Favourite drum break to sample into 12 Bit

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Would love to see what people are digging and flipping for that 12 bit sound. If you are scared of giving away your breaks just move on. No need to comment hate :joy:

Personally I have been loving “Dirty Feet” by the Dale Wilson Big Band. The Snare just sounds snaps and sound crunchy

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Honestly, from collecting breaks since 1982 th elist would be endless. I can however say that Skinny Boy by Chicago sounds dope in 12 bit. I am a bit of a BBoy when it comes to break names (I still blank out the middle of records when I DJ with blank white discs in the middle), so I am not going to reveal my absolute faves because they’re in my Black Book, but there are tons. Breaks that have a lot of transient information and not a lot of room noise sound best to me personally.

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I’ve chopped up skinny boy in 12 bit on my s2400 and it sounded awesome. Sampling them into the machine at 45 rpm and pitching them down as well as bit crushing deff adds some seasoning to them as well.

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I don’t have a particular favorite break for sampling at 12-bit; I sample every break I come across (to be chopped into individual hits and sequenced into new patterns), and I think they’re all enhanced by sampling them at 45 RPM and then pitching them down at 12-bit. I posted this in another thread before, but here is my recipe for making even the thinnest-sounding drums sound good, though note that I like my drums pretty raw so your mileage may vary:

  1. The aforementioned 12-bit sampling at 45 RPM, then pitching down 5–6 semitones.
  2. Applying some Airwindows Drumslam, a little RX950, and a touch of reverb. The amounts applied depend on the break itself.
  3. I run my drums through output filter 4 on the 2400. This removes some of the aliasing crunch, but I pitch so many things down that I need to spread the aliasing around.
  4. Finally, all my drums go through my Analog Heat. Steps 1 & 2 get you most of the way there, though. On the MPC, my drum chain was just a bit of reverb and the Analog Heat.

While I don’t have a favorite 2400-specific break, there are some super-cool breaks on the B-side of Deep Street Soul’s 2009 “Chilli Fried” EP, which I stumbled across a few months ago. DSS was a raw-ass, blown-out, late-aughts Australian heavy funk band. I was so stoked when I first heard this record that I paid more money to ship it from England than the record itself cost.

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Many favorite break beats to sample, but one of my all time favorites is:

Bill Withers - “Kissing My Love”

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I’m finding just everything I sample into the S2400 gives me a massive smile on my face - drum hits, loops, you name it - It all sounds fantastic

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I have over 1000 breaks ripped from vinyl and chopped into loops, collected over the past 35 years. I love them all, but my favorite of all time is “Get Out My Life Woman” by Lee Dorsey. I paid $60 for the vinyl when I was making $4.24/hr, I wanted that break BAD.

Honorable mention to the Honeydrippper’s Impeach the President, such an important one to Hip Hop. I used that snare to DEATH.

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If you haven’t heard it, Sure Fire Soul Ensemble released a fun cover of “Impeach” five or six years ago with Kelly Finnigan singing. It’s more organ-forward than the original.

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So many to pick “Joe Thomas - Mr Mumbles” “Stanley Clark - Slow Dance”

The J - Zone packs are pretty dope too, where he plays a lotta the classic breaks :ok_hand:

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