How do you Get your Drums?

I layer samples. Basically I start with acoustic drumkits and percussion (buy, download, sample from vinyl etc.) and electronic drumsets (808s 909s and other old drum machines) and filter, fade in/fade out, delay, EQ, compress, reverb, etc. I also layer other elements like noise, sine/square/saw/triangle waves and anything else I can think of.

I also break out the mic and sample claps and snaps, beatboxing, pots and pans, tapping on my desk, tapping on a woofer cone, someone walking up the stairs, or just about anything. I use them on their own or as layers with the samples above.

Basically whenever you buy a drum sample set (unless its an acoustic drumkit or samples directly from an old school drum machine) they're gonna be created using the same source samples and processes above. So I just do it myself. Once you get into it, you can create the perfect drums for an track in 5 minutes or less.

sample and then layer with kits

email me and I am willing to get you some top quality sounds no charge.

mp3 wrote:I layer samples. Basically I start with acoustic drumkits and percussion (buy, download, sample from vinyl etc.) and electronic drumsets (808s 909s and other old drum machines) and filter, fade in/fade out, delay, EQ, compress, reverb, etc. I also layer other elements like noise, sine/square/saw/triangle waves and anything else I can think of..

Indeed... I get drums from all over the place. I've bought, sampled (wax, cds etc), mic hand percussion (some even hand made) on and on. lots of free drums all over. Careful where you buy from cause some spots just resale the same ole stale layered drums that were wack in 1996 and they still wack in 2010. My dude likes his drums more acoustic, hard but airy and I like mine thick and boom bap like. Lately I like doing my own layering processing with various sources as mp3 spoke about. I like having something more unique i guess. in the end if it booms and it baps i can dig it. I guess you gotta know what you like and how you like it.

I chopped like 600 breaks into little pieces. I think I can layer it to get any drum sounds excluding toms. This works extremely well, but as I'm changing much stuff right now and I'm reading and researching a lot of stuff. I came to an conclusion that you can get dope effects from everything.. I'll be expanding my studio and shit very soon and I'll invest in some serious samples, both instruments and drums. How you make music depends on you, there is no straight answer. Try many different things or master one, but I think first option is better 'cus you gonna be flexible. Mastering e.g. MPC now is not a big deal 'cus everybody know it already. You know what I mean ?
peace

Mostly vinyl. Sometimes CD's or computer.

mostly from boon doc's mpc

Ruslanio wrote:Has anyone bought any drum kits from this site?

bought drums from:
mpc-samples.com
banginbeats.com
tradebit - somethign or other random stuff

my best and favorite drums from vinyl layered/eq'd

i sample from vinyl and cds. on a couple occasions, i have sampled from youtube/dailymotion.

then, just edit the sounds and layer them...bam

just keep tweakin the sounds until i get what i want

Intresting article about snares:

http://emusician.com/tutorials/emusic_old_two_four/

I get mine from records
I've purchased some from mpcstuff.com
recently got some from this site too

there are so many ways....


A lot of times you can turn any sound source into a drum sound, though it lacks the realistic character of a good sampled drum it still has a unique sound.

You can take a sound source and cut it very short, pitch it up or down maybe add distortion or reverb, or filter out the bass for a dirty hi hat, or vice versa make a low thunk sound. a drum that carries a slight note or tune usually supports melody nicely too.

You can also take a recording from any old keyboard with a drum kit, record that through multiple sources like onto tape or out of a speaker, with a mic.... or into one sampler, back onto another sampler. just takes time to make the setups for the various sound channels.

speaking of which i need to keep working with my MPC. I have only made 16 samples.... since yeseterday, when I installed my CF card. that was using an SK-1 and my voice. Very digital crunch sounds with not much to tell you it was originally a voice. I think next i'm going to load up some sample sets on my ESX-1 and mess with those.

--JDSY

Dig for some Incredible Bongo Band. You won't be disappointed.

The Grublet wrote:only vinyl. its called digging.

+10

Buy breakbeat recoeds and buy breakbeat collections off the net and chop em all up... if you layer dirty drums with some clean library type shit they will still sound dirty so use both!!