Sneap's kick and leagal shit.

[Loren Littlejohn]

I am relativly new to this board (only been lurking for around a half a year). And love Andy's kick sample. However I was wondering what I needed to do to use it on a production that I intend to sell (so far it's just been used on home noodling). I don't wan't to do anything like that without asking.

 

[Nebulous]

I'm pretty sure it's been asked before and Andy said it was all cool that we used it (with or without credit, and no royalties necessary) if memory serves.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

K really just wanted to make sure. He seems like a cool dude so I didn't want to do anything dickish.

 

[Aaron Smith]

I know of at least one locally big screamo release that Andy's kick sample was used on, by an engineer who didn't even know who Andy Sneap is...he just found the sample on the Drumagog site. I'm sure there are plenty more cases out there similar to this.

 

[Andy Sneap]

what release was that?, I may have to go after them.... no feel free to use it.

 

[Nebulous]

Haha, I think at the end of the day, it's up to the user/engineer to decide if they want to use somethnig that isn't their own. i've used Andy's samples in non release/ test mixes, but I'm not sure I'd be comfortable using it on a released CD. I prefer making my own samples, no-matter how crappy they are in comparisson.

 

[Ermz]

Yeah, in all honesty I wouldn't feel too easy about using andy's samples in any release product that I would get paid for. To me that defeats half the purpose of my job.

Having said that, at times you just don't have a lot to work with, yet the band are expecting grand things. All one can do is rip and scrounge anything they can get their hands on and try to get a clean finished product off.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Yeah I usually use DFH2 kick and mess with that. But I just did a song where sneaps sample was just so much better.


Thanks!

 

[flytrapx]

Sorry-my english is not so good,to understand all...
Summary-can i use Andy's drumsamples in commercial songs-or they are only for non-commercial use?

Yes.

Andy said that it is ok to use the samples for commercial use.

 

[RootBoundApollo]

I think it's common courtesy to give Andy credit somewhere, even if he says it's not necessary

 

[broken81]

Yes.

Andy said that it is ok to use the samples for commercial use.

Yep about 5 post up from yours

 

[flytrapx]

Yep about 5 post up from yours

Yea, I know. I was just helping out the Russian fella....ya know sometimes it's tough with Andy's thick brit accent