Wow, I'm a drum geek and even I find this over the top. I dig it though because why not?
All I know is that when I'm on I can't hear the metronome when I'm playing on the pad. The metronome is just a click sound and the pad is obviously a short pad sound.
It's all about gaining the ability to gauge yourself relative to the pulse and adjust to match it. Gavin Harrison used to record himself and then play it back in slow motion to really exaggerate the inconsistencies. I should do that.
So I guess laying down a good groove with other musicians is no longer good enough for Larry?
So I think I figured out an actual answer to my question.
Accuracy is dependent on tempo. At 120 BPM, or 2 BPS, I'd have to be accurate to .5 seconds to bury the click. At 240 BPM, or 4 BPS, I'd have to be accurate to .25 of a second. And so on. Not as small an amount of time as I initially thought.
Not buying this Larry. The sound of the click on any metronome I have heard is not .5 seconds in duration.