> Re: Breakz from the Nu Skool
2003-07-01 by Phil Buckle
I agree that Beatz from the Nu School a great disc and I must say that I've heavily plundered it over the passed couple of months. Although I love and use PhatmaticPro I have constantly come across the problem where it will not "fill in the gaps" between slices like Recycle 2 will. This happens more when you are really slowing a groove down. Phat does not have any decay function as far as I can tell whereas Recycle 2 will allow the user to define how much crossfade between slices. I find myself going back to Recycle more these days. Then it's easy just to open the Rex file with an EXS. Ok if we are going to share favorite CD's then let me give you a heads up on the best sounding live drums that I've heard since Spectrasonics Backbeats. No it's not Drum Kit From Hell or the Joey Kramer disc......both of these are good though. These drums were recorded at Abbey Road with the best microphones through a Neve console in to a Euphonix DAW. The production and playing are second to none. The disc is "Beats Working" Not an enormous amount of material but all of it is brilliant. Totally worth every cent and for the first time in 4 years I've found something of the standard of Eric Persing. Check out the bottoms in the kick and the imaging of the whole kit...............and it hasn't been processed at all! (you will have to "see past" the generic demo) Phil Buckle.