halcyo

im not sure about the price of them for said creativity... I agree...if these kind of products were 50% cheaper, they would sell like {censored}in' hotcakes....(come to think of it, I don't know if I've EVER bought a hotcake...) halcyo

Man, that thing sure is ugly compared to the Reflexion Filter! I'm slightly angry, because I JUST got my sE Reflexion Filter in the mail about a week ago! I haven't done any recording with it yet, but I sure hope it does ok! My room is actually a bit treated to begin with, so hopefully it will do the trick. I do like Ethan, and his products, so I wish I would have known about this one! It is much larger than the sE product, so perhaps it would be a better investment for amps, and other bigger sources. My feeling is that if you put the mic a little further IN the Reflexion Filter, the results would be better than showed in the video. Also, maybe its that mic, but I don't think the sound quality of the Portable Vocal Booth examples sound very good...much more controlled, sure, but they sound strange. Again, this could be anything from the Mic, to the video's audio quality I suppose. halcyo

It did seem to me that the layout of BFD was a bit 'easier', but I also thought the samples and nuances weren't quite as good (at least from the demos). The Custom and Vintage is even more tasty, and I will probably check that out soon. Plus DFHS seems to run much better on a slower machine, which my mac g4 733mhz certainly is! When I started with it, I had never really done anything with software instruments or even midi, and I was a bit confused about the layout of the program, but I got it figured out and now it's a breeze. I think they are probably both great. DFHS is more like 5 or 6 complete kits sampled to death, with extras, and BFD is more like all kinds of random drums and stuff. halcyo

There are two programs out right now that get almost all the attention. They are way ahead of the rest: Toontrack Drumkit from Hell Superior (usually called DFHS) and BFD. They both are 'somewhat similar' in process, being that you program your drum tracks in a midi track, and then send 'em through here. DFHS is the one I use, and it is pretty impressive. It has 35 Gigabytes of drum samples on 9 DVD's, which is some 85,000 samples taken from like 5 whole drumkits, with a whole smattering of cymbals. They recorded each individual drum at tons of volume levels, and even automatically cycle through a variety of samples at the same volume so that you don't get that 'machine gun' thing with the snares and stuff. The cymbals are great. Then you can bounce down the entire drum performance onto seperate tracks for each MIC, just like in a real acoustic kit. Even the bleed from all the drums is realistic in each microphone (which is adjustable). It's pretty wild. Toontrack also sells a new 'custom and vintage' version of the program, which works as an add on, or alone. I suggest you go to the toontrack site and listen to some demos and see what you think. BFD is also a favorite of many. If you check out the demos of these two programs, and you don't like what you hear, then you are probably out of luck in terms of finding better programmed drum tracks. halcyo