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Hi !
I'm looking for a specific sounding drums, the likes Wardruna uses.
I did some research and I figured that they use some form of frame drums and deer skin drums but I've been searching the entire web and cannot get anything close to their sounds.

In specific I'm looking for the kind of sound of drums like in their works called: Iwar, Ingwar.
They seem to be pitchless and thump-like in sound.
Please, any kind of help would be greatly appreciated.

Perun

I have a few Frame Drum samples close enough to the track you mention
Start here https://www.freesound.org/people/Jagadamba/sounds/257121/

Namaste

Thank you so much this might be usefull but I already found other frame drums.
Still experimenting in Audacity, just wondering what kind of effects are good to make such frames to sound more thicker but without getting that nasty over the top reverb and over done bass.
I tried to play around with treble and bass adjustments but no real results yet.
Thank you for sample!

Well, reverbs say how big the room is, not the drum itself, and too much reverb would wash out the track and actually reduce the thump impact, so yes, you don't want much of it.
But the thump of a big drum lives in the low end, so most of what you'd do is focused there, even if you don't want to overdo it.

By bass adjustments I guess you've tried a shelving filter, but shelving up the whole low end may introduce too much boom and steal a few useful dB from the mix; a more precise approach would be a high Q EQ boost centered on the peak of the thump, you can find that frequency range in the spectrogram view, and then you could set your EQ like this: 0___/\_________20K

Alternatively, you could use a resonant filter, set it to high pass mode, set the frequency a little lower than the thump, and increase the resonance level.

You could also use a bass enhancer or a saturator focused on the thump range.

But before trying any of those and risk to overdo the bass, you may want to experiment with a transient shaper to help the thump stand out, and a bit of compression (for safety, not for extreme loudness) if the balance between thump and tail gets out of hand.

You can install external VSTs system-wide and make Audacity use them, but experimenting with various settings and effect combos would be easier and quicker in a DAW.

--EDIT--

I forgot the most important thing you can do on the *other* tracks to help drums stand out: high-pass them all (but the bass) at least over the thump frequency