Yellow Matter Steven Slate Drums 2 Platinum Edition Drum Suite
SOUND
First and foremost is the sound. Steven has sold drum samples to some of the country's top mixers. His samples are big, fat, and punchy sounding. The samples have been thoroughly tweaked and tested in actual mixes within various musical styles. Where many drum sample discs are very raw and unprocessed, Steven Slate drum samples have been eq'd and compressed with precision so that you can put them in a mix and simply throw the fader up. Little to no tweaking is necessary, the work has been done, the sound is already there.
OPTIONS
Another unique feature is Z system. Every single drum sample set is processed in one of four ambient spaces. For instance, Z1 mono sets are sampled so that there is slight amount of overhead micing creating a three dimensional, airy, punchy, natural drum tone. Z2 sets are stereo samples, and have heavily compressed far room mics mixed in with closer mics, and the result is a larger then life, deep and fat sound that has great dimension even in thick rock mixes. Z3 mono sets are very dry and are not processed with any ambient mics, creating a sound that is ultra punchy and “in your face”. These sets are great with most punk and speed metal mixing. The new Z4 sample sets are the isolated room sound of each sample. Mixing a Z1 with its Z4 sample will create an unbelievabley 3D drum tone that will have anyone believe your drums were recorded in a beautiful sounding drum room.
On many sample CDs, a particular drum is sampled with one sound. However, any drummer knows that different sounds can be had from a drum by tuning the drum at certain tensions, by dampening and undampening the drum, by using different drum heads, or by tightening and loosing the snares. Steven Slate Drums makes use of all these wonderful sounds, and many of the drums are sampled with different tunings, different heads, and different dampenings. For instance, a pop rock song will probably require a low tuned, long decaying, non ringing snare drum sound. A hard rock tune might require a high tuned, quick decaying, open sounding snare drum with a touch of natural shell ring.
DRUMS ARE DONE
Steven Slate has used his crafy drum mixing techniques to make the most polished, "finished", ready for the mix drum samples that you will ever hear. Partial gear list includes products by NEVE, Neotek, API, DBX, SSL, TRIDENT, DISTRESSOR, UNIVERSAL AUDIO, ROLL MUSIC, PULTEC, and more. You can read about EVERY drum sample set by clicking here
DRUMS THAT YOUR FAVORITE MIXERS USE
The ELITE MIXER EDITION collection is a custom collection that Steven Slate made for various top industry mixers. Pieces of this collection can be found in BOTH the PLATINUM and LE 2.0 Signature drum packs. These drums were made for and beta tested by these mixers, and the result is some of the punchiest, fattest, most versatile sounding drums you'll ever hear.
MODELED DRUMS??
Everyone has their favorite drum sounds. Some of these sounds are from bands like Nirvana, Metallica, AC/DC, Dream Theater, Deftones, Led Zeppelin, and more. Steven painstakingly modeled these classic sounds and offers them in the newest update, STEVEN SLATE DRUMS 2.0 SIGNATURE DRUMKITS.
FORMATS
There are four kinds of people who can use Steven Slate Drums. The first is programmers and composers who demand finished, realistic, and huge sounding drums for their music. The second is professional mixers who need to replace or augment exisiting drum tracks using the included GOG and WAV samples. The third are users of FXPansion's BFD software, who can use the upcoming BFD expansion pack (release due this summer). The fourth is Roland Vdrums users who want to add a huge drum locker of 37 snares, 26 kicks, 8 sets of toms, and a wide array of cymbals to their VDrum library (release due this summer).
Overall, besides the tremendous amount of amazing sounds, you will also get VARIETY. From the drum sound itself, to its room sound, to its tuning, to its gear chain, you will be sure to have a lot of fun deciding how to craft the drum sound in your mix. Be ready to get drum sounds that will blow your mind. Also included is a tutorial from Steven about techniques for mixing in drum samples to already recorded drums in ways that will create an ultra natural drum sound.
