Tom, I got the track, thanks. The sound towards the end of the track is more like a blacksmith's anvil sound. I would suggest you start with E24/F Met. Then, to get more of a thud to it, I suggest you layer it with some snare with a rapid decay, say around +30. The important thing is to get a sound you like rather than trying to totally mimic something. The original sound probably used a piece of metal. If you had a module which could accept custom sounds then you could find some metal, record it and use that. The DTXpress cannot do that and there is no anvil sound I can see. However, by adjusting tuning, decay and layering sounds, you can get a huge range of effects. You can also crossfade the layers. For example, I play country/folk where I want a brush & tap sound. I have a kit programmed with the snare brush sound layered with a normal snare sound and a crossfade. If I play gently I get the brush sound and when I accent I get the snare sound. It is quite effective (and easier than doing the same thing on my real kit with brushes!). It really is worthwhile spending some time reading the manual to see what you can do, particularly with layering and crossfades etc. Keith.
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Re: couldn't find any metal strikes or hits... anybody got a favorite?
2008-02-20 by Keith