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Sale Now On!

Right now for our January Sale claim 25% off absolutely everything! That's 25% off all our samples, loops, Kontakt Packs and bundles.

Just use the code JAN25 at checkout. Offer ends January 31st Midnight GMT.

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Black Friday Sale Now On!

Black Friday sale now on!! Get 50% off absolutely everything on our online store at www.drum-drops.com. Just use the code HALFOFF at checkout.

Offer ends midnight GMT on 30th November

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SALE! 40% Off Everything in August!

From now until the end of August, you can get 40% off absolutely every product online at drum-drops.com. That's 40% off all loop packs, sample packs, multi velocity packs, multi-track loops, bundles and Kontakt instruments.

There are thousands of high-end drum recordings online, either as single samples or as full drum loops, all recorded at commercial recording studios with named producers, engineers and drummers.

Use code SUMMER40 at checkout.

The offer expires at midnight BST on August 31st.

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Out Now: 70s Session Superstar Kit

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.

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Neo Soul - Out Now

We’re really proud to announce the release of our brand new loops pack - Neo Soul.

Neo Soul is a collection of 42 loops across 22 tempos of super-contemporary drum grooves taking influence from the founders of Neo Soul, such as Dangelo,  Questlove and Maxwell right up to Chris Dave,  Anderson Paak, Nate Smith and Tom Misch.

We enlisted the incredibly talented drummer George Cook for this pack, he's played for, amongst many others, The Japanese House, Collard and Calum Scott. He has recorded on albums for Eminem, Birdy, Marika Hackman, Jamie N Commons, X Ambassadors, Bruno Major and Rag N Bone Man.

Neo Soul was recorded by Billy Halliday (Frank Ocean, James Blake, Sampha, Duke Dumont)at Miloco's Livingston Studio 2 through their Custom Series 75 by Neve desk using only the finest mics from Neumann, Coles, AKG and AEA. Livingston Studio 2 is the perfect space for this kind of drum sound, with its snappy and tight sounding live spaces and massive array of high-end analogue gear.

The kit, owned by George, is a hybrid comprising Ludwig Vistalite toms and snare with a Yamaha Club Custom 20″ kick, and Zildjian and Paiste hardware (full setup on the product page).

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.

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Out Now: Organic Trap

Organic Trap is a collection of 45 tracks across 19 tempos guaranteed to give your tracks a unique and contemporary edge. With its origins in the 90s, Trap hit the mainstream in the 2010s, with artists such as Drake, A$AP Ferg, Post Malone, Travis Scott, Migos and loads more. Characterised by complex rhythms, tuned kicks, triple time hats and snappy snares, our Organic Trap pack is a supreme collection of trap drum loops and grooves.

Organic Trap was recorded at the legendary The Pool Studios in London through its vintage Neve desk with mics from Neumann, AKG,  Coles and AEA. Engineer Billy Halliday (Frank Ocean, James Blake, Sampha, Duke Dumont) was at the helm, with legendary drummer CJ Evans behind the Modern Funk Kit we have available as a sample pack.

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30% Off Store-wide for June

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!

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The Northern Soul Kit - Out Now

Keep the faith brothers and sisters, its time for us to present our Northern Soul kit.

Built around a Ludwig Super Classic kit (22in kick, 12x8 and 16x16 toms), featuring multiple snares from Yamaha, Mapex, Gretch and custom shop Meinl cymbals, we recorded this sample pack at London's legendary Livingston Studio 1 with session superstar Steve Taylor.

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.

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New Release: Funky Conga Drops

Funky Conga Drops is a collection of over 50 loops pristinely recorded by some of the finest conga players in the world, produced by the legendary Mike Pelanconi (aka Prince Fatty).

Recorded on location during Mike's road trip from LA to Sao Paulo stopping off in Havana on the way, this pack features some of the finest percussionists the America's have to offer.

With tempos ranging from 75BPM to a conga-melting 169BPM, there are loops for every genre from disco to soul to old school funk to Latin.

We all know the Prince Fatty sound by now. His futuristic take on old school reggae, soul and hip hop versions – served up in a contemporary style that’s uniquely his and full of character – is already well known on the international club and festival circuit. It's music for our times and popular with a wide demographic thanks to a discography drawn from several continents, and that includes diverse talents such as Lily Allen, Hollie Cook, Jovi Rockwell, Fatlip from the Pharcyde, Jamaican stars Big Youth, Gregory Isaacs and Marcia Griffiths, Manu Chao and the hip-hop Godfathers The Last Poets.

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.

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The Modern Funk Kit - Out Now!

The Modern Funk Kit is a hybrid of Ben Hillier's Slingerland and Premier kits and CJ Evan's Tama kit, recorded meticulously by Billy Halliday in Miloco's The Pool, a truly incredible drum recording studio. The kit comprises the Premier kick, Slingerland and premier toms, Tama SLP Aluminium Snare, Tama SLP Duo Snare, Tama 12" Snare, Radioking snare, Ludwig Supraphonic 400 snare and Sabian cymbals and hats.

Using The Pool's incredible vintage Neve console and array of mics and outboard, we've worked with drummer CJ Evans to bring you a super-tight and punchy modern funk kit with loads of snares to choose from.

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All Samples Packs added!

We’ve just added All Samples Packs to 14 of our drum kits!

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.

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Kontakt & BFD Packs Announcement

Since launching our new website we’ve had tonnes of great feedback from Drumdrops customers old and new. We listen to everything you have to say as after all, we wouldn’t be here without you!

Of course a lot of you have noticed that our old Kontakt and BFD Packs are no longer available. The reason for this is mainly due to compatibility between our custom-built Kontakt packs and the latest updates of the software from NI. Our BFD installers are also no longer supported by the latest versions of Mac OS. 

We don’t want to put out a product that doesn’t work for everyone, so right now we’re busy working with a great team of developers to create rock-solid Kontakt packs complete with support for everyone. We recognise that loads of you loved the old Kontakt packs, and we want to deliver something new that is as good as, or better than, those products. As for BFD - FXPansion recently sold BFD to InMusic, so once we all know how the future of BFD is looking we’re really keen to be able to offer these packs again too.

In the meantime, we’ve been really busy in the studios and have a load of new packs and kits in the works, including a Northern Soul album and Kit, a Krautrock collection, a Modern Funk kit and even some more freebies on the way.

Thanks for all your support thus far, we can’t wait to share all our new products with you!

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Ludwig Sparkle Indie Kit Out Now!

Here we present Paul Stone's legendary Ludwig Sparkle kit, recorded to the absolute highest standards in one of London's fines drum rooms, The Pool, using the very same collection of vintage mics, and original Neve and Api preamps, Urei compressors and Pultec EQs that Noel Gallagher, Placebo, The Maccabees, Nadine Shah, The Horrors, Bloc Party and loads more!

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.

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Free Tama Pocket Funk Kit!

We’re feeling particularly generous this Wednesday afternoon, so much so that we’re giving away a One Shot Sample Pack completely free! Introducing the Tama Pocket Funk Kit, recorded at the legendary Livingston Studios, and used on the hugely popular Pocket Funk packs we have for sale.

The One Shot Sample Pack contains a load of totally free single hit samples, ready to load into a sampler of your choice. We’ve even thrown in a patch for Kontakt, so it’ll load up on Kontakt version 5 and 6.

Stay tuned for more packs being added soon!

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New Paul Stone Indie N Rock Pack Released

We’re delighted to announce new Indie and Rock loop and multitrack packs courtesy of Paul Stone! 

Paul Stone is an incredible session drummer who has recorded, toured and played with a diverse range of musical artists/acts such as: Tom Baxter, IAMX, Red Racer, Moke, Micheal Malarkey, Senser, James Dean Bradfield, Mexicolas, Soho Dolls, Ryan Davies and Entronaut.  Paul proudly endorses Ludwig drums and Vater drumsticks.

With tempos ranging from 65-163bpm Paul takes us on an incredible journey spanning the 60s to present day of many of the beats that have influenced him and countless others. Influences in these killer grooves range from rock legends such as Hendrix, Zeppelin and Aerosmith to the funky beats  of  the Beastie Boys, Stone Roses and Chill Peppers right up to Deftones and Tame impala. Spanned over a huge 2.5gb of data this truly is a comprehensive collection of all things indie and rock, all 100% royalty free and   meticulously recorded in 44.1k /24 bit at London's legendary The Pool studios.

Pauls Ludwig drums were recorded thorough the Pools huge collection of vintage Neve and Api preamps, each nuance captured by a selection of mic’s by Neumann, Royer, AKG, Shure and Sennheiser. We truly enjoyed producing this collection in the knowledge of it being far from just another run of the mill loop pack, we truly believe these beats will add that extra special edge to your productions.

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Drum Replacement Pack and One Shot Sample Pack available now on the Drumdrops site. Pack comes with patches for Slate Trigger 2 (includes over 9000 samples), Drumagog v 4 & 5 and DrumXchanger. 

The One Shot Sample pack is our most basic pack - it includes one velocity of each articulation - 53 samples. Great for drum machine users who don't need multi-velocity layers. 

You can buy these packs here:-

https://drumdrops.com/drum-samples/60s-Motown-Kit/buy-kit

Use the voucher code 60smotown20 to receive 20% off.

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Vintage Funk Kit Released

The first 4 packs of the Vintage Funk Kit are now live on the Drumdrops site to purchase. This was recorded and setup to recreate the sound of a classic 70s Funk Kit. The kit we used was a Sonor Hilite Kit sampled and owned by Brand New Heavies drummer Jan Kincaid. The kit comes with a great selection of cymbals and percussion. Recorded at the Ironworks studio in Brighton by master drum supremo Mike Pelanconi this Funk kit is the best sounding Funk kit on the market.

Today you can buy the Multi Sample Pack, the Drum Replacement Pack, the One Shot Sample Pack and the All Samples Pack. The BFD Pack and Kontakt Pack will be released in the near future.

To find out more about this kid head over here. 

To listen to some samples of the kit head over here.

To buy the kit head over here.

To get a 20% discount on this kit use the voucher code funkkit20 at checkout.