[Vlad Kuzmenko]

Mart wrote:

My 2p – if you lean towards rock then obvs its Fields of Rock. Hitmaker is definitely on the poppier side of things and a bit cleaner. Looking at these and the newer ones they’ve dropped recently we’re kinda spoilt, right?

To OP – both foundry SDX mentioned are showing their age a little now… still great but creaking a little. I would maybe give it a day or so and see if one of the Area SDX gets put into the sale. Death and Darkness is on sale but not part of the Black Friday deals so it’s not that much off but still worth a look.

In the end I bought Prog and Metal Foundry, my reasoning being that I often see SDX for 100€ but rarely see them for 50€, I wanted to buy them for a while too and Metal Foundry is just pure personality despite being from like 2009. That super raw sound I don’t think I can get it from Fields of Rock.

What do you think I’m missing out compared to the new libraries? Mostly what I’m concerned about is resolution, you know, I wouldn’t want to have crashes that sound low quality because it’s an older library. But tbh, I can’t really hear an obvious downgrade in quality..

[Vlad Kuzmenko]

Mart wrote:

To OP – both foundry SDX mentioned are showing their age a little now… still great but creaking a little. I would maybe give it a day or so and see if one of the Area SDX gets put into the sale. Death and Darkness is on sale but not part of the Black Friday deals so it’s not that much off but still worth a look.

Tbh I wouldn’t buy Area 33 SDX based off the sample sounds on the web. Fields of Rock has a lot of variety. If you think SD3 SDX quality jump from SD2 SDX is big enough, then I’ll go for Fields of Rock. I’m just nostalgic for the old sounds of Metal Foundry and Progressive is a library I’ve wanted to have since I saw it release, but never got to buy it because I couldn’t afford Superior Drummer back then.

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