AdamWathan
Member
Fair enough when it comes to bandwidth. I just think maybe it is best to leave SOME room for mix specific processing. If the samples are already "mix ready" and processed to hell and back, there is no room to do further processing to get it to fit your actual mix without degrading the quality of the sample. Trying to EQ things back that were taken out doesn't sound as good as just not taking them out in the first place right?
I'm not necessarily advocating giving totally raw samples with all the separate mics as separate files, but I don't want to be stuck not being able to add some of my own compression or EQ because there is so much already baked into the file, get what I mean?
I think combining all the mics into one file is totally fine, then maybe add a little bit of your own touch to get it sounding cool but I want a sample that sounds like a tool I can use to shape into my mix, not something where it sounds like the mix was totally finished and then everything was muted except the snare and the tracks are bounced out from there.
What about just including 2 versions per pack in the future, one "all mics combined, relatively raw for sculpting in your own mix" version, and one "drop it in and it'll sound great but if something isn't perfect there's no room to tweak it" version? I'll be honest, most of my favourite samples are just one shots from the Alesis D4, because there is still a lot of room to compress and EQ them. They are just single files, no multi mics, no multisamples, no multivelocities, but I can still do a ton with them. I get more mileage out of those one shots than I do with the overly processed to fuck Slate snares that don't leave me any room to tailor to the mix!
Either way I'm stoked on your sample man, they sound great and I'm looking forward to hearing more! Please don't go the Slate route of turning this into a Kontakt Player/drum programming based endeavour, lots of dudes here want to blend these samples with real drums or replace real drums so WAVs/GOGs/TCI files definitely have a huge market.
I'm not necessarily advocating giving totally raw samples with all the separate mics as separate files, but I don't want to be stuck not being able to add some of my own compression or EQ because there is so much already baked into the file, get what I mean?
I think combining all the mics into one file is totally fine, then maybe add a little bit of your own touch to get it sounding cool but I want a sample that sounds like a tool I can use to shape into my mix, not something where it sounds like the mix was totally finished and then everything was muted except the snare and the tracks are bounced out from there.
What about just including 2 versions per pack in the future, one "all mics combined, relatively raw for sculpting in your own mix" version, and one "drop it in and it'll sound great but if something isn't perfect there's no room to tweak it" version? I'll be honest, most of my favourite samples are just one shots from the Alesis D4, because there is still a lot of room to compress and EQ them. They are just single files, no multi mics, no multisamples, no multivelocities, but I can still do a ton with them. I get more mileage out of those one shots than I do with the overly processed to fuck Slate snares that don't leave me any room to tailor to the mix!
Either way I'm stoked on your sample man, they sound great and I'm looking forward to hearing more! Please don't go the Slate route of turning this into a Kontakt Player/drum programming based endeavour, lots of dudes here want to blend these samples with real drums or replace real drums so WAVs/GOGs/TCI files definitely have a huge market.
