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Royal Drops

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Royal Drops is an album of 15 soul drum tracks, engineered and performed by Timmy Rickard. Royal Drops takes its reference from the music produced at Royal studio in Memphis during the 1970's. Home to legendary producer and founder of Hi Records, Willie Mitchell. The tracks are based upon recordings of Hi Record artists Al Green and Anne Peebles, with drummers Al Jackson JR and Howard Grimes providing their unmistakable grooves.

This release incorporates key components found in the classic Hi Records drum sound, including swung bass drum patterns, 8th note emphasis on the hi hats, classically simple drum fills and a few 6/8 drum grooves. A big reason why this drum style is so revered is because of the thoughtful simplicity in which Al Jackson JR and Howard Grimes composed their drum parts. Using that same ethos, Royal Drops will be perfect for a wide range of producers and composers who are looking for timeless grooves to get creative with.

Unlike the one microphone, large open room drum sounds coming out of Motown and Stax in the 60's/early 70's, Willie Mitchell preferred a small dry room, often using three or four microphones on the drum kit. To capture the same vibe we used the perfectly suited dry live room at Miloco's The Square. The concept behind the mic positioning is unique to this release. We used four mic's, each placed in carefully selected positions around the kit, so each mic captures the drum kit as a whole, meaning you can use any one mic as your drum sound, or you can blend some/all of the mic's to create your ideal sound.

We used one Coles 4038 positioned between the hi hat and the rack tom, which gives a snare heavy drum sound. The second Coles 4038 was positioned under the ride cymbal between the rack tom and the floor tom, which produces a bass drum heavy sound. The third Coles 4038 was positioned about 4ft behind and to the right of Timmy, on the floor tom side, capturing all the lovely attack sound from the vintage Gretsch kit. The Fourth and final mic used was either a Beyer M160, or an STC 4021 (aka - Ball & Biscuit mic). This was placed in a more conventional overhead position, directly over the snare drum, capturing that classic lofi drum sound. The mic's went through a Neve 1066 mic pre, two Telefunken V76s and a Calrec PQ1061. Of course like all other Drumdrops drum tracks we recorded on to 2" 16 track tape running at 15 ips to give extra bottom end.

The sound though would not be complete without the right kit. We used Timmy Rickard's vintage 1960's Gretsch with a 20" x 14" Kick drum, 13" x 9" Rack Tom and a 16" x 16" Floor Tom. The snares used were a combination of two Gretsch Renown Maple Snares (14" x 6" and 14" x 5"), a Ludwig Acrolite 14" x 5" and a Ludwig 400" 14" x 5". Cymbals were wonderful dark sounding Bosphorous New Orleans Hi Hats (2 x 16" Crashes), a 20" Ride and an 18" Crash. On a number of tracks we have added shakers, tambourines or congas.

This tribute to the Royal Studio drum sound would not be complete without the signature low pitched snare, muted by Timmy's wallet. The classic tea towel trick on the toms was occasionally used, as was a chain on the ride cymbal giving certain tracks that jazz flavour. However all these touches would remain obsolete if it weren't for the fact that Timmy has educated himself to play with a really light touch, mimicking the way these classic drummers played. Timmy was also instrumental in the production of the tracks which he recorded with the Drumdrops in-house engineer Ben Thackeray. Timmy Rickard is a South London based drummer, composer, engineer and producer, and the founder of Monosole Music.

All fifteen tracks can be purchased as individual tracks as multi-tracks (unmixed), stems (mixed) or drum loops. The Multi-tracks (which are just the 4 mic positions) come with a tempo map and OMF file to export into other DAW. We also provide templates for Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase, Reason, Reaper, Studio One and Ableton Live and the audio as 24-bit WAVs. The Stems and mix packs which have all the drum parts and percussion as separate stems come as 24-bit WAVs, they also come with a tempo map. All of the mixes have been mixed in mono. The loop packs contain about 8 x 4 bar loops from each drum track. The loops are broken down into each component EG full mix, with and without percussion and they come formatted as 24-bit WAVs, Apple Loops and Rex 2 Files.

For videos on the making of Royal Drops head here:

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http://youtu.be/z3m0Gfd0gRc

http://youtu.be/IHcBv7_AuFk

To listen to one of the full mixed drum tracks head over to our Soundcloud Page.

https://soundcloud.com/drumdrops/ryld-84-soul-mt-06

For more information or to hear the album head over to Drumdrops.

www.drumdrops.com/recording/royal-drops

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