EZX Drumkit From Hell and Metalheads comparison (by V)

So the other day I found out about metalheads expansion. I'ts a signature EZX of Meshuggah's drummer Tomas Haake. It gives you 2 drumsets mixed by Daniel Bergstrand . Looked at the pictures and it looked quite promising. As a all-time EZ user [DFH being my ultimate plugin] I decided to give it a try. The first difference I noticed [other than the whole drumset] was the very quite hi-hat. "Sure, it's Meshuggah" I thought at once. The sound samples are quite good. I liked some of the cymbals but didn't really like the Hi Hat sound: didn't have that sound for hi hat work with the hi-hat pedal; the Snare drum: was too compressed and sounded unnatural to me; may be toms: same as the snare. A very cool feature that I liked and would love to have in DFH was the additional tracks in mixer. These were a click for snare and a click for bass drum. Quite the thing, specially the latter, if you are into metal drums. However one thing that Metalheads lacks at is versatility. I couldn't see it doing some groovy stuff... pretty much anything other than metal and even at metal... it wouldn't quite cover too many genres. At this point i'll try to elaborate my statement: first, you don't really get any midi banks other than 12 songs of Meshuggah, quite cool you might say but it gets boring soon enough and you don't have anything other than Meshuggah fills and riffs, this is even worse if you don't have any other banks at all; second the sound is mixed already in a very metal way and very personalized I'd say, I could feel the thing was made for the drummer first of all and then for any other users. It'd quite match a metal band with screams and stuff but I couldn't get it along with my instrumental music. Just not the thing.

Anyways this is quite a personal-preference kind of thing: what you like in a drumset might not be the same for others. I really do like the 2 chinas that DFH offers along with the spock china. 3 little splashes and the sound of the hi-hat which is really versatile. I can record a very mellow song with DFH as well as metal songs. Both might need some tweaking but to let you know how the stock settings sound like I have a video with samples in the bottom of the page. 2 things I don't like that much about DFH is that sometimes I want a better snare drum sound like in EZdrummer and the kick drum sound: it's really hard to get that rough dry clicky sound for blast beats and double pedal work. In the end I ended up recording the click from Meshuggah's drumset and putting it along with the stock kick drum of DFH getting that nice clicky sound.

Overall I still prefer DFH over Metalheads because, as I said, it is quite more versatile than Metalheads which is really limiting in the ways it can sound. In the end, the both cost 69 euros as advertised on their site but I believe you get more from DFH.
One thing that would be terrific would be the ability to mix sounds from different EZX. This is one thing that EZ lacks in order to be a great plugin. There is the Superior Drummer but I am sure I don't want the drums to take that much of space in my hard-drive. And I don't really that many drumsets, I need one and for all: you can't just record songs for one album with different drums each time, that'd get you quite far from the "album" idea.

Sound samples are recorded with very stock configuration.

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Vendetta V, VMS inc.

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