Mercenary drum sound

[Razvan]

Please listen to the songs in the player at this location http://www.myspace.com/mercenarydenmark , focusing on drum sound, especially on snare and kick..

Could anyone help guessing some compression and eq settings and can tell if every drum element seems to be layered, produced from several types. As a tip I'm using BFD standard and xfl libraries.

Thanks
R

 

[blueswede]

I love the drumsound on that album, I think what you here on the snare is pretty much the directsound from the trigger. Killer album !

 

[The Shrink]

Yeah, Jacob Hansen's drums sounds awesome, and Mercenary’s new album kick some serious ass.

My guess (based on what I read somewhere) is that he uses a lot of the natural drum sounds processing it with analog gear, and then blends that with the triggers sounds. Plugins like Waves Transient X works really well making the natural sounds snappy.

Your eq and compressions settings will vary a lot depending on the source (the drum set and player). Usually is a lot of work to get the tone your after using natural drums, but at the end I think it sounds a lot better than triggers, specially with plugins.

If you're lucky, the man himself could drop a word. Has been a while since he last posted something.

Check out these photos taken from Hansen's page:
Mercenary

Aborted: surprise! a 421 on the snare. I’ll try that next time I have a chance.

Nightrage

Raunchy

and Volbeat

Good luck!

 

[Glenn Fricker]

Very cool snare.... and I like the vocals even more!

Thanks for turning me on to this band!

 

[felipe-x]

yai!

i download their last album sound awesome... the " new " nightrage album sound like this one very similar sounding...