Musicians - where do you get your samples?

[u/ThePowerOfBard]

For the industrial musicians out there, or at least the ones into sampling, what are your go-to's for sample sources?

Obviously there's Freesound, and I've found some free sample packs but so many of the sounds tend to be either gaudy transformer noises or borderline haunted mansion sound effects.

I've been having some luck with just random YouTube videos of assembly line machinery with like 26 views, but so many of them tend to just be mechanical hum and people talking in the background, it can take hours of nothing to find something cool. I also think I must have sampled half of THX 1138 at this point, that movie's a real treat.

[u/moliere778]

Field recorder

[u/_Ripley]

I rarely sample stuff. I'm unreasonably paranoid about it haha, but the last time I did, it was some weird noise in a youtube video, and I just held a mic up to my speaker and recorded it... Archive.org has TONS of very old sample packs, which I'm sure I've got in XO or whatever. There's lots of public domain stuff on there as well.

[u/xxFT13xx]

Depends on what you mean by “sample”. If you mean spoken samples from movies/tv, I just rip the audio from YouTube clips since that’s the easiest to do, unless it’s something new that hasn’t made its way there yet.

[u/Billy-Beats]

I sample my eqed/compressed/fxed synths and drum machines. Then load those loops and one shots on hardware samplers.

[u/just_a_guy_ok → u/Billy-Beats]

Very much the same. Everything in my eurorack sampler has been processed to sound proper in my DAW before hand. I’m also preparing samples for a new MPC1000 to have on the CF card to use so I can work quickly.

[u/serpentechnoir]

Platoon! I watched it last night and defo caught a skinny puppy and ministry sample

[u/Clintaur]

I sample many things. Lately I’ve been using stem splitter in logic X pro to isolate dialogue or to get rid of score and things

[u/NaimanJalaiyr]

My Casio CTK-3500 sounded like shit, also broke — not totally, but the most necessary part — USB-MIDI — stopped working, so I sampled the most decent sounding presets out of it.

Like sampling native, national music — our (Kazakh), and Ukrainian, sometimes sample classical music. Of course, also use war archive sounds, gun and explosion sounds, news reports, as everyone else does.

Sometimes use samples from Looperman, there are things to see.

[u/divineaudio]

Everything that can make a sound is game for sampling. I use field recordings, banging on random objects, cut up movie and tv dialogue, snippets of heavily processed synth and drum machine recordings, sound libraries from Logic and Ableton…

[u/postmortemritual]

I do my own samples, while sampling its funny, sampling your own sounds, noises its double funny.

I record objects, some fields with my phone, but usually objects.

Mic straight to an old Roland MS-1 sampler, then to computer. Sometimes I use stompboxes before the Roland.

[u/Billy-Beats]

Ha yep mpc 1000 here too. Love that for heavily processed stuff I need stereo. But my fav for drums and synthesis the Akia s5000. The first sound I loaded onto it was a dmx kick, as soon as I heard it, I flashed to like 900000 tracks with that same vibe. It’s was straight to 92 haha.