Which is disastrous for a good drumtrack, I find. I never understood the reasoning behind it, but all of Toontrack’s drum libraries have these wimpy, weak and thin-sounding hi-hats. Which, believe me, is saying something because the Mixosaurus hi-hat is amazingly good and expressive. Since getting BFD3, some of the hi-hats in that package, instantly became go-to’s as well. My favourite sampled hi-hats have always been the ones from Mixosaurus, that no-longer-available 120gig Rolls Royce of Kontakt drum libraries. Other important differences: BFD3’s cymbals and hi-hats sound, to my ear, much better than anything in SD3 or its many expansions. Even its supposedly raw and natural-sounding stuff has a kind of processed aroma, I find.) (Might have something to do with the fact that, to my ears, all of Toontrack’s material, no matter where and by whom it was recorded, has a sort of same-ish processed sound. With SD3, I always seem to need several additional plugins before the drums show promise of begin able to sit well in a mix - and eventually, they never quite do - whereas with BFD3, “sitting well in a mix” is, I find, these drums’ natural state. And, most amazingly, I don’t have to do anything special. It’s difficult to describe and largely a matter of personal taste, and it’s not as if SD3 sounds bad or anything, but from the moment I began using BFD3, all the problems I had been struggling with for ages, trying to get my drumtracks to sound as if played with conviction and having them sit well in a mix, disappeared immediately. Because of a chronic dissatisfaction with how SD3 sounds. I went the other way, from SD3 (with many expansions) to BFD3, a few months ago.
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