Alex works from Reevsey’s Drum Studio in Finsbury Park, London. He plays, records and programs drums and percussion for your music, sending you up to 30 individual mic stems as well as a stereo drum mix for each take. Alex works quickly and to your budget, and gets the same great sound as he has in his studio with Elbow, Shania Twain, BBC TV Productions, and Bobby Womack. Recordings from his studio have featured on major top-10 albums, adverts, films, and library music around the world.
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REEVSEY’S DRUM STUDIO GEAR LIST
MICROPHONES
• Matched Pair of Coles 4038s
• Pair of AKG 414s - one 414 B ULS and one 414 XLS
• Matched Pair of Extinct Audio BM9 Ribbon Mics
• Pair of AKG 452 EBs vintage
• Pair of Reslo Ribbons vintage
• Pair of AT4033s
• Pair of Josephsen C42s
• Reynolds U67 copy valve
• Beyerdynamic M88
• Beyerdynamic 201
• Beyerdynamic Opus 81
• AKG D112
• Sennheiser 441 vintage
• Sennheiser 602-ii
• Scopelabs Periscope Mic
• Solomon Sub Kick
• Shure SM57s x 4
• Shure SM58s x 2
• Charity Shop Dictaphone vintage
• Weird Omni Dynamic mic vintage
• T Bone Ribbon Mic
OUTBOARD GEAR
• Universal Audio Apollo X8 and Apollo Twin
• Universal Audio UAD-2 Satellite
• MOTU 1248 plus 8pre for extra channels
• Focal Solo 6 Monitors with Drawmer monitor controller, plus Sonorworks
• Avantone mono box
• 1980s Panasonic Stereo for monitoring
• 4 x API 312s Pres
• 2 x DAV Broadhurst Gardens Pres
• Analogue Addicts 1960s Valve Pre
• Roland Space Echo (on request)
• Focusrite Pre
• Joe Meek Pre
• ART Stereo Compressor
• Latchlake Stands
• Beyerdynamic DT 880 Mixing Headphones
• 4 x Sennheiser HD 280 Pro Headphones
• Lots and lots of other cool things
DRUMS ETC
• 1963 Blue Sparkle Ludwig Superclassic - choice of 22 and 20" bass drums, 12, 13 and 16" toms
• 1971 Bowling Ball Blue Ludwig Superclassic - choice of 22 and 20" bass drums, 12 and 16 toms (on request)
• Sonor Vintage Series full kit including choice of 4 toms and 2 kicks
• Selection of calfskin marching drums - used as bass drums
• Some old little bass drums - converted Premier FT and Old Calfskin things
• Univox SR 55 70s Drum Machine
• Korg KPR77 80s Drum Machine. Some other weird little drum machines
• 1939 Slingerland Radio King
• 1950s Gretsch Roundbadge, 1970s Gretsch Stop Sign Nickel over Brass
• 2 x 1960s Ludwig Supraphonics, 14x5 & 14x6.5
• Ludwig Snares including a 1920s Universal, an Acrolite, a Black Beauty, and a Copper Piccolo
• 1900s Solid Maple shell, calf skin
• Sonor Snares - lots of them and they’re WELL good!
• Pearl Snares
• Sonor Latino Maple Congas
• Huge selection of tambourines and shakers. Way too many but hey
• Loads of weird and whacky shit
OTHER STUFF
• Fender Rhodes 73 Mk i - on request
• Fender De Ville amp - on request
• Fender Super Champ amp
• Ampeg bass amp - on request
• Roland Space Echo - on request
• Roland FP-5 piano - on request
• Roland SPD-SX drum sampling pad
• Full DDrum triggers set
• Alesis DM5 drum machine • Dauz Drum pads set up to trigger from computer for live trigger playing
• Akai S2000 sampler from, like, the 90s
• Selection of guitars and basses
• An beautiful Autoharp, a lovely old Indian Harmonium
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