favourite plugins for drums

[flipmodea]

Curious to find out what plugins all you G.S use on each individual drum tracks when mixing drums in your daw.

If you want to post, state what style of music you produce.

[Protools Guy]

I've been diggin' the Waves SSL Channel Strip!

[matthew.sawicki]

Fairchild 660 all the way!

I usually use some Filterbank, Smack, Impact, and the BF76.

Nothing too crazy.

You can check out a mix of mine at http://www.suburbanprostudios.com/Corey Hame NEW.mp3, lemme know whatcha think!

[smalltownjon]

The URS classic console channel strip on drum buss. Check out the drum buss 3 preset. Set the threshold to taste tweak the EQ and holy moly you're rockin.

Hard punch from the kick and snare. I'd leave the toms out of the drum buss. they tend to throw off the compressor. I like them nice and loud and will use Waves R-channel on individual drums.

Waves R-verb can get you some great gated verb sounds that sound nice slightly added to the tail end of a snare to really make it pop.

Jon Leaf

[ejsongs]

the drawmer comp. nothing in pt can make snares hit as hard.

especially for hip hop and r&b.

ej

[magellan]

for drums i usually go OTB for EQ and compression, but routinely use plug-ins for gates and sometimes the voxengo analogflux tapebus for room mics/FOK.
and, of course, drumagog if sound replacing is needed...

[Raggedy]

Massey. Pretty much all of them. Especially Tape Head and/or CT4 on the drum bus, vt3 or occasionally L2007 on individuals, and the distortion box for some fun.

[Autocrat]

PSP VintageWarmer2 - Speed 20, Drive 2, Release 1x

[Blue May]

another thumbsupthumbsup for vintage warmer

[jchadstopherhuez]

agooddrummerinator 5000 its brand new...check it.

seriously though...i have always liked what mcdsp's analog channel can do. using the tape channel, a bit of roll off at the right spot puts a nice thump in the kick and toms.

i also have been using crane song phoenix alot..esp on overheads and subgroup busses.
sometimes the massey tape head plug works wonders too. what great plugs !!!

damn..i am finally digging drums on digital....

plus, its so cool to hear the same thing on playback that heard while tracking...!!!

[Bounce]

For rock stuff and often other styles (right now I'm mixing a major hip hop record) I definitely LOVE the Impact plug in for parallel compression. I like Tape Head on some individual things for sure. I use the BF1176 on snare sometimes. Sometimes I'll use the Digi dynamics 3 comp. I often use the Digi EQ 3 for track eq's when I want more surgical stuff. Other EQ's for vibe. I often use the BF Pultec EQ's. I really like those!

:-)

[84K]

I like little or no compression on the ITB drum buss. I am not too hot on plugin compression, (when I am allowed) I enjoy the luxury of doing the compression I like when I track, so faders up and it sounds like a record.

[RoundBadge]

Massey[all]
Mcdsp
URS
Digi reeltape/delay
Phoenix
UA
Izotope trash
Sansamp
Echoboy
Drumagog

usually a combo of these w/outboard stuff.

[Igotsoul4u]

compressor bank.

[santibanks]

All freebies but I think very good:

Fishfillets Blockfish
Luxonix LFX-4 numbers (1315 or something like that I believe)
SSL Buscompressor (the free one)

[deve]

Golden Gate... it's for free and you can side chain them.. It's very useful if you are working native.

[CKK]

Just call me crazy but(t) I do like the channelstrip from nomadfactory's blue tube bundle on drums.

And blockfish rocks on snare.

OTB I love my gyratec X.

[doorknocker]

Usually one of these or a combination tehreof as first insert on the drum bus :

- DUY DaD Tape
- Digi Comp III
- Digi LoFi
- BF Fairchild

Filterbank E6 and BF Pultec both on individual tracks and the drum bus.

- Digi Delays
- BF Tel-Ray
- Sony Oxford Reverb (EMT 250 model mostly)

[slaves666]

on the channels Waves SSL Strip and buss UAD Fairchild and Pultec. If I need samples Drumagog gets in there too.

[pigpen]

Buss-Analog Channel and outboard

Channels-Waves SSL strip, Digi Tape, MDW, Chandler Eq's, and outboard...oh and I use a combo of Revibe, Revolver, DVerb, etc for verbs, watever sounds best.

I think I need an SSL console at this point! Love the smack....or is it crack?

[stevetgn]

At the risk of sounding arogant, and I really don't mean to because I ain't one myself, but its interesting that most of the real hi-end pro's on this forum haven't replied to this thread. Can we then take it that at the real pro-end no-one uses plugs for drums but use the real thing instead?

[Matt Smith]

Originally Posted by pigpen

I think I need an SSL console at this point!

I think you do, too.

Matt

[pigpen]

Originally Posted by stevetgn

At the risk of sounding arogant, and I really don't mean to because I ain't one myself, but its interesting that most of the real hi-end pro's on this forum haven't replied to this thread. Can we then take it that at the real pro-end no-one uses plugs for drums but use the real thing instead?

I see a couple of names on here already that are pretty high end man. I also happen to have a few friends that are pretty high on the totem pole that use alot of plugs themselves. One in particular that owns an SSL and an API and once tracking is done, he uses plugs exclusively.
(Not trying to start the whole a vs d debate, just a comment on your reply.)
I say use whatever gets you the results you are looking for.

[stevetgn]

Originally Posted by pigpen

(Not trying to start the whole a vs d debate, just a comment on your reply.)
.

You're right lets not go there, It'll never end lol!

I'm definetly in the hardware camp though. NO STOP> I SAID I WOULDN'T GO THERE ARH!tutt

[allencollins]

Originally Posted by Protools Guy

I've been diggin' the Waves SSL Channel Strip!

yeah

[Brad McGowan]

For the guy using Voxengo Tapebus on FOK... I find that things get all phasey when using Tapebus on only a portion of the drum mics since it really screws with the phase of the source sound. Tapebus seems to work better on the whole drum submix. Parallell use of it is definitely screwy. I even recall the designer advising against the use of it in parallel because of how it changes the phase relationships. How do you make it work?

Brad

[edIT]

For Compressing the Drum Bus: Sonalksis SV-315 MK II
For EQing Kicks & Snares: URS N12 or URS A10
For coloring drums: Triton Color Tone Pro & Izotope Trash

[catfish11]

mmmm...

suprised no one else,

sony dynamics, w gate, warmth
cranesong phoenix
tapehead
waves ssl channelstrip

eventide reverb on snare, it has delays too, o boy!!

[catfish11]

oooppps, drumagog

[drumkideric]

I love the sony oxford eq, fairchild 670, and PSP Vintage Warmer.