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I can't tell y'all nothing, you the ones who aren't happy with your drums, yet when I tell you where to get them from you say "no, that's not where they are at".
Again, Stock Sounds are 95% of avg producer making placements arsenal even if they don't know it is.
Example: Scott Stoch got drums from MV8800 and Motif. So if you get the library banks to these, you have "scott Storch Drums".
Dr. Dre used MPC 3000(I think, maybe another model), Triton, and old Records for Chronic 2001. So if you get the sounds from the hardware and read the CD insert to see what was sampled and get the drums from the albums he used you got all his sounds from 2001. Dr. Dre didn't purchase a "Dr. Dre" kit for his sounds.
Alot of Boombap era was done on ASR-Xs, EMU Rackmounts, DMXs, Rolands, ect. Get the actual rom sounds from these. Not the ones someone EQed and filtered so they can resell without being sued.
Today tons of producers with hits in current rotation from Lex Luger to Will I Am to DJ khalil to Polow to Bangladesh to Justice League to BM Cox have made records using nothing but the resources provided for them within their DAW of choice whether Logic, FL, Reason, Pro Tools, ect.
That's because the drums that come in a Workstation Keyboard, Drum Machine, dedicated vstis or a DAW are engineered and mixed by professionals(who ironically engineer and mix the records you hear that you want to sound like) for optimal sound. "Kits for sale" on the otherhand are made when someone get's ahold of MPC, Ultrabeat, Battery, Kong, Sampletank ect. and "layer or tweak" the drums for you. Problem with that is the original sound is now compromised and you're given some random guys spin on what he "thinks sounds good" for a quick buck.
The problem is, people think it's some secret "compress this/layer that/eq it all" formula, when you just need lossless quality drums from jump. From there you do what's needed for THE SONG!
Sidenote, your monitoring may be failing you if it's not up to par(I know none of you to know what you are using)but I don't know ANYONE with reliable monitoring who worries about things like "quality drums" or making beats that "knock". It's all an afterthought when your ears aren't deceiving you.
Again, Stock Sounds are 95% of avg producer making placements arsenal even if they don't know it is.
Example: Scott Stoch got drums from MV8800 and Motif. So if you get the library banks to these, you have "scott Storch Drums".
Dr. Dre used MPC 3000(I think, maybe another model), Triton, and old Records for Chronic 2001. So if you get the sounds from the hardware and read the CD insert to see what was sampled and get the drums from the albums he used you got all his sounds from 2001. Dr. Dre didn't purchase a "Dr. Dre" kit for his sounds.
Alot of Boombap era was done on ASR-Xs, EMU Rackmounts, DMXs, Rolands, ect. Get the actual rom sounds from these. Not the ones someone EQed and filtered so they can resell without being sued.
Today tons of producers with hits in current rotation from Lex Luger to Will I Am to DJ khalil to Polow to Bangladesh to Justice League to BM Cox have made records using nothing but the resources provided for them within their DAW of choice whether Logic, FL, Reason, Pro Tools, ect.
That's because the drums that come in a Workstation Keyboard, Drum Machine, dedicated vstis or a DAW are engineered and mixed by professionals(who ironically engineer and mix the records you hear that you want to sound like) for optimal sound. "Kits for sale" on the otherhand are made when someone get's ahold of MPC, Ultrabeat, Battery, Kong, Sampletank ect. and "layer or tweak" the drums for you. Problem with that is the original sound is now compromised and you're given some random guys spin on what he "thinks sounds good" for a quick buck.
The problem is, people think it's some secret "compress this/layer that/eq it all" formula, when you just need lossless quality drums from jump. From there you do what's needed for THE SONG!
Sidenote, your monitoring may be failing you if it's not up to par(I know none of you to know what you are using)but I don't know ANYONE with reliable monitoring who worries about things like "quality drums" or making beats that "knock". It's all an afterthought when your ears aren't deceiving you.