Sampling MP3's
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changalang
i make beats
ill o.g.
Battle Points: 39
i always sample mp3's, for me its really hard to sample vinyl because i gotta record it to my tape player first, then i gotta record it onto the computer.
DJ Excellence
ILLIEN
I sometimes do.... if you sample MP3 128(or above) files chances are that you won't hear the difference with a CD. The loss in frequency is minimal.
However I don't recommend you to sample an mp3 file if its bitrate is less than 128 (96 let's say).
However I don't recommend you to sample an mp3 file if its bitrate is less than 128 (96 let's say).
bigdmakintrax
BeatKreatoR
Exactly I mean you can sample from anything....I mean vinyl is the best but if somebody recorded the song correctly from vinyl then you will not tell the difference.......I bought a cd from someone on EBAY and I had much doubt that I threw away my 25 dollars....but when I got it I found that this guy was actually a producer that had some hits from back in the day with Elektra.....he recorded straight from the recordplayer with all of the bottom and low end that you would expect from vinyl......I have found mp3's that have the same quality and you cannot tell the difference......so I agree with Philsiarri that you need to find the highest quality mp3 you can find.....most cd's are really clean nowadays....if you listen to a cd that was never meant for vinyl press you will find it thin and digital compared to an ol school vinyl recorded to wave and then put to mp3......most of the old soul mp3's were once on vinyl and they are pretty good to use if you gonna get some soul stuff....I prefer to find ones that somebody recorded straight from vinyl.....not the digitally remastered stuff that you can get at Best Buy....because they clean that up and make it sound clean.....
Formant024
Digital Smokerings
ill o.g.
I'd rather sample from cd audio instead of mp3, in some occasions you can tell the file has been sliced into samples, even on 128K. Sometimes you have no choice since I can only find the material online, unfortunatly. But eventualy, I dont think it would matter when it comes to underground hiphop.
Sober
ILLIEN
ill o.g.
Sampling/digging for mp3's is the same as digging for records except you don't pay money and don't get your fingers dirty. It perfectly ok to take advantage of technology. I see it as another resource of sampling, by the way a lot of greedy people pull out the record store pages from phone books, this is the payback they get 
anyways sampling is sampling it makes no difference nor changes the term "sampling" , however you get your samples (digging, mp3's, cd's, sampling real audio streams lol)
anyways sampling is sampling it makes no difference nor changes the term "sampling" , however you get your samples (digging, mp3's, cd's, sampling real audio streams lol)
changalang
i make beats
ill o.g.
Battle Points: 39
because then i have to move 1 of my tables all the way to my computer and it just gets all confusing when i have to plug it back to the mixer and shit
mrjermaine
Beatmaker
ill o.g.
yo, i like this subject cause i've been sampling from mp3's for a while (usually at 128k). I've even sampled from online streamed album previews! it all depends what you're sampling and the feel you're going for.
C
Crate Raider
Guest
i do it now and then but only when i cant find the record....but everytime i sample mp3's or audio cds i feel like im cheating
I dont think its cheating, but anybody who samples mp3's at less than 320kbps doesnt give a fuck about their sound. Mp3's distort the hell out of the high freq's and ruin the stereo image.
This is a fact, I'm not talkin "warmth" or some shit only engineers can hear, I mean they really sound like shit to anybody who knows what they're doing. If you cant hear the diffrence between Mp3's and vinyl you either need better monitors or headphones. And you should probably get your stuff mixed by somebody who knows what their doing.
This is a fact, I'm not talkin "warmth" or some shit only engineers can hear, I mean they really sound like shit to anybody who knows what they're doing. If you cant hear the diffrence between Mp3's and vinyl you either need better monitors or headphones. And you should probably get your stuff mixed by somebody who knows what their doing.
I think Hip-Hop heads shouldn't be scared to try new things, it's not written in stone that if your a Hip-Hop producer YOU MUST SAMPLE VINYL ONLY. My opinion is sampling is sampling ill regardless of the medium used to sample from, your not any less honorable if you don't sample from vinyl and any low end effects or sound qualities your looking for famous in vinyl records can be reproduced to some extent especially at the mixing and mastering stages of completing of a track. And then you may not always want your tracks to sound like a vinyl record at least for me it doesn't cross my mind to do that, my only thing is getting good sounding shit period! If you do sample from MP3's it should not be CD Quality but better because remember it's an MP3 so an MP3 at CD Quality isn't really CD quality and then once you convert the MP3 to wav or Aiff whatever format your working with, spend some time in Soundforge or some other audio editor and bring out those frequencies that may have been lost during compression if you can. Just be true to yourself and your music and do your thing, technology is here to stay so may as well use it to your advantage!
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o.Prime
Guest
if the way your sampling vinyl is by recording it into your computer and then working with it from there then you are basically doing the same thing with an extra step.
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esaych
Guest
yo chang, how come you don't just plug into your pc from the tape/aux ports on your mixer?