The CD is broken up into four main areas - Live Loops, Programmed Loops, Top Loops and Conga Loops.

Live Loops:- Tracks 2-31 & 51. Around half of the CD is dedicated to live drum loops. BPM's range from 54 to 169 though most are in the 100-120 BPM bracket.

Loops are presented in one of three ways, firstly a straight loop of either 2 or 4 bars, secondly again as a straight loop but offered with a variation or two on the processing, and lastly as a loop with one or more fill/crossover/variations.

The processing of the loops in the main is fairly subtle and overall the loops sound exactly we've come to expect from AMG releases - tight, punchy and classy. There is little to take away the live drum sound, some reverb here, EQ there, compression, gating and so on but nothing like as mangled as it often the case with loops sample CD's

There is little in the way of anything extreme here. If you can imagine a live drum set in a number of rooms, there are subtle variations, but essentially as you would expect. There is little in the way of fill effects aside from the usual drum kit sounds, there is the very occasional bass element or scratch type of sound but otherwise just your regular drum kit sounds. Hence many of the loops sound quite open and clean, ideal for introducing into a mix without dominating it.

Where a loop is presented in several variations the differences again are pretty subtle in places, like wet and dry versions of the same loop. I would have like to have seen more variation, for example as with the AMG's Vinyl Frontier. In other places though it is helpful to have the fill effects and crossovers that makes it easier to build variation into a track.

Stylistically the collection is rather here, there and everywhere. Jumping from rock, to hip hop, to jazzy/soul loops and back again. Certainly covering a wide range of styles and would certainly appeal to those people looking to work in a variety of styles, if your in a tight genre though you may find the variation less useful though. Would have been helpful if the various styles had been grouped a little more, as it is the styles rather jump around which makes looking for something in particular a little tricky, unsure why the odd track of live loops in on track 51 as that appears rather out of place altogether.

Overall though a very solid usable collection of live drum loops.

...Programmed Loops and More...