Powerfully Thick and Punchy Drum Samples for Metal – The Bay Area 2 Metal and Hard Rock Samples Pack

Get some brutally powerful drum samples for metal that will hold up to some serious punishment. Drum Werks is proud to announce the The Bay Area 2 Drum Samples for Metal and Hard Rock Drum Kit.

This explosive samples pack is another powerful hard rock and metal kit we recorded in one of the Bay Area’s (Oakland, CA, to be exact) premier studios, and this complete drum and cymbal collection is again all about power and attack like its predecessor, Bay Area Drums 1 and follow-up Bay Area Drums 3.

With over 300 multi-velocity samples, this collection of drum and cymbal single hits weighs in at over 600 MB of 24-bit stereo .WAV format files. If you want your drum tracks will deliver the punch essential to modern metal and rock drum mixes, this comprehensive sample pack will serve you and your music well.

This sample set is mixed and ready to serve your songwriting projects, as sequenced MIDI tracks or for drum replacement. Bay Area Drums 2 can handle any musical situation where you need drums to have attack, body, presence, and clarity.

Whether you are looking to enhance your existing drum tracks through sample replacement / reinforcement or you want a powerful kit to drive your favorite virtual instrument, these samples are the real deal in power, clarity, and attack. We’ve spent a lot of hours using this sample set on the e-kit and we can assure you they will drive your mixes hard. If you think your guitars will bury these drums, then you have another thing coming.

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Bay Area 02 Kit Drum Samples Information

The Bay Area Drums 02 sample library captures the drum sounds of a four-piece Tama Starclassic Maple kit with a wide array of Meinl Classics Series cymbals.

1. Tama Starclassic Maple 22″ x 18″ kick
2. Tama Starclassic Maple 14″ x 5 1/2″ snare
3. Tama Starclassic Maple 12″ rack tom
4. Tama Starclassic Maple 16″ floor tom
5. Meinl 14″ Classics Custom Hihats
6. Meinl 16″ Classics Custom Medium Crash
7. Meinl 10″ Classics Custom Extreme Metal Splash
8. Meinl 22″ Classics Custom Ride
9. Meinl 18″ Classics Custom Medium Crash

All drums and cymbals have been performed with various articulations, extensively multi-sampled and offered as nearly 400 individual samples (630 MB total sample content). Additionally, the drum and cymbal samples have been mapped for use with Native Instruments’ Kontakt and Slate’s Trigger drum replacement software. Users may also use the 24-bit WAV files in any other virtual instruments or sound replacement software compatible with 24-bit WAV audio files.

 

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Bay Area 02 Kit Drum Samples Specifications

• 342 drum, cymbal multi-velocity single hit samples
• 24-bit stereo .WAV format
• Slate Trigger (.tci) and Kontakt (.nki and .nkm) files included
• Available for immediate digital download after completed purchase.