The Official Metal Month Thread

[JeffTD]

Anything with Randy would be awesome, but I too find it baffling/almost offensive that Misha is included in that group.

*edit* yeah, that statue guy infront of the kit is definitely Staub.

 

[Temps]

Anything with Randy would be awesome, but I too find it baffling/almost offensive that Misha is included in that group.

*edit* yeah, that statue guy infront of the kit is definitely Staub.

Toontrack probably loves him because he gave em a huge boost back in the early days of Superior

 

[Line666]

Inb4 Ermz is chuffin his guff over Staub EZX.

 

[ArthurD]

Staub EZX would be awesome

 

[domingooo]

Staub EZX would be awesome

AGREE!!!

 

[~BURNY~]

Staub SDX would be awesome

Fixed

 

[Deadstar]

My bet is a bass vsti( ezbaz?)and some more ezmix presets

 

[drawnacrol]

I'd love to see their take at guitar amp modeling.

 

[Deadstar]

Actually there are already guitar sim included in ezmix 2.0. What a failure

 

[ArthurD]

Fixed

YEP.

 

[TheWinterSnow]

I know the dudes from meshuggah and daniel bergstrand etc are Toontracks buddies, but I think its time they look to new artists, producers and engineers to make a larger variety of sounds. They need to stop with trying to do things for the extreme metal or at least putting emphasis on it and every year do an EZX or SDX with imo these producers and their (not toontracks) engineers:

Colin Richardson
Jen Bogren
Randy Staub
CLA
Don Gilmore

I know I could probably think of more but I think a simple well recorded and engineered library with each of those producer/engineers would have every base covered from light pop to the heaviest of metal, keeping in mind the Sneap library for the more thrash stuff and The Metal Foundry if you like trashy garbage out of tune djent drums.

 

[Deadstar]

+1000 ^

 

[Temps]

The Metal Foundry if you like trashy garbage out of tune djent drums.

I don't think TMF is good for anything.. I blend one snare in with a normal Avatar sample and use some cymbals, that's it. most of it is junk

 

[JeffTD]

Can you imagine a David Bendeth EZX? Jesus chriiiist the snares would be insane.

 

[TheWinterSnow]

Can you imagine a David Bendeth EZX? Jesus chriiiist the snares would be insane.

Good fucking god that would be amazing.

It would also be really cool if for expansion libraries they provided two, one 100% raw and the other processed the way said producer/engineer would process it, lightly of course, similar to metal machine. And if they could go back and do an additional raw library update for the New York legacy packs, even if only Avatar...ermergerd.

 

[domingooo]

and.. talking'bout past editions of the metal month, what do you guys think about the products offered

i now metal machine was a big hit... i love it but what do you think about metalheads, ezmix metal essentials, the midi collection "library of extreme" (wich by the way i love ... the three are amaizing) and the presets packs?

and for you all that hate tmf...

listen to this... i have only blend the snare with metal machine tama brass bell

 

[TheWinterSnow]

So for all my bands demos (on facebook, link below) are all done with TMF with the snare blended with Avatar's Rogers Wood snare. It gets good results, but takes WAY too much work to get it to sound good and still imo, it isn't great.

As for the other years products, metalheads was just a stripped down EZX version of TMF, and didn't provide anything new, it was more of a cheaper alternative to TMF so the cheap poor bedroom warrior kiddies could buy it (and thus fatten up Toontracks wallet). The ezmix, I have no care to use, I like doing things the old fashion way and it has never appealed to me. As for the midi libraries, they are good, but a little over the top in technicality. I do think that they should work on hard rock/mainstream metal based groves as well. The libraries all seem way to flashy imo. It would be nice to have some basic groves and fills to help get inspired by to write new tunes, having a drummer play some obscure fills and blasts and is just showing of gets really hard to write stuff or get inspiration.

 

[domingooo]

having a drummer play some obscure fills and blasts and is just showing of gets really hard to write stuff or get inspiration.

Well ... ive came up with some cool ideas trying to play above thouse crazy fills and grooves... It wasn´t easy but i do have fun with them...
thouse are a big challenge

 

[domingooo]

Like understand my english is a challenge too!! hehehe

 

[JeffTD]

listen to this... i have only blend the snare with metal machine tama brass bell

Snare sounds cool, but those toms... uke: That's what I always hated about TMF, snare needs to be blended or sounds like paper grossness, kicks are easily replaced with something far better, and the toms are just bad (and some are out of tune).