> One technical approach I found that is quite effective at that is to > jack everything through compressors. (I know, it's not new, I just > didn't know that). Get some white noise with an envelope, a formant > filter, and a low pass filter, and pipe it through two sets of LADSPA > compressors jacked to max (small attack, small release, large knee, > maximum compression, small theshold) and it sounds like your average FAT > dance track snare from scratch. Penetrating enough to make your average > metal worker notice it. This does sound cool. Hope you don't mind if i steal/borrow/use this idea and add it to smack? It sounds good. Check out the file compsnare.om in smack svn in you want to hear my patch for it. ;-) Loki