The Recording Club
Platinum Membership · Prepared for Soultone Cymbals

Iki put his first cymbals on real kits.
We built a whole club on that idea.

In 2003, Soultone started on the floor of The Drum Connection: cymbals set up on acoustic kits so players could actually hit them, selling faster than Iki could make them. The Recording Club runs on the same belief: gear belongs in rooms, in sessions, in hands. Platinum puts Soultone inside the building, and the four doors below are already built and live. Click anything.

The Soultone build

The showroom floor, twenty-three years later

What worked at The Drum Connection works here: cymbals under sticks, not on hooks. Four things Platinum builds for Soultone, all included in the membership.

A drum kit with cymbals in a rehearsal room at The Recording Club
In the rooms

Soultone on every kit

Your cymbals go on the kits in our rehearsal and live rooms, where working drummers play and record every day. Every session is a demo; every recording is your sound in somebody's record.

A mic'd drum kit in the iso booth at The Recording Club
In the building

Featured, then followed up

Your cymbals get featured on the kits, and we print a Soultone look book to live in the building. When a player finishes a session and asks about the ride they just hit, staff hand them the book and send them to you.

A mockup of the Soultone Backstage owners app
Built in-house

A Soultone owners app

Players register their cymbals by serial, artists carry verified badges, drops and events land in one feed. The full screen-by-screen vision is live in the app board. We shipped the same app for Darryl Jones's bass owners, so yours is a build, not a promise.

The lounge at The Recording Club
On the stage

A home base in Santa Monica

A Google Maps pin at the club's address, your endorsers hosted for sessions in our rooms, artist content shot on the 5-camera stage. Soultone works out of the club like it's your office.

The list is not fixed. Platinum means the club's design and engineering team works for Soultone. Sites and apps are designed and built at no cost, then maintained at $70 an hour, half our public rate. You hold every cymbal to 120%. Tell us what you need and we hold the build to the same.

The vision · live and clickable

A vision for the new soultonecymbals.com

This is what Platinum's build team sees for Soultone's web presence, built as a working concept: 43 pages, every series, every artist, live right now. Click anything below and walk through it.

Proof

We already did this for the Rolling Stones’ bassist

Darryl Jones, bassist for the Rolling Stones, joined Platinum. The club rebuilt his company's website, shipped an iPhone app for the players who own his basses, and designed the wall where his basses will sell in the building. All of it included in his membership. Read the full case study.

The club itself

And the studio is still the studio

Everything above sits on top of the core of Platinum: the best rooms in the building, whenever you want them. See them all at therecording.club/studios.

24-hour accessThe building is yours around the clock
House engineerAn engineer on your sessions
Priority bookingFirst call on every room
Four seatsBring your band, your team, your partners

Put a kit in the room

Walk the building with us. We'll set Soultones up on a kit in the rehearsal room, hear how the company runs, and sketch your build before you leave.