Country Sound Library

stevens119 · 24th November 2007, 11:47 PM

This is actually a two part question. First, Why do all country sample cd's suck? It almost seems as if the people that make them have absolutely no idea about country music. Why make a country sound library if you don't play country music? I bet if somebody actually good made a sample cd everybody would go buy it...like say there was a "Brent Mason Chickin Pickin Vol.1"...wouldn't that be great? All the country sample cd's I have heard are absolutely horrid. And I've heard a bunch. Having that said, I have some really good country drum tracks. Drumcore's Lonnie Wilson pack is great, and so is the drums on demand series. So I've got all the drums I can handle. Which brings me to the next question: Does anybody know of a good cd, in any format, that has good country instruments? Steel slides, fiddle playing, tight bass, Hi passed acoustic guitars, and electric twang guitars? If so please let me know. I would love to have it. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

azwun25 · 25th November 2007, 12:03 AM

most sample cd's that are genre-specific suck and are far from authentic. That said, country music doesn't seem like a genre that can be produced via samples. You're either in a country band or you're not. Maybe I'm off base here. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. Good luck.

stevens119 · 25th November 2007, 12:16 AM

Not necessarily true...in the case of the lonnie wilson drum pack for submerible's drum core... he is almost dead on what he would actually play in the studio. The problem is generally musicians that make the sample cd's suck. If the people that make country records made some samples cd's then i'm 99% sure they wouldn't suck. If the played some of that gold and platinum on there, everybody would just eat it up. I don't know that many people that are in country bands...but I do know alot of songwriters that could certainly use such a cd. I guarantee there are alot more country songwriters than there are actual country bands. And as far as country bands go...the term country band is a misnomer, because the people in country bands are most of the time never the same people that actually play on the recordings. A band is assembled for the purpose of making a record, and some of the time they don't even know each other. So it's a band sort of, but not generally speaking.

azwun25 · 25th November 2007, 05:33 AM

i should have clarified that I didn't mean drums but guitar samples etc.

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24th November 2007, 11:47 PM	#1
stevens119 Gear addict Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Nashville Posts: 312	Country Sound Library This is actually a two part question. First, Why do all country sample cd's suck? It almost seems as if the people that make them have absolutely no idea about country music. Why make a country sound library if you don't play country music? I bet if somebody actually good made a sample cd everybody would go buy it...like say there was a "Brent Mason Chickin Pickin Vol.1"...wouldn't that be great? All the country sample cd's I have heard are absolutely horrid. And I've heard a bunch. Having that said, I have some really good country drum tracks. Drumcore's Lonnie Wilson pack is great, and so is the drums on demand series. So I've got all the drums I can handle. Which brings me to the next question: Does anybody know of a good cd, in any format, that has good country instruments? Steel slides, fiddle playing, tight bass, Hi passed acoustic guitars, and electric twang guitars? If so please let me know. I would love to have it. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

25th November 2007, 12:03 AM	#2
azwun25 Lives for gear Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: The Roman Empire State Posts: 1,418	most sample cd's that are genre-specific suck and are far from authentic. That said, country music doesn't seem like a genre that can be produced via samples. You're either in a country band or you're not. Maybe I'm off base here. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. Good luck. __________________ "If the opposite of pro is a con then look beyond this The opposite of congress must be progress" ~Cage Grand Ol' Party Crash

25th November 2007, 05:33 AM	#4
azwun25 Lives for gear Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: The Roman Empire State Posts: 1,418	i should have clarified that I didn't mean drums but guitar samples etc. __________________ "If the opposite of pro is a con then look beyond this The opposite of congress must be progress" ~Cage Grand Ol' Party Crash

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25th November 2007, 12:16 AM	#3
stevens119 Gear addict Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Nashville Posts: 312	Not necessarily true...in the case of the lonnie wilson drum pack for submerible's drum core... he is almost dead on what he would actually play in the studio. The problem is generally musicians that make the sample cd's suck. If the people that make country records made some samples cd's then i'm 99% sure they wouldn't suck. If the played some of that gold and platinum on there, everybody would just eat it up. I don't know that many people that are in country bands...but I do know alot of songwriters that could certainly use such a cd. I guarantee there are alot more country songwriters than there are actual country bands. And as far as country bands go...the term country band is a misnomer, because the people in country bands are most of the time never the same people that actually play on the recordings. A band is assembled for the purpose of making a record, and some of the time they don't even know each other. So it's a band sort of, but not generally speaking.