Drumprogramming and the sound of the 1176
Yesterday, with the comments about fast tempo in mind, i programmed a little beat with the ezDrummer plug in with several variations. The tempo is 148 bpm 
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Nice, but not too interesting… so i put my favourite drum-smash-compressor on it (an 1176 clone with “all buttons in mode”) cut the deep bass, added a 909 kick and some other sounds and that is the result
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Listen to what the 1176 clone compressor does to the drums and the reverb of the drum-room and you might understand why compressors are amongst my favourite tools. I always liked this smashed drumsound which reminds of led zepplin and is used in small doses in most harder rock mixes. You might notice a similarity concerning the drumsound to a track in the 90s with a sample about “women and kids” 
but in those days i only used sample-loops which already were slammed. I didnt know about the right tools to make such a sound by myself. Today with a 1176 clone and a great drumsampler like ezDrummer i make my own loops
BTW: I am really looking forward for toontrack to release Superior 2.0 this june - its the BIG version of ezDrummer and will shure make me programming drums for days
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20. May 2008 at 13:01
Nice,
this somehow reminds me of that one:
http://www.kewlers.scene.org/bitchard/tunes/Little_Bitchard_-_Schooled_in_the_Methods_of_Murder.mp3
Btw, its taken from this pc demo:
http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=31735
20. May 2008 at 13:15
Hey Rolf,
deine neuen Sachen gefallen mir echt verdammt gut!! Bin schon riesig gespannt auf das Album!
Danke!!
20. May 2008 at 18:03
What about some 303 sounds? That would be cool. Did you ever put some really present acid in your tracks? I just can’t rememberfor the moment. Well, or maybe, you just don’t like it…
20. May 2008 at 20:50
you didnt hear a lot of 303-sounds in my stuff as the first “wave” of such sounds brought a lot of low-talented noisy stuff to the “scene”… i talk about early/mid-90s…
of course there were artists and songs i already admired… hardfloor comes to mind or “music is a polished crown…” (a little quiz… what song do i mean ?) but the majority of “acid” tracks with lots of “303″ during the 90s was not meant for MY pleasure…
but as you might see in the next days/weeks i am not too fond of using sounds which already had a lot of use in the dance scene… id rather record some blown bottles through lots of effect-devices or so… we´ll see soon
20. May 2008 at 23:25
Turkish Bazar… The music was new, black, polished chrome and came over the summer like liquid night…?
21. May 2008 at 08:54
21. May 2008 at 20:07
cmps are great tools, and of course one of my favs too. great programming!
i use the 1176 in all my drumbusses…
oh no rolf u seduced me once again to buy a new toy
i watched some vids in youtube and ezdrummer seems to be very nice
22. May 2008 at 12:45
..and there even is a cool bundle with waves renaissance maxx… although the renaissance eq + compressor are not the up-to-date processors full of character like waves API, SSL or the UAD stuff they are good workhorses. And the renaissance bass is often used by me to seperate a bass from a kickdrum… The Ren. Vox is a go-to compressor for Vocals AND lead synths for example… But the best part is that youll get the Impulse Response Reverb IR-L with the full IR-1 library with it… this is my main reverb for all stereo sources and natural reverb
19. August 2008 at 14:33
how does it sound compared to the 1176LN plugin? is it worth using the hw clone ?
08. June 2009 at 08:31
especially if you slam it (using a lot of compression) or if you go into saturation or even distortion, there is a significant differance to plug ins… a good budget solution might be using a plug in for compression and a simple but good piece of hardware for saturation…