These drums were recorded while I was studying at Abbey Road Institute. The studio had a lovely Natal birch drum kit with Zildjian cymbals that were part of all my projects while I was there. I thought it would be nice to capture some samples before I finished to use them for future projects, and a few years later I turned them into my first virtual instrument.

The drums include bass drum, snare, tom1, floor tom, cymbal, cymbal sizzle, and ride and ride sizzle. All were captured with top-quality microphones including U87s, SM57, Sennheiser 441 and 421, RE20, AKH D12vr and through a lovely analogue Neve Custom 75 console.

To make it even more similar to the experience that I had at the Institute I included a classic warm plate reverb from the Lexicon 300 that we used all the time in the studio.

Contributors

Carlos Bricio

This is my first Kontakt instrument. I made it using the samples that I recorded from Abbey Road Institute's drum kit while I was a student. Years later, I thought it would be nice to share these samples with the community in the form of a virtual instrument.