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George Clinton - Soundisc Series Page
3/4

Mixed Grooves - 143 samples - forms
the bulk of the samples on the CD, and their broken down into various
sections. Essentially they are drum loops with various parts added, either
Bass, Wah Wah, Horns, Guitar, Voice and keyboards. For variation there
are also a handful of grooves without any drums. In most respects many
of these are virtually ready made tracks, you can literally loop many
of them in Mixman or otherwise and away you go, add some vocals or some
odd fill effect and your away. Whilst of course this does make it incredibly
easy to make up a decent sounding track, it does make it difficult to
make anything that doesn't sound exactly like the loop as presented on
the CD.
The loops are pretty good, generally very
light sounding, even those ones marked as heavy. Sort of disco, funk,
soul collection, certainly many foot tappers in here. With these as a
backing of a track you'd seriously struggle not to make a good track,
however what you can do with the loops to make something more original
sounding, or to produce more variation is another question. Most of the
loops are pretty short, though many have a couple of variations, so can
get repetitive quite quickly.
Have to say there are some crackers in here,
Saddle 1 being my favourite, just wished that the elements had been separated
more....
Piano's - both samples are simple
riffs, not of too much use, but add a little variation.
Sax - a single sax riff, fine, but
as with some of the other sections could have done with some more viations.
Vocals - 77 samples - vocals are
always a tough one for sample CD's, many sample offerings tend to fall
into cliché's, and this is no exception. I bet most readers can
guess at many of the vocal lines without too much effort. "Get funky,
ahhh, do doop, good got, ain't it funky, uhh, yeah, feel the funk, y'all
got it". Its difficult to drop in anything too esoteric in a small
collection, and with over 70 offerings at least you get a reasonable choice,
but you'd struggle to use these for anything other than fill ins.
The samples fall into 3 sections, female
vocals (14), George himself (60) and male counting (3). The female samples
are harmonies, and are quite good, though terribly middle of the road
sounding. The George Clinton samples have somewhat more attitude and character,
though the definition of "dry" needs a little explanation, perhaps
"less effects" would be a better description. Many of the samples
within this area literally drip with reverb/echo/delay. The CD rounds
out with three male "1234" samples.

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