Interview

Emre Ramazanoglu

Producer & musician talks with George Shilling

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 Ramazanoglu playing drums in the studio

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!