SOME FIFTIES FLAIR
By Graeme Hague
29 May 2013
It probably won’t be your everyday, go-to drum sound, but for drum sampler aficionados Native Instruments has added the Abbey Road 50s Drummer to its catalogue of Abbey Road Drummer expansion packs. After the previous Vintage Drummer release this pack pretty much wraps up the last of the decades. These collections are always recorded at Abbey Road with the attention to detail you’d expect – in this case extra absorbers were used mimic the tighter recording environments of the 1950s. The drums “feature a rough, cutting sound, with massive, resounding snares and mellow cymbals”. The two kits recorded were an early-50s Gretsch Cadillac Green Nitron and a late-50s WFL (William F Ludwig) kit. Both have a choice of three interchangeable snares. You get the usual Abbey Road Drummer interface with a full mixer and a library of grooves played in the style of the era plus some modern ones as well. In all, you end up with 20GB of samples. The sampler needs to be run inside the Free Kontakt 5 player or the full version of Kontakt. For more info it’s www.native-instruments.com
AUSTRALIAN DISTRIBUTOR: CMI Music and Audio www.cmi.com.au
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