Samples From Mars

03/15/2024

How many drum machines can you spot!

01/10/2024

Lessons are a blast! Here’s rocking the 909 for the first time 💥. DM for more info if interested.

10/21/2023

I know you like free !!

A Free Preview of Vinyl Drums From Mars Free Vinyl Drums From Mars is a slimmed down version of our best-selling Vinyl Drums From Mars, which features royalty-free vinyl one-hits, creating by recording our acoustic kit, pressing the results to vinyl, and sampling the record, degrading it along the w...

09/27/2023

Def our fav new drum machine, and a nice intro into the modular world

https://samplesfrommars.com/products/pulsar-from-mars

08/11/2023

How it all began ...

10 years ago I created this business and 10 years ago I made my first sample. Yep, I started Samples From Mars before I’d ever sampled anything (other than a record), with only a few pieces of gear to my name. The preceding decade I’d tried just about everything - playing in bands, producing, en...

08/04/2023

10 years of Samples From Mars!! 🥳

10 years since I created this business and 10 years since making my first sample.

Yep, I started this thing before I’d ever sampled anything (other than a record), with only a few pieces of gear to my name. I was tired of not being able to afford the gear that made the sounds I wanted.

I’d been producing music but had become too precious about it - The fear of rejection was holding me back - I needed something I couldn’t fear - something that didn’t exist yet.

So I started Samples From Mars (which was “a temporary name, until I find something better”). There was nothing to be precious about bc the SFM world as you know it today didn’t exist, beyond an ugly Wordpress site I’d hacked together with product names like 808 Samples Library (oh, the SEO days).

After reading the 4 Hour Work Week (lol at “4 hr”) I’d learned the importance of putting a product out into the world immediately, before it feels ready (it never will), to see if there’s viability, and then to iterate on that, based on feedback. Tweak as needed, Rinse and Repeat 🔄

I struggled for years but eventually was able to build the studio you see above, from customer sales (which am eternally grateful for 🙏🏻). And from the sheer amount of time I’d put in, I’d become an “expert”.

(Better than the gear and studio was the team I was able to build - which I’ll dedicate an entire post to later but worth mentioning now!) ❤️

The point of the story is - I’ve had the most success with the thing I was least precious about. It’s CRAZY how much fear holds us back, and disguises the excuses we make (often in the guise of perfectionism).

So I urge you - if you have a goal, a dream, of any kind - figure out how you can act on it in small, incremental steps, and bring your creations into the world before they are “ready” and before they are the “best” they can be. They will only become better after you’ve done that.

Immerse yourself in the process (what you can control) and learn from / be cool with whatever the outcome is (what you can’t control).

And remember, nobody really knows what they’re doing.

K brb, have to go do this all over again with music. Here’s to the next 10 years! 🥂

07/14/2023

Intro price for Vinyl Drum Machines ends today!

https://samplesfrommars.com/products/vinyl-drum-machines-from-mars

06/09/2023

We're baaack with another vinyl pack! 🥳

40 Drum Machines Cut To Vinyl And Sampled Vinyl has quickly become our (and your) favorite medium to process sounds with. In our first endeavor, we explored how our acoustic kit could be transformed by pressing it to a record, and with this pack, we dive in with our bread and butter: drum machines!....

03/24/2023

Welcome to the Sample Journal, my friends! Free samples for all 🥂

We run all of our drum machines through DIs before we hit our consoles' mic pres, to minimize noise (via the ground lift) and balance the audio to a mic level signal. For our traditional sample packs, we opt for clean, solid state DIs, because they have less noise, and preserve transients. But tube....

11/25/2022

Our Black Friday Sale is live !! 🎹🥁

https://samplesfrommars.com/products/all-products-from-mars

Get every pack we've released!All the Samples From Mars is the culmination of 9 years of sampling our favorite, most inspiring drum machines, synthesizers, a...

09/04/2022

BRB … setting up another studio

08/08/2022

Wishing you all a happy and snappy 8/08 day! 🥁

07/15/2022

We cut a record and sampled it !🥳

https://samplesfrommars.com/products/vinyl-drums-from-mars

06/26/2022

Happy 6/26 day! The most slept-on of the TR series - full of 8 bit, acoustically sourced crunchy drum sounds. And on sale for just $6.26 😅

06/06/2022

Wishing a happy 6/06 day to one and all! 🥁🥳

03/31/2022

How you know your day is done 🚫 ☕️

03/08/2022

yearly apology for how long sampling takes!

01/28/2022

808 beat through the Mirage 🌊

01/14/2022

Made some new friends over the winter 🥰🥳

12/17/2021

Drum techniques 💃

12/08/2021

Peter Luger fueled jams w/ the one and only. 🥩 🥁

12/03/2021

Feel-good Friday jams 🔮

12/01/2021

Unlocking hidden features of the DX100 😳🦅

11/28/2021

Finally sampled the kit 🥁! The Private Reserve is available now in our 2021 and everything bundles 🤠

11/26/2021

And we’re LIVE ‼️

11/25/2021

So what's included in this year's Black Friday bundle? 🎉

11/24/2021

1 or 2 ??

SFM studio: 2021 vs 2018 😮

ps - our Black Friday sale is imminent !!
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11/19/2021

Friday fun with drum triggers + the DMX 💅

10/30/2021

Loving this akg d190 on hi hat. PURE DIRT. I think was a 70s broadcast mic once used for TV reporters ?

10/29/2021

Harmonizing and effecting Greg Paulus's Trumpet solo to create Trumpet Fragments, which is out now 🎃🎺

https://samplesfrommars.com/products/trumpet-fragments-from-mars