Hugh Padgham kit for BFD

Repeat after me "I don't need any more drums",
 
But Hugh Padgham Big Fill Kit for BFD2
 

The "Hugh Padgham Big Fill Kit" is a sampled drum kit with uniquely massive vintage ambient tone featuring a fat kick and snare along with the famous "barking toms" sound in the style of Phil Collins songs like "In The Air Tonight" and "I Don t Care Anymore".  Hugh Padgham is a legendary producer/engineer who has worked with artists such as Genesis, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Sting, The Police and many more. One of the most famous sounds he is known for is that BIG drum sound from the 80s heard on albums like Peter Gabriel's "Melt Face" 3rd album, Phil Collins Face Value and Hello I Must Be Going albums and Genesis Abacab and the Genesis "Mama" album. Sonic Reality took a trip to Surrey, England with Hugh Padgham to go back into Genesis studio called "The Farm" to capture this amazing drum sound in the studio's unique "stone room" recorded an the SSL™ console. The same studio and engineer that produced countless hits in the 80s, 90s and beyond is now captured as part of Hugh's new drum sample library with Sonic Reality, the Hugh Padgham Big Fill Kit!

Glyn Barnes
Repeat after me "I don't need any more drums",

 
Actually BFD3 helped me in that regard immensely. The included kits are so good, I really don't care for what I've heard out of expansions. I actually decided to get one. It was on a heavy sale and like $30, so I said why not? Well "why not" is because the included samples are so far superior there's no way I'll make use of it.
 
It is extremely hard to stack up to what BFD3 ships with, which makes me less interested in buying more.

twaddle
I got the Andy Johns Classic and the Joe Baressi kits recently and I'm really (I mean seriously) NOT a fan of metal or heavy rock which these kits are obviously made for so I don't think I'll find much use for them

Which begs the question, why *DID* you buy them?

Funny, I love those expansions. I think evil drums is my favorite of all expansion packs for all drums vstis. I think I have every or almost every expansion for BFD, SD 2, SSD 4 and have dozens of drum products for Kontakt. Yes I have a problem. :)

bapu

gmon72
I think I have almost every or almost every expansion for BFD, SD 2, SSD 4 and have dozens of drum products for Kontakt. Yes I have a problem. :)

Ah, but as well do you have all but two EZDrummer packs, all Voxengo kit pieces, Studio Cat Purrfect Drums, Bluenoise Plugins Rock and Metal kits, Ocean Way Drums for Infinite Player, all Addictive Drums expansion packs and Jamstix 3 plus all expansion packs (including Jamcussion)?
 
If so, welcome brother.
 

Yes on ezdrummer packs, studio cat( which I never use, I think I have 2 sets of Jim's drums actually), ocean way infinite player, ocean way gold , (before infinite player), sonic reality drum masters gold, a boatload of other sonic reality infinite player kits from various group buys, epik drums, drumcore 3 with 4 preordered, jamstix 3 with all expansions, a bunch of acousticasamples kits, all NI Abbey road series vintage-modern sets, studio drummer, drumasonic 2 and drumasonic luxury.


I actually had all of Addictive Drums paks as of 2 years ago, but that's one of two drum plugins I've ever sold (other was linplug rmiv). I couldn't get into AD, I thought the sound was so weak compared to everything else I have.

I haven't tried bluenoise. Also have my eye on analogue drums. I like the sound of the demos.

Nice to know I'm not alone out there :)

gmon72

bapu

gmon72
I think I have almost every or almost every expansion for BFD, SD 2, SSD 4 and have dozens of drum products for Kontakt. Yes I have a problem. :)

Ah, but as well do you have all but two EZDrummer packs, all Voxengo kit pieces, Studio Cat Purrfect Drums, Bluenoise Plugins Rock and Metal kits, Ocean Way Drums for Infinite Player, all Addictive Drums expansion packs and Jamstix 3 plus all expansion packs (including Jamcussion)?
 
If so, welcome brother.
 

Yes on ezdrummer packs, studio cat( which I never use, I think I have 2 sets of Jim's drums actually), ocean way infinite player, ocean way gold , (before infinite player), sonic reality drum masters gold, a boatload of other sonic reality infinite player kits from various group buys, epik drums, drumcore 3 with 4 preordered, jamstix 3 with all expansions, a bunch of acousticasamples kits, all NI Abbey road series vintage-modern sets, studio drummer, drumasonic 2 and drumasonic luxury.


I actually had all of Addictive Drums paks as of 2 years ago, but that's one of two drum plugins I've ever sold (other was linplug rmiv). I couldn't get into AD, I thought the sound was so weak compared to everything else I have.

I haven't tried bluenoise. Also have my eye on analogue drums. I like the sound of the demos.

Nice to know I'm not alone out there :)

It's like lookin' in a mirror.
 
 
Except I imagine you're prettier.

Steve,
 
I take no exception to you not liking metal and especially metal drums.
 
You are right on WRT why metal kick drums are "usually" thin. It's all about the attack not the boom. The bass usually takes care of the boom in metal (IMHO).

No metal here. 60s-80s rock then singer songwriter, indie rock onward.

We hired a bassist and guitarist for the Andy Johns sessions so he could EQ the drums to fit correctly in a track... They're made to sound like his drum recordings when used inside a song.

I've never heard anyone say that Joe's samples are thin.... The demos are all flat... With no additional EQ or Compression...

https://www.platinumsamples.com/JoeBarresi.php

We also produced Kits 1 through 4 of the BFD3 factory kits, which follow a very similar production style to our other expansion packs.

Cheers,

Rail

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gmon72
rail, do you have presets or straightup kits for your bfd3 kits.  I may have gotten out of sorts with the betas, but all my kits and presets tagged as bfd3 are blues, county,rock, etc. jm or ... DV,

I posted a Basic Preset for BFD3 Kit 1 in the thread on the FXpansion BFD3 forum.
 
Cheers,
 
Rail

Thanks Rail. I had grabbed that one. Just wanted to make sure I hadn't missed other ones.

Just played evil drums last night while practicing. Still love that pack.

Yeah, it's all a matter of taste. I love how the Andy Johns and other Platinum Samples kits sound in the demos (I still haven't picked any up yet, I'm sure I will grab some next sale). But I have a ton of kits already. I was looking at the lists everybody has and I think a lot of us are drumaholics. I have a ton of the Sonic Reality Drums, including Neil Peart Drums and other series, Ocean Way Drums, Steven Slate Drums, Superior Drums and expansions, Additive Drums and expansions, ezDrummer and expansions, NI Studio Drummer, NI Abbey Road 60s Drums, BFD Eco, Waves Factory's Tea Towel Drums and more and I'm still looking at additional kits. I suppose even though I chose and unimaginative screen name, it is fitting. As far as the Hugh Padgham Phil Collins "In the Air" kit it sounds excellent in demos for what it is. I don't know that I'd have much use for that sound. I would prefer more of a Phil Collins 70s era Squonk kit, but I'll probably still end up picking it up! Further, it seems everyone I've heard anything about BFD 3 from is saying great things. I suppose that's on my list too.  

Hello, my name is Peter and I'm a sampleholic...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ_3g2hUCn4