Today we’re launching a new drum loops pack “12/8 Shuffle Grooves” – a HUGE pack of Purdie Shuffle loops, including fills and percussion. The Complete Purdie Shuffle Loops Toolkit Take 149 Purdie shuffle loops played at 4 tempos and articulated (mostly) on hats, hats with crash, ride, then ride with crash… … then add 51 […]
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Blog story about the recording of Free Beat Friday #10 – A linear drum groove is where you only hit every beat of a subdivision in the bar, but don’t hit anything at the same time. Which is kinda strange for a drummer as that’s exactly what we’ve learned to NOT do!!
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VURST? That’s SAUSAGE to you and me… And YES – It does poke rudely amongst the drums like a proudly uninvited phallus. I can only assume this is how the Vurst drum mic technique came to be so-named by it’s inventor, Moses Schneider, the “Einstein of drum recording”.
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Blog story about the recording of Free Beat Friday #9 – The hiphop breakbeat groove in this month’s Free Beat Friday is inspired by Synthetic Substitution by Melvin Bliss which was sampled by The Pharcyde on their classic “Ya Mama”. Our version is swung rather than straight though!
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Blog story about the recording of Free Beat Friday #8 – A fast HEAVY Rock drum Shred-Up!….We’ve done a couple of up-tempo heavy rock drum sessions lately. So we were WELL in the mood for a bit of shred…
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Blog story about the recording of Free Beat Friday #7 – A block rockin’ breakbeat!…. In case you didn’t get the reference (!?!) this month’s Free Beat Friday is affectionately influenced by a fairly well known track by the Chemical Brothers.
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If you want to get ANY pre-recorded signal OUT of your DAW that is as close as possible to an instrument (guitar/bass/instrument pickup) and a musician standing in front of an amplifier, this box is the answer…
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Blog story about the recording of Free Beat Friday #6 – A dancehall Drum Loop…. We recorded this STONKING dancehall drum loop back in December. So we can’t really remember! But it must’ve been cold and we fancied something steamy and exciting to warm up…
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Blog story about the recording of “Deep Dry Soul Kit” – a sample pack containing 41 drum hits recorded across 11 different voices at 4 different velocities. Classic-sounding soul samples produced with a 70’s drum sound.
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A build diary and review of the Sound Skulptor MP573 mic preamp. It’s a DIY kit of a Neve 1073 style microphone preamplifier. This is the story about why and how we started building our own gear. Written by The Beat Shed session drummer, Merlin Matthews.
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