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davidkwock wrote on 4/21/2004, 2:18 AM
Hi, I'm new to this forum. First post.

I use drumagog3. Haven't used purrfect drums.

Works fine, never crashed. Sound is good enough for me. My audio goes to local TV which is a much lower standard than for CDs/DVDs.

Easy to use. Can adjust the sensitivity and blend from 0% to 100%. Enough samples for me. But I still EQ and compress.

Buy direct from the author who is very helpful.

Personally, I really like it. Its my "secret weapon". However, I know another mixer who dislikes "replacers" in general and won't use it.

I have Waves Platinum and Transform, Amplitude (which by the way hangs up in Vegas), T-Racks, and Drumagog3. (And Bomb Factory LA leveling amp which I use only on Pro Tools).

Hope this helped.
davidkwock wrote on 4/21/2004, 2:22 AM
I forgot to say that I only use it to replace the kick because my snare track includes too much high hat. And I don't mic up the toms separately. I'm thinking of miking the snare with minimal bleed so I can eventually replace it also.
PipelineAudio wrote on 4/21/2004, 2:52 AM
using a frequency conscious noise gate ( ultrafunk gate r3) you can usually still trigger no matter what the hat bleed

Im a drumagog FREAK, I make a lot of samples for it, and will send mine if you like if theres an ftp for it

havent tried the purrfect drums yet...usually I replace drums with samples made from the customers' kit right at the end of recording
larryo wrote on 4/21/2004, 5:00 AM
thanks guys-I'm looking forward to trying it out. as far as gating for bleed, I thought this program has a sophisticated "auto ducking" feature that let's you hone in on the trigger? No matter, my primary app will be for replacing alesis drum machine samples on dedicated tracks, anyway.
PipelineAudio wrote on 4/21/2004, 10:13 AM
its got a pretty good dedicated key filter, but youll still be better off with an external gate
halcyonway wrote on 5/10/2004, 7:34 PM
I've got it, and it's excellent. My advice to you to get clean triggers off of live drum recordings, bleed and all, is to dump each mic track into Sound Forge, and mute everything but the actual snare/bd/tom hits, then either normalize the track so you get good, strong spikes. Once you save that (do a save as so you don't accidentally screw up your source material), use your Vegas explorer to dump it in a track. then put the drumagog plug in on it, and you may want to put a compressor BEFORE it to just really slam the signal into the drumagog. it just needs to see a good level.