Filtering the hiss

What's the best way to filter out the hiss coming from sampling off of turntables? i hate the fact that my drums sound nice and clear, but my samples sound all scratchy.

That's tight that's what u want when u sample that dirty grity sound mos def! Well that what I like when I sample!

No doubt. The grimey samples sound dope. but sometimes i find samples that need that crispness. Ya know?

most of the hiss from sampling is from bad cartridges and dirty vinyl. make sure ya got the best needles you can afford and don't try sampling some dirty ass scratched up record. good needle + good vinyl = sweet sound!


But I LOVE that grity sound tho playa!

me to.

I'm all about the gryme, but I know what ya mean, some times your hiss can take too much of the stage away from your beat particularly if you run it thru a compressor.
A few suggestions:
1) use groove glide to clean the record first.
2) Go to the envelope filter of the pad of the noisy sample and set it to low pass and roll the frequency back a bit. This can turn pops into crackles which can sound more appealing. I like crackle so much I actually turn up the resonance a little to really brig it out after I have it sounding the way I want.
3) low hums can be remove similarly using the second filter as a high pass.
4) lastly, keep in mind your signal to noise ratio when you initally record the sample. Turn up the record level as high as possible on the MPC without (undesired) distortion, and keep in mind that the meter level could be reflecting the noise and not your sample.

HB

I've used the low pass filter, it works pretty good, but sometimes it will make the sample sound too dull, is there anyway i can use the high or band bass filters to bring it to life again? Also, what do you normally set it at from 0-100?

As far as the level I set my low pass on I go by ear, but I just checked a couple of my samples and the tend to be in the 40-50 but it will really depend on the sample.
As far as avoinding dull sounds, turing up the resonance on the low-pass can help this. What you really want is a notch filter which I'm not sure its possible on the 1000.
Using the compressor can add a little life to your samples too.
If you really want to clean up your sounds look into some software, theres tons out ther and its not too expensive.

Thanks for that. What exactly does a notch filter do?

its the oppasite of a bandpass, the frequency you set it to is the frequency you knock out (rather than the freq you retain as with a band pass) Thus if you knew your his was mostly in one freq band you could knock it out without knocking out all your highs

What types of machines have that filter?

If you use a PC, try Adobe Audition (old Cool Edit 2). It has Noise Reduction, Hiss, click/pop removal, everything you need to clean up samples, particularly from vinyl.

Software is the cheapest way to do it but if your really lookin for a machine to do it , you just need an equalizer with enough bands. Alternately some good mixers have mid range knob with a Q (band width) value, a frequency value and a gain value. You just turn down the gain and adjust the freq and the Q to optimize the hiss removal

but agin software is realy the way to go

no, analog is the way to go!!

If you have the cash