This NKI includes Room Tone from all the Mix positions, recorded on the empty scoring stage through Dennis’ gear.  You may be amazed to listen to the actual noise that is present on such a stage but such is life in the real world.  Hold down a note to hear the tone and leave it down to hear it longer.  You might wish to drop this in at the top of your template and plop it on your next track.  Let us know if you notice any magic.

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Both Drums of War 1 and 2 are rather organic libraries, if you could have listened to the recording sessions for each you would hear a sound in the room that would closely resemble the final sound of the product.  Therefore, our intention here was not to spoil the general identity of the library but perhaps adjust them so they accomplish more or less the same thing while leaving room for other instruments to contribute to the mix.

Here we are passing along before and after audio, screen grabs and precise channel strip settings for use in logic, with logic’s complimentary plug ins while using the default patches.  Note these settings can easily be reproduced for very similar results in the sequencer of your choice.

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DOW1 Sub Boomz Before and DOW1 Sub Boomz After

Drums of War 1 – Sub Boomz 

Notice the sharper attack, identifiable snap and longer/tighter ring out. Designed to cut in the mix and take up less bandwidth.

Drums of War 1 – Titan Ensemble 

This particular patch has become a sort of a standard  hollywood big drum sound so we didn’t want to do much to spoil it.  Just some gentle compression to finesse it into the track easier. It is a patch that works quite well naked due to its recording environment. 

Drums of War 1 – Combat and Battle Drums

If memory serves us correctly these drums where fairly similar to one another, a sort of antiquated medium sized drum.   We’ve often thought of these drums as partners for one another and these settings realize this.  Panned hard left and right -  adjusted slightly to compensate for the combat drum being slightly louder.  Added head and slightly scooped mids allowing them to cut easily.   Perfect for “fills.”

Drums of War 2 – Frame Drums

If you listen to Irish Music you will note that frame drums can really put out a huge and deep sound given their relatively small size.  However for cinematic use, we have other patches that can give us the boom in a cleaner fashion.  So here we decided to omit the lower half of the drum’s spectrum allowing the frame drums to exist in their oft desired treble range, especially effective at mezzo and soft dynamics.

Drums of War 2 – Mondo Toms

Here we did some more extreme work to make the toms more “tommish,” closer to the sound heard in rock and pop albums.  There are times when you go to great lengths to mask a tom but use this when you actually require one. 

Drums of War 2 – Sub Boomz 

The sub boomz from DOW II were recorded on a taiko rather then the orchestral bass drum so they naturally are a bit higher in nature. Sometimes this is desirable, as a low hit can often be more of a statement then one wishes to make.  The eq settings for this patch is intended to be a bandwidth filler, an opposite of the DOW 1 sub boomz.   This will blend nicely with ambient textures and snap/attack less then its older comrade. 

You can now take advantage of the Drums of War Bundle (DOW I and II for 199$)

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We will be posting photos and updates from the sessions this week. Stay tuned to our facebook and twitter pages to keep updated.

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We have an announcement on something we have been planning the past few months.

CineBrass PRO is coming this Fall!!

Same deal: SONY, Dennis Sands, Union… but 2x the content of CineBrass 1

The recording dates at SONY have been booked for July. (squeezed in right before Williams’ Tin Tin score)

Mutes? Yes.
Extensive Soloists, with artics? Yes.
CineOrch style antics? Yes.
Feedback from you guys in the coming weeks as to what YOU want in the expansion? Yes!
Competitively affordable and no-brainer upgrade options? You’ll see…

CineBrass PRO will be an EXPANSION to the existing CineBrass library. There will be upgrade options, as well as a bundle offers. Stay tuned for details info. We hope you enjoy CineBrass, and we look forward to revealing more details soon.

Only $399!