How do you sample?

[Bjazzman]

I was listening to the Theivery Corporation and i was wondering how groups like this pull it off? How do you just take lets say the bass or drums out of a recording? And are there any legal hoops you have to go through if you put it on your record? I have abelton live 7 and reason 4 but im not really good at it yet. Im pretty sure there's a way to do it with one of these programs

 

[seamonkey]

Good sample editors like Soundforge or Audacity will do the job.
I can't give you legal advice, but there's been many lawsuits around this.
You definitely need permission to copy and use any part of copyrighted media.
Write to the artist via the record label. I don't know that you'll get an answer unless you have some kind of "in", it couldn't hurt though.

I would suggest you search for "Royalty free loops" and you might find some that meet your needs for now.

 

[D.A.R.K.]

i use ableton as a main tool for sound design,
there's tons of free loops and sample libraries on the web...
but it is just as easy to roll your own if you have a standard mic and interface.
go hang out with a drummer one day and sample his kit,
starting with each piece separately and then do some beats with the mic
placed around different parts of the kit.
you can easily generate a click track with live to feed the player.
do this with all your musical friends regularly, you'll have a
massive library in no time.
-just wanted to add that for dialogue etc, you can go to the library of congress on line archives and use anything that is marked as public domain

 

[hunta]

I was listening to the Theivery Corporation and i was wondering how groups like this pull it off? How do you just take lets say the bass or drums out of a recording? And are there any legal hoops you have to go through if you put it on your record? I have abelton live 7 and reason 4 but im not really good at it yet. Im pretty sure there's a way to do it with one of these programs

If you're talking about taking a CD recording of a full band, and digitally extracting the bass or drums, it's completely impossible. You can't demux the tracks once they've been mixed down to 2 track stereo. You would need the original master (ie the master recordings, not the master they duplicated the CD off of) in order to really do this. There's some EQ filters you can do to mostly remove other instruments (and butcher the sound quality of what's left) but these are more of a gimmick than something you could use to produce the kind of samples that big artists use when they put tracks together.

 

[Bjazzman]

so they have the master tapes to do this? how do most people do it? do they just re-record the part themselves?