User manual FXPANSION BFDDELUXE

[. . . ] Higher detail levels have a higher impact on system resources. Small: Medium: Deluxe: a maximum of 32 velocity layers will be installed a maximum of 64 velocity layers will be installed a maximum of 128 velocity layers will be installed 4. Enter your BFD Deluxe Collection serial / license number (located on the inside front cover of the digipak containing the DVDs) and click Install. You will only need to enter your serial for the first DVD you install. [. . . ] It has two kicks (a 22" and a 24") and 6 toms (the second kick and tom set are loaded into BFD's Mixer Page 2). The Mod Orange kit is a classic premium quality 1960s Ludwig, while the Club Date was part of the lower-priced range. Club Date kits used shells which had slight imperfections, deemed unsuitable for the most expensive Ludwig lines. They also used cheaper hardware which can be slightly noisier. However, they have a unique character all of their own. Gretsch USA Maple Series DW Black Oyster Pearl Sonor Designer Yamaha Pro Tour BackYard Drums protoype The Gretsch, DW, Sonor and Yamaha are some of the best drumkits of recent times, dating from the nineties with the exception of the Sonor, which was made in 2002. Boutique custom drum manufacturer BackYard Drums has been causing quite a stir in drumming circles, and supplied their prototype demo kit for the BFD Deluxe Collection sessions. These sessions, for which the demo kit was flown to Chicago from Los Angeles, represent the first time that these exquisitely engineered drums have been recorded. 4 The acoustic space BFD Deluxe Collection was recorded at Steve Albini's Electrical Audio studio complex in Chicago. The Studio A drum room used for the recordings is much smaller than the Eldorado Studios drum room featured in BFD and BFD XFL. This gives the Deluxe Collection a tighter and more focused sound than previous BFD material, something which is especially noticeable on the Room channel. The PZM channel in the Deluxe Collection is referred to as `ambience' in this manual, as Altec 150 mics were used instead of PZMs. However, the Altecs still record the same type of ambience for which PZM mics are normally used. They were placed on the floor, so the ambience captured is more biased towards the drums, compared to the Room and Overhead mics which tend to be more sensitive to cymbals. It is a less focused sound than the other mic buses in BFD, useful for subtle reinforcement of size and distance. Mics, placement and channel processing The microphones and preamps used in the Deluxe Collection session also differ from those used to record previous BFD content. Mic placement and processing of certain channels was conducted by Steve Albini, and all mics were routed through the preamps on Electrical Audio's custom Neotek console. The channels were set up as follows: Kick In: Shure SM98 For the Kick In channel, the mic was positioned on the beater side of the head. Kick Out: AKG D112 A Urei 1176 peak limiter was placed in the signal path. Medium attack/release settings were used, while the ratio was set to 8:1. Snare Bottom: Shure SM98 This mic's phase was flipped in relation to the Snare Top mic. 5 Snare Top: Sony C37P An NTI EQ3 was inserted in the signal path, with 1dB of gain at 40Hz and 1dB of gain at 2. 5kHz. Hihat: Josephson C42 Hihats were mic'ed with more distance than on the original BFD and BFD XFL sessions. This resulted in less low-end in the recordings compared to previous BFD material. [. . . ] The making of sample libraries in any form, commercial or otherwise, be they either single hits, drumloops, or fully mixed audio clips is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN without express written agreement of FXpansion and its audio partners, and violations will be prosecuted to the full extent of international and local copyright law. The ownership of all the BFD audio material is fully asserted by FXpansion and its audio partners. The License Owner may only install and use BFD on multiple computers strictly under the following conditions: where multiple computers comprise part of a single composition workstation for a composer; or where the owner has two non-concurrent sites of work, for example a studio desktop and a laptop for live performances. Mac is a trademark of Apple Computer Inc. [. . . ]