80s Prince-style drums

[jedilaw]

This VSTi might be useful.


http://www.aaa-int.or.jp/jfactory/proje ... index.html

That one looks pretty damned cool. Have any of you guys used it?

[mandt]

A great deal of compression was used on his drums. Kiss especially. Just because it's dry don't think it wasn't smooshed. And that's what the 80's was; compressed drums and gated reverb. Oh, and LOUD snares.

I'm glad it's over . . .

[TVD]

I have a hard time believing that by 1987 Prince would still be using an LM-1 exclusively.

As of 2008, the Linn LM-1 is THE only hardware drum machine that still exist at Paisley Park Studio. Prince also use Redrum, a software drum machine which exist in Reason.

[TVD]

A great deal of compression was used on his drums. Kiss especially. Just because it's dry don't think it wasn't smooshed. And that's what the 80's was; compressed drums and gated reverb. Oh, and LOUD snares.

I'm glad it's over . . .

I'm not. As a matter of fact, the drum machines of the 80's were way better than the drum machines/samplers of the 90's & 2000's. But that's easy for me to have this opinion because I like the drum tracks to be banging!

[mandt]

I lost interest when CR78s went out of favor.

[Buffer]

This VSTi might be useful.


http://www.aaa-int.or.jp/jfactory/proje ... index.html

This link doesn't work any longer! What to do guys?

[thesnake383]

This VSTi might be useful.


http://www.aaa-int.or.jp/jfactory/proje ... index.html

This link doesn't work any longer! What to do guys?

Thankfully, the wayback machine still works.

http://web.archive.org/web/200503080436 ... index.html

Hurry, and mirror this!

[ElvisOnTour]

Prince used Linn lm-1 but the secret was this the AMS-RMX-16 it had a setting which gave the likes of the gated drums for lots of music from the 80s Phil Collins Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush used it to get that lovely sound on the drums. you can get it on uad plugins but its expensive but if your after the exact sound then this is the way to go.
Reverb
The kick drum, from a Linn LM-1 drum machine, gets extended and reshaped with a rhythmic bounce courtesy of an unusual reverb. The AMS RMX 16, an early digital reverb popular back in the 80s had two programs called "reverse." Not actually reversing the reverb -- you'd need a time machine for that -- the program amplitude modulates the reverb tail so that it goes from low amplitude to high amplitude, getting louder, before abruptly cutting off. It behaves as if the room's impulse response is being played backwards so it was called "reverse" on the reverb unit.
Filling the space between kicks with this additional low end energy.

https://youtu.be/Bxz6jShW-3E

[an-electric-heart]

That's a hell of a first post on KVR.

[smithy269]

I have this ADPack from addictive drum, and this is quite convincing (check out the when gloves dry demo). They did record the samples to analog tape, and use a plate verb and room ambiance:

https://www.xlnaudio.com/products/addic ... l_machines

[an-electric-heart]

I have this ADPack from addictive drum, and this is quite convincing (check out the when gloves dry demo). They did record the samples to analog tape, and use a plate verb and room ambiance:

https://www.xlnaudio.com/products/addic ... l_machines

This question was asked in 2008. I'd like to think the O.P found their Prince drum sound a long time ago... hence why it's so bizarre that guy above created an account just to post in this thread.