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The adjustability on the ICs is nice but kinda redundant once you get the pedal the way you like it. They feel so heavy too, Elim > all.
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Theyre r00bish! Huh? They're easily the smoothest of all pedals because of some double bearing structure EDIT: http://www.pearldrummersforum.com/showpost.php?p=1845773307&postcount=21, but they have bad durability problems. Heavy kickers can snap the footboard in half or break the chain off: http://www.pearldrummersforum.com/showthread.php?t=60291 just occured to me, thats a verry deep bassdrum. is that a 22x22? Not according to Tama: http://www.ibanez.co.jp/tama_artist.php?artist_id=6 (Domin Howard, eh?) but it does look deeper than 18. His new Mirage set has a 22x20, maybe it's like that. His toms get shallower and his kick keeps getting deeper. http://board.muse.mu/showpost.php?p=1910758&postcount=375 In case you didn't see it I'd hate for you to think I was ignoring you. At this point your existence is superfluous, kindly sod off.
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Good spotting. You can see the reflection of the heel plate in the bass drum head and it's too angular to be an IC. As the pedal swings back and forth you can see it's the DW9000 shape, too:
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Who can say? Perhaps the best way might be to recognize the irony in your telling me to not be so self absorbed but also that you're not going to give me another chance, as though it somehow matters. Good call on the rolleyes thing, too, you must be the resident wit around here. Twat.
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I won't lose sleep over it. Get a grip, I only said that becuase chris was trying to school me.
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I'm aware that the 1 up 2 down kit is pretty much the standard. I think you'll find I know quite a bit about drums, in fact. Oh well stand back! If it looks better that's a fantastic reason to ruin your kits ergonomics. I'm noticing a chronic lack of brain activity from you. You might want to have it looked at. <snip gratuitous bashing> Sigh. Read this twice if that's what it takes to induce cognition. Firstly I asked why would Dom offset his toms. People set up their drum kits primarily so it works for them, so that the drum placement is conducive to ease of play. Now, to offset your toms is make a space in precisely the region where the arm gravitates to in its relaxed position. Thus percussion items in this area are generally easiest to play. When one shifts a tom out of this prime location it is usually to shift the ride into it to promote easier sticking. It makes no sense to offset your kit but leave the ride in the sam location as it would occupy if the missing tom was still there. All I asked is "why would he do that?" If you prefer the ride down there, why remove a tom as its presence will only promote easier, speedier, more fluid and less taxing fills, not to mention giving you another sound colour to work with. Wow. I know when I'm beaten. Watch out, Voltaire. This analogy makes sense to you... does it? To all you rabid fanboys (or girls) let me clarify this: there is nothing wrong with the way Dom sets his toms up, nor with the way Dom sets his ride up, I merely wanted to induce some discussion on the finer points of drum kit architecture. Moving on to cymbal technique I never said Dom can't set his cymbals up that way if he likes them, nor that he even shouldn't, just that the way he plays them is DETRIMENTAL TO THE LIFE OF HIS CYMBALS. Likely he knows this and just doesn't care. Cheers.
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Point out where I said he can't do what he likes with his stuff. I never said he can't set his cymbals up like that or that he shouldn't, I said that it's technically WRONG. Is this an English comprehension free zone? Allegedly your people invented the language, I shouldn't have to do this. It's as though the second someone even implies Muse may not be perfect musicians the fanboys come out of the woodwork to defend them. Are you saying you don't recognize crashing down into the cymbal on the edge as being wrong? It's 22x20. Also, i am 100% sure he uses dw pedals now. He uses the beaters, I haven't seen the whole pedal.
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This is rediculous, there is no such thing as a right or wrong setup. This setup is obviously nice and comfortable for him (other wise he wouldn't use it). BZZT. A bad setup is one that destroys your equipment. Of course he may not care given the bouts of wanton havoc his bandmates are prone to but that doesn't change the fact that the way he plays his cymbals is technically wrong. His setup may be dreadful for YOU but then again, yours would proberly be dreadful for him. I didn't say it was bad because it was uncomfortable, I said it was bad because it disallows proper playing (and there is "proper" drumming). Actually I think he'd love my setup, I'm a lefty and I've got proper cymbal heights/angles. Proper is the way John Bonham has his cymbals. I know the acryllic kit is a tama, but what i was saying is that tama dont allow endorcees to use that kit. No, Mirage kits are currently available for order by us mere mortals and have been for weeks, Tama will be encouraging their endorcerr to put the name out there. The only standard hardware option on Mirages is black nickel, Doms new kit is a custom order that Tama made for him (under the assumption that he'd be playing it, I guess), not one that he arranged to slyly buy off some showroom floor. Luckily though, the quote I was replying to wasn't one of yours.
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OMG LOLZ. You can understand why one would would gladly fuck up their tom placements so that it looks "cooler"? Gee, the school drum kit seems to work well enough for Daniel Adair, and Dom, too in Stockholm Syndrom USA. Dom's kit is easy enough to wank over, looking at it parallel everything is set up right, the angle of cymbals are fit, angles of tom's are fit, everything is perfect. Wtf? I hate to be that guy but his toms angles are identical to anyone elses who uses 1up2down and his cymbal positioning is dreadful. Have you watched Glastonbury? They're too high and parallel to the floor meaning with every edge on stroke they get closer and closer to death, particularly the 19 because he has almost no technique at all in that arm when crash riding. Precisely how do you define "perfect"? In my (and the rest of the worlds) eyes it's when nothing can be improved upon, so it's kinda stupid to call his setup perfect when his cymbal positioning is undeniably empirically bad (regardless of your playing style or taste). No offense to him of course, he's one of the myriad of fantastic drummers who don't look after their cymbals. All of this superficial nonsense about how the kit "looks" and everyone's still failed to address the original question: why offset your toms but not put your ride in the hole? Is it just habit throwing back to a time when he did utilize the hole (eg Hullabaloo)? Could it be because his 14 floor is too deep to position properly on a rack and he doesn't want to alter the melodic intervals between his toms by getting a different size or compromize his playing style by shifting the 12x8 up to the same height?
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That wasn't the question. The question was why would you offset your toms but leave the ride in the uncomfortable position. As it is, he's got the gap, which hinders long fills, and the ride is still off to his left which fails to take advantage of the gap. He obviously perfers the ride off the the left like that so then why ditch the second rack tom? Why not use 2 up 1 down, it can only promote speed. He does play kit spanning fills, on Knights of Cydonia and the end of Feeling Good. Regardless, offsetting your toms and then leaving the ride off to the side is pointless.
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I hate offset configs (I use 2 up 2 down), there have way too much room to cover during fills IMO, so to anyone who uses them, why the hell does Dom offset his lower two toms but then place the ride direclty behind his 14x12? I was of the understanding that offset configs were made to get the ride in a more comfortable location (over the bass) for tight sticking at the expense of tom ergonomics. If that's the case, why would you squander the benefits like he does? looking at the rock am ring footage from 2004 - we were all adamant that he uses a single pedal. looking at the footage he has a double iron cobra pedal! He kinda switches a bit. You can see the double IC at the start of Citizen Erased on Hullabaloo, he uses it for the start of Cave only. I guess he only uses it when the setlist demands it.
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Its only because hes too ugly to be at the front of the band.. "What" is?
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Hmm, I bet he's playing Hysteria here: I suppose the other one could be a brilliant finish Avedis but I doubt it, he's never used them before. He's used Ks before, just never in conjunction with ACs:
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It's just this one:
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I'm more inclined to scream "GET A GRETCH CATALINA MAPLE instead of those swingstars". They cost about the same (from MassMusic), the Catalina is a 6 piece set and the shells are fantastic quality (6 ply Taye Maple) as opposed to the soft philippine mahogany shells on the swingstars. I'll probably get in trouble if I link my site, but this is how you choose cymbal: Step 1: Enter music/drumming store Step 2: Ask for drumstick to test cymbals with Step 3: Hit every cymbal you find without looking at the label Step 4: Listen for the ones you like the sound of Step 5: Buy the cymbals you like the sound of Step 6: Look at label to see what you ended up with. You got everything right except for step 2: you bring your own, especially if you're testing rides. his contract with Tama has been terminated No it hasn't. I suspected so after SS but look at the lugs, those are Tamas (Tama make an acrylic line called Starclassic Mirage). Sigh, I'll have to go update Muse Wiki. EDIT: Done. That clip was obviously made during a lapse in the contract, when he, evidently grew to like the flavour of acrylic drums, and then went back to Tama when they released Mirage. Look at that pic of the Mirages, he's got an A Custom crash on his right and a K on his left. That's new. It would be nice to hear only a drum kit like that, without any other instruments. And then a regular kit for comparison. Acrylic shells are bright, crisp, open, not very warm and loud as hell. They have many of the tonal qualities of birch kits (which Dom has used in the past int he Starclassic Performer). I wonder how they'd sound as Starclassics (with die-cast hoops)? and I was quite suprised with how they sounded! They sounded alright....I thought the bass sounded loose - but it went really well with SBH and all the others..... Drums don't sound even slightly true to reality in recordings. They are tweaked and EQd and compressed and reverbed beyond recognition. He used a wooden bass drum for recording: http://muse.mu/img/bg_en/muse_ab4.jpg dunno why the pic cuts at the bottom The image was cut off while it was uploading.
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Wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_kit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymbal
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What song would you most like Muse to do a cover of?
Niles replied to Kodack's topic in Songs & Releases
Plasticine. I can hear it in my head, it's perfect. -
Hate to double post but there's no edit button... It's the trash, the classic china doesn't come in brilliant finish.
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The Oriental COD is used only in TIRO, he only added it for Absolution. Everywhere I've looked says that Doms kick is only 16" deep but it looks a regular 18" to me, source?