mike Caro's sessions)! I've even laid down some drum tracks for several songs produced by Mike Appel and Mike Caro, as has Mike Caro MANY times. They LOVE REAL! *when it works, of course.

When we do need to go non human drums for any given reason, we don't program, but rather, play in real time using fingers on the keys. That gets the human touch in there, with all the dynamics of us feeling each beat and all in between, (for ghost hits too).