Discuss the various methods you use in music production, from compressor settings to equipment type.
By Felly Sat Apr 16, 2011 12:50 am
I'm thinking about getting a boonie mayfield drum kit cause I have no drums that I like. Anyone know anything about them? I'm low on budget so I gotta make sure this is the right purchase


should I get his first kit or his second?
any other kits you think are better?

Thanks guys
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By Heretic Mon Apr 18, 2011 6:11 pm
josephnicks wrote:im pretty sure boonies kits are just stock drums eq'd to his liking.

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I guarantee you 100% they are not. They have all meticulously been sampled off vinyl. His two drum-kits basically deliver the same kind of raw, sampled drum sounds you hear in most his Youtube vid's.

I know - I have them both!

But as someone else pointed out: think about where he got the drums sounds from... vinyl!! Why don't you go out yourself and sample drum hits and drum loops off of old soul/jazz/rock'n'roll records if you are into the sound of his drum-kits.

I personally own his drum-kits out of laziness. It's not always I feel like sampling a breakbeat when I can just go to the library and grab a sound off of Boon Doc's or M-Phazes' drum-kits.

On the other hand I'm trying to build up my own sound library of sounds I've sampled from vinyl. For too long I've used other producers' sounds and MP3 rips as safety nets. I'm going 100% vinyl now :-) Just for the added frequency spectre and the charm of it. MP3 samples have a tendency to sound "dead".

Peace to all!
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By -niN Mon Apr 18, 2011 8:24 pm
I know that he at least used to work with reason. Do you think he might have also created some drumsounds with that??
Apart from that safest guess is that he sampled alot of vinyl and flipped it..
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By twisted-roots Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:12 am
Buy them they'll be dope! Boonie Mayfield is a cunning master of hip hop soul funk and nodding his head on beat. I wish i had them years ago before i started building my own drum library.
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By CHOPFYT Mon Jun 20, 2011 11:50 am
If your on a budget d/l the loop packs in this thread and try layering and eqin them yourself i forget who the op of that topic was but theres 100s of loops in there. Id srill get the boon doc pack for ease of use and to help you learn but but you can build your own kits for free. I do like boon doc but i dont really hear or see him makin big moves or gettin good placements.
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By ArKyve-31 Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:37 pm
konc3pt wrote:people need to start learning use eq their mpcs and experiment...it can make reg drums go smack!


Exactly, but this thread is pointless, cause felly sold his 500 because it wasn't a "full production studio" and switched to logic, I posted thread full of drum loops and sounds few months back if anyone really needs drums
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By b.read Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:21 pm
True...there is NO shortage of free drums out there.


If you're in the market to spend some dough on some samples, I'd hit up Tutor 8)