05/07/2012
This is an old article talking about Miro's Kidrumz back when he first started building drums:
"While Pro Tools and an Akai MPC3000 were getting hard usage in the control room, set up out in the studio were keyboard rigs, a selection of guitar amps and, newly purchased by Swann, a set of Kikdrumz. “Victor Indrizzo, an incredible drummer who plays with Beck, and who's also part of our musical family, turned me on to these kits,” he explains. “He had a prototype. They're built by a guy named Miro, who makes them in his garage. Miro brought a kit down here for me to try, and it had one of the best-sounding kick drums I've heard in my life. I bought one on the spot. It's got a really resonant, big, full tone. Miro says he gets it by using an ultra-thin shell and by having none of the usual hardware holes in the drums, so that it has extra resonance. It's a great design.”
http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_la_grapevine_14/
At Hollywood's Paramount Recording Studios, I found producer/engineer Darryl Swann cutting tracks with rising superstar Macy Gray. A 70s vibe pervaded the Focusrite console-equipped Studio C brought on not by decor and equipment but by attitude with the studio set up for anything and everything, and...
