I would like to explain something about the Drums samples. This might only affect people who are using large stereo setups to reproduce these recordings (by large I mean the distance from the listening point to the speakers)
You might find that when you playback the Drums samples on your systems, the image of the Drums set is bigger than it should be in relation to the playback image of the piano.
I know Thomas likes my pictures
so I have taken the time to draw some more see if I could explain why this is happening.
Here is a sketch of how all our piano recordings are made. The picture on the left corresponds to the recording setup. The picture on the right would be the image produced on your systems:
As you can see, the recording setup is built so that we can achieve a realistic size image during playback.
Now, here is a sketch of how we should have recorded the drums:
Had we done it this way, the playback image of the drums would have had a realistic size too (at least compared to the playback image on the piano recordings)
But this is what we did:
We were lazy enough not to move the piano out of the stage (guess we should have) so we ended up recording the drums closer to the mic than they should have been. That is the reason for the playback image of the Drums samples being a little bigger than it should (specially if you compare it to the piano recordings)
I hope this makes sense