Percussion Box + Cymbal EFX
Flourishes of shakers, tambourines and cymbals to add texture to your tracks
ByAndy Stroud
The story
Hi! My name is Andy Stroud and this is my Percussion Box and Cymbal EFX sample library.
The idea behind this library was to record sounds that would work well in both orchestral and pop settings. As a drummer and percussionist I really enjoy incorporating little flourishes with shakers, tambourines and cymbals into recordings or live sessions as I believe it can add some very interesting texture to a track. These flourishes quickly became the main focus of this library along with some accented hits.
For the percussion sounds I recorded studio shakers, small egg shakers and some seed shakers. For the cymbals I recorded a range of dark sounding Zildjian K Dry Ride cymbals and some brighter sounding Meinl Crashes amongst others. Having a range of different sound qualities within the same articulations I believe is very important and reflects the way in which I like to structure my percussion set up for recording.
I hope you can find a place for these sounds in some of your own compositions. Thanks for reading!
Enjoy!
Reviews
Go-to soft percussion sounds
I love all the sounds in here - Everything is useful and there's no extraneous fluff. Everything is in mono, so some panning and a little short/wide room reverb is needed to help these come to life. Most times I don't even open the .nki but just drag them straight into the DAW.
It makes a nice companion to Jon Meyer's Soft Drums :)
Perfect cymbal SFX!
This is an amazing percussion patch that is very well recorded and programmed. You will find some amazing noiseless samples of various percussive hits that have tons of uses in many different styles of music. The patch is very barebones, with just you and the samples being at your fingertips. The rest is up to you.
Handy little set of sounds
So simple, yet so useful. Most of us don't have a percussion player at arms reach when we need just a little something to add sparkle to a mix. This ensemble is a go-to set.