Tips For Sampling Vinyl

Ideally for sample based producers or general users that want to digitize vinyl records as it has some easy to use controls.

Tips for sampling vinyl.

Crate digging is the old school practice of rummaging through the crates of vinyl records at a record store to find unique material to sample. Try to normalise all samples so you have less headroom work to do later. If it sounds ok to you it will sound ok on the track and miles ahead of a sample taken off a beaten up piece of vinyl. Cut out individual drums and sounds from your favourite tracks.

Once you have a digital capture of the section of lp that you want then the sky is the limit. When digging for samples it s easy to fall into the trap of working with the same re cycled digital libraries floating around the internet yet there are thousands of records that have been long forgotten and can not be found. Sampling is one of the most used techniques music producers use to recycle old songs and bring them new life. The vinyl sampling process is simple in its early stages.

Getting the music to that stage is the first step and it s more of a technical process. Nowadays with practically all our recording done digitally sampling doesn t seem like quite such a clever trick but it s still a technique that has an astonishing amount of creative potential. Sampling from old records can be a great way to get inspiration from generations and times past. Following up on monday s popular why new djs should start on vinyl we thought it d be good to look at the importance of sampling records for producers and djs.

Sooner or later as a producer you ll want to start sampling. I need some tips that would help a beginner out and maybe a recommendation on some tutorial series for trap rap in fl. So i just got fl studio 20. You can still crate dig in the digital domain by browsing samples and using selector to find unique combinations.

In this quick tutorial mad zach shares his techniques for building a unique soundpack out of a simple vinyl sample. Mostly looking for recording vocals and putting effects on vocals for now and beat making later. Don t be shy about sampling from an mp3. If you really wanted to you could just sample mp3s and music off cds but that wouldn t be as authentic.

There is nothing quite like sampling off an old vinyl record. Distortion is a powerful effect. Vinyl is also a great source of analog tone to craft mangle and tune.