Sampling off of you tube

Anyone do it? I was watchin the Tv before and heard a gaelic tune called Walk my Love. so i hopped on to my laptop and found it on You tube sampled it put a filter over it and now i have a really nice sounding beat?

Anyone sample from you tube? Are there any Pros or Cons on this?

Heres the link to the tune btw

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=e14AhQr1k ... re=related

Cheers!

whateva works is good. just started doing that myself a bit. sound quality varies from song to song sometimes but you can find some things you might not find at the record store. saw someone sampling off rhapsody too

Sound quality is the obvious downside. Personally, I wouldn't do it no matter what. I just wouldn't feel good about it.

But then again I sometimes sample from MP3's, so whatever works...

Hell yeah, I do, just gotta find some videos with good quality, for some good sampling type in, rare northern soul or rare songs. See what you get. Ive sampled the weirdest stuff from you tube.

records only over here

We did a sample off of youtube last year thats an actual rap song for a national song on the radio now thats spinning commercially( my boy has some legal things going on with it right now at the moment)...

ESCROOGE wrote:Hell yeah, I do, just gotta find some videos with good quality, for some good sampling type in, rare northern soul or rare songs. See what you get. Ive sampled the weirdest stuff from you tube.

you realize that the word 'rare' when used in the same sentence as 'youtube' is actually an oxymoron right?

Sample whatever the f*ck you want, dude, go for it. The con is that the audio quality is abso-tively horrendous, but if you gots no other choice...

I did a class project that required audio from certain tv theme songs, and I straight up sampled it off youtube called it a day. I've done the same thing with myspace where I had to do radio promos for a band and didn't have their cd or whatev. I'll admit, though, that audio quality didn't mean a whole lot those scenarios. If I were going to try to work it into a song or something, I would see if I could get away with rolling off a decent chunk of the top as the aliasing tends to be a little harsh in the high end. But if you can't, then sheeyit, do it anyway. If it sounds good it, it sounds good. You might even start a new trend, haha

...Almost feel sorry for you vinyl-only heads

thedvs01 wrote:you realize that the word 'rare' when used in the same sentence as 'youtube' is actually an oxymoron right?

Bahhaahaa. Exactly. I love when I see the word "rare" in the title of a youtube vid. It aint rare anymore, lol

Audio quality? Pfft, I don't mind, I sample from dusty records,
so I might as well sample from youtube. It is possible to get
good quality audio from youtube though. Just download the
.flv file then convert the file to .mp3!

its always like a itch in my brain when people talk about Audio quality when it comes to sampling/making beats. Old records/music sound like sh!t but the music is great. As long as the music is good, I dont think that sh!t matters.

also, this was something that was posted by another member. Its a Mozilla Firefox Plug-in.

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Doglamp wrote:Audio quality? Pfft, I don't mind, I sample from dusty records,
so I might as well sample from youtube. It is possible to get
good quality audio from youtube though. Just download the
.flv file then convert the file to .mp3!

I see what you're saying, but technically speaking, youtube vids have an extremely low quality of audio, even when compared to the dustiest of dusty records. From wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youtube#Audio_format wrote:Standard quality YouTube videos contain an MP3 audio stream. By default, it is encoded in mono at a bit rate of 64 kbit/s sampled at 22050 Hz, giving an audio bandwidth of around 10 kHz. The default bit rate delivers passable but not hi-fi audio quality

64kbit/s is pretty low, man. You're missing out on a lot of dynamic range and high frequencies that you would be getting from vinyl, or even a cd. Sharp transients sound horrible at 64kbp/s, and all that digital distortion sounds much harsher than analog distortion ever could. It's that digital "harshness" is what bugs me the most about those youtube vids.

As for getting "good quality" audio from the .flv file, I would imagine that the file gets compressed as soon as it gets converted into .flv format. There's a chance that the file might sound slightly better than when sampling straight from youtube, but the numbers don't indicate such. I would advise to stick to vinyl (no matter how dusty) and cd (probably not so dusty) when you can, and go for youtube when you see no other option, or when you just wanna have fun trying some weird sh*t, lol. ...K, i'm done being a super-technical jerk...for now

Cheers. Some very interesting comments and lots to think about.

TheFirstJimBo wrote:Old records/music sound like sh!t

are you limiting yourself to records you find in the gutter?



but in general - no, nothing wrong with samplin from youtube, each to his own and that.
just so long as you're aware that the audio has been heavily compressed, digitised dirtily, is available to anyone else with a computer and has been dug by someone else already.
thats enough to put me off that isht.