Various VST examples - Fool In The Rain

[scd]

The Andy Johns kits sound great. There such a perfect room sound and detail to the drums that sounds better to me than all the others.
Peter

[Joe_K]

Rail, those sound great again. Really appropriate for that classic kind of heavy rock mix. That Black Beauty sounds like a gunshot!

[grandaddy]

Fantastic thread Joe - I really think it demonstrates the different colours you can get from the current vsti's out there - they all sound great to me and I can see how they all can work in their own context

[Joe_K]

I just updated the Platinum Sample Evil Drum mixes in the top post. The ones I had before were EQ'd too brightly, had a little bit of clipping during a snare fill, needed some velocity curve adjustments and underwent a bit of general remixing.

[eDrummist]

I just wanted to say thanks to Joe K for creating this thread and putting in the work that enable us to compare the various drum sample libraries -- and a thank you to everyone else who has contributed to the audio clips here. This is a really useful and interesting project/thread.

[hcantu]

After hearing the clips of the original demo recordings (showed by Amonline at page 2 of this thread) on http://www.saladrecords.com/bonhamfiles.htm ,

what I hear that makes most of the drum sound of John BOnham is the room sound.
Not that much what kind of drums he uses (Ludwig, supraphonic, whatever), tuning, etc......
I mean, yeah, it does matter a bit, but not as much as the room.
Those ambience mics are used a lot in order to capture that BIG room sound where Bonham's drums were recorded.

I had the chance to play my drums in a big big room, and the sound is very similar......I'm not saying exactly like it; but what I'm saying is that I think the big room is the most important thing of John Bonham's sound.

Well at least that is my opinion, but I may be wrong....I'm no expert.