Bill Hicks samples

Arküris · Post by **Arküris** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 11:46 am

Recently I discovered a mix by Glitchy & Scratchy called The Weather Report that intros with Bill Hicks' Positive LSD Story bit (check it here: http://soundcloud.com/glitchyscratchy/t ... report-new) and since then I've fallen in love with everything to do with this guy. Long story short, I need to figure out how to sample from youtube/mp3s and cut away all the laughter and noise so it's just his voice and bounce that to wav. Any methods for achieving this using Reason 5 or freeware? Much love to anyone who can help

Basic A · Post by **Basic A** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 11:52 am

Your not going to be able to remove the audience completely, maybe rolling off some of the top mids will cut the volume of them back, but it doesnt work like that.

And there are tons of different tools for extracting audio from FLV files online, or you could just set audacity to record from stereo mix or something.

lightshapers · Post by **lightshapers** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:46 pm

you could try melodyne (not free, there is a demo)

http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id=dna

will probably be a bit hit and miss with crowd noise but worth a shot.

for recording from youtube try freecorder or even kickyoutube (both free)

alphacat · Post by **alphacat** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 6:24 pm

You have great taste. Hicks was one of the greatest Americans of the last 50 years imho.

The first time I heard that bit (LSD news) - years ago - the very first thing that popped into my head was "oh my god... that's a perfect sample!"

yuroq · Post by **yuroq** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:04 pm

Bill Hicks is great but.... thats sample has been used several times so....

paradigm_x · Post by **paradigm_x** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:55 pm

Soundcloud

24 minutes in...

drokkr · Post by **drokkr** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 12:21 am

If you like Hicks, check out Doug Stanhope

Grime Syndicate · Post by **Grime Syndicate** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 2:13 am

drokkr wrote:If you like Hicks, check out Doug Stanhope

FUCK DUDE!!! I was just gonna say this exact thing. And no one led me to this conclusion either. So I'm glad someone else feels like Stanhope's carrying the torch.

Hicks is more than a comedian, as is stanhope in his own way. Both pushing an agenda, but an agenda that I agree with, pretty much across the board.

Arküris · Post by **Arküris** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 3:15 am

yuroq wrote:Bill Hicks is great but.... thats sample has been used several times so....

I'm not using the LSD bit, only a short sweet "It's just a ride" sample (or something of that nature)

Grime Syndicate wrote:
drokkr wrote:If you like Hicks, check out Doug Stanhope

FUCK DUDE!!! I was just gonna say this exact thing. And no one led me to this conclusion either. So I'm glad someone else feels like Stanhope's carrying the torch.

Hicks is more than a comedian, as is stanhope in his own way. Both pushing an agenda, but an agenda that I agree with, pretty much across the board.

I'll definitely be checking Stanhope then. I've only been aware of Mr. Hicks for a few days now but literally every bit of what he has said is raw truth

Grime Syndicate · Post by **Grime Syndicate** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:39 am

Dooooo ittttt...

kaiori breathe · Post by **kaiori breathe** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:11 am

Bill Hicks is a bad-ass. I have nothing to really contribute to this, I just wanted to declare my love for him since everyone else seems to be doing so.

alphacat · Post by **alphacat** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 6:06 pm

[sigh.]

Debaser1 · Post by **Debaser1** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 6:27 pm

Ahhh, Bill Hicks, Stewart Lee, Dylan Moran, Ricky Gervais. My favourite stand ups, and I've used samples from all of them in my work before

Basic A · Post by **Basic A** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 6:31 pm

George Carlin?

Mushroom_Jesus · Post by **Mushroom_Jesus** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 6:44 pm

very unoriginal - tool was the first to use these samples.

krispy · Post by **krispy** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 8:47 pm

Here is a song I made about a month ago with a Bill Hicks sample!
Soundcloud

secret door · Post by **secret door** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 11:00 pm

Yes, Bill Hicks was an amazing human being and almost everything he says is a gem in some way, but don't just throw samples of him into your production just because. So tacky.

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