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Police radio samples?
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 12:10 pm
by anthonyrowles
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 12:22 pm
by wub
YouTube with the search critera "Police Dispatch" brings up a fair few.
Record it off of that

Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 12:28 pm
by legend4ry
Wub wrote:YouTube with the search critera "Police Dispatch" brings up a fair few.
Record it off of that

This is how I get 90% of my voice/weird sound effect samples.
Big ups the youtube and sound cards

Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 12:39 pm
by John Locke
Legendary wrote:Wub wrote:
Big ups the youtube and sound cards

isnt the quality just too shit 2bother with tho?
also i'm still trying 2work out y ppl so excited about sites like acappelaforyou or whatever its called: its all shitty mp3s. fine for bedroom mashups that'll never c the light of day, but i aint putting it on something thats gonna get a release
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 12:40 pm
by wub
Battle Gong wrote:Legendary wrote:Wub wrote:
Big ups the youtube and sound cards

isnt the quality just too shit 2bother with tho?
also i'm still trying 2work out y ppl so excited about sites like acappelaforyou or whatever its called: its all shitty mp3s. fine for bedroom mashups that'll never c the light of day, but i aint putting it on something thats gonna get a release
Police Scanners are generally crackly anyway, so I guess YouTube's low bitrate would probably suit it.
320 rip quality acapellas exist, it's just a case of digging through a lot of 96kbps versions to find them

Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 12:45 pm
by John Locke
ah, ok, not sure i get the patience to wade thru em all tho. but thats my problem
oh and crackle is one thing, but weedy lo bit-rate digitial audio is another
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 12:53 pm
by wub
Battle Gong wrote:
oh and crackle is one thing, but weedy lo bit-rate digitial audio is another
If you leave as is, yeah.
Apply a bit of distortion, maybe some bitcrushing to filth it up. If you're relying on the sample itself to be the basis of the tune, then fair enough you'd want it as clear as possible.
But for background fills and such, it depends on what you're after it for.
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 12:55 pm
by John Locke
true
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 1:05 pm
by thesis
I've sampled stuff from youtube before.
To help with the low bitrate audio problem, I set it up so the youtube audio is going to the speakers... then I put my portable audio recorder a few feet away, in between the speakers.
So you get the stereo ambiance/reverb of the room recorded with the sample. It kind of masks the low-bitrate. And also makes the sample sound a bit eerie... that nice 'recorded off late night TV' feeling.
On the original topic, I know I've seen a website where you can listen to streaming live police radio.
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 1:08 pm
by John Locke
nice idea that. reamped plenty synths or instruments or whatever, but never thought of doing it with shit samples. like it. thanks
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 1:13 pm
by anthonyrowles
Thanks for the tips people!
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 1:33 pm
by legend4ry
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/ try this as well, has NUFF weird shit on there.
Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 1:19 am
by djake
sounds like this can be found in loads of games!
useless if ur not a gamer thou.
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 11:24 am
by cixxxj
xxx movies FTsamplingW!
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 4:15 pm
by roytr0n
Just get an FM receiver and then find some frequencies...
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 7:10 pm
by illustrativesound
Battle Gong wrote:Legendary wrote:Wub wrote:
Big ups the youtube and sound cards

isnt the quality just too shit 2bother with tho?
also i'm still trying 2work out y ppl so excited about sites like acappelaforyou or whatever its called: its all shitty mp3s. fine for bedroom mashups that'll never c the light of day, but i aint putting it on something thats gonna get a release
what you wanna do is.... google 'youtube to mp3' and click on one of the websites that offers exactly that... it converts the video sound to mp3 (im sure youve gathered this from 'youtube to mp3'.
Im not sure if it would be a 320, but deffo sounds better.
Thats how I sample sounds of people blowing their trumpets.

Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 7:30 pm
by cixxxj
IllustrativeSound wrote:
isnt the quality just too shit 2bother with tho?
also i'm still trying 2work out y ppl so excited about sites like acappelaforyou or whatever its called: its all shitty mp3s. fine for bedroom mashups that'll never c the light of day, but i aint putting it on something thats gonna get a release
You sure? Goto djmixsource if it still ever exist, and look out for the demo downloads

Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 3:41 pm
by alphacat
How about the Police Dispatch from Paducah, Kentucky?
http://home.comcast.net/~padscan/

Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 3:45 pm
by cixxxj