how do you guys find your vocals?

[RandoRando]

I tried samplingin Fruity but audacity is light weight and do you really wanna be looking at FL all day sampling, then make a beat with it? Thats just an eye-sore.

True. Seeing FL for that long would make me throw up.

Just a quick tip on recording your own...

iPhone memo recorder > iTunes > drag and drop into Logic =

Thank you Steve Jobs

Im usin asio4all in FL.
So i cant have itunes and FL open at the same time, therefore i cant drag and drop, and nevermind i just figured out my question in my head.

[drokkr]

Like most posts so far. Audacity, then edit the sample in FL.

Find vocals everywhere, record off Youtube, DVD collection, crappy CDs that I have for some reason... Look up acapella sites and get chopping

[RandoRando]

okay all of you guys are saying to sample other old cds/vinyls...but dont we have to worry about copyrights or whatever? or are you saying that because most of us probably wont get big enough to have to worry about that.

[wub]

or are you saying that because most of us probably wont get big enough to have to worry about that.

This

[brack3n]

okay all of you guys are saying to sample other old cds/vinyls...but dont we have to worry about copyrights or whatever? or are you saying that because most of us probably wont get big enough to have to worry about that.

If your just usin one shot vocals and processing them im sure you will be fine.. plus i dont think they will give a crap unless youre making thousands off the track.

[Pedro Sánchez]

I use that VSTplug-in that isolates the vocals from any song and leaves you with just the accapella.

[wub]

I use that VSTplug-in that isolates the vocals from any song and leaves you with just the accapella.

[-[2]DAY_-]

Chaka Kahn
Erykah Badu
Billie Holiday
Sara Vaugh
Rickie Lee Jones
Tori Amos
Fiona Apple

i dunno, these are just some of my favorite artists in general, not to mention female vocalists.... if you pull out some their records, there's def. bare vocal passages that would work with club beats....
Its a different sound though, to do sampling, than it is to record a track from scratch like that Katy B stuff.
Totally different sound, but both are cool in the club imo

[bigfootspartan]

I use that VSTplug-in that isolates the vocals from any song and leaves you with just the accapella.

I need this! Links to warez and torrents plz!!!!!!!

I usually just download a bunch from acapellas4u.com or whatever it is.

I'll drag it into logic, put a pitch shifter vst on the track and watch what notes the singer is singing.

Then if it seems to be in the wrong key I'll just cut parts I'd think are pretty cool and pitch shift them individually to get the right note.

Afterwards I'll take the pitch shifter vst off the master track so it doesn't sound like T-pain or Cher.

Oh and if you are planning on shifting the vocals up for a burial style vibe, I found that using a male voice actually gives a nice vibe, I'm working on a tune where I've sample the coldplay guy singing clocks, and so far so good! For me female vocals just get high and scratchy if they're pitch shifted up more than 500 cents.... The last time I tried it, it reminded me of that Born This Way Skrillex remix....

[legend4ry]

There is actually a VST which isolates vocals......I'm not trolling.

I had it when I first started downloading vsts.. It was some dodgey freeware thing which got ok-ish results.

I forget the name but ..

[wub]

There is actually a VST which isolates vocals......I'm not trolling.

I had it when I first started downloading vsts.. It was some dodgey freeware thing which got ok-ish results.

I forget the name but ..

Kn0ck0ut, by any chance?

[legend4ry]

There is actually a VST which isolates vocals......I'm not trolling.

I had it when I first started downloading vsts.. It was some dodgey freeware thing which got ok-ish results.

I forget the name but ..

Kn0ck0ut, by any chance?

Thats the one, it works great for acoustic-style music.

[lyons238]

thanks for the help guys!!!

i use audacity as well to sample stuff. its pretty simple and works well.

and yeah thats another hard part about sampling things, processing them to fit with your songs. unless the sample is really good sometimes it usually sounds out of place to me. any tips for doing so? i usually cut the higher end hiss out of the sample if there is any, and then eq accordingly, but not really sure what else to do to help it fit better in the mix.

[RandoRando]

it reminded me of that Born This Way Skrillex remix....

Died this way*

[bigfootspartan]

it reminded me of that Born This Way Skrillex remix....

Died this way*

Yeah that one. The one where he sampled her voice, pitched it up an octave and then proceded to slide it up and down like Deadmau5 was jerking his cock. Them kids love that shit, but personally I think it sounds like absolute mooseshit. Guess it all depends on how someone likes their tunes.

[RandoRando]

it reminded me of that Born This Way Skrillex remix....

Died this way*

Yeah that one. The one where he sampled her voice, pitched it up an octave and then proceded to slide it up and down like Deadmau5 was jerking his cock. Them kids love that shit, but personally I think it sounds like absolute mooseshit. Guess it all depends on how someone likes their tunes.

I believe the scream throughout the song isn't a pitch shifted voice at all, he made it in fm8, he uses the same sound in other songs. I found a preset in fm8 that I messed with a little and am getting close to recreating It. FM synthesis screams FTW

[dmisreal]

watch old movies (horror is good) and get some samples.

[cloud capture]

a good idea for finding unique stuff, that is also free is "public domain". try typing that in google along with audio books, poetry, vocal, or whatever you can think of. There's a wealth of free public domain audio recordings out there. I found some really cool stuff that way.

[samurai]

this year I started recording some people from college in the college studio. since then I've started recording a lot of my own vocals, and sounds in general. but I sometimes find it's still nicer to go digging for stuff, or use something from an already existing source. for example if I pull a quote from a film, or a phrase from a song I like, then I feel like that gives the sample a somewhat deeper artistic meaning to me. if I were to merely reproduce the sample with my own, or somebody else's, vocals then it wouldn't be the same.

[Fused Productions]

Find an artist you like in the specific genre your looking for.
Look them up on sptofiy, there's a free version. Look for similar artists in spotify (spotify automatically recomends you artists who are similar to the one you were listening to). Listen, observe, find something you like, google the tune name, the artist name etc. etc. You will end up with lots of tunes you will love to remix.