Spitfire Swarms – A Symphony Of Textures

SPITFIRE SWARMS combines the ethereal textures of HARP SWARM, the percussive choir of MARIMBA SWARM, and the beauty of MANDOLIN SWARM.

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SPITFIRE SWARMS act as a symphony of textures by bringing together the ethereal elements of HARP SWARM, the percussive choir of MARIMBA SWARM, and the chaotic beauty of MANDOLIN SWARM — think shimmering cascades of nine harps, playing a range of articulations, including LONG TREMOLO SHORT TREMOLO, LONG PLUCK, SHORT PLUCK, and HARMONIC PLUCK, as well as an extensive selection of glissandi; the resonant warmth of a marimba orchestra, comprising nine marimbas performing tremolos, rolls, and hits with various sticks and other techniques; and the delicate intimacy of 18 mandolins, charangos, and ukeleles playing LONG TREMOLO, SHORT PLUCK, and MEASURED TREMOLO articulations. All benefit from user-mixable CLOSE, TREE, AMB. (Ambient), and OUT. (Outriggers) microphone positioning for complete control over the sonic perspective, everything having been originally recorded (through an array of vintage microphones via Neve ‘Montserrat’ pre-amps to a stunningly-serviced Studer 2-inch tape machine and onwards into the digital domain at 96K via Prism AD converters) by engineer extraordinaire Jake Jackson — one of the UK’s biggest names in film-score engineering and mixing — in the beautiful resonance of the hallowed (Lyndhurst) Hall at London’s legendary AIR Studios. SPITFIRE SWARMS creatively captures the natural ambience and rich detail of the unique ensembles involved as a direct result of that winning combination, creating choirs from rarely grouped instruments in the process of doing so as a consolidated KONTAKT PLAYER library.