George Shilling dropped in to chat with top drummer and producer / mixer Emre Ramazanoglu in a break in the Beardy Man session he was working on to find out more about his unique career...
Emre's Plug-In Top Tips
SOUND RADIX: Drum Leveller - for all transparent dynamics and intelligent gating PLUGIN ALLIANCE Lindel TE-100 - incredible bottom end BX Digital V3 - low end monoing and bass shaping Pan_EQ - dealing with unbalanced stereo mics 254E - great thumping parallel comp SOFTUBE Valley People Dynamite - my fave crush parallell UAD Ibanez Tube Screamer - feed SUPER low level in and makeup gain for killer dirt parallels 1176LN - classic smack! Zener Limiter - awesome retro smack n grind Oceanway - very useful short rooms EMT 140 - killer plate verb AUDIFIED U73b compressor - classy, punchy drum bus compression AVID LoFi (yes...I KNOW!!) - thumping parallel FABFILTER Pro-Q-2 - general shaping and filtering OVERLOUD Springage - properly dirty spring reverbs with drive too! |
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Emre's selected credits - as of Sept 2016
Selected Experience:
(pr = produce, pt = ProTools, mx = mixing, en = engineer, pg = programming, dr = drumming, cp = composing)
Carly Rae Jepson (Polydor) - Writing and production of track Making the Most Of The Night for the album 'Emotion'
Mark Ronson (Sony) - MenuWriteMessage remix of 'I Can't Lose' for single campaign
Noel Gallagher - Engineering and some programming for new album
David Holmes - Mixing and drumming/engineer for multiple projects
Sia - Mix of track for new album, co-writing
Ali Farke Toure (World Circuit) - Mixing track for new album
Alex Clare (Island) - Mixing 6 tracks on new album
Guy Sebastian (Sony) - Writing
Jack Savoretti (BMG) - Mixing new album
Beardyman (Independant) - Drumming and programming for collborations project
Lot's more current information can be found on Emre's website!