Technical information:
This package consists of 337 loops at 16 different tempi: 65, 90, 96, 100, 110, 115, 125, 130, 135, 140, 165, 175, 180, 182, 185, and 260 bpm in Acidized wav or rex2 format. It also comes with 139 one shot samples from the same recording sessions.
The Drums were recorded using:
- A Tascam TSR 8 8-track reel-to-reel tape recorder
- Various preamps, including a Manley VoxBox and a UA 2-610S
- 5 Microphones, including a Lawson L-251 and a Royer R-121
- A 4 piece Ludwig Kit (12", 13" and 16" toms and 20" kick) dated November 1969
- A much later (early eighties) Ludwig stainless steel snare drum.
- Sabian Cymbals (recent) 13" thin Crash, 18" Crash Ride and 14" hihats
The drums were given new heads (white Remo Ambassador) a day before the session. The resonant heads were removed because John likes them that way.
The Glyn Johns drum miking method was used for these sessions. In this case this involved the L-251 directly over the drummers head, the R-121 pointing at the drummer from a point slightly above and to the right of the floor tom, close mics on top and bottom snare, and close mike on the kick drum.