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Free Beat Friday #11 – Free Drum Solo!

Merlin March 11, 2022 Leave a comment
Free Drum Solo

Performed by Merlin Matthews on a vintage 70’s Ludwig kit, this free drum solo moves through various drum tones and timbres using broomstick, hotrods and sticks.

The recurring pattern is (very loosely) based on a “Mozambique” feel

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Winter Sale 2022- 50% of ALL Products

Merlin January 18, 2022 Leave a comment
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Today we’re launching our Winter Sale… a massive half-price sale on ALL products! Drum Loops In our winter sale you can pickup one of our boutique loop packs from just £3… Drum Kit Samples Or a full set of drum kit samples for as little as £2… Song Slices Or packs of our popular “song […]

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Purdie Shuffle Loops – “12/8 Shuffle Grooves”

Merlin March 11, 2021 Leave a comment
Purdie Shuffle Loops

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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Free Beat Friday #10 – Linear Drum Groove

Merlin February 5, 2021 Leave a comment
linear drum groove

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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The “Vurst” Drum Mic Technique

Merlin January 30, 2021 Leave a comment
vurst drum mic technique

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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Free Beat Friday #9 – “Funky Snakefoot” HipHop Breakbeat Groove

Merlin January 1, 2021 Leave a comment
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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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Free Beat Friday #8 – Fast HEAVY Rock Drums

Merlin July 3, 2020 Leave a comment
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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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Free Beat Friday #7 – Block Rockin’ Breakbeat

Merlin June 5, 2020 Leave a comment
block rockin' breakbeat

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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Radial ProRMP REAMP Box

Merlin May 12, 2020 Leave a comment
radial reamp box

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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Free Beat Friday #6 – Dancehall Drum Loop

Merlin May 2, 2020 Leave a comment
dancehall drum loop

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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