60s A Go Go | Virtual Instruments Magazine
Back to 60s A Go Go product detailsThis library quickly recalls the more innocent times of '60s era surf and bubblegum
pop. In addition to the standard era-accurate instrumentation-including prominent
combo organ-there are also flutes and a fair amount of horns that occasionally bring
to mind Herb Albert's Tijuana Brass (or on one occasion, Mark Isham doing acid
rock). Country, doo-wop, and mildly psychedelic flavors also make brief appearances.
The recordings are clean but not antiseptic, often with an appropriate wash of reverb.
You get construction kits for 14 songs (many with two or three variations) ranging in
tempo from 65 to 160 bpm biased towards the faster side. The single 1.56 gig Elastik
bank is divided into three folders: Demo Songs, Kits Mixed, and Kits Dry.
Demo songs range from 4 to 16 bars in length, often broken into two or four distinct
sections that often (but not always) may be looped smoothly. Each Demo Song bank
features three samples: full mix, just the instruments, and just the percussion, with
the drums occasionally being only 1 to 4 bar loops, sometimes missing the breaks
that appear in the full mix.
The Kits Mixed folder contains 5 to 24 individual 1 to 4 bar loops that includes
breakouts such as drums, male voices, female voices, organ, just the hi-hats, and
the such. Some of the samples include variations and breaks. The Kits Dry folder
contains well over 100 banks of more elemental recordings of these pieces. Inside,
the Drums subfolder features loops for each drum mic (with lots of bleed), while the
Instruments subfolder contains loops of individual licks without artificial reverb added.