Build Your Own Sample Libraries
As you make recordings of found sounds, don’t just use these as sounds to be used within your current project but take time to curate them as sample libraries so that you can use them again in your future work. It doesn’t matter which sampler you use, but try to get into the habit of saving every interesting sound you’ve come up with, either in its processed or raw form, so that it can be recalled instantly. This isn’t to advocate using the same sounds over and over again in every new project you begin, but rather to have great sounds at your fingertips for when inspiration strikes, as well as having a ready source of great sounds which you can layer, enhance, re-imagine or add to whenever the need arises. For impactful hits, you can even import these into drum sample libraries like NI’s Battery 4, so that they’re easy to layer with other percussion sounds.