Custom Drum Tracks: Major Label Quality by a Pro Session Drummer
By Session Drummer Shay Godwin - eDrumSessions.com
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Session drummer Shay Godwin and sound engineer Thai Long Ly of eDrumSessions.com bring you tips to get the most out of your custom drum tracks and other instruments when creating session music in a recording studio. You can learn more at eDrumsessions.com
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CleanSession Drummer Shay Godwin On RCA Release | The song "Haunted" is from an RCA release by Charlotte Martin, "On Your Shore". eDrumSessions founder Shay Godwin played drums on this track. Other songs on the album feature drum tracks by Joey Waronker. All rights to this song belong to RCA Records and Charlotte Martin! (Drum tracks for this song were not done at Bell Sound, the recording studio in which eDrumSessions operates.) Bell Sound boasts a Neve 8232 console, Bill Putnam-designed rooms, a microphone selection many dream of, tons of vintage and cutting-edge outboard gear, a Yamaha C7 grand piano, Hammond B3 organ with Leslie, and more. Add to that access to the best session musicians in Los Angeles, and you have an opportunity to bring your musical vision to stunning fruition. Bell Sound exhibits stunning clarity and warmth for all instuments when captured by eDrumSessions recording engineer Thai Long Ly. Ly is equally adept at capturing string sections, horns, piano, and anything else. | 4 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | CleanVideoUS Session Drummer Records Drum Tracks For UK Commercial | This ad for GoCompare insurance made use of drum tracks from eDrumSessions. Clients in London listened live via NiceCast and communicated via Skype as the drums were recorded in Los Angeles. eDrumSessions.com now operates at Bell Sound, an amazing commercial recording studio. (The drums you hear here were recorded in the previous facility used by eDrumSessions.) Many services are offered here, including recording of grand piano, pedal steel, Hammond B3, guitar, strings, horns, and more. | 2 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | CleanVideoDrum Tracks: Brushes Recorded In Los Angeles For Client In Australia | Session drummer Shay Godwin, founder of eDrumSessions.com, tracks brushes at Bell Sound Los Angeles. These were recorded for a client in Australia, while he listened in real time via NiceCast. Real time communication was done via Skype, making the producer feel as if he was sitting in the control room with engineer Thai Long Ly. Bell Sound, the recording studio where eDrumSessions operates, is a spectacular facility. The Bill Putnam-designed rooms, dream microphone locker, amazing outboard gear, and Neve 8232 console conspire with engineer Ly's golden ears to capture the most amazing tones you have heard. Top session musicians in Los Angeles are in and out of Bell Sound every day, and eDrumSessions offers drum tracks, grand piano (Yamaha C7) tracks, pedal steel, Hammond B3, guitar, bass, strings, horns and any other instrument you could possibly need. | 2 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | CleanVideoSession Drummer Provides Drum Tracks And More At eDrumSessions.com | eDrumSessions.com, an online recording studio, has been going strong since 2008. Founded by session drummer Shay Godwin and recording engineer Thai Long Ly, the website was thrown up on a whim and immediately began gaining clients around the globe. The demand for online drum tracks and other online recording studio services has only increased since the time eDrumSessions.com started. eDrumSessions.com began in a small home studio with high-end gear, upgraded to a large house with the same gear, and is now permanently in commercial facility Bell Sound in Hollywood. Bell Sound is an amazing recording studio, starting with the rooms designed by Bill Putnam. (This man was a genius -- Google him.) The microphone locker is full of dream mics, modern and vintage. For example there are eight Neumann U87s, a bunch of 47s, a pair of 48s, and more modern fare such as Royer M121s, Baby Blue Bottle, and of course AKG 414s, Shure KSM44s, etc. See our gear page (http://www.edrumsessions.com/online-drum-recording-gear/) for a full list of gear. Thai Long Ly is one of the top recording engineers in Los Angeles. This engineer gets stunning drum tracks wherever he records, especially at Bell Sound. He also will beautifully capture the grand piano (Yamaha C7) at Bell, Hammond B3, pedal steel, strings, harp, vibraphone, horns, vocals, or anything else we offer at eDrumSessions. | 2 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOnline Session Drummer Sample of Drum Tracks | This sample of drum tracks is from Bell Sound, the facility now being used by eDrumSessions.com. All drum tracks are recorded in Room A at Bell Sound, designed by the late great Bill Putnam. The design of both the tracking room and the control room is immaculate. The live room brings drum tracks with amazing clarity, warmth, and separation. The control room allows for excellent perspective on what is being heard. This translates to great drum tones, and great mixes. Indeed, the state-of-the-art gear in the control room is secondary to the physical design of the room itself. | 3 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSession Drummer Drum Tracks Sample | Here is another drum sample from Bell Sound in Los Angeles, CA, home to eDrumSessions.com. Started by session drummer Shay Godwin in 2008 as an online drum tracks service, eDrumSessions is now a full service online recording studio available for tracking of all instruments. Mixing services are also available. Bell Sound has two rooms: Room A designed by Bill Putnam and Room B designed by Vincent Van Haaf. Most tracking at eDrumSessions takes place in room A, including all drum tracks. | 3 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSession Drummer Sample In Style Of Maroon 5 | Here is another fresh sample of drum tracks from Bell Sound Los Angeles, the recording studio that eDrumSessions.com recently moved into. eDrumSessions was founded in 2008 by Shay Godwin, a Los Angeles session drummer. Originally, eDrumSessions was strictly an online drum tracks service. In recent months eDrumSessions has expanded its scope, emerging as a full-service online recording studio, offering all recording studio-related services a client could want. eDrumSessions offers the following services and more: mixing, drum tracks, pedal steel tracks, string tracks, grand piano tracks, Hammond B3 organ tracks, guitar tracks, bass tracks, keyboard tracks, you get the picture. The recording studio that eDrumSessions uses is Bell Sound in Los Angeles. This is a state-of-the-art facility equipped with high-end outboard gear of all kinds, a Neve 8232 console, a dream microphone locker (complete with vintage FETs, Neumann ribbon and tube mics), and a tracking room designed by the world-famous Vincent Van Haaf. The control room was designed by the equally famous and respected Bill Putnam. Drum tracks have arresting clarity and separation, sting tracks have amazing articulation and warmth. At eDrumSessions you get access to Bell Sound -- and the world-class musicians in and out of Bell daily -- for flat fees, not for the high hourly prices their big-budget clients pay daily. And of course if you want to keep it real and just have session drummer Shay Godwin lay down drum tracks for your project old school, Thai and Shay are ready to deliver the mind-blowing online drum tracks that eDrumSessions has become known for. | 22 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSession drummer sample from new recording studio facility | Here is another sample of drum tracks from Bell Sound, the facility that online recording studio eDrumSessions.com is now using. eDrumSessions.com, founded by session drummer Shay Godwin, has a proven track record of bringing radio-ready drum tracks to clients worldwide. Originally strictly an online drum tracks service, eDrumSessions is now a full-service online recording studio. You can now access the best session musicians in Los Angeles, as Bell Sound has the best session musicians in and out of the recording studio every day. The difference with eDrumSessions is, no hourly fees that the big clients are paying! You pay flat fees for drum tracks, mixing, vocals, pedal steel, guitar, and any recording studio service. Session drummer Shay Godwin and engineer Thai Long Ly have provided drum tracks for songwriters, composers, and arrangers worldwide since 2008. Clients have included national commercial campaigns in the U.S. and overseas, independent songwriters, and even a Platinum-selling artist. | 19 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSession Drummer At Bell Sound Recording Studio: Sample 1 | Here is a sample of some drum tracks recorded by session drummer Shay Godwin at the new eDrumSessions facility, Bell Sound Los Angeles. Bell Sound of Los Angeles is a state-of-the-art recording studio. All drum tracks are recorded in room A, designed by Bill Putnam. eDrumSessions gives you access to this amazing recording studio for a flat fee, freeing you from the high hourly fees that the big budget clients pay here every day. You can count on eDrumSessions.com for the best drum tracks, guitar tracks, string tracks, grand piano tracks, B3 tracks, or anything you could need. | 18 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | CleanVideoOnline Recording Studio: Working For Universal Music Group | eDrumSessions.com provides studio services to clients worldwide from Los Angeles. Of course some clients are right in L.A., including Universal Music Group. In the below video, session drummer Shay Godwin (founder of eDrumSessions) records drum tracks for a Universal library called "Killer Tracks." Since this client is in Los Angeles, he came to our recording studio to produce this session. However, even if you are on the other side of the planet you can produce sessions in real time at eDrumSessions. Through the use of NiceCast, our clients can listen in on the recording session live from anywhere in the world (no extra fee for this sevice) and communicate via Skype, iChat, or phone. This is like being in the control room with engineer Thai Long Ly; you can produce the recording session in real time. We encourage this as it keeps the communication high and ensures total satisfaction. Most online recording studios do not offer this option, usually going for a "keep the client at arm's length" approach. For clients who do not wish to or cannot schedule a remote recording session, we usually do three takes of a song to give the composer some options. Of course if a chart is sent that is adhered to. This online recording studio is full of professionals of all flavors, and we have musicians that can read fly paper. The eDrumSessions recording studio is outfitted with top notch gear all around. Vintage Neve 8232 console, modern outboard pres such as the brilliant Geoff Daking models, the most amazing mic locker you could imagine. The tracking room is a masterpiece, designed by the masterful Bill Putnam. | 20 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOnline Drum Tracks: Multi-Platinum Artist Sarah Bettens Does Remote Recording With eDrumSessions | NOTE: This track is UNMASTERED Online drum tracks can always keep a project on track. Here is an example. This is a song cowritten by multi-Platinum artist Sarah Bettens (of K's Choice) and eDrumSessions recording engineer Thai Long Ly. Drum tracks are performed by eDrumSessions founder Shay Godwin. Thai also mixed this track. Please note that what you are hearing is unmastered. eDrumSessions is always involved in online drum tracks for clients in all over the globe. Of course, the team here does many Los Angeles-based recording sessions in person with clients. However, even these end up requiring remote sessions to take place sometimes. Sarah Bettens is Belgian, and though she spends a good bit of time in the U.S., she was overseas touring at the time of this recording. Thai and Sarah had written this song, and it was time to record, but the timing for her being around for tracking of instruments was not working with her tour. Rather than have to wait for the end of the tour, the project moved forward remotely. She listened as drum tracks were recorded, and recorded her vocals at a studio overseas and sent the files to Thai. Again the remote recording of drum tracks and beyond showed its usefulness. Sarah Bettens is the lead singer of K's Choice. She and her brother Gert are the popular faces of the band . Bettens is known for her enigmatic, smoky voice. While boasting a healthy following in the US and Canada, K's Choice is most popular in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. They toured in the U.S. with Alanis Morissette, The Verve Pipe, Tonic, and the Indigo Girls, as well as on their own. Aside from her successful solo performing career, Sarah has recently been providing vocals for music soundtracks such as "Underworld", "Wild Things", "Zus and Zo" and more recently "Leef!". | 12 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | CleanVideoOnline Drum Tracks Service eDrumSessions Founder Shay Godwin On The Daily Buzz | When I'm not recording online drum tracks I like to get out and play live. One of the groups I play with is TNB (Thomas Nicholas Band), whom I have done several co-writes with. Thomas is an actor as well as a songwriter. He has been in a bunch of indie movies in recent years, such as "Please Give" and "Chicago 8", although he is known for his roles in "American Pie" and "Rookie Of The Year". I first came to his acquaintance recording drum tracks for him, and I soon started playing live with him, which led to some writing and then more recording of course. In the summer of 2010 I did some touring with TNB. One of the performances we did was on a television show called The Daily Buzz. The Daily Buzz, a nationally syndicated morning news and infotainment program, is mostly aired on FOX and CW affiliates. The show caters to a younger demographic and has a more informal atmosphere than its morning counterparts. Playing a television performance is similar to recording online drum tracks in that you need to be very precise yet grooving. Of course I would want to play that way in any situation, but a television performance immortalizes every note played just like a studio recording. The difference is I usually don't have to do this at 7AM when recording online drum tracks at the eDrumSessions recording studio! Okay, that's not entirely true; I have had to arise to record for overseas clients producing sessions remotely plenty of times. For those reading this who don't know, I can record your online drum tracks while you listen live via NiceCast, in real time, and produce the session via Skype or iChat. Here TNB plays the song "Turn Me Off" from the album "Heroes Are Human". This song is one of the songs that I co-wrote with TNB. The entire album "Heroes Are Human" (drum tracks, guitar tracks, vocal tracks, everything) was recorded at eDrumSessions, at a studio used previous to its current home at Bell Sound L.A. | 8 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | CleanVideoCustom Drum Tracks By Day, At Night Jam With Macy Gray | Here is a short clip of eDrumSessions founder Shay Godwin playing at club Bardot in Hollywood. Bardot holds all-star jams, and in this clip Shay backs up Grammy Award-winning artist Macy Gray. There may be more clips of session drummer Shay Godwin performing at Bardot up soon. Session drummer Shay Godwin likes to step away from the studio and go out for some live drum work. As much enjoyment as Godwin gets from providing composers and songwriters with the best online drum tracks available, he also enjoys live performance just as much. The Bardot gig, which Godwin subbed on occasionally, is one of his outlets for live performance and an excuse to leave the studio. Live or in the recording studio providing custom drum tracks, groove is first priority in Godwin's approach. This is a key element of the success of online drum track provider eDrumSessions.com, which session drummer Shay Godwin founded. One of the main reasons for eDrumSessions 100% satisfaction rate is grooving drum tracks. Of course the amazing, larger-than-life drum sound achieved by engineer Thai Long Ly is a major factor in drum track satisfaction as well. | 26 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | CleanVideoDrum Track Video: Thai Long Ly interview | This is an interview with Los Angeles recording engineer Thai Long Ly. Ly is the engineer for eDrumSessions.com. Ly is a huge and integral part of the well-known quality of online drum tracks eDrumSessions. A great thing about Ly is that he understands the physics of sound, the gear he is using, and all necessary technical knowledge while allowing his ears and his artistic sensibilities guide him. Whether recording online drum tracks or anything else, Ly doesn't allow his vast technical knowledge dominate his great ears and artistic instincts. | 19 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | CleanVideoDrum Samples Cripple Your Music | Drum Samples are quite commonly used these days. This is no surprise, as there are some good software packages out there such as BFD. This and other high-quality drum sample software features extensive sampling of a wide variety of drums, in different rooms, with different sticks/mallets/brushes. I did the brush samples for the BFD FXpansion and played a plethora of sweeps and hits. So clearly there is no problem with the individual samples within such software. They are amazingly thorough in terms of capturing great drum sounds individually. The problem is that they are only useful in a compositional sense. They are not useful in terms of a good end result. Why? Because there is no natural flow, no matter how much time you spend putting all these samples together to sound like a real performance. And the listener can tell something is amiss, even if fooled that the succession of samples constitute a real drum performance. If you really want your music to sound professional and not to sound "canned", then you have to have custom drum tracks performed for your song. Make no mistake, if you use drum samples instead of a professionally recorded session drummer you will severely limit your music's potential. How do you accomplish this on a budget? The solution lies in the use of an online session drummer. | 14 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | CleanVideoOnline Recording Studios: Get Pro Studio Services Affordably | For years professional recordings were made only by those who had a large budget. Artists signed to major labels and those with investors were predominately the privileged ones who got record professionally. The difference in sound between recordings made in a professional studio and demos made otherwise was always as chasmic as it is now. However, with the advent of these sites has come a real "power to the people" type of situation. Now artists that don't have huge budgets can get the professional studio recordings they need to make their music really stand out. This goes especially for drum tracks, as recording drums is the most complicated procedure requiring the most expertise. Now artists don't have to rent a room to record in, nor do most of the other work that used to be involved in obtaining pro drum tracks. One can now simply pay on online recording studio to track drums or other instruments, with no logistical fuss and huge budgetary requirements. Welcome to the revolution. | 1 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | CleanVideoDrum Track Processing Tips, Part 4: Ambience | by Thai Long Ly You have received your WAV’s from an online recording studio, imported the tracks into your session and pulled up the faders to zero. "Wow, that's a lot of room", you say. Sure, that is a lot of room if you solo the drums. But when you start adding keys, vocals, guitars, bass, etc. is there still too much room? Or are the drums now sitting in a nice “space” in the mix eliminating the need for artificial reverb? I usually like to record my room mics on the hot side, with plenty of level. Often I will use even more than I’ll actually use in the final mix, but that way it’s there if I need it. You will get the same results from this, in that it will give you a lot to work with when it is time to create atmosphere and space. Now,if you want a Beach Boys type thing or a dry drum sound reminiscent of the 70's, then back the faders down. If you are going for that tight modern R&B sound, then mute the room mics completely. For a rock project, crank those room mics up from the start! Here is a creative, fun use of room mics: bring the room mics in during choruses, or during big drum fills, leaving them low or out on verses. This creates sonic excitement without resorting to EQ or level changes. Again, don’t be afraid to experiment with processing. Healthy use of compression on room mics is pretty much standard practice for rock productions. The aim is to get the compressor pumping in time with the track so that the drums start to get lively. You want the drums to sound like they’re about to explode out of the speakers! But dig this: once you realize that good drum tracks aren’t merely about punch and impact, that it should have depth and a real sense space as well, your productions will take on a whole new life. The quickest, most natural way to a cool sonic landscape is through the creative use (and non-use) of room mics in your mix. Check out my other articles on drum processing on this site, covering topics such as use of compression and gating. In Part 5 equalization will be the focus. Until then, enjoy applying what you have just read. | 29 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | CleanVideoDrum Track Processing Tips, Part 3: Parallel Compression | by Thai Long Ly This is the third installment in my series of tutorials on processing of drum tracks. We focus here on parallel compression.Lets say your guitarist has decided that he wants to layer multiple ideas ideas using heavy distortion, and your keyboardist wants to layer every cool patch put out since the 1980's. How do you deal with trying to get your drum tracks to punch through this wall of sound? You should experiment with parallel compression of your drum tracks. Simply put, you’re blending a compressed drum track with an unprocessed track for more “oomph”. I don’t generally care for this technique on anything Jazz related, but if you’re dealing with a wall of mud and you can’t carve out the proper space any other way (or don’t have the time), this technique is worth exploring. Once you’ve gotten your drums in a good place, take a few elements of the drums… say your kick, snare, and toms and bus them to the input of a compessor in wait via an aux send. Remember your drums are still being bussed to the master out in addition to the aux send you’ve just created. Knowing you have a clean signal as well, feel free to smash the snot out of the compressor and gently blend the output of this mangled signal with your original drum tracks until you start to feel the drums gaining weight. You may find that you won’t need much… just a hint is all it may take to cut through that wall of doom. Essentially, you’re increasing the perceived loudness of the drums without resorting to radical EQ or unjustified levels of gain. Many pro mixers have mastered this subtle art and have produced amazing drum sounds that we hear day in and day out on the radio. Play around with it and see if it works for you. Hell, if you’re really feeling frisky (audio – wise) mess around with some slight distortion on the snare and kick tracks, too. Enjoy your experimentation with parallel compression on your drum tracks. In part four of this series, I will cover ambiance. | 27 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | CleanVideoDrum Track Processing Tips, Part 2: Compression | by Thai Long Ly This is the second installment of my series of articles addressing the processing of drum tracks. My focus here is on compression. I tend to use compression for two distinct reasons – either to color a signal or to control its dynamic range. While I much prefer hardware, software can get you there too. Rather than functioning as a technical manual on how to use a compressor, this article will touch upon some desired approaches regarding drum track compression. Let me first mention that there are four different types of compressors: Vari-mu (Delta-Mu), VCA (voltage controlled amplifier), FET (field effect transformer) and Electro-Optical (opto). For drums tracks I’d recommend sticking with FET’s or VCA based designs, although you can get anything to work if you try hard enough. Let’s talk about color. By altering a compressor’s attack and release controls, one can alter how much sustain, attack and punch a track will exhibit. For example, by compressing a kick drum track, you can control how much articulation or “click” you hear versus how much “body” and thump is heard. If you want more “snap” out of a kick, simply slow down your attack to allow more of the initial transient through. Want more “shell” or “bloom” in the kick sound? Crank up the attack and slow down the release. Here the initial click is caught and tamed while the tone of the shell is boosted. This is a way to EQ the signal without resorting to an actual EQ. You are essentially manipulating the attack and sustain of the drum tracks in order to produce more bite and punch, or conversely, to round off transients for a more mellow, round sound. Stylistically speaking, Modern Rock drum tracks seem to beg for massive amounts of compression, whereas Jazz and Folk tracks prefer to be untouched. Ratio and threshold are also definitely important, but to me the key to proper compression is entirely in the manipulation of attack and release. If you’re using an LA2A, forget what I just wrote and carry on. The other reason compression is employed is to simply reduce a signal’s dynamic range. For instance, perhaps you have a snare drum track that has varying intensities in amplitude (meaning the session drummer hit some notes harder than others). If you want a more consistent level or placement in the track, you may want to slap a compressor on it to keep the output consistent. You could also place a limiter on the snare drum track. Here a limiter would keep the snare from spiking into the red (overloading) while preserving most of the original dynamics. Compressing or limiting overhead mics is a common practice and you may find that just a touch of compression can help reign in especially loud hits. If you’re looking to present a more honest and natural drum sound, then slight hints of compression at low thresholds and low ratios will be the prescription of choice. Also, if you do decide to strap a compressor across the drum bus, I prefer to keep the compressor in dual Mono, as opposed to linking the compressor in Stereo. Listen for yourself and do what gets your sound, but dual Mono seems more exciting and natural. It allows the drums to "leap out" of the speaker during fills and crashes. Remember, experimentation is key with compression of drum tracks. Have fun and be sure to read my other articles in this series which address gating, parallel compression, equalization, and other concepts. | 27 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | CleanVideoDrum Track Processing, Part 1: Gating | by Thai Long Ly This series of brief tutorials will outline several processing concepts. Bear in mind that if you ask 100 Engineers how to mix drums, you’ll definitely receive 100 differing opinions on what’s right and what’s wrong. The bottom line is that if it sounds good, it is good. Whatever you have to do to convey the emotion of a performance is the right thing to do with your drum tracks. I will also assume most of you will be using a DAW (Pro Tools, Logic, DP, Reaper, etc…) of some sort. Now that you’ve received your raw drum tracks as WAV files, how should you proceed when it’s time to mix? In this series of tutorials, I will outline several processing concepts. Gating is very subjective. One can “clean up” the sound of drums, as gating is essentially silencing sections of audio that have no pertinent information so as to present a more cleanly defined sound. In other words, it reduces "bleed". Some find gating to be a very useful tool, and even an artistic one. Others think that gating totally kills the vibe of a drum performance. I think that it is an artistic decision that works sometimes and sometimes not. Having said that, here are some tips on gating drum tracks. Gating is essentially silencing sections of audio that have no pertinent information (aka bleed) so as to present a more cleanly defined track. For example, you may want to gate the tom tracks so that they are heard only when they are hit, as opposed to howling sympathetically whenever the snare is hit. If this annoys you, simply gate the toms. By silencing audio on the track when the toms aren’t being struck, you’ll produce a cleaner and tighter drum sound overall. You can do this by using a noise gate as an insert (hardware or software plug-in) or by drawing down the volume via automation in a DAW or even muting whole sections in between actual hits. All of these techniques produce a different effect on the overall sound, so you should experiment and see what works for you. Some will gate all of the drum tracks except the overheads, hi-hats and room mics. This can be great for R&B, Funk and Progressive Rock. Some engineers feel that drums should ring freely and by gating you run the risk of killing the “vibe” of a drum kit being played by a real drummer in a real room. I won’t argue against this point as it’s a valid one. The decision to gate drums depends entirely on the type of material being performed and what you’re going for aesthetically. Again, I wouldn’t gate anything for a traditional Jazz number or anything requiring a Bonham-esque vibe. The ringing and overtones produced by having all the microphones wide open contribute to the overall presence of the kit, and and the air that surrounds each element can make for a huge sounding drums. No approach is ideal for all circumstances, but certainly this is the most “natural” sounding approach. Think of gating as tight and dry while not gating is big and airy. Experiment and have fun. Look for more of tutorials on this site. These tutorials will cover the subjects of compression, parallel compression, ambiance, and equalization. | 27 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | CleanVideoFree Drum Tracks: Don’t Make the Mistake of Forcing Them On To Your Music | If you are reading this article then you are probably looking for info about online recording studios. You may have noticed by now that you can get "free drum tracks" or "free drum loops" from many session drummers on their online drum track websites.The main purpose for online session drummers offering these free drum tracks is promotion. They want to get you - -the songwriter in need of drum tracks-- to visit their websites, and there is nothing wrong with that of course.The free drum tracks can be useful to you as well, in ONE WAY: to compare the drum sounds being achieved by each session drummer on their respective drum track sites. In that respect, the free drum tracks are great for helping you decide where to get custom drum tracks recorded for your song.That's fine, but you shouldn't think for one second that there are any benefits to forcing free drum tracks on your music. I say forcing free drum tracks on to your music because that is exactly what you would be doing.Your music deserves drum tracks that are custom-recorded. Even if a free drum track is a beat that sounds okay for some of your song, there will be moments when variation will be needed. Sometimes the variation would need to be subtle, sometimes drastic. Either way, having generic "free" drum tracks with no variation and possibly a wrong vibe will damage your music. Considering this unacceptable sacrifice, these free drum tracks are not "free" at all, as your music will pay the price.People can hear a lifeless drum track whether they realize it or not. Its a subliminal thing. Free drum tracks were not made with your song in mind. Even if the listener is not conscious of why your song doesn't feel quite right, the lack of energy coming from the free drum track will be felt by the listener. So even if the drum sounds are good, forcing free drum tracks on to your music is not the way to go.Of course, the session drummer websites that offer free drum tracks know that you will eventually reach the conclusion that custom drum tracks are necessary to really give your music life! This article is just a bit of friendly advice to save you some time and get you ahead of the curve.Free drum tracks are not the way to go, your music deserves custom drum tracks.Good luck with your research into drum tracks from an online session drummer. | 5 1 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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