Addictive Drums 2: Rock Collection

Addictive Drums 2: Rock Collection Purest American rock straight from the source Included Products: Fairfax Vol. 1 (ADpak) Fairfax Vol. 2 (ADpak) American Rock (MIDIpak) American Indie (MIDIpak) (Also includes the Addictive Drums 2 Engine) The Gold Standard for Rock Drums If Dave Grohl had to choose one of our Collections, the clever money would be on this one. With Fairfax ADpaks Volumes 1 and 2, and the American Rock and American Indie MIDIpaks, we’ve travelled to one of music’s most sacred spaces, distilled the very quintessence of rock and packaged it up for you all in this extremely punchy Collection. Recorded in the very room that gave us Nirvana’s “Nevermind”, and dozens of other seminal albums from the likes of Metallica, Guns’n’Roses, Slayer, Rage Against the Machine, Queens of the stone age, TOOL, System of a Down, Weezer, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nine Inch Nails, Arctic Monkeys, Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, Elton John. Basically, if you want rock drums in your track, they don’t come more authentic-sounding than these. Addictive Drums 2 It’s All About the Sound Tweak any of the professionally designed presets or build up a custom kit from scratch, it’s your choice. Addictive Drums 2 is packed with mixing and sound-shaping features that let you transform the raw sounds in amazing ways. Whether you need your drums to sound open and crystal-clear or produced and radio-ready, or grungy and heavily distorted, AD2 has studio-grade tools to get the job done. Lightning Fast Workflow The best sounds and features are useless if you can’t find and use them quickly when inspiration strikes. Addictive Drums 2 really excels in this area. Every detail – from drag-and-drop audio and MIDI to rapid linking and layering, to near-instant kit piece swapping–is designed to keep you in the creative zone. The clean layout and lighting-fast workflow include hundreds of individual features that make AD2 fast and familiar – even for first-time users. Every drum kit is recorded in world-class studios by industry professionals and amazing drummers to give you professional sonic options and creative control. Where Do You Start? To get the most out of Addictive Drums 2 you always start with XPN Audio’s Collections. A Collection is a bundle of ADpaks (drum kits), MIDIpaks (beats) and Kitpiece Paks (single drums) put together to give you the best possible drum production experience. Fairfax Vol. 1 (ADpak) Beefy American Rock Drums . Fairfax Recordings – Los Angeles Fairfax Recordings, A.K.A. Sound City… this place is so important to the history of Rock and Roll that Dave Grohl directed a feature-length documentary about it. Nirvana recorded “Nevermind” there in 1990, but since 1969, this one legendary room has pumped out an unbelievable stream of seminal rock albums; Pat Benetar, Metallica, Guns’n’Roses, Slayer, Tool, Rage Against the Machine, the list goes on and on. Now you can have the extraordinary drum sound from this studio right in your DAW. The well-maintained vintage gear, the vintage Altec console, the irreplaceable microphones, the kit, and the magic of the room itself all shine through in this ADpak, giving you a slice of the sound that defined American rock music. Vintage Drum Kit – Gretsch “Stop Sign” To deliver that beefy, muscular drum sound that makes American rock so great, XLN Audio picked a vintage Gretsch “Stop Sign” kit. This 6 ply kit from the ’70s produces a well-rounded sound with a lot of punch and great sustain and nicely tuneable skins. For snares, XLN has spoiled you with a beautiful Craviotto Custom Shop snare and an ultra-rare Tama Bell Brass snare that is pretty much the holy grail of snare drums. This Tama snare, known in the industry as “the Terminator” featured on pretty much every huge rock hit of the ’80s and ’90s, and now XLN captured it in its spiritual home for you to use in your productions. Kit Details: Kick: Gretsch Stop Sign 24×16″ Snares: Tama Bell Brass 14×7″ Craviotto Craviotto Custom Shop 14×7