I’ve not found an actual way to dampen them but you can use compression to simulate a dampened drum. Reduce release time to do the cymbals.
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There seems to be ‘dry’ kits in some of the expansions, and you can use the mixer to reduce reverb and ambient/overhead mics on a lot of the kits.
But if you’re talking about getting a stylistically dampened sound, I remember seeing at least one expansion which was recorded with towels over the drums. You might be able to find an expansion which has dampened samples using other, not so extreme, methods.
EZD tends to be more ‘ringy’ than others. Though I too would welcome more dampened kits. Hopefully TT will consider this.
I’d like to see TT add a Dampened Preset of each kit along with a Dry Preset allowing the user to process them to their liking.
That said, there is the ‘Tea Toweled’ UK Kit and the Alt Rock has a dampened Ludwig snare.
Actually it would be great if TT offered demo versions of their EZX Expansions as they do with EZKeys Sound Expansions, so as the users could hear the kits in the context of their music.
This post was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by Robert Shaplo.
