[randallstevens]

Thought it’d be fun to try to copy the drum sound on “Sad But True” from Metallica’s Black Album with SD2. Here’s a 1:00 demo I did of it, first with guitars/bass, then without. I mixed the guitars a little low on purpose, and there are no 3rd party plugs on these drums, except for a tiny bit of limiting on the whole mix to prevent a few clips. It’s not a loud mix… didn’t want to skew the preset with too much 3rd party limiting. The guitars and bass were recorded direct with Waves GTR Solo. Also, the ambient mics are kind of in a happy medium… the guitars sucked up a lot of ambient decay, but then I wanted the kit to be fun to play solo, but not be swimming in ambient mics. The ambients could be a little louder in hindsight on the guitar mix.

http://scotthaskitt.com/sad_but_true_sd2.wav

Then just the drums…

http://scotthaskitt.com/sad_but_true_KIT.wav

I may go back to it and try to get the cymbals/hats to “burn” a little more in the highs… it’d be easiest to just have cyms/drums in separate kits, but I wanted to share this and that’d be a pain in the ass!

Here’s the SD2 preset if you want it… http://scotthaskitt.com/SAD_BUT_TRUE.s20

I went a little overboard with x-drums because it was REALLY hard to reproduce the room decay on the snare!! But in the end if I muted one, the tone thinned out too much for me. I guess the bummer is, it’s not that easy to share, because not everyone goes bananas and buys every SD2 pack out there!

This kit loads with all the layer limits at 4-6, but the demo was bounced with them slammed to 99.

Kits Used:

Metal Foundry (whole kit – mostly close mics on drums)
Allaire (tom ambients, snare ambients and close mics)
Hit Factory (snare ambients)
Evil Drums (snare ambs and close)
Nashville (snare ambs and close)

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