Historic Rock Drums. Spitfire creates rock history with three legendary drummers recorded at one legendary location. A new benchmark in a drum sampling, this is an anthology of playable kits and an exhaustive selection of searing loops all with sympathetic mixing options.
Spitfire proudly presents three legendary drummers recorded in one legendary location … Headley Grange. Anyone with a modicum of the historical rock music knowledge knows that this former Victorian workhouse, a private – some say haunted – residence naked in the heart of England’s rural Hampshire, that has played host to some of the most influential Sixties and Seventies has produced, with fellow Brits Bad Company, Fleetwood Mac, and Genesis all spending some productive time there.
This unassuming family home really made its mark on the rock music map with the true arrival of the legendary Led Zeppelin, who made some remarkable recordings there when writing parts of their eponymous Led Zeppelin III and Led Zeppelin IV albums, as well as their Houses Of The Holy and Physical Graffiti fifth and sixth album followups, between 1970 and 1975. Indeed, it was here in 1971 that the producer Andy Johns and drummer John Bonham conspired to create what has come to be considered as the definitive rock drum sound for Led Zeppelin IV closer ‘When The Levee Breaks’. Sampled (early on by the British synthpop pioneers Depeche Mode and many more since) and long since imitated on a legion of rock recordings, Roger Taylor of Queen – no stranger to distinguished drumming sound that so many people strived for. It’s just sounded like thunder. We were like, ‘Wow!’ “.
It has been 40 years since the house was used for such a thunderous activity. With such a historic burden, resting on our shoulders, we set about assembling the best cast and crew for such an endeavor.
The Grange is an exhaustively produced drum. To see what other legendary drummers would make with the space and their searing talent and to see what new definitive and classic sounds could be made in this hallowed space. We welcome Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Roger Taylor Of Queen, and dance stalwart Andy Gangadeen.
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HITS, LOOPS & MIXES
To say The Grange is an embarrassment of riches is an understatement. Each drummer has kindly gifted us a deeply multi-sampled kit with every note played by each legend. They have the epic anthology of literally thousands of loops. From simple straight up grooves to ‘signature’.
It is Spitfire Audio’s mission to provide music makers with tools that offer an enhancement to our working lives. So this award, the winning group of composers, producers, engineers and technicians did not set out to re-invent the wheel. But just to make it work better. The goal was singular. Make it spring out the box, make it sound like a Grammy winning, Brit garnering, Ivor Novello. Make it work without fiddling, and make it up.
Nick Taylor our engineer who has tracked these historic recordings from conception to completion. The finest rarified selection of mics were enlisted to trustfully capture the magic. He used a bespoke selection of Neve and API pre-amps and, in what is a drum-sampling one-off, used the finest 2. is not written to tape, it will not be sound as good. “But just after the AB-ing the two signals, we have to agree with Roger Taylor;” It just sounds better ” .
There is a huge number of mix options on The Grange from Nick Taylor’s fabulous 3 mixes (Tight, Mid, Epic) which just spring out of the box. We did not want to be happy with the sound you’re kind of dreaded, having a dread of smb. And he did us proud, not a single plug in was armed in providing these mixes, he was enlisted the fine and pristinely maintained Cadac desk and awesome selection of vintage and modern outboard of Air-Edel studios, London.
Alongside his mixes are numerous different tweakable perspectives to give you the chance to “easy tweak” all the way to creating complex multi tracks of your own. Mixes and perspectives that are mostly reflected in the loop library. So grab one of Andy’s awesome hi hat grooves, then load his kit to work up the beat that you want.
Publisher : Spitfire Audio
Format : KONTAKT 5.5.1 +
Quality : 24 bit 48 kHz stereo
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