Albums without any samples?

Were there samples on Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor ?

Can't tell if trolling or not.




Look into Josh Schroeder's productions. He is an advocate of 100% natural drums in heavy genres and gets amazing sounds.





Shit band, but everything is natural.
 
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I'd say Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss. Not sure though but Lombardo sounds very natural. Also maybe 80s Iron Maiden albums with Nicko McBrain.
 
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+1 always wondere how they get nicko's kick sound. it's quite unique.


Remo Fiberskin kick head and the best right foot in the music industry! I think Kevin normally just uses a D112 for recording Maiden.

Kevin clearly has the goods when capturing natural drum sounds. You can almost hear a similar sound/technique used on the new album Afterglow by Black Country Communion with Jason Bonham's drums.

 
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I still haven't heard a clip that is super awesome :D That got the punch that a modern production have without using samples.

Perhaps that's your answer - you can't? This is in no way intended to be a slam against modern music production, just speculating a possible situation. Many have become so accustom to "heavily" produced drum sounds (timing correction, sample replacement, blending, ...) that the sound we consider having that "punch that a modern production" is damn near impossible without the work done to achieve it.

Just wondering.
 
Maybe the sound you want to hear is actually the sound of samples being used ;)

Secretly yes actually, that's what I would like to hear.

But I found some albums without samples that sounds great, like the hayworth album a member here recorded or the latest foo fighters album. or even green day's dookie. these are some great sounds.

but let's face it. samples sound better. :p
 
Perhaps that's your answer - you can't? This is in no way intended to be a slam against modern music production, just speculating a possible situation. Many have become so accustom to "heavily" produced drum sounds (timing correction, sample replacement, blending, ...) that the sound we consider having that "punch that a modern production" is damn near impossible without the work done to achieve it.

Just wondering.

I actually don't think you can. The best production in my opinion as i said earlier is Load/reload and those drums are sampled augmented, although the snare sounds real (but there is a sample in there) So if not Randy Staub can do it with the best possible conditions then how the hell could we do it :D
 
So, sample vs natural - these samples were once natural to begin with. So what's the huge problem? I guess having to duplicate a single raw kick drum on tape and process the shit out of it was a lot harder than doing it digitally, but what else comes to play?
 
I actually don't think you can. The best production in my opinion as i said earlier is Load/reload and those drums are sampled augmented, although the snare sounds real (but there is a sample in there) So if not Randy Staub can do it with the best possible conditions then how the hell could we do it :D

I'll take the drums from "Number of the Beast" over "Load / Reload any day of the week

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