I'm looking to start a house project and I'm looking for a nice drum sample pack. Specially good sounding snares and hats.
I have a bunch of 909/808 samples but there's something about house production that makes snares and hats sound really wide and fuzzy. i can't seem to get to that sound so some pre processed samples would be great.
I took a look at the vengeance minimal house CD. the demo sounds great but I think its mostly loops. I could always chop them but if there's a one-shot collection with similar quality I'd prefer to go with that.
looking for well processed house drum sounds
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- KVRAF
- 2356 posts since 30 Sep, 2003 from Sunny Staffordshire
Something you need to understand about the Vengeance packs...
They are good. BUT...
The demos sound great because Mr Schleiss has sent them through is famous master bus processing chain. He does that with all his demos. They sound great but they have been processed considerably. The raw presets and samples are as instantly great as they sound in his demos.
So yeah, get the Vengeance CD and you'll have some good sounds. But dont think they will sound like the demo out of the can.
My advice would be to get LOADS of secondhand CD's and sample shite loads of kicks. Use them as your basis for your own kicks. Then get a few sample CD's, like NI Synthetic Drums etc and all your basic drum machine samples, and use them to form your basic library.
See, in house music, it seems that the sound of the drums its very much in the mixing. Just a set of nice samples doesnt seem to be enough. Listen to Daft Punk. Half the time they are using bog standard 909, Linn etc samples (atleast in the old stuff). But there mixes sound great. Yet you or I could f**k a mix up royally using the 'best' set available on the face of the earth!
Hope this helps you make a decision.
TB
They are good. BUT...
The demos sound great because Mr Schleiss has sent them through is famous master bus processing chain. He does that with all his demos. They sound great but they have been processed considerably. The raw presets and samples are as instantly great as they sound in his demos.
So yeah, get the Vengeance CD and you'll have some good sounds. But dont think they will sound like the demo out of the can.
My advice would be to get LOADS of secondhand CD's and sample shite loads of kicks. Use them as your basis for your own kicks. Then get a few sample CD's, like NI Synthetic Drums etc and all your basic drum machine samples, and use them to form your basic library.
See, in house music, it seems that the sound of the drums its very much in the mixing. Just a set of nice samples doesnt seem to be enough. Listen to Daft Punk. Half the time they are using bog standard 909, Linn etc samples (atleast in the old stuff). But there mixes sound great. Yet you or I could f**k a mix up royally using the 'best' set available on the face of the earth!
Hope this helps you make a decision.
TB
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 81 posts since 15 Aug, 2004
hey, thanks for the tip. yeah the demo sounds superb. I know how important mixing and post processing are though. What I'm looking is for the best quality samples to start with. if I can start with well recorded and processed sounds, mixing becomes much easier.
Any good commercial library I should look for or is it all hype and I'll end up having to work on them myself?
Any good commercial library I should look for or is it all hype and I'll end up having to work on them myself?