Professional Drum Tracking |
| Two things are necessary to achieve the quality drum sound that
you need in order to sell your music to fans and to shop your music
to music industry professionals. Before anything else, you need a
solid drummer with a strong sense of dynamics and the ability to lay
down the groove you want without wavering. Without that, all the expensive
recording gear in the world won't give you the drum sound your music
deserves. Secondly, you need to be able to capture that performance
using the best gear and the knowledge on how to use that gear to get
the sound that the songwriter is looking for.
I've met so many songwriters that complain that they can't meet a drummer that will keep solid time. A poor drum performance on an album you're trying to sell can be a huge factor in why more people aren't buying your music. The beat is a huge element in a song, and a beat that isn't metronomically perfect can be unprofessional and unpleasant sounding. The drummers you will work with have the ability to play perfectly to a click track. I also believe us to be tastefully creative and that you will like some of the things we may throw at you that you might not have expected. We're also okay with hearing, "I really don't like the drum part in the bridge. I don't know what I want there, but not that." It's your song and ultimately we want to provide you with the drum arrangement you think is perfect for your song. How does the process work? Once we receive the song we'll send you some of our thoughts on the track and also provide a quote for our both of our services (Basic Stereo Tracking, Professional Studio Tracking). Basic Studio Tracking: * Work with one of our Studio Drummers to nail down the percussion
arrangement to your songs. Professional Studio Tracking: * Includes everything in Basic Studio Tracking. You can always opt to add the Professional Studio Tracking after we complete the Basic Tracking. Once you agree to the quote and submit a deposit, we'll get to work and record a basic track with the stripped down grooves and basic drum arrangement and you'll give us feedback on what you'd like to hear more or less of and you can give us your overall opinion of the feel of the part. We'll then record another take with more bells and whistles and also changing anything you commented on in the first run. After you review that take, we'll hope to nail the part the next run through in our demoing studio. If you like what you hear, we suggest that you pay an additional amount for one of our studio drummers to go into a professional studio with an engineer to capture the drum tracks for you through several professional microphones and preamps. The demoing studio here works great for crafting the drum part, but for us to provide you with a 10 track drum performance for your song (bass, snare, tom-tom, floor tom, hihat, ride, 2 overhead, 2 ambient) we'll need to employ an engineer. The cost for this is around $100 for the first song with each song after that costing $50 (varies depending on length sometimes). How much does this cost?: What people are saying: Scott Spencer - I really appreciate the effort you have put forth
into this project. I'm so glad you are playing drums....the songs
sound great! |
Law Blank (Philadelphia, PA) - Brand New Clothes Scott Spencer (Milford, CT) - A New Day (Album) - A New Day, Fade into the Sun, Sugar, Wasted, Goodbye to LA, Revelation, Alone, Fallen, In Your Arms, Mercy Life in the Balance (Hightstown, NJ) - Real - (Album) - Real, What You Need, your Number, Now We Know, The Letter, Devil Made Me Do It, Collide, Waiting The Window (New York, NY) - Liability - (Album) - Fall Out, Up To You, Shine, No Reply, Never A Time, Made, Life For Fear, Deserve, Broken, Angels |
Currently/Recently Working On: |
| Norberg Album - Jingles for the Insane |
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| Scott Spencer's Solo Album |