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[Richard_G]

Ah, you have the mysterious Evil Drums SDX. How do you like it?

LOVE it. Killer rooms, great drum choices and tunings. Joe Barresi, what's not to love?

With any library, I tend to prefer just loading the entire kit's as a preset, so everything is as they mic'd it (as opposed to mixing and matching drums together). With Evil Drums, that's even more important because there is often no consistency at all between different kits. The first 3 were done at Grandmaster Studios (Tool/Foo Fighters/tons of cool shit) and the latter 3 were done at Sound City. Within that, they record the kits in different parts of the room, with different chains and settings. So things can go goofy if you swap things around and mix and match too much.

That tends to be the case to a lesser extent anyway - I think it's too hard for different drums and sounds to make sense if you don't adjust the mics and settings at least a little bit. Usually for each kit they're going for something particular and all the micing follows that to a degree.

I also have the Evil Drums SDX (along with the Metal Foundry SDX and the New York Studios Vol. 2 SDX), which I bought a long time ago to be used with Superior Drummer 2.

How do you think the Evil Drums SDX compare to the Death and Darkness SDX?

 

[MirrorProfiles]

How do you think the Evil Drums SDX compare to the Death and Darkness SDX?

Evil Drums is a bit looser and fatter, very much “LA” type sounds. Death is tighter, clickier, modern metal type sounds. Darkness is a bit looser but in a more raw vibey way than Evil Drums.

The main thing with Evil Drums is the 6 kits are divided over 2 studios, and within those kits they’re captured in different position in the rooms with different signal chains. So while you can mix and match, the rooms and bleed can get weird if you deviate too far from how it was recorded.

 

[DrewJD82]

EDIT:

Just seen @DrewJD82 's post so a few more points with his questions in mind.

Its not. my favourite room sound at all. You can get interesting stuff from it but basically any other library has a much more interesting and good sounding drum room. You can mangle this one any which way you like and get cool sounds, but they won't really be conventional. I'd only really go for this if you're going for something left field and unique. Which tbh, I wish more people did with heavy music these days as everything sounds so samey. Bergstrand has always been about making stuff unique and interesting and I admire his bravery with just going for it (even if it doesn't always pay off).

Just saw this now, my bad!

I can definitely see it being used for some outside the box stuff. As a matter of fact, I think Lars was beta testing it back in the day…..here’s his father’s thoughts after hearing what they cooked up with it-





I’ll load it up again and take a look at it with a different set of eyes, I’ve changed how I’m going about drum sounds a bit and the big rooms can be useful…potentially.

 

[DrewJD82]

I got the Metal Machinery pack a while ago because it had a couple Tama Starclassic kits in it and you can use those drums for any genre. To the point that I use this same kit-

For 95% of the stuff I do. Velocities, tuning and EQ make up all the differences. I'll swap snares out depending on tempos, but it's usually the Bubinga, Black Beauty or this John Tempesta sig. I wish it had the damn Portnoy snare in here!


For those on SD3 already, check out the Nashville Slam preset, I'd imagine that'll get most people doing rock/hard rock right about where they want to be without much fiddling around.