

If you're looking for the classic CR78 sounds, unprocessed one hits and patterns, you'll find them here. Once on tape, we re-pitched all of the hits, giving you deeper kicks, trashier snares, and more percussion than the original machine offered. The second CR78's sounds were a bit lower in tuning - and for this guy, we tracked through an SSL console, with EQ, compression and gating, straight to tape. Next, we plugged the 78 into the amazing Reddi (Tube DI), and multed the signal, recording one hits and rhythms to tape - both unprocessed and completely distorted to hell with a vintage 60s Ace Tone Mixer. All of these sounds should be short and snappy. A trap drumkit must contain of at least 3 sounds - kick, snare and hihat. The sound selection for trap isn’t hard either. We began by opening it up and dropped the tuning of the bass drum, extending the decay, to get a really subby CR78 kick like we've never heard. Most trap drum patterns follow a similar formula. Jazz inspired recordings throughout the 1970s that featured frame drums did so mainly with native players of respective traditions performing much in the same way they would within traditional contexts, which was a restriction that led to frame drum use only where native rhythmic patterns were compatible within the jazz context.

The first CR78 was extremely clean sounding, almost as if it had never been used. Full-length Drum Beats (3-5 minutes long) played by Los Angeles world-class drummers, complete with multiple sections, fills and dynamic changes. We've captured both the one hits and the patterns, sampling two different CR78s for added variety.
