gigs of drums

[Voo]

as of this evening I have 4.3 gigs of drum loops and single shots, including hats, cymbals and your normal hodgepodge of other percussion sounds.


I've found that recently several of my regular "clients" have said that my drums have been slipping *ouch*


I seriously think its because I've over-sampled myself and I've simply got to many fucking snares and kicks.


I'm this close to a massive overhaul of the library and I'm seriously thinking of trimming the fat by about 80%.


Curious to know (roughly) how large your personal drum library is and how many of you find yourself using the same drums regularly... and vice versa.



At some point, do you just have to man up and create that "super folder" of 50 so/odd samples and go to war?

 

[Sanova]

I have over 60gigs of drums. Granted its a combination of things from the internet like mpc-samples.com gotchanoddin.com etc.

mixed in with shit I sampled off vinyl (plus the famous ash holmz drums)

but with that many drums I find it very difficult to use the same drums too many times.

but i gotta admit when i first started out i was usin the same kick all the time. I say keep all ur shit just use shit that u wouldn't normally use.

Thats very generic and vague tip, I know, but it's very useful as well.

 

[TheMost]

I usualy use the same drum kits with some variations and of course when im making a beat that out there i might use some different drums kits.

BUt for reason anyways if i wana bring a cd of my beats on a reason file even if i self include settins if the place im bringning my reason file too dosent have that drum kits it wont show up.

 

[Voo]

60gigs? jesus.


I've got roughly 400-450 snares alone and I am just itching to trim it.

 

[StressWon]

nah, dont trim son, use ya plugins man,,,serious, you can a multitude of snares from one snare sample,,,layer, compression, shit I even reverbed my drums,,,,use em all!!!!

 

[open mind]

60gb of drumz? hahaahh.

 

[Sanova]

yea seriously. .

This includes unchopped breaks as well (loops i recorded off the vinyl).

11.4GB just on my back up I: drive alone

 

[open mind]

damn thats a lot man.

 

[Hi-Lo]

yeah im with nova here i'd keep them, at least back them up.

what you really need to do is dig through your own sounds and put together kits. thats the key with a large library, even if its well organized. taking the time to put together a kit with the best 150 kicks, snares, claps, whatever that you can find and mapping them to programs on your mpc or in battery/guru is essential to keep things moving in a session when you've got that many drums. that way, 99% of the time youve already got everything you need and since your drawing from a consistent kit for a month or so, you'll tweak them nicely over time and end up with some great stuff to resample.

 

[Relic]

Id keep em but the problem is , you wont really KNOW your drums.. I mean Im a drum and sound junkie too, I got alot but I was reading recently that its good just to get like 50 or so and rotate through those...
Hell do that for 6 months to a year then rotate through another 50..
But I mean you cant actually be able to recall on a whim 60 gigs worth of drums..
Well I couldnt, but I say keep them shits and dont just delete them!

 

[Agent Smith]

on the other side of the token, for the sake of discussion, like stress said, plugins are magic. dre uses the same drums in a lot of songs, but you would never know because he (and his engineers) eq and compress them so differently. either war, with drums it's better to have and not want than want and not have.

 

[Sanova]

But I mean you cant actually be able to recall on a whim 60 gigs worth of drums..
Well I couldnt,

Lol, you serious?

If that's the case you don't organize your shit well.

if you load up a drum and you dont that where "SSK001.wav" came from the folder "Sanova" sub folder "Stomp Kick" abd being the first kick of that set.. then you are sloppy my good man.


or


just old


but anyway, I know my drums like i know my johnson.

oh and reduce that number to about 30 gigs, i had to put alot of them on CD's for storage issues, as you may imagine.

 

[breal]

as of this evening I have 4.3 gigs of drum loops and single shots, including hats, cymbals and your normal hodgepodge of other percussion sounds.


I've found that recently several of my regular "clients" have said that my drums have been slipping *ouch*


I seriously think its because I've over-sampled myself and I've simply got to many fucking snares and kicks.


I'm this close to a massive overhaul of the library and I'm seriously thinking of trimming the fat by about 80%.


Curious to know (roughly) how large your personal drum library is and how many of you find yourself using the same drums regularly... and vice versa.



At some point, do you just have to man up and create that "super folder" of 50 so/odd samples and go to war?

That nothing really.The ones with my Battery 3 are like 12 gigs alone.

 

[Ash Holmz]

i got a lot of drum samples ... i dont how many in terms of gigs but u can never have enough ... but in truth what i did was i went through my entire library, picked the best hits i had, and consolidated them into one folder .. its basically a folder of about 500 or so hot ass drum hits... basically when i load up my mpc I always load the one folder so i have all of my hottest drumz avaiable in right in memrory .. then if im missing something i can use the rest of my library but im pretty much covered with those. i dont hink u should throw away drumz tho ... u never know when that chessy snare u hate might actually come in handy...

 

[Relic]

Lol, you serious?

If that's the case you don't organize your shit well.

if you load up a drum and you dont that where "SSK001.wav" came from the folder "Sanova" sub folder "Stomp Kick" abd being the first kick of that set.. then you are sloppy my good man.


or


just old


but anyway, I know my drums like i know my johnson.

oh and reduce that number to about 30 gigs, i had to put alot of them on CD's for storage issues, as you may imagine.

LOL possibly not organized which I have been trying to get lately cuz I really have more shit than I realised..
But anyway that was 2 cents..
I swear I was reading in this bittips book rsonist or someone talking about that,,if I find it Ill quote and post! :thumb:

 

[MourninDaKnight]

on the other side of the token, for the sake of discussion, like stress said, plugins are magic. dre uses the same drums in a lot of songs, but you would never know because he (and his engineers) eq and compress them so differently. either war, with drums it's better to have and not want than want and not have.

not to compare myself to dre but i do the same thing..lol

i constantly use the kick and snare drums...about 8 of each i think

its fun to mess around with them and try to get different sounds