Gretsch Catalina Ash
My go-to drumset recorded in my studio.
The story
Hi everyone, Alessandro here. I’m a musician, drummer, teacher involved in many bands (past and present). I also work as a record/mix engineer and as a session drummer. The idea of capturing the sound of my instruments (drums and other gear) deals with a real need: I think that when you’re using drum samples (it’s not a common practice in my case but sometimes helps) would be better to use the same sounds as the instruments recorded. The Gretsch Catalina Ash is my go-to drumset cause its incredible versatility considering that it’s a very economic kit. I can guarantee it has a unique sound if you use the right skins and tune them correctly. So these are essentially my sounds, recorded in my studio.
In the preset you can find 3 knobs:
- mic (close mic)
- room (room mics)
- reverb
Wide variety of mics used for the recording: Takstar, Lewitt, Blue, Samson, Marantz.
Skins: Remo Emperor coated (batter on toms and Snare), Remo Ambassador clear (resonant side on toms), Remo Power Stroke 3 coated (kick, batter).
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Reviews
Almost perfect
Hihats does not responded well in here but if fixed can become a 10/10 drum kit. Also, a crash could be added to. I would easily turn this kit in my-one-to-go.
Useful drum kit
The reported issues appear to have been fixed, making this a very usable kit. Played softly, good for an indie tiny desk concert type of sound. Would be great to have another version of this kit with heavy dampening. Grazie mille!
Great sound quality, need to fix "samples" folder
The samples folder must have a capital S or DecentSampler wont find the samples.
Renaming folder from "samples" to "Samples" fixed the issue in my case.
By alessandrovagnoni
I'm a professional drummer, multi-instrumentalist and sound engineer from Italy, collaborating with many artists (Bologna Violenta, Ronin, Dor, O.r.k. and so...