60s Motown Kit – Vintage Drum Kit Samples by DrumDrops

60s Motown Kit (http://bit.ly/60smotownkit) captures the authentic sound of yesteryear and brings the classic drum sound to you in a range of ultra flexible sample formats. Producer and drummer Timmy Rickard has meticoulusly studied the 60s Motown sound, and has recreated the sound by using the same classic mics and recording techniques to capture the kit completely. The drums were recorded in a large live room at Livingston 1 studio in London, the room was mic’d up as if there was a full Motown band in the room – brass section, vocal mic, talkback mic and then two mics on the kit – a kick, and a kit mic placed above the bass drum, between the rack toms and below the ride. What is the 60s Motown Kit? The kit used is a 1960s Ludwig club date kit with a 20” x 14” kick drum one 12” x 8” rack tom and a 14” floor tom. Four snares were used – two Ludwig Pioneer Snares, a Ludwig Hollywood Snare and a Slingerland Shelbyville Snare. We used two cymbals, a Zildjian Trans Stamp and a Zildjian Constantinople Hammered cymbal (both doubled up as rides and crashes) and some Zildjian vintage hi-hats. Across the tracks there is tambourine, claps and congas. All the drums used Remo Ambassador heads. Mic wise we used Neumann Valve U47’s & 67s, Coles ribbon mics, a Sony C38b and an AKG Valve C28. Mic pre’s used were UA2-610’s, Telefunken V76s and a Neve 1073. All of the mics were recorded without EQ or compression except the overhead microphone which used an EAR vale EQ and compressor.  As well as the kit we include some percussion samples – congos, a tambourine and hand claps. Due to the number of mics we used to capture the sound the seperate mic packs come with a lot of samples. In the Kontakt and BFD packs there are over 30,000 samples used to recreate this kit. Fall in love with the 60s Motown Kit! Check out the full demo and free taster samples here: http://bit.ly/60smotownkit