The ‘Live Room’ library was recorded in the Quadrangle (in which Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody was also recorded), which features an MCI 500‑series inline desk and has hardwood flooring and more reflective surfaces, providing a contrasting ambience to the Coachhouse. Kits were also set up in front of the exposed stone wall for the more lively ‘Stone Room’ library.

Its heavily draped recording area provides the location for the ‘Dry Room’ library.

The Coachhouse is based around a Neve 8128 inline desk, with outboard including Neve 1060 microphone amps. Both of them were used to record the three drum libraries and additional percussion library that make up the Fields Of Rock SDX. Housed within a working livestock farm, the studio comprises two rooms: the Coachhouse and the Quadrangle.

In 1965 Rockfield became the world’s first residential studio, and it has witnessed the birth of some of the most iconic recordings of the last 50 years, by bands ranging from Queen, Motörhead and Black Sabbath to Oasis and Coldplay. Recorded at the legendary Rockfield Studios in Wales, Fields of Rock features seven kits and a comprehensive set of percussion instruments including rototoms, octobans, congas, shakers and more, all recorded by multiple award‑winning engineer/producer Tom Dalgety (Royal Blood, Pixies, Killing Joke and Rammstein) and played by session drummer Mat Hector. The latest addition to Toontrack’s extensive Superior Drummer 3 drum and percussion library (currently comprising 18 titles) is Fields Of Rock SDX. For their latest SD3 expansion, Toontrack made a pilgrimage to the hallowed ground of Rockfield Studios in Wales.

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