Cards on the table before we start: the House Phonk Sample Pack & Serum 2 Presets (Ultimate Edition) is my own product. I built it. So read this less as an unbiased review and more as a guided tour through the folders, plus notes on where each sound ends up in my tracks.
The first version of this article went up in 2022. A lot has happened since. Serum turned into Serum 2 in March 2025 (free for anyone who owned Serum 1), which means the preset folder now opens with the full new toolbox: three oscillators, granular and spectral engines, and a sequencer living inside the synth. What you’re reading has been updated for 2026.
The essentials first. Price is $30, every sample is royalty-free, and the WAVs load into any DAW you own. Want to hear my sound design before handing over money? There’s a free bundle of 250+ Serum 2 presets that works as a cheap sanity check.
What’s inside the pack
Five main folders make up the download:
- Phonk Choir Stacks
- Phonk Drum Loops
- Phonk Essential Drum Kit (bonus)
- Phonk Vocal One-shots
- Phonk Serum 2 Presets
You also get a folder holding the preview tracks from the product page. That sounds like padding. It isn’t. When I sketch something new, I pull those demos up as style references and A/B my rough mix against a finished one.
Phonk Choir Stacks
Eighteen choir recordings, male and female voices, each singing a different phrase. They’re edited so they chain cleanly into loops. Rotate two or three phrases and suddenly you have a hook.
Getting them to sit in a phonk mix comes down to one move: pile on reverb, then saturate. My usual chain runs a hall verb with a 3–4 second decay somewhere near 30% wet, tape-flavored saturation right after, and a high-pass around 250–300 Hz to keep the choir out of the 808’s lane. The result is smeared, gritty and atmospheric, which is precisely what the genre asks for.
Phonk Drum Loops
Forty house phonk loops covering a range of percussion flavors. The tempos span 115 to 150 BPM, so both camps are served: the housier 120–128 zone and the angrier drift territory above 140.
Two details win me over here. First, the loops arrive clean, with no clipping baked in, so how hard the distortion gets is your call. Second, the drums keep genuine headroom, and that makes them slot into a mix instead of wrestling with a pre-crushed master.
They aren’t limited to the house side either. In hip-hop-flavored phonk they hold up fine, and a loop dropped into half-time lands you straight in Memphis territory.
Phonk Essential Drum Kit
The one-shot folder: kicks, snares, hats, percs, cowbells. I’ve fired them from NI Maschine and sequenced them directly in the DAW, and both routes worked without a hitch. The character is firm, whippy, heavy on the bottom.
Who is this for? Anyone who’d rather not burn an evening synthesizing a kick from scratch. Take a kick, a clap and a couple of hats, lay down a 4/4 pattern, and you’re sketching inside five minutes.
Phonk Vocal One-shots
Short shouts and phrases meant for drops and transitions. Drop the pitch 2–4 semitones, throw a slapback delay on, and they immediately read as a 90s Memphis cassette. The original review barely touched on this folder, which was a mistake on my part; hardly a phonk track leaves my studio without at least one of these in it.
Phonk Serum 2 Presets
Punchy, deep low end plus those lush cowbell leads the whole genre stands on. The Serum 2 update made this folder more fun than it used to be: any preset’s oscillator can now be dragged into the granular engine, and from there you can mangle a cowbell into something completely your own.
Never installed presets before? My two-minute walkthrough on how to install Serum 2 presets covers it.
How it sounds
Listening beats reading here. Every sound in this demo comes from the pack:
How I actually use it
Here’s my standard house phonk sketch, in order:
- Grab a drum loop sitting around 126 BPM and set the project tempo to match it.
- Load one of the cowbell presets and write a one-bar melody in a minor key, four to six notes. E minor and C minor rarely miss.
- Put a bass preset on the off-beats, classic slap house style, and sidechain it to the kick with 4–6 dB of ducking.
- Bring a choir stack into the break, soaked in reverb the way I described earlier.
- Glue the drum bus with OTT around 20–30% depth, then finish with a clipper on the master, ceiling at -0.5 dB.
Prefer building everything from an init patch instead? I wrote a complete phonk Serum 2 tutorial covering the cowbell and the distorted bass from zero. And for the bottom end specifically, my Serum 2 808 bass guide explains how to keep the sub clean while the layers above it distort.
Pros and cons
The first draft of this post listed ten pros. Half were meaningless padding — “compatible with multiple DAWs” is true of literally every WAV pack in existence. So here’s the trimmed, honest list.
Pros:
- Focused on one genre. Everything in here is phonk; no stray EDM scraps.
- Clean processing with headroom left in, so the distortion decisions stay yours.
- The 115–150 BPM spread handles both house phonk and drift phonk.
- Serum 2 presets come included, meaning your melodies aren’t locked to the keys and tempos of the WAVs.
- Royalty-free, commercial releases included.
Cons:
- More presets, always. No pack has ever contained enough Serum presets for me, including my own.
- All that variety has a downside: I’ve lost ten minutes deciding between two loops that were nearly twins.
- The melodic content ships without MIDI files, so a wrong key means transposing audio.
More phonk from our catalog
Two other packs worth knowing if this style is where you live.
Dark Phonk Sample Pack — Gamma is the meaner, Atomic Heart-inspired sibling: icier melodies, harder drums, and most of it lives around 140 BPM.
Only after the synth sounds? The Serum 2 Phonk Presets exist as a standalone product: the same cowbells and basses, minus the sample folders.
FAQ: house phonk sample packs
What BPM is house phonk?
Most of it sits at 120–128 BPM, since the four-on-the-floor groove comes straight out of slap house. Drift phonk pushes faster, usually 135–150 BPM. This pack’s loops span both zones.
Do I need Serum 2 to use this pack?
Only if you want the preset folder. Every WAV sample and loop plays in any DAW — FL Studio, Ableton Live, Logic, take your pick. Serum 1 owners get the Serum 2 update free, so the presets will open without issues.
Are the samples royalty-free?
They are. Commercial releases, streams, client work: all fine, no extra fees, no credit required.
What’s the difference between phonk and house phonk?
Classic phonk grew out of hip-hop: half-time drums, chopped Memphis vocals, that dusty tape grit. House phonk keeps the cowbells and the dark vocal flavor but sets them over a 4/4 house kick with bass on the off-beats. Drift edits made it huge, and it stuck around.
Not sure yet? Try the free Serum 2 presets first, 250+ sounds for nothing, and decide whether my sound design suits you. If it clicks, this pack will feel very familiar.
I run Monosounds.studio and make the packs myself. Ten-plus years of producing, 97+ releases, 16,000+ downloads. Every Serum 2 preset we ship passes a CPU check on a mid-range laptop and gets used in a real track before release. If it does not survive a mix, it does not go in the pack.
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