Sampling your own kit

^ exactly, and do what you currently can with the equipment you have .. dont make the mistake of putting things on the back burner until you have piles of equipment...

when I started on the mpc years ago (with the XL) I didn't have the type of gear for making stuff with my mpc besides just a bad condition technics sl-d2 (the direct drive generic record player) .. I didn't even at the time own a phono preamp or a dj mixer or anything to sort that out but I still ran that damn table directly in and sampled what I could. Obviously it sounded thin, but I made it work as well as I could at the time cause I wasn't waiting until I had piles of other gear to get started.

If you can find the original records that have the drums rza, dilla, premo and pete rock on then your be paying more than F*ckin dollar for them.

Theres nothing wrong with any medium so dont be disheartened by others snobbery.

If you want to use vinyl find a dusty fingers collection or if you dont wanna support the industry search your favourite digital pimp (torrents) for dusty fingers. They are specific collections of well used hip hop breaks and samples and are probly the easiest way to get recognisable, open drum samples and loops.

Or check out the MPC samples if you want more drum hits and collections.

Like the others said tho youll still have work to do filters, layers, pitching and other more advanced techniques will always improve your sounds.

And I personally just want to re-emphasize that it takes time to get drums you like. I remember when I first started how frustrating it was that my drums sounded like shit compared to everyone else. But you;ll get it eventually.
Also you can check out drums from electronic music sample packs, layer those in with what you find when you sample.

Sample from some "Teach yourself to play drums" type of DVDs. You can find loads of individual hits with nothing going on in the background.

DVD'S!!!!!


Ain't no hip hop made from samplin' no DVD's!!

well, you can do it the cheap way by either 1) buying/downloading drum breaks from the web or 2) look up the breaks that pete rock/dilla, etc. or whoever you're listing and sample from those same breaks

ORRRRR,

you can listen to music as much as possible and just happen to come up on drums you can use, either on vinyl or mp3 or w/e


personally what i do is listen to tons of music on youtube, then i save the video. then i'll go on ebay and try to find the vinyl or cd version and then sample it when it comes in the mail. there is NOTHING wrong with sampling from the web/mp3, but if you think its hurting you, then find another way

everyone has their own way, and im pretty sure no one is going to be able to tell at the end of the day, what source you sampled from...