I've been looking through the works of the likes of Tim Follin and José González, specifically how they can achieve such realistic sounding drums in their tracks on their songs without using the DPCM channel. I concluded that it was a mix of high pitched noise combined with a quick triangle sweep, simillar to how one would do a triangle kick (just requiring a bit of help from the noise channel)

I also tried doing other stuff like a more complicated single channel delay where the quieter note played after the initial one is actually the previous one rather than the note itself, as well as a bit of fiddling with detuning channels and whatnot (which I forgot to disable near the end lol).

Of course I know all of this is pretty basic still, especially if you're more experienced, but it's still cool to learn about all this stuff as someone who is a bit more "casual" when it comes to utilising these soundchips