My sampled snare of choice is now the sensationally good Fidock from the ”Modern Drummer Snare Selects” expansion. Crispier, more focused, tighter, … ’hit with a lot more conviction” about sums it up. The best snares in BFD3 also sound way better than anything in SD3, for my taste. (And it doesn’t help raising their level, because that doesn’t solve their thin “tin foil”-y sound.) Which is disastrous for a good drumtrack, I find. I never understood the reasoning behind it, but all of Toontrack’s drum libraries have these wimpy, weak and thin-sounding hi-hats. Which, believe me, is saying something because the Mixosaurus hi-hat is amazingly good and expressive. Since getting BFD3, some of the hi-hats in that package, instantly became go-to’s as well. My favourite sampled hi-hats have always been the ones from Mixosaurus, that no-longer-available 120gig Rolls Royce of Kontakt drum libraries. Other important differences: BFD3’s cymbals and hi-hats sound, to my ear, much better than anything in SD3 or its many expansions.
Even its supposedly raw and natural-sounding stuff has a kind of processed aroma, I find.) (Might have something to do with the fact that, to my ears, all of Toontrack’s material, no matter where and by whom it was recorded, has a sort of same-ish processed sound. With SD3, I always seem to need several additional plugins before the drums show promise of begin able to sit well in a mix - and eventually, they never quite do - whereas with BFD3, “sitting well in a mix” is, I find, these drums’ natural state. And, most amazingly, I don’t have to do anything special. It’s difficult to describe and largely a matter of personal taste, and it’s not as if SD3 sounds bad or anything, but from the moment I began using BFD3, all the problems I had been struggling with for ages, trying to get my drumtracks to sound as if played with conviction and having them sit well in a mix, disappeared immediately. Because of a chronic dissatisfaction with how SD3 sounds. I went the other way, from SD3 (with many expansions) to BFD3, a few months ago.
0 kommentar(er)
