Drum samples
middlefarm & sphere studios
Kontakt & Slate Trigger
Middlefarm Session
Middle Farm studios is set in the idyllic Devon country side run by producer Peter Miles. We really wanted to capture the great sound of the Middle Farm's live room. It cuts through a dense mix which makes it perfect for rock and metal productions. We also added a parallel compression channel to emphasize the room sound.
The session was engineered by Peter Miles, co-engineered/edited by Acle Kahney and drum hits by Jamie Postones. We recorded 10 layers for the kick and snares, 8 layers for the toms with each layer consisting of 10 random / round robin hits. The dynamics available let the samples stand up by themselves in a mix or alternatively as reinforcement.
DRUMS, CHANNELS & THE INSTUMENT
Guru Kick
Guru Toms
Brady Snare 5.5'
Pearl Snare 5.5'
The kick is split into kick in, sub, overhead, close room, far room, far room compressed.
The snares are split into snare top, snare top condenser, snare bottom, overhead, close room, far room, & far room compressed. Velocity 120 to 127 for the snare is a rimshot (using the stick upside down for added girth!)
The toms are split into one close mic for each tom, overhead, close room, far room and far room compressed.
The "Compress" channel is essentially a duplicate of the far room mics except they were passed through a "Phoenix Thermionic Culture Vulture" valve compressor. This allows you to add parallel compression into the room sound.
It is also possible to control the attack, hold and release for each microphone which allows for creative tweaking of the samples.
Note these are shell samples only, cymbals/hi hats etc are not included.
The samples were recorded at 44.1khz / 24 bit and are available for use with Kontakt (version 5.5.0.409 or higher required) and as TCI files for Slate Digital Trigger. The WAVs are also available within the Kontakt files. Not compatible with Kontakt Free Player.
Sphere Session
Sphere Studios is one of London's finest with a long-standing reputation amongst industry professionals. The session was engineered by studio owner Francesco Cameli who has worked with an extensive client list that includes the likes of Queen, Phil Collins, West Life, Gary Moore, Bullet For My Valentine, New Model Army and TesseracT. Martin Oldham (clients including Maroon 5, Keane, Elton John, Killing Joke and Razorlight) was also on hand as drum tech for the session.
Behind the drum hits were Jamie Postones (TesseracT) and Mike Malyan (Monuments). Both drummers are well respected for bringing a new force to modern drumming. Edited and co-engineered by Tesseract founder Acle Kahney, these samples are a delivery of his personal ideal in drum sound production.
THE DRUMS
DW VLT 20×20 Kick
DW 8″, 10″, 12″, 14″ Toms
Vibe 24×18
Vibe 10″, 13″, 16″, 18″ Toms
Ludwig Black Beauty 5.5″ Snare
The kits were recorded at 88.2khz/24bit (provided as 44.1khz/24bit and 88.2khz/24bit), pre-phase aligned kick drum mics and are available for Kontakt (version 5.10.6066 or higher. Kontakt Free Player is currently not compatible), Slate Digital Trigger and WAVs. Please note these samples are Kick, Toms & Snare only. On average there are 10 hits per velocity and 10 velocity layers. We also added 3 left kick pedal hits for the three highest levels and 3 rimshots layers which we advise using for hardest hits. There are 5-6 velocity layers for the toms.
A mix of the Neve 88RS, Neve 1093 and Neve 1081 preamps were used. We like Neve :) We kept the tight/clean/punchy desk preamps for the DW kit and used the warmer/smoother 1093/1081 preamps to compliment the lower tuned vibe kit. As for the mics...
Kick In Audio Technia AT25
Kick In2 Audix D6
Kick Out Neumann U47
Snare Top SM57
Snare Bottom SM57
Toms AT 251/LE
Overheads AKG C12 (Stereo)
Close Rooms Royer SF12 (Stereo)
Far Rooms Telefunken ELAM 251 (Stereo)
