In youtuber Rick Beato’s latest, he undertakes the sacrilegious task of snapping John Bonham’s groove to the grid. Why would you do that, I hear you ask? The can the…
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Did you have a punk phase inspired by American Idiot? Finally grown up and have a little cash to splash? Well, you might be happy to learn that Green Day…
Sometimes you need a very particular type of drum, I’m not talking clean or crisp or snappy or tight. I mean big, boomy and powerful. But finding a nice fat…
Wrangling the unwieldy acoustic beast that is the drum kit is a significant challenge and therefore, there are plenty of standard well-established techniques for miking it up. The path to…
Olympia Noise Co have updated their award-winning drum-pad app Patterning, with version two offering a suite of new creative possibilities. Patterning 2 allows you to use your iPad to create beats…
Arturia’s DrumBrute analogue synthesiser has a new little brother, the DrumBrute Impact. The new DrumBrute Impact offers all the satisfaction of an analogue drum machine, within a handy mini enclosure,…
Reported to be the first drum machine in history, the Chamberlin Rhythmate Model 40 is an incredibly rare instrument. Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum is putting his one on Reverb. …
Tuning drum kits is, of course, nothing like tuning guitar. But it is, arguably, just as important in the pursuit of a fine recording. The why is easy: a tuned…
Now, it might seem a little strange to think about a studio with dedicated live rooms trying to record electric guitars without actually capturing the sound of air being pushed…
Snare drums are crucial in reflecting the character of a song. This is because there are so many varieties in terms of size, depth and material of manufacture, with each…
