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Icon Drums Classic Rock
Get the Beloved Drum Sounds of Rock Icons
Highlights:
- Full Bleed, mic spill across every channel for an organic, live-drum feel.
- Presets for Classic and Modern Rock drum mixes right out of the gate.
- Shape your sound with built-in EQ, compression, and more.
- Dynamic, human-like drum hits free from “machine-gun” repetition.
- Load in your own one-shot samples right into ICON.
- MIDI groove player for quick and easy songwriting.
- Compatible with electronic drum kits.
Overview
Bring the beloved sound of classic rock icons to your music productions! Introducing Icon Drums Classic Rock—the ultimate drum library for musicians and producers who demand the best drums for that Classic or even Modern Rock sound. Recorded in a world-class studio with legendary equipment, these samples deliver the punch, warmth, and character that define rock’s golden era. Transform your tracks with the timeless energy and tone of iconic drummers.
For classic and modern rock alike, the human feel of real drums is absolutely critical. Slight fluctuations in timing, dynamic nuances in each drum hit, and the natural resonance spilling into open mics—all those elements define the classic rock sound that fans still love. Icon Drums Classic Rock was created to capture every bit of that unmistakable, live drum vibe—without ever feeling sterile or robotic.
One standout feature is the “Full Bleed” feature, which meticulously reproduces the natural spill between microphones and drum pieces. In a real drum session, the snare might subtly bleed into the overheads, and the toms might color the room mics. That bleed is part of the magic that makes live drums sound cohesive and exciting. Unlike many drum libraries that isolate each hit so precisely it feels lifeless, Icon Drums Classic Rock uses Bleed to reintroduce that organic sense of space and interaction between drums.
To achieve this, we sampled not just multiple velocity layers and round-robins, but also the natural reflections of a well-tuned kit in a classic studio environment, capturing the exact way each drum resonates across different mics. This means every note you play is nuanced and feels truly “alive,” just as if you were in the room with a real drummer behind a vintage kit.
Every piece of Icon Drums Classic Rock is tweakable so that you can take the raw drums we engineered and make them perfect for your music.
You don’t need any extra plugins, as Icon comes with a complete mixer. Each channel has EQ, compression, a transient designer, and saturation. We even made sure to include reverb.
No corners were cut creating Icon Drums Classic Rock. Aside from selecting top-of-the-line drums, we made sure to use the industry-standard microphones and mic-pres you would expect of a serious drum recording.
We also captured the famous Glyn Johns overhead microphone technique to achieve that classic, overall kit sound. This technique can be heard on many of the projects he engineered, from the Kinks, the Who, to Led Zeppelin, and The Rolling Stones.
Additionally, you can load your own Kick or Snare one-shot samples right into Icon to make the most out of your drum sound. We even included a bunch of processed one-shots right in Icon itself that you can choose from.
Finally, Icon Drums Classic Rock will work well with your electronic drum kit and if you need to make some tweaks, MIDI remapping is quick and easy.
It’s ICONic For A Reason
In this saturated music market, unique and high-quality drums can make all the difference. The timeless drum tones of classic rock bands can help your music stand out, offering something both familiar and fresh that sets you apart from others using the same drum samples record after record.
Drawing from these legendary sounds can spark new ideas and creative directions. Blending classic drum tones with modern production techniques allows you to innovate while paying homage to the roots of rock music.
Icon Classic Rock brings realism to a whole new level. No other drum library allows you to have full drum kit bleed on ALL mics.
What does full drum kit bleed mean?
For example, other virtual drum libraries out there do NOT give you the audio of snare or kick hits that “bleed” or are picked up into all the other mics on the kit, like the Toms or HiHat mics. They do this to significantly cut down on the size of the sample library and also to make it easier to run on older computers.
But just think about it for a minute. That’s not how real drums get recorded and mixed when you do it for real at a studio. This is a big part of why people sometimes say programmed drums don’t sound real. The Mic Bleed that would naturally be there is missing. And we give you full control to add as much or as little of it as you want on the entire kit.
On top of this, Icon Classic Rock has a ridiculous number of dynamic layers, which means your ghost notes and rimshots will actually bring dynamic qualities into your music. Also, so many round robins that make even the fastest drum parts sound natural and varied.
Tons of musical articulations that are useful so that you can create realistic hi-hat patterns, snare rudiments, and more.
Whether you need to smack that snare for an energetic rock track, or you need to be quiet and expressive, ICON can do it all.
Fully Featured Built-In Mixing Options
Sometimes you’re just in the moment, your creative juices are flowing and the slightest distraction could ruin it all… we made sure that ICON had everything you needed on the spot so you can concentrate on your music instead of inserting a bunch of extra plugins.
The built-in mixer allows you to adjust individual drum elements—like kick, snare, toms, and cymbals—directly within the plugin or software interface. This streamlines your workflow by eliminating the need to route each drum to separate channels in your DAW (Digital Audio Workstation).
Every channel has a built-in channel strip that includes:
Two EQ types
Saturation
1176-Style compression
Transient designer
ADSR controls
Two reverb sends (Non-Linear or Plate)
However, there is also a “Master” section on this new built-in mixer page where you can give your drums the final polish it needs.
Included here is:
Pultec-Style EQ
SSL-Style Bus Compression (with a parallel mix knob!)
Tape Saturation
Reverb controls
Instead of needing to load in extra plugins to tweak your sound, just use the massive, built-in mixer in ICON! You literally don’t need anything else to craft your perfect rock drum sound.
Integrated MIDI Groove Player
It’s the elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about, we get it. Programming drums can be a terribly long, boring, and unfulfilling process.
Instead of needing to get a degree in drum programming, we figured it easier to give you amazing, high quality, and totally usable MIDI grooves that were played by real drummers.
These grooves have the feel and dynamics of a real drummer; all you have to do is find the groove that works best for your song and bam, done!
After all, isn’t part of classic rock that incredible groove? We think so, too.
Icon Classic Rock includes a great selection of grooves to get anyone started but if you want a lot more grooves to pick from and work with, you can grab any number of MIDI groove packs that we have made for our virtual drum plugins that give you both realism and choice. All our Drum Grooves are performed by real drummers to ensure that it doesn’t just sound human, it IS human.
TCI Files Included!
When you buy Icon Drums Classic Rock, you’ll get not only an amazing Kontakt Drum Library, but you’ll get an entire arsenal of TCI files of the shells that you can use with Steven Slate Trigger 2. This will make it super simple for you to replace any recorded drums with the sound of Icon Classic Rock. (Owning a copy of Trigger 2 is required to use the TCI files.)
Up And Running In Seconds
Icon Drums Classic Rock runs on Kontakt Player by Native Instruments, which means it’s quick and easy to load it into your DAW.
Once loaded, you have a number of ready-to-go mix-ready presets that can get you started off with a bang. These are perfect for general songwriting or, hell, just use them in the final mix; why not!
Every page of the Icon Classic Rock instrument has been thoroughly designed and everything you need is literally one click of a button. No more menu diving, no more hunting for settings, less time looking for great sounding drums and more time playing with great sounding drums!
Full Control Over Your MIDI
Do you want to create a specific drum map so you can play live on a MIDI controller? No problem. MIDI mapping is simple, easy, and fast. Within seconds you can totally remap the notes with ICR to fit your needs.
Additionally, you can re-route the audio outputs of Icon Drums Classic Rock however you want, giving you full audio control of where you want signals to go in the DAW.