Drum samples. Which ones are you using?

Check out That Sound. Amazing libraries/samples.

I've picked up quite a bit of the catalog through their sales and such. But if I need to layer a sample here and there those are the go-tos. Great stuff.

The Garage pack in Circle Drum Samples sounds awesome, might have to pick it up.

Right now when it comes to commercial drum samples, I’m using either Slate 5 or Getgood Modern and Massive for room augmentation. For direct samples I’m using Slate’s CLA pack mixed with the Getgood Matt Halpern pack. Blending the medium snare from Matt Halpern and The Dong from the CLA pack works so well in modern rock, it almost feels like cheating.

Aside from that I multi-sampled my bell brass a couple months back and it’s been so incredible. I feel spoiled to have it in a TCI all to myself

I make tons of drum samples. They end up in good hands. They get used and make it in a few mixes here and there.

I also freely share them amongst peers.

Older Alesis drum units, Ugritone, and random ones I've downloaded, recorded, and bought. The very raw ones Ugritone make. A lot of their newer packs are processed but not as bad as Slate or ToonTracks. I sculpt the raw ones but prefer almost any passable studio recording to samples. I'd rather futz about for hours fixing it. The results are worth it.

My room here in town is pretty dead, although you can get some interesting drum ambience in the adjacent garage area.

But, I have some samples of sessions I’ve done at Wally’s Hydeout and the far room mics can be great for triggered drum ambience. In fact I mixed something that was tracked next door at Studio Discrete where they didn’t capture any rooms. Kind of funny that some of the samples I used are (coincidentally) from the room down the hall. These are all sublet rooms at Hyde Street Studios, FWIW.

The PIV stuff sounds amazing, I just haven’t grabbed it yet because I feel overwhelmed with samples as is haha. Glad you dug the mix though!

I used to use Indiependent quite a bit.  Lots of cool stuff in it.  The one I like the most these days is Decades.  It's just beautiful.  I also really like a couple of kits each in UK Pop and Southern Soul and Custom and Vintage.  At some point I'll grab the Rooms of Hansa as well but haven't yet.  

Edit: also nice little STL demo!  Cool vibe, reminds me of the various combinations of dudes that were Failure/Lusk/The Replicants.  

Edit II:  if you're not familiar with The Replicants, it's *not* the stuff I see on Spotify.  It was a really cool album of covers recorded some of those dudes.  

ok...got it. You have to continue with the PP order to get there.

Thanks for the kind words! I definitely love Failure and I'm a huge Ken Andrews fan so that's a big compliment.

I hadn't heard of that Replicants album. Listening to their "Cinnamon Girl" cover... some CRAZY tones going on there. Love it.

Just checked out the Decades and Rooms of Hansa previews. Holy f*ck. Time to upgrade. I don't know how I slept on these!

Yeah, the Superior Drummer stuff has gotten so, so good.  If you can handle yourself with MIDI, the sky is the limit.  

And yeah, that Replicants record is so good!  Paul D'Amour is a family friend and, though I liked Tool a lot as a young guy, what really perked my ears up was the stuff he was involved with after he left, like the Replicants and Lusk.  I remember when his mom gave me an advance copy of that Replicants record on cassette, I couldn't get enough of it.  I thought it was so cool having Lennon and McCartney sort of arguing with each other via covers of "How Do You Sleep?" and "Silly Love Songs".  And bringing Maynard in for "Silly Love Songs" was so cool.  



Also loved their cover of Steely Dan's "Dirty Work".  This was the first exposure I had to most of these songs (I was young).  Kinda blew my mind coming from just knowing Paul's work with Tool.  



Then the Lusk record happened and that one really had an impact on me.  So much cool weirdness.  I remember getting my first pair of 'good' headphones at like age 14 (AKG 240s that I saved up for and phone-ordered from the American Musical Supply catalog) and listening to the Lusk record over and over on my Kenwood discman.  Fantastic.  I always loved this one, especially when the band kicks in and it gets very Bowie (though I didn't really know who Bowie was at the time).  




Anyway, I'll stop clogging the thread with this little detour.  Just a really cool little segment of music from back then that I had a connection to and that had a big influence on me as a young dude and your very cool STL demo clip reminded me of some of these Paul D'Amour/Failure vibes.