recording your own samples

[curly]

I have recently purchased a portable digital recorder, (a zoom H2) and have been having fun getting recordings of sounds to use in tracks. I am also gettimg more into the sampler instrument in ableton now.

I was wondering if any of you do the same, and what type of sounds ect you go for?

[judas_beast]

I used to when I was at Uni, I had mini-disk recorder and a couple of mics. Used to record all sorts - doors shutting, hitting cans with elastic bands, noises on building sites, factory stuff - its wicked, you get some interesting sounds. Still got a load that I use now, I might make them into a pack and host it somewhere.

you got anything good?

[DannyBlack]

love raw audio samples. Anything that makes a noise- use it!

[curly]

currenly using a lot of sounds like these in my own tracks, im recording just about anything, then putting it into a sampler and experimenting. looping them up, applying lfos to the start and endpoint of the loop, filtering ect and getting some alien soundscape from me pouring out a glass of coke, or hitting a saucepan with a packet of biscuits.

I also get better basslines from samples, just with a heavy lowpass filtering.

I will be posting a track in the production files using these sounds.