This room really brings out the very essence and raw nature of these instruments. With its concrete-lined walls, the room at Studio B produces a hard but still deep and precise tone, making it a perfect sonic environment for big, reverberant rock and metal drums. This library comprises three full kits, a wide assortment of cymbals and a total of seven snares drums, all recorded using the utmost in recording equipment. Having produced and mixed defining albums by some of modern metal’s most priced acts like Testament, Megadeth, Accept and Killswitch Engage, Sneap has had an instrumental role in shaping the sound of metal as we know it in the new millennium. Heavy acts like Metallica, Soundgarden, Kiss, Pearl* Jam and many others have all mixed or recorded groundbreaking works here.Īt the helm recording, a man that needs no introduction to the world of metal Andy Sneap. Formerly known as the A&M Studios, these landmark facilities have housed the who’s-who of the recording industry of the past few decades. The sessions were conducted at Studio B of Los Angeles’ Henson Recording Studios. It comes with fundamentally the same collection of instruments but includes a wider variety of mic selections as well as a custom bank of kit presets. What makes it different from the EZX version is that the SDX sounds are raw and without post-processing, meaning the source material recorded directly at the studio. This SDX expansion for Superior Drummer 2 features the original recording that was used as the foundation for arguably the most popular set of metal drum sounds on the market the Metal Machine EZX. Obviously.The original recording that the Metal Machine EZX was based on. The expansion pack costs £125/$179 and requires Superior Drummer 2.0 to be installed on the host machine. To create the SDX, Toontrack employed drummer Tomas Haake (of Meshuggah fame) and seven colossal drum kits to compile an incredible 300,000 individual samples. As with the all the Superior Drummer 2.0 sound sets, there are a range of range of mic choices, too: two sets of stereo and mono ambience mics two sets of overheads a ‘snare trash’ mic three choices of close-proximity snare mics, and a range of kick-drum options, all of which can be mixed using the Superior Drummer user interface. Metal Foundry users can build a virtual kit from a choice of 12 different kick drums, over 40 different toms, 15 snare drums, and probably enough cymbals to sink a small fishing vessel. The Metal Foundry contains, as you might have guessed, drum samples suitable for use in rock and metal music.
The second expansion pack (SDX) for Toontrack’s virtual drum software, Superior Drummer 2.0, has been announced.
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