Roland TR-909 vs TR-1000 Head-To-Head Comparison
Synthesist Starsky Carr – in his latest video – shares a head-to-head comparison between the classic Roland TR-909 and the new TR-1000 drum machine.
“I put the Roland TR-1000 head-to-head with my original Roland TR-909 to see how close we can actually get”, notes Carr, “and more importantly, where the differences really matter.”
Topics covered:
Kick, snare, clap, rim & tom comparisons
Analogue voices vs ACB models (and why that’s ironic…)
The real difference between main outputs and individual outs
Why the 909 sounds more “band-limited” and less hi-fi
Frequency analysis & Match EQ deep dive in Logic
The exact EQ curve to give your 909 samples that crusty main-out character
Why obsessing over 1:1 matching might be missing the point
Carr argues that the key to recreating the classic 909 sound isn’t tweaking the TR-1000, but band-limiting the output. He demonstrates to how to recreate this, using Logic’s Match EQ.
Is the Roland TR-1000 close enough to replace the TR-909? Check out the comparison and share your thoughts in the comments!
