Tom tuning - not what you think.

[Jordon]

I've searched around, but couldn't find anything about this. If I missed a thread about this, I'm sorry.

So you've spent hours tuning, micing and tracking a drummer. The toms sound good, but could benefit from being augmented with samples. How do you go about getting the tom samples tuned appropriately when sample-replacing? I find the pitch function in Drumagog too inaccurate and I'm leery about most of the pitch processing tools I have at my disposal. I start by finding complimenting samples that are tuned/sized appropriately, but it doesn't always work out.

Thoughts?

 

[Blacklight_Studio]

Pitch shifting toms in the built in kontakt pitcher (SSD) works just fine for me...always keep an eye on phase when blending samples with the real deal. And I always use some reference while tuning toms for recording. I choose the samples from some library (it may be SSD or superior) that MAY work in the mix and which i MIGHT use to augument drum tracks in this particular session and try to tune my toms accordingly to them so that there will not be great difference in pitch.