3 different genres (old school hard rock, modern metal and old school jazz) with different e-drum kits samples, guitar sounds and bass sounds - all in one track! 

The processing was kept fairly minimal; I used only Reaper's stock plugins and my Hi-Fi Hi-Pass JS plugin for this mix.

My Plugin Demo - JS Hi-Fi Hi-Pass

Those are examples that try to isolate the metric aspects of a distorted and a clean excerpt. This means they change very little in order to isolate aspects that affect our perception of groove - or "urge to move" (Witek, 2014).

So, how would you order the distortion and clean examples, from the grooviest to the least groovy? Feel free to expand on that on the Facebook discussion :)

A - Meshuggah's common use of metric dissonance
B - Non metric dissonant odd time signature
C - Non metric dissonant simple time signature


Resources:

Pieslak, Jonathan. (2007). Re-casting Metal: Rhythm and Meter in the Music of Meshuggah. Music Theory Spectrum, Vol. 29, Issue 2, pp. 219–246, ISSN 0195-6167, electronic ISSN 1533-8339. © 2007 by The Society for Music Theory.

Witek MAG, Clarke EF, Wallentin M, Kringelbach ML, Vuust P (2014) Syncopation, Body-Movement and Pleasure in Groove Music. PLoS ONE 9(4): e94446. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094446

Pedro Acker