Sampling drum tips.

if you want to make some crazy sounds try time stretching to crap out of each individual hit (about half to a quarter of the original speed) especially the snare and playing it like a normal kit, also when your building kits on the mpc sample fills as 1 sample and assign them to pads so you get the natural roll of a real drummer and just throwing those fills into the beats every now and again makes the whole beat sound more real

If you want your drums to bump without spending money on additional hardware, learn to embrace software and use it to your advantage. Even the built in compressors/limiters in "Garageband" can make a HUGE difference to a bland mix! Expensive hardware is nice, but not necessary.. unless your making money off your music.

roxstar wrote:If you want your drums to bump without spending money on additional hardware, learn to embrace software and use it to your advantage. Even the built in compressors/limiters in "Garageband" can make a HUGE difference to a bland mix! Expensive hardware is nice, but not necessary.. unless your making money off your music.

+1 There are plenty of dope plugins out there.....

yo, does the cf curve knob on the dj mixer matter when your sampling anything? i just keep it in the middle...

leonard-lee wrote:yo, does the cf curve knob on the dj mixer matter when your sampling anything? i just keep it in the middle...

The curve on your dj mixer only adjusts the attack of the cross fader. Play around with the curve while trying to scratch to hear the difference.

Do not be afraid to resample that drum hit. Filter, EQ and compress it till its the required phatness and resample it. Now you can free up those effects for something else.

I have been trying reversed reverb and echo. I reverse drum hit then apply delay then sample this and reverse it again so drum hit is right way round but you have a reversed delay leading up to it. Timing is an issue as delays usually need to be in time to the tempo but you can always do this after you know what BPM you want to work with.

I concur that I sample drum hits in mono but then you can always double up and pan them for stereo widening effect.