Any interesting sources you discovered are good to sample and mangle afterward ?
Metal pipes, windows, rain (yawn but still), ceramic objects, weird vocal sound fx, scissors, trains and of course sleeping dogs. Also large bronze statues, with contact mics.
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digestive processes
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ā¦it can be literally ANYTHING that crosses ur wayā¦nothingās out of limitā¦
start with ur phone and eveolve into a decent field recorderā¦
always experiment with distance and positionsā¦
get used to proper gainstaging and taming low endsā¦
I like going for sound hunts - walk out your door with your recorder of choice - and follow your ear.
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The world 
If youāre looking for inspiration my Yt channel has a lot of sample and jam videos where I record sounds I find around cities, barbershops, abandoned buildings etc. YouTube.com/davemech
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Anything I can hit. Squeaky gates. Mechanisms you donāt usually hear or notice (the internals of a clock). The radio. Hitting parts of an upright piano. A saucepan.
Sometimes you can get surprising sounds by reduce a sample to a single cycle and looping it. Add ADSR, instant synth.
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In order to make perfect diss tracks I sample their momās voices.
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I like sampling different noise. Highway din from different parts of the city, forest noise, a creek, certain rooms w/ fans and tight spaces.
I made this last night. Lots of sample sources. Floor tom, knife, windchime, guitar, etc
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Anything and everything is a brand new world of sound. I try not to think or settle with favorites so that I can stay open to new discoveries, otherwise things get stale, boring, cliche, and I might as well just be lazy and buy sample packs, haha.
Thunderstorms, though, never get old for me, and neither do torrents of water from a nearby source pouring down the mountain. Water coolers make fantastic gloopy sounds when the pressure equalises, and putting a recorder or microphone inside a plastic bag under the surface of a bath while running the tap at various speeds from a drop or two to full flow can be magical.
Thereās some sounds of demolition and roadworks from ~20 years ago that I still return to every now and again. Cigales (cicadas to some), frogs, goats, chickens and horses are all good for warping through effects, plus the inside of the fridge on occasion too.
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Yeah, water makes such wonderful sounds and I did put that yawn there because I thought mentioning rain is probably the biggest cliche imaginable. 
That plastic bag idea is very cool!
Fridges indeed make v interesting sounds and that reminds me that I forgot to mention washing machines for those āarrival of AFXās limoā type of sounds.
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This is a good point of course. Making it not sound like rain is also part of the fun.
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This is a german ongoing series I like to watch. Sadly it stopped but there are plenty already made. I donāt know if youtube can generate english subtitles. Its about german artists going on a sampling tour and creating a track. Good show. Have a look.
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Some of my favorites have been: ice dripping rapidly from the roof, mortar and pestle grinding, taking a smaller notepad/notebook/post-its and flapping it rhythmically (super tight āanalogā envelopes here). Using room noise as a sort of reverb underlayment is something Iāve been meaning to do but havenāt yet.
Really rain just never gets old.
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I love working with samples but I mainly just sample sounds and loops I make with synths and drum machines. Iāve sampled some spoken dialogue from movies/games/whatever on occasion. I donāt know why I never get into field recordings but I donāt. Maybe someday.
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Even regular sources can become interesting after some processing.
My favorite knife
The things I record are basically the same as everyone else describe here. But I enjoy this so much that I selfmade this handheld stereophonic zoom set. But itās also about making those recordings for different kind of samplers, some or better for music and other ones for sound design.
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The kitchen is my playground. Pots and pans for finger drumming. Doors to slam of every variety. I can rake a fork across a zester or use wooden spoons as drum sticks. Cereal boxes to shake. It goes on and on and on.
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Charity shop vinyl
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