You're right, I shouldn't hate. But at least, don't think you're crate digging or anything like that if you're downloading.
And if you're downloading, I urge everyone who is to get themselves a cheap turntable and start collecting vinyl. MP3 quality is mostly ****, sure, you've got other formats, loss-less, but still, if the dude who ripped the **** from whatever he ripped it, don't know what he's doing it will still be ****. And that's case more often than it's not.
The audio quality the source has, will be reflected in your beats.
Sure, vinyl can often be dusty, dirty, and have a gritty sound, personally, that's what I'm going for most of the time - but it's still high quality sound, MP3's are seriously compressed, they lose a lot of the sound information.
If you haven't played, or even heard vinyl in a long time, you get yourself a turntable, it can be cheap as ****, but get a good needle, you will be blown away by how it sounds compared to MP3.
Trust me.
Just listening to music is so much better, but your beats will shine more too.
And drums, you can get some really banging drums off vinyl. I don't use a single bass drum, snare or hi hat that I haven't sampled myself off vinyl. And that's better than any kit you can buy on the net.
Oh, and don't go to Myspace and listen to the beat and say the drums suck or whatever, cause Myspace has the worst audio quality of all. Damn that **** sucks.
Another big advantage to digging if you're after samples is of course, as mentioned before, that you can find some rare ass obscure ish. Don't think that everything's on the net, because not even 1% of all the vinyls released is online.
And if you're downloading, I urge everyone who is to get themselves a cheap turntable and start collecting vinyl. MP3 quality is mostly ****, sure, you've got other formats, loss-less, but still, if the dude who ripped the **** from whatever he ripped it, don't know what he's doing it will still be ****. And that's case more often than it's not.
The audio quality the source has, will be reflected in your beats.
Sure, vinyl can often be dusty, dirty, and have a gritty sound, personally, that's what I'm going for most of the time - but it's still high quality sound, MP3's are seriously compressed, they lose a lot of the sound information.
If you haven't played, or even heard vinyl in a long time, you get yourself a turntable, it can be cheap as ****, but get a good needle, you will be blown away by how it sounds compared to MP3.
Trust me.
Just listening to music is so much better, but your beats will shine more too.
And drums, you can get some really banging drums off vinyl. I don't use a single bass drum, snare or hi hat that I haven't sampled myself off vinyl. And that's better than any kit you can buy on the net.
Oh, and don't go to Myspace and listen to the beat and say the drums suck or whatever, cause Myspace has the worst audio quality of all. Damn that **** sucks.
Another big advantage to digging if you're after samples is of course, as mentioned before, that you can find some rare ass obscure ish. Don't think that everything's on the net, because not even 1% of all the vinyls released is online.
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