Product: M-Audio Pro Sessions Vol. 9 Hella Bumps 1
Price Paid: US $50
Submitted
02/08/2004
at
11:26am
by
skip
Email: skip at beautysconfusion<dot>net
Reviewer Background
:
-been making music for about 10 years
-trip-hop, hip-hop, punk, techno, hardcore, electro, indie rock, post rock, whatever
-Sonar 3.0 PE and Acid Pro 4.0
-I've been using Hella Bumps 1 for about 6 months
-Yamaha NS10m monitors
Overall Rating
:
8
Hella Bumps 1 was worth the price tag, I think. The format of the disc is construction kit mostly, with some single hits and various other stuff. The beats are very clean-sounding hip-hop loops. Funky as hell! Lots of cool riffs, rhodes, guitars, basslines... this is definitely a mainstream hip-hop library, though. Not enough grit for me, though I have used this a lot in a lot of my songs. I just like more grit in the beats. This library is so cleanly-produced it's crazy. I mean don't get me wrong, the sounds are great, it's just CLEAN.. haha. No vinyl noise or 8-bit lo-fi beat production... well, it pops up here and there but not often.
M-Audio make great sound hardware, but the libraries could use a little more "soul". Hella Bumps (both 1 and 2) are aimed for mainstream R&B and mainstream hip-hop. Everything sounds great, just a little too "radio" for me at times.
A solid 8, for the variety of stuff.
