Sampling Habits

[archdukezeb]

I was just wondering what everyones different processes for sampling things are. When you pick out the sample do you grab a straight 4 bar loop? 2 bars? couple bars from here and their across the track? Individual sounds? Do you like to chop or loop. Program your drums or use drum breaks. Filter your samples. Pitch them differently. Do you usually just use one song to sample for a track or do you like putting together five?

And I know people are gonna say they switch it up but what's your process you find yourself doing more than often.

[((DJ Nialistik))]

i always start by putting together some drums
i collect my samples
and from there i chop up the sample, play around with pitch
eq it a bit add effects and what not. from there i play the chops off the drums, i dunno why but when i start with the drums it gives it this rough
type of feel.
i tend to try and use many diff samples but end up using only a few

[bonitabasics12]

i know this might not help that much but i listen to the original sample a bunch a times and really try to feel it nah mean, like bob my head to that shit pitch it up slow it down and see what makes it sound real rugged and hiphop soundin, i usually keep the sample that i feel is the rythm the way it was but eq it, ofcourse flip it, and then sample snippets of other stuff i like then filter though samples and layer them nah mean? sorry if i didnt help but thats the best i could do

by the way what really really helps is to spark up a spliff while you have all these things going on........gets your ears mad focused, atleast mine....

[CatasBeats]

it all depends on the sample. if the samples crazy enough ill just loop lol no point in trying to get technical if its perfect already. but i usually just find a dope section, and chop it into half beats, usually a 4 bar section, so ill get like 32 chops and just mess with them for awhile till i get a nice pattern. but i always lay the sample first and then put the drums too it

but yea it deppends ill loop or get intricate with it, but i dont chop individual sounds i just chop loops up and re arrange to my liking or sometimes not very often tho cause its a headache, ill take half beat chops wherever theres an opening or a dope word or two being dropped

but yea im basically all over the place

[bonitabasics12]

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if you get the chance ckeck me out

YouTube - bonitabasics12's Channel

[CatasBeats]

yea man you got some heat for sure. ima sucker for them plucked strings like that mpc1000 bonita basics 12 video. the strings you brought in for the hook were sick too, maybe a little loud tho. but its nice. you got some good beats

this site is full of sick beatmakers. i feel wack here haha

[Rafferty]

my way is, sample first, then drums. Unless the sample is the drums, if you know what I mean. But it's easier to make drums match a sample tthan the other way around. I'm totally generalizing though, I got all sorts of approaches.

Basically I do whatever's best, and I make the best beats. Ever.

[archdukezeb]

I wasn't really looking for advice, I was just wondering what everyone's personal process and preferences were. Just because their's so many producers out their and different methods of making beats. Like nujabes for example if you know him loops long ass segments of jazz songs and adds some weird orchestral filtered stuff. Old tribe called quest albums or ready to die have a bunch of songs sampled on just one track whereas apart from it aint hard to tell and halftime all the illmatic tracks are composed of like one song apart from drum samples.

Just trying to get different perspectives on how people and here like to make their tracks.

I personally like to make the stuff I sample unidentifiable from the original or at least really different otherwise I feel lazy. I have so much music if I just looped stuff I could just churn out tracks like a motherfucker.

[[grimeshine]]

Originally Posted by archdukezeb

I personally like to make the stuff I sample unidentifiable from the original or at least really different otherwise I feel lazy. I have so much music if I just looped stuff I could just churn out tracks like a motherfucker.

just dont force anything

[archdukezeb]

Originally Posted by [grimeshine]

just dont force anything

I'm not discounting other methods of sampling otherwise I'd be discounting all my favorite hip hop songs. I just wanna make good music like some of my favorite straight sampled tracks but add more originality into it. Relying too much on someone else's work feels wrong to me and when it comes down to it anyone can sample a long segment out of a jazz track add a breakloop and make it sound hot if the original was good.