Ultimate Drum Production
The conventional wisdom is that dialing in drums is a grueling process of trial and error: swapping out drums, heads, and mics until you find what works, oftentimes for several exhausting and tedious days.
But now, there’s a better method than trial-and-error: Ultimate Drum Production, the scientific method for dialing in the perfect drum sound. It’s everything you need to quickly, easily and painlessly get the sound you hear in your head!
Part 1: Anatomy of drums
7 videos
Matt walks you through the sonic characteristics of every single piece of a drum in exhaustive detail, including how each of them affect drum tone and WHY. Think of these as the building blocks of drum tone: once you have them, it’s as easy as mixing and matching them to turn the sound that’s in your head into reality!
- The science of how drums produce sound and how to use it to your advantage
- Mega-detailed deep dives on heads, shells, bearing edges, hoops, and more
- Tom and snare shootouts that compare and contrast different combinations of the above
Part 2: Drum tuning deep dive
10 videos
You can’t get a great drum sound without tuning your drums and, well, here’s the deal: there are SO many misconceptions about tuning drums, mostly rooted in a poor understanding of the science. In this section of UDP we knock down all those misconceptions and give you the RIGHT way to approach tuning!
- Tuning tutorials for each piece of the kit, including the difference between tuning toms on mounts, stands and legs
- Gamechanging muffling techniques that you’ve never seen anywhere else
- How to work with old heads and other common studio challenges
Part 3: Microphone masterclass
21 videos
Armed with a scientific understanding of the anatomy of drums and the knowledge to tune them, now you’re ready to start recording– and UDP gives you an EXHAUSTIVE overview of everything you need to know about microphones, from selection to placement to sonic character and more!
- Detailed micing tutorials for each piece of the drum kit: kick, snare, toms, cymbals, overheads, and rooms
- Mic setup techniquesfor a complete range of situations, from one mic all the way up to 28 inputs
- Overview of the key mic placements, including many you’ve never seen anywhere else
Part 4: Real World Demos
20 videos
This segment shows you exactly how to apply all the UDP techniques to dial in drum sounds in 4 genres– think of it like a recipe book for drums!
- Demos for alternative rock, classic rock, modern rock and metal
- Each demo coversoverall setup, preamp selection, gain structure and a playthrough
- Special guest Luke Holland joins us for the metal demo .\m/
Part 5: Mixing & Processing
9 videos
And last but not least, we’ll go over how to work with the tones and dial in incredible drum mixes– and let me tell you, this stuff goes DEEP! Some of these videos are over an hour long, and we leave no stone unturned.
- Tutorials for each of the mic setups in section 4: mono, 2-, 3-, 4- and 5-mic configurations
- Mixing walkthroughs for each of the genres:alternative rock, classic rock, modern rock and metal
- How to get powerful, punchy drums with ZERO samples
Bonus materials + cool stuff
But that’s not all! We’re throwing in a bunch of bonuses because we know you NEED this course, and we want to make it a no-brainer purchase for you.
- Exclusive Luke Holland drum samples, engineered and mixed by Matt Brown
- Access to our private, instructor-lead Ultimate Drum Production group
- Drum editing video lessons for Cubase, Reaper and Pro Tools
- 40+ pages of written material: a workbook, charts, cheat sheets and guides
- Matt Brown’s DAW session and multi-tracks for the course so you can follow along
- Mini-course: Building your own sample libraries in Trigger and Kontakt
- UDP special edition Bus Glue compressor plugin by JST
- ”Mixing Drums with Drumforge” mini-course
- Ultimate Drum Production sampler by Drumforge
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Does it matter what DAW I use?
No. Almost everything in the course can be easily translated into any DAW.
What if I don't have all the same plugins?
Some things may require a specific plug-in, but the vast majority can be translated to any plug-in.
Do I need to be a member of URM or Nail The Mix?
Nope!
What if I cancel my URM/Nail The Mix membership?
You'll have lifetime access to any course you buy from us, even if you cancel.