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Chiodos
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Drums That You’ll Remember
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Chiodos Drumkit is an emersive drum library (for Kontakt 7 Full and above) that puts you in the room with the drumkit.
Recorded a “Saxman Studio”, Nick (and Chiodos drummer, Nick Clemenson) captured a Ludwig Vistalite kit with a Black Beauty snare and top-of-the-line Zildjian cymbals through a six-figure signal chain—the same class of preamps, EQs, compressors, and conversion used on major records—so tone, depth, and punch are baked in.
These are the exact drums from Chiodos — All’s Well That Ends Well (Anniversary Edition): same kit, same room, same mic positions, same outboard, same hands.
Load it up and you’re holding the album’s drum tone in your session.
Make it stand out.
Chiodos Drumkit gives you 14 mix channels plus two dedicated one-shot slots—kick and snare. Don’t want the current, pre-loaded one-shots? Drag any of your samples into one of the 2 slots!
A single Master FX knob sweeps from fully dry (no drum-bus processing) to 100% mix-ready explosion of tone.
Enjoy The options.
Every channel has its own EQ and compression controls, and you can link any combination into four selectable link groups for one-move tweaks across multiple channels. Keep them unlinked for individual control or group everything together to raise the processing in unison!
Tech Specs/Requirements
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✺Kit Specs✺
✺KICK: ‘70s Ludwig Vistalite (16x22")
✺SNARE: Ludwig Black Beauty(6.5 x 14")
✺TOMS: Ludwig Vistalite (9 × 13" and 16×16'“)
✺Hats: Zildjian A-Custom (14")
✺Crash Left: Zildjian K Sweet Crash (18")
✺Crash Right: Zildjian A-Custom Projection Crash (20")
✺Ride: Zildjian A-Series Sweet Ride (21")
✺China: Zildjian Oriental “Trash” China (18")
✺Zbell: Zildjian Zil Bell (6")
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✺Need✺
✺Windows
Windows 10 or later (64-bit)
2 GB RAM minimum (4 GB recommended)
500 MB free disk space
✺macOS
macOS 10.13 High Sierra or later (Intel or Apple Silicon)
2 GB RAM minimum (4 GB recommended)
500 MB free disk space
✺Kontakt
FULL version 7 and above. Does not support Kontakt Player.
✺Internet connection required for activationCompatible with Kontakt
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✺Signal Chains✺
✺Kick In
-AKG D12 VR Kick Mic
-Rupert Neve Shelford 5052 Preamp (Red Silk 85%)
✺Kick Out
-Audix D6
-Rupert Neve Shelford 5052 Preamp (Red Silk 100%)
✺Snare Top
-Sennheiser e604
-Rupert Neve Shelford 5052 Preamp (Red Silk 15%)
✺Snare Bottom
-Sennheiser MD441
-Rupert Neve Shelford 5052 Preamp (Blue Silk 75%)
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✺Rack Tom
-Sennheiser MD421
-Rupert Neve Shelford 5052 Preamp (Red Silk 100%)
✺Floor Tom
-Sennheiser MD421
-Rupert Neve Shelford 5052 Preamp (Red Silk 100%)
✺Overheads A
-Telefunken TF51
-Rupert Neve Shelford 5052 Preamp (Blue Silk 50%)
✺Overheads B
-AEA R88 Ribbon Blumlein Mic
-Rupert Neve Shelford 5052 Preamp (Red Silk 80%)
✺Room Stereo
-AEA R88 Ribbon Blumlein Mic
-Rupert Neve Shelford 5052 Preamp (Red Silk 100%)
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✺Room Mono
-Neumann u87
-Rupert Neve Shelford 5052 Preamp (Red Silk 100%)
✺Room Stairs
-AKG C414
-Rupert Neve Shelford 5052 Preamp (Red Silk 50%)
✺Room Below (1 Floor Below)
-Neumann u47
-Rupert Neve Shelford 5052 Preamp (Blue Silk 100%)
✺Hat
-Shure SM81
-Rupert Neve Shelford 5052 Preamp (Blue Silk 90%)
✺Ride
-Neumann KM184
-Rupert Neve Shelford 5052 Preamp (Blue Silk 90%)