Re: I think I've come reasonably close to my drummer's snare
I like the beginning sparser, with just the noisy drums and the droning thing. The main synth line is my Novation through a bitcrusher, and it makes me think we should torture the synths more. Especially the analog and faux-analog ones. Since I've managed to keep my pedal collection intact, this could get interesting. I like what the synth adds to the groove; this one began life with both of us on guitar as a jam, no synths whatsoever. I'd like to hit this one again with the band before I bash out the rest of an arrangement though.
Re: the snare itself, I think I actually managed to get it pretty close on the other one using just Snare A from Kingpin. I have one of the snares from Native Instruments Studio Drummer layered in here, but I think the Kingpin snare (also in here) gets there on its own with judicious EQ. I remember I did something a little weird there, like boosting the crap out of 100hz using the low shelf on Waves API 550B and cutting 700hz a fair bit.
Kingpin, thusly:
http://www.analoguedrums.com/details-kingpin.php. Demo 7 illustrates pretty well the snare I've taken to using. The whole kit, once treated nicely, is a pretty solid sonic substitute for my writing and arranging porpoises. Minus the china, splash and percussion I still have to bring in from other sources.