Tyler Ingersoll
Hi, I'm Tyler. I play drums.
I’m a drummer with more than 30 years of live, touring, and studio experience. I record remote sessions and collaborate with other musicians from my home studio in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
Current Playing
Recent video clips
Covers, collaborations, sessions, and musical ideas.
Hear how flexible my hybrid kit can be
My kit is a hybrid: real Zildjian cymbals, with the kick, snare, and toms recorded as MIDI. That lets me choose drum sounds that fit the song after I play it, while keeping the feel of my playing. Press play and switch between kits. You’ll hear the same groove under every one.
Zildjian K Sweets through the API 3124V mic preamp. The shell sounds are Addictive Drums 2 presets driven by the unedited MIDI.
Latest posts
How I record, what I’m working on in the studio, and how my hybrid kit keeps changing.
What I hear while I play
How I shape the drums in my headphones, where the song and click enter the mix, and what stays separate in the recorded files.
Read the postWhat changed in my studio this fall
Why I moved from software monitoring to a Roland V71 and analog processors, and what changed about sitting down to play.
Read the postA two-hour remote drum session
I followed the artist’s programmed drum part from printed charts, then added my own touch as we worked together remotely.
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More than 30 years behind the kit
I started out playing in garage bands and spent much of high school in the jazz band, an experience that still shapes how I approach the drums. In the late 1990s, I played drums and bass with Skitzo Calypso, then kept playing in several groups at the University of Delaware, including the jazz band. That led to The Healthy Doses, where I learned how to gig and tour. We played Newark venues including Deer Park Tavern and The East End Cafe, as well as Phish’s Camp Oswego festival.
That work led to Omnisoul, which grew from a regional independent band into The Crash Motive after we signed with Wind-up Records. We toured nationally, opened for Sugar Ray, Collective Soul, Lifehouse, The B-52s, and The All-American Rejects, and recorded at Avatar Studios in New York City and The Pass in Los Angeles. Our music appeared on Fantastic 4: The Album, in Madden NFL 07, and during the Super Bowl XLII broadcast.
After The Crash Motive, I co-founded SpeakerCity and spent five years playing as many as three shows a week at weddings, corporate events, clubs, universities, and a weeklong residency at Sloppy Joe’s in Key West. Today, I continue to record, collaborate, and make music from my home studio in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
See selected credits and recent work