E-drummers have another VST option thanks to Spectre Digital, which recently launched Icon Drums Classic Rock.
Designed to run on Kontakt Player, the pack was sampled from a Pearl Music City Custom Reference Pure kit (26” kick, 10” and 16” toms; Ludwig Supraphonic and Black Beauty snares; and a range of cymbals).
Spectre says the kit was recorded in a world-class studio with legendary equipment, including “industry-standard microphones and mic-pres you would expect of a serious drum recording”.
They were recorded using the ‘Glyn Johns overhead microphone technique’ as heard on tracks from The Kinks and The Who, to Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones.
Every piece of Icon Drums Classic Rock is tweakable with variable EQ, compression, a transient designer, saturation and reverb on each channel.
The Mixer page also allows for tweaking of the Master outputs, with parallel compression, tape saturation, Pultec-Style EQ and SSL-Style bus compression.
Unusually, the VST also allows drummers to add their own one-shot kick or snare samples.
Spectre claims the pack “works well with (any) electronic drum kit and if you need to make some tweaks, MIDI remapping is quick and easy” – something not easily achieved within Kontakt itself.
Icon Drums Classic Rock is available for an introductory price of $80 before rising to $110.