Vintage Rock Drums – What’s inside

Vintage Rock Drum Loops

In the Loop

‘Vintage Rock Drum Loops’ is the ultimate collection of late 60’s and 70’s rock god beats. Recorded at the legendary Old Smithy Studios in the West Midlands (Robert Plant, Black Sabbath…), ‘Vintage Rock Drum Loops’ pays tribute to local rock drum legends (Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham was born a few miles down the road). Each groove from the series will be available as a separate pack for ultimate flexibility.

Mix Option

Vintage Rock Drum Loops comes with two mix options. Each pack has all the loops and hits available in two contrasting mixes – one upfront and smooth, the other, driven, squashed and loud. We call them Mix A (vintage) and Mix B (modern). Mix A is based on the ‘Glyn Johns’ four-mic method and sounds punchy, direct and smooth. Mix B is a more familiar modern slamming mix driven hard to tape, forced through 1176s and full of room ambience.

Demo Tracks

To give you an idea of how you could use Vintage Rock Drum Loops to construct a track, we’ve taken a selection of drum loops and made a drum arrangement (same drum arrangement for both mixes) which we’ve then jammed over with some choice guitar and bass licks. This demonstrates that Vintage Rock Drum Loops are not only great for looping on their own but perfect for creating a whole song arrangement from. As each pack is released we’ll post a new set of demos here, so make sure you come back and check out what’s new.

Loop Pack 1 Demo – Mix A (Vintage ‘Glyn Johns’ Miking)

Loop Pack 1 Demo – Mix B (Modern Multi-Miking)

File Format

Choose between standard uncompressed WAV (in 16 and 24 bit versions), Apple Loops, Rex2 Loops or the Multitrack Session files. With the Multitrack Session files you get each loop with the original microphone channels (13 in total) separated so you can process and mix – or even drum replace as much as you want.

File Name

Each loop file name is constructed to help you find exactly what you need as quickly as possible. An example would be:

MIX-A_L1A1.wav

MIX-B_L1CF1.wav

This is broken down to:

[mix type]_[groove or fill number] [kit variation] [groove variation] [with crash or and ending crash] [file extenstion]

Codes used:

MIX-A / MIX-B = mix option (vintage or modern).
L1 = loop number.
F1 = fill number
A / B / C / D = kit variation. A = hi hats, B = ride, C = cowbell, D = crashes
X – loop with crash at the start
EX – ending crash fading to silence

Loop Pack Contents