Sample Vinyl Records

I saw this video where I guy sampled from a vinyl record. I figured you could do that but what would be a good sampler and record player setup to sample from my millions of records?

What? I've never heard of sampling from records before. Only sample CDs are allowed for real music.

I don't know what you're talking about. You can sample from LPs from what I've seen. I'm pretty sure you can sample from any media like casettes too.

He was being sarcastic.

I use a Numark TTX1 and an MV-8800. $$$$

Roland's new SP and choice of turntable is a cheaper option or if you have an Audio Editor, you could take samples using that.

Some of the end of the road hardware samples had a RIAA curve built in so you just need the TT and the sampler.

Go for a decent sampler that sounds good check out the Asr-10, EOS Ultra series and Akai's S5k,6k and A series. There is other samplers out there, those are just my fav's and what I recommend.

what about copyright issues ?

I've been told records pre 1965 only sample in black and white... is that right?

All you need is a decent quality turntable, the best needle you can get (I recommend Ortofon "Arkiv" for sampling) and either a phono direct box or a mixer with phono inputs. From the mixer you can run straight into your sound card or audio interface into a program like Cool Edit Pro/Adobe Audition. Easy as pie and sounds great.

There are lots but they generally don't go after the little people because there's no money in it.

However, I do make it a point to mention where samples where taken from and generally offer these works out for free download. I find it fun to put your own spin on somebody else's vocals and who knows, somewhere along the way you may be asked to do a paying remix project.

I've got a piece of vinyl here now with 11 accapellas on it that I intend to go through as soon as Mr. Papen sees fit to e-mail me the link to the 1.1 Predator upgrade. Got some other songs I'd like to use it on as well.