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AKG 451 and Shure SM57. They were recorded through custom modified API<br />
preamps.<br />
Overhead: a lush set of overhead mics - namely AKG C-12’s (which, incidentally,<br />
cost around $15,000 each), recorded through Summit MPC-100A tube preamps.<br />
Room: a room ambience signal, recorded with Neumann U87’s and Avalon<br />
preamps.<br />
PZM: Crown PZM microphones placed at floor level, tracked with API preamps<br />
and an additional compression stage (Empirical Labs Distressor set at 3:1 ratio)<br />
for added body and sustain.<br />
These signals can be mixed together as desired, so you can ‘dial in’ exactly the<br />
amount and type of natural ambience you need, without having to use CPU-heavy<br />
reverb plugins. The ambience in BFD is totally natural and the result of pain-staking<br />
recording in high-quality spaces. Any reverb processor can only try to emulate<br />
such a space, while BFD gives you the real thing. There is additional control over<br />
the distance placement of each mic-set, and the width of its stereo field.<br />
The ambient send levels of each kit element (such as kick, snare, toms, hats and<br />
cymbals) can be adjusted in the detailed mixer section, resulting in exceptionallyversatile<br />
control over the final drum sound. The mixer section even has controls<br />
to handle the blend between mics inside and outside the kick drum, and above<br />
and below the snare. In addition, each individual microphone bus, and even each<br />
individual dry drum component, can easily be routed to an individual output into<br />
the host sequencer’s mixer for further sound processing. The mixer section has<br />
an integrated, intuitive preset system, facilitating the ability to save your favourite<br />
mixer configurations and flick through them with ease.<br />
Hyper-realistic kits<br />
As well as the flexibility offered by the multiple microphone positions, BFD’s high<br />
quality drum sample library has an unparalleled degree of realism. For each<br />
type of drum type in each kit, there are a number of different styles of ‘hits’: for<br />
example, the snares offer flams, drags, rims and side-sticks, while the hihats<br />
include closed and half-open tip & shank, open tip and pedal. Each of these ‘hits’<br />
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