Producing Beats

Sampling Category

Sound Samples
Looking for some free audio samples to boost your sample collection? Then try these 15 sites listed below all of which have free audio samples available for download. When you are using samples from these sources, make sure that you always read the details of the licenses and give credit if needed where it is due.
  • Freesound
    A collaborative database of creative commons licensed sounds. This site has lots of audio samples which you can use as long as you place a small sentence saying where you got the sound from. The site even had a sound used in the film "Children of Men" which featured Clive Owen, complete with attribution.
  • Rekkerd.org

vinyl record
Recently I've been working on some tracks to be released later this year which have a Old Skool vibe to them, one of the things I wanted to do with one of the tracks was to make it sound like it is being played on traditional vinyl by having a record needle put down at the start and then bring in the crackles, hum and sound just like a record. One way to do this is to actually put it on vinyl and then rerecord it, but that's just too hard, costs money and has uncontrollable results. Thankfully it wasn't too hard to do and we show you below how I managed to do this.

Here's a quick example of the intro of the track to give you an idea of what you could create using this technique.