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My studio, my drum room, my own little rabbit hole . . .

From my Holy hole I have cut drums tracks for all sorts of people. I love recording as much as drumming

I've been hitting drums since i was 10 years old and know first hand a drummer requires space, and isolation to rock out. As you can imagine over the years I've built many drum rooms to woodshed in. Ive also been lucky to work in some of the greatest professional recording studios in the world and some superb home studios. Here in Texas i have the space to have both: a woodshed room and a recording room. Like a lot of musicians, I enjoy working in my own studio, and finally I have found an environment which is ideal for recording my live drums by myself. My own "rhythm production facility" where I work on my own projects but also play on other peoples tracks .

You can check out a Modern Drummer article on my hole here.

The obvious technical advantages are:

• The drum kit is permanently set up and miked with highest quality professional microphones (see list below).

• The desk channels are preset, "sound checked" and ready to record.

• Hard disk recording with Pro Tools 192 makes editing drum performances easy.

• After recording I slice and spice my drum tracks before returning.

• I return my tracks as .wav or any other format so they are fully compatible with Logic or any other DAW computer based system so clients can continue to work on their tracks in their preferred digital format.

Microphones:

AKG C12A

AKG 414 ULX [x2]

Audio Technica 4033 (x2)

Audio Technica ATM25

Beyerdynamic Opus 88 [x2]

Beyer Ribbob

Coppertop

Earthworks SR25 (x3)

EV468 (x6)

Neumann FET47

Neumann U87 [x2]

Neumann SM2

Sennheiser MD421 [x3]

Sennheiser MD451

Shure SM57 [x2]

Sure SM 7

Signal Path:

AMEK 9098 [Neve-designed EQ]

API The BOX2

API custom converted preamps by Steve Firlotte [x4]

Daking 52279 [x2]

Drawmer 1960 Dual Mic Pre/Tube Compressor

Here are some examples of drum productions and treatments recorded here for other artists:

STEVEN WILSON NSRGNTS remix: drums and. . . .the Turkish Industrial remix!

The Raven That Refused To Sing (and other stories) and Transience are OUT NOW, for more info visit http://www.kscopemusic.com/stevenwilson or http://www.stev...

The first remix for 'Index' was done by Pat Mastelotto of King Crimson - Pat is the drummer on the original studio version and did a beautiful job, exactly what I wanted, but in his words… "I saw a YouTube clip of one of your early shows and Marco was drumming up a storm and I thought damn that's what I wanted to do! But as a session man on the original track it felt self indulgent for me to send you back a brilliant song with a 'drummer goes nuts' treatment when the song clearly stands on its own as chords and a great story it didn't need it. But it was always in my head it could be Dave Grohl does Mike Giles over the bar line never stop drumming ... I had the multi tracks so said what the hell let the horses run and see what I can do….”

Lots of Universal Audio

ROINE STOLT'S Agents of Mercy Example: drumming, beatboxing and treatments:

FABIO TRETINI Moonbound: drums/perc recorded here:

TUNER Pole example: drums, cajon, blocks, basses and guitars recorded here: