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The third section is Zone Instruments that starts off with Bass Loops, three tracks of electric bass sounds, that vary from dark throbbing type bass, to higher pitched funk bass type like effects. BPM's are from 70-110. Some of the sounds are recorded live as you get some of the ambient effects, like fingers being moved down the neck. There are a number of loops here that have very noticeable cross talk like effects, as if sounds have leaked from the next track of a multitrack, quiet percussion for example. Not the easiest of things to get rid of if it is noticeable in your track.

Bass Licks is really a continuation of the previous section, two tracks of riffs rather than straight loops, but very much sounding the same.

Bass FX, would probably be better described as Synth & Bass FX, as there are some in there that bear little resemblance to anything bass like. We have a few assorted bass guitar effects, some excellent, synth pad echo like effects and a some grunge, distorted like bass doodles and chords.

Moving along we have three tracks of Guitar Loops, from 80-130, mainly very light sounding, quite high pitched electric guitar strumming type effects and few "Peter Gunn" like lower pitched loops, not forgetting a single acoustic guitar of course. No power chords or would be axe ace killer solos. Very reserved. Guitar Licks is more of the same, shorter and not looped, perhaps there are one or two more aggressive effects in there.

Next up there is three tracks of Clavinet Licks and FX, mostly quite short, quite interesting, though I'd kind of be stuck to think of a use for them to be honest, aside from a drop in effect perhaps.

We're then treated to 3 tracks of Organ licks that sound totally cheesy as they should, many sound right like they've been lifted out of the Ice Ring or Baseball game. You know the sort of effects they play to build a bit of atmosphere, fire the organist and use this instead. Could be used as drop in's very easily if you want this effect.

Synth licks, sound rather like the sacked organist trying it out on a synth, same kind of thing as the previous sound but with a higher pitched, electric piano/string effect.

Track 51 flute licks, is a bit of a lie, as a couple of them sound so unlike flutes as to be a breach of the trades descriptions acts, I can only presume there is some serious sound processing at work. The sounds divide up into a real good little arpeggio, some deep drone voice like drones and more orthodox, more effected flute like riffs. Interesting.

World licks kind of go with the earlier world section, except for the percussive effects you get a suitable array of horn, guitar, string and woodwind like sounds. Many of which are excellent for dropping into tracks needing a bit of world sound added to them, so we get the sitar like effects, Arabic horn like sounds and of course the obligatory digeridoo riff.

The final section of the CD is the Zone Sound section which starts of with 5 tracks of Kaos FX - 60 samples of weirdness, off beat chords, industrial noise, blurps, industrial like machines, screaming type effects, steam like noise, vocal effects, little weird rhythms, rumbles, stabs etc. you get the idea. If your looking for an offbeat effect you may well find what you are looking for here. There some very good and different effects here, though some you would have to struggle to find a use for I think.

Tracks 60 has a dozen assorted scratch and tape effects, like a tape sounds getting mangled in the machine and going weird, which leads on to Tape FX and Tape Start FX, which are short samples with a variety of percussive and tones, distorted either synthetically or actually by tapes starting and stopping, sounding like bleeeeuuuurrrr, or its reverse if you can imagine that !, but with different sounds. Interesting.

The CD rounds out with 8 tracks of percussive hits, Dub Hits, Kiks, Snares & Percussive, no doubt mostly extracted from the earlier loops (or vice versa), there are some more unusual sounds here, the world percussion instruments are here and the dub ones are very good also. As you'd expect from the contents of the rest of the CD there is some assorted weirder ones thrown in for good measure.

There is no test tone.

 

 

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