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Vintage Dead
A beat-making powerhouse for any style
Vintage Dead
Description
Equally perfect for beats and breaks, psychedelic indie pop in the vein of Tame Impala, Khruangbin, and Glass Beams, or hard-hitting rock like Queens of the Stone Age, and Death from Above 1979, Vintage Dead packs the punch you need.
Make your tracks slap with mix-ready, tweakable presets created by the scene’s best, and beats performed by amazing drummers and beatmakers.
Resurrected & packing a punch
This one-of-a-kind 1968 vintage Ludwig kit tells an unlikely tale of happenstance – and resurrection.
It was found peeking out of a countryside dumpster by renowned Swedish drummer Miikal Häggström while on tour. He could not believe his luck. He carefully refurbished it, and quite literally brought this ultra-dead kit back to life.
Customized to hit harder
Converted into concert toms (without resonant heads), this kit is now a custom-built, meticulously treated thump machine, packing a serious punch and a boatload of mojo.
Kit details
List
Blue Oyster ’67 (dampened)
Ludwig Blue Oyster ’67 (dampened) 20×14″
Blue Oyster ’67 (dampened)
Ludwig Blue Oyster ’67 (dampened) 18×14″
Blue Oyster ’67 (dampened)
Ludwig Blue Oyster ’67 (dampened) 22×14″
Bell Brass (dampened)
Gretsch Bell Brass (dampened) 14×6″
Aluminium Guy (dampened)
Sugar Percussion Aluminium Guy (dampened) 14×4″
Agop Trad Hihat
Istanbul Agop Trad Hihat 14″
Blue Oyster ’67 (dampened)
Ludwig Blue Oyster ’67 (dampened) 12×8″
Blue Oyster ’67 (dampened)
Ludwig Blue Oyster ’67 (dampened) 13×9″
Blue Oyster ’67 (dampened)
Ludwig Blue Oyster ’67 (dampened) 14×14″
Blue Oyster ’67 (dampened)
Ludwig Blue Oyster ’67 (dampened) 16×16″
Trad Dark Crash
Istanbul Trad Dark Crash 17″
Trad Paper Th Crash
Istanbul Trad Paper Th Crash 18″
Adop 30th Crash
Istanbul Adop 30th Crash 18″
Agop Sign Medium Ride
Istanbul Agop Sign Medium Ride 22″
Agop Trad Jazz Ride Dmp
Istanbul Agop Trad Jazz Ride Dmp 22″
Xist Brilliant Splash
Istanbul Xist Brilliant Splash 10″
Trashy Tambourine
Istanbul Trashy Tambourine
Dampened Cowbell
Dampened Cowbell
C24 & U67 Boxes
C24 & U67 Boxes
Wood Block
Meinl Wood Block
Clap Stack
Istanbul Clap Stack
Hand Clap
Hand Clap
Finger Snap
Finger Snap
The deadest of the dead
To get the perfect punchy sound, you need to control the drum’s ringing and resonance and the room’s reflections. Usually, you would encapsulate the kit with dampening gobo walls, and treat the drum heads with dampening material. But this is no usual kit — it’s the deadest of the dead.
That’s why we built a custom, near-anechoic “dead box” in Stockholm’s legendary Ingrid Studios, encapsulating the kit together with overhead and close mics. This gives you uniquely dead drum sounds, while still allowing you to blend in the outside room mics to taste with unmatched separation.
Moreover, every kit piece was dampened to perfection using classic methods — tea cloths, towels, blankets, tape, moon gel — you name it.
The result is a beatmaker’s dream, where every aspect of the mix can be controlled and pushed to the limit. Crank the processing on individual kit pieces and make your drums SLAP!
Brand
XLN audio
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