HOW TO MAKE KILLER METAL DRUMS IN SUPERIOR DRUMMER 3

For Toontrack's Metal Month I'm going to show you how I use some of their products in my own workflow when I create brutal death metal tracks for my band and this channel, first up, how to get a good death metal drum sound FAST!

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0:00 Why Superior Drummer 3?
1:57 Choosing Drum Tones
3:30 Using Stacks To Layer Drums
11:32 Mixing the drums for more brutality
16:15 Final Result

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[honeycoreinfant]

This is the type of video that makes a textbook example of how a tutorial should be: concise without leaving any of the important details out of the video. Really great and inspiring stuff!

[Earth-Worm-Tim]

Dude, thank you so much for creating this mini tutorial on SD3. I love this freaking channel man, and I wanted to send this small "Super Thanks" as a demonstration of my gratitude for you making this AWESOME video tutorial 🤘

[thebunn]

I appreciate that you don't make every drum sound like a kick drum as is so common in the majority of heavy music.

[jeremyschiesser]

Use the envelope and offset on the right panel to kill the long decay on those big boomy roomy kicks. It leaves the transient as is

[Earth-Worm-Tim]

I love this channel man. I recently did the crossgrade from EZDrummer3 to Superior Drummer 3 after your last video explaining why you switched (which is synonymous with my interests in post-production), but THERE IS A LEARNING CURVE! The amount of additional "tweak-ability" is straight up option overload dude. Thanks for this video bro, it helped me to change my workflow to a more productive progression of a drum track than what I was doing. If you're wanting to learn how to program NO BS drum tracks at the highest level then I strongly recommend just jumping in the fire and learning SD3 dude. Be the kid that told John Wayne he didn't know how to swim bro lol 🤘

[mikesmith]

That sounds way better than what I’ve concocted. I have a monster 18 piece E kit, with 3 modules. It’ll be a pain to redo my whole kit, but it’ll be way worth it!

[bazzzzz]

Great video, mate.
Killer sounding kit.
The Black Metal preset in SD3 is my starting point for (almost) everything!

And I don't play anything approaching black metal lol

[KPGuitarStudios]

Sounds really good man, nothing like some good tweakability when you need it

[bjquebedeaux]

That Deviant guitar is too fucking sick!🤘

[billiondollarclownfarm]

Extremely helpful video, this rules thank you so much

[becominghuman]

I’ve tried so many drum libraries and nothing compares to Superior.

I can’t unhear the “machine gunning” on fast playing on other libraries. Even GGD and Mixwave has it

[jesseparrish]

I'm surprised to see you still have that randall rg head sitting backthere.

[dawidpysznik]

Any chance you could share the preset please?

[DarioGrillo]

Hi Taylor !
Which is the best for metal drums kit ezdrummer 2 or 3 or superior drummer?

[SephirothLP]

Finally upgrade to SD3... and to start with it and get a feeling I was watching your video, reacreating step by step everything and then I noticed on 13:35 that I don't get any signals on X-Snare and pretty much can't find a way to get it... already searched the internet for a solution... so yeah... I don't know why a second (or even more added snares to the stack) are just not making any sound or are not triggered by the midi samples at least.

Any ideas?

[captain]

Quick question. Have you ever considered narrowing the snare bus' stereo image from hard sides into center, as it should sound mono at all?

[BrainDeadTX]

Please please share the preset file 🙏🙏 this sounds amazing!

[Zareh_Abrahamian]

I also use SD3 and this very kit with my tweaks, etc. Do you ever feel the need to export certain drum elements into your DAW, say, kick and snare, to further process with other plugins or do you think the included plugins in the SD3 mixer do the job. I ask this, since the mixer is so complicated that it is hard to figure out which channels should one export to get say, the whole of the snare on one audio track in the DAW. In drum mixing videos of other drum plugins you see there is one channel that you can export to a track in your DAW, but this is not that obvious in SD3, especially with this kit.

[guitarandmore]

I've seen many of your videos, and I think you're great. For some reason I thought you sounded like Kermit at the beginning of this video. Maybe it's my phone? 😂

[perforations]

curious, is there also some mastering plugin active while we hear the drumsounds?