Hey people!
I've recently been recording my band for a six-track demo, and I've already recorded all drumtracks on midi with my Roland TD-6KV's. The problem is the sounds I used to record the midi with definitely aren't what I will want on the finished record, thus I require a good drum-softsynth.
For this project (and mostly anyway) I want a plugin that can cut it for metal. I've been looking at Addictive Drums, BFD2 and SD2.0 with Metal Foundry addon. Hope you guys have some opinions on these.
Here's some of mine; A friend of mine owns Addictive Drums, and it seemed okay. In a way it kind of seemed something that really tries to be an easy-to-use-ready-to-go plugin but it really looked like it needs some tweaking before it can be used properly. It seemed like the overheads had quite bit of compression by default, making the cymbals sound pretty bad. What seemed best about AD, the snares (at least the ones I've heard) sounded pretty good.
It seems BFD2 isn't really the choice for metal for some reason, judging by what people say. It's a shame, because it seems a good and versatile plugin otherwise. I understand there's an addon of some kind for a more suitable sound for metal, but somehow I wasn't overly impressed. I like how you can import your own sounds, but I'd rather not pay 250€ and end up with a plugin that doesn't have anything useful in itself.
Superior Drummer 2.0 seems to get the most praise, and I like the fact Tomas Haake is involved in the Metal Foundry addon. This would seemingly be the most obvious, although the most expensive, choice.
But as I listened to the sound clips on the site, I noticed that some of them had some terrible sounding snares. Like trash cans or something. They didn't sound like the samples had ANY dynamic range, just "fucking loud" or "not as fucking loud but pretty loud still". Took me back to the times when I first heard Drumkit from Hell ages ago. Also, the ride cymbals in the clips were kind of bad too. The clips with a whole band playing were better, and had good sounding snares. I wonder if this is just a matter of tweaking?
What I'd also like to know about the SD2.0 would be, do I REALLY need the Metal Foundry expansion to use it for metal?
Also please share if you have any other suggestions!
By the way, I've decided to use the sample "Brain Kick" I've found from this forum, on the demo. I hope that's what it was originally posted for. That sample fucking kicks my ass. Heaps of thanks to whoever originally recorded that sample!
Thanks for any help!
I've recently been recording my band for a six-track demo, and I've already recorded all drumtracks on midi with my Roland TD-6KV's. The problem is the sounds I used to record the midi with definitely aren't what I will want on the finished record, thus I require a good drum-softsynth.
For this project (and mostly anyway) I want a plugin that can cut it for metal. I've been looking at Addictive Drums, BFD2 and SD2.0 with Metal Foundry addon. Hope you guys have some opinions on these.
Here's some of mine; A friend of mine owns Addictive Drums, and it seemed okay. In a way it kind of seemed something that really tries to be an easy-to-use-ready-to-go plugin but it really looked like it needs some tweaking before it can be used properly. It seemed like the overheads had quite bit of compression by default, making the cymbals sound pretty bad. What seemed best about AD, the snares (at least the ones I've heard) sounded pretty good.
It seems BFD2 isn't really the choice for metal for some reason, judging by what people say. It's a shame, because it seems a good and versatile plugin otherwise. I understand there's an addon of some kind for a more suitable sound for metal, but somehow I wasn't overly impressed. I like how you can import your own sounds, but I'd rather not pay 250€ and end up with a plugin that doesn't have anything useful in itself.
Superior Drummer 2.0 seems to get the most praise, and I like the fact Tomas Haake is involved in the Metal Foundry addon. This would seemingly be the most obvious, although the most expensive, choice.
But as I listened to the sound clips on the site, I noticed that some of them had some terrible sounding snares. Like trash cans or something. They didn't sound like the samples had ANY dynamic range, just "fucking loud" or "not as fucking loud but pretty loud still". Took me back to the times when I first heard Drumkit from Hell ages ago. Also, the ride cymbals in the clips were kind of bad too. The clips with a whole band playing were better, and had good sounding snares. I wonder if this is just a matter of tweaking?
What I'd also like to know about the SD2.0 would be, do I REALLY need the Metal Foundry expansion to use it for metal?
Also please share if you have any other suggestions!
By the way, I've decided to use the sample "Brain Kick" I've found from this forum, on the demo. I hope that's what it was originally posted for. That sample fucking kicks my ass. Heaps of thanks to whoever originally recorded that sample!
Thanks for any help!
(but also some that destroy Steven Slate stuff in terms of realism; the point is that S2.0 requires a lot more work and knowledge to get it to sound good, but the ends justify the means IMO!) BFD2 I know little about (except that most metal people hate it 
