Question for you guys who have covered and recorded songs.....

[Cat5Messiah]

I just recorded a cover for Control Denied's Consumed and I was wondering, how do you guys get the drums so fucking perfect on your covers? Is there some kind of utility the extracts the drums from the song? Anyways, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

NP: Control Denied - Consumed

 

[MJStraughen]

I use different drum samples that i've downloaded from all over the net, usually samples from midi patches that i've extracted into wav files...
try http://www.hammersound.net/ that site has lots of samples, im pretty sure i got alot of mine from there..

 

[Cat5Messiah]

Right on dude, thanks for the info. But I was wondering if there was a way to extract the percussion from a song (mp3) or do I have to totally recreate my own drums for the drum track?

NP: Dream Theater - Learning to Live

 

[MJStraughen]

well, theres ways of doing it, but the sound is never going to be useable, it wont be clean enough...
just write the drum tracks from scratch, listening carefully to the original song and copying exactly what hear... well, thats what i do goodluck dude !

 

[Cat5Messiah]

Hmmmmmm........I'm having trouble. I'm trying to create the drums for Control Denied's Consumed, I can't fucking get it right! I tried looking for a MIDI so I can extract the drum track, but I couldn't find shit. If someone wants, they can write me the drum track, heh. ?

NP: Control Denied - Consumed

 

[MJStraughen]

it does take a long time to get it right
if you have a good sound program (like cool edit pro), you can slow down the song without changing the pitch, and then you can easily work out whats played...

 

[Cat5Messiah]

Whoa! CE Pro has something like that? Right on, I have the program. I'll check it out, thanks!

NP: Control Denied - Consumed

 

[MJStraughen]

no problem dude ! let me know how you go

 

[Malis]

yeah the only thing i can imagine is downloading a decent guitar pro tab of the song from www.mysongbook.com , then removing all tracks except for drums, then exporting to midi, then converting to wav etc.
but it sounds like you've already tried that..