Really love how it turned out - it's a unique sound and made the simple drum pattern way more interesting for me.

I used Logic's stock Overdrive Plugin to distort and thicken the sound a bit and make it a bit louder. I sent it to a reverb using Logic's Space Designer too, to give the sound a bit of space that tied it into the overall track. https://youtu.be/7L7HLwxh2Qk

I noticed while recording that there was a little noise from that part of the mic that almost worked like a little bit of percussion on top of the simple kick/snare pattern that I had going for the drums. I copied that little piece of audio out of the recorded vocal track, put it on its own channel, and found where I wanted to use it in the drum pattern

I used a Shure SM7b for all the vocals on the EP, and recorded them before I had that nice boom arm to mount it on, so I held the mic in hand when recording. The part of the mic that screws onto a mic stand is loose and rattley when not on a stand. https://youtu.be/IFM7VH7zg5E

And you can hear the full EP here:
https://tonyfitz.bandcamp.com/album/breaking-point
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Here's video to show how the fuzzed up drumline worked in the song. I layered a couple of clean kick and snare samples on top of it to get a bit of drum definition back into the mix, but the whole track was built around that distorted modular synth drumbeat...I love using distortion creatively and the moment I cranked the fuzz on this, I knew I was on to something. https://youtu.be/QSsat_m95HQ #irishmusic #musicproductiontips

You could do this with stock distortion plugins in your DAW, or plugins like Soundtoys Decapitator/Devil-Loc too. Drum sounds with a bit of decay will work better, and the fuzzier the distortion the better too. This isn't a subtle technique...get aggressive with it!

I didn't think to record a before fuzz/after fuzz version of the actual drumline used in the song when I was writing it, so here's a quick example using a simple beat made on a Teenage Engineering OP-1 without fuzz, and then with the fuzz. You can hear the pitch of the kick and snare drums come out and it becomes a melodic part.
https://youtu.be/DE4G9zvtlA4