HOLLYWOOD, CA. (Top40 Charts/ D. Pagan Communications) - After more than a year of research, equipment acquisition and recording, soundware developer EASTWEST (www.soundsonline.com) introduces a virtual (software) instrument collection inspired by the sounds of the
Beatles with their Fab Four Virtual Instruments collection. The Fab Four Virtual Instruments -unaffiliated with or endorsed by the
Beatles or Apple Corps. Ltd. - presents a faithfully executed, incredibly accurate and comprehensive collection featuring the same kind of instruments and recording equipment used by the Beatles.
'The Beatles had a profound impact on me musically,' said EASTWEST founder and Fab Four producer Doug Rogers, 'and were the influence for my fascination with sounds. They were musical geniuses that never rested on their laurels, always producing exciting new music and sounds with each new record, much of it groundbreaking!'
'Putting this project together took well over a year of research, equipment procurement (much of it from collectors), and gathering a team that could pull off such a feat,' Rogers adds. 'But it was a labor of love for us all, and the result is truly worth it.'
No expense was spared in acquiring the equipment used to produce the Fab Four Virtual Instruments collection. Well over one million dollars' worth of rare period instruments - including authentic guitars, basses, drums, and keyboards, as well as amplifiers, microphones, recording consoles, outboard equipment and tape recorders - were used in this production.
Without the correct equipment, most of the sounds would be impossible to create. For example, the 'revostortion' guitar sound was created by feeding an Epiphone Casino into one EMI REDD 47 preamp, and the output into a second EMI REDD 47 preamp, exactly as originally created by the EMI/Abbey Road engineers.
The Fab Four Virtual Instruments project also involved several people intimately involved with the Beatles. Engineer Ken Scott, who worked on Beatles albums including A Hard Days Night, Help, Rubber Soul, Magical Mystery Tour, and The Beatles, engineered the recordings. Guitarist Laurence Juber and drummer Denny Seiwell, both of whom were members of Paul McCartney and Wings, played the same kind of instruments as those used by the Beatles.
All instruments are newly recorded multi-samples for this collection; no sounds came from any Beatles recordings.
Other new EASTWEST products include Quantum Leap Pianos, Gypsy, Ministry of Rock, Voices of Passion and StormDrum 2.
