F.A.Q. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

These are a few answers to questions that were previously asked by people who purchased my library

Did you sample the drums yourself?

Yes, I picked and sampled the drums myself using Cool Edit Pro (Audition) on M-audio BX8a studio monitors.

If so, were they drums sampled from vinyl?

Now In TUNE Kits contains both samples from vinyl, digital materials and even live studio drums.


Have the drums been processed using outboard eq/compression etc, or are they the raw original drums?

They are the raw original drums used in the piece of music they were cut from (the music I've sampled the drums from varies from HIP-HOP, R&B, Rock, Soul, Foreign Soundtracks, Jazz and maybe others) they have only the effects the original drums had.
I haven't applied any destructive effects like equalization or compression on the samples - just a simple normalization and very rarely a sensitive noise reduction.
I think adding no other effects is the way to go because some drums work in your mix just like that with the original compression and over-compression is a thing you want to avoid. Also, I didn't used equalization because for every single mix you will mostly use slightly different EQ parameters for that particular drum sound.

Did you tune the kits yourself?

I analyzed/established the pitch for every single sound.
But I did not pitched them to reach a certain note - not even one single sound got tuned like that, they are in the original keys they were played in - there is absolutely no pitching involved, not even a few cents.

SO when I am selecting drums for my tracks, I can match up my kicks, hi-hats, snares etc. all with the same note using this library?


Yes, you can match your kicks with the same note as the hi-hats and snare. But, you will get nice results by matching the kick to the root key of the song and then the others percussion elements with different notes which are in the musical scale of the song. So, when you have a beat which has a trumpet/horn that strikes on the 3rd and 7th note of the beat maybe you will want the snare to be in tune with that because it will sound better. Anyway, it's all about being in the scale of the song with the drums you pick. The "root key rule " could be the best when applied for the kicks.

How many snares, kicks etc are in each note group? For example, in A# how many kicks would there be in your kit?

There's not a fixed number - they are plenty for each key. Just for your particular example, there are 641 kicks in A#.

I made a screenshot to better understand the way the library is organized and how you could use it in a DAW like FL Studio for example:
(click on the image to enlarge)