Drum tracks from a song from the upcoming 2nd full-length album from The Dreaded Marco (out sometime this summer!)...   

This was recorded in the big live room at my place (www.openskystudioatlanta.com) with a vintage 26" Ludwig & Ludwig bass drum, a 1/4" thick steel-shell 6x14 custom snare by Northern Drum Company, Sabian HH and HHX cymbals, 70's chrome-over-wood Slingerland toms, all with Aquarian heads and Vater drumsticks.  

For the mix, I wanted this one to be kind of "trashy" and "pumpy" sounding, so I had some fun with some heavy-handed compression, using Waves SSL channel strips on each individual track, and then a combination of Universal Audio Fairchild and Pultec Pro plugins, and the Waves SSL buss compressor on three parallel sub-groups.  All of the cool ambience you hear is from the carefully-balanced compression on the close mics, room mics and the overall drum mix...  no added reverb.     :)   \m/

Oh, and in the beginning and a couple other spots, you can hear my awesome co-producer, Vater the Studio Dawg, adding some background vocals.    ;)  

Fun with compression!  --drum tracks from Panda Slide by The Dreaded Marco

Here's an unmastered preview track from the upcoming The Dreaded Marco album, Safe Word, which we're in the final stages of mixing right now!   Coming this fall!   \m/

Mike Froedge