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Post by John BranerPost by GlennboPost by John BranerPost by GlennboPost by John BranerHi,
I've got a new song out. It's called "Brace Position" - you can
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=13508450
This one is a little "moody", but it is the product of cold winter
evenings and the uncertainty of entering "uncharted territory" in
2017 ;-)
This features some U-he Diva, which is my new favourite analog
real (strat and tele) guitars (through Scuffham amp sims)
Trilian bass
Superior drums
etc
As usual, let me know what you think...
Nice tones. What snare and from which library are you using?
Thanks a lot for listening G'bo. It's the Metal Machinery kit, and I
think the snare is the Black Beauty, or Supraphonic (these are the
ones I always use). This was the first time I tried a preset - and
bouncing through the Superior mixer. I would never process the drums
this much - but I wanted to try the "big drums" sound ;-) Then I
added everythign else on top of it - and let it take it's own course
;-)
Ah, I knew I didn't recognize that snare. I'd have used it too, if I
had it, but Metal Machinery is an expansion pack I don't have. Might
have to get it at some point in the future, but even at the sale
price it's on right now, it's more than I can go. Most of my new
software and toys are in the sub-fifty-dollar range for a while.
Komplete Elements (OLD software) for Christmas was $49 and Lexicon
MPX Native Reverb for birthday is $39.
Both together were $19 less than the sale price for Metal Machinery. :/
I also forgot to mention - it's a preset, and there is a stacked sound
in with the snare (they can add samples in with presets. It's all
mysterious, and end users certainly can't do it) There is a Ludwig
Black Beauty and/or Supraphonic in a lot of the kits though - so you
don'y have to get Metal Machinery to use them.
My primary kit is an "all X-Drums" kit that I made using the 1979 Ludwig
samples from NY Studios Vol. 3, but the snare I use is a Ludwig Black
Beauty from NY Studios Vol. 2. "Hit Factory". I used that snare because I
absolutely hated the Ludwig Black Beauty snare in NY Studios Vol. 3.
The tuning, dampening, and how the drum was hit makes tons of difference.
In NY Studios Vol 3. the Ludwig Black Beauty sounds like a cardboard box.
In NY Studios Vol 2. "Hit Factory" the Ludwig Black Beauty sounds just like
the real Black Beauty snare I used for years on this set of Ludwig drums.
Loading Image...Post by John BranerAlso - you can look at the EZX kits. They're made for EZDrummer, but
they work fine in Superior 2. I think they're 16 bit rather than 24,
and they're a little bit processed (where the SDX kits are raw drum
sounds) - but they still sound good.
The EZX equivalent for Metal Machinery is this one
https://www.toontrack.com/product/metal-machine-ezx/
but again, lots of other ones have these Ludwig snares too.
You can sometimes pick up EZX kits pretty cheap.
The EZX samples are too processed for me. I have EZD and some expansion
packs, but I didn't install them when I recently did a fresh install of
Windows 7-64 bit. I installed all of the drum kits from, Superior 1, and
installed Superior 2 along with three SDX expansion packs, but I left all
the EZ-Drummer and EZX stuff off of my machine, because I never used it.
That big Ludwig drum kit I linked to above used to be the drums I had in an
isolation booth in my old tape based studio. I used a total of 13 mics on
it for recording. As a result, Superior Drummer 1 and 2 both feel right at
home to me, as if I had a real set of drums with a lot of mics on them, and
that's why the pre-processed sounds of the EZX kits bug me a bit.
In 2006 I bought EZ-Drummer and a couple expansion packs for it, but didn't
use it a year before switching to Superor 1, and then later Superior 2.
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