Hi, My name is Jason Meekins and I am a session drummer from Austin, Texas. I've been playing drums for over 20 year and I have been recording drums from my home studio for the past 5 years. I use Logic Pro X and I have excellent mics and mic pre amps. I play Paiste cymbals and Pearl drums! I'd love the opportunity to drum on your song!
All I need from you is an mp3 of your song with any instructions you have on drums. It would be best if your song is recorded to a metronome. If it isn't I can play right along with you and still hold a very steady and tasty groove. My rate is budget friendly and I usually deliver in 24-48hours.
I will send you a stereo mix wav file of my drums for your song, or I can send you each individual mic chanel (13 total) for you or your engineer to mix in your studio environment.
I look forward to working with you!
Tell me about your project and how I can help, through the 'Contact' button above.
427 Reviews - 101 Repeat Clients
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Communicated quickly and delivered the final recordings quickly. I sent over a demo of midi drums and he caught the vision. Jason is great to work with!
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This is the second time I've used Jason, and in both instances her is very easy to work with, timely, and professional.
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Jason is the very best, which is why I keep asking him to play drums on my songs!
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Great job again by Jason! I really like the simple, clean, yet punchy sound he creates for my mellow songs. They sound awesome.
It was a pleasure working with him again. He's professional and easy to collaborate with. I'm very pleased and impressed with his talent and turnaround time.
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Amazing as usual, He took my badly timed and crappy attempted beatbox and turned it to perfectly to what was in my head what a talent and pleasure to work it.
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Jason has great groove and really interpreted my song well. He is extremely professional and it was breeze communicating with him. I look forward to more future collaborations.
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Best drummer I have ever worked with, He never fails to deliver a great drum track.
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He excelled at playing the drums, and I thoroughly enjoyed working with this guy—great communication throughout.
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Jason has done a really good job of reading how the drums should compliment the keys track, and in a very timely fashion
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My second time working with Jason, he's a fantastic drummer and really easy to work with/super efficient!
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A great drummer, who gets an awesome tone with his kit. Also he's always a pleasure to work with.
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Great performance and great sounding stems. Jason is a great drummer and has pro setup to capture it. 5 stars!
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It's always a pleasure working with Jason. Super nice, professional, quick turn around and great tracks!
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Jason is able to help us to search the best way to arrange our music.
For the new track we hadn't idea, except the basic rhythm of the song.
He played what he thought.
We're enthusiastic for the result and he confirm our idea he's the best drummer we can meet to reach our sound. He's really patient and very professional in communicate with us and in spite of the very big distance between us is as to have him in the band. - check_circleVerified
Jason is great to work with! Quick turnaround and perfect on the first pass! Thank you Jason!
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Stellar drumming, stellar sound! And on top of that, an overall great guy. This is the second time my band has worked with Jason, and certainly not the last. I couldn't be happier.
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Jason is a true professional!!! Love working with him. And will def continue to do so. Quick turn around, sounds great makes post easy!!!!! Strongly recommend!!!! Great guy all together.
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He got back with same day and provided me with 2 sets of great stems and even put up with some errors on my part
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Jason is an excellent drummer, with outstanding sound quality in his recordings. He's a top pro and it showed once again on our second project together. He interprets well the style and beat that works with my songs. I like his attention to detail and swift delivery time.
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My experience with Jason on the first two songs of my album, can best be described as "Stellar". His focus laser-beams on the client's satisfaction and he always delivers in a timely manner. I look forward to working with him on the remaining songs.
Interview with Jason Meekins
Q: Tell us about your studio setup.
A: I use Logic Pro X, Shure Mics, Warm Audio and Neve Preamps. I play Pearl Masters drums and Paiste cymbals. I have an arsenal of snare drums in my studio that range in size from a 4 x 14 A&F brass snare to my custom 6.5 x 16 birch snare drum.
Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?
A: Dan Needham Will Kennedy Tommy Sims Dave Weckl Brain Frasier Moore Jeff Porcaro Ricky Lawson Ndugu Chancellor Danny Duncan
Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?
A: Music Production, Songwriting 10 years
Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?
A: Rascal Flatts, Lacrae, Britt Nicole.
Q: What type of music do you usually work on?
A: That's really hard to say... pretty regularly i work on rock, pop, hip hop, Gospel, r&b, country
Q: What do you bring to a song?
A: I've been playing for over 25 years both in the studio and on the road. I bring experience, groove, and feel to a song. I support the lyrics and music from the drum chair.
Q: What's your typical work process?
A: My typical work process starts with listening to the clients tracks and then talking with the client to get an understanding of their vision for the track. Then i record 2 takes to send to the client for review before sending individual wav files.
Q: What's your strongest skill?
A: Listening is one of many strengths
Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.
A: Drum Tracking
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- Pearl Masters Drums
- Paiste Cymbals
- Logic Pro X
- Apogee Rosetta 800
- Neve Mic Preamps
- Warm Audio Mic Preamps
- Ludwig Supraphonic
- A&F Snares
- Shure SM57
- Sennheiser MD 421
- Shure KSM32