[joebalonmusic]

@Olle said:
SDXs vary a bit in how raw their sounds are. Most contain sounds that
are what the sound engineer would have put on tape while tracking.
For Avatar that does mean a comparatively high amount of processing.
Have a look at the Metal Foundry SDX instead. Its name implies metal
but that was a dubious marketing move. Its sounds are all raw and can be
used for any genre.  

Thanks for the response. I’ll have to look into Metal Foundry, the instrument list looks appealing, I am a little hesitant though.

My biggest beef is with snare drum sounds. There’s this nasty attack, like higher velocity strikes were squashed with a compressor set to pretty short attack. The note attack cuts through in a nasty way, and the last thing I want to do is add more compression to fix compression 😛 . I’ve set up a multi-out patch in Logic and have come up with some decent results, but, a lot more time/work involved that I bargained for. So far IMHO the standard Logic kits give this thing a pretty serious run for its money for tone right out of the box.

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