ABSTRACT
The practice of using samples to add to or replace real drums started somewhere around the early 1980s. It was used in pop and soon became an extremely common practice in the more energetic metal genres (where it is still prevalent). Throughout the 1990s, engineers started using it more and more in virtually any genre that involved recorded drums. This technique has always had its critics, who dismissed it as being disloyal to the true essence of performance and recording. Nonetheless, drum triggering is an extremely popular practice nowadays, and many recorded productions involve some degree of drum replacement.
