country loops

[fender3]

I am looking for a site that sells loops for country music...I need all instruments: guitar, dobro, steele guitar, bass, piano, drums, fiddle, and mandolin. Can anyone help? It seems like all I can find is rock or rap loops. Has country music really died.

[chrispick]

Country music's hardly dead. It's just not a genre that's embraced loop technology. At least not yet (although current trends lean it closer and closer to pop IMO).

Anyway, check out bigfishaudio.com. In their loops section, there's a sub-section of country-oriented loops and instrument sounds, some more fitting than others.

[fender3]

been there...done that....but thanks for the help

[m2]

I am looking for a site that sells loops for country music...I need all instruments: guitar, dobro, steele guitar, bass, piano, drums, fiddle, and mandolin. Can anyone help? It seems like all I can find is rock or rap loops. Has country music really died.

Just an observation:
I don't think country has died but loops may not be much the way that that music comes together. To the country folks credit they're a crowd that tends to shun synth/MIDI stuff in lieu of sitting around with other live musicians and playing. Often cuts one would use loops to compose rock and hip-hop ideas is done with a writer and the ubiqutious solo acuostic guitar. Country labels will still take a demo that is just a singer-songwriter alone. One mic, one player kind of thing. Perhaps that's why there is not much demand for loops in that genre.

Good luck with your writing!

[fender3]

M2, I appreciate the post, but I actually wanted the loops for personal use. I live outside of Nashville and already know that most producers only want vocals and maybe a guitar on a demo. If you do the whole production, it takes away from their ideas and they are also afraid the songs may have already been produced or stolen.

[mesasand]

I live outside of Nashville and already know that most producers only want vocals and maybe a guitar on a demo. If you do the whole production, it takes away from their ideas and they are also afraid the songs may have already been produced or stolen.

Actually, I'm hearing the opposite is true. A friend of mine, who was a fairly prominent writer in Nashville, told me the A&R process has dumbed down to the point that they want finished productions for demos - that's because they'll usually copy the arrangement down to the last note for the record!

True story: He knew a band that submitted a song to a label, which got picked up. When the record released, the demo and finished record were nearly indistinguishable from each other, except for the lead vocal.

Nashville is out of the creativity business. IMHO, your demo better sound exactly like the record, or they won't hear its potential!

[johnnytucats]

Nashville is out of the creativity business?

Copping demos on records goes WAY back. This is not new. The demos are produced in Nashville...I would just about bet on 98% of the time. Heck, Craig Wiseman alone accounts for 68% of them.