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I'm really tired of sampling classical music, I was just wondering what are some good soulful records I could sample from? I have the Motown records but that stuff has been sampled to death. I'm open to any tips you guys have.

the day you know my secrets will be the day you die.....

joke

but seriously i cant tell you exactly what to look for ... thats diggin for you...
i posted sumthin on this topic last week...

my best piece of advice is hit up a dirty record spot find all the lp's with the illest covers and listen through them

also music was generally mint in the 1970's

look for new stuff that no one else has flipped
listen to loop digga and jazz cats on the quasimoto album
go to www.the-breaks.com

peace and good luck diggin.

WORD 42blues!

Nobody will tell you their secret of diggin....

My advice is: You can find sounds on ANY kind of record, every record has one usefull sound on it, some drums, vocals....

70's music is allways a good sorce for a special sound, but don't try to focus on just 70`s music. be different, create your own sound,
Hip Hop is living from inovation....

florian77 wrote:My advice is: You can find sounds on ANY kind of record, every record has one usefull sound on it, some drums, vocals....

Couldn't have said it better myself ...peace

aBicUs wrote:I'm really tired of sampling classical music, I was just wondering what are some good soulful records I could sample from? I have the Motown records but that stuff has been sampled to death. I'm open to any tips you guys have.

look for different labels,forget motown!
plus get into certain artist/musicians,jazz records

cadet,ecm,cti,polydor,capital,stax,

reissues,comps,like ubb

It's all out there... Classical, old movie soundtracks. You'd be surprised alot of the Classic Rock groups songs have some tight *ss drum breaks. But you gotta DIG!!!!!




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its not about what you sample but how you use what you have sample! im just starting to get into samplings...i look past the rules of what has been sample and what has not. since im a keyboard beat maker i sample small parts that i turn into one hit sounds. Im starting to learn to me making beats with a keyboard is blood and sampling is water and blood will always be thicker than water but you still need water to live. Somethings you just cant play and somethings just need to be sample, cut n fitted in. I sample anything from 1900's to 2004. Ill sample something from the neptunes to Shanya Twane. Like i said i sample small parts to fill in space nothing to give my tracks Zip code of where it came from so i have no rules.

yes hits are smart too,they you memory too.

i mainly sample to get one hits, though it is hard to find bass drums with no hi hat on the same beat and the same with snares. sometimes it gets a little frustrating, but eventually u find what you want. well most of the time anyway.

gordongecko23 wrote:i mainly sample to get one hits, though it is hard to find bass drums with no hi hat on the same beat and the same with snares. sometimes it gets a little frustrating, but eventually u find what you want. well most of the time anyway.

That doesn't usually matter to me. Once you program them in a beat with another hihat, it all blends together like gravy and mashed pototoes.

Also you can always EQ the highs out if all you're after is the bassdrum, snares can be a lil bit more tricky since they need some higher frequencies to compliment the mids. Just like Itchyvinyl said once you place your hihats over it you won't even be able to tell.

i do find that true with most bass drums and snares that you can just eq out the hi's, but another problem i have is when there is a hi hat right after the bass drum, so if you cut it out the bass drum is just cut off a little bit, and sounds terrible. i have tried adding 'air' and adjusting the decay, but it never really sounds great if you guys know what i mean. sometimes i hear a set that i want to sample and i just love that sound that it has and try everything to get it. anyway that is all.

petitte to the stros!!!!!!!

If you sample the kicks or snares that play in the beginning of some older records usually they are by themselves... like on those old school disco 12"s

one way to combat this problem.....
....is to copy your kick drum and set the start point before the kick drum (obviously) and the end point after the hi hat and before the next hit (probably the snare).
Then timestretch this sound to fit in time with your beat (i.e the hi hat which follows the kick falls with the hi hats you've programmed...) then layer your original kick over this sound with a bit of decay so it cuts out the hat and you've got a beefy kick which has retained its original air and feel.

hope i explained this properly i hate typing....
peace

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