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Ok. Groupbuy has hit 16. Everyone who has participated will get at least 20 bucks back, and everyone who buys before the 14th will get the same.
another user review posted in another thread:
"I'm a 20 year old LA Recording School student and aspiring mix engineer. I can honestly say that I'm a pretty good mixer but I've always noticed that I don't get nearly as powreful drum sounds as the stuff you hear on the radio mixed by guys like Chris Lorde Alge. I've tried compression, parallel compression, everything. After hearing about the use of drum samples, I got DFH. Still I found that the drum sounds weren't as big sounding as my favorite bands like Deftones, Tool, Breaking Benjamin, and Chevelle. So then I got BFD and started to sample those sounds. I thought it was a step down from DFH. Finally I asked my classmate who interns with some producers to tell me where the hell everyone gets the good sounding drum samples. He told me his boss bought some samples from some guy named Steven Slate. As soon as I heard that name I knew that I had seen this guy posting around gearslutz.
Sure enough I go on here and see this thread and listen to the demos and I knew immediately that these are the sounds that I need to get the big radio sounds. So I email Steven and ask him how long it takes to ship a sample CD, and he tells me since I'm in LA I can come and pick it up!! So I go to his studio and he takes time out of doing a mix to talk to me about mixing and answers my page worth of stupid questions. Very Cool! And it gets better. He allowed me to load one of my mixes on his system so he could give me specific pointers and basically unveiled a huge low end problem that I'm having which he told me to correct by using a sub. I probably learned more in 20 minutes talking to Steven then I have all this time at school.
So after throwing a Blue Sky 2.1 system on the old plastic, I go home, load up a mix, and start going through the drum samples using Aptrigga. Oh my Lord these are the sounds people! I was honestly afraid that they wouldn't sound as big as they do in the demos but I was wrong, they sound amazing! I now have the tools I need to really get mixes ultra pro sounding. With the Z2 samples I can also stop using cheesy plugin reverb on my snare because it sounds way better. So thats my story. I just want to thank Steven for being a great guy and for taking the time to help me. And to anyone who wants pro drum sounds like the stuff you hear on every major release, this is it. I wasted my money on other stuff but I don't even care any more because I'm so happy that my mixes are finally there!!"
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