Nick Ruffini of Drummer’s Resource leads this nice in-depth interview with Indie Studio Drummer’s Dylan Wissing. Over the course of an hour Nick and Dylan discuss drums, music, starting out, the state of the music industry, and a whole bunch of other things.
Very pleased to announce that our resident studio drummer Dylan Wissing has contributed drum tracks to two albums that got Grammy nominations in 2014 – Kanye West’s Yeezus (Best Rap Album) and Girl on Fire by Alicia Keys (Best R&B Album). This makes a career total of four Grammy nominations and one win (Drake, Take Care, Best Rap Album 2013) for Wissing. Fingers are crossed for the awards show January 26th…
Need more hours in the day, to keep up with blog updates… Here’s the news from September for Triple Colossal Studios:
Indie Studio Drummer’s Dylan Wissing is featured in a two-page spread in the November issue of Modern Drummer Magazine.
Read more Kanye Gold, Modern Drummer, Valvoline – The News from September
Recorded a mere two weeks before the album hit stores, Dylan Wissing of Indie Studio Drummer adds drum tracks to the lead song on Kanye West’s latest release Yeezus. Appearing in the tune “On Site,” drums were recorded at Triple Colossal Studios in Hoboken, NJ and mixed by industry heavyweight Ken Lewis. The song was produced by Kanye and Daft Punk. Percussionist (and Triple Colossal Studio Manager) Matt Teitelman makes his major label debut on the same track. Word is it will be debuting at #1, we’ll see shortly… Read more Dylan Wissing Drumming on Latest Kanye West Album “Yeezus”
DRUM! Magazine’s July 2013 issue features session drummer Dylan Wissing of Indie Studio Drummer in the “Single Strokes” column. Wissing discusses the challenges of building a studio that was hit by two hurricanes in a row, as well as his work with Alicia Keys, Kanye West, Drake and others. The full article is available here:
We’re huge fans of the recording/engineering blog SonicScoop, so it’s a real honor to be featured on their site. “Is this innovative studio the new king of NYC drum rooms? Our latest ‘Sweet Spot’ is a strong contender,” says SonicScoop. Take a peek at our massive wall of drums, too (and that’s only a fraction of the collection)!
www.sonicscoop.com/2013/03/10/recording-sweet-spot-triple-colossal-studios-hoboken-nj
Session drummer Dylan Wissing in his Triple Colossal Studios of Hoboken, NJ. Providing Grammy-winning, Platinum selling, #1 Charting drum tracks to everyone!
– Photo by Kristie Andreula for Frontkick Productions, www.frontkickproductions.com 
The wall of drums in Triple Colossal Studios – sets and snares from GMS, Drum Workshop, Ludwig, Slingerland Radio Kings, Leedy Black Elites (engraved brass and one ply mahogany), Gretsch and Tama. www.indiestudiodrummer.com/triplecolossalstudios
– Photo by Kristie Andreula for Frontkick Productions, www.frontkickproductions.com
The Triple Colossal microphone preamplifier rack: API 3124, A Designs Pacifica, Universal Audio 4-7110d, Seventh Circle Audio lunchbox with N72, A12 and T15 pres, and a vintage stereo Magnacordette tube pre.
In a distant land long ago, our resident session drummer Dylan Wissing graduated with a degree in French from Indiana University. Old worlds are now colliding with new: it’s Dylan’s first appearance in Batterie Magazine from France! The translation, helpfully provided by the article’s author Patrick Buchmann:
Alicia Keys’s newest album has an impressive number of producers, arrangers and programmers. Only Dylan Wissing plays live drums on « Girl On Fire » which seemed programmed though. It’s just the other way around here for ‘When it’s all over’ : sounds pretty much like the real drums were played but they were programmed with ‘maestria!’
Dig the transcription to Alicia Keys’ song “When It’s All Over” – a completely programmed part, but it sounds amazing (and fooled Patrick and I into thinking it was tracked live by some badass jazz drummer). Vive la France!
We’ve barely had time to breathe here at Indie Studio Drummer, so much has happened since August. Here’s a wrap-up of highlights:
Playing drums on Drake‘s #1 charting (and I believe Platinum-selling by this point) album Take Care.We’re on the track “Lord Knows” Read more Six month wrap-up: Grammy nomination w/ Kanye & Jay-Z, on #1 Album “Take Care” w/ Drake, “I Love My B___s” w/ Rick Ross, and a brand new studio!Thanks, Musicians Union for the heads-up (several months after the fact, but that’s fine by me)…
Apparently the Kanye West / Jay-Z track “Power” I played drums on is prominently featured on the show “Gossip Girls!” If, like everyone here at Indie Studio Drummer, you are dying to find out just what happened on the episode, it’s chronicled in exhaustive detail here:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/10/gossip-girl-recap-the-greatest-aphrodisiac.html
Never a dull moment with Blair, Juliette, and Serena!
We at Indie Studio Drummer are extremely pleased to announce that our resident drummer Dylan Wissing is playing drums on Kanye West’s “Power” remix (Roc-A-Fella), featuring Jay-Z and Swizz Beatz! Read more Playing Drums on Kanye West’s “Power” Remix with Jay-Z!
Crazy week – literally the instant my son was born (I mean, right there in the delivery room!), Grammy-winning, mega-platinum producer Ken Lewis (Kanye West, Lenny Kravitz, Beastie Boys, a zillion others) texted to say that we had an emergency session for a VERY high-profile hip hop artist that needed to be done immediately, if not sooner… Read more Back in studio with producer extraordinaire Ken Lewis