Blister Pak | Reasonfreaks

Like:
Lots of yummy electronic drum sounds

Dislike:
not all samples are in mono

Content:
You can never have too much of a good thing, or can you? Blister Pak boasts a whopping 4000 hits of electronic drums. The sounds, in this sample CD, range from bread n' butter TR-909 sounds, to tweeked out lo-fi mayhem. Blister Pak breaks down like this.

Content:

4000 Drumhits devided in the following category's:

* 641 kick samples

* 532 snares

* 400 hi-hats and cymbals

* 330 percussion hits

* 175 "phrases" (I still haven't figured that one out)

* 114 tonal hits

* 55 collection of drums (that evens out to the other 2000 drum samples)


The breakdown
Upon browsing thru this sample CD for the first time, I was overwhelmed with the amount of good drum sound. The first folder I started digging thru was the kik drum folder. Many of the kiks ranged from pounding, bass-heavy kiks, to snappy electro-ish kiks. With such a large variety of kick, your bound to find one useful to whatever genre of music your producing. An interesting collection of sounds is the "phrases" folder. It consist of drum fragments, of sorts. I still have yet to really figure out the deductive logic behind the meaning of the title, tho. The collection of snares was another folder jam-packed with a ton of snare/clap samples. Once again, there is a wide variety of snare and clapper sound to pick from. The collection consisted of an assortment of 808/909-ish snares, SID Station sounds, weird snare-like sounds, and smooth sonic fragments resembling snares. The percussion hits rather impressed me, due to the fact that it wasn't the usual collection of crappy conga hits, and TR-707 cowbells I'm used to finding in "percussion" collections. Many of the sound contained within the collection defiantly had a percussive sound to them, but to describe them is a bit tough. The sounds ranged from lo-fi hits, to stuff that sound like it was made in Reaktor. Altho I was a bit disappointed to find one tweeked TR-808 cowbell in the collection. The hi-hats and cymbals was pretty strait forward, with nothing to really brag about. After digging through the folder, everything just started to sound the same, after about 20 minutes. The last folder in Blister Pak was the "collection" of more than 2000-something drum hits with interesting names given to them. The drums ranged from electro kits, "booty" kits, "lunch" drums, and more SID kits. Within each of 55 folder was anywhere from 8-45 different drum hits. Some of the folders that really jumped out at me were the Galaxa, Filterfrog, Mechanics, Diver Down, and electro percussion collections.

Conclusion
Is Blister Pak really too much of a good thing? Honestly, I think not. One can never have enough good drum samples sitting around waiting to be used. My only complaints with the CD was the fact that not all the samples were in mono. Some drum sounds were in stereo and then some were in mono. Also, the amount of sounds were great but sadly sometimes after a while they all kind of sounded the same in some folders. The overall content of the CD was excellent. Its packed full of useful drums sound for any producer looking to put out anything from trip-hop, breakbeats, drum & bass, IDM, or progressive house.