Who Wants Drums?
Posted: Mon May 22, 2017 4:33 pm
Been kicking around the idea since DRod's collaborative thread came up a few months ago.
There are tons of guitar-centric people here who write and record music, but something I hear a lot is that it kinda falls flat without percussion/drums. Programming them with a DAW/plugins is painful; drum machines are cool, but they're not for everyone.
What if you sent me (or any other interested drummers on the forum) .wav files, and I sent back recording of acoustic drums tailored to those tunes? I use a couple micing methods simultaneously. One on the kick, one overhead, one super close miced, one room mic--and I usually leave the close mic clipped to shit so it's distorted, or run through an interesting dirt pedal. You could have all of those tracks, maybe a couple takes, and you could add/chop/edit to your black heart's content.
So here's what I propose:
1) Send me audio files (.wav, .mp3) of whatever you want drums added to. There should be a separate track for a click, as it's just too aggravating to sync up otherwise. It also guarantees I'm not playing to your wack-ass time, and means people won't just send random shit. Click tracks are the great filter.
2) Send notes on what you're going for or what you want. Maybe a reference to a style/sound/production technique you admire or would like to get close to, or maybe the names of drummers you think are rad.
3) I record stuff, send it back. You do with it what you want.
We could also share or make the files public so that folks can edit or remix stuff to their liking, which would be a fun project. People can work on their production chops with music made by internet friends, and we could all access it, build on it, and provide notes.
Eh? Any takers?
*Notes: I don't play double bass, though I have a pretty quick single-stroke foot. I'm a capable drummer, and have played in a lot of bands (touring and local), been a drum tech, worked in drum shops, &c. I'm not the best with traditional metal drumming, though there's some interesting stuff you can do with non-metal drums in that context. I play 'heavy' music, just not the trigger-and-replace-double-bass-running stuff you'll hear on a lot of records. I love Jon Theodore, John Stanier, Dave King, Mark Guiliana, Tomas Haake, Zach Hill, Akira Kawasaki, &c.
There are tons of guitar-centric people here who write and record music, but something I hear a lot is that it kinda falls flat without percussion/drums. Programming them with a DAW/plugins is painful; drum machines are cool, but they're not for everyone.
What if you sent me (or any other interested drummers on the forum) .wav files, and I sent back recording of acoustic drums tailored to those tunes? I use a couple micing methods simultaneously. One on the kick, one overhead, one super close miced, one room mic--and I usually leave the close mic clipped to shit so it's distorted, or run through an interesting dirt pedal. You could have all of those tracks, maybe a couple takes, and you could add/chop/edit to your black heart's content.
So here's what I propose:
1) Send me audio files (.wav, .mp3) of whatever you want drums added to. There should be a separate track for a click, as it's just too aggravating to sync up otherwise. It also guarantees I'm not playing to your wack-ass time, and means people won't just send random shit. Click tracks are the great filter.
2) Send notes on what you're going for or what you want. Maybe a reference to a style/sound/production technique you admire or would like to get close to, or maybe the names of drummers you think are rad.
3) I record stuff, send it back. You do with it what you want.
We could also share or make the files public so that folks can edit or remix stuff to their liking, which would be a fun project. People can work on their production chops with music made by internet friends, and we could all access it, build on it, and provide notes.
Eh? Any takers?
*Notes: I don't play double bass, though I have a pretty quick single-stroke foot. I'm a capable drummer, and have played in a lot of bands (touring and local), been a drum tech, worked in drum shops, &c. I'm not the best with traditional metal drumming, though there's some interesting stuff you can do with non-metal drums in that context. I play 'heavy' music, just not the trigger-and-replace-double-bass-running stuff you'll hear on a lot of records. I love Jon Theodore, John Stanier, Dave King, Mark Guiliana, Tomas Haake, Zach Hill, Akira Kawasaki, &c.
