Question on quality drums/instruments.

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Jay Seven

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So as a producer who's at the point where he can put an ok beat together, but still lacks his own unique style or professional sound, I have to ask. Where do producers find/create all the unique drums or sound/instruments they get for there beats??? I would prefer detailed responses to this question as my sounds are getting a lil over used in my beats and many especially my drums are just chummy.
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"Native Instruments" make some killer high-quality sounds of instruments/drums/synths etc.

A lot of producers get their sounds sampling actual recordings (see: digging)

A lot of it is also what you do to the sound. Layering drums. Filtering and adding some FX to sounds.
 
So when you're looking for good instruments what VSTS should I look at? And say you have an ok sounding instrument what things should I practice at to change the way it sounds to get it just right?
 
If you use the same drum kits repeatedly in different songs, you'll start to develop your own unique sound.

"Yeah that's a Jay Seven song. You can tell cuz those drums sound like another song he made" - random internet fan.

Personally, I get most of my drum kits from PrimeLoops. They offer commercial quality drums, loops (which I never like using) and other stuffs. And to reiterate what others have already mentioned, try taking different drums and layering them together
 
Jay Seven said:
So when you're looking for good instruments what VSTS should I look at? And say you have an ok sounding instrument what things should I practice at to change the way it sounds to get it just right?
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IK Multimedia stuff for sure and they always have such great deals
Nexus and Sylenth1 are amazing as well
you can download the free Sampletank from Ik Multimedia
finding quality drumkits helps a ton
or finding drumbreaks and doing thing like this
I don't know if you use FL Studio but there are other software that do the same


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Jay Seven said:
my drums are just chummy.
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You need to start off with quality sounds. There is no way around this unless you want the end product to sound awful.

Grab a good drum library from the producers choice, sounds in hd, sonic specialists etc.

Most of the good sound design companies will offer free demos too so grab them.

When you have quality sounds to start with, it's a lot easier to get a professional result!
 
start with good quality drum samples. layering and eq is all good but the idea is to start with good sounds so you don't need to layer them and eq them.
 
i know exactly where you are coming from. i startedon this same problem a few years ago.
i looked into sound sythesis ( acctually creating your own kick, snare, high hats etc.. from sound waves ), i watched all kinds of tutorials and spent alot of time on it.

my advice. Google Vengence sound pack. get that. mainly for electronic music, but they are seriously the standard right now. all of the major dubstep producers are using that sound pack.

and then make sure you layer and EQ accordingly. i would google EQing and mixing and compression. youll see a huge difference.
good luck hope that helps.

for me personally as far as eqing goes, it really depends on the song, youll hear it a milion times, there no certain way to do it. but i have been boosting kicks at around 100hz, and my snares at about 200Hz. mind you ive been doing dubstepy stuff so.
and be carefull with reverb on lower end stuff. sounds like garbage.

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The Beat Pharmacy said:
start with good quality drum samples. layering and eq is all good but the idea is to start with good sounds so you don't need to layer them and eq them.
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you will need to eq everything almost. or use low and high pass filters, if you want that professional sound. to make every sound fit in the mix youll be absolutely lucky if you dont have to eq something.
 
Its all about taking samples and stacking. For example when im doing my snare or clap I will take like 3 different samples and put them in there own tracks, so I have 3 differnt tracks all doing the same thing. Tweak em til they sound how you want. Do that with Kicks, Snares, Hats, shakers, synths, brass, anything. Thats how you get your own sound. Barely anybody uses sounds straight up.
 
Every producer has a unique method to getting their sounds how they want to. I personally use Addictive Drums or Tremor as source sounds and then process my sounds either in the plug in or by using outside FX to get the sound I am looking for. Neither method is right or wrong. A lot of guys use one shot drum sounds which work well too and layer them inside of a drum sampler like battery, poise, giest, machine a mpc ect. For instruments just pick what works well for you. I use a combination of things depending on my mood that day.
 
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