Studio Contrabass Trombone
The contrabass trombone offers the lowest range within the trombone family, delivering a powerful and resonant sound. With its dark, metallic timbre, it can transition seamlessly from a subdued, melodic piano to massive, thunderous explosions. Recorded dry in its purest form at Vienna’s purpose-built Silent Stage with its tight, controlled ambience, this instrument brings all the brassy depth you could ever need to productions across genres.
Studio Contrabass Trombone
The Depth of Brass
- Contrabass trombone with full set of articulations
- Short and long notes, legato, dynamics, repetitions, flutter tongue, FX
- Recorded at the Silent Stage
- Mixer presets for authentic placement at Vienna Synchron Stage
- Optional Vienna MIR Pro 3D-derived convolution reverb
- Switch off internal reverb for placement in any virtual acoustic environment
Weighty Addition and Flexible Depth
The contrabass trombone’s deep, resonant tones are ideal for adding weight to brass sections or evoking an ominous atmosphere in cinematic scores. While capable of delivering intensity across its entire range, it truly shines in the lower register, often anchoring the four-part trombone group as the 4th trombone. Playing these deepest parts, the instrument produces uniquely rich and profoundly resonant low tones, creating a powerful bass foundation that enhances any brass section.
Versatile and Expressive
The library features a full set of expressive and dynamic articulations, offering various short and long notes, legatos (including fast legatos), crescendos and diminuendos, sfz, sffz, pfp, flutter tongue, and even duophonics. Recording the samples relatively dry at the Silent Stage makes it possible to place them on your virtual stage and in the stereo field wherever you like, but also enables you to integrate the instrument with the Synchron Series by using the internal convolution reverb recreating Vienna’s own scoring stage, Vienna Synchron Stage.
| ARTICULATION GROUP | ARTICULATIONS |
| Short notes |
Staccato |
| Long notes |
Sustained |
| Performance legato |
Legato |
| Dynamics |
Sforzato, sforzatissimo, fortepiano |
| Fluttertongue |
Flutter tonguing normal and crescendo |
| Performance repetitions |
Portato slow and fast |
| Upbeats |
1–3 upbeats, 80–150 BPM |
| Glissandos |
Performance glissandos, minor 2nd to major 3rd |
| Duophonics |
Duophonic playing, type A and B |
Hard Drive Space Requirements
- GB (download size = installed size due to lossless data compression)