Musical, professional drum recordings for your songs for $69

I am a professional drummer and recording engineer with 10 years of experience and a degree in Popular Music Performance from the Royal Northern College of Music.

I believe in putting the song first, and in playing drums musically and expressively. Drums are not just there to keep a beat. When done right, they have the potential to create beautiful soundworlds and bring the emotional impact of music to the next level. They also have the potential to be boring, unmusical and get in the way of the mood you're trying to create with your music.

This is why having a real person play real instruments with a human touch is so important, and why sound, feel and musicality should always be the main priorities of any drum recording.

I can create perfect parts to complement your songs, or play exactly what you want with the sounds you choose. I will then play them with the expression and feel your music deserves, and record in my professional studio, with the finest hand-picked equipment and techniques for the specific sound that your song calls for.

Drums
24/12/16 Odery Araucaria custom
22/8/10/12/14 Gretsch Catalina Ash
18/12/14 Gretsch Catalina Jazz (calf skins)
20" 1920s bass drum  (calf)
14x6.5 Ludwig Black Beauty
14x6.5 custom purpleheart (calf)
14x5 Gretsch Catalina Ash
14x8 Natal

Cymbals
14" Zildjian vintage 1920s Hihats
14" Zildjian K Constantinople Hihats
16" Istanbul Turk crash
16" Bosphorous crash (or 16"Hihat)
18" Paiste Signature thin crash
18" Meinl Extra  Dry thin crash
20" Dream Paperthin crash/ride
20" Dream Dark Metal flat ride
22" Zildjian K Custom Dark ride
24" Istanbul Turk Jazz ride (rivets)
various trashy effects/stacks

Percussion
3 Ghanaian Bougarabou
2 Ewe drums
Palestinian Darabouka
Meinl Cajon
Various shakers/tambourines/bells
Various cowbells/gankogui bells
Rosewood/paudauk woodlocks
1920s temple blocks
Chinese painted drums 

Ribbon Mics
2 x Beyerdynamic m160
2 x Beyerdynamic m260
2 x Golden Age R1Aa mkIII
1 x Alctron HRM8

Condenser Mics
Lauten Atlantis (LDC)
2 Earthworks M23 (omni)
2 Alctron/Peluso custom modified C12 (LDC)
2 Audio Technica 4041 SDC
2 Golden Age FC4 SDC
SE X1A
SE 2A
Sontronics DM-S1

Dynamic Mics
Audix D6
Audix D4
3 Audix D2
Audix i5
Sennheiser e604
Shure SM58

Analogue Preamps
4 Universal Audio 710 with 1950s Telefunken tubes
2 Great River ME-1NV (like Neve)
2 AML ez1073 (Neve)
3 AML exAM16s (Langevin)
1 CAPI VP26 (API)
2 AEA RPQ500 (super clean)
2 x AEA "The Ribbon Pre"

The song always comes first