Toontrack – Superior Drummer 3 Complete

Drums

Over 230GB of top-shelf drum samples

Award-winning engineer George Massenburg recorded the sounds in Superior Drummer 3 at Galaxy Studios in Belgium. He utilized Galaxy Hall (the studio’s main multi-purpose room), which is renowned for its near-perfect acoustics. Over 230GB of raw, unprocessed sounds were captured with 11 surround microphones for playback in stereo and up to 11.1 surrounds. Massenburg used nothing but world-class gear, including mics from Neumann, Sennheiser, Ehrlund, Beyerdynamic, AEA, Sanken, and Schoeps.

Mixer

Route, bus, send, saturate, and blend

The mixer in Superior Drummer 3 is loaded with 35 studio-quality insert effects, so you can process your drums before they hit your DAW. Create groups, buses, routing, and sends exactly like you would with a hardware mixer. A wide variety of presets are available for all included kits, and you have complete control over mic bleed and more. You can even save your own custom instruments, including third-party samples and drum stacks.

George Massenburg

World-class drums recorded by a studio legend

The drum sounds in Superior Drummer 3 were engineered by legendary recording engineer George Massenburg (Earth, Wind & Fire; Lyle Lovett; Little Feat; Linda Ronstadt). Besides being the inventor of the parametric equalizer, George has produced, mixed, and engineered over 400 albums, received countless industry awards, been inducted into the TECnology Hall of Fame, and received an honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College. George’s painstakingly thorough approach to his projects is evident in everything he touches, and SD3 is no exception.

Instruments:

Kits

• Ayotte Classic
• Gretsch Round Badge 1960s
• Ludwig ’70s 3-ply Classic
• Ludwig ’70s 3-ply Concert
• Pearl Masterworks
• Premier Genista Birch Original
• Yamaha Beech Custom
• Plus 350 vintage and classic drum machine sounds

Snares

• 5.5″ x 14″ Ayotte Custom Maple
• 5″ x 13″ Ayotte Maple Custom Yellow
• 4″ x 14″ Gigster “Slim”
• 3.5″ x 14″ GMS Brass Piccolo
• 5″ x 14″ Gretsch Solid Aluminum
• 5″ x 14″ 1930s Leedy Broadway Standard Solid Mahogany
• 8″ x 14″ Lignum Custom Pear Stave
• 8″ x 14″ Lignum Custom Pear Stave (w/ extra drumhead)
• 4″ x 14″ 1920s Ludwig Black Beauty
• 5″ x 14″ Ludwig 400
• 6.5″ x 14″ Ludwig Black Beauty
• 8″ x 14″ Ludwig Coliseum
• 5.5″ x 14″ Ludwig Jazz Festival
• 6.5″ x 14″ Ludwig Super-Sensitive
• 7″ x 14″ Noble and Cooley Steam-bent Maple
• 6.5″ x 14″ Noble and Cooley Zildjian Cast Bronze
• 6″ x 14″ Odery Air Control Vented
• 4.5″ x 10″ Odery Hard Hoop Aluminum Wood
• 6″ x 14″ Pearl Masters Custom
• 10″ x 14″ Rogers “Yorktown” Eagle Batch
• 5″ x 14″ Slingerland Radio King
• 2.5″ x 10″ Sonor Select Force Jungle
• 8″ x 14″ TAMA Artwood Maple
• 6.5″ x 14″ TAMA Bell Brass
• 6″ x 14″ TAMA Warlord Collection Masai Bubinga KGB146
• 5.5″ x 14″ Yamaha Copper Nouveau

Tools (available on select kits and instruments)

• Sticks
• Mallets
• Brushes
• Blasticks
• Rods

Effects:

Delay

• Classic Echo
• Filter Delay
• Tape Delay

Distortion

• Bitcrusher
• Distortion
• Fat Muff
• Tape Simulator
• Valve Distortion Box

EQ

• Creative Filter
• EQ
• EQ84

Dynamics

• Classic Compressor
• Comp 670
• Comp 76
• Compressor/Limiter
• Frequency Gate
• Punch Exciter 361
• Punch Exciter 180
• Transient
• Limiter Pedal
• Multiband Compressor

Reverb

• 1981 Classic Reverb
• Hall Reverb
• Inverse Reverb
• Plate Reverb
• Room Reverb
• Spring Reverb

Modulation

• Auto-Wah
• Chorus
• Dimension T
• Flanger
• String Machine Chorus
• Phaser
• Tremolo
• Vibrato