Native Construct - Chromatic Aberration (Drum Cover)

I toured with these homies a few years ago on one of their first runs and was never particularly happy with my performance in that band -- I've learned a lot since then and wanted to tackle the only song that we never played live together which was Chromatic Aberration.

When I was an undergrad at Berklee - Myles was actually my neighbor and CA was the first song they released as a band (and I think wrote as well?) but I always remember trying to sleep at night and hearing Myles working on the instrumental section of this tune.

This tune is MASSIVE and has so much going on all the time - I tried to my best to play everything that I thought was like a distinct part to play it as such and things that felt more free form I did my own thing. So I guess tl;dr I didn't play it note for note. SORRY




GEAR
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Drums
DW Collector's Series Maple in Gold Glass Finish
10x8 rack tom
12x8 rack tom
14x12 floor tom (BFSD ring applied)
16x14 floor tom (BFSD ring applied)
22x16 kick
Offbeat Drum Co Cooper Snare 14x6.5

Trick Big Foot Pro 1V Pedals
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Cymbals
Meinl Byzance Dual Hats 15 Inch
Meinl Pure Alloy Crash 20 Inch
Meinl Custom Classics Dark Splash 10 Inch
Meinl Raw Bell Ride w/tape 22 Inch
Meinl Custom Classics Dark Crash 20 Inch
Meinl Mb8 Heavy Crash
Meinl Byzance 18 Inch Medium Crash stacked over Meinl Byzance Metal China 18 Inch

Slate VRS8 x2 audio interfaces

Microphones
Kick In - Shure Beta 91A
Kick Out - Audix D6
Snare Top - Shure Beta 57A
Snare Bottom - Shure 57
Rack Toms - Sennheiser MD421
Floor Tom 1 - Shure Beta 52
Floor Tom 2 - Audix D6
Mono Room - Slate VMS - 1
Far Room - Slate VMS - 2
Ride - Gauge ECM 83
Hi Hat - SM81
China - Gauge ECM 83
Overheads - Neumann KM184s

Edited in Da Vinci Resolve
Mixed in Pro Tools

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