Bigga Giggas The John Rekevics Saxophone Library Baritone Sax GIGA-BSOUNDZ

Team BSOUNDZ | 10/08/06 | 301.70 MB
All of the samples in this library were performed by Rekevics on vintage Selmer Mark VI saxes, and each instrument was sampled chromatically over its full range. The sustained patches (vibrato and nonvibrato) have four Velocity layers each; most of the others have two.

To maximize versatility, developer John Thomas recorded the samples in mono and stereo. For the mono recordings, he used a Neumann condenser mic in a traditional close-mic setup and ran the mic through a custom tube preamp to capture the warmth of early mono recordings. For the stereo samples, he used a matched pair of Shure KSM32 condenser mics and a solid-state preamp.

The baritone sax offers a rich and powerful low end, and it can be plenty aggressive when it needs to be. Because bari saxes don’t play growls and flutters, Rekevics replaces those articulations with honks and barumps, those familiar two-note riffs that baris are famous for (think Pink Panther). The library has them in four tempos based on Rekevics’ analysis of old R&B and pop hits.