The Area 33 SDX brings together parts of the original Drumkit From Hell team: Meshuggah guitarist Fredrik
Thordendal and producer/engineer/mixer Daniel Bergstrand (Behemoth, In Flames, Dimmu Borgir). In this joint
venture of sourcing, engineering and ultimately externalizing their very figment of what the most all-encompassing
metal-related SDX for Superior Drummer 3 could be, they ended up with an absolute monster weighing in at a
staggering 180+ GB. It was recorded at Fredrik Thordendal’s personal studio 33 in Stockholm, Sweden. This
studio, which Thordendal and Bergstrand built from the ground up, was designed with the goal of creating the
epitome of a drum room: spacious and reverberant but at the same time profoundly precise, direct and controlled.
With its seven contrasting and complementing kits, extensive pool of additional drums and virtual forest of cymbals,
the Area 33 SDX presents a massively broad palette of raw and unadulterated drums that you can hone, shape
and mold using the limitless framework of Superior Drummer 3. To add, these are not your average, everyday kits
– several of them boast up to eight toms, double bass drums and 15 cymbal slots. On top of that, this SDX was
captured using what is beyond traditional in terms of microphones. Each kit was recorded using the classic closemic
technique but, in addition, with an extra set of microphones on each position. This means that each drum
and cymbal is represented by both a mono as well as a stereo pair of microphones, allowing you to sculpt tones
beyond what you thought possible. Finally, to capture the essence of the room and to give you even more options,
11 ambience microphones (of which seven are in stereo) were recorded.
If you’re looking for the virtual embodiment of more is more, straight from two of the most influential names in the
history of modern metal, this is it. Let’s head into the infinite.

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