Drums that are not nice and easy, but nice and rough! Samples of drums made by Zygmunt Szpaderski in a one-man workshop in Poland. They're big, and they've gotten kind of rusty over the decades. We matched them with an even larger floor tom made from an Estonian-made RMIF kick drum, and some nice modern cymbals. While we paid the equivalent of $111.68 for the Szpaderski kit with hardware, stands and cymbals, the Sabian ride cost more than four times as much, and we don't care - they are a good match sonically. We also don't care that it's ridiculous to spend almost 100 hours recording and editing samples of drums this cheap, when we could just as easily have avoided spending any money at all and borrowed a much more expensive kit from a drummer friend. This way was a lot more interesting. It all adds up to a kit that can do a lot of things from indie pop to lo-fi hip-hop and all-out weirdness.
Samples with sticks, brushes and mallets, snare also recorded with a tambourine on top of it and a small tom on top of it, rim clicks and shell clicks, stirs on both the snare and floor tom, a stack of cheap cymbals, mechanical noises... this kit has a lot of features, many of which you can't get elsewhere. Over 4400 samples adding up to 2.3 GB. Where else are you gonna get samples of overgrown Soviet Bloc drums with this kind of detail?
Here comes the big list of kit pieces and articulations:
14”x8” wooden snare - Szpaderski
sticks: sidestick, center hit, edge hit, rimshot, rim click, shell click
sticks with 13” RMIF concert tom on top of the snare: center hit, sidestick, rimshot
sticks with tambourine on top of the snare: center hit, rimshot
brushes: center hit, dig, stir, flutter, release noise
mallets: center hit
22"x16” tom – RMIF kick set up horizontally
sticks: center hit, rim click, shell click
brushes: center hit
mallets: center hit
18"x16” tom - Szpaderski
sticks: center hit, rim click, shell click
brushes: center hit, dig, stir, flutter, release noise
mallets: center hit
15"x15” tom - Szpaderski
sticks: center hit, rim click, shell click
brushes: center hit
mallets: center hit
14"x14” tom - Szpaderski
sticks: center hit, rim click, shell click
brushes: center hit
mallets: center hit
14” hi-hat – Sabian HHX Evolution
sticks: tip hit (six degrees of openness), shank hits(four degrees of openness), shaft click
brushes: hits with six degrees of openness
pedal: foot chik, foot splash, chik return noise, pedal click noise, pedal return noise
22” ride – Sabian Big & Ugly King
sticks: bow, bell, edge
brushes: bow
mallets: edge
edge choke
Three-cymbal stack – 21” Trowa ride, 16” Trowa crash, and half a 14” Polmuz hi-hat
sticks: middle layer, edge layer
A short video about the kit we sampled:
Plogue Sforzando version 1.933 or newer is required, and can be downloaded from Plogue's website. All the samples are also included as unlocked WAV files, so you can also use them as one-shot samples etc. if desired.
Any questions or comments? Email samples@karoryfer.com
