Introduction to recording

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Hello all, I've been browsing the forums and have found a massive amount of awesome sounding samples from real drumkits that you've posted, and I've been doing some cutting and pasting to edit the samples, only I've run into a problem, whenever I cut the samples and try to use them I get a hissing sound after it's sampled in my program. What am I doing wrong? Help and suggestions are more than welcome.
 
It's hard for me to do that, because it's just some of the samples I've downloaded from this forum, and whenever I cut them to use in a programming machine after it plays the sample it gets like scratch sound.

Could it be because I'm using Cool Edit?

Also, when I cut the samples and use them, it's giving me a delay as to when I select the hits, so everything is off time.

I'm not a complete n00b, as I have been recording for a few years, but this is just frustrating me.
 
Please explain to me what latency is, because there are certain terms I'm completely lost on.

If it helps I will tell you what I'm running on my computer to figure out what the problem might be:

PodXT > Computer > Acoustica Beatcraft for a drum machine loaded with samples > Cool Edit Pro 2.0
 
It could be that Cool Edit is angry that you slept with its sister and is fucking with your samples just because it can.

Import a sample, export it, and re-import it. See if there is more noise. If there is, take the re-imported version, flip its phase, combine it with the 'first' import, and see what it sounds like. It could be just doing something nonsensical to it with the import, and if this is the case then importing it twice doubles this noise - and as a result, putting it out of phase and combining it with a version only imported once will isolate that noise, giving us a better idea of what's going on.

Jeff
 
Like GuitarGodgt mentioned, I would check the sample rate. Check to see what CE is set at and check the sample to see what it is set at. Having different sample rates can cause all kinds of ugliness.

Dustin
 
If you're cutting the samples (tight) use a little fade-out at the end (or fade-in at the beginning for that matter) and that sound might disappear. ;)
 
If you're cutting the samples (tight) use a little fade-out at the end (or fade-in at the beginning for that matter) and that sound might disappear. ;)

Yea I'm almost positive its because your not using fades. Learn how to use fades and that problem should be gone. Also look into like drumagog for a plugin sample replacement which is easier that pasting each hit!