Chris Castellitto
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Real drum-recording talk from working players.
Record Drums Online with Chris Castellitto sits close to the drum kit and the control room. Conversations with drummers, engineers, producers, and multi-instrumentalists turn career stories into usable detail about tuning, mics, rooms, processing, gear, and remote sessions.
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Record Drums Online with Chris Castellitto is a musician-to-musician interview show centered on recorded drums. Its conversations stay close to the physical stuff: rooms, heads, mics, cymbals, preamps, EQ, compression, reverb, sample packs, and the awkward limits of home studios. It is casual in the way working players are casual. The technical points arrive through stories. Tammuz talks about chasing sound on cheap drums and turning that obsession into sample work. Adrian Hall explains how a small drum booth can feel larger by feeding room mics into convincing spaces like Ocean Way Studio A or Sunset Sound. Emre Ramazanoglu moves easily between tuning choices, strange recording methods, drum triggers used as microphones, and experimental processing. Otis McDonald connects beat making, social platforms, Meta work, acoustic drums, and the sound of a studio with personal history. Dan Bailey gets practical about overhead filters, outside EQ moves, wet and dry file delivery, and leaving options open for mix engineers. Curtis Kelly brings the drummer-singer angle alongside studio life, affordable gear, and sessions at Tone Town. Jordan Pearlson brings the Nashville session mindset, versatility, home recording, and learning repertoire. Alessio Romano adds jazz drum recording, studio acoustics, and the audio-video workflow at Studio 42. Across the show, career talk and drum sound are rarely separate. A first room, a first gig, a difficult session, or a favorite record usually becomes a lesson in how to record better. The format works because it does not flatten experience into neat tips. It lets people talk long enough for the practical decisions to show up. The result is useful for players who already know the vocabulary and want real-world judgment rather than simplified instruction.
Made for: This is for drummers, producers, engineers, and home-studio musicians who want practical recording insight from people doing the work. It especially suits players building remote drum setups or learning how professionals think about sound.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by keeping the conversation grounded in actual drum-recording decisions: small rooms, mic setups, tuning, processing, file delivery, and studio workflow. Career stories matter here because they usually lead back to a usable sound choice.
Hi, my name is Chris Castellitto and welcome to the Record Drums Online Podcast, the show dedicated to the art and science of remote drum recording. Whether you’re a home studio hobbyist or an aspiring session pro, we dive deep into the techniques that matter. I will be conducting interviews wit some of my favourite session drummer colleagues, mixing and mastering engineers and music producers.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed conversations turn drum recording from studio mystique into practical choices about tuning, rooms, microphones, processing, and deliverable files.
Chris Castellitto keeps returning to the decisions that make recorded drums feel finished: tuning, microphone placement, processing, room sound, and what to commit before sending files.
A drum trigger becomes a microphone here, which tells you exactly how conventional the advice gets.
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A grounded drum-room conversation about sound, process, and turning sessions into sample packs.
Tammuz stays in the overlap where the room, the kit, and the sound design all shape the result. He talks through how he records drums, how he approaches mic setup and processing, and how that work feeds sample packs used by artists such as Logic, Chance the Rapper, Bootsy…
A practical drum-recording conversation with useful ideas for making a small room sound bigger.
Adrian Hall's appearance on Record Drums Online plays as both career conversation and a compact drum lesson. It moves from his start at Metropolis Studios to freelance mixing work, and the most useful stretch comes when he explains how to coax convincing drum sounds from a tiny…
A drummer-producer's studio habits, artist work, and sound experiments stay front and center.
Emre Ramazanoglu gets a craft-first spotlight, with session drumming, mixing, mastering, and production all sharing the frame. The discussion moves from work with Noel Gallagher, Sia, Lily Allen, Callie Rae Jepsen, David Bowie, and Brian Nino into the habits that shape the…
A career story that becomes drum-sound craft.
Record Drums Online follows Otis McDonald, also known as Joe Begale, from Rochester, New York to California, then into the Headhunter studio, the Grateful Dead, and a search for punchy hip-hop drum hits.
A drum-workflow talk with clear choices on tuning, processing, and file handoff.
Bailey keeps the focus on what matters once the kit is already in place: tuning, shaping the sound, processing on the way in, and deciding what to leave for later.
Two studio owners test compression, latency, and guitar signal chains on real gear.
Brian Funk talks Ableton workflows, mastering, and songwriting with working musicians.
Music craft, from studio floor to screen.
Producers talking shop, tangents and blunt advice included.
Music craft, traced back to its source.
Studio craft, argued in practical detail.
The host brings on Tammuz.
Adrian Hall joins Record Drums Online for a practical conversation about drums, recording, and making small spaces do more than they seem built for.
The host starts with Emre Ramazanoglu's path through drums, mixing, mastering, and production.
The host opens by introducing Otis McDonald, also known as Joe Begale.
Dan Bailey sits down for a straight conversation.
Interview with drummer/singer Curtis Kelley discussing recording and mixing drums, gear acquisition, and running his studio Tone Town.
Interview with sound engineer and drummer Alessio Romano about recording drums, studio acoustics, and jazz drum recording techniques.
Interview with session drummer Jordan Perlson about his approach to learning new songs, recording drums at home, and his mic setup and plugins.
Interview with producer Alwin Steele about his techniques for recording warm, dead-sounding drums.
Interview with drummer and sound engineer Lloyd Haines about recording drums, tuning, and starting a remote recording studio.