The Crow Hill Company has introduced a new installment in the Vaults series of free instrument libraries. A downloadable drop with a difference, Tuned Gongs effectively enables anyone to play an extraordinary quartet of harmonized gongs designed and used by meditation gurus as part of gong bath setups in a way that was never intended by their Italian creator.
We’re doing something incredibly exciting with these; a new way of sampling, but also treating these gongs with utmost respect, appreciating their soft, infinitely nuanced harmonics that change on every hit. The distraction has become a serious one—we’ve been taking weeks on these as they’re not easy to record. When something is shaking the room and all the air inside it, what do you mic? So we needed a test recording.
End of the year, Hogmanay (New Year’s Eve to all you non-Scots) around the corner. What better way of ushering in 2026 than with a shuddering tree of room-shaking gongs? There are some lower dynamics in there, which will give you a sense of where we’re headed with this project; a useful tuned metallophone that’s difficult to place. But really, the purpose of this vaults is to gong these! So, for that odd time you need a gong for a cue, these are pure class. I also found turning my speakers up and playing these at full velocity an excellent way of getting my teenagers down for breakfast—they don’t like them at all.
Tuned Gongs is free to download for the dedicated Crow Hill app for Windows and Mac (VST/VST3, AU and AAX).
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