Don Gunn on drums, recorded through a Nordic Audio Labs NU-24K large diaphragm condenser mic. Drums processed with the Nonlin reverb mode in ValhallaFutureVerb™. There's a "subtle" touch of the FutureVerb Plate reverb mode at the end of the track.

Drumkit Through FutureVerb Nonlin

I started playing around with synthesizers and digital audio workstations in the early 2000's when computers were finally able to process audio on a serious level. My first DAW was a program called "Orion", which is still around actually. I thought it was the coolest thing, until I discovered FL Studio, which at the time was called "Fruity Loops". It blew the lid off what I thought was possible and opened up a whole new set of possibilities for me. Ten years later, a plethora of new innovative programs have flooded the market. It's impossible to say which program is best, but nowadays I use Ableton Live as my go-to, but FL Studio is still a terrific program.

As an instrumentalist I am a guitarist, but as a musician I am a producer of ambient music. I have no desire to show off and impress you with blazing guitar solos or razzle-dazzle you with arpeggios flying at you at 260 beats-per-minute. I want to reach you. I want to say something without saying it. I want to present you with a blank canvas and let you decide what the picture looks like, and where you fit into it. But most of all, I want to make music that I enjoy listening to. Ambient music is typically characterized by its vastness. I want to get lost in that vastness. Come get lost with me.

Drumkit Through FutureVerb Nonlin

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