This is the collection for all your vintage thump needs

Packing two distinct, vintage kits recorded at the legendary Ingrid Studios in Stockholm. The Vintage Dead kit gives packs all the punch you need – it’s equally perfect for beats and breaks, psychedelic indie pop in the vein of Tame Impala, Khruangbin, and Glass Beams, and hard-hitting rock like Queens of the Stone Age, and Death from Above 1979.

Vintage Dry perfectly captures that authentic ’70s vibe of a 1968 Ludwig Silver Sparkle, giving you the sounds brought back into vogue by artists like Daft Punk and Justice. All in all, the Dead & Dry Collection has all the dampened mojo you could ever wish for.

Vintage Dry

Beautiful retro kit, modified using traditional ’70s methods it doesn’t get much more ’70s than this.

The 1968 Ludwig Silver Sparkle is like the drum kit equivalent of a glitter ball, and it’ll make you feel just as groovy.

The Kit : Vintage drum kit – 1968 Ludwig Silver Sparkle kit

To get the sort of authentic ’70s drum sound that’s been brought back into vogue by artists like Daft Punk and Justice, we pulled out all the retro tricks. We started by tuning and dampening the individual drums using authentic ’70s methods: The kick was stuffed with a pillow and a large sheet of felt. Newspaper was taped to the snare heads and more felt sheets were pinned to the toms. Then, to ensure audio authenticity, we recorded it using only microphones from the 1960-70s (Coles, Neumann, Sennheiser and Bang & Olufsen) sent through the studio’s vintage API console.

The Studio – Ingrid

Walking into Ingrid Studios is like walking into a time capsule. The place was built in 1969, and while stacks of hits have been recorded within its wooden walls, including ABBAs first album, almost nothing about the studio has physically changed in all that time. The place still oozes seventies flavour out of every surface, and sounds like nowhere else we’ve ever been, capable of capturing both the dry, light, tight drum sound of the early 70s, and the thicker, fatter beats that disco brought towards the end of the decade. To ensure Ingrid’s impeccable 70s character is not polluted, no gear made since the 80s is allowed to pass through the doors.

Vintage Dead

A beat-making powerhouse for any style

Equally perfect for beats and breaks, psychedelic indie pop in the vein of Tame Impala, Khruangbin, and Glass Beams, or hard-hitting rock like Queens of the Stone Age, and Death from Above 1979, Vintage Dead packs the punch you need. Make your tracks slap with mix-ready, tweakable presets created by the scene’s best, and beats performed by amazing drummers and beatmakers.

The Kit

Resurrected & packing a punch: This one-of-a-kind 1968 vintage Ludwig kit tells an unlikely tale of happenstance – and resurrection. It was found peeking out of a countryside dumpster by renowned Swedish drummer Miikal Häggström while on tour. He could not believe his luck. He carefully refurbished it, and quite literally brought this ultra-dead kit back to life.

Customized to hit harder: Converted into concert toms (without resonant heads), this kit is now a custom-built, meticulously treated thump machine, packing a serious punch and a boatload of mojo.

The Studio

We built a custom “dead box” in Stockholm’s legendary Ingrid Studios. To get the perfect punchy sound, you need to control the drum’s ringing and resonance and the room’s reflections. Usually, you would encapsulate the kit with dampening gobo walls, and treat the drum heads with dampening material. But this is no usual kit — it’s the deadest of the dead.

Every kit piece was dampened to perfection using classic methods – tea cloths, towels, blankets, tape, moon gel – you name it. A custom built dampening box used to record Vintage Dead Setting up microphones in the dampening box This gives you complete separation and uniquely dead close and overhead mics, while still having the option to blend in the outside room mics to taste, with unmatched separation.

The result is a beatmaker’s dream, where every aspect of the mix can be controlled and pushed to the limit. Crank the processing on individual kit pieces and make your drums SLAP!