SOR – Shhh – I Am Speaking

Keys Magazine:
1. Exzellente und saubere Aufnahmequalität […] Ausdrucksstarke, einprägsame Stimme mit angenehmer britischer Artikulation […] Phrasen in unterschiedlichen Ausdrucksformen […} zeichnet sich durch eine exzellente, saubere Audioqualität aus, wie man sie bei Gesangs- und Sprachsamples selten antrifft. Den absolut trockhenen Samples fehlt es weder an Wärme, noch an Transparenz. Es ist geradezu erfrischend, dass hier ein Hersteller ganz auf die Effektmaschinerie vom Echo bis zum Pitchshifter verzichtet und damit dem Nutzer jeden erdenklichen Freiraum für die Nachbearbeitung läßt. Ob Granular Effekte für sphärische Stimmen-Cluster oder Lautsprechersimulationen für Lo-Fi Radiosound – die Phrasen laden zu den unterschiedlichsten Klangexperimenten ein. Rating: 3/3

Soundbytes Magazine:
Vocal sample libraries are a good tool if you can’t find a vocalist that can deliver the exact performance you’re looking for or someone you can’t hire for cheap or simply needed some vocal samples to inject into your dance productions. The idea of such libraries is to give producers something they can grab on the fly, as well as samples they can tweak to fit into their mixes. That is why there is Shhh – I am Speaking Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 from Sounds-of-Revolution. These libraries will help ease the process of adding vocal elements into your productions. If phrases, single word spoken, variable sentences and FX vocals are something you fancy, both libraries are equipped to deliver such samples.Shhh – I Am Speaking Vol. 1 contains 465 MB of content, 788 vocal samples in total with 215 group phrases, 310 single phrases, 257 words and 6 complex FX vocals. Picking up where Vol. 1 left off, Shhh – I Am Speaking Vol. 2 includes 458 samples in content, 807 EDM vocals in total with 189 group phrases, 356 single phrases, 258 words and eight complex FX vocals. Both libraries were performed by a professional native UK speaker with so much liveliness in the voice. What’s nice about these libraries is that both are clean-sounding with a nice stereo image (but are 100% mono compatible). All the samples are recorded dry, so you can tweak, time stretch, pitch-shift or effect-mangling them to your heart’s content. These 24-bit WAV libraries are well suited for dance, breaks, dubstep, house and other electronica sub-genre. My favorites of this bunch are the single phrases because they are “complete” and you can just drop them in an assigned audio track in your DAW. I wish there were more vocal FX samples to round out this library. Overall, this is another S-o-R offering that is worthy to be considered if you’re in the hunt of some vocal samples.

Sam Laxton
Great variety of words and nicely delivered across different expressions. Samples require minimal processing to sit in tracks which is ideal when getting ideas down in a hurry. Already used in my own productions to bring more life to them. 8/10