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It sounds super witch-hunty but it's driving me crazy.

There's this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4mcUyhxJTw

And I thought how ridiculously clean the "kick" was sounding for what I assume is a camera microphone. Maybe the place has good acoustics?

Particularly this part though:

https://youtu.be/c4mcUyhxJTw?t=2m11s

The little open/close hi-hat effect. How is he even producing that? It seems like none of his actions correlate to that sound. Right before each 4th beat.

I'm not a drummer or even a professional so I could just be bad! I"m curious what you guys might think.