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jekyll · Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:21 pm Post subject: new kick drum sounds

Any thoughts on producing an assortment of kick drum sounds to choose from that are a little more punchy, or modern sounding. The existing sounds are all very good, but they all sound very vintage. I know I could alter the sound with compression and eq, but it would be nice to have some kicks to choose from that sound more "Foo Fighters" than "Beatles". What I've been doing is, opening an instance of EZ Drummer and unloading all samples except the kick, and letting Jamstix control just the kick. Works pretty good, but work flow would be better if Jamstix had some kick sounds like that. Oh well, just a thought . Thanks for a great drum program. It baffles me that anyone would even think to code something like Jamstix, much less make it so easy to use, and work so well. Thanks again.
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Ralph [RZ] · Site Admin Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 13332

Thanks for your kind words, Steve!

The punchiest kick is in DrumPak #2. The new stock kit that will come with Jamstix 2 will have a very modern kick sound with an AKG D112 mic sitting 3" off of the batter head.

Jamstix 2 will also allow mixing internal and external sounds (i.e. EZD) within Jamstix itself.
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jekyll · Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:28 pm Post subject:

That's great news! thanks
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thomasross20 · Jamologist Joined: 21 Feb 2006 Posts: 119

My fave kit is the stage custom...I find it packs the most punch, especially for the kick. I take the ambience all the way down to the left.

Dragonlips · Jam Meister Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 52

Jekyll,
I'm curious why you only choose to use the kick from the EZD collection? Does that collection not meet your standards?

Here's a nice post production kick secret. There is a plugin called WaveArts: Track Plug - seen here http://www.wavearts.com/products.html

They have a few killer presets to use on kick drums that really fatten them out and punch them out. There is one preset call "another top 10 kick drum" that is sensational. You would have to single up your jamstix outputs to keep the kick on it's own channel in your audio program, and then drop is this little jem of a plug. You have a hard rock, metal kick lickity-slit!!!
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jekyll · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 11:15 pm Post subject:

[Does that collection not meet your standards?]
It absolutely does. I often use Jamstix to control only EZD. I just sometimes want a more vintage sounding kit, and I'm not completly satisfied with Jamstix kick sounds. I'm anxious to hear the new sounds in Jamstix 2.
I've been using Track Plug since ver3, and you're right, it does work wonders on drums.
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