B.A. wrote:Nice comparison, thanks! One advantage that you have is that you're sampling off of vinyl, I use cd turntables so no matter what I do I can't really get that sound that comes only from vinyl. I've tried using some of these techniques you used in your video before and got pretty good results but there's still a difference when a sample is straight off wax or when it's off a cd. Sampling off vinyl is just as important as the sampler or technique being used when trying to achieve that gritty sound. Hmm... How about a vinyl emulation? It can help to fatten, warm up and add some vinyl sound to our samples (in other words grittify). Can't have enough grittification emulations I always say
. But for real, I remember back when I had a Roland MV-8800 (had it for about a month or so) it had options to emulate 12bit and vinyl and you could choose how much vinyl character to add to the sample (damn I had totally forgotten about that til right now); it actually sounded really good but I think it was an overall warmer sounding machine than my 2500.
The 1st drum break is sampled off Vinyl by Pleasure - Bouncy Lady but the 2nd break ( end of the video ) is from a Drum Drops - Temple Of Boom 16bit Wav that was produced using reel-to-reel recorder and analog outboard gear/vintage drums/mics/etc so its sounds fat and warm but its not off vinyl ....
SP12/1200 colors and "grittifyes" and "dustifyes" anything you put in it and when you pitch it up or down it adds some dusty ringing artifacts like no other sampler - some love it some hate it , but that's what it is

have you tried Rolland's Dr. Sample SP303 ? - i've got one and i must say its LO-FI sampling mode and a Vinyl simulation FX sounds - very nice little "grittifyfier" to add to any modern MPC....