Spitfire Audio Lea Bertucci — Acoustic Shadows (Digitaalinen tuote)

Spitfire Audio Lea Bertucci — Acoustic Shadows is an evocative sample library born from a collaboration with experimental composer and performer Lea Bertucci. This library captures the unique and haunting soundscapes created through extended techniques on brass and percussion instruments, recorded inside a cavernous industrial fridge known for its extraordinary natural reverb.

Lea Bertucci's work is known for subverting musical expectations and exploring textures that range from brooding, suspenseful atmospheres to intense, dynamic hits and evolving drones. Acoustic Shadows reflects this ethos by providing 44 presets that include epic hits, ominous rhythmic patterns, expansive drones, and lush granular pads. These sounds are crafted from trumpet and tenor trombone performances featuring pitch bends, glissandi, and other extended techniques, as well as tuned and untuned percussion elements such as bass drum hits, metallic clangs, and snare rolls.

The recording environment—a massive industrial fridge with a 10-second reverb tail—imbues every sample with a deep, cavernous resonance that creates a profound sense of space and tension, ideal for trailer music, horror, thriller, and sci-fi scoring. Additionally, the granular pads built from these organic sources offer a hybrid half-organic, half-synthetic sound, expanding the palette for sound designers and composers alike.

Key Features:

• 44 versatile presets including hits, drones, rhythmic textures, and evolving pads.
• Recorded in a unique acoustic space, providing a 10-second natural reverb tail.
• Extended brass techniques with trumpet and tenor trombone creating pitch bends, stabs, and glissandi.
• Tuned and untuned percussion elements for a wide range of dramatic effects.
• Granular pads crafted from recorded material for hybrid organic-synthetic textures.
• Ideal for adding momentum, suspense, and tension in cinematic and experimental music.