Tom replacement, clashing?

[Sean in Silence]

Has anyone ever had issues with the tuning of toms and the sample you're partially replacing them with?
as in they are not in tune with each other?
Just something I thought of as a possibility, since I'm recording real drums for the first time in October for my band's cd.

 

[vespiz]

Yes, constantly. Sometimes I roll with, sometimes I try to tune the samples to the original tracks.

 

[botus99]

thats half the fun! Just screw with the tune/pitch knob until its sounding good. Sometimes its best to match pitches, other times you want it an octave lower, etc etc etc.

 

[Erkan]

Hell yeah this is an issue! I was expecting this to be an issue even before I got into this whole sample blending business.

I think you would want to aim for them to have the same pitch but it COULD be quite cool and fat to have them tuned differently, as long as it's not disharmonic and just plain awful... just like a guitar chord. Be careful though as it might yield some pretty unnatural results like as if the drummer is hammering 16th notes on 2 drums at once at 250 BPM you know, if they're tuned as a chord... Either tune the samples to the drums or tune the drums to the samples.

 

[deanbailey]

This is a common problem, that's why everyone recommends that you make samples of that actual kit you're using then replace the inconsistencies.

But if you're using outside samples then first make sure that the tom your replacing is perfectly panned where that tom is in the image of the Overheads because poor panning could give it away too.
Adjust the pitch as perfectly as you can, A/B the shit out of it (back from sample to original) so that it's perfect! Then if it's still a little bit weird then EQ as neccessary.

If that still fails, use another tom sample, maybe even a lower one pitched higher, or a higher one pitched lower.
Just applying a plug-in/sample seldom works. You really have to tweak it

 

[Lasse Lammert]

This is a common problem, that's why everyone recommends that you make samples of that actual kit you're using then replace the inconsistencies.

But if you're using outside samples then first make sure that the tom your replacing is perfectly panned where that tom is in the image of the Overheads because poor panning could give it away too.
Adjust the pitch as perfectly as you can, A/B the shit out of it (back from sample to origional) so that it's perfect! Then if it's still a little bit weird then EQ as neccessary.

If that still fails, use another tom sample, maybe even a lower one pitched higher, or a higher one pitched lower.
Just applying a plug-in/sample seldom works. You really have to tweak it

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[Sean in Silence]

Well I plan on using the Slate samples to augment my drummer's kit
so I'll just have him to his tom's to the slate samples.
Seems like that's the easiest thing to do
Thanks!