Police radio samples?

anthonyrowles · Post by **anthonyrowles** » Fri May 23, 2008 12:10 pm

Anybody got?

wub · Post by **wub** » Fri May 23, 2008 12:22 pm

YouTube with the search critera "Police Dispatch" brings up a fair few.

Record it off of that

legend4ry · Post by **legend4ry** » Fri May 23, 2008 12:28 pm

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

John Locke · Post by **John Locke** » Fri May 23, 2008 12:39 pm

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

wub · Post by **wub** » Fri May 23, 2008 12:40 pm

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

John Locke · Post by **John Locke** » Fri May 23, 2008 12:45 pm

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

wub · Post by **wub** » Fri May 23, 2008 12:53 pm

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.

John Locke · Post by **John Locke** » Fri May 23, 2008 12:55 pm

thesis · Post by **thesis** » Fri May 23, 2008 1:05 pm

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.

John Locke · Post by **John Locke** » Fri May 23, 2008 1:08 pm

nice idea that. reamped plenty synths or instruments or whatever, but never thought of doing it with shit samples. like it. thanks

anthonyrowles · Post by **anthonyrowles** » Fri May 23, 2008 1:13 pm

Thanks for the tips people!

legend4ry · Post by **legend4ry** » Fri May 23, 2008 1:33 pm

http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/ try this as well, has NUFF weird shit on there.

djake · Post by **djake** » Sat May 24, 2008 1:19 am

sounds like this can be found in loads of games!

useless if ur not a gamer thou.

cixxxj · Post by **cixxxj** » Mon May 26, 2008 11:24 am

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roytr0n · Post by **roytr0n** » Mon May 26, 2008 4:15 pm

Just get an FM receiver and then find some frequencies...

illustrativesound · Post by **illustrativesound** » Mon May 26, 2008 7:10 pm

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.

cixxxj · Post by **cixxxj** » Mon May 26, 2008 7:30 pm

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

alphacat · Post by **alphacat** » Tue May 27, 2008 3:41 pm

How about the Police Dispatch from Paducah, Kentucky?

http://home.comcast.net/~padscan/

cixxxj · Post by **cixxxj** » Tue May 27, 2008 3:45 pm

Alphacat wrote:How about the Police Dispatch from Paducah, Kentucky?

http://home.comcast.net/~padscan/

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