I need help regarding drums sound designing.

[CMDwild]

Greetings, I have been trying to replicate the soundtrack of one of my childhood PSP games "Ace Combat X" in order to learn more about music production, but I encountered a small inconvenience.

I made some good progress replicating the synths (I used "Vital") and orchestral instruments (I used "DSK Overture") in the ost, but it seems like the drums that are put into the ost sound way better (fat, full, powerful, punchy and huge) than my drums (they sound weak, quiet, amateur-ish with too much treble).

I have been watching lots of tutorials, but none of them cover what I am trying to design. I am using some drum samples (designed to be used in the hard techno music genre) and a couple plugins that come with LMMS 1.2.2 (calf reverb, calf saturator and an equalizer, tried tweaking them multiple times but I never got the result I wanted), maybe I need entirely new samples to use or just design my own from scratch, I am not sure.

Could anyone tell me some tips/tricks/tools/techniques or anything that I could use to make my drums sound as good? I would really appreciate it. In addition to that I would like to be more aware of the genre this specific soundtrack could be put in, too.

The OST I am trying to recreate is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSaZtqX ... 01&index=3

[musikbear]

Greetings,

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Good percussion depends on a lot of work but also on the samples you use.
Investigate what drum library the orr. soundtrack used, then see if you can find a version that is available for use in a DAW.
'Fat' ness in drums are often made with compression, but usage of EQing because sorting out frequencies that is less important in one part of the total percussion, but important for an other part, is a must!
Use a good Frequency analyser like SPAN for that!

[CMDwild]

Greetings,

Hi, Welcome to the Forum CMDwild !

Thanks a lot I really appreciate it, I will keep this in mind. Best regards!