thanks!! the initial drum hits are someone in the background of a recording I took inside a music store. I have some weird convolution reverb going on with that, and a lot of automations messing with the decay and size. With the actual rhythm drums I have a few things happening - some specific drum hits (the snare is the only one I can remember) have their own delay or reverb plug-ins operating, which I automated at certain parts to change up the timing. There’s also the final bit where the drums bunch up and get shoved out of the mix, and that’s playing with the delay (which is pretty tame otherwise) to create an infinite delay loop.

Coming up with a lot of my songs for me strangely starts with messing with reverb, and seeing how weird it can sound :)

thank you! Yeah I agree, if I work on this file again I’ll definitely improve the balance of highs & lows. I tend to “build up” from the rhythm section towards the higher melodics, which means my quick lil’ songs like this tend to sound heavy on the lows lol