The story

This drum kit has been sitting around taking up space for too long! I bought it during the COVID lockdowns for $100 to learn a little more about drum tuning but, not being a drummer, I have little use for it now. 🙂 I have built this pack as a record of the kit before its disposal takes place.

There are three round-robins and three velocities of most components. There’s an additional snare hit group with a tea towel draped over the drum. I recorded most of the kit using SM57 microphones (including the cymbals, as they were pretty harsh). For the snare, I used two mics, a top and bottom (with the phase flipped), both SM57s. I used an AKG D112 inside the kick, and an OPR U47 FET outside, and blended them. All tracks were recorded through Universal Audio API Unison preamps and processed with a little EQ, compression and saturation. The full kit has been stereo-imaged from the audience perspective.

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Mark Lowrie

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  • Great natural sounding drums!

    Seriously, we need more drum kits like this. This is such a natural sounding set of drums. Thank you for uploading this!

    Dimaension X16 March 2024
  • Nice Sounding Kit

    Works for the Garage rock, Indie, Shoegaze stuff I'm writing at the moment. As is often the case, the mapping doesn't match any of the other kits I have, so I may eventually dig in to remap it.

    Sid07 February 2024
  • Good Drums.

    The sound is more open and acoustic, there are some snare sounds I always looked for. The set is clean and without reverb, so anyone can make something more hot and loud out of it..., the basic idea is great.

    Paul_Smith14 April 2024
  • Really nice, straightforward drum kit

    Clean and unfussy, this drum kit doesn't sound particularly unique but that's actually what I like about it -- you can add your own processing to fit it into any number of genres. A great all-rounder.