Take your music to the next level with our hand-picked team of in-house professionals
Take your music to the next level with our hand-picked team of in-house professionals
Hiring a session drummer can significantly enhance the quality and impact of your music, regardless of your genre or style. Session drummers bring a unique blend of skill, creativity, and versatility to the table, enabling them to adapt to your musical vision and elevate your tracks to new heights. Whether you're producing rock, pop, jazz, hip-hop, or any other genre, a skilled session drummer can provide the rhythmic foundation and energy needed to bring your compositions to life. With their extensive experience and musical intuition, session drummers can add depth, dynamics, and emotion to your recordings, ensuring that every beat resonates with listeners and enhances the overall impact of your music.
Choosing Musiversal's session drummers offers several distinct advantages:
Authenticity: Live drum recordings capture the organic energy and feel of a real drummer, infusing your music with a sense of spontaneity and vitality that programmed beats simply can't replicate.
Professionalism: Our session drummers are seasoned professionals with years of experience performing and recording across various genres and styles. They possess the technical skill and musical sensitivity needed to deliver exceptional performances consistently, ensuring that your recordings meet the highest standards of quality and precision.
Convenience: With Musiversal's remote recording platform, you can collaborate with top-tier session drummers from anywhere in the world, eliminating the need for costly studio bookings and travel expenses. Our streamlined process allows you to book sessions, communicate with drummers, and receive high-quality recordings promptly, all from the comfort of your own home or studio.
Flexibility: Whether you need a tight backbeat, intricate fills, or dynamic percussion arrangements, our session drummers can tailor their playing to suit your specific musical requirements and preferences. From subtle grooves to explosive rhythms, they can bring your creative vision to life with skill and precision.
Value: Accessing professional drum tracks has never been more affordable. With Musiversal's subscription model, you gain unlimited access to our roster of talented session drummers at a fixed monthly rate, providing exceptional value for your music production needs.
The cost of hiring session drummers can vary depending on factors such as experience, expertise, and geographic location. In traditional studio settings, hourly rates for session drummers typically range from $100 to $500 or more, with additional fees for studio rental and production services. However, with Musiversal's subscription model, you can access highly skilled session drummers at a fixed monthly rate, offering significant cost savings compared to traditional hiring methods. Our transparent pricing structure ensures that you know exactly what to expect, with no hidden fees or surprises.
During a remote drums recording session with Musiversal, you can expect a seamless and collaborative process designed to bring your musical vision to life. Our experienced session drummers will work closely with you to understand the mood, tempo, and feel of your music, ensuring that their performances align with your creative vision. Our drummers usually knock it out of the park in one or two takes, so expect to be blown away and have plenty of time for punch-ins and overdubs! With real-time communication and high-quality audio streaming, you can provide feedback, request adjustments, and direct the recording process in real time, all from the comfort of your own environment. After the session, you'll receive high-fidelity recordings promptly, from every mic position, ready to integrate into your projects.
After your remote Drums session, you'll receive high-fidelity files encompassing every recorded take. Additionally, for each take, you'll receive individual stem files captured from each microphone meticulously set up in the session drummer's studio (usually more than 10 mics for our drum roster musicians!). These stem files, delivered in .wav format, offer you utmost flexibility and control over your recordings. Moreover, if you need assistance with tasks such as comping, editing, mixing, or mastering your drum files, rest assured that these services are readily available and included as part of the Musiversal Unlimited subscription, ensuring a seamless and comprehensive music production experience.
Preparing for your remote Drums session is really straightforward - simply provide a backing track or demo for the drummer to play along with. While a chords chart or song structure with lyrics can be helpful, it's not mandatory. Our Drummers are world-class and adept at adapting to different musical styles with varying levels of preparation.
At Musiversal, we're dedicated to recruiting top-tier talent, including skilled session drummers with a passion for music and a commitment to excellence. Our recruitment process is rigorous and selective, ensuring that every session drummer on our platform possesses the necessary skills, experience, and professionalism to deliver outstanding recordings consistently. We evaluate candidates based on their musical proficiency, technical expertise, communication skills, and ability to adapt to remote recording environments. Through a combination of auditions, interviews, and performance assessments, we handpick session drummers who meet our stringent criteria and share our commitment to quality and creativity.
Booking a remote drums recording session with Musiversal is simple and straightforward. Log in to our platform, browse our curated selection of talented session drummers, and choose the artist that best fits your musical style and preferences. Select your desired date and time, provide basic track information, and specify any additional requirements or preferences you may have. Once your booking is confirmed, you'll receive all the necessary details and instructions to prepare for your session. With Musiversal, you can enjoy professional drum recordings without the hassle of traditional studio bookings or travel arrangements, all from the comfort of your own space.
Musiversal's Unlimited subscription offers users unlimited sessions with our roster of talented session musicians, producers, audio engineers and experts, for a flat monthly fee of $199 per month. You can schedule up to 4 sessions at any given time.
Due to high demand for Musiversal Unlimited, we’ve implemented a waitlist to ensure that we can provide the best possible experience for all subscribers. This approach allows us to hire more musicians and add sessions in advance, so that when you join you’ll have a truly unlimited and exceptional experience.
On average, you can expect to wait around one week. However, wait times may vary, ranging from just a few days to a maximum of three weeks.
No, joining the Musiversal Unlimited Waitlist is completely free. There are no fees or obligations until you choose to subscribe.
Absolutely! Once you join the waitlist, we’ll email you with the date you can expect your invitation. On that date, you’ll receive a follow-up email containing your exclusive link to subscribe to Musiversal Unlimited.
Even if you’re not prepared to start recording sessions, Musiversal offers a range of valuable services, including music production, mixing and songwriting advice, DAW tutoring, and pre-production support. Our goal is to equip you with the knowledge and resources you need to feel confident and ready for your recording sessions.
Additionally, while you’re on the waitlist, we’ll provide helpful content to guide you in preparing your music and getting to know our roster, so you can hit the ground running when you’re ready!
At Musiversal, we offer a wide range of instruments and services for booking to suit all your creative needs.
Our catalog includes traditional instruments like acoustic guitars (7-string, nylon-string, and steel-string), drums, electric guitars, banjo, cello, clarinet, double bass, flute, viola, and violin, as well as more unique offerings such as the cavaquinho, cümbüş, charango, ronroco, and oud. We also provide a variety of saxophones (alto, tenor, soprano, baritone), trumpet, trombone (bass and tenor), euphonium, tuba, and Japanese percussion instruments like taikos, atari gane bells, and hyoshigi woodblocks.
For those with more specific recording or production needs, we have a range of analog synths (including the Moog Sub 37, Prophet Rev 2, and Roland JX-8P), drums, percussion, pedal steel, and orchestral percussion like the vibraphone. Additionally, if you're looking for something even more specialized, we offer instruments such as the Persian santur, hammered dulcimer, electric oud, electric violin, and lap steel.
Our services go beyond instruments. You can book sessions for Ableton Live, FL Studio, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Reaper, Garageband, and Luna advice, as well as production services like beat making, audio editing, mixing, mastering, and pre-production. We also provide songwriting advice, marketing advice, meet and greet sessions, transcription and arrangement add-ons, vocals recording advice, and multilingual vocals recording in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese (both Brazilian and European), Russian, Catalan, Bulgarian, and Italian.
Whether you're looking for instrument recordings, production, or expert advice from songwriting to promotion, we have you covered and supported every step of the journey!
In the Musiversal app, pick an artist, book a session, and collaborate live with high-quality video/audio. Recording sessions are 35 minutes, and 50 minutes for Editing, Quick Mix, Mastering, Singing or Advice sessions. You’ll receive your files within 15 minutes after the session.
Yes, our 45-minute Mastering and Quick Mix services are included with your subscription. The Quick Mix service provides a draft mix designed to elevate your sound quickly, working with a professional mixing engineer via livestream.
For optimal results, we recommend booking our Full Mix service, which includes a comprehensive 6-hour session and a 1-hour livestream halfway through for your feedback. The Full Mix is available as an add-on to your subscription for $199 per song.
Our Mixing and Mastering engineers are some of the best in the business, with multiple Grammy awards to their names!
Musiversal sessions are full buyouts. That means you own 100% of the copyright and mastering rights. We’re here to remove barriers, not add them!
We provide musicians a stable income equivalent to a $48,000 full-time salary in the US, adjusted for local costs worldwide, rather than a per-gig payment.
If you're unhappy with your first month and you haven't had more than 1 session, simply let us know and you'll get a full refund!
Yes! You can cancel your unlimited subscription anytime to avoid future charges. However, rejoining later will require waitlist re-entry and a new invitation.
Every session with our roster is included in your subscription - no additional fees
Each session is a full buyout; you own all the rights to all music you make with us
Enjoy a 30-day, 100% money back guarantee; and you can cancel at anytime