Urban Vault sound library combines the character of the old school, crate digging, dirty, damaged audio feel that beatmakers love from one-shot sample format with the modern layering method provided in SOLUTION sampler to get the powerful merged sound.
Klavee is the virtual restoration of a gem. The Czech Klaviphon. A plucked electric piano manufactured in the 60s in the Czech Republic. There’s no other Electric Piano like this one and it’s never been recreated into a virtual instrument, until now. A rare-piece specially made for electric piano collectors.
Austrian Grand piano was sampled from a 100 year old Bruder Mikula Wien Austrian grand through a pair of AEA R84 ribbon microphones into an AEA TRP ribbon microphone preamp. Prior to recording, the piano’s hammer felts were sanded down to warm them up a bit. The piano was sampled in stereo under the lid, because that’s where the tone sounded best, at a sample rate of 44.1 kHz. It took many weeks to sample the piano entirely, as it was in such a state that most of the tuning pegs could no longer hold a pitch for any length of time. The piano was sampled labriously, with the softest to loudest dynamics being played, resulting in a library that can boast 10 velocity layers and 2 note round-robin.
‘Gold Trigger VST’ is an individual 808 plugin especially written for this product.
Bark, Cantor, FDelay, Klon, Matrix, Poseidon, Prism, Reflect, TDesign, Tera, Vtape.
Electric Bass was sampled from a Yamaha BB424x electric bass guitar. The bass was modified so that individual pickups were wired to independent jacks, thus allowing for independent sampling of the bridge and neck pickups. Volume and tone pots were bypassed, so resistors were wired in their place to minimize the “ice pick” sound of an electric bass without pots. The pickups were then run into individual Radial 48 active direct boxes and Grace 101 preamps, which provided additional gain. Sampling began by recording with the target of 4 velocity layers with 5 note round-robin. The strings of the bass were kept relatively bright and fresh. Nearly the entire bass was sampled in this manner, but the results were unsatisfactory, so the bass was re-sampled from the beginning with 10 velocity layers, 4-note round robin, and mellow strings.
The digital world with its clarity and accuracy lacks some vibe from the old times. ‘Create a front door for every recording, and call it Front DAW, guys,’ said he, ‘so that every track would have a true analogue input.’ Thanks to him you can turn your DAW Mixer into a real Analogue Console.
