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Evolution Rubber Bridge AVAILABLE NOW from Orange Tree Samples

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Since the late 2010s, rubber bridge guitars have been multiplying throughout indie rock music, even making notable appearances in pop music. Although people have been using various approaches throughout history to give guitars a more muted sound, the concept of using a rubber bridge is thanks to Reuben Cox, luthier and owner of Old Style Guitar Shop in Los Angeles, California. His unique addition of a rubber bridge tastefully dampens the guitar’s sustain, giving notes a prominent/plucky attack with a swift, yet pure, decay.

Evolution Rubber Bridge was recorded using a nearly century-old parlor guitar, converted into a rubber bridge guitar and fitted with a classic Tokyo-style gold foil pickup. The pickup and stereo mic signals were recorded separately so that you can blend between the warm, punchy sound of the pickup and the crisp, pure mic signal. Evolution Rubber Bridge was recorded with the guitar tuned down a whole step from standard tuning, giving it a deeper tone and naturally lower playable range.

We developed the library in collaboration with Rosewood Recording Company, one of Utah's most venerable recording studios. Guy Randle, the owner and recording engineer at Rosewood Recording Company, incorporated analog audio equipment to skillfully sculpt and emphasize the rich tonal qualities of the guitar. Evolution Rubber Bridge includes both the as-recorded signal as well as an enhanced signal.

Evolution Rubber Bridge is based on our Evolution engine, which provides you with a wealth of appointments: an innovative strumming pattern editor, automatic chord detection, and a comprehensive collection of built-in effects for adding the final polish to the guitar tone. If you've used any of our guitar or bass libraries that use the Evolution engine, its interface and workflow will be very familiar to you.

The library includes many ready-to-use factory presets for a variety of guitar tones. Some presets focus on the acoustic side of the guitar, with pristine, clean tones, while other presets take advantage of the electric component of the guitar, running its pickup signal out a guitar cabinet, sometimes with spring reverb or even distortion added.

Video Demos:


Audio Demos:
https://www.orangetreesamples.com/audio/BootsOnTheGround.mp3 (Demo #1: Boots on The Ground)
Demo #2: Star Struck
Demo #3: Twilight Woods

Key features:
  • 6.9 GB of uncompressed samples covering articulations such as sustains, palm mutes, mutes, natural harmonics, plus special effects like string slaps, muted strums, and more.
  • Legato samples for slides, hammer-ons, and pull-offs.
  • Pattern editor and chord voicing system for authentic strumming and picking patterns.
  • Adjustable pick position using our proprietary physical modeling technology.


Pricing:
$139 USD (regularly $179). This $40 off introductory discount lasts until May 31st, 2022.

Format:
This sample library is powered by the KONTAKT Player, so it does not require any additional software.

Downloads:
User Guide (PDF)

Visit the product page here: Evolution Rubber Bridge sample library for KONTAKT

Or you can click here to order Evolution Rubber Bridge directly
 
Didn't know this existed, but a very interesting and usable sound. The multiple kinds of muting and various percussive FX make it quite useful for this kind of rhythmic playing.
 

Since the late 2010s, rubber bridge guitars have been multiplying throughout indie rock music, even making notable appearances in pop music. Although people have been using various approaches throughout history to give guitars a more muted sound, the concept of using a rubber bridge is thanks to Reuben Cox, luthier and owner of Old Style Guitar Shop in Los Angeles, California. His unique addition of a rubber bridge tastefully dampens the guitar’s sustain, giving notes a prominent/plucky attack with a swift, yet pure, decay.

Evolution Rubber Bridge was recorded using a nearly century-old parlor guitar, converted into a rubber bridge guitar and fitted with a classic Tokyo-style gold foil pickup. The pickup and stereo mic signals were recorded separately so that you can blend between the warm, punchy sound of the pickup and the crisp, pure mic signal. Evolution Rubber Bridge was recorded with the guitar tuned down a whole step from standard tuning, giving it a deeper tone and naturally lower playable range.

We developed the library in collaboration with Rosewood Recording Company, one of Utah's most venerable recording studios. Guy Randle, the owner and recording engineer at Rosewood Recording Company, incorporated analog audio equipment to skillfully sculpt and emphasize the rich tonal qualities of the guitar. Evolution Rubber Bridge includes both the as-recorded signal as well as an enhanced signal.

Evolution Rubber Bridge is based on our Evolution engine, which provides you with a wealth of appointments: an innovative strumming pattern editor, automatic chord detection, and a comprehensive collection of built-in effects for adding the final polish to the guitar tone. If you've used any of our guitar or bass libraries that use the Evolution engine, its interface and workflow will be very familiar to you.

The library includes many ready-to-use factory presets for a variety of guitar tones. Some presets focus on the acoustic side of the guitar, with pristine, clean tones, while other presets take advantage of the electric component of the guitar, running its pickup signal out a guitar cabinet, sometimes with spring reverb or even distortion added.

Video Demos:


Audio Demos:
https://www.orangetreesamples.com/audio/BootsOnTheGround.mp3 (Demo #1: Boots on The Ground)
Demo #2: Star Struck
Demo #3: Twilight Woods

Key features:
  • 6.9 GB of uncompressed samples covering articulations such as sustains, palm mutes, mutes, natural harmonics, plus special effects like string slaps, muted strums, and more.
  • Legato samples for slides, hammer-ons, and pull-offs.
  • Pattern editor and chord voicing system for authentic strumming and picking patterns.
  • Adjustable pick position using our proprietary physical modeling technology.


Pricing:
$139 USD (regularly $179). This $40 off introductory discount lasts until May 31st, 2022.

Format:
This sample library is powered by the KONTAKT Player, so it does not require any additional software.

Downloads:
User Guide (PDF)

Visit the product page here: Evolution Rubber Bridge sample library for KONTAKT

Or you can click here to order Evolution Rubber Bridge directly

Love your libraries Greg. I would love you to really update the strumming engine - more options, copy and paste. Still feels pretty clunky to me.
 
That's the plan, although rather than trying to do too much with the existing engine, we're rewriting it from the ground up to make the strumming pattern editor more fully featured as well as many improvements to other aspects of the libraries. There still will be a few more releases using the current engine, and maybe some small improvements to it, but we're looking towards the rewrite for the major changes we've been wanting to do.
 
Here's a video composer Zach Heyde just posted, featuring our brand new Evolution Rubber Bridge library!

In the video, he demonstrates a bunch of the presets and features included in the library as well as showing you how he used Evolution Rubber Bridge in his demo track, "The Enigma Machine."

 
I just found this rig rundown video that Ariel Posen did last year. 43 minutes into the video (I put the timestamp in the link) he shows off his rubber bridge guitar, built by Reuben Cox of Old Style Guitar Shop in LA. According to him, "This has been maybe my most recorded instrument since the Summer."

 
Just a quick heads up that today is the last day you can get Evolution Rubber Bridge at the $40 OFF introductory discount.
 
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