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[Bear-Faced Cow]

Considering that he mentioned Whitesnake and Bon Jovi, we already know what he’s referring to.

There’s also a video showing how to do this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnpoAURfeBo

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

• This post was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by Bear-Faced Cow.

[Bear-Faced Cow]

ChristopherDuncan wrote:

While I may one day go to the trouble of building a kit in SD from the ground up, part of the appeal of Toontrack products is ease of use. Both EZ and SD are excellent products and very, very easy to get good sounds without having to reinvent the wheel. Which types of sounds is another story.

EZ’s stock rock kits come prepared for heavy 80s rock right out of the box. SD’s stock rock kits come prepared for metal right out of the box. Unless I’m missing something, it completely neglects the 80s rock style I’m looking for, and that EZ has. So, in terms of the pre-built kits, it feels like paying for the flagship product and losing something that the entry level product included.

Admittedly, classic rock is an ancient art form these days. If 90% of your market wants metal, then it makes sense to heavily weight your product to metal. However, since EZ wasn’t so heavily weighted to metal, it was a surprise to me that SD is (something I didn’t discover until I’d spent the money and installed the product).

So far, the only options I see are to use the EZ kits and lose the additional capabilities that I bought SD for, or build a custom kit from scratch instead of using a pre-built stock kit, something I bought Toontrack products in general for.

There isn’t really any dark secret to getting an 80’s Classic Rock sound. Most 80’s drums used either short reverbs with longer ones for special effects, or compressed room ambient channels (or a mixture of both) underneath the drums. Considering the era, adding some tape and a hint of distortion goes a long way. As far as which kits to apply, that might depend on the song. Set up a mix template and try the various kits within it until you find something that works, and then tweak it from there.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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