Summary of AbbeyRoad 60s
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User’s manual.
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Abbey road 60s drums - user’s manual – iv table of content 1 introduction......................................................................................................................5 2 aboutabbeyroad60sdrums......................................................................................
Page 5: 1 Introduction
Abbey road 60s drums – user’s manual – 5 1 introduction abbey road studios, the world’s first dedicated recording studios, were opened on november 12 1931. The building is an iconic symbol of the international music industry. The studios have been at the heart of the uk music industry for more than ...
Page 6: 2.1 The Studio
Abbey road 60s drums – user’s manual – 6 2 about abbey road 60s drums in this chapter, you will find out about studio two, the team involved, the drum kits used, and the equipment employed to record abbey road 60s drums. 2.1 the studio studio two, arguably the most famous studio in the world, has a ...
Page 7: 2.2 The Team
Abbey road 60s drums – user’s manual – 7 2.2 the team abbey road 60s drums was recorded by mirek stiles and executively produced by director of engineering, peter cobbin. Mirek has been at abbey road since 1997 and has worked as an engineer on a multitude of pop/rock sessions as well as many differe...
Page 8: 2.3 The Kits
Abbey road 60s drums – user’s manual – 8 peter is abbey road’s director of engineering and is one of the worlds top recording engi- neers. He has been responsible for the remixing of the beatles yellow submarine, anthology and the john lennon back catalogue. Other artists peter has recorded/mixed fo...
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Abbey road 60s drums – user’s manual – 9 snare drums used on this project include: • ludwig chrome supra-phonic 400 (1966) – probably the most recorded snare drum in the history of music. These snare drums have been in production since 1959 and the supra-phonic is still being manufactured today. • l...
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Abbey road 60s drums – user’s manual – 10 2.4 the recording equipment: mixing desks and recorders the gretsch kit from the early 1960s was recorded through a redd.17 mixing desk built in 1958. The redd stands for record engineering development department. It was this depart- ment based at emi hayes ...
Page 11: 2.5 Microphones
Abbey road 60s drums – user’s manual – 11 2.5 microphones abbey road has arguably the largest working microphone collection in the world. A variety of classic vintage microphones from the extensive collection were used to capture the two drum kits. Find a list of which microphones were used for reco...
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Abbey road 60s drums – user’s manual – 12 • kickin: akg d 20 – a dynamic cardioid microphone that has been in use at abbey road since the early 1960s. This was a very popular bass drum microphone. • snaretop: akg d 19 – this dynamic cardioid microphone was first brought into the abbey road studios c...
Page 13: 3 The User Interface
Abbey road 60s drums – user’s manual – 13 3 the user interface this chapter describes the abbey road 60s drums user interface. Learn about its three control pages, the knobs, buttons, and sliders, and how to use them. 3.1 drum page the drum page has a view of the drum kit where you can select each d...
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Abbey road 60s drums – user’s manual – 14 each drum can be selected by clicking on it with the mouse. This will also play the sound of that drum, giving you a quick preview of the sound. After selecting a drum, the name and controls for that drum will appear in the panels on the right. The uppercont...
Page 15: 3.2 Mixer Page
Abbey road 60s drums – user’s manual – 15 you can also assign each articulation to any midi note, allowing you to customize your kit mapping. This is very useful for adjusting the mapping to the way that feels best when playing the drums with a midi keyboard, or for adjusting the mapping to a custom...
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Abbey road 60s drums – user’s manual – 16 each of the faders controls the volume level of the various microphones. The levels of each drum within the overhead and room mixes can be adjusted separately, but this is done on the drumpage(see chapter 3.1 ). The faders on the mixer page are the standard ...
Page 17: 3.3 Options Page
Abbey road 60s drums – user’s manual – 17 3.3 options page the options page includes various parameters, which apply to the entire drum kit. On this page, you can randomize several parameters of the drum output and adjust the volume of the bleed from the snare bottom microphone. You can also make ad...
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Abbey road 60s drums – user’s manual – 18 line). You can customize the relationship between velocity and volume with the vel -> vol knob. The higher the knob value, the more that velocity will relate to the volume of the played sound. Finally, you can change the lowest and highest velocity values wi...
Page 19: 4 Drum Articulations
Abbey road 60s drums – user’s manual – 19 4 drum articulations here is a comprehensive list of all drums and articulations included with each kit. 4.1 early 60s kit drum articulation kick drum felt beater rubber beater snare drum 1 & 2 center left hand center right hand center right/left alternating...
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Abbey road 60s drums – user’s manual – 20 hihat closed shank right/left alternating * closed pedal open pedal open quarter open half open three-quarters open loose open full open controller ** rack tom center right hand center left hand center right/left alternating * rimshot rim only floor tom cent...
Page 21: 4.2 Late 60S Kit
Abbey road 60s drums – user’s manual – 21 sizzle ride tip bell edge choke tambourine tap shake clap solo multi stick hit hit 4.2 late 60s kit drum articulation kick drum felt beater rubber beater snare drum 1 & 2 center left hand center right hand center right/left alternating * halfway left hand ha...
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Abbey road 60s drums – user’s manual – 22 hihat closed tip right hand closed tip left hand closed tip right/left alternating * closed shank right hand closed shank left hand closed shank right/left alternating * closed pedal open pedal open quarter open half open three-quarters open loose open full ...
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Abbey road 60s drums – user’s manual – 23 floor tom rimshot towel rim only high crash edge tip bell choke low crash edge tip bell choke ride tip bell edge choke sizzle ride tip bell edge choke tambourine tap shake clap solo multi stick hit hit * there is a separate note assignment that alternates be...
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Abbey road 60s drums – user’s manual – 24 4.3 default drum mapping: early 60s kit this is the factory midi mapping for the early 60s drum kit. You can customize the mapping on the drum page of each kit. Midi #: midi #: closed hihat - tip r closed hihat - tight tip r open hihat - 7/8 closed hihat - s...
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Abbey road 60s drums – user’s manual – 25 4.4 default drum mapping: late 60s kit this is the factory midi mapping for the late 60s drum kit. You can customize the mapping on the drum page of each kit. Midi #: midi #: snare - halfway l low rack tom - rim only open hihat - 3/4 closed hihat - shank l/r...
Page 26: 5 Credits
Abbey road 60s drums – user’s manual – 26 5 credits productdesign: paul maurer, frank elting sounddesign: paul maurer, dinos vallianatos, adam hanley, nicki marinic, ema jolly, fabian kalker graphicdesign: gösta wellmer, philipp roller kontaktscripting: nicki marinic, dinos vallianatos, adam hanley ...