By
Heretic
Fri Jan 01, 2010 9:25 pm
To those (few) of you who said that breaks are weak or whatever: You are most likely only saying this because you don't know how to process and use drum breaks properly.
When picking a break, recording it at the right level, chopping it up, putting effects on them, setting ADSR right, perhaps combining with drums from a second (and a third) break, and doing all this RIGHT, then it still beats the hell out of (most) sample-pack drums.
I will say there are some okay sample-packs out there though: Croup's Filthy Drums, some of the M-Phazes drum-packs etc. And EZdrummer is good for MIDI grooves. At the end of the day though you get more 'personal' drums from vinyl (or whatever you source is).
And btw I agree fully with those who said using new breaks is fine. It's all about what sounds you find and being creative with them. Fukk what year they are from! If the sound is from a new mainstream album, it's probably over-compressed, but if it's usable then just use it! Many of the producers who make beats for the mainstream rappers also use newer samples (although sometimes as interpolations).
Also remember that when Marley Marl began sampling, some of the samples he used were only 10 years old, perhaps even less.
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