HOW TO MAKE KILLER METAL DRUMS IN SUPERIOR DRUMMER 3

[@honeycoreinfant]

This is the type of video that makes a textbook example of how a tutorial should be: concise without leaving any of the important details out of the video. Really great and inspiring stuff!

[@Earth-Worm-Tim]

Yes, my previous workflow in devloping a drum track is to embarassing to explain lol. Switching from EZD3 to SD3 was like thinking I was bad ass because I learned the Mr. Crowley solo, so I decided I was ready for Perpetual Burn hahahahahaha. The amount of options had me so F'd up for the first few weeks, but with this video I have since optimized my workflow.

[@Earth-Worm-Tim]

Dude, thank you so much for creating this mini tutorial on SD3. I love this freaking channel man, and I wanted to send this small "Super Thanks" as a demonstration of my gratitude for you making this AWESOME video tutorial 🤘

[@TaylorDanley]

Thank you dude!🙏

[@thebunn]

I appreciate that you don't make every drum sound like a kick drum as is so common in the majority of heavy music.

[@TaylorDanley]

HEY BUNN!!! Yes, I know exactly what you mean! I actually ended up going this route with Superior Drummer just to streamline my workflow, but when I got in and really started dialing I was stoked that you can get really good sounding kits that sound like ACTUAL drum kits and not just machine gun samples all the time lol.

[@NotaCerealKiller]

The worst part of modern metal is the homogeneity of the sounds. It's one giant block of sound. The entire kit sounds the same. All the guitars blend into each other. So muddy. I really, really appreciate it when people break that mold.

[@toontrack]

Awesome, Taylor!

[@geraldbayley5781]

That amp wall is amazing

[@TaylorDanley]

It's also a liability, one day my wife is going to find me dead under an amp avalanche..

[@jeremyschiesser7086]

Use the envelope and offset on the right panel to kill the long decay on those big boomy roomy kicks. It leaves the transient as is

[@Earth-Worm-Tim]

I love this channel man. I recently did the crossgrade from EZDrummer3 to Superior Drummer 3 after your last video explaining why you switched (which is synonymous with my interests in post-production), but DAMN..... THERE IS A LEARNING CURVE! The amount of additional "tweak-ability" is straight up option overload dude. Thanks for this video bro, it helped me to change my workflow to a more productive progression of a drum track than what I was doing. If you're wanting to learn how to program NO BS drum tracks at the highest level then I strongly recommend just jumping in the fire and learning SD3 dude. Be the kid that told John Wayne he didn't know how to swim bro lol 🤘

[@bazzzzz6175]

Great video, mate. Killer sounding kit. The Black Metal preset in SD3 is my starting point for (almost) everything! And I don't play anything approaching black metal lol

[@mikesmith1290]

That sounds way better than what I’ve concocted. I have a monster 18 piece E kit, with 3 modules. It’ll be a pain to redo my whole kit, but it’ll be way worth it!

[@KPGuitarStudios]

Sounds really good man, nothing like some good tweakability when you need it

[@TaylorDanley]

Definitely helps!

[@KPGuitarStudios]

@@TaylorDanley Nothing worse than trying to dial something in and running short of adjustment. You always want some headroom, at least something left

[@barryprosser1370]

Hell yeah! Great partnership 🤘🤘🤘

[@MatthewBlackMetal]

The amp wall is siiiiiicccckkkkk!!!

[@billiondollarclownfarm]

Extremely helpful video, this rules thank you so much

[@DarioGrillo]

Hi Taylor ! Which is the best for metal drums kit ezdrummer 2 or 3 or superior drummer?

[@SweatyBush_04]

Sick af with the detail

[@SephirothLP]

Finally upgrade to SD3... and to start with it and get a feeling I was watching your video, reacreating step by step everything and then I noticed on 13:35 that I don't get any signals on X-Snare and pretty much can't find a way to get it... already searched the internet for a solution... so yeah... I don't know why a second (or even more added snares to the stack) are just not making any sound or are not triggered by the midi samples at least. Any ideas?

[@TaylorDanley]

Speed writing : Death Metal workshop www.patreon.com/taylordanley/shop/speed-writing-death-metal-46186?Link& Those Asking For the Preset file, it's here in my Discord > discord.com/channels/582784418045886484/1047960118358188112

[@seventhraven2745]

Im having trouble with the discord link. Is it a group I have to join first or something?

[@bjquebedeaux3597]

That Deviant guitar is too fucking sick!🤘

[@jesseparrish9198]

I'm surprised to see you still have that randall rg head sitting backthere.

[@TaylorDanley]

It might be for sale, I know I took pictures of it, just can't remember if I listed it.

[@BrainDeadTX]

Please please share the preset file 🙏🙏 this sounds amazing!

[@TaylorDanley]

Check the pinned comment!

[@BrainDeadTX]

@@TaylorDanleyjoined, thank you! 🤘

[@dawidpysznik4155]

Any chance you could share the preset please?

[@TaylorDanley]

Check the pinned comment!

[@becominghuman3561]

I’ve tried so many drum libraries and nothing compares to Superior. I can’t unhear the “machine gunning” on fast playing on other libraries. Even GGD and Mixwave has it

[@TaylorDanley]

I agree. Don't get me wrong there are a lot of good ones out there, but when you look at the whole... there's just not anything that has all the features and sounds as authentic as SD3 IMO

[@Zareh_Abrahamian]

I also use SD3 and this very kit with my tweaks, etc. Do you ever feel the need to export certain drum elements into your DAW, say, kick and snare, to further process with other plugins or do you think the included plugins in the SD3 mixer do the job. I ask this, since the mixer is so complicated that it is hard to figure out which channels should one export to get say, the whole of the snare on one audio track in the DAW. In drum mixing videos of other drum plugins you see there is one channel that you can export to a track in your DAW, but this is not that obvious in SD3, especially with this kit.

[@TaylorDanley]

I try to do that as little as possible. TBH, the mixing portion would probably be easier that way if I was doing it from scratch, but typically I just find something that is close to what I'm looking for and tweak slightly so I can avoid mixing outside the plugin. I do however route out the kick so I can side chain it to my bass track - that's a whole other topic!

[@Zareh_Abrahamian]

@@TaylorDanley Thanks for the reply Taylor. We tend to worry too much regarding our mixes. It is good to see fellow metalheads also trying to keep it simple. I am more into adding parallel comp to the snare and a bit also to the kick. Side chaining is not a priority for my style of metal. Without exporting the individual elements I have to add it to the whole drum bus which affects the cymbals negatively. This way I have to do it parsimoniously.

[@guitarandmore69]

I've seen many of your videos, and I think you're great. For some reason I thought you sounded like Kermit at the beginning of this video. Maybe it's my phone? 😂

[@TaylorDanley]

It's not easy being green...

[@perforations6234]

curious, is there also some mastering plugin active while we hear the drumsounds?

[@JUNK_ZONE]

I can't speak for the guy, but I know some people tend to have a simple set up going (the ol "top down mixing" thing), but that probably isn't going to change all that much without the rest of the mix present.

[@dravennoire]

that shirt is siicckkkk

[@nealpolitan_6th]

is there a preset file?

[@eddiewayne9995]

Link to video?

[@TaylorDanley]

Thank you, I totally forgot! Pinned comment.

[@h4ndrix]

So, Toontrack wants you to write music but this was fiddling with tones for 13 minutes 😭

[@Abruzzo333]

Tone is everything in music. Without it, things just sound generic.

[@chriseraphim]

Bro I fiddle with tones for hours or days even at times :) sound design is important. It's work sure but helps to get a far more accurate sound to what you're trying to do.