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So, listening the other day (for the first time in some time) to Elvis Costello's This Year's Model, and during the song "This Year's Girl" I start noticing the drums. How the drumbeats often fall in what sounds like a double hit, with the last half (or at least some part of it) seeming to drag a bit behind the meter of the song. I can't tell if this is a technique of drumming (a double hit with the drumsticks) or a tweak to the sound that's been added electronically.
In no particular order: Do you know what I'm talking about? Do you know how it was done? Is there a name for this sort of thing? Can you think of other examples of this occurring/being used in well-known songs? On that last, I'm sure there must be many, but just can't think of them right now.
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Without going back and listening to the track, I'll add one more possibility: it's an old production trick to have somebody play the same part twice (sometimes miking it slightly differently, sometimes not) in order to give it a fuller, bigger sound. Most often used on vocals, but sometimes on other instruments. The Beatles engineering team invented "flanging" (both the word and the process) to do this automatically (although without the distinct slurry delay that you seem to be hearing).
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April 6, 2006 12:31 PM
And you hear that drum-recording technique a lot in John Cougar Mellencamp's hits.
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April 6, 2006 09:23 PM