传奇摇滚鼓
喷火战斗机创造了摇滚历史，三位传奇鼓手——查德·史密斯、罗杰·泰勒和安迪·冈加德恩——在传奇的录音室海德利·格兰奇录制。这是鼓采样的一个新基准，这是一个可玩工具包的选集和一个详尽的灼热循环选择，所有这些都有共鸣混音选项。
概述
Spitfire自豪地介绍了三位传奇鼓手，他们都在一个传奇的地方录制：Headley Grange。任何有点历史摇滚音乐知识的人都知道，这座前维多利亚时代的济贫院，一座坐落在英格兰汉普郡农村中心的私人——有人说是闹鬼的——住所，接待了这个国家培养的一些最有影响力的六七十年代的唱片艺术家，英国坏公司、弗利特伍德·麦克和创世纪都在那里度过了一些富有成效的时光。随着传奇的齐柏林飞船的及时到来，这个不起眼的家庭住宅在摇滚音乐地图上留下了印记，他在1970年至1975年间为齐柏林飞船III和齐柏林飞船IV的同名专辑以及他们的《神圣之屋》和《物理涂鸦》第五和第六张专辑的后续作品创作了一些出色的唱片。事实上，正是在1971年，制作人安迪·约翰斯和鼓手约翰·博纳姆在这里合谋为齐柏林飞船IV的《当堤坝决堤》创造了被认为是决定性的摇滚乐声音。皇后乐队的罗杰·泰勒（Roger Taylor）曾被采样（早期由英国合成器流行音乐先驱Depeche Mode和此后的许多人采样），并在大量摇滚唱片上模仿，他本人对杰出的鼓手并不陌生，他这样描述：“这是基准——许多人努力追求的声音。听起来就像雷声。
这座房子已经40年没有用于如此雷鸣般的活动了，所以我们喷火式战斗机音频公司很荣幸受邀进行最后一组录音。我们肩负着这样的历史重任，开始为这项事业组建最好的演员和工作人员。
The Grange是一个制作精良的鼓库，旨在从那些传奇乐队的足迹中汲取灵感。看看其他传奇鼓手会用这个空间和他们灼热的天赋做出什么，看看在这个神圣的空间里可以发出什么新的权威和经典的声音。我们欢迎红辣椒乐队的查德·史密斯、皇后乐队的罗杰·泰勒和舞蹈健将安迪·冈加德恩，他们的众多打击乐冒险包括与《Massive Attack》、《Chase&Status》、《Rudimental》和《Labrinth》的合作。
背景
Spitfire Audio通过说服Headley Grange的所有者允许一群杰出的人才在2014年夏天的五天生产期内录制最后一组精彩的会议，实现了不可思议的成就——这真的很了不起，因为在这些门再次打开之前，那里已经40年没有录制过任何东西了。一个远程录音室已经准备好，可以捕捉到这个千载难逢的机会，与世界上三位最好的鼓手合作，当到达画眉山庄做他最擅长的事情时，红辣椒乐队的查德·史密斯适时地宣布：“我回来了！”然后他迅速亲吻了神圣大厅的地板，然后尽情地演奏！作为Led Zeppelin和John Bonham的忠实粉丝，Smith应该是第一个追随Bonham脚步的人，随后着手为后代的音乐制作人创造一套令人惊叹的循环、休息、节拍和多采样热门歌曲，以融入他们自己的作品中，这似乎是公平的。
第二天，Spitfire Audio的特权制作团队与摇滚皇室化身一起加入，女王乐队的罗杰·泰勒在同一个空间里发出了他自己的一些非常杰出的鼓声。他确实会动摇你！
完成这三重打击力量，会话坚定的Andy Gangadeen（大规模攻击和更多）。作为英国最受欢迎的鼓手之一，Gangadeen对电子产品的兴趣促使他开发了允许通过他的工具包现场实现编程声音的技术，他真正成功地将自己独特的打击乐风格带到了the Grange，滔滔不绝地说：“这是一个千载难逢的机会，永远不会离开我，所以谢谢你！”
鼓手们
与这三位杰出的演奏家合作，Spitfire Audio最终创造了一套听起来现代、功能多样的顶级样本，这些样本是通过最好和最稀有的经典麦克风、前置放大器和两英寸24轨Studer多轨录音机的组合录制的，随时可以转变为一种灵活的基于样本的虚拟乐器。因为Spitfire Audio的艺术意图一直是专业地拿起Headley Grange的录音棒，那些有影响力的录音艺术家早已停下脚步，继续前进，为世界各地的音乐制作人播下新的种子，即一种权威的鼓声。结果如何？未来的历史采样现在在这里，任何人都可以在the GRANGE听到。Spitfire Audio总监克里斯蒂安·汉森（Christian Henson）是一位屡获殊荣的作曲家，他亲自制作了一个测试版，他说：“最后，这里有一个鼓库，听起来像是一套出色的录音和表演——如果它出现在广播中，这种鼓声会让你放下报纸。与所有Spitfire音频产品一样，我们努力让东西跳出框框，但有了这个，它就会猛烈地踢开，以各种正确的方式侵犯你的感官！这个库是三个深度采样的工具包的组合，每个打击都由三个鼓手传奇演奏，伴随着令人尴尬的凹槽、循环、短语和滚动。Spitfire Audio10年的经验在构建世界上最好的样品仪器时，它还提供了一个优雅、易于使用的界面，让你可以轻松地调整。”
Legendary rock drums
Spitfire creates rock history with three legendary drummers — Chad Smith, Roger Taylor and Andy Gangadeen — recorded at legendary studio location, Headley Grange. A new benchmark in drum sampling, this is an anthology of playable kits and an exhaustive selection of searing loops all with sympathetic mixing options.
Overview
Spitfire proudly presents three legendary drummers recorded in one legendary location: Headley Grange. Anyone with a modicum of historical rock music knowledge knows that this former Victorian workhouse, a private — some say haunted — residence nestled in the heart of England’s rural Hampshire, has played host to some of the most influential Sixties and Seventies recording artists that this country 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 timely 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 producer Andy Johns and drummer John Bonham conspired to create what has come to be regarded as the definitive rock drum sound for Led Zeppelin IV closer ‘When The Levee Breaks’. Sampled (early on by 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 himself — has described it thusly: “It was the benchmark — the sound that so many people strived for. It just sounded like thunder.
It has been 40 years since the house was used for such thunderous activity so it is with great honour that we, Spitfire Audio were invited in to make one last set of recordings. With such a historic burden resting on our shoulders we set about assembling the best cast and crew for such an endeavour.
The Grange is an exhaustively produced drum library that aims to pick up where those legendary bands left off. 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 whose numerous percussive adventures include work with Massive Attack, Chase & Status, Rudimental and Labrinth.
Background
Spitfire Audio achieved the unthinkable by convincing the owners of Headley Grange to allow an assembled crew of outstanding talent to record a final set of sublime sessions spread over a five-day productive period during summer 2014 — remarkable, really, since nothing had been recorded there for 40 years prior to those doors being opened one more time. With a remote recording studio set up ready to capably capture this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work with three of the best drummers in the world, when arriving at The Grange to do what he does best Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith duly declared, “I’m home!” He then promptly proceeded to kiss the floor of the hallowed hall before playing his heart out! As an ardent fan of Led Zeppelin and John Bonham, it only seemed fair that Smith should be the first to follow in Bonham’s footsteps and subsequently set about creating an awesome set of loops, breaks, beats, and multi-sampled hits for future generations of music-makers to incorporate into their own productions.
The following day saw Spitfire Audio’s privileged production team being joined by rock royalty incarnate as Queen’s Roger Taylor delivered some highly distinguished drumming thunder of his own in that same space. He will rock you, indeed!
Completing this triumvirate of percussive power, session stalwart Andy Gangadeen (Massive Attack and many more). As one of the most popular drummers in the UK — one whose interest in electronics led him to develop techniques allowing programmed sounds to be realised live through his kit, Gangadeen genuinely succeeded in bringing his own unique percussive take to The Grange, gushing, “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be in this space — something that will never leave me, so thank you!”
The drummers
Working with these three outstanding performers permitted Spitfire Audio to ultimately create a modern-sounding, versatile set of superlative samples, recorded via a combination of the finest and rarest classic mics, preamps, and a two-inch 24-track Studer multitrack recorder, ready to be transformed into a flexible sample-based virtual instrument to die for. For it was always Spitfire Audio’s artistic intention to professionally pick up the Headley Grange recording baton where those influential recording artists had long since left off and forge forward to sow the seeds of something new — namely, a definitive drum sound for music-makers the world over. The result? Historic sampling for the future is now here for anyone to hear in THE GRANGE. Getting his hands on a beta version, Spitfire Audio Director Christian Henson — an award-winning composer in his own right— had this to say: “At last here is a drum library that sounds like a standout set of recordings and performances — the kind of drum sound that would make you put down your newspaper if it were to come on the radio. As with all Spitfire Audio products, we endeavour to have things spring out of the box, but with this one it violently kicks its way out, violating your senses in all the right ways! The library is a combination of three deeply sampled kits with every hit played by three drumming legends alongside an embarrassment of grooves, loops, phrases, and rolls. Spitfire Audio’s decade-long experience in building the finest sample instruments in the world delivers also on a classy, easy-to-use interface that allows you to tweak away with ease.” |
