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

bapu
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).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vi2s2PS_Ng listen to this track (from the last decent Entombed album - released in 1991!) the kick is playing solo quite a lot, esp from about 0'30, and for me is the perfect metal kick sound - plenty of attack but lots of weight too. I agree too much modern extreme metal bands have an awful clicky sound - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03RuMkTOWoU Fleshgod Apocalypse have an amazing drummer but the kick is awful

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.

mgh

bapu
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).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vi2s2PS_Ng listen to this track (from the last decent Entombed album - released in 1991!) the kick is playing solo quite a lot, esp from about 0'30, and for me is the perfect metal kick sound - plenty of attack but lots of weight too. I agree too much modern extreme metal bands have an awful clicky sound - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03RuMkTOWoU Fleshgod Apocalypse have an amazing drummer but the kick is awful

If only it were just the kick sound that made this kind of stuff unlistenable to my ears.
The second track is a perfect example of the kind of cluttered and totally unrhythmic kick style that
is as I mentioned, akin to having a pair of woodpeckers strapped to either side of your head and then being thrown in a tumble dryer.
 
Sorry, just not my cup of tea.
 
 
Steve

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