The Claustrophobic EZX
In collaboration with Sontronics Microphones and Evans drumheads
Toontrack
Music announces the Claustrophobic
EZX.
The Claustrophobic EZX marks a new step for Toontrack in
driving the development of percussive samples. The audio team at
Toontrack has utilised drumhead selection, room and microphone
configurations to fuse the qualities of a high end drum recording and
the cutting edge of the radical beats of today’s top RnB, Hip
Hop and Pop producers.
Add to that samples run through the best outboard effects and
made accessible in the Ezmixer to build your own mixer presets for on
the fly sound design and you’ve got all the ingredients to
produce, write and play music that takes you and your beats one step
further, C for Claustrophobic, C for Contemporary, C for Cutting edge.
Oh, and did we mention that the Claustrophobic EZX was recorded in a
very small room?
The Claustrophobic EZX was sampled through the very best of
outboard with distortion, reverb, compression and attack effects
included in the internal mixer. This enables you to access a large
number of mixer presets by STS 9, Richard Devine, DJ Amplive, sub-ID
and Count Bass D. And you can save your own custom mixer presets (with
EZdrummer 1.1).
Twisted Kit EZX by Michael Blair
In collaboration with Michael Blair and Sontronics Microphones,
Toontrack Music announces the "Twisted
Kit EZX by Michael Blair".
In October of 1985 Tom Waits released the album Rain Dogs. The
album was an instant classic and marked a new sound for him. A rough,
dirty neo-blues style with awkward rhythms and hard edges. Part of the
band that contributed to that sound was drummer and percussionist
Michael Blair. His highly personal instrument set-up which included a
mix of regular drums and odd bits and pieces like trashcans, bedroom
furniture and rusty bicycle frames fit perfectly with the sound that
Waits was looking for. The combination of Michaels timing, expression,
and junkyard sounds created a rich and useful range of musical textures
to accent Waits intricate storytelling.
Michael Blair also played and toured with Waits on Franks Wild
Years, the follow up to Rain Dogs, and later became an integral part of
the recordings for Elvis Costello’s Spike (1989) and Lou
Reeds Magic and Loss (1992). Spike became Costello’s most
commercially successful and sonically adventurous album to date.
Two rototom frames form a tonal hi-hat, a duck call suggests
an alternative cowbell, tack drums from China become rack toms and
putting the hubcap of your very first car on top of your snare seems
like the right thing to do. Michael Blair crosses over boundaries of
industrial, blues, ethnic, orchestral, and replacement percussion to
form a unique sound. The Twisted Kit EZX brings you that sound both in
the recordings and the MIDI recorded by Michael.
The Twisted Kit EZX by Michael Blair was sampled through the
very best of outboard with distortion, reverb, compression and attack
effects included in the internal mixer. This enables you to access a
large number of mixer presets by STS 9, Richard Devine, DJ Amplive,
sub-ID and Count Bass D. And you can save your own custom mixer presets
(with EZdrummer 1.1).