Cyclick Samples - Minimal Clicks n Bitz [WAV | NKI] -Sin

Clicks, pops, crackles and all those noises people work so hard to remove from their recordings can
also be used to great effect, as they have been for years since it was realised the vinyl crackles on
samples were almost as important as the breaks they accompanied. For this collection I set about
creating a set of noises, both short hits and longer sections that have become loops, from an (almost)
entirely analogue process (the Eventide ModFactor is digital..I'm not including the final conversion
either). The resulting sounds have been collated into the Raw Hits n Loops folder and the Kontakt
instruments suffixed with [raw]. Processed Rhythmic Loops were made using these instruments and
are also set out as Kontakt instruments (CB_Loops [###bpm]).

The raw sounds were started by setting up a chain of the pedals with the distortions at the beginning.
Nothing was plugged into the first one (expect a patch cable to engage the battery) so the noise was
merely a factor of repeated distorting gain stages. The filters and ring modulators (the Eventide
ModFactor was used only in its ring mod mode) were then tweaked to produce a wide variety of
responses, as were the 'generator' distortion pedals. For some of the raw sounds, especially the longer
sustained loops, the output of the chain was fed into the old Boss DE-200 digital delay which was then
plugged into the first distortion pedal (the Blue Doo overdrive) for a controllable feedback loop.
What followed was the mother of all editing out sessions as I had spent far too long running off long
stripes of pedal tweaking...it's really hard to stop.

The Kontakt instruments are compatible with version 4 and above and they all have a Low Pass filter
assigned to CC#74 and a High Pass filter assigned to the Mod. Wheel. The BitzLoop loops run from C1
to D#2 and the LoopBitzLoop loops run from C3 to D#3.