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Offer ends midnight GMT on 30th November

The 70s Session Superstar Kit is a beautiful Ludwig Classic, with 10, 12, 13 and 16 inch toms, a 22 inch kick and tightly tuned Maple Birch and Yamaha Custom snares. The skins are all Remo pinstripes on the tops and emperor clears on the bottoms, for that classic Steve Gadd 70s sound. All tuned to perfection and mic'ed up at Livingston Studios using their incredible gear list, including a pair of valve Neumann U67s, plus U87s, D19s, 421s and everything you'd ever expect around a kit designed to deliver that super-smooth, clean and meticulous sound that we all know and love from the likes of Steve Gadd, Bernard Purdie, Jim Keltner, Jeff Porcaro, Andy Newmark and other such 70s greats. Tight drums, plenty of reverb and perfectly balanced levels deliver a drum sound worthy of any 70s Session Superstar.

As ever this pack is all fully live and organic, with strictly zero quantising to ensure the feel and groove is fully retained to give your tracks that extra special feel.

This month we’re offering a massive 30% off absolutely everything across the online store! All you need to do is put the code JUNE30 at checkout. The offer will end at midnight BST on the last day of June. Happy Drumdropping!

Utilising Livingston's stellar collection of vintage mics from Neumann, AKG, Coles and AEA into pre-amps from API, Telefunken, GML and Neve this kit will give you the authentic sound to create those signature Northern Soul insistent backbeats and much more.

A lover of analog techniques and recording live Mike Pelanconi learnt his craft the traditional tape op way as a teenager, this was not to last too long and was soon working with the likes of Rebel MC and the early jungle scene alongside the groovers at Acid Jazz before leaving for Los Angeles and hip-hop label Delicious Vinyl thanks to the Brand New Heavies. In LA the experience of working with the likes of hip hop producer JDilla, singers like Saidah Garret (Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones) and sharing a studio with Rick Rubin proved invaluable experience and learning. “The one thing in common they all had was the love of a good drum sound and a passion for drum breaks, but you had to be fast” On returning to the UK it was Mike's fat drum sound and analog style that got him working with Blur's Graham Coxon for two albums until assuming the mantle of Prince Fatty in 2007, after creating the name for a Stussy project. There would be a run of albums after signing with Mr. Bongo, featuring himself and other artists such as Mungos HiFi, The Skints, Mad Professor, Manu Chao, Mungo's Hi-Fi, classic reggae singer Little Roy, who had a surprise hit with an album of Nirvana covers and international break thru thanks to Breaking Bad using Horseman’s Shimmy Shimmy Ya. Fatty's fond of saying that music has no borders but he has an adventurous spirit himself. Since leaving Brighton he's spent lengthy periods in Los Angeles writing, building a new mix studio in Thailand and recording in Brazil all at the same time. Recent collaborations include mixing the latest Skints album and producing The Role Of Monkey Man album for Delicious Vinyl featuring his latest discovery Brazil’s premier MC Monkey Jhayam.

The All Samples Pack contains the Multi-velocity pack, Single Hits Pack, Drum Replacement pack and as a bonus we also include over a thousand separate mic samples taken from our no longer available Kontakt 5 Pack (Please note we do not include the Drumdrops Kontakt Instrument in this pack). You basically get all three packs for the price of two and some bonus samples. Customers can also make their own patches from the two packs of samples included. Included in this pack are the samples from the old Kontakt 5 pack (separate close, overhead and room mic samples) and the stereo mixed samples found in the Multiple Velocity pack and Single Hits Packs. The 400-odd stereo samples are mixed from the close, overhead and room mics. We have include over 2000 samples from the old Kontakt 5 pack providing up to 24 velocities of each articulation and 3 round robins. These packs are perfect for those who want to purchase all three packs in one hit or those who like to build their own patches from the samples.

The samples were taken during the session for the Paul Stone: Indie N Rock album. The kit is a beautiful Ludwig Sparkle, with Supraphonic, Acrolite, Black Beauty and Craviotto Maple snares.