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Delivers the real sounds of the first British Invasion.
Fab Four from EastWest Sounds is a virtual instruments collection inspired by the sounds of the Beatles, using the same kind of period instruments and authentic rare EMI recording equipment the Beatles used to create their music. Fab Four sound engineer Ken Scott worked on five Beatles albums and drummer Denny Seiwell and guitarist Laurence Juber were both members of "Paul McCartney and Wings".
No expense was spared finding similar instruments and other recording equipment the Beatles and their producers used back in the day to produce this modern collection. Well over a million dollars worth of instruments, amplifiers, microphones, recording desks (including very rare EMI REDD tube and TG12345 desks), outboard equipment (including Fairchild limiters and EMI RS124 modified Altec compressors), and Studer J-37 tube multi-tracks were used in this production.
If you are a film/TV/game composer, or a musician/producer looking for vintage sounds not found in other collections, this is it. Blending these unique and sometimes bizarre sounds with today's music should enable you to produce something truly spectacular.
Instruments:
•Guitars (some costing over $200,000 each) played by Laurence Juber include Gretsch Firebird (1959), Gretsch Tennessean (1963), Rickenbacker 360-12 (1965), Martin D-28 (1966), Fender Stratocaster (1956), Epiphone Casino (1956), Fender Telecaster (1951), Gibson SG (1960), Les Paul Goldtop (1957), Gibson J200 (1966), Hofner Bass (1963) and Rickenbacker Bass (1964)
•Guitars were sampled with up and down strokes, multiple velocities, and picking styles, some with chords and effects
•Most of the sounds would be impossible to create without all of the above equipment. For example, the "revostortion" guitar sound was created by feeding a Epiphone Casino guitar into one EMI REDD 47 preamp, and the output into a second EMI REDD 47 preamp, which is exactly how it was created originally by the EMI/Abbey Road engineers
•Drums played by Denny Seiwell include a rare 1960 Ludwig downbeat kit with Zildjian cymbals (22" x 14" kick, 5" x 14" snare, 9" x 13", 16" x 16" toms, 18" crash medium, 20" crash ride, 14" Hi-Hat)
•Drums are all multisampled with up to 16 velocity layers, as well as left and right hand. The sounds were all matched to a particular style (e.g. A Day in the Drums, Ticket to Drums, Yer Drums). They even recorded some heavily modulated cymbals through a Fairchild limiter for authenticity
•The keyboards in this collection are categorized by in catchy titles that match the instrument to the songs they were made famous by such as Because I'm a Harpsichord Baldwin Electric Harpsichord), Baby I'm a Clavioline (Clavioline/Baldwin amp), Lucy in the Lowery (Lowery Heritage Deluxe Organ), Strawberry Flutes (original sound licensed from www.mellotron.com), We Can Work a Harmonium (Harmonium), and other stringed instruments including Swarmandel Forever (Swarmandel).
Effects:
Fab Four includes a software version of ADT (artificial double tracking) with built-in tape simulator, created and programmed specially for this project. The software includes smooth filters, delay, and multiple high-quality reverb choices.
Interface
Powered by EastWest's PLAY 64-bit (and 32-bit) Advanced Sample Engine with built-in Network Control (plug-in or standalone), this virtual instrument combines intuitive handling with excellent sound quality, and functions as a plug-in instrument without the need for a sampler.
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