Anyone know of a good place 2 purchase drum kits?

Anyone know of a good place 2 purchase drum kits?

these kits are way overpriced and don´t sound right unless you wanna spend hours filtering layering tuning resampling converting to make m sound properly.

i suggest get the vinyl breaks (i bought it off ebay) with about 1 hour of original breakbeats in wav....you slice edit the dopest kicks snares and hats and create something worth listening to. this way your beats won´t sound as plastic as some of these kits do.

but the best way to do it is of course old vinyl from the 60s and 70s.

Oh wow, I initially dismissed this thread because I thought he was talking about an acoustic set or something like that.

But, if you had some nice mics, good acoustics, and some patience you could make thousands of drum samples with one of those.

see that mpc samples button at the top?

http://www.mpc-samples.com/

the reason this website exists is because of it's mother website mpc samples. we aren't really supposed to advertise for other sample selling peeps in tutor's court.

To the cat who said banginbeats kits are way overpriced, i question your diggin prowess homie.
lol If you drive to a thrift store to your average dollar bin, if you spent 5.93, you'd come up with about 1 or 2 drums IF you're lucky.. Will they be hot? If you have more luck I guess... Then you have to spent how long tweaking them? lol.. Does everyone have an SP1200 to sample them with? How about a manley massive passive or 45 grand more invested into tools and toys to make sh*t bang?

So you consider 5.93 expensive for a couple dozen drums already tweaked and ready to go?
I couldn't disagree more.

You can buy some from MPC-SAMPLES.COM

Otherwise look for reputable dealers elsewhere online using Google.

There are generally two schools of thought around here when it comes to sourcing drum sounds.

1. The traditionalists prefer to sample their drums from vinyl, some say they are stuck in an 80's timewarp.

2. The modernists will employ a variety of means including buying kits and sampling any available source.

Essentially if it sounds good to you, run with it.

KIRKT, its the same deal with buying drum samples, you're not gonna like most of the sounds. In fact its prolly unlikely you will like more than 5% of the sounds in any sample pack. Digging is universal homie, even if you buy the samples you still gotta dig thru em. The only drum sample library that I ever thought was hot from top to bottom was the old Emagic Xtreme Hip Hop sample CD that i used back in the day. That's it.

My advice would be to get some nice acoustic drum samples (I prefer jazz and funk kits, but I have heard some nice rock kits too), some classic drum machine samples (808s 909s etc.), and learn how to layer and tweak em (EQ, compression, reverb, envelopes, filters, special fx, etc.) to get the sound you like. That's exactly what sample companies do, they just take basic acoustic/electronic samples, layer and process them, and sell them to you. And that's what certain producers like Hi Tek do. Yes they have access to thousands of dollars of pro audio equipment, but they aren't making your music so they don't have YOUR EAR.

MPC samples has a couple tutorials (like the art of drum layering) that I haven't read but that would prolly help you get started making your own sounds, and YOUR OWN SOUND...

One more thing. You can get drum sounds from your mouth! I only used a mic and my 2kxl on this beat. The only sound I didn't make with my mouth was the chirps [it's feedback]. http://soundcloud.com/k-roc/mr-mouth

^indeed get creative.. And I agree mp3 I'm definitely NOT speaking out against digging.. lol, dig your heart out no doubt... But when it comes down to production, getting down to the business of laying beats is the goal- without wasting your time tweaking a drum, while creative window slowly closes and time slips away. Buy some quality paints, mix them for the colors you desire and put something beautiful on the canvas.. Don't be blowin all your time 'making paint' while other artists are creating masterpieces and hanging in museums. word.

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