Drummer, producer, and songwriter Trevor Lawrence Jr. is having a big year – two Grammy nominations, sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall, and a mic setup that's entirely AUDIX from kick drum to podcast desk.
Some musicians have music in their blood. For Trevor Lawrence Jr., music runs deep in the family. His parents were original members of Stevie Wonder’s Wonder Love band, and his grandfather was part of gospel group the Dixie Hummingbirds, who picked up a Grammy alongside Paul Simon for Love Me Like a Rock back in 1974. Growing up with that kind of lineage, it’s little surprise that TLJ has spent over 30 years associated with Grammy-nominated and winning projects himself.
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This year, he adds two more nominations to that tally. His collaboration with Terrace Martin and Kenyon Dixon on Come As You Are, an album that weaves together jazz, R&B, hip-hop, and gospel, is nominated for Best Progressive R&B Album. A track from that record, WeMaj, which Lawrence Jr. co-wrote and produced, is also nominated for Best Melodic Rap Performance.
Alongside the Grammy recognition, Lawrence Jr. recently wrapped one of the more unusual gigs in recent memory: serving as musical director and drummer for the Attack on Titan Beyond the Walls World Tour, an orchestral live performance of the beloved anime franchise. The tour concluded with two sold-out nights at Carnegie Hall in November 2025 — a room that tends to raise the stakes considerably.
For all of it – the studio sessions, the live dates, and his multimedia podcast The TrevBeats Show — Lawrence Jr. runs a full AUDIX microphone setup. His drum kit alone features the D6X on kick, D6 mics on floor toms, D2 clip-ons for rack toms, SCX25A overheads on cymbals, an F9 pencil mic under the hi-hat, and a PDX520 underneath the snare. For the podcast, he reaches for the PDX720. He says, “When I am in control of my live sound, you won’t see anything else but AUDIX. Because with AUDIX, I know exactly what’s going to happen.”
Transparency is the word he keeps coming back to. With AUDIX, there are no over-hyped frequencies and no need to fix things in the mix – just clean, accurate capture. As he puts it: “I’ve never had anything drum-wise sound that clean. It just sounds incredible.”
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