2019

Price: $39.

Drums that are not nice and easy, but nice and rough! Samples of drums made by Zygmunt Szpaderski in a one-man workshop in Poland. They're big, and they've gotten kind of rusty over the decades. We matched them with an even larger floor tom made from an Estonian-made RMIF kick drum, and some nice modern cymbals. While we paid the equivalent of $111.68 for the Szpaderski kit with hardware, stands and cymbals, the Sabian ride cost more than four times as much, and we don't care - they are a good match sonically. We also don't care that it's ridiculous to spend almost 100 hours recording and editing samples of drums this cheap, when we could just as easily have avoided spending any money at all and borrowed a much more expensive kit from a drummer friend. This way was a lot more interesting. It all adds up to a kit that can do a lot of things from indie pop to lo-fi hip-hop and all-out weirdness.

Samples with sticks, brushes and mallets, snare also recorded with a tambourine on top of it and a small tom on top of it, rim clicks and shell clicks, stirs on both the snare and floor tom, a stack of cheap cymbals, mechanical noises... this kit has a lot of features, many of which you can't get elsewhere. Over 4400 samples adding up to 2.3 GB. Where else are you gonna get samples of overgrown Soviet Bloc drums with this kind of detail?

Here comes the big list of kit pieces and articulations:



24"x18” kick - Szpaderski

pedal: kick (dampened), kick (undampened), pedal click noise, pedal return noise

sticks: rim click, shell click, tomholder click

pedal: kick (dampened), kick (undampened), pedal click noise, pedal return noise sticks: rim click, shell click, tomholder click 14”x8” wooden snare - Szpaderski

sticks: sidestick, center hit, edge hit, rimshot, rim click, shell click

sticks with 13” RMIF concert tom on top of the snare: center hit, sidestick, rimshot

sticks with tambourine on top of the snare: center hit, rimshot

brushes: center hit, dig, stir, flutter, release noise

mallets: center hit

sticks: sidestick, center hit, edge hit, rimshot, rim click, shell click sticks with 13” RMIF concert tom on top of the snare: center hit, sidestick, rimshot sticks with tambourine on top of the snare: center hit, rimshot brushes: center hit, dig, stir, flutter, release noise mallets: center hit 22"x16” tom – RMIF kick set up horizontally

sticks: center hit, rim click, shell click

brushes: center hit

mallets: center hit

sticks: center hit, rim click, shell click brushes: center hit mallets: center hit 18"x16” tom - Szpaderski

sticks: center hit, rim click, shell click

brushes: center hit, dig, stir, flutter, release noise

mallets: center hit

sticks: center hit, rim click, shell click brushes: center hit, dig, stir, flutter, release noise mallets: center hit 15"x15” tom - Szpaderski

sticks: center hit, rim click, shell click

brushes: center hit

mallets: center hit

sticks: center hit, rim click, shell click brushes: center hit mallets: center hit 14"x14” tom - Szpaderski

sticks: center hit, rim click, shell click

brushes: center hit

mallets: center hit

sticks: center hit, rim click, shell click brushes: center hit mallets: center hit 14” hi-hat – Sabian HHX Evolution

sticks: tip hit (six degrees of openness), shank hits(four degrees of openness), shaft click

brushes: hits with six degrees of openness

pedal: foot chik, foot splash, chik return noise, pedal click noise, pedal return noise

sticks: tip hit (six degrees of openness), shank hits(four degrees of openness), shaft click brushes: hits with six degrees of openness pedal: foot chik, foot splash, chik return noise, pedal click noise, pedal return noise 22” ride – Sabian Big & Ugly King

sticks: bow, bell, edge

brushes: bow

mallets: edge

edge choke

sticks: bow, bell, edge brushes: bow mallets: edge edge choke 17” crash – Sabian AAX V-Crash

sticks: edge

brushes: bow

mallets: edge

edge choke

sticks: edge brushes: bow mallets: edge edge choke 18” China crash – Sabian HHX Evolution

sticks: edge

brushes: bow

mallets: edge

edge choke

sticks: edge brushes: bow mallets: edge edge choke 19” sizzle ride – unknown origin

sticks: bow, bell, edge

brushes: bow

mallets: edge

edge choke

sticks: bow, bell, edge brushes: bow mallets: edge edge choke 17” sizzle crash – unknown origin

sticks: bow, bell, edge

brushes: bow

mallets: edge

edge choke

sticks: bow, bell, edge brushes: bow mallets: edge edge choke Three-cymbal stack – 21” Trowa ride, 16” Trowa crash, and half a 14” Polmuz hi-hat

sticks: middle layer, edge layer

A short video about the kit we sampled:

And a quick demo with Big Rusty Drums using brushes, starting off with the huge toms played with brushes for a real unique sound, and also using two instances of Secret Agent Bass and one of Secret Agent Guitar.