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LONDON ENSEMBLES
HANS ZIMMER is one of the most successful, influential and prolific film composers of his generation. Having won countless awards (including an Oscar accompanied by an embarrassment of academy nominations). HZ's scores have underscored a generation of hugely successful films, that have turned over billions of dollars, countless awards and critical acclaim. Hans has defined not only a compositional style, but also production approach and sonic innovation that has influenced a generation of composers.
Spitfire Audio are delighted and honoured to present a series of products produced by Hans Zimmer and his diamond class team of grammy winning engineers, musicians and technicians. Where Hans Zimmer's style approach to sonic creation is often copied or emulated we're proud to present to the world at large HZ's definitive take on his trailblazing approach to cinematic percussion production. Herein lies not an emulation or synthesis of his approach, but a recreation. The same studio, musicians, instruments, signal chain and talented engineers, sitting alongside a decade of experience, innovation and refinement overseen in every detail by Hans himself. The same excrutiating attention to detail, perfection but most importantly the endless choice for tweakability and customisation you'd expect of the greatest of sound-smiths.
CHECK OUT AN EXCLUSIVE BEHIND-THE-SCENES FEATURETTE HERE.
HZ01 LONDON ENSEMBLES
HZ01 Will be available to download on the 26th Of November 2013.
HZ01 will be north of 200GB of compressed content (from over 600GB of mixed and edited WAV data)
THE PRICE FOR THIS AWESOME HISTORIC COLLECTION WILL BE £399 WHICH WE WILL REDUCE TO £299 FOR THE FIRST TWO WEEKS WITH AN ADDITIONAL 25% OFF VOUCHER FOR FUTURE PURCHASES.
Recorded at Air Studios via an unsurpassable signal chain. 96 rarefied microphones, into Neve Montserrat pre-amps, the world's biggest Neve 88R desk (which was exhaustively re-gained at every dynamic layer for optimum signal quality), via a dual chain to HDX and Prism converters running at 192k. Well over 30 TB of raw material from these sessions alone.
The London Ensembles sessions feature the cream of Hans Zimmer's hand picked percussion corps playing a distillation of a decade's worth of musical experimentation and innovation. This is not an imitation of techniques explored in films including Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, The Dark Knight and Inception. It is a truthful recreation.
The library consists of microphone positions (as detailed below) mixed in stereo and 5.1 by Grammy and Oscar winning engineers: Alan Meyerson, Steve Lipsom, Junkie XL, Geoff Foster and Hans Zimmer himself:
When you plug in and play this material you will experience a feeling not dissimilar to strapping into a freshly delivered Aston Martin albeit with a choice of livery and paint work that you can repeatedly interchange and customise to your heart’s content.
We have recorded the following drums and articulations each with up to 9 round robins and 6 dynamic layers per hit, at Air Studios through the finest microphones, the finest Neve pre-amps into the Neve 88R desk via prism AD converters at 196k 32 bit floating point (which we have SRC’d to 24bit 48k).
01 – Low Booms
- Hard Beater Hits
- Hard Beater Rolls
- Rim Puilli Hits
- Rim Puilli Rolls
- Rim Stick Hits
- Rim Stick Rolls
- Soft Beater Hits
- Soft Beater Rolls
02 – Low Boom Gallery
- Hard Beater Hits
- Hard Beater Rolls
- Rim Puilli Hits
- Rim Stick Hits
- Soft Beater Hits
- Soft Beater Rolls
03 – Taiko Ensemble
- Hits
- Rolls
04 – Tamtam Ensemble
- Hits
- Rolls
- Scrapes
- Spatial Rolls
05 – Boobams Ensemble
- Beater “Cluster” Hits
- Hand Hits
- Hotrods Hits
06 – Hi Taiko Solo
- Hits
- Rolls
- Rim Puilli Hits
- Rim Stick Hits
07 – Low Taiko Solo
- Hits
- Rolls
- Rim Puilli Hits
- Rim Stick Hits
08 – Large Taiko Solo
- Hits
- Rolls
- Rim Puilli Hits
- Rim Stick Hits
09 – Bass Drum Gallery Solo
- Hard Beater Hits
- Hard Beater Rolls
- Rim Puilli Hits
- Rim Stick Hits
- Soft Beater Hits
- Soft Beater Rolls
10 – Gong Drum Gallery Solo
- Hard Beater Hits
- Hard Beater Rolls
- Rim Puilli Hits
- Rim Stick Hits
- Soft Beater Hits
- Soft Beater Rolls
11 – Surdu Ensemble
- Hits
- Rolls
12 – Dohl Ensemble
- Sticks Hits
- Hand Hits
13 – Tombek Ensemble
- Hand Hits
- Hand Taps
- Hand Slaps
14 – Bombo Ensemble
- Hard Beater Hits
- Hard Beater Rolls
- Soft Beater Hits
- Soft Beater Rolls
- Hand Hits
- Hand Rolls
- Finger Rolls
- Flam Hits
15 – Buckets & Snares Ensemble
- Hits
- Flams
- Rolls
16 – Buckets & Crushers Ensemble
- Hits
- Rolls
17 – Bucket Top & Darbuka
- Hits
18 – Paper Djun
- Hits
- Rolls
19 – Piatti
- Hits
- Choked Hits
20 – Anvils
- Hits
21 – Timpani Ensemble
- Hard Beater Hits
- Hard Beater Rolls
- Soft Beater Hits
- Soft Beater Rolls
- Hotrods Hits
- Hotrods Rolls
- Finger Rolls
MIC/MIX OPTIONS – STEREO
Artist Elements
- Hans Zimmer Close Mono Perspective
- Hans Zimmer Close Stereo Perspective
- Hans Zimmer Room Perspective
- Hans Zimmer Surround (Far) Perspective
- Alan Meyerson Close Stereo Perspective
- Alan Meyerson Room Perspective
- Alan Meyerson Surround (Far) Perspective
- Geoff Foster Close Stereo Mics
- Geoff Foster Tree Mics
- Geoff Foster Outrigger (Wide) Mics
- Geoff Foster Surround (Far) Mics
Stereo Mixes
- Hans Zimmer Stereo Mix
- Alan Meyerson Stereo Mix
- Geoff Foster Stereo Mix
Additional Mics 1
- Bottle Mics Stereo
- Mid Mics
- Gallery Mics
Additional Mics 2
- Overheads Cardioid
- Mid PZM
- Ambient Pair
MIC/MIX OPTIONS – SURROUND
Surround Mixes
- Hans Zimmer Surround 5.1 Mix
- Alan Meyerson Surround 5.1 Mix
- Geoff Foster Surround 5.1 Mix
- Alan Meyerson Surround 5.1 Mix – Close Perspective
- Alan Meyerson Surround 5.0 Mix – Room Perspective
- Alan Meyerson Surround 5.0 Mix – Surround (Far) Perspective
** AS THE LIBRARY IS SO HUGE WE WILL BE RELEASING IT IN STAGES, THE FIRST OF WHICH WILL BE “ARTIST ELEMENTS” – controllable perspectives mixed by Hans Zimmer, Geoff Foster and Alan Meyerson. With more drums, stereo mixes, 5.1s and Junkie XL’s and Steve Lipson to follow.

 

27 mic positions, holy poop on a stick, that's gotta be a new record.

 

Where exactly are you reading that information?

From what I can see it has their common CTSO mic setup.

 

All these would be separate positions or mixes or whatever you call them I guess, 26 actually, lol not 27:
MIC/MIX OPTIONS – STEREO
Artist Elements
1- Hans Zimmer Close Mono Perspective
2- Hans Zimmer Close Stereo Perspective
3- Hans Zimmer Room Perspective
4- Hans Zimmer Surround (Far) Perspective
5- Alan Meyerson Close Stereo Perspective
6- Alan Meyerson Room Perspective
7- Alan Meyerson Surround (Far) Perspective
8- Geoff Foster Close Stereo Mics
9- Geoff Foster Tree Mics
10- Geoff Foster Outrigger (Wide) Mics
11- Geoff Foster Surround (Far) Mics
Stereo Mixes
12- Hans Zimmer Stereo Mix
13- Alan Meyerson Stereo Mix
14- Geoff Foster Stereo Mix
Additional Mics 1
15- Bottle Mics Stereo
16- Mid Mics
17- Gallery Mics
Additional Mics 2
18- Overheads Cardioid
19- 1Mid PZM
20- Ambient Pair
MIC/MIX OPTIONS – SURROUND
Surround Mixes
21- Hans Zimmer Surround 5.1 Mix
22- Alan Meyerson Surround 5.1 Mix
23- Geoff Foster Surround 5.1 Mix
24- Alan Meyerson Surround 5.1 Mix – Close Perspective
25- Alan Meyerson Surround 5.0 Mix – Room Perspective
26- Alan Meyerson Surround 5.0 Mix – Surround (Far) Perspective

 

I haven't read into this release too much (I have plenty of "epic" percussion, and with all of the Zimmer-isms out there and so many looking to copy him, I don't need to use the same exact drums as the guy on top of all of that..), but it doesn't seem like every one of the options above is a separate -mic-. You have lots of mic positions, yes, but a lot of those seem to be different mixes of those various mic positions. Which actually sounds very useful, especially for drums.

 

Great release they made.
Is there someone who bought it? Can you confirm that it works on patched Kontakt?
The documentation mentions Kontakt Player compatibility, but new patched Kontakt does not include Service Center, so it might not work well, that's why I'm asking.