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Hey guys im new with a question

Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 5:14 am
by Frodo Bassbins
Long time lurker finaly decided to join cuz i have a question that i havent been able to get a good answer from.


Where can i get free good quality female / male acapella's (preferably female) and vocal samples? im looking for a place with a motherload of these so i can just try out hundreds etc... any ideas?

Re: Hey guys im new with a question

Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 5:33 am
by Basic A
Its hard to find that moverload you speak of man, theres no one place. Accapellas are typically copyright, and therefore you gotta do alot of specific, creative googling if its things like mainstream crunk n stuff your after...

But, you can find SOME stuff on Accapellas4u...

If anyone can suggest somethin better, Im all ears too!

Re: Hey guys im new with a question

Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 6:25 am
by narcissus
i went to freesound.org and signed up, it's pretty neat... lots of random sounds and voices, you can find singing, words, phrases... not a HUGE selection, but it's mostly high quality, all legal, and pretty good if you want some off the wall samples

Re: Hey guys im new with a question

Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 12:39 pm
by stereotactic
Nice one Narcissus, will check that out. Been wondering myself if there were any specific sources for vocal samples, particularly of the 'ooohs and ahhhhs' variety...

Acapellas4U is a fairly good resource, however without knowing exacctly what you are looking for before looking, it can be a bit scattershot!

Re: Hey guys im new with a question

Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 1:59 pm
by tripwire22
buy a microphone and invite some girls who can sing over

Re: Hey guys im new with a question

Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 2:20 pm
by leviticus
tripwire22 wrote:buy a microphone and invite some girls who can sing over
Even girls who cant sing :wink:

Re: Hey guys im new with a question

Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 3:33 pm
by futures_untold
Buy some back issues of Computer Music Magazine.

The cover mount DVD has loads of XXX rated 'hot' vocals haha

Re: Hey guys im new with a question

Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 2:36 pm
by faultier
leviticus wrote:
tripwire22 wrote:buy a microphone and invite some girls who can sing over
Even girls who cant sing :wink:
make sure they're hot tho :P

Re: Hey guys im new with a question

Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 3:32 pm
by jsills
tripwire22 wrote:buy a microphone and invite some girls who can sing over
this has led to numerous relations and never a finished track 8)

Re: Hey guys im new with a question

Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 11:52 pm
by skwiggo
ccmixter is good for that. People upload their own homemade accapellas and then you can use them for free :). Watch out for licence issues though because some are only for not for profit use. That could be a problem if you got signed and stuff.

Re: Hey guys im new with a question

Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 3:55 am
by regend
*i'm going to give away one of my signature secrets. pop in some porn and take the audio outs of a VHS or DVD and record to your hearts content. you're only making demos right? have fun!

Re: Hey guys im new with a question

Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 4:00 am
by b166er
regend wrote:*i'm going to give away one of my signature secrets. pop in some porn and take the audio outs of a VHS or DVD and record to your hearts content. you're only making demos right? have fun!
YOUR secrets? I've done it so much, I like own the patent! The best samples are from late 70's porn, indeed.
However, the biggest database for aca's are torrents and newsgroups. Just type in "Acapella".

Re: Hey guys im new with a question

Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 4:11 am
by Astral
http://www.beansacapellas.co.uk/ has a fair few, all you need to do is sign up.