Do you have a Sampler?
If so, I'm going to tell you how to get the best kick drum sample that you'll ever hear.
Aim a Condenser mic at a concrete floor, and sample a BASKETBALL hitting it!
That is the best damned kick sound around man!
My old singer (he died 2 years ago) and I spent hours making all these drum samples (That was in the mid-late 90's), and that was one of my secrets.
Unfortunately, I didn't have a sampler at the time, and didn't get copies of the samples.
Another good one, was we used a Shotgun mic to sample 2 trains locking up in a train yard. Then compressed and gated it, and that was the fattest damn snare sound ever. We're talking HUGE explosive sound!
We recorded sounds on a DAT machine, and then sampled from the DAT machine.
I really do need to get back into that stuff, because it's a lot of fun coming up with these sounds.
Tim
