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Custom Drum Tracks
We are no longer accepting custom drum track recording orders, we are sorry for a possible inconvenience.
 

Introduction

Custom drum track for your song in 7 days, moneyback guarantee*

Voxengo is happy to present you the custom drum tracks recording service.  Here you can order real custom drum tracks for your songs on-line.  The drum track will be played by an experienced drummer and recorded in our recording studio to fulfil your desire for a great drum sound.

As a result we provide overhead, side and room microphone tracks together with separate snare drum, bass drum and tom drum tracks.  Here is an example package with result WAV track files: VoxengoDrumDemo4_Tracks.rar (RAR archiver)

Here you can listen to the drum kit, as played in a free manner:

Drum Kit (example WAV track files mix), Ride Rhythm, Breakbeat Rhythm, Take5 Rhythm

Some of the albums our drummers and our studio have participated in:

John Rule - I'm Just a ManPascal Rinaldi - Passé le ZénithSuzy Callahan - Big Helpless SleepLudiane Pivoine - Maraboute-moi

Plastic Sky - Miles AwayMelodicca - Sin PretensionesCélina Ramsauer - EnsembleKoots - Ride the ChangesAmor Fati - My iPhone (single)

Dick Kohles - Burned BridgesRheia - CompletionPascal Rinaldi - TracesStephan Patterson - People and Places

* We will return your money if the produced preview track is not suitable for you.  Moneyback guarantee is not available after your approval of the preview track.  Delivery period is specified relative to the date of the prepayment.  The current price for one song is US$ 69.95.

Examples

Examples of completed drum recording orders (the drum sound was not processed).  You may rate the drummer's work.

max
min
"Down by the Sea", SoundSwitch
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 0)
Rate it:
"UND DARUM LIEB ICH DICH", Walter Wessely
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 0)
Rate it:
"Unnamed song", Unnamed project
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 0)
Rate it:
"Poesias", Denis Rocha
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 0)
Rate it:
"My iPhone", Amor Fati
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 0)
Rate it:
"Flat On My Face", Hand Grenades
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 0)
Rate it:
"Snowflake", Jamie
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 0)
Rate it:
"Not Hatred But Love", Rheia
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 0)
Rate it:
"Not Conflict But Compassion", Rheia
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 0)
Rate it:
"Stay on message", cor dare
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 4)
Rate it:
"les jours meilleurs", Pascal Rinaldi
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 5)
Rate it:
"Never Again", SodaCup Killer
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 5)
Rate it:
"Happy Days", Steven Cron
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 4)
Rate it:
"New Patterson", Boogro & The Boogronauts
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 7)
Rate it:
"Working Class Hero", Pascal Rinaldi
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 5)
Rate it:
"Football Time in Tennessee", Big Orange Boogie
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 7)
Rate it:
"Rockee Top", Big Orange Boogie
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 12)
Rate it:
"If I Can Dream", Evelyn Lam
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 3)
Rate it:
"True Colors", Evelyn Lam
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 3)
Rate it:
"Passer le Zénith 90", Pascal Rinaldi
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 9)
Rate it:
"All Along the Watchtower", Richard Cowdrey
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 11)
Rate it:
"Aliens Stole My Brain", moio
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 10)
Rate it:
"Bleev UR", Tegan Blackbird
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 9)
Rate it:
"Cajon Bill", Koots
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)

After
(Votes: 8)
Rate it:
"He's Always There", John Wilander
(Drummer: Dmitri Lebedev)
Before After
(Votes: 13)
Rate it:
"Song", Little Mike Watson
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 11)
Rate it:
"Song", Richard Cowdrey
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 10)
Rate it:
"Song", Koots
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 19)
Rate it:
"Song", HammerToe
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 25)
Rate it:
"More Like Me", Krystal Baker
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 23)
Rate it:
"Falling Down", Douglas Kirby
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 28)
Rate it:
"Dancing in the Wind", Markley and Friends
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 21)
Rate it:
"Song", Manhattan Avenue
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 24)
Rate it:

How it works?

Placing your order is simple and consists of these steps:

1.  Create a new order (requires Voxengo web site registration) and answer several questions about the drum sound you need.

2.  Upload the "Song track" (the song without the percussion track), the "Drum track" that contains your drum pattern idea, and the "Click track" that will be used by our drummer as a timing reference.  Each track can be up to 10 megabytes in size in MP3 format (192 kBit/s rate is suggested).  The length of the tracks we accept is limited to 7 minutes.

3.  Submit the order.

How results are delivered?

Once you submit your order, it will be reviewed by our drummer and if this order can be fulfilled, you will be asked to perform the prepayment for the work.  After the prepayment is received by us the drummer will start working on your order.

The preview track is presented as MP3 file: your "Song track" mixed with the newly recorded drums.  Once you approve the preview track you will be given a download URL to the full-resolution unprocessed 24-bit 96 kHz recorded WAV files, packed into a RAR archive (note that audio sequencer software usually converts WAV files to your project's sample rate if it differs from 96 kHz).

How copyright is handled?

(The following information is effective since June 27th, 2010)

You will receive the full exclusive worldwide rights (copyright) without time limitation, to the drum tracks created for you by us.  The rights you receive are royalty-free.  While this is not obligatory, Aleksey Vaneev and the drummer will be happy to sign an additional royalty contract if you desire so.

For the song where the drum track created by us is used, the relevant credit can be given in a similar manner: "the drums in the song were played by {drummer's name} and recorded via Voxengo.com drum recording service in YYYY (year of service)".  Such credit can be given with any printed material that accompanies the song distribution, or in any suitable place or media, usually credits section (if such place or media is available at all; the "crediting" is non-obligatory).

You may also choose an appropriate option when placing your order to allow us to use your "Song track" mixed with your "Drum track" and the recorded drums for demonstration purposes of our service (we will use only a part of your song).

Why order the real drums?

First of all, nothing in computer world can replace a real human drummer feel.

Secondly, a realistic drum sound cannot be reproduced by a drum sampler since a drum set "sounds" as a single complex acoustical instrument: this makes it impossible to recreate such sound by means of discrete sampled drum hits delivered by sample libraries.

Thirdly, organizing drum recording on your own is usually quite expensive: you have to hire a good drummer, book a studio, make sure drums there are good-quality ones, drums are tuned to their best state and microphones are placed optimally around the kit.

We are doing all this in our service, but since the process is streamlined the cost can be kept reasonably low.

Is this service right for you?

In most cases, yes, this service is exactly what you need - whether you are an individual musician or a music producer.  Our ordering system gives you a lot of options for order customization - you can choose from 4 snare drums, and set a lot of playing style nuances the drummer should follow.

However, if you are into deep drum pattern customization with a desire to define every single drum hit, this service may not be suitable to you.  When you are submitting an order you should have a bit of "tolerance" to how the drummer plays.  Due to the "outsourcing" nature of this service the drummer cannot fulfil your every tiny drumming idea, instead the drummer relies on their own experience and your drum track.

Another reason for not using the drum recording service is your song's subjective drum sound requirement.  Not all songs need real drums, because if the song has a better impact with "techno drums" feeling, the drummer usually can't implement it.  On the other hand, the recorded drums can be quantized in software like Sonar 7 to provide a necessary "strictness" of drum hits timing.  Real drum recording is about adding a new important dimension of "feel" to the song.

Additional information

1) The "Song track", "Drum track" and "Click track" should be time-aligned: please make sure you are exporting them from the same time point in a sequencer.  To make sure all tracks are time-aligned to each other, please use the same MP3 bit-rate and codec for all tracks during export, "variable" bit-rate should not be used. The "Drum track" should not contain the song itself.  The "Click track" should contain metronome ticking only, for the full duration of the song, and should fully follow song's tempo.  Please include an initial 1 or 2 bar count-in so that the drummer can synchronize the playing with the song's start.

2) As a final result, we provide overhead, side and room microphone tracks together with tom, bass drum and snare drum tracks that should be mixed together to produce a finalized drum mix.  Since the drums are recorded very dry they are "compatible" with virtually any reverb and they won't sound boxy after processing.  Beside that we do our best to keep inter-drum resonances minimal: this improves drum performance articulation and makes further equalizing and multi-band dynamics adjustments an easy task. Note that we perform basic time- and phase-aligning of the tracks: mixing them will be easy for you; tom tracks are optional for mix.

3) Note that some song submissions may be declined by us due to an overly complex or "unplayable" nature of the submitted material; this service is a custom work performed by a human person with their own level of musical performing ability; we reserve the right to decline your order at any time and refund any monies you have paid.

Contract

Please regard the information presented on these "custom drum tracks" pages as the contract between you and Aleksey Vaneev, in case you decide to place the drum track recording service order.  Song and rhythm track files you submit together with the order-related poll answers also become the part of this contract.

The data you submit with your order is treated by us as confidential and thus it will not be given away to any third party not involved in the implementation of the order directly.

Your prepayment for the work signifies acceptance of these terms and conditions.

Testimonials

"Great drum track!  Has just the feel I was looking for.  ThanX much!" Andy Wiest

"Thanks so much, the sound is great, the playing is superb and it's given me ideas for the song that I never would have thought of.  I can't wait to get my bass player in and start overdubbing." Stewart Sibley

"Hello, Thank you very much.  I'm very happy about the result.  Certainely i'll send to you anothers songs when my project will be ready." Pascal Rinaldi

"Thanks again Max for another great job.  Your embellishments and accents are perfect for the song, can't wait to get this project finished.  This makes the fifth song you have played on.  More to come." Dick Kohles

"Hey guys! thanx for helping my recordings get a great professional sound!  I appreciate so much the effort made to respect the details I specified in the instructions I wrote for the drummer for each song!  I've been recomending this service to all my musican friends since the 1st song I sent you!  Keep up the brilliant work!" Pablo Kutnowski

"Thanks for the good work !  I've found your service by chance, visiting the voxengo website and I'm really pleased by the result.  The drum tracks were recorded amazingly fast and follow well my songs.  I'll come back !" Alfa

"I've used Voxengo's Custom Drum Track Recording Service a number of times; sometimes with a clear guide track to be copied, sometimes with a track to be improved and sometimes with only a click track.  Each time Voxengo have provided excellent drum tracks which help to give the songs the touch of class they require (and all without having to mic up a drum kit or suffer the time in a studio it takes to get a drummer to play what the song needs).  The service is professional, quick and exceedingly good value for money.  Also whereas some other drum recording services give you a mixed stereo file, Voxengo give you all the tracks of your drum part for you to further produce should you see fit.  The playing is of really high standard and the drummer clearly puts a lot of thought and effort into the track, and as you'd expect from Voxengo, the recording quality and sound of the kit is great.  I am sure that many albums will start to appear that have used this service, it really allows the home studio to be professional.  Highly recommended." Laurence Suckling, "The Unknown Island"

"I used this service for the first time a couple of weeks ago.  I was impressed with the extremely easy and professional website, allowing a wide range of choices for drumming styles, equipment, etc.  Uploading my own files for the drummer to work with was very easy, and a couple of days later I received a pre-final file which sounded great.  I then got 8 files of the recorded tracks from different drums in the kit.  Top quality professional service, a great drummer, and terrific value for money." Peter Wibaux, Portugal

"Great job on the drums.  I like your style, and the quality of the recording is great.  I will definitely be a repeat customer. ...  Anyway, I should be back in a couple of weeks with another song.  Thanks again." Darin Jones

"Max, you nailed it.  Great job.  Thanks very much." Jamie

"Excellent work!!!! i have more tracks coming for you Max." Amor Fati

"This is a fabulous service, very professional in terms of song submission, and the playing is just right.  The quality of the recording however is the stand out, cymbals are very well recorded with nice 'air' around them.  Very highly recommended." Steve Lees

FREE DRUM LOOPS

Here you can download a set of 24 high-quality "single theme" drum loops that you may use royalty-free (subject to the supplied license agreement): VXLP01_110BPM.rar

Before downloading, you may audition selected loops contained in this archive:

VXLP01 110BPM Bridge VXLP01 110BPM Chorus Accented

Drum loops were performed by Max Sivkov

Recorded at Voxengo sound recording studio

Introduction

Custom drum track for your song in 7 days, moneyback guarantee*

Voxengo is happy to present you the custom drum tracks recording service.  Here you can order real custom drum tracks for your songs on-line.  The drum track will be played by an experienced drummer and recorded in our recording studio to fulfil your desire for a great drum sound.

As a result we provide overhead, side and room microphone tracks together with separate snare drum, bass drum and tom drum tracks.  Here is an example package with result WAV track files: VoxengoDrumDemo4_Tracks.rar (RAR archiver)

Here you can listen to the drum kit, as played in a free manner:

Drum Kit (example WAV track files mix), Ride Rhythm, Breakbeat Rhythm, Take5 Rhythm

Some of the albums our drummers and our studio have participated in:

John Rule - I'm Just a ManPascal Rinaldi - Passé le ZénithSuzy Callahan - Big Helpless SleepLudiane Pivoine - Maraboute-moi

Plastic Sky - Miles AwayMelodicca - Sin PretensionesCélina Ramsauer - EnsembleKoots - Ride the ChangesAmor Fati - My iPhone (single)

Dick Kohles - Burned BridgesRheia - CompletionPascal Rinaldi - TracesStephan Patterson - People and Places

* We will return your money if the produced preview track is not suitable for you.  Moneyback guarantee is not available after your approval of the preview track.  Delivery period is specified relative to the date of the prepayment.  The current price for one song is US$ 69.95.

Examples

Examples of completed drum recording orders (the drum sound was not processed).  You may rate the drummer's work.

max
min
"Down by the Sea", SoundSwitch
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 0)
Rate it:
"UND DARUM LIEB ICH DICH", Walter Wessely
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 0)
Rate it:
"Unnamed song", Unnamed project
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 0)
Rate it:
"Poesias", Denis Rocha
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 0)
Rate it:
"My iPhone", Amor Fati
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 0)
Rate it:
"Flat On My Face", Hand Grenades
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 0)
Rate it:
"Snowflake", Jamie
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 0)
Rate it:
"Not Hatred But Love", Rheia
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 0)
Rate it:
"Not Conflict But Compassion", Rheia
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 0)
Rate it:
"Stay on message", cor dare
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 4)
Rate it:
"les jours meilleurs", Pascal Rinaldi
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 5)
Rate it:
"Never Again", SodaCup Killer
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 5)
Rate it:
"Happy Days", Steven Cron
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 4)
Rate it:
"New Patterson", Boogro & The Boogronauts
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 7)
Rate it:
"Working Class Hero", Pascal Rinaldi
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 5)
Rate it:
"Football Time in Tennessee", Big Orange Boogie
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 7)
Rate it:
"Rockee Top", Big Orange Boogie
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 12)
Rate it:
"If I Can Dream", Evelyn Lam
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 3)
Rate it:
"True Colors", Evelyn Lam
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 3)
Rate it:
"Passer le Zénith 90", Pascal Rinaldi
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 9)
Rate it:
"All Along the Watchtower", Richard Cowdrey
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 11)
Rate it:
"Aliens Stole My Brain", moio
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 10)
Rate it:
"Bleev UR", Tegan Blackbird
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 9)
Rate it:
"Cajon Bill", Koots
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)

After
(Votes: 8)
Rate it:
"He's Always There", John Wilander
(Drummer: Dmitri Lebedev)
Before After
(Votes: 13)
Rate it:
"Song", Little Mike Watson
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 11)
Rate it:
"Song", Richard Cowdrey
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 10)
Rate it:
"Song", Koots
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 19)
Rate it:
"Song", HammerToe
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 25)
Rate it:
"More Like Me", Krystal Baker
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 23)
Rate it:
"Falling Down", Douglas Kirby
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 28)
Rate it:
"Dancing in the Wind", Markley and Friends
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 21)
Rate it:
"Song", Manhattan Avenue
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
Before After
(Votes: 24)
Rate it:

How it works?

Placing your order is simple and consists of these steps:

1.  Create a new order (requires Voxengo web site registration) and answer several questions about the drum sound you need.

2.  Upload the "Song track" (the song without the percussion track), the "Drum track" that contains your drum pattern idea, and the "Click track" that will be used by our drummer as a timing reference.  Each track can be up to 10 megabytes in size in MP3 format (192 kBit/s rate is suggested).  The length of the tracks we accept is limited to 7 minutes.

3.  Submit the order.

How results are delivered?

Once you submit your order, it will be reviewed by our drummer and if this order can be fulfilled, you will be asked to perform the prepayment for the work.  After the prepayment is received by us the drummer will start working on your order.

The preview track is presented as MP3 file: your "Song track" mixed with the newly recorded drums.  Once you approve the preview track you will be given a download URL to the full-resolution unprocessed 24-bit 96 kHz recorded WAV files, packed into a RAR archive (note that audio sequencer software usually converts WAV files to your project's sample rate if it differs from 96 kHz).

How copyright is handled?

(The following information is effective since June 27th, 2010)

You will receive the full exclusive worldwide rights (copyright) without time limitation, to the drum tracks created for you by us.  The rights you receive are royalty-free.  While this is not obligatory, Aleksey Vaneev and the drummer will be happy to sign an additional royalty contract if you desire so.

For the song where the drum track created by us is used, the relevant credit can be given in a similar manner: "the drums in the song were played by {drummer's name} and recorded via Voxengo.com drum recording service in YYYY (year of service)".  Such credit can be given with any printed material that accompanies the song distribution, or in any suitable place or media, usually credits section (if such place or media is available at all; the "crediting" is non-obligatory).

You may also choose an appropriate option when placing your order to allow us to use your "Song track" mixed with your "Drum track" and the recorded drums for demonstration purposes of our service (we will use only a part of your song).

Why order the real drums?

First of all, nothing in computer world can replace a real human drummer feel.

Secondly, a realistic drum sound cannot be reproduced by a drum sampler since a drum set "sounds" as a single complex acoustical instrument: this makes it impossible to recreate such sound by means of discrete sampled drum hits delivered by sample libraries.

Thirdly, organizing drum recording on your own is usually quite expensive: you have to hire a good drummer, book a studio, make sure drums there are good-quality ones, drums are tuned to their best state and microphones are placed optimally around the kit.

We are doing all this in our service, but since the process is streamlined the cost can be kept reasonably low.

Is this service right for you?

In most cases, yes, this service is exactly what you need - whether you are an individual musician or a music producer.  Our ordering system gives you a lot of options for order customization - you can choose from 4 snare drums, and set a lot of playing style nuances the drummer should follow.

However, if you are into deep drum pattern customization with a desire to define every single drum hit, this service may not be suitable to you.  When you are submitting an order you should have a bit of "tolerance" to how the drummer plays.  Due to the "outsourcing" nature of this service the drummer cannot fulfil your every tiny drumming idea, instead the drummer relies on their own experience and your drum track.

Another reason for not using the drum recording service is your song's subjective drum sound requirement.  Not all songs need real drums, because if the song has a better impact with "techno drums" feeling, the drummer usually can't implement it.  On the other hand, the recorded drums can be quantized in software like Sonar 7 to provide a necessary "strictness" of drum hits timing.  Real drum recording is about adding a new important dimension of "feel" to the song.

Additional information

1) The "Song track", "Drum track" and "Click track" should be time-aligned: please make sure you are exporting them from the same time point in a sequencer.  To make sure all tracks are time-aligned to each other, please use the same MP3 bit-rate and codec for all tracks during export, "variable" bit-rate should not be used. The "Drum track" should not contain the song itself.  The "Click track" should contain metronome ticking only, for the full duration of the song, and should fully follow song's tempo.  Please include an initial 1 or 2 bar count-in so that the drummer can synchronize the playing with the song's start.

2) As a final result, we provide overhead, side and room microphone tracks together with tom, bass drum and snare drum tracks that should be mixed together to produce a finalized drum mix.  Since the drums are recorded very dry they are "compatible" with virtually any reverb and they won't sound boxy after processing.  Beside that we do our best to keep inter-drum resonances minimal: this improves drum performance articulation and makes further equalizing and multi-band dynamics adjustments an easy task. Note that we perform basic time- and phase-aligning of the tracks: mixing them will be easy for you; tom tracks are optional for mix.

3) Note that some song submissions may be declined by us due to an overly complex or "unplayable" nature of the submitted material; this service is a custom work performed by a human person with their own level of musical performing ability; we reserve the right to decline your order at any time and refund any monies you have paid.

Contract

Please regard the information presented on these "custom drum tracks" pages as the contract between you and Aleksey Vaneev, in case you decide to place the drum track recording service order.  Song and rhythm track files you submit together with the order-related poll answers also become the part of this contract.

The data you submit with your order is treated by us as confidential and thus it will not be given away to any third party not involved in the implementation of the order directly.

Your prepayment for the work signifies acceptance of these terms and conditions.

Testimonials

"Great drum track!  Has just the feel I was looking for.  ThanX much!" Andy Wiest

"Thanks so much, the sound is great, the playing is superb and it's given me ideas for the song that I never would have thought of.  I can't wait to get my bass player in and start overdubbing." Stewart Sibley

"Hello, Thank you very much.  I'm very happy about the result.  Certainely i'll send to you anothers songs when my project will be ready." Pascal Rinaldi

"Thanks again Max for another great job.  Your embellishments and accents are perfect for the song, can't wait to get this project finished.  This makes the fifth song you have played on.  More to come." Dick Kohles

"Hey guys! thanx for helping my recordings get a great professional sound!  I appreciate so much the effort made to respect the details I specified in the instructions I wrote for the drummer for each song!  I've been recomending this service to all my musican friends since the 1st song I sent you!  Keep up the brilliant work!" Pablo Kutnowski

"Thanks for the good work !  I've found your service by chance, visiting the voxengo website and I'm really pleased by the result.  The drum tracks were recorded amazingly fast and follow well my songs.  I'll come back !" Alfa

"I've used Voxengo's Custom Drum Track Recording Service a number of times; sometimes with a clear guide track to be copied, sometimes with a track to be improved and sometimes with only a click track.  Each time Voxengo have provided excellent drum tracks which help to give the songs the touch of class they require (and all without having to mic up a drum kit or suffer the time in a studio it takes to get a drummer to play what the song needs).  The service is professional, quick and exceedingly good value for money.  Also whereas some other drum recording services give you a mixed stereo file, Voxengo give you all the tracks of your drum part for you to further produce should you see fit.  The playing is of really high standard and the drummer clearly puts a lot of thought and effort into the track, and as you'd expect from Voxengo, the recording quality and sound of the kit is great.  I am sure that many albums will start to appear that have used this service, it really allows the home studio to be professional.  Highly recommended." Laurence Suckling, "The Unknown Island"

"I used this service for the first time a couple of weeks ago.  I was impressed with the extremely easy and professional website, allowing a wide range of choices for drumming styles, equipment, etc.  Uploading my own files for the drummer to work with was very easy, and a couple of days later I received a pre-final file which sounded great.  I then got 8 files of the recorded tracks from different drums in the kit.  Top quality professional service, a great drummer, and terrific value for money." Peter Wibaux, Portugal

"Great job on the drums.  I like your style, and the quality of the recording is great.  I will definitely be a repeat customer. ...  Anyway, I should be back in a couple of weeks with another song.  Thanks again." Darin Jones

"Max, you nailed it.  Great job.  Thanks very much." Jamie

"Excellent work!!!! i have more tracks coming for you Max." Amor Fati

"This is a fabulous service, very professional in terms of song submission, and the playing is just right.  The quality of the recording however is the stand out, cymbals are very well recorded with nice 'air' around them.  Very highly recommended." Steve Lees

FREE DRUM LOOPS

Here you can download a set of 24 high-quality "single theme" drum loops that you may use royalty-free (subject to the supplied license agreement): VXLP01_110BPM.rar

Before downloading, you may audition selected loops contained in this archive:

VXLP01 110BPM Bridge VXLP01 110BPM Chorus Accented

Drum loops were performed by Max Sivkov

Recorded at Voxengo sound recording studio

Introduction

Custom drum track for your song in 7 days, moneyback guarantee*

Voxengo is happy to present you the custom drum tracks recording service.  Here you can order real custom drum tracks for your songs on-line.  The drum track will be played by an experienced drummer and recorded in our recording studio to fulfil your desire for a great drum sound.

As a result we provide overhead, side and room microphone tracks together with separate snare drum, bass drum and tom drum tracks.  Here is an example package with result WAV track files: VoxengoDrumDemo4_Tracks.rar (RAR archiver)

Here you can listen to the drum kit, as played in a free manner:

Drum Kit (example WAV track files mix), Ride Rhythm, Breakbeat Rhythm, Take5 Rhythm

Some of the albums our drummers and our studio have participated in:

John Rule - I'm Just a ManPascal Rinaldi - Passé le ZénithSuzy Callahan - Big Helpless SleepLudiane Pivoine - Maraboute-moi

Plastic Sky - Miles AwayMelodicca - Sin PretensionesCélina Ramsauer - EnsembleKoots - Ride the ChangesAmor Fati - My iPhone (single)

Dick Kohles - Burned BridgesRheia - CompletionPascal Rinaldi - TracesStephan Patterson - People and Places

* We will return your money if the produced preview track is not suitable for you.  Moneyback guarantee is not available after your approval of the preview track.  Delivery period is specified relative to the date of the prepayment.  The current price for one song is US$ 69.95.

Examples

Examples of completed drum recording orders (the drum sound was not processed).  You may rate the drummer's work.

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"Down by the Sea", SoundSwitch
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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"UND DARUM LIEB ICH DICH", Walter Wessely
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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"Unnamed song", Unnamed project
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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"Poesias", Denis Rocha
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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"My iPhone", Amor Fati
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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"Flat On My Face", Hand Grenades
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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"Snowflake", Jamie
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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"Not Hatred But Love", Rheia
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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"Not Conflict But Compassion", Rheia
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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"Stay on message", cor dare
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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(Votes: 4)
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"les jours meilleurs", Pascal Rinaldi
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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(Votes: 5)
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"Never Again", SodaCup Killer
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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"Happy Days", Steven Cron
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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"New Patterson", Boogro & The Boogronauts
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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"Working Class Hero", Pascal Rinaldi
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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"Football Time in Tennessee", Big Orange Boogie
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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"Rockee Top", Big Orange Boogie
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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(Votes: 12)
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"If I Can Dream", Evelyn Lam
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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"True Colors", Evelyn Lam
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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"Passer le Zénith 90", Pascal Rinaldi
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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"All Along the Watchtower", Richard Cowdrey
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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"Aliens Stole My Brain", moio
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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"Bleev UR", Tegan Blackbird
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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"Cajon Bill", Koots
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)

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"He's Always There", John Wilander
(Drummer: Dmitri Lebedev)
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"Song", Little Mike Watson
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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(Votes: 11)
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"Song", Richard Cowdrey
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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"Song", Koots
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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"Song", HammerToe
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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"More Like Me", Krystal Baker
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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"Falling Down", Douglas Kirby
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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"Dancing in the Wind", Markley and Friends
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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"Song", Manhattan Avenue
(Drummer: Max Sivkov)
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How it works?

Placing your order is simple and consists of these steps:

1.  Create a new order (requires Voxengo web site registration) and answer several questions about the drum sound you need.

2.  Upload the "Song track" (the song without the percussion track), the "Drum track" that contains your drum pattern idea, and the "Click track" that will be used by our drummer as a timing reference.  Each track can be up to 10 megabytes in size in MP3 format (192 kBit/s rate is suggested).  The length of the tracks we accept is limited to 7 minutes.

3.  Submit the order.

How results are delivered?

Once you submit your order, it will be reviewed by our drummer and if this order can be fulfilled, you will be asked to perform the prepayment for the work.  After the prepayment is received by us the drummer will start working on your order.

The preview track is presented as MP3 file: your "Song track" mixed with the newly recorded drums.  Once you approve the preview track you will be given a download URL to the full-resolution unprocessed 24-bit 96 kHz recorded WAV files, packed into a RAR archive (note that audio sequencer software usually converts WAV files to your project's sample rate if it differs from 96 kHz).

How copyright is handled?

(The following information is effective since June 27th, 2010)

You will receive the full exclusive worldwide rights (copyright) without time limitation, to the drum tracks created for you by us.  The rights you receive are royalty-free.  While this is not obligatory, Aleksey Vaneev and the drummer will be happy to sign an additional royalty contract if you desire so.

For the song where the drum track created by us is used, the relevant credit can be given in a similar manner: "the drums in the song were played by {drummer's name} and recorded via Voxengo.com drum recording service in YYYY (year of service)".  Such credit can be given with any printed material that accompanies the song distribution, or in any suitable place or media, usually credits section (if such place or media is available at all; the "crediting" is non-obligatory).

You may also choose an appropriate option when placing your order to allow us to use your "Song track" mixed with your "Drum track" and the recorded drums for demonstration purposes of our service (we will use only a part of your song).

Why order the real drums?

First of all, nothing in computer world can replace a real human drummer feel.

Secondly, a realistic drum sound cannot be reproduced by a drum sampler since a drum set "sounds" as a single complex acoustical instrument: this makes it impossible to recreate such sound by means of discrete sampled drum hits delivered by sample libraries.

Thirdly, organizing drum recording on your own is usually quite expensive: you have to hire a good drummer, book a studio, make sure drums there are good-quality ones, drums are tuned to their best state and microphones are placed optimally around the kit.

We are doing all this in our service, but since the process is streamlined the cost can be kept reasonably low.

Is this service right for you?

In most cases, yes, this service is exactly what you need - whether you are an individual musician or a music producer.  Our ordering system gives you a lot of options for order customization - you can choose from 4 snare drums, and set a lot of playing style nuances the drummer should follow.

However, if you are into deep drum pattern customization with a desire to define every single drum hit, this service may not be suitable to you.  When you are submitting an order you should have a bit of "tolerance" to how the drummer plays.  Due to the "outsourcing" nature of this service the drummer cannot fulfil your every tiny drumming idea, instead the drummer relies on their own experience and your drum track.

Another reason for not using the drum recording service is your song's subjective drum sound requirement.  Not all songs need real drums, because if the song has a better impact with "techno drums" feeling, the drummer usually can't implement it.  On the other hand, the recorded drums can be quantized in software like Sonar 7 to provide a necessary "strictness" of drum hits timing.  Real drum recording is about adding a new important dimension of "feel" to the song.

Additional information

1) The "Song track", "Drum track" and "Click track" should be time-aligned: please make sure you are exporting them from the same time point in a sequencer.  To make sure all tracks are time-aligned to each other, please use the same MP3 bit-rate and codec for all tracks during export, "variable" bit-rate should not be used. The "Drum track" should not contain the song itself.  The "Click track" should contain metronome ticking only, for the full duration of the song, and should fully follow song's tempo.  Please include an initial 1 or 2 bar count-in so that the drummer can synchronize the playing with the song's start.

2) As a final result, we provide overhead, side and room microphone tracks together with tom, bass drum and snare drum tracks that should be mixed together to produce a finalized drum mix.  Since the drums are recorded very dry they are "compatible" with virtually any reverb and they won't sound boxy after processing.  Beside that we do our best to keep inter-drum resonances minimal: this improves drum performance articulation and makes further equalizing and multi-band dynamics adjustments an easy task. Note that we perform basic time- and phase-aligning of the tracks: mixing them will be easy for you; tom tracks are optional for mix.

3) Note that some song submissions may be declined by us due to an overly complex or "unplayable" nature of the submitted material; this service is a custom work performed by a human person with their own level of musical performing ability; we reserve the right to decline your order at any time and refund any monies you have paid.

Contract

Please regard the information presented on these "custom drum tracks" pages as the contract between you and Aleksey Vaneev, in case you decide to place the drum track recording service order.  Song and rhythm track files you submit together with the order-related poll answers also become the part of this contract.

The data you submit with your order is treated by us as confidential and thus it will not be given away to any third party not involved in the implementation of the order directly.

Your prepayment for the work signifies acceptance of these terms and conditions.

Testimonials

"Great drum track!  Has just the feel I was looking for.  ThanX much!" Andy Wiest

"Thanks so much, the sound is great, the playing is superb and it's given me ideas for the song that I never would have thought of.  I can't wait to get my bass player in and start overdubbing." Stewart Sibley

"Hello, Thank you very much.  I'm very happy about the result.  Certainely i'll send to you anothers songs when my project will be ready." Pascal Rinaldi

"Thanks again Max for another great job.  Your embellishments and accents are perfect for the song, can't wait to get this project finished.  This makes the fifth song you have played on.  More to come." Dick Kohles

"Hey guys! thanx for helping my recordings get a great professional sound!  I appreciate so much the effort made to respect the details I specified in the instructions I wrote for the drummer for each song!  I've been recomending this service to all my musican friends since the 1st song I sent you!  Keep up the brilliant work!" Pablo Kutnowski

"Thanks for the good work !  I've found your service by chance, visiting the voxengo website and I'm really pleased by the result.  The drum tracks were recorded amazingly fast and follow well my songs.  I'll come back !" Alfa

"I've used Voxengo's Custom Drum Track Recording Service a number of times; sometimes with a clear guide track to be copied, sometimes with a track to be improved and sometimes with only a click track.  Each time Voxengo have provided excellent drum tracks which help to give the songs the touch of class they require (and all without having to mic up a drum kit or suffer the time in a studio it takes to get a drummer to play what the song needs).  The service is professional, quick and exceedingly good value for money.  Also whereas some other drum recording services give you a mixed stereo file, Voxengo give you all the tracks of your drum part for you to further produce should you see fit.  The playing is of really high standard and the drummer clearly puts a lot of thought and effort into the track, and as you'd expect from Voxengo, the recording quality and sound of the kit is great.  I am sure that many albums will start to appear that have used this service, it really allows the home studio to be professional.  Highly recommended." Laurence Suckling, "The Unknown Island"

"I used this service for the first time a couple of weeks ago.  I was impressed with the extremely easy and professional website, allowing a wide range of choices for drumming styles, equipment, etc.  Uploading my own files for the drummer to work with was very easy, and a couple of days later I received a pre-final file which sounded great.  I then got 8 files of the recorded tracks from different drums in the kit.  Top quality professional service, a great drummer, and terrific value for money." Peter Wibaux, Portugal

"Great job on the drums.  I like your style, and the quality of the recording is great.  I will definitely be a repeat customer. ...  Anyway, I should be back in a couple of weeks with another song.  Thanks again." Darin Jones

"Max, you nailed it.  Great job.  Thanks very much." Jamie

"Excellent work!!!! i have more tracks coming for you Max." Amor Fati

"This is a fabulous service, very professional in terms of song submission, and the playing is just right.  The quality of the recording however is the stand out, cymbals are very well recorded with nice 'air' around them.  Very highly recommended." Steve Lees

FREE DRUM LOOPS

Here you can download a set of 24 high-quality "single theme" drum loops that you may use royalty-free (subject to the supplied license agreement): VXLP01_110BPM.rar

Before downloading, you may audition selected loops contained in this archive:

VXLP01 110BPM Bridge VXLP01 110BPM Chorus Accented

Drum loops were performed by Max Sivkov

Recorded at Voxengo sound recording studio