Crazy Samples

[memyselfandus]

Anyone go out and make their own samples with a recorder?
What are some crazy samples you have used to make a song or beat?

[beej]

Potato falling onto the kitchen floor - made a great bass drum "thud";)

[thecontrolcentre]

i've sampled trains in subway tunnels, the sounds of people screaming on fairground rides, parades going past, gunshots , drunks coming out of bars, police vans driving down my street, my drummer mate playing beats on a derelict wagon, the smashing of windows, various domestic appliances, hitting lamposts with metal bars ...
i spent about a year with a portable minidisc, recording pretty much anything that made a noise ... a lot got used on tracks, but a lot more didn't

[plastique]

I coincidentally recorded a jogger passing by last year which made a nice unique background rythm.

[tee boy]

Check out some of these:

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?a ... 7D739EE406

90% of source material is homegrown. Just me, a couple of mics and a recorder. Oh, and a full tank of petrol!

TB

[Genetic_Junk]

right now I'm using a sample of beating eggs (for scambled eggs) I recorded on a camping trip. Cool for rhythm and melody.

[tee boy]

I once used a bird call, granulated into this long ambience. That was pretty cool.

But the madest has to be when I sample my toilet flushing and used it as part of a weird industrial ambience. My bog makes some odd noises!

TB

[RunBeerRun]

I recorded a slap bass riff, and put it in a song with no regards to what key it was in.

If you want to hear the madness: http://runbeerrun2.tripod.com

[Jeremy_NSL]

The toilet in my last place (very old house) made a very strange water rushing sound - without flushing. I sampled that and ran it through a formant filter and it was a pretty cool ambience

[memyselfandus]

Thread form the dead

[Spe3D]

Corr! It really is a thread from the dead - I bet now though, what with massive choice of recorders there are many more guys that record stuff around them.

I am getting the umph! To do some more this year. I reckon on putting mics into more obscure places to see how those turn out. I would like to capture the sound of one of those nodding donkeys (oil pumps), but being in the UK the places they are situated is pretty few and far between - I do know of a good one though, that hopefully I can get to

Best regards,

Spe3d

:O)

[mfb]

My song "Call him Curtis" on www.myspace.com/slothbrain uses as its whole vocal track the recording that happened when a 14-year-old on a ferry in Greece borrowed my minidisc because he got bored of the grown-ups playing cards - I don't think he thought his opus would ever resurface anywhere! (aside - does anyone know how to link a single myspace song, rather than the band page?)

I've also made a playable instrument out of recordings of the Very Large Array radio telescope tracking a quasar across the sky: mp3 demo (and web page). I made another one out of an Ikea stainless steel cutlery holder -listen to mp3 demo (and web page here).

[wakax]

We used our zoom h4 to record prepared piano, vocals, bontempi organ turned off, gardening tools, cardboard boxes, misc.
You can hear it in this EP (downloadable ):
http://digitalbiotope.net/index.php?men ... ckoo_clock

[splurgo]

Using a squeaking Dog toy we created these Crazy Squeak Loops.

Feel free to download the demo loops and have a look at the rest of our loops.

Regards,

Sebastiaan

[Reverse Engineer]

i recorded myself on a dansette r2r shitting into the sink of a pubs toilet when the real toilets were occupied and i had drank 10 pints of Guinness! made a great 303 emulator.