problem on chopping beats

i tried to chop a beat ( snare, kick ) in a song, but i cant get the right sounds i want, the beat i chopped with a fast cutoff, sounds dead, can any one tell me is there any tricks on chopping beat with MPC1000 ? or is that i only can chop a perfect beat where only drums no other background music?? thanks!!!!!

i think yer on the right track...

part of the reason drums sound good when sampled from a track is because of all the natural ambience around each hit (room sound, compression, fx, turntable noise etc.)

but if the beat u sampled is crowded up with other sounds, and you gotta trim the drums real tight to isolate the drum hits, you might be just using little snips of sound which seem flat and mechanical

just speculatin though. Try a few more and you'll get more of a feel for what works.

its nice to be lazy sometime and chop them on software

yo man the thing i usually do. if their is an open drum break. i usually chop it a little longer then i use the decay to tighten up the sample.. it works wonders try it out. it can make your kick supper long and fat. or short and really tight. best thing i do for my drums

oh snap i didnt read your question good. if you got a lot of sounds in the backround. the only thing to get rid of them is to use a low pass and filter out the other sounds. the best breaks are always the ones with nothing but drums. i read a tip someone posted it was dope. he said that dont worry about hihats over the drums because your probably going to lay a hi hat over it when your doing the hi hat sequencing.

really thanks ..i will try my best to chop it with y'all suggestions..

djovserv. What do you mean when you say you chop the break a little longer? I was wondering how you do that.

Find some records with drum solos, don't kill yourself trying to chop up a complex song with lots of stuff going on all at once....you're killing yourself.

steez wrote:djovserv. What do you mean when you say you chop the break a little longer? I was wondering how you do that.

i chop the drum sound the kick or snare or whatever a little more than i should. and then i use the decay to tighten the sound up.. it works for me and thats all that i care about haha.