Velocities in Hitmaker vs SD3 Default vs Hansa Etc

[peter knight]

I own SD3, Hitmaker, Fields Of Rock and Hansa SDXs

 

All great in their own ways…

 

Why are the velocities that drive these differenent sounds across the range, so varied?

 

Its particularly noticeable if you record something with your ekit (in my case TD17 and my partners TD30) that will sound fine using SD3 Default kits, and to a lesser extent Hansa, and Fields Of Rock… but using Hitmaker its like THOR is playing the drums..  LOL….

This is using both the TD30 and the TD17 in their default configuration and using the appropriate presets for those e kits within SD3.

Anyone found a reasonable work around for this sort of issues….

It would be nice to get midi from my partner, that can be used without massive amounts of manipulation across all the SDXs

 

thanks in advance

 

Peter

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.4
Operating system: macOS Monterey (12)

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[Damian Blunt]

Superior Drummer 3 was intentionally recorded ultra clean with very transparent pre-amps. Rooms of Hansa, Fields of Rock and Hitmaker all have varying amounts of saturation and compression from the console pre-amps, tape emulation hardware in the case of Fields of Rock or real tape for the the Hitmaker. Additionally many of the Hitmaker presets have a lot of compression on the ambience mics.

If you listen to only the close and overhead mics of the different SDX’s the velocity response should be very similar

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[peter knight]

Thanks so much for taking the time to reply.

 

When I use these kits from these different SDXs I am always using them as dry as I can in there most natural state. Most often as a “clean kit”.

 

Thing is , Hitmaker is really different. I will re check today and post some examples.

 

thanks again

 

Peter

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.4
Operating system: macOS Monterey (12)

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