Superior Drummer 3 Presets

I'm basically using Massenberg's Premiere preset....with the snare switched for the Ayotte you used in "tight"....and the hat switched to the 17" masterworks. I think I also took away the dynamic overheads--pumped everything to the condensers instead.

Mainly, though....I started with his because he did all the time compensation and polarity adjustment for us. I know there's a purist thing where people don't want to time compensate....and I get that. I'm of the belief that's one of the few sonic advantages to working in digital....being able to time compensate multiple mics.

I considered putting my working preset up today....but, then---these presets contain the whole routing. I'm not listening in stereo. I've got it all bussed to half the outputs into Cubase. I think if you open mine in stereo you'll hear just a kick drum. You'll have to reroute everything back to stereo.....and the balances are set in Cubase, too--since I want it to render at full volume....anyway--all told, I thought it might be as confusing as helpful just dropping it "as is". I'll be glad to share what I'm doing with it, though....

In general, some observations: the built in plug ins weren't making me happy, so I subbed it out. I left the little resonance cuts George made....I trust his familiarity with the kit and mics, but for any "personal coloring" I'm doing it in Cubase like I have for anything. Kramer tape on the snare top...SPL Transient Designer on toms and overheads set to -3 or -4db sustain--subtle. Slate VCC2 across all the subs. Neve on kick, API on everything else. I'm running it down without the DSP and with....right now, I'm feeling like the modeling stuff running at session rate is contributing a nice "size" to it, but I've done this kind of thing before and smacked myself later. It's being recorded as audio, cuz audio is forever. We'll see how this side/EP goes....as to whether I continue to print that stuff.

I feel like a dufus here but how do I open/import these? They are showing up as text edit documents. Also while you're educating me, where does SD3 put the kit presets so I can upload mine? Thanks!

My presets were - if I can remember - Mac--Users--library--application support--toontrack or maybe superior drummer 3 then presets? I'll double check. I think they ARE text docs though...

when I get in front of my comp I'll find the path,..I think it's very specific in the applications folder...found this though...

"To use the preset, just click 'Load Project' from the 'Load/Save' drop down menu and select the preset from the folder you have it saved!"

Here's a quick little demo of one of my presets in a track. All processing and balancing of the drums are being done inside SD3 with stock sounds. I do have Ozone 7 on the track just so you can hear what it'll sound like when it's mastered.
soundcloud.com/user-841879432/sd3-drum-demo-country

Thanks man! Yeah I think it's a good starting point for country stuff for sure. And yes, a little spank on the snare a little more of the close room would help that snare out. I might would even layer one that has a little ring to it.

I'd actually like to hear less 1khz in that snare...more bottom thud...but all of this is SO subjective...

The SD3 stuff just sounds like...drums. Totally up to you what you do with them from there. Just like mic’ing a real kit.

I haven yet to get off the Indiependent library, though one of these days I’m gonna use some of the Massenburg stuff.

I've had SD2 for a long time and finally decided to take the plunge on SD3 a few weeks back. I haven't had a chance to get into it too deeply yet but my initial impressions are it's quite an improvement over SD2 ...and I really love SD2. The easy access to individual pieces of other kits makes my brain smile. I need to sit and watch some of the tutorial videos but even with just my feet in the shallow end of the pool thus far, I'm really glad I jumped in.