Creating a Fat Snare in Superior Drummer 3

[@hummarstraful]

That sounds good. Another way I like is to simply dupe the snare track, take the dupe track and low pass around 100-200Hz then mix it into first track.

[@willytonezone]

Interesting! Do you do any more mixing on it after that?

[@hummarstraful]

@@willytonezone I got the idea from this Joseph Puig video at about the 3 minute mark. Yes, I'll do more mixing if the snare needs it to cut through. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJ2Wmp-QasZ1mKs

[@willytonezone]

@@hummarstraful dam thanks for the reference I will check this out!

[@devendasmusic]

Huge kick man!

[@willytonezone]

Thank you! Hope you learned something and can apply it to your songs.

[@wandajames143]

Great!

[@tendingtropic7778]

that mega snare, is it in the core library? and thanks for the copy/paste trick for the rimshot, very handy!

[@willytonezone]

It is in fact in the core library! I downloaded all the SD3 libraries but it should come in the basic sound library. Awesome yeah! that's a sweet little hidden efficiency trick.

[@wandajames143]

I wish you had these as presets

[@willytonezone]

I know you commented on my cymbal video. That video has the preset! Let me know if it works for you

[@danielo174]

Great video. Any ideas of how to get a tambourine sound to work as a finger drummer on superior drummer? The future hit thing is no use for actual physical playing. I just want to replace my snare hits with tambourine hits for my song. I contacted Toontrack but i think tehy are telling me there is no way to play percussion in Superior Drummer. Any thoughts?

[@willytonezone]

Thank you. They do have a tambourine in superior Drummer from what I remember so you would just need to map that tambourine to the midi note that you are triggering with your pad. Does that make sense? Let me know

[@JimboJones99]

Can you recreate the drum sounds from the song Lightning Crashes by Live?

[@willytonezone]

Sure if that’s something you would like I can try and figure it out for ya!

[@justinanthony7641]

Which drum plug in do you think is best between superior drummer 3 and GGD?

[@willytonezone]

I think ggd has really good punchy out of the box sounds where as Superior Drummer is more customizable and you have to layer other samples to get something “fat” sounding. They both kind of have their pros but on my metal and pop punk mixes recently I have been using ggd. But anything else I pull up Superior Drummer.

[@DVTOM]

My Black Beauty in the beginning doesn't sound anything like that...hmm

[@willytonezone]

Hm it’s possible that it might be deeper than the one in the video. This was a 4x14. Usually they are like 6.5x14.

[@wandajames143]

What are you doing with the effects in ableton?

[@willytonezone]

I do have a little mix chain going on the whole kits track. I explain it in the Creating a massive kick video. Multiband, eq, and glue compressor.

[@wandajames143]

@@willytonezone great stuff. Keep it up! Thank you for your work!

[@b1j]

You seem to know how to get results with SD3. However, your video is not helpful to me because i don’t even know how to play the drums to sample the sound. What controller are you using? Is it a e-drum set, a MIDI pad like an Atom, or something else?

[@willytonezone]

I actually don’t play the drums I just drop grooves into Ableton from the Superior Drummer 3 Grooves tab. Otherwise I just draw them in. It takes some practice but there’s a good handful of tutorials online that will teach you the art of how drums can be played.

[@willytonezone]

Also if you right click on the snare you can pull up a preview pad where it will bring up a view of a pad that you can click. Or you can just click the snare drum to hear it out. I don’t use midi controllers unless I’m recording somebody else playing an electronic drum kit.

[@mldscott23]

Would you consider sharing your preset?

[@willytonezone]

Yes. I posted it in the description and comment section of this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJ25lJmciNxqndE

[@upryamyiezhik8]

Hello! Where can I find this Punchy Kick? What exactly do you need to download???!!! Tell!!!!!!!

[@willytonezone]

You might need to get download the extra superior Drummer 3 libraries to get punchy kick. It does come with sd3 you just might have to go further with the download packs.