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offline Ross from Canada on 2002-04-27 23:36 [#00196909]
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What things have you guys found good for sampling to
compose music? i mean as in found sounds and the such...I've
found that chewing apples, sliding ice in vases, throwing
objects across the room, scissors and many things work
really well..i also sampled my knee cracking and whenever i
tell people that's the sound in my song they start to cringe
cuz they never realized :)


 

offline REFLEX from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) on 2002-04-27 23:37 [#00196911]
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thats pretty cool, I thought the sound of water flowing or
falling, crunching fall leaves, hair rustling..


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2002-04-27 23:38 [#00196912]
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an egg slicer is excellent material

also, a distuned radio


 

offline AMinal from Toronto (Canada) on 2002-04-27 23:40 [#00196915]
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HOW do u sample these things?
do u carry around a microphone and a tape recorder or
something?!?
HUH!??!
C'MON, TELL ME!!!


 

offline Ross from Canada on 2002-04-27 23:40 [#00196916]
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egg slicer..that sounds fantastic


 

offline Ross from Canada on 2002-04-27 23:41 [#00196917]
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aminal, are you asking me or marlowe or reflex? i only have
a mic on my computer unfortunately, but i bring the objects
up here and sample them..i'd really like to get a tape
recorder and a mic so i could take it everywhere though,


 

offline Phresch from fucking Trondheim (Norway) on 2002-04-27 23:42 [#00196920]
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good topic, Ross!!

i've sampled:
-the sound the bus door makes when it opens. *tsssss*.
Hydraulics is the word. (spelled wrong, i know)
-wires hitting metal
-laughter of various kind
-my head vs. the microphone
-noises in shopping malls
yep.


 

offline Laserbeak from Netherlands, The on 2002-04-27 23:42 [#00196922]
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Sample people talking on television or radio and then
cutting the words up so the context changes.


 

offline REFLEX from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) on 2002-04-27 23:43 [#00196923]
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I used to have about 30 mins of me and my friends talking at
a party, dont ask me how its the weirdest gibberish ive ever
heard. Its hilarious though.


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2002-04-27 23:43 [#00196924]
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trust me, if you have an egg slicer and a distuned radio,
you don't even need any real talent to make excellent tunes
:D

i have a great soundfont which is a drumkit made out of
things like pots, pans, drills, pipes and shit

basement dweller is a song i made utilising that soundfont :)


 

offline Ross from Canada on 2002-04-27 23:44 [#00196925]
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thanks phresch :)

laserbeak, i fucked up a george bush speech awhile back,
making it demean his intentions and make his ideas to be a
power hungry villian..heh


 

offline Ross from Canada on 2002-04-27 23:48 [#00196936]
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reflex, i think i remember you saying something about that
before, or maybe im crazy


 

offline Ross from Canada on 2002-04-27 23:48 [#00196937]
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marlowe- checking it out :)


 

offline Laserbeak from Netherlands, The on 2002-04-27 23:49 [#00196939]
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You don't have to cut it up for that...


 

offline REFLEX from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) on 2002-04-27 23:50 [#00196940]
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Ross; back when you were here before this v5 version of this
site, I was talking to people about using my samples in
their songs, because they were so funny, like locking my
friend in the trunk and all this stuff...


 

offline Ross from Canada on 2002-04-27 23:50 [#00196942]
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marlowe- this is very interesting..i'd love to share some of
my music with you as well, except i have nowhere to host, i
used to use zebox.com, but i think something happened and my
account is no longer there..or i forgot the password and
such..aie..


 

offline Ross from Canada on 2002-04-27 23:51 [#00196944]
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yeah, i think before i signed up i read that actually
reflex..i was trying to sign up for awhile but didnt succeed
(long story) :o

laserbeak- lol, no kidding..i just extended it further


 

offline REFLEX from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) on 2002-04-27 23:52 [#00196947]
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ross: explain more man! that made no sense to me!

>;D


 

offline plugexpert from Nijmegen (Netherlands, The) on 2002-04-27 23:55 [#00196952]
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my sample material is top secret.

Sorry,..


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2002-04-27 23:58 [#00196957]
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ross, when you get a host, bring the URL and i'll be
listenin


 

offline Ross from Canada on 2002-04-28 00:00 [#00196960]
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http://www.zebox.com/cgi-bin/artists/display_page.cgi?login
=ross

there ya go marlowe :)


 

offline Ross from Canada on 2002-04-28 00:02 [#00196963]
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hey, no worries plugexpert..

reflex- i remember reading what you said about asking people
to sample your friends conversations, i think..i've been
reading this site for a little while before i actually
signed up is what i meant


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2002-04-28 00:04 [#00196965]
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thAnX dude - i'm off to bed but i'll add it to my faves and
download tomorrow morning :)


 

offline Ross from Canada on 2002-04-28 00:06 [#00196967]
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no probs marlowe! :)


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2002-04-28 00:08 [#00196970]
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(i added it! 1st thing tomorrow morning i'll download em!)

nite!


 

offline Ross from Canada on 2002-04-28 00:09 [#00196972]
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sweet dreams


 

offline Laserbeak from Netherlands, The on 2002-04-28 00:09 [#00196973]
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Sampleclichés(from 'sound on sound') are:
Dog barks, Smashing glass, Blown bottles, Cars starting,
skidding to a halt, Saucepans, Stuttering vocals à la
"N-n-n-n-nineteen", Anything from a James Brown record,
American evangelists on radio or TV.


 

offline Ross from Canada on 2002-04-28 00:12 [#00196978]
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those certainly are sample cliches..glass breaking was
always used a lot in the early days of sampling i
believe..though i think it worked well in kate bush' "mother
stands for comfort"


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2002-04-28 00:12 [#00196979]
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my newest track, "span across the abyss", unreleased as yet
(ahem) features a nixon broadcast detailing how much money
he made - fortunately i have manually multi-delayed it, so
that apart from the beginning, the rest sounds like a
munchling mumble of nightmare


 

offline Ross from Canada on 2002-04-28 00:16 [#00196988]
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nice! i'd really like to hear that..marlowe this is i think
the correct link to my music..

http://zebox.com/ross/music/


 

offline Duble0Syx from Columbus, OH (United States) on 2002-04-28 00:46 [#00197040]
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I use a minidisc recorder for sampling. I got this nice
stereo condensor mic. Garage doors make good bass drums...


 

offline Phresch from fucking Trondheim (Norway) on 2002-04-28 01:14 [#00197057]
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bass drums makes good garage....


 

offline Martytan from somewhere in upstate new york (United States) on 2002-04-28 01:18 [#00197058]
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I once recorded bob ross' paintbrush hitting the pallette he
was using, lol.

(bob ross is that guy with the fro who shows you how to
paint on PBS)


 

offline plugexpert from Nijmegen (Netherlands, The) on 2002-04-28 01:19 [#00197059]
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pussy-farts


 

offline Martytan from somewhere in upstate new york (United States) on 2002-04-28 01:19 [#00197060]
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I wanna record a sneeze some time....


 

offline Winged Freak from Darkness (Kyrgyzstan) on 2002-04-28 01:19 [#00197061]
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Sinister laughing and a crowd of people talking Japanese are
always cool.


 

offline Ctrl Alt Del from Ft. Worth (United States) on 2002-04-28 01:53 [#00197084]
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I have a really screwed up guitar amp thats picks up AM
radio. So I could be playing an old Hendrix tune or
something then all of the sudden "partly cloudy with a
chance of rain" and "coming up in the next half hour : why
global warming wont affect Australia" or something. Very
cool to record.Very funny. Some digital recorders can be
powered by batteries so you just plug in a mic and record
things. But they can be a little on the expensive. I just
use a micro tape recorder for anything that cant be sampled
from my computer. I have a mixer and a mic for anything that
can.


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2002-04-28 02:49 [#00197146]
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Ross, Marlowe, or anyone who is into snaging environmental
sounds, do you have a really nice sound card, or how do you
get clean samples? My mic input makes for some really dirty
recording and I've loads of ideas.


 

offline Ross from Canada on 2002-04-28 02:52 [#00197151]
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jupitah- my sound card isnt really especially nice, but what
i majorly do with samples, is if they sound grainy, is to go
with making them sound more aged and decayed, i can
sometimes get clear samples, but if there's grain, filter
and fuck up the sound a bit to make it sound like it's in
some basement or something..I'm not sure if that helps, but
i hope you can find a solution somehow


 

offline Ross from Canada on 2002-04-28 02:53 [#00197152]
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ctrl alt del- heh, that sounds really sweet..if you played
live that may be especially interesting


 

offline license from out of nowhere on 2002-04-28 02:54 [#00197154]
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how much are MD recorders going for these days? can you get
a reasonably priced one that can digitally transfer
recordings to PC?


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2002-04-28 03:02 [#00197159]
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i like to do that with samples from music or other sound
files, but there are certain sounds that i want that need be
clean... md recorders are clean? may have to look into one.


 

offline Amonbrune from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-04-28 04:43 [#00197218]
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Id like to sample various 'squish' sounds from fruit and
vegetables and just use the squish sound for absolutly
everything in the song. From bass (dropping a watermelon)
to high hat (popping a cherry tomatoe).


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2002-04-28 05:05 [#00197245]
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sounds lush, please do thie.


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2002-04-28 05:09 [#00197252]
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this


 

offline Amonbrune from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-04-28 05:17 [#00197262]
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Wish I could but I can't :(

I have all these sweet ideas but...canna do 'em. Aye, the
lack of 'quipment t'is true laddy.


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2002-04-28 05:46 [#00197302]
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fruits are used to make gun shot noises in movies


 

offline wayout from the street of crocodiles on 2002-04-28 05:50 [#00197308]
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porn


 

offline wayout from the street of crocodiles on 2002-04-28 05:54 [#00197313]
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jupitah...you need a good omnidirectional mic to get clean
sounding recordings...with 50+db
if you already have one and youre still getting dirty
sounding recordings then you probably need a better
soundcard


 

offline Ctrl Alt Del from Ft. Worth (United States) on 2002-04-28 05:58 [#00197318]
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Try this : but a fill a cup with just enough liquid to cover
a small part of the bottom of a straw, then blow itno the
straw while moving it up and down past your mouth, makes
really cool sound! Just got to fugure out how to record it.


 


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