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    99Sounds is proud to release 99 Drum Samples I and 99 Drum Samples II, two multi-genre collections of free drum samples.

    The free download link is located at the end of this article.

    Free Drum Samples

    With over 450,000 downloads and counting, 99 Drum Samples I is the most popular 99Sounds sound library released to date.

    Five years after the original, we are releasing 99 Drum Samples II, our new drum sample library that follows the footsteps of its predecessor.

    99 Drum Samples is a two-part collection of free drum samples. It contains royalty-free drum sounds crafted from scratch using advanced sound design techniques and processed using internal and external audio gear.

    The source drum samples come from various analog and digital synthesizers, acoustic drums, classic drum machines, and field recordings. We then used multiple onboard effects and studio gear to process the clean drum samples.

    The included drum sounds cover various music styles, from hip-hop and trap to dubstep, electronic, synthwave, lo-fi, and pop. We imagined 99 Drum Samples as a must-have drum collection for all music producers, despite their favorite genre.

    The same can be said about the sound design techniques we used to create these drum samples.

    We used analog distortion, high-end preamps, cheap tape recorders, field recorders, guitar amps, a spring reverb, an old Tascam PortaStudio 4-track, a vinyl deck, and a vintage tape delay unit.

    We even used a Game Boy to resample some of the sounds for added grit.

    Here’s a portion of the gear list: Solid State Logic SSL 2+, Soundcraft Signature 12 MTK, Moog Minitaur, MFB 522 Drumcomputer, Jomox Alpha Base, Arturia DrumBrute Impact, Korg Electribe ER-1, Lell UDS, Yamaha DD-5, Golden Age Project Pre-73 MKIII, Nintendo Game Boy, Tascam Portastudio 244, Commodore 64, Dynacord Echocord Mini, and more.

    The result is a unique collection of free drum samples that sound different.

    Summary

    The first part of the library includes 99 individual drum samples, and the second part contains 110 drum samples. All sounds are provided in 24-bit WAV format.

    The included drum samples are carefully edited, trimmed, and normalized to -0.3 dB (except for some of the cymbal hits, which are peaking around -3 dB).

    Content

    99 Drum Samples I contains 99 files:

    • 6 clap samples
    • 1 cowbell sample
    • 4 crash cymbal samples
    • 11 closed hi-hat samples
    • 26 kick drum samples
    • 5 open hi-hat samples
    • 10 percussion samples
    • 2 ride cymbal samples
    • 3 shaker samples
    • 22 snare drum samples
    • 9 tom samples.

    99 Drum Samples II contains 110 files:

    • 11 claps
    • 13 hi-hats
    • 37 kicks
    • 13 percussion samples
    • 36 snares.

    All drum samples are provided in 24-bit WAV format.

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    99Sounds is a boutique sound design label from Belgrade, Serbia. It was launched by Tomislav Zlatic of Bedroom Producers Blog.

    111 Comments

    5. Austin on

      First off, I am an amateur. I have been making music with a pirated copy of Ableton Live, a measly M-Audio Profire 610, and cheap midi controllers for a couple of years in my free time. My progress has been so slow because don’t do this full time. So take what I say with a grain of salt. If a studio engineer wants to tell me I’m full of s*** and not appreciating gold, please do.

      These too processed for my taste. I am not saying every drum pack should be completely raw, because Vengeance has some very cool processed sounds for example, but this collection is just a bit much. There are better ways to get “grit” and “punch” than by putting them on a cassette tape and ripping them back off. Some of the more gimmicky sounds are cute though, I guess.

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        99Sounds on

        Well, we all have different tastes! I’ve made these sounds so that they’re punchy and tight, according to my taste. I needed them to cut well through a mix without muddying up to the low end and they’ve been processed with these qualities in mind.

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        • Melissa van der Spuy on

          Brendan

          Thank you for these samples. I have every library conceivable and always come back to these. Super solid – love your work.

          Best,
          Melissa

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      • Daniel on

        Bro…are you kidding me lol.that was the most arrogant, ignorant…garbage i have ever read. You literally talk yourself down and then give negative feedback on a FREE sound pack. Lol people like you should just say nothing.please and thankyou

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      • Roman on

        so basically..
        “Hey, I suck at producing and don’t take it seriously. I don’t have anything to add to this but I’m going to talk anyway.”

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      • Darius on

        You’re probably recording a guitar that’s missing a couple knobs that you picked out of a dumpster, played through a lamp cord made into a guitar jack, cause it was free, so why complain about your drum sound?

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