Industrial/hardcore samples for metal etc

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Hi guys. I am getting into industrial metal type stuff. I need samples (not guitars) for this stuff. I generally just do guitar/bass/drums stuff, but I want to put an industrial, modern, nu-metal type spin on it. Can anyone recommend some samples that would lend itself to that sort of genre - to spice things up a bit? I am looking for super modern, heavy, cutting edge shit.

Thank you!
 
There is no such thing as industrial samples... well at least to me. I do elektro-industrial/noise/powernoise and some EBM.

What I suggest is thinking of creative ways to screw up sounds. That's the great thing about industrial, free reign to experiment with the ugly/harsh/nasty side of things.

Sometimes even the simplest thing can screw up sounds so much that your chin falls to the floor. For example, if you have any modern sequencer that can do time-stretching on the fly w/o affecting pitch, take a 4 bar drum loop and stretch it to cover 32 bars. At these extremes it starts breaking up, or turns into a breathing, heaving organic mess that's still cohesive yet sounds nothing like drums.

BitCrushers and Aliasers (sample dividers) are also handy, specially if you modulate the sample divider's frequency. Check out my tune "Disembodiment" to hear BitCrushing and modulating the aliasing point to good effect (go to my soundclick page in my sig, it's the second tune from the top).

Use ring modulators on drums where the modulator's frequency is tuned pretty low to give it a rhaspy sort of sound (again I use this in Disembodiment).

In many ways, if you can create harsh sounds w/o really using the obvious distortion pedals/distortion plugins you develop some very interesting sounds that can't be done other ways. For example, take some compressor (hardware or software) that responds well to being driven hard, and crank up the sound before it reaches the compressor, drive it to bits and pieces, and pull down its volume before it gets output from the compressor, the idea is you want to distort it inside the compressor. If you use plugins the ones that operate at 64bit internal resolution usually work the best.

Same goes for EQ. Again abuse it.

What I'm recommending is stuff that you do at sound design stage, you might for example use the compressor distortion method on some sample, then load that into a sampler and play it.

Since you're a guitar player, I'm sure you've got some stomp boxes laying around. Connect them in some strange ways, even using "Y" connectors to create feedback loops, then play with the knobs on them... do this during the day time, turn down the level on your monitors and wear earplugs while experimenting in this manner. And if you smell smoke, disconnect everything :D But sometimes the feedback mess that you get can be very organic sounding. So mic it up, sample it, load it in your sequencer and have at it.
 
If you want an excellent synth for designing your own industrial strength madness check out the Alesis Ion. I'm sure one would fit the bill for you (With a vocoder to boot).
 
there actually is a huge set of samples for Nu Metal

they are entitled Nu Metal, but I can't remember where I found them. maybe www.vst-pro.com

I accidently ended up on a hacker site and they have a lot of info on programs. I think it was when I kept doing searched for the Drummer From Hell 2 software.
 
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