production has become much more exciting ever since i started incorporating foley shit into my tracks. what are your guys' favorite foley samples/packs? anyone record their own? (my h4n is my best friend at this point)

99Sounds have some nice packs with foley things!
http://99sounds.org/

Frequent's 8k sample pack is fucking awesome, there are so many cool foley samples in there. Also the NHF packs have incredible drum one-shots.

I use soundsnap for all my foley. All professional grade sounds and they have a good search feature. It is not free though

http://www.soundsnap.com/

Freesound.org is constantly getting new user-submitted content, so it can be neat to just browse or search through it and see what comes up!

Cymatics did a bunch of sample and but up Walmart and Home Depot samples up on reddit for free. There's another guy who sampled a bunch of pots and pans and called it Kitchen Fam.

foley and field recording samples are crucial af to basically everything i make at this point lol. they add so much texture and depth and can be really effective percussive tools if you use em right

all the resources people have mentioned so far are great. i can't stress enough how helpful it is to have a microphone with you (even a shitty one) to record whatever sound might come into your mind, or to just take with you on walks and pick up the sounds of leaves rustling, water, etc. plus if the microphone sucks, the artifacts in the low-quality sound could actually be used to your advantage.

i'd be willing to put together a .zip of some foley/field recordings i've collected from friends and recorded myself (it wouldn't contain any material that's illegal to share), shoot me a PM if ur interested :^)

I've used my iPhone's Voice Memo and recorded myself while I was walking around at work for a few minutes. I exported it to Ableton after work and used a piece of it. It's a pretty cheap DIY way haha

i do this all the time hahaha