@blaize
Ok will listen your tracks.
Good vinyls is the basics yeah.
Ok so you don’t finalize on dt.
Yes too much destroy all.
Yeah I learned that clicks and pops on dusty vinyl can become a bit annoying and the high end saturate on theses vinyl. Now I buy clean vinyl with the minimum of clicks and pops and the sound is better.
No you can’t finalize on DT, It’s an instrument. I like the Plugin Alliance VST for mixing and mastering in Studio One 5.
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@captain8 I 100% agree with you here. Dilla kinda showed the way with Donuts, which features some pretty well known samples, but flipped with never heard before techniques.
Nowadays, almost everything has been sampled. Each time I find a new sample, I check Whosampled to see if it’s been rinsed before… and almost everytime, it has already been flipped at least once! And I dig in fairly obscure stuff, not classic soul / jazz. But with peeps like Madlib, what can you do? Man literally buys records by the ton.
So, yeah, fairly convinced that salvation will come from upping our flipping techniques more than our digging game.
@blaize yeah, overly processed / lofi’d samples often hide unoriginal sample selection I find (random melancholic jazzy guitar number 9835…).
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i like sampled hip hop beats but there is one thing i try to avoid at all costs is finding myself spending hours browsing though soundbanks to find the perfect snare, etc…kills the joy and the creativity of the instant.
so there are a few workflow i’ve come up to that i like
1/ use IA sample browser like Atlas or Xln audio XO to quiclky find matching sounds in large soundbanks.
2/ somtimes i force myself to synthetize and process my drums. difficult but infinitly more rewarding than spending hours browsing soundpacks. it also helps you to better understand, what you like in a sound and how it is made.
3/ limit myself to one song/album as a source.
maybe a so.g and a break. thats it.
sample everything from it. limiting but ensures you will get sounds that match with eatch other, and then you will focus on the beat and the arrangement and be more efficient.
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@blaize That video is so dope. Sitting at the MPC3000 like a boss. Love it.
So you coming out to this next hip hop battle, or what? 
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Yeah I love how the MPC3000 feels. I regret I didn’t get one back in the days.
For the next hip hop battle, I don’t know I’m very busy at work, I didn’t had the time to make music or anything else for months.
I think I will get time at the end of summer if hip hop battle still work I should be in
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Cool man, no pressure. Just love hearing your stuff.
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I’m not sure if this is the right thread to post this in, but I couldn’t find a better one. Great breakdown of sampling techniques by the Avalanches. A bit of inspiration before having a crack at the next beat battle.
This is also a nice Channel - lots of sampling breakdowns. It’s an art form that is - at least for me - pretty sophisticated. Matching tunes / snippets is the hard part imho. I guess you have too feel it.
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Thnaks for your replies !