Hi!
I am quite new to the whole Superior2 and recording/mixing stuff so please excuse my not-yet-very-thorough-knowledge. Anyhow we have been recording drums (real drums) in a professional studio using SSL/ProTools combination and obviously the drum sounds great. The only problem is that the drummer had a bit of a problem with his double kick so basically we have ended up “copy/pasting” kicks … hey it’s speed metal so the double kick is a must! 🙂
Now the idea is that we create kick-only MIDI track (we use Drum Tracker for this) and then use Superior 2 and ProTools to re-create the kick (and adjust/tweak some kicks in between, of course) only. So we have the MIDI tracks of the kick and I was just wondering if there are any “best-of” tips that you gurus can contribute. For example how to re-create the realistic sound and feel of the kick … for example when there’s a double-kick line in progress I usually set the MIDI velocity of the first kick to 92 and of the second one to 104 and stuff like that – because I don’t want that in the end the kick will sound like a constant drum machine. What is the recommended MIDI velocity range that you use? And what span do you use – is it like for example from 90-94 or from 90-120? I did read on the forum that it is not the best option to use velocities above 120 so I did limit mine to this value. However I still think that the kick sound is “too metallic”. I use Sonor SQ2 18×22″ kick (from Metal Foundry) with The Facer (from Studio-something default presets)…
I mean in general I just wanted to know what rules do you follow when creating (or trying to) real-human-feel drums with Superior 2 using MIDIs.
Many thanks for any inputs.
Regards!
