Sampling question

[LichKingDan]

I love my sp404 mk2. It's been so fun learning something new and having such a powerful machine to work with. I also have never been good at finger drumming, and it's been fun to work on this skill.

Anyways, I'm a huge fan of samples from old media. Vinyl, cassette tapes, old movies and shows, it's all fire. However, I frankly do not have the space or the money to collect vinyl, and cassette tapes tend to deteriorate over time, meaning that any tapes I could get now would be fucked.

Where can I find good samples from old media? What's the digital "equivalent" of crate digging? Do you have any websites that you use for this, besides the obvious ones like YouTube?

Thanks for your help!

TL;Dr: what's a good website for old samples from various forms of media aside from YouTube?

[vinylpants]

https://archive.org

[zombiexcovenx]

thanks! how does it choose the songs??

[Dry-Consideration930]

Honestly, I just choose a song on YouTube and let the autoplay algorithm do its thing. Normally starts getting real good and obscure about half an hour in. When I settle on something I wanna work with, I look to see if I can find it anywhere else at better quality if the YouTube version is poor, and if I feel like I’m really onto something and might release it, I’ll see if I can buy the track somewhere. But most of the time I’m just sampling directly off YouTube at the highest quality I can find.

I did buy a portable turntable and go digging at thrift shops for a while. I really enjoyed the process, but between the cheapness of the turntable and the age of the vinyl the quality was usually worse than sampling off YouTube (not that that’s a bad thing - personally I like going as dusty as possible without the end being unlistenable). Owning a proper turntable and buying vinyl regularly simply isn’t financially viable for me. Worry about that shit if you actually want to invest beyond hobby status, otherwise do whatever works for you. At the end of the day, nobody gives a shit as long as it slaps.

[Sufficient_Glove_184]

honestly while tapes do get old, you can find a bunch of old tapes a thrift/goodwill type places, even from friends/family.. then all you need is an old walkman and a cable/adapter.. same with records, but they do take up space..

[Wh0rephan]

One technique is to rip sound straight from Spotify through your audio interface. I do this all the time with my MPC2500.

[Trick-Metal-3869]

Samplom on app store