Travis Dickerson Recording Studios Forum

Greetings, can anyone tell me what drum machine software/hardware Big B uses on some of his records? I have recently started getting into some home recording for fun, and right now i am using Reason 3.0 which is great, but the drum machine feels a little lacking now. This may well be because i am the weak link in the chain lol, but i am curious to try out some alternatives anyhow.

So if anyone can tell me what he uses i would be very grateful, or if not just some general suggestions for good software or hardware would be great.

Thanks for any help!  

All of Bucketheads Cds as far back as I know, were created on a Macintosh using Protools. The drum "machines" were either Brain, Ramy Antoun, Pinchface, or the various loops and samples available to Protools.

You should be able to get good impact from Reason, you may need to play around with different sounds depending on what style you are recording.

I\'m old school about drums, I think rock is best played by human beings and there is no substitute for one slamming skins with sticks. If you know a drummer it\'s always good to develop a relationship for writing and recording. Even for programing, a drummer can bring "drum logic" to it and add a bit of realism.

Thanks for your reply, that clears things up quite a bit. When i read that he used a drum machine for some of the albums, i just equated that with making the beats out of seperate samples rather than having larger sections recorded (i am very new to this stuff as my question probably suggested). I think it works really well on Kaleidoscalp/Cuckoo Clocks etc.., sometimes it sounds a little artificial i guess, but overall i was totally impressed with the results.

I agree with you 100% about the live drums by the way, i don\'t know any drummers unfortunately so most of the time i just play my bass solo, or sometimes try to improvise over records and whatnot. Really i am looking to make some beats just so i have more control and can try some new ideas out. They won\'t have to be totally convincing, just enough to get the point across. I\'ll persevere with Reason and see if i can get some better results with practice, pro-tools looks to be way ahead of anything my brain can handle.

...Also while i have the chance, i\'d just like to say thanks for the music that you, and all the artists who have worked at your studio have made. The Thanatopsis records totally blow my mind, i can\'t say how much pleasure they have brought me. I really hope you guys can make another record in future as you just seem to get stronger with each release. Sorry if you\'ve heard that a million times already, but i could\'nt resist!

Thanks again

Thanks, I can never hear that stuff too much.

hi,

you could get the drum sounds of buckethead recordings from a Machinedrum

http://www.machinedrum.com/

Thanks for the link, that looks like a nifty piece of kit there.

indeed, but i dont perticually like it to be honest, im a retro Roland man myself, cant beat a TR-606 and Tr-707 and Tb-303   no way!