About
Live drums are known to upgrade any piece of music they're recorded on, but due to budget and time restraints for artists/producers, recording drums is not always an option. Booking studio time, a session musician, and an engineer can get expensive. Recording remotely enables flexibility to bundle all of this into one package, reducing the costs while maintaining a high quality. This can be done with the artist or producers present, or on a fully remote basis where audio stems are sent back and forth to achieve a final desired result.
Armed with a wide variety of drums, cymbals, percussion, and microphones Kyle's approach is tailor-made to best suit your music and it's needs - creating the best drum sounds possible from his small, but tight and clean sounding studio room.
If you're interested in drums on your project, get in touch to discuss this further.
Equipment
Drum Kits:
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​Gretsch:
Catalina Club Kick 18"
Catalina Club Rack Tom 12"
Catalina Club Floor Tom 14"
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Renown Kick 20"
Renown Rack Tom 10"
Renown Rack Tom 12"
Renown Floor Tom 14"
Snare Drums:
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​George Way:
Acacia 14x6.5"
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Highwood Custom Drums:
Hammered Steel 14x5.5"
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Mapex:
Black Panther Sledgehammer 14x6.5"
Cymbals:
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Meinl:
Byzance Jazz Thin Hi Hats 14"
Byzance Spectrum Ride 22"
Byzance Extra Dry Crash 19"
Byzance Jazz Thin Crash 17"
Pure Alloy: Crash 20"
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Paiste:
Twenty Series Splash 8"
Percussion:
Unbranded:
Shakers, Blocks, Cowbells, Bongos, Timbales, Djembes, Glockenspiels, Chimes, Vibraslaps, Agogo Bells, Guiros, Cabasas, Whistles, Horns and other general tuned and untuned percussion.
Meinl:
Timbale Snare, Studio Shaker, Egg Shakers.
​LP:
Cowbells, Shakers, Castanets, Jam Blocks
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Interfaces / Pre-Amps:
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Mackie:
Onyx Boutique Pre-Amps x8
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Universal Audio (UAD):
Apollo Twin Mk II x2
Microphones:
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Shure:
KSM 137 x2
Beta 91a x1
Beta 52a x1
Beta 98 ad/c x3
SM57 x1
SM7B x1
Spirit x1
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Uher:
M517 x2
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Audix:
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D6 x1
Should additonal equipment be required for your project, this can be arranged.
Remote Examples
Becky Sikasa - Work Of Love
Drums on Becky Sikasa's single Work of Love recorded by Kyle Sharp and David Scobie, and played by Kyle from his studio.
The Roots - Seed Style Drums
A recent session requiring drum sounds similar to that of the seed by The Roots. Open and wide snare sounds complemented by a tight hip hop kick.
Drum & Bass Drums
An example of drums recorded in the style of drum & bass. With enough dynamic range in the mix to hear every detail and ghost note played.
Becky Sikasa - Wait Up
Drums on Becky Sikasa's single Work of Love recorded by Kyle Sharp and David Scobie, and played by Kyle from his studio.
Crunchy Tight Drums
An example of tight crunchy and distorted drums from a recent session.
Big Room Drums
An example of the versatility in drum kit sounds achievable from my studio with these wide open and big sounding drums.
Tight Dry Drums
An example of tight dry drums recorded in mono from a recent session.