plugin review
Get Good Drums
Mix-ready modern-metal drums that sit in the wall, not against it.
- Pros
- mix-ready metal kits straight out of the box
- kick and snare cut through a dense high-gain mix without heavy EQ
- round-robins + velocity layers keep fast double-kick from machine-gunning
- fast workflow — a preset gets you most of the way there
- Cons
- library downloads are huge
- shallow editing vs a full sampler — not for building a kit from scratch
- you'll still want to shape the kick to your own low end
- format
- VST3 / AU / AAX
- daw
- Logic
Modern metal lives or dies on the drums, and for Away the kit came from Get Good Drums. The pitch is simple: load a preset and the kick and snare already sit in a dense, high-gain mix instead of fighting it. That alone saves hours.
The kick is the tell. In a wall of quad-tracked guitar a lot of metal kicks just vanish; GGD's samples cut without me carving a hole with EQ first. Round-robins and velocity layers keep fast double-kick passages from machine-gunning into one flat tone. It is not a deep sampler — if you want to redesign a kit from the ground up, look elsewhere — but as the fastest route to a convincing modern-metal kit in Logic, it is the one I keep reaching for.
Load a preset and the kick already sits in the mix instead of fighting it.