On 09/09/2005 05:05, David Holloway wrote:
another note is that contemporary metal and hardcore has quite a different drum sound from the big old resonant kits of the 70s/80s. i think the big difference is in the tom sound mostly though. what era of metal/rock sound are you looking for?
Just to chime in ... The "70s Ludwig Kit vII" dbkit does the big, resonant 70s drum sound very well. Very Bonham :) Wouldn't work for the "clicky" thing heard in extreme/death metal kick-drumming, though I think a lot of that is insane compression and EQ. But neither is that really a sound I'm into. A lot of rock recordings I hear from the 70s have kind of "dead" sounding toms, though, and I like big, powerful tom sounds :) And though I like boomy Bonham-style kicks, for my own stuff (vaguely heavy rockish) I've gone with a more focused kick thump. I've used the ns_kit samples with Doggiebox in most of my home-recording stuff and have found ns_kit6 and ns_kit7free sound just fine in heavy rock contexts. There are a couple of dbkits for ns_kit7free samples on the Doggiebox site, and I think I linked my version from my web page somewhere .... I haven't had a chance to play with the variety of samples in the complete ns_kit7 release--or complete a new dbkit using those samples in a usable way--but there's pretty much something there for every style. I've just gotten back from holiday in the States where I picked up a Tascam US-122 USB audio interface (having been impressed with the work the list's Mike C did using one) and installed the Cubase LE that came with it, and am looking forward to doing some more recording with this set-up soon :) Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson mailto:cea@carlaz.com http://www.carlaz.com/