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Based around a Gretsch Rock’n’Roll kit, the smaller kick is pronounced, with a tight-ness in the overall detailing of timbre, throughout the entire kit. While this kit is from a similar late-sixties era, it represents an altogether tighter cohesion, largely due to Watts’ love of jazz. Rolling onĪs we move into another phase of Eddie Kramer’s career, the Jet Black kit presents a very near replica of the kit Charlie Watts used on The Rolling Stones seminal Beggars Banquet. While there are arguable similarities with the Amber kit, the kick feels flabbier by comparison, without the extensive decay previously heard with the Amber kit. This kit centres around a Ludwig 70s era classic kit. The Sparkle Kit has a similar John Bonham affiliation, providing close similarity to the kit used on Led Zeppelin II, from 1969. The snare is crisp, while the hi-hats work very well alongside, with plenty of top-end sharpness, while also complying with the hefty weightiness required for the setting. Feed these dry signals into AIR Montserrat Mic Pre’s and you have a recipe for that classic rock sound which delivers instantly. Listening to a groove on this beast-of-a-kit for the first time, the depth of drum recording is obvious the kick benefits from enormous punch and bottom-end extension, with a decay tail which is hugely recognisable from the Zeppelin classics.įurther exploration reveals considerable microphone detailing, with the kick boasting a compliment of three mic’s two from AKG and the sublime Neumann U47 FET. In this performance, Bonham exhibited his classic sound, alongside subtlety and nuance in both timbre and dynamics, hence the inclusion of many different articulation strokes. The kit represents a reproduction of John Bonham’s live setup, as used at Madison Square Gardens in 1976. This is complimented by a Paiste 2002 Big Beat hi-hat, along with two timps and the smaller of the two gongs. The first of which is a Ludwig Vista-lite kit, known in this library as the Amber kit. Toontrack has taken its usual high-grade care in the sourcing of drums kits, while reflecting various landmark recording moments from Eddie Kramer’s career.
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This offers the opportunity to capture the room in a full surround mode, up to 5.1 which does add up to a sizeable disk-space tally at 180GB, however there is a prompt at installation to go for the lesser stereo option, which reduces installation space by half.Īlongside the kits themselves, two timpani are offered, as well as two gongs, the largest of which is a whopping 60” in size! The instrumentation greatly benefits from a number of articulations apart from the usual sticks, there is inclusion of brushes, mallets and even fingers/hand strikes, which have been captured in certain sections of the library, offering diversity in colour.
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Unlike some of Toontrack’s other SDX packs, Studio 1 at AIR studios is the constant location for the sample capture of all kits. This SDX expansion offers a somewhat reverential collection, centred around five different drum kits which have been recorded in their complete forms. You’ll need a copy of Superior Drummer 3 to take advantage of this library, which acts as an excellent compliment to the superb default sample set, which ships with the main package.
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You might not be familiar with his name, but in the best traditions of unsung re-cording heroes, Kramer presents a unique and impressive roster of artist collaborations, extending back to the sixties from his work with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, through to the entire canon of Jimi Hendrix. To offer further pedigree, the new Legacy of Rock SDX draws on the experience of recording leg-end Eddie Kramer. Extending the ethos of the more modest EZDrummer package, Superior takes the format to greater heights, with a far more extensive sampling of drum kits, and an increasing suite of expansion packs, each offering laser-accurate categorisation of sound and genre. No product fits this description better than Toontrack’s classic package, Superior Drummer 3. It’s always useful when a product provides a solid backbone, with further potential for expansion.