My first blast beats: Mesa IIC+ Gothic Chaos (Cab Pack 7)

Drums sound very cool.
Mikko, Is that real drums with mics or sampler (SSD, Toontrack, etc)?
It's always a huge compliment when using programmed drums that people ask if they're real or not. :) I'm using Toontrack Made of Metal EZX: https://www.toontrack.com/product/made-of-metal-ezx/ and surprisingly little post processing. I think it has the best overheads and kick drums I've heard out of all programmed drums I've tried out.

The snare however is triggered with my buddy Nolly's and Matt Halpern's snare drum samples. So much of the snare sound is about how you hit the snare and that's probably the biggest problem I struggle with when dealing with programmed drums. When done right like in this case I don't really have to do that much post processing.

I usually have a template session that I record into and now that I moved into a new space and have way better sound quality I wanted to create a new template and it's working really well right now. It's not even genre specific. I used the same setup for this song f.ex:

 
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