Dave,
Could you please elaborate on this a little -
"Ocean Way Drums is touted as a complete solution..."
Would this mean that there are effects like compression, EQ, reverb, etc? One of the lines mentioned "effects processing" - are you able to go into greater depth on this? I am in the market for a "drum solution" like, um, right now, but I'm willing to hold off to get this if it'll fit both my production and writing needs.
Any ideas as far as price?
What about an ETA on mp3 demos? Tomorrow? GREAT!! Hey, just kidding - get some sleep, you know?
Ocean Way Drums question
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- Sonic Reality Head Chef
- 8566 posts since 11 Mar, 2002 from Florida
What is cool and different about this vs. things like BFD is that this library has the individual channels but it's main presentation is to provide submixes made by the engineers to get certain signature sounds for different types of music.... ballads, hard rock, funk, tight, roomy etc. Both Allen and Steven have done so many records plus the infinite amount of albums that have been done at Ocean Way Hollywood and Ocean Way's Record One in Sherman Oaks (I used to live right down the street from that place... Michael Jackson recorded Thriller there). So they offer all of the types of sounds THEY would want to have. Pretty cool! I myself have learned quite a lot from this! Rare insight from the "masters".
The price isn't cheap so I want to set you guys up. It will probably be a street price in the $700-800 range. I know, that's more than usual but the costs were more than usual plus the whole thing is a "don't hold back" kind of project so you can expect pictures, information about the mics, the room, the studio, the techniques etc. Plus the whole thing is massive (don't know yet exactly what the size is).
Availability should be 3-4 months from now. For real.
It will initially be in Kontakt 2 format but may also be available in others.
As for effect processing, you of course have everything in K2 at your disposal or in your host with the individual outputs. But, what is cool about this is that you get mixes done by the engineers and options of overheads and rooms with compression or without, with subtle EQ and other things they'd do to make it sound like it was right off a record. But you can still mix between the direct, overhead and room to shape the sound. It's just optimized for instant gratification by them.
The price isn't cheap so I want to set you guys up. It will probably be a street price in the $700-800 range. I know, that's more than usual but the costs were more than usual plus the whole thing is a "don't hold back" kind of project so you can expect pictures, information about the mics, the room, the studio, the techniques etc. Plus the whole thing is massive (don't know yet exactly what the size is).
Availability should be 3-4 months from now. For real.
It will initially be in Kontakt 2 format but may also be available in others. As for effect processing, you of course have everything in K2 at your disposal or in your host with the individual outputs. But, what is cool about this is that you get mixes done by the engineers and options of overheads and rooms with compression or without, with subtle EQ and other things they'd do to make it sound like it was right off a record. But you can still mix between the direct, overhead and room to shape the sound. It's just optimized for instant gratification by them.
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- KVRian
- 1157 posts since 1 Apr, 2003 from Good old Germany
Now that's what I call "made for the market's needs". Premixed but adjustable. Great sound bounded to quick workflow. Very cool.Squids wrote:But, what is cool about this is that you get mixes done by the engineers and options of overheads and rooms with compression or without, with subtle EQ and other things they'd do to make it sound like it was right off a record. But you can still mix between the direct, overhead and room to shape the sound. It's just optimized for instant gratification by them.
You NEED to contact toontrack and get them in the boat to include this in their MIDI-Pool-Project
http://www.toontrack.com/ezplayer_free.asp
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- KVRist
- 267 posts since 15 Apr, 2002 from Wiltshire, UK
i recall on my degree course someone spent their industrial placement at Ocean Way - was there during the mixing of Green Day's "Misery", apparently, they had a specialist engineer for each submix (as the track incorporates mariarchi bands and all sorts), so to have that level of expertise straight of a box along with the customisation is really nice.