OKie, sorry 4 the unnecessary preaching, but I think we sometimes need 2 work so much more on the "musical" contents then on the technical side, with time most of us become a bit to technical, so we must struggle not 2 loose sight of the main thing!

I guess I'd eq. each sample with LPF and HPF earing on a very detailed monitor or even confirming on the headphones, taking out as much as possible but without altering it!! On a musical context, against other sounds u could maybe take out a little bit more....

Remove DC and Normalise (Peak to -1db)...

Think that's about it!

Z