Meet Eddie Kramer and get a glimpse of what happened behind the scenes at AIR Studios during the making of the Legacy of Rock SDX. Find audio demos, more videos and info here: www.toontrack.com/product/leg...
It's a celebration to watch you guys at work. You did rock music a great service. Capturing those sounds an making them available to all of us, even to young musicians and producers who don't even know who Charlie Watts, John Bonham and Mitch Mitchell are means really passing on the legacy of those increadible drummers. Thank you.
@Andy Zett It's true bro ! Only 1 pack fit to my music is Kick and Snare, which have alot of sound to choose and they all easy edit because it not focus to any specific genre. Will be great if Toontrack do the same with Cymbals and Toms
As a drummer for the past 35 years and a fan of all 3 drummers, knowing precisely what each drummer used in terms of gear, how they tuned their kits, and what heads they used, I'd say its very close, but no cigar.. Both Eddie Kramer and this drummer did a superb job, but its not quite the same. Most of Bonham's sound came from the way he played the drums, and you simply don't hear that element captured in this recording. The Charlie Watts sound wasn't precise is either, nor Mitch Mitchell's. The lacking element in all three was the higher tuning on all drums which they did not achieve here. What I'm hearing are modern variations of very old school tuning and sound techniques. Bonham didn't use a powerstroke 3 clear head on the vistalites. He used black dot clears all around with felt strips on both reso and batter sides, like the big band drummers would use to muffle their bass drums , which wasn't often. And they used ambassador and calf heads which were the only ones available at the time. Mitchell's kit came close, but again as Bonham did, he tuned his drums way higher than usually tuned for those sizes, again using that jazz/Big band era element for tuning, which I find wasn't captured here. Mitchell also used ZILDJIAN avedis cymbals and Charlie used the italian made Ufip, and Bonham used paiste.. With that said, let's call these sounds what they truly are. Modernized, over perfected drum sounds from three legendary drum sounds, but still a little further away from the originals.
Fantastic guys. Man! And on first listen, these snares sound immediately useful across a broad spectrum of styles. I have felt in some past SPD3 SDX’s there have been one or two snares I’m so psyched to play, then they’re tuned in a very particular style, super-cranked for example, or the snares are super loose or conversely, choking the drum, which might be exactly what they were going for, but, might be only useful as a particular effect. I find myself not using them much. That said, it is fun to layer one of those “quirky” snare sounds on top of something more “traditional” for added depth, ring, snare sustain or attack. WHAT IF: you could record the snares, with say, 3 or 4 different snare tensions, that we could then choose from, maybe even implemented in an update as a “virtual snare strainer”. With the bleed, and surround, we would need what, an 8 terabyte drive for one SDX? Haha Congrats guys, I can’t wait to get my hands on this one, love what you’re doing and who you’re doing it with!
This, along with Decades, are the best sounding and complete libraries for Superior Drummer. There's 4 or 5 that I really can't tell the difference between, sound wise. But those 2 that I mentioned sound amazing on anything (Jazz, Rock, Funk, etc). Wish there was a world kit (African, Brazilian, etc) or an updated Free Jazz kit (Sticks and Brushes are very dated and had terrible presets) instead of another generic rock kit.
I want all of these kits, but recorded in the Galaxy Studio room!! Holy fuck that rooms sounds perfect in every single way... Toontrack will you ever record kits in that room again??
When I'm saving up to just get SD3 and now I want all the expansions, ill stick with BFD because otherwise Ill spend several grand on drum libraries......:S
@@robsco1249 in The Metal Foundry have Sabian, Zildijan, paiste and some Bosphorus cymbals and a P.S. : it's only the unique Ian Paice Snare, not the kit...a lot of bands used the Ludwig Silversparkle in 60's and 70's
