Erik Scattareggia

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 meantime I've...

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 using Smack Attack by...