konradh
Question about BFD. I have a few drum options but am always open for something different or better in the acoustic drum world.
A fellow producer and friend uses BFD. He likes it but says it is optimized for an ambient sound and it takes some work to get good, separate drum sounds. Do you agree?
In the drum libraries I use (EZDrummer 2 is an example), I turn off all ambience, room, and bleed because my style is to go after separation in the drum kit pieces. Nothing wrong with an ambient sound: just not my thing at the moment.
Some of the BFD2 kits were recorded in some big rooms so yes, they were big and roomy sounding.
There are 8 ambient channels in BFD3 although the main ones are Overhead, Room and far Room.
It's the far room ones that give you the most air. There are also 3 mono channels and 2 comp channels.
The comp channels are, as the name might suggest, channels that have been slightly compressed whilst retaining the kits natural feel. All these channels are fed through a master ambient channels so to remove all the ambients can be done in one go.
Th e BFD3 kits were recorded by platinum samples and are quite different from the ones that came with BFD2.
I happen to really like some of the BFD2 kits as I quite like a big roomy live sound for some things.
I don't know how long this deal will last for but you can always download the BFD3 demo from the fxpansion site.
It only gives you one kit with missing articulations from the snare and hi-hats but it should give you a good idea of what it can do.
Steve