You won’t regret trying out this drum plugin, after all, Afroplug is giving this wonderful music tool out for free. In fact, when it comes to African style Afrobeats, I haven’t yet seen any free drum Vst that is better than this one. There are also some essential global effects like hi-pass and low-pass filters, panner for each sample, etc and my favourite among these global effects is the Saturation effect, which can give your drum mix a catchy texture. If a sound bank of samples is great in all of these three areas above, then it’s quality is pretty unquestionable. It has high quality drum samples which sound good on Monitors, Headphones, and even Hi-fi speakers. I have spent hours on this free “Afroplugin – Drum Vst,” trying out the various sounds and presets, and I can fully assure everybody that it is a great tool when it comes to producing drum beats of different genres, from Afrobeats to Reggae, Hip-hop, RnB, Funk, and even GOSPEL, etc. Learn more about how your favorite artists created their signature sounds in our ongoing What's That Sound? series.Usually the first question people think about when it comes to a “freebie” is the question: “is it any good?” Or “does it produce high quality sound?” How close did we get to the original? Watch the full video above. The kick drum-a blanket-muffled Ludwig Vistalite mic'd with a Neumann U 47 FET with the front head removed-was played with a soft beater.

That unmistakable reggae snare sound-courtesy of a Yamaha Jimmy Chamberline Signature snare close-mic'd with a Beyerdynamic M201)-was created by removing the bottom head and the snares, stuffing it with a piece of acoustic foam, and tuning the top head as high as possible.įor the two toms, we relied once again on out our trusty 13' and 16' Gretsch rack and floor, each mic'd with a Sennheiser 421 and dampened by towels. We highlight this by placing the overheads (this time, a pair of AKG 451s) in close proximity to the cymbals (a pair of 13' UFIP hi-hats), only about six inches away from the sound source. When it came to tracking the kit for this particular episode, isolation and precise stereo panning was where it's at-as a percussionist, Barrett's style was all about syncopation, flashy fills, and plenty of emphasis on the hi-hats.

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