Studio work and session drumming are becoming a matter of convenience and keeping studio costs down, while maintaining the necessary standard of a world class drum sound. It is for this reason that the studio greats operate out of their own studios. Jason is now the owner, drummer and engineer in an impressive drum studio fully equipped with the gear necessary to provide you with great drum tracks that might be needed for songs on an album, advertisements for television or radio, or simply a library of grooves that could be used for programming songs. Drum tracks can be tracked and sent via the internet to a client therefore eliminating the high costs involved in using bigger studios with expensive engineers, as well as eliminating time wasted getting to studios and paying for what is time simply spent setting up the drum kit. Tracks can be sent raw or mixed as required.

Studio Equipment:

Pro-Tools 8 Recording Software
Digidesign Digi 003 Control Surface
Focusrite Pre-amps
Adam A7 Studio Monitors (with the Adam Sub 8)
Macintosh Computer - Running Snow Leopard
Numerous plug-ins necessary to obtain a world class drum sound

Microphones:

Rode K2 large diaphragm condenser microphone in front of kick drum
Audix D6 inside the kick drum
Shure SM 57’s above and below a main and auxillary snare drum
Shure Beta 98 mini condensers on the toms
Shure SM 81 condenser on the hi-hats
A pair of Rode NT5 condensers as overheads
A pair of NT1-A condensers as room microphones, or as overheads

Kit:

DW Collectors with VLT technology
A collection of Sabian cymbals to satisfy the needs of most stylistic requirements
Four snare drums of varying sizes and wood composition for acquiring the desired snare drum sound

Studio Drumming Experience:

Full length studio albums tracked in various studios around South Africa
Once off songs tracked for singer/songwriters
Radio and television advertisement jingles for clients such as Dischem, Sony/Ericson and Suzuki