Spitfire Audio Lea Bertucci - Acoustic Shadows

Atmospheric & Expansive Sound Design Textures

A palette of epic sound design textures, made in collaboration with experimental New York-based composer, Lea Bertucci.

The library is made up of brass and percussion instruments performing a selection of extended techniques, transformed by the extraordinary recording space in which they were captured - a cavernous industrial fridge, with stunningly reverberant acoustics.

From deep, ominous textural beds to eerie swells and thunderous hits, organic elements are complemented by evolving granular-based pads, made from the recorded material.

These instantly playable cinematic sounds will add momentum, suspense and tension to your trailer music and compositions.

Exploring Space

This palette of fascinating sounds has been born out of Bertucci's passion for sonic exploration and experimentation, seeking out 'extreme environments' as additional instruments in themselves to facilitate what she calls '4-dimensional composition'.

Rather than a distillation of the sounds in Bertucci's LP, this sample library takes Bertucci's highly sophisticated sound design techniques and applies them to brand new recordings in a unique acoustic space, with specially curated instrumentation.

Taking advantage of the 10 second reverb tail and distinctive delay effects of a cavernous industrial fridge, Bertucci chose instruments that would excite its extraordinary acoustic characteristics< - a bright solo trumpet, a deep, ominous solo tenor trombone and a range of tuned and untuned percussion instruments - performing unconventional extended techniques and timbral variations curated by Bertucci.

The granular pads have been created from the recorded material using a convolution reverb of the space, adding an extra dimension of half-organic, half-synthetic sounds.

Features

• 44 presets, from epic hits to gradually evolving pads, intense drones and ominous rhythmic textures
• Recorded in a stunning acoustic space with a 10 second reverb tail, creating brooding, suspenseful evolving phrases of varying lengths, up to a minute long
• Extended techniques performed on trumpet and tenor trombone, including pitch bend, long directional movement, short stabs and glissandi
• Tuned and untuned percussion performances, from dramatic bass drum strikes to metallic hits, snare rolls and swells
• Granular pads made from the organic material, featuring detuned pads and rhythmic textures, for atonal, apocalyptic sound design
• Available in our award-winning, dedicated plug-in
• Dynamics, Expression, Delay & Release controls
• Designed for underscoring, building momentum or adding suspense and tension to trailer music, particularly horrors, thrillers and sci-fi

Instruments

Trumpet

• Harmon Mute Variations
• Decay Swell with Room Sound (Long)
• Pitch Bend
• Decay Swell
• Minor 2nd Burst
• Perfect 5th Burst
• Glissando
• Decay Swell with Room Sound (Short)
• Stab

Tenor Trombone

• Harmon Mute Variations
• Pitch Bend
• Decay Swell
• Minor 2nd Burst
• Perfect 5th Burst
• Smack
• Stab
• Shepard Tone
• Whistle Tone Gliss

Percussion

• Flock of Bells
• Cymbal Roll
• Cymbal Swell
• Snare Roll
• Snare Crescendo
• Snare Strike
• Timpani Decay Swell
• Timpani Crescendo
• Timpani Strike
• Toms Decay Swell
• Toms Crescendo
• Toms Strike
• Triangle Decay Swell
• Triangle Crescendo
• Triangle Strike
• Woodblocks Accel
• Woodblocks Strike
• Eccentric Metals

Granular

• Northern Sky
• Go Easy
• Dark Dream
• Archangel
• Trigger
• Virile
• Jasmine