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But one of the most fun parts of SSD are the signature kits. Now, SSD 5.5 does a lot, with a huge library of mix-ready drum samples and presets that can be played from an electronic kit. Sensing demand for his sounds, Slate launched it as a product and Steven slate Drums was born. Steven Slate Drums came about after mix engineer Steven Slate’s drum enhancement/replacement samples did the rounds in a number of studios. If you don’t have Kontakt, but do use BFD, you can buy a BFD Expansion utilising the same samples complete with that Tama Bell Brass snare, all captured in detail with plenty of punch, crack and the beefy room sounds that help make the Black Album drums sound so great.

It loads into Native instruments Kontakt - bad news is you need the full retail version rather than Kontakt player - and can also be used for sample replacement of your acoustic drum recordings. So, what we get here is a fully e-kit-playable recreation of the album’s drum sound. Oh, and they also managed to get Black Album assistant engineer, Mike Tacci to come and record the session. Chocolate Audio didn’t just set out to make a sample pack that sounds a bit like the Black Album, instead, it got hold of the original Gretsch kit that Ross Garfield rented to Metallica in order to sample it.īut it doesn’t stop there, because having the drums is one thing but one-better is to set them up in the exact same room where the Black Album was recorded, with a very close reconstruction of the mic setup.