DRUMS !
Take advantage of my passion for programming.
Attention all singers and songwriters. You've got a great guitar/vocal or piano/vocal demo, but you don't have a way to add real bass and drums without spending a fortune. Here is your solution! I program drums in Pro Tools utilizing many different libraries of individual samples and loops. Normally the kick, snare, toms and overheads are all stereo samples. They are all multi-velocity for realism, with left/right sticking for the snare and toms. I don’t add EQ & compression unless you request it. Most people like to do their own thing once they hear the drum tracks.
Approach
I want the drum kit part to sound completely natural, as if a really good drummer came over and tracked with me. Hear for yourself on the samples page what I mean. I custom program each song note by note, as opposed to stringing together a bunch of drum kit loops. There’s nothing wrong with that approach, but I like the drum program to ebb and flow with the dynamics of the song instead of being mostly one-dimensional. Of course, if the song calls for loops I have a few thousand to choose from! I’ve programmed literally hundreds of drum tracks – it doesn’t matter if it’s pop, urban, rock, country, whatever – I’ve done it all.