New Toontrack product - Metal Machine EZX, recorded by Andy Sneap!

[drache713]

Great, so many choices...now I have the sound libraries from regular SD2 (Avatar), metal foundry, EZDrummer, DFH, Metalheads, Metal Machine...ugh I don't know which library will sound best! I don't wanna mix and match kit pieces... This looks awesome and the kit does sound awesome!

[briansol]

"1 GB free disc space, 512 MB RAM, DVD drive. A working EZdrummer version 1.3 or a Superior Drummer 2.3 (or above) installation."

I have neither of those 2 products.... which is the better foundation to add this to for someone who's never tracked drums above the basic built in vst that sounds like a polka kit.

[Blankplank]

Originally Posted by briansol

"1 GB free disc space, 512 MB RAM, DVD drive. A working EZdrummer version 1.3 or a Superior Drummer 2.3 (or above) installation."

I have neither of those 2 products.... which is the better foundation to add this to for someone who's never tracked drums above the basic built in vst that sounds like a polka kit.

They're both as easy to use as one another just for programming and selecting drums IMO. It all comes down to mic placements and bleeds and different stick types and whatnot in SD2 that makes it worth the money.

[Chris]

Originally Posted by briansol

"1 GB free disc space, 512 MB RAM, DVD drive. A working EZdrummer version 1.3 or a Superior Drummer 2.3 (or above) installation."

I have neither of those 2 products.... which is the better foundation to add this to for someone who's never tracked drums above the basic built in vst that sounds like a polka kit.

The nice thing about this (EZX) is that it works with EZDrummer, which is cheaper. You can also crossgrade/upgrade from EZDrummer to Superior if you find yourself getting into it, wanting higher bitrate samples, more mic and routing options, etc, etc.

EZDrummer isn't as robust as Superior, but it's still an awesome, awesome piece of software that's extremely easy to use. IMO, I'd go with that first if I were you.

[Mattayus]

Originally Posted by Mike

Cool, now Andy doesn't even have to work at making all his drums sound the same anymore!

oh ssssnap!

[Wookieslayer]

why not just skip to SD if the price isn't that big of a difference through Amazon / ebay?

[Codestation]

Bought it off floridamusicco.com

I think it's a great addition. Toontrack frickin rules

Will post a demo with it.

[metalheadpunk]

Originally Posted by Codestation

Bought it off floridamusicco.com

I think it's a great addition. Toontrack frickin rules

Will post a demo with it.

thanks for the heads up! saved me some $$

Just got it downloaded and installed. Sounds pretty awesome just dropped into an old track. the ezx seem to sound better with less effort.

[Wookieslayer]

Recently picked up this Metal Machine pack and I'm pretty impressed! sounds awesome with no tweaking right out of the box, especially the snares damn! But Nolly, how do you get the toms to sound so bad ass in this clip here? What processing are you putting on the drum bus? extra reverb, tape saturation, or... ? :P

[Nolly]

Hey dude, I literally didn't do anything to the drums other than blend the snare sample! Some extra punch will be coming from the master bus processing, which was probably Slate's FG-X since I was using that a lot around the time I did the clip.