So, even though the processing was heavy handed, the samples retain their definition, with a huge amount of character: it's a precise game we play.īy engaging the lowpass filter and perfecting the resonance amount, envelope modulation amount, and filter decay, we were able to take even the dirtiest sounding drums from the processing above, and clean them up a bit. But too much, and you've ruined your sample. Going clean will give you the biggest transients, while hitting the AD a little hot will give you a huge amount of sustain and loudness. Recording into the 3000 with our trusty hum eliminator, we adjusted the input to taste. For each sound, we'd start with everything bypassed, and one by one, turn on only the processing we deemed necessary. You can read the full gear list here.īy using aux sends, busses, and multiple channels on our console, we devised a complex signal chain of EQs, saturators, compressors, and tube preamps that we could switch into series or parallel quite easily. So we grabbed our favorite compressors, saturators, EQs and pres. From the beginning, we knew we wanted this pack to be heavily processed, since a lot of our recent libraries have been pretty clean. The setup was centered around the MPC and our API console. Our process sampling the 3000 lasted months, and comprised of arduous sessions followed by extensive editing, organizing, deleting and repeating.

We got everything from polite and punchy drums:įor acoustic drums and percussion, we recorded a lot of stuff that lives in our studio - shakers, cabasas, hi hats, cymbals, clap, and kicks, rims and snares from our 1960s Rogers drum kit - with a vintage U87, Coles 4038, and Sennheiser MD 441. By editing these sounds in the MPC, the goal here was to blur the lines between electronic and acoustic sounds:

Processing sounds with additional hardware on the way in and out of the MPC, we aimed for a balance of color, tone, punch, and weight:įor our electronic drum sounds, we went straight to the source, plugging in classics like the 505, 626, 707, 808, 909, CR78, LM1, Lindrum Drumulator, and DMX, and recent acquisitions like the Minipops, an RZ1, OP1, Tempest, Kawai K1, ASR-10, M1, various Eurorack modules and Machinedrum.

We sampled a wide variety of electronic and acoustic drums and percussion, along with some vinyl, carefully clipping, tuning and filtering on the MPC along the way.

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