I’d like to present my lil pack of presets!
A lot of my drums sounds tend to be inspired by early and mid 70s hard rock, funk and fusion. If you know, you know…kinda dry, small-medium sized room sounds that are punchy and raw.
Important to note–you have to have a few expansions to make use of these: BFD 1,2,3, Dunnett Ti, Horsepower and BFD Deluxe. A lot of the presets are using 2 expansions…usually one expsn for the shells and the other for cymbals.
Mickemowse BFD Presets.zip (117.4 KB)
Sadly my DAW crashed hard and fast as soon as I loaded the first one, managed to load a couple others but a lot of the kit pieces were missing, not sure why as I have almost every expansion pack, tried a few more times and DAW smashed hard again, not sure why?
That blows! I wonder if I sent them correctly…it’s supposed to just be the .bfd3 file, I think? I just dragged them out of the BFD3 presets folder where I save most of my custom kits, so I’m not sure what could be up
Thanks for these. Some nice combinations. I’ve had 2 crashes so far, as well. But mostly it’s working.
I wonder what the issue could be?
I haven’t downloaded the files to check them out, but the only time I had presets crash on me was when I was using special characters in the name. Have any of you guys tried renaming them and see if it goes away?
naming convention looks ok to me
Ah I see the horsepower one has !
not sure if that’s the one that crashed my DAW, must have been, but it wasn’t the only one either, and as previously mentioned loads of the kit pieces were missing even though I have all the expansions mentioned?
I used, “Load Preset from file”, instead of importing. The Dunnett Ti preset worked fine. Then I did the same with the Horsepower preset, also loaded fine. However, I then loaded my own HP preset and it crashed after a minute or so. Not sure if it was just pure coincidence, or not. I do tend to get a lot of random crashes with BFD3 in standalone.
The presets sounded pretty good, though it seemed like there were FX on channels, but a lot were turned off, so I wasn’t really sure what the final sound was actually supposed to be. I’ll try some of the others next time I fire BFD3 up. Nice work @Mickemowse and thanks for sharing.
I wonder would be causing the crashing. I have a lot of presets that have been moved and updated from different laptops I’ve owned over the last 10 years since owning BFD and all of them have worked without messing up.
As for the fx… a lot of times I’d experiment with an effect but then decide I liked it better without, so the way the presets are at load-up are how they are intended.
I use them both, whichever plays nicely at the time 
Hell yeah man, I hope you guys dig them! More to come of course. I’m also thinking about doing some midi grooves too
Maybe not so much with the exclamation mark in the Horsepower one. It might be OK but… I’m going to rename that one.
You also used the Rod Morgenstein cowbell. It’s showing up missing in several presets. I’ll just add another and save.
Just thought I’d mention it if others were seeing the missing kit piece.
Totally! Thats another of my favorite expansions. Total creative control for you guys on that one lol, I totally forgot I had it on there and didn’t mix it 
Actually, you triggered a G.A.S. attack! I had almost bought the RM kit last time, but ended up keeping my purchase to just the Bob Seibenberg kit. I just checked and the kits are still on sale at $34 at SR. I caved in about 3 seconds… 
Effin cowbells! I’m sure Christopher Walken is well pleased…
So this was weird… I loaded up BFD3 again and it crashed straight away, without loading anything. After I reopened it, it’s been fine so far. I have some bug that can seem to linger, when loading, or importing files. This isn’t the first time this has happened, but it would be nice if this functionality wasn’t buggy. It may just be something odd on my end.
So I listened to a couple more of your presets. I liked the Ayotte one. I was gonna suggest maybe bringing your direct channels up because you were having to raise your master fader above unity gain, but then I realized your OH is doing most of the work and is already peaking, so you wouldn’t be able to retain the balance. Also, I noticed that the compressors weren’t even really hitting on my end. But, I thought it had a nice overall sound.
I liked how you shaped the sound of the Lucite kick on Crystal Planet. Gave it a completely different sound, in a good way. A few of the presets had some channels that were clipping, but overall some nice dry sounding kits… A 70’s vibe.
Thank you for the feedback! I’ll use this to keep trying to refine and hone on in these sounds better
As for functionality, I’m gonna try downloading some presets on the forum and see if I get the same issues.
How hot grooves are velocity-wise, will affect how much signal is feeding into processors, so it can definitely vary depending on what’s triggering the sounds.
Using the Groove FX you can adjust the overall loudness globally, with the Weight parameter. So you can use that to fine-tune grooves to help get the right signal going into comps, etc. However, that can also change the tone too much if you go too far in one direction or another, but it’s a quick option for just a subtle nudge. Otherwise, you just have to adjust signal at the fader level.
That makes me wonder, because on my end, the presets aren’t hot at all. Matter of fact, I usually start with all the faders ducked down a bit because 0 db on BFD is way too loud, so I try to aim at around -15 to -10dB average when I start mixing a kit up.