How do you make samples unrecognizable?

I know you can chop a sample up to disguise it. But are there other tips?

I'm talking about copywritten material.

chopping, filtering, reversing, layering...etc...these usually work for me...hope it helped...

thats a tough one in the sense that if its copy written and someone makes out even one milisecond as their record they can get at you.

I'd say chop your samples tighter.. like 1 sec segments and mix em up with other 1 sec sample segements.

But I think the more of a sample you use from the same source the more likely some smart musicologist is gonna recognise the sample.

Better still just don't sample anything obvious ...you know, like the American national anthem and expect hide it with layered drums and sh*t - it aint gonna work !

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pitching samples up or down can help hide yer source,
also, i'd imagine choosing old obscure music would be harder for lawyers or whoever to identify. But like Mantis mentions, using small and varied bits and peices is probably pretty safe.

yo craig......

who's buying your beats and what label are they being released on?

if you dont have answers to these questions the one you started the topic with is quite pointless???

on a side note......

interesting how a judge doesnt have to pay for "sampling" the works of other judges when ruling in a case, he is allowed to just sample, uh no i mean interpret yeah that it INTERPRET others work at will

How do you make samples unrecognizable?

- open wav editor

- select the whole sample

- mute it

DFENS wrote:

How do you make samples unrecognizable?

- open wav editor

- select the whole sample

- mute it

thats Ill SON!!!!!!!!!!

i'M A TRY THAT TIP THE MINUTE I GET BACK TO THE TIP!!!!!!!!!!!!

DFENS wrote:

How do you make samples unrecognizable?

- open wav editor

- select the whole sample

- mute it

Damn... and all this time I'd been cuttin up my samples !!!!

J-Zone already did that...lol...

"Me, do your beats for free case your the best/ You'll have the hottest acapellas on the planet/"-J-Zone

Unless you're music is getting reasonably widespread distribution of a reasonably quantity, it's really not something you have to worry about.

a_real_mc wrote:J-Zone already did that...lol...

"Me, do your beats for free case your the best/ You'll have the hottest acapellas on the planet/"-J-Zone

you trying to say i'm ripping off his techniques i never heard of the cat, so i dont even know his flavor.

no one can disguise a sample like me.

Go check him out...look for "Music for Tu Madre". Zone is a really creative producer using a 2000. He chops ridiculious ish, and he is the only person other than myself whom I've heard flip and accordion sample...and make that ish ill...also look for "A bottle of Whoop Ass" and "Pimps Don't Pay Taxes".

cool, i'll check him out sometime.

You do need to be printing more than 15,000 copies of something before you have to worry about sample clearance.

I know what you mean though. You don't want to make a beat assuming this won't be a problem then it blows up and everyone wants a copy and you've got an unlicensed sample on it.

Reversing, cutting up and then distorting can give some ill effects, although it obviouslly depends on the sample used.

Then again you could just try and create from scratch - trying to get away with hiding a sample is a dangerous game.