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The Fab Four Black Friday deal takes 60% off this EastWest Sounds virtual instrument, which brings it to $59 until Jan 17, 2027.
Fab Four is a Guitars, Bass, Drums, Keys & Amps instrument inspired by the sounds of the Beatles. The maker says it was recorded with the same kind of period instruments and rare EMI recording gear the Beatles used to make their records.
It is a sample-based virtual instrument that you play in the box. The maker pitches it at film, TV and game composers, and at musicians and producers who want sounds that other collections don't carry.
Ken Scott, who engineered on five Beatles albums, is the sound engineer behind it. His credits include "A Hard Days Night", "Help", "Rubber Soul", "Magical Mystery Tour" and "The Beatles", also known as the White Album.
The players come from Paul McCartney's band too. Drummer Denny Seiwell and guitarist Laurence Juber were both members of Wings.
EastWest Sounds says well over a million dollars' worth of equipment went into the production. The list covers:
The maker says most of the sounds couldn't be made without that chain. The "revostortion" guitar is the example it gives: an Epiphone Casino fed into one EMI REDD 47 preamp, with that output sent into a second EMI REDD 47 preamp, the same route the original EMI/Abbey Road engineers used.
Guitars were sampled with up and down strokes, multiple velocities and several picking styles, some with chords and effects.
The drums were played by Denny Seiwell on a rare 1960 Ludwig Downbeat kit with Zildjian cymbals. The kit has a 5 x 14 snare, 9 x 13 and 16 x 16 toms, a 22 x 14 kick, a 20" crash ride, an 18" medium crash and 14" hi-hats. Each drum was recorded at as many as 16 different hit strengths, with separate takes for the left and right hand.
The drum sounds are matched to particular styles, with names like A Day in the Drums, Ticket to Drums and Yer Drums. Some cymbals were recorded heavily modulated through a Fairchild limiter.
The keyboards include:
Fab Four is a digital take on ADT, the artificial double tracking effect, and it comes with an integrated tape emulation. EastWest Sounds says it was created and programmed specially for this project.
The maker says the software also has very smooth filters, a delay and several high-quality reverb choices.
Yes. The Fab Four Black Friday deal takes 60% off, bringing this EastWest Sounds virtual instrument to $59. The offer ends Jan 17, 2027.
Fab Four covers guitars, bass, drums, keys and amps. It also has a software ADT (artificial double tracking) effect with a built-in tape simulator, plus filters, a delay and several reverb choices.
Drummer Denny Seiwell and guitarist Laurence Juber, both former members of Paul McCartney and Wings, performed on it. Ken Scott, who engineered on five Beatles albums, was the sound engineer.
EastWest Sounds says it used rare EMI REDD tube and TG12345 desks, Fairchild limiters, EMI RS124 modified Altec compressors and Studer J-37 tube multi-tracks. The maker puts the total at well over a million dollars of equipment.
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