TheTrueZoltan!
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I‘ve been down another rabbit hole lately and bought a lot of drum sample libraries for Metal. I purchased pretty much all Metal-related EZXs from Toontrack that I didn’t already own, Steven Slate Drums 5.5, Bogren Digital Krimh, Mixwave Gojira, ML Drums & all its expansions, MDL Tone Ultimate Heavy Drums and Stigmatized Productions Fotis Benardo. No, I did not / will not buy the one from Fricker.
They all have their strengths and weaknesses. But the one that really does it for me is Fotis Benardo Drums from Stigmatized Productions. It‘s the sound I have in my head when I think of all kinds of Metal. Super punchy, thick, tight and aggressive.
I also really like the Big Stage EZX from Toontrack (it isn‘t marketed as such but it‘s metal AF). And I had high hopes for the newly released drum library from Josh Middleton (MDL Tone), but so far I don‘t like its hats & cymbals. Krimh from Bogren is a little bit strange - on its own it sounds somehow washy and soft, but it works okay in the context of a full mix. Some of the 1st gen Toontrack libraries sound comically bad from nowadays perspective and SSD5 also begins to show its age. With a little bit of tweaking most of them can still deliver respectable results, though.
They all have their strengths and weaknesses. But the one that really does it for me is Fotis Benardo Drums from Stigmatized Productions. It‘s the sound I have in my head when I think of all kinds of Metal. Super punchy, thick, tight and aggressive.
I also really like the Big Stage EZX from Toontrack (it isn‘t marketed as such but it‘s metal AF). And I had high hopes for the newly released drum library from Josh Middleton (MDL Tone), but so far I don‘t like its hats & cymbals. Krimh from Bogren is a little bit strange - on its own it sounds somehow washy and soft, but it works okay in the context of a full mix. Some of the 1st gen Toontrack libraries sound comically bad from nowadays perspective and SSD5 also begins to show its age. With a little bit of tweaking most of them can still deliver respectable results, though.
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