Hi,

I'm trying to make a break with some toms in the style of The Plump DJs. I've got loads of tom samples but I can't seem to make it work, I get the feeling that they are really distorted but all the plugs I have tried don't seem to sound right.

If anyone knows the sound I mean I would really grateful if they could give me some pointers, if you haven't heard of the Plump DJs, any pointers on fat toms generally or good distortion plugs (pref free)??

Cheers!

you could try some sub synthes plugins
mda subbass
delaydots PhatProDX
Aphex BigBottom
or just intellegent equazlie


Alex

Really interesting, i never got toms right also .
Best results seem to happen when using a driver (Rubytube)good EQ and some compression.
BUt certainly someone here knwos how to make toms sound great, just keep this thread alive...


Rich

Theres several things you could do to fatten up a tom sound,gated reverb with the top rolled off, but tightly gated, not that horrible 80's sound.Also running the track thru a pitch changer plug and mixing that underneath. An old studio trick used to be to stick a speaker inside an upright piano, fire the toms track thru that and mic up the result, the strings provided sympathetic resonance, wasnt there a freebie plug called pianoverb or something?, that could provide an alternative, another twist on this would be to fire it thru a combo and mic the cab up from a distance,this all depends on the room of course (and your neighbours )

have you tried camelphat?

boy do I hate that 80s gated reverb that was so over used. My suggestion is to use a good limiter, and some EQ. Most tom samples I have heard sound like they were recorded with the mic 15 feet away. To make them sound decent, roll off alot of the top end, and boost heavily in the 60-240 hz region, just below the point where they sound overly boomy.

Back in my recording engineer days, what we used to do to get a huge tom sound was to dial up the ol' "disco curve" on an EQ: scoop out the mids, and boost the bottom and top end. Voila - instant big, warm vintage tom sound....

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=FAT+TOM&defid=158250

hehe

I was playing a lot over the weekend with Intakt and the shoe box full of coverdisc CDs with samples and 'construction kits'

I got some very nice bigger sounds using some gearset 1-10 settings in the klang convolution reverb set 3. esp gearset3.

I wasn't that impressed before, but these seem to work a bit as emphasis/compressor and reverb combined.
Unfortunately I'm not at my DAW and have the name messed up enough that google can't provide me th elink to what I'm talking about.