http://www.goldbaby.co.nz/thempc60page.html
I am primarily a breaks/big beat producer when it comes to original music & remixes, and I have consistently been on a quest for drum sounds that are phat, not sloppy, gritty but not unusable, tightly edited but not sterile, and 'large' in sound but not unusable in a mix. Some previous drum collections I have purchased (putting aside all the free stuff I have accumulated, which number in the thousands to tens of thousands of oneshot WAVs) -
* Battery 1-3
* Stylus RMX
* SR Sonik Capsules: Eclectic Drums, Studio Drums, Groove
* The Producer's Vault: Big Shots
* Soniccouture Abstrakt Breaks
* R.A.W. Universal Groove Kit
* Stormdrum
* Doru Malaia Superdrums 8000
* e-LAB Smoker's Delight
* e-LAB Foundation
* e-LAB Obsession
* Bob Clearmountain Drums II
* Steve Smith Rhythmic Journey
* Gota Yashiki Groove Activator
* FL Studio (default drum packs)
* Reason (dr.rex/redrum libraries)
* Countless samples from magazine CDs
So, as you can see, I like drums. But I am extremely picky and have previously (and repeatedly) challenged developers here to create a sample CD filled to the brim with breaks/big beat drum sounds to the specifications I described. No one stepped up to the plate.
With all that in mind, here I am saying this collection is AMAZING, and beats everything else I have. This is easily the best $14 I have ever spent on music gear; the sounds are all meticulously edited, the vast majority are highly usable, the tone is exactly perfect, there's no BS filler material, and the categorization & naming is excellent. No stupid "effected", processed, filtered, reverbed, or mangled drums, unlike tons of other drum sample CDs.
Check out this short demo I hacked together in 5 minutes, with NO processing other than a master track limiter:
http://www.soundtempest.net/dope.mp3
Simply put there is nothing else in my collection that can sound like that with no processing/layering, and I have several folders on my hard drive of drum samples that I myself have crafted to the best of my ability to use in my own music!
So, for anyone doing breakbeat, big beat, hip hop, or any related genre, you MUST buy this collection. I probably would have paid 5x the list price had I known how good the material was before buying (the demos on the Goldbaby page reflect a fraction of what you actually get.) I'm inclined to pick up the Tape808 set now as well.
Goldbaby: I bow to you, sirs!
