compressing before sampling into 60

Do most of you guys compress (and or eq) your drums on the way into the 60's cause of the limited capability inside? I was wondering if anyone else out there just sampled the shit in raw and then did all the stuff afterward post-pro in the daw or do you sample in then ffine tune later.

-susthagod

susthagod wrote:Do most of you guys compress (and or eq) your drums on the way into the 60's cause of the limited capability inside? I was wondering if anyone else out there just sampled the **** in raw and then did all the stuff afterward post-pro in the daw or do you sample in then ffine tune later.

-susthagod

There is only one way to sample into the MPC. "%%%% does it this way, so it MUST be OFFICIAL!!!!"

Do whatever sounds good for the material you are sampling.

The capabilites of the 60 are only limited by your imagination.

garbage post dude. i basically asked if any of you in here sample before going into the mpc (with a hardware compressor) . ps this 60 forum needs more heads. 50 views and 1 dipper ? what a ratio

susthagay

DukeNewport wrote:susthagay

Subtlety, thy name is Duke.

To actually answer your question, I sample everything raw maybe I distort it thru sampling on high volume but usually I wont.

I compress and EQ the track i record in my Cubase...But the drum kit i already sampled in my 60 come from a 45t so the fat sound is still there...
i hope my methode can help you?

I usually eq befor mpc and compress after. Usually compressing later on DAW.

I sample dry. This way I can always go back to original sound of the sample should I have a problem down the line.

The argument of whether or not to compress on the way into the sampler is a valid one, especially when dealing with low bit samplers. Some feel that when getting a really dirty drum sound that when they compress it, it brings out too much of the low level dirt and it becomes hard to integrate into a cohesive mix. To solve this, they compress on the way into the sampler to give the sample that extra punch in its cleaner state before it is made gritty by the sampler. Like I said before, SOME find this to be an issue. For those that do, it is less of an issue with todays cleaner sounding samplers. I personally don't really find it to be an issue on the 60 as it is not as dirty sounding as people tend to think a 12 bit sampler would be, but I could MAYBE see it being an issue on like an sp12xx, emax, s900/950 etc.

Bottom Line: Doowutchyalike

dry, most often

sampling drums:

Pioneer EFX-500 Bass and Mid filter turned all the way up. Highs usually no more than halfway up
Rane TTM 56 Bass & Mid filter turned all the way up. Highs usually no more than halfway up

Also If sampling a 7" I sample it at 78RPM on my portable turntable which also has EQ so in addition to the above I boost the EQ on the turntable too.

normally I use this method to filter out record static for instruments I'm sampling too.