Make your drums sound as tight as Archspire!
A Reaper Drum Template Designed for Extreme Density
A fully routed, pre-mixed drum system built to hold articulation, impact, and clarity under fast, dense arrangements.
What you’ll need
This is NOT for
This is not just a drum template. It’s a starting architecture for extremely dense tracks.
The routing, processing, and balance are designed to:
Keep kick and bass separation under saturation
Control cymbal harshness at high speeds
Maintain articulation in fast blast sections
Prevent low-end collapse when guitars stack up
You’ll still need to adapt it to your system and your track, but this gives you a functional foundation that actually holds up under pressure.
Not much, I tried to set this one ready to use as soon as you open the Reaper template:
• Reaper (latest version recommended)
• BFD Player (free)
• GClip (free clipper)
Everything else is already configured inside the template.
This is for you if
You write fast, dense, technically demanding music
Your drums lose clarity when everything stacks up
You care about precision, not just loudness
Basic rock or simple arrangements
Drag-and-drop preset users
People who don’t tweak their mixes
This template is built from the same principles I use when mixing dense extreme metal.
If your tracks still collapse when things get dense, I can help you fix that.