QUESTIONS ABOUT BFD3

So I've decided to buy BFD3... I was thinking about getting the Neil Peart expansion pack. Any opinions about this expansion pack? Are there better ones out there? I play heavy rock, mainly. Any opinions would be appreciated!

Check out platinum samples expansions for heavy music. Fxpansion also have a boatload. The sonic reality stuff has its own sound, but minus the new nick mason pack, doesn't have direct channels on the cymbals, so it doesn't mix and match great with other packs. I love evil drums from platinum samples recorded by Joe baresi.

I got the Neil Peart volume 1 and was very disappointed, no direct channels for the cymbals is very poor and I'm just glad I only paid $19 for it. As Sycraft said, get to know the kits that come with BFD3 first and then if they're not what you're after you can think about expansions.
The 7 kits that come with BFD3 are all from platinum samples and you wont find any better samples than theirs right now.
 
Steve

I have ECO and BFD2. IS there any compelling reason to upgrade to BFD3? It's a lot of money and my drum library is building up. I already have Battery 3,4, addictive drums, Abbey Road 60's drummer and Studio Drums for Kontakt. Am I really missing anything by skipping BFD3?

ampfixer
I have ECO and BFD2. IS there any compelling reason to upgrade to BFD3? It's a lot of money and my drum library is building up. I already have Battery 3,4, addictive drums, Abbey Road 60's drummer and Studio Drums for Kontakt. Am I really missing anything by skipping BFD3?

I dunno with BFD2, since I don't have that. However over BFD Eco, which I do have, ya there is a lot of improvement. The two big things for me are great sound, and the ability to build massive kits. As I said in another thread I want all of the drums, all of the times :). I have set up a kit with 6 toms, 2 snares, 2 BDs, about 7 cymbals and some auxiliary percussion. Makes me quite happy. Ya you'd need to be an octopus to play it, whatever, that's why we are doing it on a computer :).
 
I find the sound is really good and the kit is really playable too. For example the drums are recorded with a massive dynamic range, tons of velocity layers. Often this is problems in practice but not here. For one, they are all mapped properly, so low velocity is quiet, high velocity is loud. No uneven mapping (that I've found). Then there's the fact that they have it set up with a good medium limiter on the master bus by default. This means you don't have to fiddle with the volume generally. Just go. Your bass drums will get some big peaks, but it'll deal with it and sound good. If you go real loud or real soft, ya you may need to make some adjustments, but by default it works, and without any fuss.
 
So that's why I like it. If BFD2 offers that kind of stuff, then I would probably be just as happy with it. If not, then I'd want BFD3 for sure.