Loopmasters Deep Fried Hammond Organ Sample CD
On this great Sample
CD you will find Hammond organ samples taken from performances complete
with all of the incidental colour and character that make the instrument come
alive. There are blips, scoops, electric glisses, leslie and drawbar changes,
grunges - in fact a whole range of performance aids to add the reality and soul
of live performance to your compositions.
Suitable Genres
Whatever kind of music you make, these
samples will always cut through the mix and add the unique colour and energy of the
Hammond Organ. All samples are 100% copyright free and have been recorded
without further processing. Recorded by Kenny Craddock, a seasoned session
player who has performed with Van Morrison, Gerry Rafferty, Ginger
Baker, Eric Clapton, George Harrisson and Ringo Starr to name a
few.
Sound on Sound Review - Deep Fried Hammond 4/5
(Reviewed
by Hugh Robjohns - Sound on Sound)
"It's a rare track of almost any genre
that won't benefit from a bit of Hammond burbling through it. Okay, so maybe I'm
a little biased as the owner of a console tone wheel Hammond myself; but if you
like the 'old throbbing organ', this new sample library from Deep Sounds UK
could be just the ticket. The thing about the Hammond is that its idiosyncratic
sound is as much about playing style and technique as it is about the
tone wheels, valves and Leslie combination. So if your fingers don't have the
knack and your keyboard sounds like... well, not a Hammond anyway, this might be
just the solution your sampler or audio workstation has been waiting
for.
This is, quite simply, a superb copyright-free collection of
conventional, innovative and sometimes downright unusual Hammond licks, fills,
riffs, grooves, progressions, slides, growls and funky bass lines all designed
to spice up any track. The majority of samples are really imaginative
blues/rock-oriented material, with a little gospel and traditional organ work
thrown in, and all beautifully recorded and performed in such a way to
complement any track without being overpowering. The organ is recorded
completely dry, and every nuance is captured with in-the-room clarity, plus a
nice stereo width to the Leslie.
Kenny Craddock is a whiz at the
console of a great-sounding Hammond C3 and Leslie 122 combo, recorded with
Neumann U87s at Eddie Grant's Blue Wave Studio in Barbados. For anyone
unfamiliar with the name, Craddock is an established session player who's
recorded and performed with the likes of Van Morrison, Gerry Rafferty, Ginger
Baker, Eric Clapton, George Harrison and many others -- so there's no doubting
he knows his chops. Every player has their own style, and Craddock's is to play
with his left hand on the drawbars just as much as his right is on the keyboard,
resulting in a dynamic, evolving sound with a really organic (if you'll excuse
the pun), live performance feel.
Deep Fried Hammond is provided on two
CDs: the first is a straight audio disc that allows easy loading into a
workstation for a bit of manual cutting and pasting, while the second is a
CD-ROM carrying WAV files for loading into compatible samplers. The audio disc
carries 95 separate tracks: the first a demo and the rest individual samples,
most subdivided with up to four variations, each meticulously described in the
manual in terms of drawbar, effects (harmonics and vibrato), Leslie settings,
tempo and key (or chord progressions). The various riffs and licks last anywhere
between about five and 45 seconds, while the tempos range from 74 to 124bpm, and
pretty much all the common keys and chord progressions are catered for.
I spent some time messing about with these samples on a variety of
tracks composed by a friend of mine, and managed to find combinations of samples
that spiced things up nicely in most cases with solid funky bass lines, a
variety of chord progressions, a few glissandos and falls, sharp stabs, and a
judicious collection of overdriven grunge thrown in for good measure. Within a
mix they all work really well, largely because of their constantly changing tone
colour, volume and Leslie speed. These grooves aren't mechanical in any way --
they really live and breathe with Craddock's long experience of the Hammond and
his musical intuition shining through. If you crave the inimitable Hammond sound
on your tracks, but don't have the skills or sources, check out this disk -- I
don't think you'll be disappointed." (SOUND ON SOUND)
Tech Specs:
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1 Audio
CD
- 1 Wav CD
- 100% Royalty Free!
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