Been sampling a lot more than I used to recently, and was wondering if anyone had any tips or tricks to make their samples sound a bit cleaner, and sit a little nicer in their mix. I've been digging mostly on youtube, and use a generic youtube-mp3 downloader to grab what I want to sample. This of course gives me a shitty bit rate mp3 file which is not the best to work with out of the gate. I typically cut some lows, add a bit of reverb, then gel it with some light compression. If anyone has any other methods they'd like to share, let me know. Any response is appreciated!