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Recording Drums in a 100 year old Church
Back in 2021, myself and two friends started renting space in an old church here in Philadelphia. Since then we've recorded countless tracks and also in that time I started my Youtube channel. In my most recent youtube video I recorded a few drum kits in the foyer of the building. This part of the building has incredible reverb. Of course, being a life long Led Zeppelin fan I had to try the drums in the stairwell thing! I'll be making a sample pack from the session but in the
Erik Scattareggia
Apr 201 min read


Using transient designer plugins to get tight and punchy drum tracks
I get asked often to record dead and punchy drum sounds. It's a popular sound and it's objectively awesome (in my opinion!). Link to a recent Youtube video where I go over my tuning and muffling Something that happens a lot is that I get a nice tight sound, then i'll start mixing with eq, and compression, tape plugins etc. and inevitably the drums start to sound roomier and longer than I would like. So recently, I had this issue with a snare drum and figured I would try usin
Erik Scattareggia
Feb 81 min read
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