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Welcome to A Distorted Perception, your sanctuary for metal mayhem and sonic alchemy, guided by the enigmatic Plague Doctor. 🤘 As the mastermind behind the contagion of sound, I'm your metal musician, producer and mixing plague doctor, crafting infectious audio spells in the depths of the distorted realm.
i guess my question is can i buy this and have it work out of the box so to speak without any other software. than when i make a beat i like will it work with logic pro. im already using the gojira neural DSP which is sick btw. edit: i only ask because im new to recording with a computer and dont understand drum software.
@@ADistortedPerception so theoretically i could buy this and have it just work? thats impressive, ive never heard of kontact before, is that something else i have to download?
my top 3 are: 1 - Untouchables (11/10 best metal album of all time), 2 - Issues 10/10, 3 - Take A Look In The Mirror 9/10. plz do linkin park ranking next
Those are all great albums. I think the era you discovered Korn influences which albums to love for Eternity. I'm guessing you discovered them in the early 2000s?
Untouchables is Jonathan’s favorite album, but they still only play like 2 songs from it. Embrace and Blame are my favorites from that album but they never play em cause he had to go and make that shit too hard to sing live.
Worst to Best: Untitled Remember who you are Path of Totality Paradigm shift The Serenity of Suffering The Nothing See you on the other side Untouchables Requiem Follow the leader Issues Take a look in the mirror Korn Life is Peachy
I absolutely love Adrenaline. So raw and powerful, not super fresh or too complex but it really just makes my brain tingle in all the right places. I love music, I play drums and bass yet I can almost never listen to a whole album(probably the adhd and/or autism lol) But man Adrenaline is one of my very few no-skip albums. I have it on cd and love blasting it on the way to the skatepark or anytime I want to get pumped haha
BABYMETAL 'The Trilogy of Lights' (STARLIGHT - SHINE - ARKADIA) （From third studio album “METAL GALAXY” (October 11, 2019). STARLIGHT Lyrics by METAL SAINTS Music Composed by MEGMETAL(MEG) and METAL SKYWALKER Arranged by MEG METAL(MEG) SHINE Lyrics by Kitsune of METAL GOD Music Composed by TAKEMETAL, Arranged by Tatsuo METAL ARKADIA Lyrics by NORiMETAL (Norikazu Nakayama/Norizo), Music Composed by NORiMETAL (Norikazu Nakayama/Norizo), Arranged by KyotoMETAL(KYOUTOU) Produced by KOBAMETAL( Kei Kobayashi)
Great list! I agree with a lot of things you said. My ranking: 9. Gore - I really like prayers/triangles, doomed user, hearts/wires, and phantom bride. Every other song is kind of a snoozefest though. 8. Ohms - A very mixed album for me. I like genesis, ceremony, urantia, the spell of mathematics, and ohms is one of the best album closers ever. 7. Adrenaline - Has some good songs like bored, root, 7 words, and engine 11. It just sounds pretty rough around the edges and the production quality is not very good. I think that in this era they were still trying to find out what they wanted to sound like. Overall, it's a pretty good album. 6. Deftones - I didnt like this album at first, but after listening to it a lot, it started to grow on me. I think the first 6 tracks are the best, and bloody cape is also good. But I think the other songs are the some of their most forgettable songs ever. 5. SNW - I think this is their most divisive album. It has some of their best songs and some of their worst songs. There are some great hits on here like hole in the earth, beware, cherry waves, mein, xerces, and kimdracula. And then there are songs like ratsratsrats, pink cellphone, and rapture, which I HATE. (Sorry) 4. Diamond eyes - this a great album. No matter who you are or what you like, I think everyone can enjoy this album to a certain extent. Every song on here is on my playlist, except for this place is death. I just think its a pretty boring song. 3. Koi No Yokan - I think that Koi No Yokan is just a better version of diamond eyes. It doesnt have sextape, but it has swerve city, tempest, rosemary, entombed, romantic dreams, leathers, goon squad, and what happened to you, and I think those are all some of deftones greatest songs. There are a few filler songs, but other than that, I love this album. 2. Around the fur - This is the time when deftones started developing their sound. A lot of hits on here like my own summer, the title track, and of course, be quiet and drive. I'm not big about mascara but I still like it. There really are no bad songs on this one. A big step up from adrenaline. 1. White Pony - This is a based spot for #1, but for a reason. This album goes so hard, from feiticera to pink maggit. I even like back to school, which apparently people don't like.
Worst to best: Untitled Path of Totality Requiem See you on the other side Korn 3 Take a Look in the Mirror Paradigm Shift Serenity of Suffering Untouchables Korn issues Follow the leader Life is Peachy
Bro korn 3 is good. When it came out it got decent reviews and i was happy with the sound. I think its the best drums from Ray. Its only in recent years that people decided they dont like it anymore but i still think it slaps
I went back and listened to every album and I still couldn't get into it. That's why music is amazing. I don't think any of their albums are terrible but that one just didn't resonate like the ones above it. Love Ray though.
Great review! Hypothetically (maybe it's a stupid question, but come on), if you could choose just one of these libraries, which would your go-to choice?
After about 15 minutes at most I noticed it's biggest flaw and said "hey what the heck? You don't have much freedom and its mostly just presets with a little tweaking?" Seems more like a $50 plugin at the most and it's wild people are saying this is a Saturn competitor. Let's hope it updates with consumer feedback in mind.
Solid ranking man, one thing I love about Deftones is that they never try to repeat themselves.. every album is distinctly different. 9.Gore 8. Adrenaline 7. Ohms 6. Diamond Eyes 5. Koi No Yokan 4. Deftones 3. Around the Fur 2. Saturday Night Wrist 1. White Pony
This is the same setup I freeze the track, it will be a multichannel file routing to the channels instead of having the audio files in the channels. That's not ideal for editing. How do you handle bouncing, rendering, freezing, etc?
So depending on the size of the project but I don't usually need to freeze. I will sometimes bounce out the audio and delete the routing afterwards and mix the audio files once I'm too that point.
@@ADistortedPerception thank you for replying. I've been searching for this for days and you gave me some luck since I found the solution between my question and your answer. I was freezing by selecting the track with Kontakt and to achieve what I wanted I had to select that track and the tracks with the channels the Kontakt track is routing to. It's that easy but didn't cross my mind.
No problem, I'm glad it was helpful. I save multiple routed drums once I get them to the point I like as a template. After that it's easy to drop them into a track. Most of the time I mix on the individually routed tracks and never freeze or bounce to audio. Whatever your system can handle.
@@ADistortedPerception Yep I get it. I'm returning to Reaper and the first track template I created was Khrim Drums! This whole freeze thing is because I have guitars, bass, drums and then big orchestra and synths and effects, it gets messy for my computer. To avoid issues I just commit everything to audio before mixing and freezing is just convenient.
That's how I have it too. I pretty much use Mixwave and Krimh exclusively in my Frankenkits. Sometimes I still use Invasion for certain things but that's about it on the GGD front.
Thanks for the review mate. BabyMetal always puts on a fantastic performance. I feel like what they do isn't appreciated enough, even after over 10 years in the business.
I would REALLY love a tutorial on how to get this all working in Reaper like you have. Having issues getting everything added and routed correctly in Reaper.
@@ADistortedPerception Thanks man, going through this tonight. Any chance you can show how you setup that EQ (your settings, not installing it). I am using the same Fabfilter EQ
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pyz8-IM2U6w.htmlsi=_SgVqx8SxuGxG4zr This is my Frankenkit video and you can click thru and I show all my processing from kick and snare to drum bus. Let me know if that isn't what you are looking for.
@@ADistortedPerception Yes, if you can put something together showing how you setup your EQ for the kick and whatever else, that would be awesome. First time messing with this type of thing, so I have no clue where to make the adjustments in the EQ. The Bass is easier cause that plugin is pretty straightforward. But if you have something showing how to setup the EQ, that would be fantastic. The way you have this kit setup is exactly what I have been searching for in SD3 for a few months now.
Hello! Looking for some advice on this kit. I currently own the Thomas Pridgen and Gojira kit, is this worth the purchase or would I be getting a very similar sounding product?
This Kit has way more options than either of those kits with at least 5 different kick drums alone. I like the Cymbals in Mangini over either of those kits combined. The amount of Velocities are way more detailed in the Mangini kit also. I still love the Gorjira shells more but I like to combine both kits. Also this has way more shell options than either and the shells are very different. Hope this helps!
They’re not “masking” high notes. The recording was actually from the early 2000’s. The distortion on vocals is likely for artistic purposes due to this song being about sexual abuse and pedophilia; they’re likely choosing to make it sound “fucked up”
Great reaction! Just catching up to your channel! +1 subscriber You should definitely check out other Bring Me The Horizon's latest songs - "Darkside" (really cool lyric video and catchy chorus with dark message, also quite heavy) and "Amen" featuring Lil Uzi Vert and Daryl Palumbo from Glassjaw (also catchy chorus, super heavy and really chaotic music video) Would love to see it!
Damn sounds good. I’m a sucker for a punchy high tom and that one is spicy. Have you tried this with e drums? I currently trigger ez drummer and the hi hat mapping is so easy, it’s basically the click of a button and works perfect . I tried the krihm drum library and I couldn’t get the hi hat mapping to work well. Any experience with this?
I dont have experience with Edrums but I trigger everything with EZDRUMMER. I have a video on how I trigger Kontakt with EZDRUMMER so I imagine if you set that up and then trigger with an Ekit you can control Mangini
I LOVED when Babymetal first started gaining popularity around the world. It created such a clear divide from Metalheads and the elitist gatekeeping assholes. Babymetal is sooo metal! Such a funny curveball that was just thrown at our head. Unique and strange. Love it! Still wishing the girls the best of luck!
