Superior Drummer 2 - Producer Presets

I made a couple of personal presets that I gravitate to most of the time, but they eat up more RAM, so I don't always start with those if I'm just needing a beat.

I find the producer presets are good, but seem extracted from another song and then don't fit as well in the "next" song, if that makes sense.

I found them to be a bit educational.  Some settings are a bit shocking because they don't conform to the Cakewalk Forum standard of ways to do things.  

I have a few of them (the producer ones) but have found that they never quite "fit" for my tunes.  I just do it myself now.

The Steve Slate presets makes it sound like Steve Slate drums. I think that's well worth it. It uses the Superior FX on each part, which means it's going to use more juice. Mind you, that's the general idea otherwise the drums would sound raw anyway. Snappy drums for a few euros.

FYI audiodeluxe.com now carries these along with other toontrack ezmix presets, etc. for a discounted price. 

late to the party, but here's a true story.

Working on a song with the golden ears of one Mr. Danny Danzi.

I use a Superior Preset. Upon first preview Danny says "Those toms at the end are distorted".

I sez no (in my head). After much experimenting I could only hear the distortion when I turned off the (not Toonrack) reverb (UAD EMT 140 IIRC).

After much more research I find that the culprit was the Superior compressor (i.e. turn it off distortion goes away). Problem solved.

Now, here's the bigger problem.  I can't tell Toontrack which preset it is because:

a) once you choose the preset you lose all knowledge of which one you chose (and I had experimented with so many I just don't recall which it was)

b) I owned all the Producer Presets at the time* and I was not about to go experiment and find the culprit and I was too lazy to try and manually recreate the whole chain because I delete the entire (Superior) preset and did it "the right way**"

* I no longer buy Producer Presets
** I do it the prescribed Cakewalk Forum way now

It is somewhat educational to look at the presets, just to see what can be done and to get some ideas. 

But whoever created them - probably an employee of Toontrack despite the well-known producer-endorsee's name on them - seemed more intent on showing off every effect than really getting a good drum sound that fits in a mix. The presets I've seen are over the top (e.g. EQ on every virtual mic, compression galore) and designed to sound good on a drum solo.

Mod Bod

 Some settings are a bit shocking because they don't conform to the Cakewalk Forum standard of ways to do things.   

The forum has a standard??  

Steve

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Thanks again guys for pitching in.

Good info and advice.

Cheers

Stewart