SmorgasFunk!

We’ve gone ‘total funk’ this issue, with two new sample packs and no fewer than four packs from the vault. First up, Robbie from Cyclick explains how he assembled his banquet…

“There is so much ‘funk’ that it was hard to choose a flavour to favour for this collection. I started by picking up the sticks, setting a click and pressing record on a drum kit setup that was already sat in the live room at Sandpit Studio.

“The drums differ across the three tempos with either a change in dampening or tuning, and the snare was switched from a Ludwig to a Tama for the 105bpm beats. Each tempo features three mixes, produced simultaneously by blending different mics into separate effects chains.

“Then it was time to record bass, guitar and keyboard parts, which were done in that order. These were recorded through a chain of the pedals. The bass used UAD Ampeg bass-amp plugins and Amplitube 5. The guitar and keys (Arturia Clavinet, Wurlitzer electric piano and B3 organ) were amped with Amplitube, only with a healthy dose of UAD plugs after the amp.”

There’s more information on the PDF supplied in the Samples folder on the DVD or at filesilo.co.uk.