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| Produced by | AMG |  |
| Audio/CD-ROM | 74:02 536Mb |
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| Tracks | 99 | |
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Released |
2000 |
Brit Horns is number 35 of the AMG "Producer Series". Well known for their loops collections this is something of a departure for them featuring as it does just brass instrumentation. Described in the promotional literature as "They've laid down licks for Eternal, Jamiroquai, Bjork, George Michael, The Beautiful South, Thomas Dolby, Siousxie & the Banshees, Level 42, Swing Out Sister, Pete Townsend, Tina Turner, Paul McCartney, Marvin Gaye, Dreams Come True, Bob Geldof, Paul Weller, The Creatures, Madness and countless others, now Pete Thoms, Gary Barnacle and Stuart Brooks bring you a brand new double CD set crammed with over 600 of their favourite licks. Add one of the finest Horn Sections in the business to your next production with Brit Horns!"
The essentially is a collection of trumpet, saxophone and trombone riffs, both solo and as a group covering a whole range of styles. The collection is a 2CD set for the price of a regular sample CD. CD1 being an audio version and CD2 having the identical contents but in .wav format. AMG are to be applauded for providing the user with two alternative ways of using the samples. For those people who can use the CD-ROM CD this will come as a huge plus, you can easily audition the audio CD version and then simply use the .wav version in your sampler/sequencer.
As mentioned above the CD has been produced by Pete Thoms, Gary Barnacle and Stuart Brooks, apart from the name checks above the inlay card also mentions Eternal, M, Landscape, Elvis Costello, Nik Kershaw and Dreams Come True. Lots of big name acts and check out the gold discs on the wall!, you can take it as read that these guys know a thing or two about playing brass.
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The documentation is excellent, each track is named and listed out, with a section heading, a description, a note of the instruments used and the pitch and BPM information where appropriate. There is also a couple of pages of notes about the producers and the collection.
On the CD-ROM section there are a couple of licence documents in Adobe pdf format. The licence agreement requires positive licence registration for any kind of commercial use. It's no major deal, just requires a signed form to be sent off to AMG and they'll issue you with a unique user number. (There is a space on the CD for you to write it on). Additionally AMG require a non-specific credit, a logo, notification of release and a copy of the work. It's a tightening up of the licence requirements, which in turn should help the artists and AMG, and in turn act as an anti piracy measure.
Track 99 of CD 1 is a test tone at digital level maximum and there is the regulation demo track, interestingly here not created by the producers, but by AMG - also features loops from Slam on the Breaks - check it out here - you'll need a Real Audio player installed.
