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Compyfox · Post by **Compyfox** » Fri Sep 20, 2013 3:36 pm

Sennheiser's free Drumic'a has Disco Presets.

Basically the kit pieces are pitched, punchy and lack long sustain parts.

teempee · Post by **teempee** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 12:03 am

budweiser wrote:Sounds really good to me :

http://www.propellerheads.se/products/r ... d_examples

Sounds really good to me :

http://www.drumdrops.com/recording/disco-drops

Sounds really good to me :

http://www.pettinhouse.com/html/vka.html

Not that hard...

The libraries sound good and are useful, but the keyword here was authentic. If you compare these libraries with an actual 70s disco record, the difference is pretty apparent, and it's very hard to close that gap. At least it has been for me and all the other ITB disco producers I've heard.

I'm a huge disco & funk nerd, and a big part of those genres for me is the dirty, noisy, distorted, unreal, crazy, exciting sounds, which comes from the combination of many things. Producers, engineers, equipment, studios, musicians, cocaine.

dusted william · Post by **dusted william** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 12:20 am

budweiser wrote:The best disco kits are in reason refill disco, imo. Also check drumdrops multitracks. For 10euros and a bit of work (slicing, etc), you'll have the best souding disco kit one can find.

10 euro?

How?

dw

planetearth · Post by **planetearth** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 12:26 am

Perhaps if the OP would post a link to an example of the sound he wants, we'd have a better idea.

Battery has a '70s kit (and a "vinyl kit"), Session Drummer has a "Tight kit", and there are many others available.

But as Teempee and MrDuke pointed out, there's a lot more to the sound of a '70s "disco kit" than the raw drums themselves; the processing and playing of the drums is much of the "sound and feel" of a '70s disco part. And while you can get several VSTs to simulate the distortion and saturation of the drums sounds, I'm not sure there's a "cocaine" VST yet.

If someone wants to post a disco-style MIDI file, I'll render some Battery 3 and Session Drummer tracks, using their "'70s", "Disco" or "Tight" kits. Then the OP (and others) could get a better idea of what these sound like.

Steve

dusted william · Post by **dusted william** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 3:30 am

dusted william wrote:
budweiser wrote:The best disco kits are in reason refill disco, imo. Also check drumdrops multitracks. For 10euros and a bit of work (slicing, etc), you'll have the best souding disco kit one can find.
10 euro?

How?

dw

ok, I get it. You can order specific tracks and not entire albums. Thanks for the tip

done.

dw

NasKingston · Post by **NasKingston** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 4:17 am

http://www.analoguedrums.com/

These guys definitely have some cool retro drum kits, although I am not quite sure how close will these kits get you to 70's disco

Arglebargle · Post by **Arglebargle** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 2:20 pm

This is an example of the sound I'd like to get (Village People - YMCA).

There's something about the snare and toms that is different from most of the samples I have. I can't put it into words. I guess it's just the 70s production aesthetic vs the 20xx style.

budweiser · Post by **budweiser** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 2:34 pm

dusted william wrote:
dusted william wrote:
budweiser wrote:The best disco kits are in reason refill disco, imo. Also check drumdrops multitracks. For 10euros and a bit of work (slicing, etc), you'll have the best souding disco kit one can find.
10 euro?

How?

dw
ok, I get it. You can order specific tracks and not entire albums. Thanks for the tip done.

dw

These are real gems for the price !

jsp1979 · Post by **jsp1979** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 2:57 pm

You could try Groove Bias by Impact Soundworks.

http://impactsoundworks.com/products/un ... um-sounds/

They have a free Try-pack which has a very cut down version of it. It might be worth a listen (although the snare might be a bit too strong to work).

Listen to the Drums Only version of the Spies Like Us track on the page. It's the dryest sound.

EDIT: D'oh....I see that was in the OP. I had wondered why no one had mentioned it. My bad...

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 3:10 pm

You could check out my 70's drum pack "The Resonator".
http://www.thecontrolcentre.com/resonator.htm

The samples include:

Premier Resonator 22 x 14 Kick Drum | 16 x 16 Floor Tom | 14 x 10 Rack Tom
Hamma EMI Rosseti 5" Steel Snare | ddrum Diablo 14 x 7 Wood Snare
Paiste Formula 602 22" Ride | Paiste 2002 14" Sound Edge Hi-Hats
Paiste 2002 18" Thin Crash | Dream Bliss 22" Crash Ride

dusted william · Post by **dusted william** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 3:58 pm

budweiser wrote:
dusted william wrote:
dusted william wrote:
budweiser wrote:The best disco kits are in reason refill disco, imo. Also check drumdrops multitracks. For 10euros and a bit of work (slicing, etc), you'll have the best souding disco kit one can find.
10 euro?

How?

dw
ok, I get it. You can order specific tracks and not entire albums. Thanks for the tip done.

dw
These are real gems for the price !

yeah, totally. I'm all over some of these tracks

K-Bee · Post by **K-Bee** » Tue Sep 24, 2013 7:22 am

I know many will disagree but honestly, any free acoustic snare sample will do. Just EQ the hell out of it, removing a huge chunk of the mid frequency. Then put some handclaps on it (NOT drum machine style claps but real ones)
Voila.

The kick is a different matter and probably takes more work but do it right and you could end up with like this:

pettinhouse · Post by **pettinhouse** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 12:22 am

I don't want to convince to by my products but did you listen to the audio demos?

http://www.pettinhouse.com/Pop_funk.mp3

http://www.pettinhouse.com/Spy.mp3

http://www.pettinhouse.com/POP80M.mp3

http://www.pettinhouse.com/GlitterballM.mp3

http://www.pettinhouse.com/Saturday_NightM.mp3

dusted william · Post by **dusted william** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 12:26 am

pettinhouse wrote:I don't want to convince to by my products but did you listen to the audio demos?

http://www.pettinhouse.com/Pop_funk.mp3

http://www.pettinhouse.com/Spy.mp3

http://www.pettinhouse.com/POP80M.mp3

http://www.pettinhouse.com/GlitterballM.mp3

http://www.pettinhouse.com/Saturday_NightM.mp3

perhaps you can offer a special sale for readers of this thread

dw

alobos · Post by **alobos** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 6:29 am

This is what I did "disco-wise" with NI Abbey Road 70s drums ( I cheated because I have Roland V-Drums TD-3), Scarbee Vintage Keys (Mark I Fender Rhodes), and everything else which was tracked by me form live instruments. The voice is lent from a friend who recorded this as a ballad. i just doubled tempo.

https://soundcloud.com/alex-kunstmann/q ... on-tape-18

Following suggestions from this thread I just bought the Vintage Dry ADPak. Yet have to try it. Will post results here.

Anyway, could any of you tell me what am I doing wrong? I can't get a proper disco mix sound despite 17 tries. Bought Waves NLS (Neve console), Lexicon 480 Reverb (NI), Solid Mix series...

70s disco drum kit?