Expensive sounding hats?

[Hernan]

Hello,

Can anybody recommend some "expensive sounding" percussion samples? I'm looking mostly for hats, triangles, tambourines with a detailed high end, like the ones you hear in smooth jazz.

Back in the day (1985 or so) I remember being amazed at the sound of some records. For example, Peter Gabriel's So had some great sounding percussion.

So, now I have a DAW with the ability to process CD-quality sound and want to exact my revenge over the 80s, but all the samples I can get sound like they were taken from a Motown record. I suppose it's not only the quality of the samples themselves but the percussion instruments being used. Some hats are bound to sound darker than others, I guess.

Thanks in advance,

The L

[Shane Sanders]

I've always felt there were some real gems in the Plugsound Free module. Give it a whirl.

[hollowsun]

If you just want quality hi-hat samples, try the Akai MPC1000 site:

http://www.akaipro.com/MPCKOTW.html

You'd have to do your own mapping, etc., though

[Stupid American Pig]

Keep in mind, that Peter Gabriel had access to some of the best studio equipment from that period that could make a pig fart sound great. to make hi hats sound good you just need alittle eq and possibly some slight compression. most samples available for free do suck though, but even cheap hi hats can be made to sound pretty good.

[declassified]

Boost the highs, cut the lows to get rid of mud.
Slightly distort to get even more highs. Never encode to MP3 (I take that for granted). All you need for this is an EQ I guess...

but it would be more clear if you could post a clip of really expensive sounding hats. To me, brilliance makes hats expensive-sounding and you can get brilliance with proper EQ-ing...

[Hernan]

Thanks everybody for the replies. Those AKAI samples and the Plugsound freebies are halfway there, actually...

I don't have any samples handy of the type of sound I'm looking for, but for example check out the production on some of Marc Antoine's tunes (if you can stomach it).

I'm currently listening to the snippet of "Mas que nada" available at the iTunes store, and the hats and percussion have a lot more detail than the samples I'm usually able to find. Even when it's in compressed format.

Maybe it's a jazz vs rock type of kit, there is certainly a lighter touch in the sound I'm looking for. But then you have to weed out all those samplesets where they think jazz = Charlie Parker 78 RPM's with plenty of scratches.

I'll keep looking, thanks for the recommendations.

L