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Best perc library for trailer music?

(1st post, after sooo many time reading). I d’say since Hans (Hans?) question concerns trailer music: Strikeforce, from my old roommate Thorsten, when I graduated at Berklee in ...1997 (Gosh 20 years ago...)
 
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Damage, HZP, red room audio Saga, etc... there's a lot!
but if you want a good value for your wallet, there it is!! :
https://8dio.com/instrument/new-epic-ensemble-bundle/
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Here's one that people sleep on in this forum: HiddenPath Barrage. Wonderful phat sound without too much hype in it. I actually prefer it to what I've heard of HZ01, although there isn't as much control of mics and mixes.

All the Heavyocity libraries, Damage, MasterEnsemble etc., are great too.
 
I know you are looking for an end all be all but, in my experience at least, combining perc libraries is where the magic is. Also think of perc like a piano or string section. The lower the instruments frequencies the more sparse it should be played rhythmically to accent things. Then the higher up the frequency spectrum you go the faster the rhythms you can play and the closer together you can have instruments in the same frequency space (ie you can have many different hi hat type sounds and tell them apart whereas doing the same with two low drums would be harder when played in the same range.

Here are some of my favs

Low End:
HZ Perc
8dio Epic Frame
Any Hybrid library with decent booms
Metropolis ARK 1 or 3 (ensemble lib but has some juicy low end)
Action Strikes
Punchbox (kick drum creator, great for getting some clean attack)

Mid:
8dio epic series
DAMAGE
Cerberus
Master Ensembles Collection
SAGA
Strikeforce
CinePerc
Action Strikes

High:
Shimmer And Shake
DAMAGE (has some great high end stuff)
ISW Momentum
Any Hybrid Library with 'high' rhythmic stuff

Metal/Chime
TrueStrike
Orchestral Tools Percussion
CinePerc

I am sure there are some obvious ones I am missing but I just woke up so I will see what else I lean on

If you can only get one, get DAMAGE. It covers the most ground with the highest consistency. It also covers organic to Hybrid so its flexible.

-DJ
 
I know you are looking for an end all be all but, in my experience at least, combining perc libraries is where the magic is. Also think of perc like a piano or string section. The lower the instruments frequencies the more sparse it should be played rhythmically to accent things. Then the higher up the frequency spectrum you go the faster the rhythms you can play and the closer together you can have instruments in the same frequency space (ie you can have many different hi hat type sounds and tell them apart whereas doing the same with two low drums would be harder when played in the same range.

Here are some of my favs

Low End:
HZ Perc
8dio Epic Frame
Any Hybrid library with decent booms
Metropolis ARK 1 or 3 (ensemble lib but has some juicy low end)
Action Strikes
Punchbox (kick drum creator, great for getting some clean attack)

Mid:
8dio epic series
DAMAGE
Cerberus
Master Ensembles Collection
SAGA
Strikeforce
CinePerc
Action Strikes

High:
Shimmer And Shake
DAMAGE (has some great high end stuff)
ISW Momentum
Any Hybrid Library with 'high' rhythmic stuff

Metal/Chime
TrueStrike
Orchestral Tools Percussion
CinePerc

I am sure there are some obvious ones I am missing but I just woke up so I will see what else I lean on

If you can only get one, get DAMAGE. It covers the most ground with the highest consistency. It also covers organic to Hybrid so its flexible.

-DJ
Yep. If you can only get one, get Damage!
 
+1 for Damage. I’ve had it for a good while and recently went looking for a library with more “slam” to it and was unable to find one. My other slamming go-to is Apocalypse Percussion from Impact Soundworks-not mentioned often enough, very powerful.

I find Metropolis Ark1, Stormdrum 2 and Cinsamples Drums of War helpful for some boom (SD 2 isn’t sampled deeply but it’s quite versatile).
 
A cheap mic, an interface so that the mic speaks with your computer.
Some sort of cylinder like object.
Hit that object with different things (don’t hurt yourself)
Add ridiculous amounts of reverb.
Perhaps even pitch it down an octave or two.
Done.

Best of luck,
/Anders
 
8dio has a 48-hour sale going on right now on all of their epic percussion libs - $98 for toms, taikos, dhols, and framedrums. I own the toms lib, and its great - very useable. Might want to take a look at that while you can, $100 for $540 worth of libs is a ridiculous deal.

David
 
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