With multiple kits and multiple rooms, and mic arrays with up to 40 channels, it's perhaps not surprising that The Rooms Of Hansa's impressive audio detail is matched by its impressive size. The kit selection includes Paiste cymbals, but the shells themselves come from brands such as Masshof, Meazzi, Camco, Wahan and Sugar Percussion. In charge of the recording process - and the careful selection of the kits - was Grammy-winner Michael Ilbert, whose credits include Muse, Roxette, the Cardigans, the Hives, Adele, Ed Sheeran and Katy Perry. These spaces have been used to record a combination of six different drum kits (different kits were used in each space), with extensive arrays of close and ambient mics to fully capture the different sonic characters of the rooms. Drum recordings from each of these rooms form the unique feature of this SDX. Four distinctly different acoustic spaces - a small vocal booth, a 'live' room, a 'marble' room with stone walls and the Meistersall (a large hall with a natural ambient sound) - have been the location for countless iconic recordings. From the mid-1970s, it attracted an impressive client list including David Bowie and Iggy Pop ('Heroes' and 'Lust For Life' were both recorded at Hansa in 1977) and others - such as Depeche Mode, Marillion, U2, REM, Killing Joke, Snow Patrol, KT Tunstall, Manic Street Preachers and Chvrches - have followed.Īs befits a studio of this standing, the equipment and staff are of the highest level, but the other key element is the physical space and it is this aspect of the studio that is fundamental to the The Rooms Of Hansa. Located in a magnificent building, it was transformed into a recording studio in 1961, the same year that the Berlin Wall was constructed, and which sits only 150m from the studio building. History In A Placeīerlin's Hansa Tonstudio has a remarkable history. However, with that already excellent core library, what does the The Rooms Of Hansa SDX offer that existing SD3 users might want? Let's find out. While the core 230GB SD3 library is very impressive, Toontrack are happy to tempt users further with a series of SDX libraries and the latest of these is The Rooms Of Hansa. Musicians and producers currently have an incredible choice of virtual drum instruments but, when it comes to acoustic drums, Toontrack's Superior Drummer 3 is hard to beat.

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