01.24.2010
NAMM 2010 Show Report News Features A Ken Scott Collection Virtual Instrument
Scott G’s Report for Music Industry Newswire features Ken Scott and Sonic Reality’s EpiK DrumS as part of the reporter’s NAMM experience, here are quotes from the article:
“First of all, it is very difficult not to go off on a fanboy tangent after interviewing Ken Scott. The guy produced David Bowie albums, for cryin’ out loud. He engineered ‘The White Album’ by those four lads from Liverpool. I have plenty of great recordings in my collection bearing the credit ‘Produced by Ken Scott,’ including works by Jeff Beck, Devo, Billy Cobham, Dixie Dregs, Mahavishnu Orchestra, and many more. But back to the NAMM news. There are several things shared by all those great recordings on which Ken Scott worked: clarity, power, dynamics, excitement, and superb drum sounds. Which is what prompted the folks at Sonic Reality to create a virtual instrument/plug-in product with the imposing title EpiK DrumS – A Ken Scott Collection. So okay, what is included in the Collection? Well, first of all, Billy Cobham, Bob Siebenberg, Terry Bozzio, Woody Woodmansey, and Rod Morgenstein are the drummers who were recorded for the project, and they worked with Scott to provide us with drum kits and percussion in their own unique styles as well as recreating the subtlety and thunder of recordings by Bowie, Supertramp, Mahavishnu, Dregs, Missing Persons, Elton John, and The Beatles. Scott has spoken of the genesis of this project: ‘For decades people have asked me how I got this sound or that drum sound on so and so’s record. Now they can not only have that information but they can get the authentic drum sound itself.’ When I mentioned to Scott how the most impressive thing was not the astonishing sounds but the way they could so easily be altered, he noted that ‘Flexibility was one of our goals in developing this project.’” – Scott G, Music Industry Newswire
