I’ve recently been given the opportunity to check out the “XXL Hip Hop Drums Sample Pack” from primeloops.com – I used it in my 7 day song Hip Hop tutorial, so I’ve got a decent amount of experience with it!
Before anyone asks – I do get paid for adverts on my site from primeloops, but I was not paid to make this review – I do completely independant reviews so they can be credible and objective – if this pack sucked, I’d say so.
Contents
Introduction
The Samples
Making a Song
Versatility
Value for Money
Overview
Introduction
Hi, I’m Dave from boyinaband.com and welcome to my review on the Hip Hop Drums sample pack from Primeloops.com.
I’m really into my hip hop. I’m all about big beats, arrogant rhymes and catchy hooks. While you’ll have to go about making your hooks and being an arrogant ass on your own, this pack can definitely help you with the beats.
When I started making my own beats, they tended to sound weedy and thin. I now know it’s because the samples that came with the software I was using weren’t powerful enough. They lacked the punch of the professional tracks I longed to match the quality of. This pack punches like Jackie Chan after drinking some powerthirst.
To show you, I’ve put together a quick beat using the samples from it.
The Samples
This sample pack contains a collection of
individual hits. There are 30 crashes, 39 closed hats, 17 open hats, 140 kicks, 27 shakers and 111 snares. There are a LOT of samples in here.
The only disappointment in this area is that there isn’t a section for claps, though one or two of the snares sound kinda clap-like.
The samples are great though – the kicks really shine, giving a variety of roomy, bassy and tight kicks depending on the style of beat you’re going for!
The kicks are separated into Kicks and Kicks XXL for those really unrelentingly heavy bass drums, so the more industrial and bassy sounding kicks tend to be found in the XXL folder. The snares are similarly separated too.
Making a Song
I found making a beat really easy with these samples – I had inspiration to make something big and epic sounding, and the kicks and snares were right on the nose. If I hadn’t been inspired, though, just cycling through the samples would have brought some inspiration since some of them are really distinctive and cry out to be used in certain tempos or styles of hip hop.
There are also some mental sounding kicks and snares with fx layered on them which are great for some weirder beats or for hits at the start of your loop.
Versatility
I’d say the kicks are definitely geared towards hip hop, big beat and Dubstep music, but some of the snares could easily be used for some quality Drum and Bass (there are some really punchy snares) or Dubstep (for the more reverby, snappy snares). The hats, crashes and shakers are all really useable cross-genre as well.
Value for Money
364 samples at £9.95. That means a wallet-loving 3p per sample, and I’d say at least 80% of these are really useable, with 25-50% being ones that really stand out as awesome samples. Definitely worth it.
Overview
This pack is:
- Seriously good for Powerful, Heavy Productions
- High Quality
- Useable in Hip Hop, Dubstep and Drum & Bass
- Awesome Value for money
As I said – my only criticism is that the pack doesn’t have a “claps” section.
This is a must for hip hop producers who prefer heavier productions. It’s great for beginners, since it’ll be a fantastic starting point to making professional productions and for more experienced producers, this will be a fine addition to your sample library for making those punchier, speaker shaking drums loops.
All in all I give Primeloops’ XXL Hip Hop Drums sample pack 90% – amazing value for money and some seriously awesome samples.
Be sure to check out the Demo mp3s on Primeloops.com as well to check out some great examples of what this pack is capable of:
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