Scratch sound samples....

anyone know where people get the "scratch" sound samples? I tried sampling my own scratches but they sound to "authentic" or too clear....i want them to be a lil more grimey....thanks

I think most people actually scratch, but I know that doru has released at least 2 (free I think) refills for reason that claim to contain some rediculous number of scratches each. hundreds or thousands or something. i'll dig up a link tomorrow and post it.

cool, thanks...i'd appreciate that

when i scratch it, and yeah i used to DJ, it just seems too clean and not how they are in songs i hear...ya know?

Man, if you got turntables, don't fake the funk! You might just need to find some harder skratch records- try some of the Dirtstyle ones- theyre niiice...

http://www.freewebs.com/dorumalaia/myfreerefills.htm

look for #14 and #12 I havent checked them out myself, because I have a turntable and mixer for that.

Why use samples if you've got a turntable and mixer? I'm pretty bad at scratching, but it still sounds better than some sampled sh*t.
I don't know if you record your scratches on a multitracker or sample them in your MPC, but there's ways to make them sit in your mix both ways.
First try adjusting the the eq on your dj-mixer. You could also try and add a little ghetto distortion by increasing the gain on you mixer untill it starts to clip pretty bad (turn down the input-level on your MPC to compensate).

If you're recording on a multitracker or something like that, use a compressor.
If you're sampling into the mpc, try everything Downsampling, lowering the samplerate to 33Khz. Filtering etc.

I ran into the same problem on the cut. The reason they sound too "real" is that the cuts in songs are mixed down into the cut, and have been panned like an instrument would so they aint sittin in the center with the drums. If you look at an orchestra, place the Turntables off to the side like precussion, say a xylophone or kettle drums would be in an orchestra.

also, dont turn your levels up, turn them down, turn down the bass on the cut, since the kick drum and the bassline will overpower the cuts and make it all sound muddled. turn up the high's 10-15 % and turn down the bass 15-25%

then, eq it and roll off some of the sound at the low end. the end reult is the crisp cutting sounds will remain and the bass low end that makes it muddy will go.

or, look at it like this, when doing a baby, where does the low end come in? not on the attack but on the decay the attack is always the high sound when cutting at a reasonable speed.