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aduan · Post by **aduan** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:38 am

this bass drum or timpani sound ?
I find this sound is always used in many Hollywood movie score , can anyone here tell me what is this drum? bass drum or timpani ? and how to make this effect ? it sounds so strong and powerful.

I need your help !

http://fandezhi.homedns.org/download/bassdrum.mp3

McLilith · Post by **McLilith** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 3:08 am

That would be timpani.

envoy · Post by **envoy** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 3:28 am

I've played on a lot of film scores as a percussionist, and also helped people with sampled percussion. The way this is mixed it could likely be either live or sampled, but I'd be the farm on this: it is a timpani roll, and there is an added bass drum single hit on the climax note (the ending stroke) of the roll.

cheers,
envoy

freeztar · Post by **freeztar** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 4:42 am

envoy wrote:and there is an added bass drum single hit on the climax note (the ending stroke) of the roll.

Or perhaps it is a loud center-timpani hit with reverb splashed on the mids and highs, and a bassboost.

Maarten Spruijt · Post by **Maarten Spruijt** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:58 pm

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Hi Aduan,

Checkout the free percussion sample downloads we offer from our SAM True Strike orchestral percussion library at www.projectsam.com (http://www.projectsam.com). We offer some free shorter timpani rolls in there, including one like this, recorded at some distance. In the freebie sets you'll also find gran casa, snare crescendo rolls, cymbals, tutti hits, effects, scrapes and other filmic percussion sounds.

Let me know if these are what you're looking for!

All the best,

Maarten Spruijt

this is bass drum or timpani sound ?