Capable drummer looking for producers to record for.

[FERRETPERCUSSION]

Sup guys, I've been playing drums for about 8 years. I've got recording experience, been on the road a bit, I'm obsessed with playing and I want to try something in the electronic music realm. I play in tons of different styles, and I'm really easy to work with (no ego, takes suggestions well, etc)

I love all kinds of electronic music and want to mess around with recording real time drum parts for some tracks. The genres I am most stoked on are Liquid DND, dubstep, hip hop (I do live drums for rappers in my area), lounge, anything psychedelic or weird, reggaeton/moombahton, any kind of house too really.

I have access to:

My own recording studio running LogicPro 9.

Top of the line drum equip, acoustic and electric. Percussion gear as well.


No flakes please.

Reply with a soundcloud song if you're interested.

www.facebook.com/ferretdrummer (all my recordings are out of date, hence why I'm here)

[Eat Bass]

use live drums for your own beats man can't get better than that

[jrisreal]

You have any means of recording midi data alongside live drums? If so, that would be fantastic!

[FERRETPERCUSSION]

I can record midi data alongside, I have a lot of electronic percussion modules.

As for my own beats, my production skills are pretty subpar. I have learned my way around the software enough to record well enough, and I'm working on the compostional side of it as well. In the meantime, I'd like to show what I can do on a drumset in this context

[jrisreal]

Well awesome! I'll keep you in mind whenever I want live drums

[Sonika]

I use logic, if you want to send me any live drum beats I would be more than happy to use them in some tracks!

Preferably at 140 bpm.

[RandoRando]

I have 2 questions,

can you blast beat/have double bass

do you have a china cymbal

do you have a drum mic kit.

sorry that was 3.

[legend4ry]

I'd love some proper cymbal rolls. Splash&crash - on the tips and the edges.

Apart from that I am competent with my drum programming to make it sound natural enough for dance music.

[FERRETPERCUSSION]

Thanks for the replies guys! I am down to sample stuff for all of you. What I am trying to get ideally is a backing track sans drums that I can do youtube videos playing along to.

I'm in 2 djent bands atm lol.

Full acoustic gear list:

6 pc spaun maple custom recording kit: toms: 10, 12, 14, 16. Kick is 22x18 w/click pad (I have rubber, wood, and felt beaters at the studio) snare is 13x5.5

I have 4 crashes, 2 hats, 2 rides, 2 chinas, 3 splashes, a stack, and misc bells.


Yes, everything is fully mic'd, and I have drum triggers too.

[Sonika]

I'd be interested, but I'd like a little more detail on exactly what type of track you want before I try to make you one...

[FERRETPERCUSSION]

I have a lot of experience in writing drum parts, and I'm confident I could write good/tasteful parts to anything y'all throw at me. In fact, I'm really curious to hear what producers would want to try having live drums over. I have electric stuff too, pads and triggers and the like, so if you have a snare/kick/or any other percussive sample the track can't do without, I can hang with that. My main interest is to track the drum parts in real time.

In particular, I'd like:

1. Liquid D'n'B track to jam out to, I think its the most accessible electronic genre as far as the drumset goes (drum tones are closest to if not actual acoustic drum samples) I really like how all the layers fit into place with this style, how its fast and deep, but not overwhelming in any sense. In fact, the idea is to have an incredibly complex drum part that is audible but doesn't seem to pop out of the mix at all as far as attention goes. Also, I can't get enough of that sine bass. I really like Fred V, grafix, camo & krooked, logistics, etc.

2. A reggaeton or moombahton(the sazon booya moombahton mix on youtube was REALLY idea-prompting) track as well, I think I could do some pretty cool latin/jazz fusion stuff as well as multitask the club drum pattern over the top of it in real time. (I have timbales, bongos, cowbells etc, as well as an electric kit built in to my acoustic)

3. A really heavy and dark dubstep track that would have room for the groove metal style of drumming. I specialize in polyrhythmic groove metal (djent), which is conveniently at 115-145BPM and likes to have the heavy snare backbeat on beat 3 every bar, it's pretty much the dubstep of metal, a couple guys have tried the crossover but no ones hit it perfect with traditional instruments yet. I'll post some youtube links when I get home from work tonight.

4. Some rap beats that I can drum over for my rapper friends to record over, anything goes here.

[drake89]

where do you live? If I drop an insturmental track in your soundcloud will you give it an attempt if you like it? I'm working on an EP right now as an independant study in university and would love a collab seeing as programming drums to sound live is impossible for me.

[Today]

i would trade you any kinda beat u want for a bunch of hip hop and reggae breaks

[Sonika]

I'm very interested. Is there a deadline? I'm working on a sort of Vex'd style track right now, and it has a dark and sort of heavy feel to it, but it definitely needs some more powerful drums than it has right now. It's got a more minimal feel to it, are you cool with that?

[wub]

Where are you based?

[Killamike49]

Where are you based?

This, and I'm supposing we'd PM you if we we're interested?

[Sonika]

how do you feel about my friend providing vocals for the track (she's female if it matters)

[Today]

most vague thread ever

[FERRETPERCUSSION]

I'm Ferret out of San Jose California, aged 23.

No deadlines on my end. If you want me to make a deadline on your end I'll see what I can do. I'm not touring again til October by the look of it, so keep me busy guys!

This thread is vague because I just want to do SOMETHING. What that is, is entirely up to the interested producer. I posted a list of stuff I'd personally like to do most below. I'm using Logic pro to record, I'd prefer to just get a wav of the entire track without drums. If you're using logic I'll send all my tracks (10 mics on the kit, 2 electronic percussion instruments atm) for better mixing.

PM me, soundcloud reply to this thread, do whatever, if it's something awesome we can take it to email.

[FERRETPERCUSSION]

I'd like to do something in this vein but less bipolar between the metal and dubstep. More like something halfway in between, imagine the same drum tones playing something closer to a dubstep vibe, but just as heavy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJwNfRaPp08

DNB:
I have the amen break chopped up and loaded into a sample pad, so I mess around improvising with it a lot. (similar to 0:42 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu7PnZtBJf4&ob=av3e) I mix this in with my acoustic playing a lot.

I'd prefer a track that sounds more like this style though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqC2k5yBlc8