NFX
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 | | 04 Nov 2007 03:39 PM |
| This is my first full fledged review of a product I purchased. I'm compelled to write about this because it is one of those purchases where I felt I came out ahead of the curve.
First, let me describe what I'm talking about. GoldBaby is a company based in New Zealand that makes a few drum kits and sample packs for various DAWs like Reason, FLStudio etc.
I had stopped buying kits for a long while because I was always disappointed in the few usable sounds I would get. Fortunately, that's not the case here.
GoldBaby is not some mega corporation that churns out kits with fancy names trying to make you believe they are the same kits used by the hot super producer of the moment. GoldBaby is a small - possibly one man operation.
I purchased 3 kits from them after listening to the demos at the GoldBaby site. I got the MPC60 Pack 1 and Pack 2 and the Tape 808 Kit. Downloads were instant after payment and I had started 3 new tracks with these samples within a day.
Here's the thing... I have never gotten the quality of samples from any place that were as reasonably priced as these. It's a rare combination to find this quality - not only in the 24-bit sense - but in the care taken to cut and normalize and create the samples. Everything sounds great and feels tight.
The two MPC60 packs have a classic MPC60 color (some say phatness) to their sound because they were sampled into an original MPC60 first, then resampled direct to 24-bit WAV.
MPC60 Pack 1 is a collection of 541 samples of various TR machines (808, 909, 707, etc). Now I have all these in some form in my collection already and it is a good series of kits to have in one bundle. Having the MPC60 phattened sound to them is a great bonus.
MPC60 Pack 2 is a collection of 466 sampled vinyl drums and absolutely blew me away. These sounds are mix ready and will give you instant hip hop credibility. I am so glad to have these in one kit. Before this kit I could take hours searching my HUGE library of kits extensively for usable sounds. Again, these are nicely phattened by the MPC60.
Tape 808 is the real legendary TR-808 (the actual machine!) recorded using some vintage gear to reel to reel tape and then sampled.
You get 407 samples total and if you played this kit along side some classic electro hip hop like "Planet Rock" you couldn't tell the difference. I have at least 4 other 808 kits that will get ignored now. This one has that classic tape saturation that just adds something you can feel and hear to make it pop a little bit more.
Now the absolute selling point for me is that the price is so reasonable. I bought the WAV version of these packs.
The MPC packs cost $14 each and the Tape808 cost $19. Under $50 for all three kits and they are all very usable sounds that I will be putting into many of my future tracks.
In conclusion these kits get the bonus points because of the quality and price combination:
Warbeats Rated: 9 / 10
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Justin Ruff
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Posts:116
| | 04 Nov 2007 04:58 PM |
| I may have to pick up one of these kits now. I had been thinking about buying one (the 808 Tape kit looked insane, especially on how they made their samples) and now I know that my money wouldn't be at waste.
Nice review. | | Justin Ruff
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rocsta
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Posts:706
| | 05 Nov 2007 12:30 PM |
| Good looking on the review. I heard about those kits but never paid attention, they seem to be serious. For the Reason users, they make Refills as well with a lot of sounds in different devices like Combinator patches, or Redrum, Dr. Rex etc. | | | |
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Shea breal
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| | 06 Nov 2007 06:31 AM |
| I got the Mpc 60 refills(For Reason) myself and they are great.
Hope to be getting the others too.
Money well spended. | | | |
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Knowledge.
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| | 28 Nov 2007 05:03 PM |
| im about to order the mpc 60 kit and the tape 808 good looks on the review nfx | | | |
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Hamilton Jr
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Slavebell
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| | 13 Dec 2007 10:36 AM |
| I ordered Tr808 now... i hope ill not have to wait 12 hours like thay said i might... | | Who's your favourite croatian fellow?!
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JZM
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| | 15 Dec 2007 10:59 AM |
| Yeah the next time I decide to buy some drums I think these will definetely be it. | | | http://www.jzmproductionz.com
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Slavebell
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| | 15 Dec 2007 11:28 AM |
| i waited just 10 min. but im "on the road" now and have just laptop speakers so i cant realy say much bout tham... | | Who's your favourite croatian fellow?!
WB battles: W-13 L-2 | |
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Taylor Barclay
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| | 16 Dec 2007 11:07 AM |
| These will be my next purchase of drum kits. | | | |
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huggie
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| | 11 Jan 2008 04:02 PM |
| I just found out that the Tape808 got 10/10 in Computer Music Magazine!
Sweet!
Regards
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NFX
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| | 11 Jan 2008 05:24 PM |
| 'Gratz Hugo! I can't wait to see what 2008 will bring from GoldBaby. | | | If you find this site useful, please consider making a donation. | |
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Taylor Barclay
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| | 11 Jan 2008 06:07 PM |
| Good luck with sales Hugo. | | | |
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Shaun Robinson
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| | 06 Feb 2008 11:01 PM |
| I'm getting those very soon. I'm going to the site right now to bookmark them. | | Not like I'm a Big Star or Something ,but I do know Search Engine Optimization.
So Google the name RevelaShaun 6:8 | |
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SOOPA!
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| | 11 Feb 2008 11:04 PM |
| yeah the tape808s are hard foreal...da bass drums eeewww...but why 24 bit....gadamn | | | Soop | |
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Muso
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| | 13 Feb 2008 08:38 PM |
| they is hard. i bought the tape808 and tape909 kits | | | I understand that the envy is part of the game but you and I we are not the same | |
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Saha Productions
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| | 14 Feb 2008 10:24 AM |
| wat do u think of em???^^^ | | Saha Productions (Crysis) - Hiphop/Rap/RnB
http://www.soundclick.com/sahaproductions
http://www.worldsbestproducers.com/producers/sahaproductions
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Slavebell
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| | 15 Feb 2008 08:55 AM |
| Posted By BDot on 02/11/2008 11:04 PM
yeah the tape808s are hard foreal...da bass drums eeewww...but why 24 bit....gadamn lol 24 bit is standard for mixing/mastering... Whan (if) ull send ur songs for profesional mixing or mastering theyll ask u to send tham 24-bit tracks... After mastering they are converted to 16bit | | Who's your favourite croatian fellow?!
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SOOPA!
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| | 15 Feb 2008 09:54 AM |
| im not mixing and mastering | | | Soop | |
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