Superior Drummer Custom & Vintage SDX upgrade

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New has not been used, comes in original package and has its serial number for you to register. Open box Custom & Vintage SDX upgrade The Custom and Vintage SDX is an expansion pack for the award winning Toontrack Music drumsampler Superior Drummer 2.0. It features extensive stick and brush recordings of a unique collection of drums and cymbals.The SDX gives everyone from top producers down, access to the cream of custom and vintage drums, built by craftsmen from the 1920s right up to the exceptional instrument makers of today, like Johnny Craviotto.Most of these highly prized instruments (like a 1920s Ludwig Black Beauty, or Craviotto Timeless Timber) can only be found in the collections of top studio drummers or hired from rental facilities in the major music centres of the worldRecorded at 2Khz studio in London using an EMI TG Desk used for many legendary recordings of the early seventies including The Beatles Abbey Road and Pink Floyds Dark Side of the Moon. It is considered one of the best sounding desks ever made. The Custom and Vintage SDX was played by Chris Whitten. The drummer on classic hits like What I Am by Edie Brickelland The New Bohemians and The Whole Of The Moon by The Waterboys. Whitten was hailed as a world class drummer playing on Paul McCartneys Flowers In The Dirt album and subsequent record breaking World tour, and Dire Straits 18 month On Every Street tour. Chris has also recorded with such varied artists as Johnny Cash, Julian Cope, World Party and The Pretenders.The Custom and Vintage SDX was produced by Peter Henderson who started his career at Air Studios where he trained and worked with Beatles recording engineer Geoff Emerick (Sgt. Pepper, Abbey Road etc). as well as with the legendary George Martin.Henderson produced Supertramp´s 20 million selling Breakfast In America, for which he won a Grammy. He has also worked with Paul McCartney, Rush, Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, Tina Turner and Ringo Starr. The Kits Noble & Cooley Star Series ”This is an exact copy of the set I took on the road with Paul McCartney in 1989.At that time I was one of only two drummers touring with these radically designed drums.The toms and snare are single-ply, steam-bent shells (in the style of vintage Slingerland Radio King snare drums). Designed for N&C by Bob Gatzen, the shells proved time consuming and expensive to produce. Sadly, only the Star Series snare drums are still in production.” Camco Oaklawn ”Thought by many to be one of the best sounding drum kits ever made.Camco went through several incarnations and factory sites (Oaklawn, Chanute, Los Angeles), with the mid to late-1960s Oaklawn era drums being regarded as arguably their finest. The Camco name finally faded at the end of the 1970s, but their drums live on in the hands of those who love classic drums. Current prices reflect that desirability. Lucky for me the rock sizes are slightly less hard to find than the 18, 12 & 14 bop kit, so desired by jazz drummers.Camco drums have a big, warm tone that instantly says vintage. However in my opinion they easily match - and surpass in most cases - the drums being designed for recording today.” Slingerland Studio King ”Having been acquired by Gibson guitars in the 1990s, the Slingerland name briefly re-emerged with the manufacture of Radio King snare drums and Studio King drum kits under the watchful eye of Pat Foley in Nashville, Tennessee. During the making of Custom & Vintage, Mike Udell at Drumhire repeatedly told us the Studio King set in his inventory was one of the best kits hed ever owned. Having already achieved great results with a Radio King Select snare drum from the same period, we decided to rent the Slingerland kit and record it using the standard 1970s method. We removed the bottom heads of the toms and resonant head of the bass drum. Sennheiser 421 microphones were positioned inside the toms instead of the usual method above the batter head. This gives you a fatter sound, with a lot of separation. More to t... read more

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