I'm a professional session and stage drummer. I work in my professional Recording Studio where I also recorded drums for some important productions. I'm specialized in every genre from Pop, Jazz, Funk, Soul, Disco, Hip-Hop, Rock, etc... Check my YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EioxMDJ1FAY
My work process is listening to the track received and based on the client's references and my inspirations and skills I look for the suited sounds through my instruments and microphones positions.
All I need is
-Your .wav track with bitrate/kHz info
-Click tempo
-Your personal indications and references
..so feel free to write me!
I'll work for you in my professional Recording studio with Logic Pro X (Focal Solo6 BE and Yamaha NS-10 Monitor)
Check my Setup in "Gear Highlights"!
With the professional setup of my studio I can guarantee quality sound and offer also drum mixing service if required.
My offer includes 9 drum stems and one free revision, in 3 days delivery.
I ask an additional payment for other revisions, for every additional tack needed (like room or percussion or anything you need) and drum mix & master
Send me an email through 'Contact' button above and I'll get back to you asap.
Credits
Discogs verified credits for Francesca PratticoEndorse Francesca127 Reviews - 20 Repeat Clients
check_circleVerifiedThis was my 3rd experience with Francesca and the drum part was done super quick and to an excellent standard. Francesca was great to work with an I thought excellent value. I will be coming back in the near future for my 4th track
check_circleVerifiedFrancesca is definitely a great drummer. Proud to work with her.
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We've collaborated twice within a week. I love Francesca's drumming style—her groove, rhythm and tone are all excellent. Highly recommend this drummer!
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Francesca is an excellent drummer with remarkable efficiency. The recording quality is outstanding, and communication went very smoothly. I will definitely collaborate with her again next time.
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Excellent!
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My drum track was done very quickly and it was exactly what I asked for. I loved the sound and the playing of the first one so much that I used Francesca again and this time the quality was at the same high standard.
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Excellent drummer, very fast too, and with a very good sound. Highly recommended.
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Francesca is an amazing musician and is working in an amazing space to capture her sound. One of the absolute best here on this platform. Don't think twice. Just send her your tracks and be prepared to smile.
check_circleVerifiedShe's an exceptional drummer.
This is my second project with her, and if I could, I'd hire her for the rest of my life.
The sound is there, the dynamics and her playing are more than perfect.
The turnaround time is very, very short.
I hope to continue working with her.
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Fast turnaround, professional and friendly communication, and absolutely fantastic work on the drum tracks.
check_circleVerifiedAmazing job as always, great sound and playing!!!
check_circleVerifiedFrancesca is truly a great drummer. I really enjoyed her work on my tune. Very professional. She demonstrated attention to detail on the parts and sections throughout the song. Very Nice Work!!
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She's an amazing drummer.
Why do more when you can say it all with such rare elegance?
Her sound is exceptional, and the quality of the WAV files is fantastic.
I was able to mix the drums in no time.
I'll be back soon to ask for more, much more...
Thank you so much, Francesca, you're officially part of the band now. :-) 
check_circleVerifiedwonderful again! hire francesca!
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Turned in an amazing performance for a song and in record time!
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Amazingly fast and very communicative! Francesca's drumming made my track easily a thousand times better for her contribution.
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Good communication and great drums! Thank you
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Welcome to the Pocket Queen. Francesca is a musician with all of the feel you'll need for your track(s).
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Very quick turn around and excellent communicator
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Francesca is as solid a musician as you will find here on Sound Better and your tracks will sound better with Francesca playing on them. Thank you Francesca!
Interview with Francesca
Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?
A: I'm so proud of the productions that I manage in my studio as sound engineer and as musician but I am also proud of how collaborations are going on a site like this, I find very fascinating to collaborate from so far away parts of the world and to compare myself with other cultures, especially in a period particular like this.
Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?
A: I'll always do my best!
Q: What do you like most about your job?
A: Loving that I have to be always different but preserving my personality and my artistic taste
Q: What's the biggest misconception about what you do?
A: That women cannot be drummers like men.. but it's true! We have something more!
Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?
A: I started playing piano when i was young then at school with my music teacher that brings me to drums. Since then I've continued to play drums live and in studios until I created my recording studio where I work as sound engineer and as musician.
Q: What type of music do you usually work on?
A: I worked in different genres way like pop, jazz, disco, hip-hop, blues, rock.
Q: What do you bring to a song?
A: I hope to bring something different through who I am, what I have learned, through my research on sound and for sure everything professionally, with respect and kindness, trying to be as suitable as possible to the different conditions.
Q: Tell us about your studio setup.
A: I have a professional and cozy recording studio where I grow up every day and I work for a lot of type of projects! That's my setup: Logic Pro X Focal Solo 6 BE and Yamaha NS-10 monitors Apollo Universal Audio interface Millennia HV-3D and Antelope Discrete 8 as preamps Neumann km184 Neumann U87 Lewitt LCT 441 FLEX Sennheizer MD421 Electrovoice RE20 AKG 451 AKG D112 Shure SM57 NS-10 Sub kick microphone Yamaha 9000 Power Recording Custom and Pork Pie Drums. Yamaha, Pearl, Hollywood and Pork Pie Snare. Meinl, Zildijan and Ufip Cymbals.
Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?
A: Trying to learn as much as possible from any kind of genre and musician to be flexible!
Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.
A: I record drum tracks for clients' song starting by them indication and going on trough my touch and inspiration about!
Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?
A: I think that the best to do is to have the ideas clear before start working to be sure that the product delivered could be fine for project needs! With my experience I think it can be done themselfs before hiring or by talking with provider before starting to work on.
Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?
A: I would love to play with Jorja Smith, I think she is a very talented and inspiring modern artist!
Q: What's your strongest skill?
A: Metrics and dynamics!
Q: What's your typical work process?
A: Listening to the track received and based on the client's references and my inspirations I look for the suited sounds through the instruments and microphones positions.
I was the mixing engineer and drummer in this production
- Live drum trackAverage price - $100 per song
My offer includes 9 drum stems and one free revision, 3 days delivery.
I ask an add payment for other revisions, for every add tack needed (like room or percussion) and drum mix & master.
- Yamaha9000 PorkPie Hollywood Pearl Tama; Meinl Zildijan Ufip Cymbals; UAD Interface; MillenniaHV-3D Antelope GML Preamps; Neumann U87
- KM184 AKG414 Lewitt441FLEX
- EVRE20 SennheizerMD421 AKGD112
- 451
- 414 ShureSM57
- SM81
- SM7B NS-10 SubKick Microphone
For your first order I will record some extra tracks for you!
