I'M NOT A DRUMMER, but my brother used to fiddle with it some, never got in a band, and became an Electrical engineer, heh heh. The live Sarah McLachlin "Mirror Ball" has nice punchy drums. I like to listen to it at 100 dB, and pretend I'm THERE with her. I just LOVE her!! She has redeemed Canadian women after the rediculous Celine Dion!! (Alanis Morrisette is pretty good too, though.) The first single released from the band Live has nicely recorded and punchy tom drums...wonder what combination of compression limiting they use to get it to "translate" that punch to FM airplay so well? I too enjoy classic ROCK and METAL, besides classical and jazz. The Who's "Live at Leads" has awesome dynamics for CD. My favorite band is Def Leppard...a shame they never released a live anthology, thye're EXTREMELY GOOD LIVE! I'll be seeing Kiss next month, with earplugs most of the time, of course...HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE ROLLING STONES LIVE? The biggest show you'll ever see, or at least it was in '89. Too bad the reunion of Jimmy and Robert wasn't as good as it should have been...and they should have had John Paul with them, and called themselves Zeppelin...and it should have been ten years ago, when there was maximum interest from the youth culture in them getting back together. THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE BIGGEST TOUR OF ALL TIME...now it's too late. Ty Moyer at ASC is also a drummer...do you know him, Drumsgreg?