Jon Draper Productions

Recording Drums for Abram Dean

Jon Draper — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:13:56 +0000

Now that I finally am back from the NAMM convention in Anaheim and playing a concert with Cameron Mitchell in Knoxville, TN… I am back to the swing of things (aka recording every day). Today I got back in the groove of things by beginning to record drums for [Abram Dean] on one of his new tracks. His friend Bryan Johnson came in to record drums for the next song and he SLAYS the drumset. He’s truly a studio drummer and after only two or three takes, we had what we needed to have killer sounding drums. I ended up setting up 12 microphones throughout the bedroom.. including 2 in a bathtub, 2 random mics in the room.. and then spot micing every piece of the kit including hat and ride. I had fun getting to sit back and relax while recording drums this time instead of being the drummer and the engineer. The recording of the drums in the video below are just the raw unedited drum tracks. No EQ or anything has been added. You are simply hearing the microphones as they are.So I just thought i’d post this video and just keep everyone updated with what’s going on!

New Music from Litt Odom & Abram Dean

Jon Draper — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:22:50 +0000

The past few months I have been recording Abram Dean & Litt Odom non stop and the wait to hear some new music is finally over. They have been some of the busiest months in my life.. but I have enjoyed them for sure and I believe we got some great music out of it. Go check them both out on iTunes and let me know what you think! I went ahead and posted a couple of the new songs below from soundcloud. Enjoy!

ABRAM DEAN
Remember the Time – Abram Dean by Jon Draper Productions

LITT ODOM
You Are the One – Litt Odom by Jon Draper Productions

P.S. – I also just back from the NAMM Conference 2012 in Anaheim, CA and had a great time. I will be posting some photos in the next few days from some shows that took place while I was there.

Guitar Refinishing

Jon Draper — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:21:59 +0000

For anyone who doesn’t keep up with me on twitter or my facebook page, just thought I would post up some of my guitar refinishes. There is a lot of time that goes into making these guitars look as good as possible and lots of attention to detail. A take someone’s already finished guitar (like a squier or fender) and then strip the paint off of it and completely refinish it from scratch. It involves a lot of expensive gear that luckily my dad owned a lot of and a bunch of patience. But I enjoy it and have decided to make it a side business. So if anyone needs a guitar refinished or relic’d, please let me know! So far, all of the guitars I have refinished were for clients that wanted them to look old and relic’d like they’re old guitars from the 60′s or 70′s. So check em out!

Cameron Mitchell T-Shirts

Jon Draper — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:28:29 +0000

For those of you that haven’t already seen them, go on over to the [Official Nerd Herd Store] and pick up yourself a Cameron Mitchell t-shirt! They are expensive for both you and us.. but they are American Apparel brand and feel really nice. Very high quality shirts that are comfortable to wear.. and of course look good too. So go pick one up! And stay in tune for a new album I have been working on with [Litt Odom] to be released soon. It’s sounding great and I’ve been spending a lot of time mixing lately. I might even try to do some tutorial videos sometime on mixing and recording. Hope everyone’s been doing good!

God Bless!

“Valerie” (Cover) – Litt Odom

Jon Draper — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:34:17 +0000

Over the past couple months, I have had the privilege of working with a talented new artist, [Litt Odom] (go support his Facebook page), who came to me looking for a producer. He’s got a killer voice and a real good ability to write some catchy songs. We’ve been working on an EP for a few months now and he will be releasing it sometime later this month once I have had the chance to get all the songs mixed. The other day, when he was over recording some final touches for his EP, Me, Litt, and Cameron Mitchell were hanging out and I had gotten a couple new microphones so I figured we could do a simple live setup music video. I figured it would be best to just setup a few mics and just do a one shot take of him covering a song on our amazingly not in tune crazy yellow colored piano downstairs in our living room. We ended up moving all my recording gear down there.. and in 2 takes, Litt had already gotten this take. This video is 100% live and all the audio you’re hearing came from the mics you see the in video with no correction at all. This kid’s got pipes and is so easy to work with. I’ve enjoyed working with him.. so check out this most recent video we did and be looking for his EP to come out soon!