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ILLstatic ILLstatic is offline
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I was wondering what level you guys record your drums at. The reason I'm asking is cause I'm making some new drum kits and I'm having like a fuzzy kinda sound in the backround of my drums. Now I'm going for a 90's east coast drum sound so I'm sampling them at 8 bits and like 30.000 sample rate, but I'm also recording the drums at a very high gain. The snare is just touching the end of the recording bar on my mpc when I sample it. Now I'm not sure if this is a volume problem or a sample rate problem. Any suggestions would be greatly appreiciated.
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korhalf korhalf is offline
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do you directly run it to the mpc or do you go thru mixers/compressors at all? I think its better to record at a quieter volume than risk distorting the drum, which is beyond repair...After taking the sample you can THEN adjust the levels and add all the effects. Besides, sampling at such a low rate will have less fidelity obviously, so the crunch is gonna be there regardless.

btw: the bg sound you're hearing is most likely machine noise, either from the vinyl or from the devices ur running it through, (unless its directly routed to the mpc)

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ILLstatic ILLstatic is offline
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I actually just have my turntable going directly into the 4k. I'll try to record it a little lower I just thought I should record it high cause after I change the bit rate and maybe add a compressor it would lower the level a little but I still have the fuzzy air in the back round. If I add a compressor how would you suggest I set it up. Should I hook up my turntable to the compressor then the compressor to the mp? I'm new to the compressor thing right now I just have compression as an effect on my mpc, and I really don't how to use it very well.
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Nev Beats319 Nev Beats319 is offline
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Record in the mpc at a low gain...chop up the sound you want and import the sound to your DAW (pro tools, Cubase , ETC), and adjust the volume from there and wont sound like that..hope this helps.

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ILLstatic ILLstatic is offline
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I don't have a daw yet still saving for one thanks for the input though.
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Sample the drums into you mpc with the turntable set to 45 rpm. Once you have the recorded break into in the mpc. Change the tune to -5.25. Chop the drum samples and assign then to indy pads with each pad tuned set at -5.25.

I gave this to theillestone awhile back check it out. It should help put you in the right direction.

http://www.vanguardsquad.com/soul/signal_chain.php
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bigzone bigzone is offline
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8bit is really, really crappy. try recording at the highest quality available; you can always convert the samples later, right?
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Zach303 Zach303 is offline
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Yeah man I agree with bigzone, record at the highest quality for drums, that fuzzy air your hearing is maybe quantization noise from the low bitrate, or maybe just noise from somewhere else. It seems like more trouble than it should be to have to use a digital wave editor to get clean drum samples.

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