Best Way to Sample Something?

[Rhett]

Okay besides shitty youtube to mp3's what's the best and fastest way to go about sampling audio from my computer to where I can almost immediately use the sample in my DAW without changing audio drivers and messing with all kinds of craziness.

[alphacat]

Audacity. It an easily record any throughput on yer machine.

[wub]

Audacity. It an easily record any throughput on yer machine.

And it's free.

[AxeD]

Then it's still not of decent quality, but it's better than those converters for sure.
Unless maybe there's really high quality streams available somewhere. Which means they are giving the track away
basically.

[mromgwtf]

Record directly from stereo mix

[fragments]

Sample from CD, Vinyl, Cassette, DVD. I don't get sampling from YouTube, personally, seems to defeat the point of digging and sampling.

[test_recordings]

I rip CDs then use Reaper

[LUNCHPADDLE]

man as long as the youtube video is HQ go to www.offliberty.com and you can EASILY rip audio.
theres HQ versions of everything on youtube and i just collect any samples i need from there, SO much easier.
if youre going for SUPER obscure samples then i probs cant be of much help, i have no idea how to rip from records or anything.. but yeah cd's shouldnt be too hard, depends how well you know your DAW and your software suites.

heard lots of good things about audacity but never needed it..

@fragments "I don't get sampling from YouTube, personally, seems to defeat the point of digging and sampling."

^ ive still had to do some serious digging to find a lot of stuff that ive wanted, it really depends on the individuals preferred methods at the end of the day..
check out www.soundjay.com and www.moviewavs.com for some cool stuff..
offliberty works on anything though.

[fragments]

man as long as the youtube video is HQ go to http://www.offliberty.com and you can EASILY rip audio.
theres HQ versions of everything on youtube and i just collect any samples i need from there, SO much easier.
if youre going for SUPER obscure samples then i probs cant be of much help, i have no idea how to rip from records or anything.. but yeah cd's shouldnt be too hard, depends how well you know your DAW and your software suites.

heard lots of good things about audacity but never needed it..

@fragments "I don't get sampling from YouTube, personally, seems to defeat the point of digging and sampling."

^ ive still had to do some serious digging to find a lot of stuff that ive wanted, it really depends on the individuals preferred methods at the end of the day..
check out http://www.soundjay.com and http://www.moviewavs.com for some cool stuff..
offliberty works on anything though.

I guess what I'm talking about is going to a second hand shop and picking out sample sources w/o being able to listen to them first. To me digging is mostly not about looking for specific samples, but discovering them by chance. The beauty of buying a record you don't know in a shop is you can't listen to it first and you've no idea what the wear on the record is going to sound like.

Its about working with what you have rather than whatever sampling off youtube is.

Two methods, I just prefer one over the other.

[LUNCHPADDLE]

that fine man to each his own.
digging through youtube related links and videos is comparable to digging through records but its not a waste of money and you can do it through the comfort of your home.

apples and oranges my man.

[Hex047]

Sample from CD, Vinyl, Cassette, DVD. I don't get sampling from YouTube, personally, seems to defeat the point of digging and sampling.

This^^

[wub]

Sample from CD, Vinyl, Cassette, DVD. I don't get sampling from YouTube, personally, seems to defeat the point of digging and sampling.

Sampling music, yes.

Sampling from other sources though, documentaries, adverts, speeches, newscasts, that sort of thing...fully

[fragments]

Sample from CD, Vinyl, Cassette, DVD. I don't get sampling from YouTube, personally, seems to defeat the point of digging and sampling.

Sampling music, yes.

Sampling from other sources though, documentaries, adverts, speeches, newscasts, that sort of thing...fully

You'd be surprised all the weird shit they used to press to vinyl and put on cassette before we had youtube. I've got a lecture from that famous TM guru the Beatles were into on vinyl. I've got a got stand up on vinyl. Sermons on vinyl. Poetry on vinyl. And buying vinyl you can't listen to first is only a waste of money for people who can't think outside the box.

[test_recordings]

Sample from CD, Vinyl, Cassette, DVD. I don't get sampling from YouTube, personally, seems to defeat the point of digging and sampling.

Sampling music, yes.

Sampling from other sources though, documentaries, adverts, speeches, newscasts, that sort of thing...fully

You'd be surprised all the weird shit they used to press to vinyl and put on cassette before we had youtube. I've got a lecture from that famous TM guru the Beatles were into on vinyl. I've got a got stand up on vinyl. Sermons on vinyl. Poetry on vinyl. And buying vinyl you can't listen to first is only a waste of money for people who can't think outside the box.

The sound of Yorkshire being a case in point

[benjam]

Sample from CD, Vinyl, Cassette, DVD. I don't get sampling from YouTube, personally, seems to defeat the point of digging and sampling.

Sampling music, yes.

Sampling from other sources though, documentaries, adverts, speeches, newscasts, that sort of thing...fully

No point limiting yourself to either really, +1 for audacity btw

[Psychs420]

idk if anybodyhas tried it out but i find sampling movies youtube or anything off my computer works the fucking best with sound flower,i use ableton so all i do is opne an audio track configure it to sound flower hit record and bam.u should look it up youtube man