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If you have a rack I think it'd be even easier, but I see rack owners as pretty full on people who probably know what they want anyway. I keep my rig small and so a rack is unnecessary (and unsightly, IMO). Anyway; it's new cymbal time and I'm set on this fairly eclectic mix: 14" Sabian AA Flat hats (natural finish) 18" Paiste Signature Full crash 19" Paiste 2oo2 crash 22" Paiste New Signature Dark Energy Mark II ride 16" Meinl Generation X Filter china I've tried the New Sig ride and I love it but I'm worried about the volume: it's almost $130 more expensive than the 2oo2 ride but alot quieter and lower pitched. I'm concerned about being stuck with a godly ride that no-one will be able to hear above the band. Holy shitballs they're legends.
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Ah yeah, more than likely. My hardware is arse but I'm slowly replacing it with Tama Roadpro stuff (my job is recently making it difficult to find time). I guess the concept is tenable with decent hardware but I don't see why you would: having legs is always going to be more stable and easier to setup/teardown.
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I have: Breaking Benjamin. Example songs: Diary of Jane and the one on the Halo 2 soundtrack. I'm almost a convert. All my toms are on racks, even stand appropriate sizes and I hate it. Having legs is so much more convenient and rigid, too. So if that be the case what exactly is the inclination to use one over the other? If you need to use two limbs two bass drums will be undeniably smoother. Smoother may not be the effect you're after, it's not what I'm after. I want texture. BTW, the start of Cave doesn't count as double bass because it's piss to do it on a single even without any special technique. I used to agree but now I think 2 up 1 down looks far cooler, I think it's a better config, too. For anyone who hasn't yet, I really suggest you try two toms right in front of you (not two over the bass, one over the bass and one to the left with an offset gap for the ride still). To be able to access two toms with very little upper arm movement was revolutionary for me. Plus I hate having to turn to reach stuff, laziness I guess.
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????????????? English much? I don't see how you get that. It's like saying that Magners and Bulmers are completely different and won't taste the same, regardless of how much the uninitiated think they do.
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Bearing edge and shell thickness are the most important parts. Pearl BRX and MRX sound nearly indistinguishable and yet Pearl MRX sounds noticeably different to Starclassic Maple and DW. If a Tama is the same thickness etc as a DW then it's a DW and not a Tama. Tama is different to DW, that's why DW is DW and Tama is Tama.
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For serious? So... if you compare two essentially identical drums... they'll sound similar? In case we're forgetting the notion was: Which is. Wrong.
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So... your point is that when you compare two different drums by different standards each they sound the same? Nice.
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Not really, because Pearl 4-ply is alot thicker than Tama 4-ply. There are also bearing edge shapes, distinct manufacturing process and that that other stuff I mentioned to consider.
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Acrylic is acrylic fine. The rest no. Every drum manufacturer has a distinct sound due primarily to the shape of their bearing edge and the repeatability of their quality control (good for eg Tama, Pearl and Yamaha, bad for DW) and also the number of plies and the thickness of each, presence of rings and distinct manufacturing processes. Starclassic Maple DOES sound deeper than Pearl MRX because of their much thinner shells.
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I don't pay attention to heel up/downness. I know from videos and what other people have told me that my foot moves all over the pedal when I'm playing, it's sort of got its own mind and knows what to do to get the notes I want. I have noticed that the faster you play the further back on the pedal the sweet spot gets so that when I play really fast continuous singles I end up with the heel plate underneath the arch of my foot and the ball playing the very base of the footboard and heel on the floor (which is possible because of the curved Eliminator heel plate ).
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The Monarch sprang first to mind when I saw Doms snare, it has the wrong lugs though.
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Dunno. I think there may be a clue in the shape of the bracket the bars rest on. Dom's has an I-shape whereas others have an S-shape. I would check the significance of this but I'm on dialup at the moment.
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Lol, was being a little sarcastic. ... sndrec32? Nah, but whenever I go to a club that has a wall screen where they play music videos I can identify every drum component in under 10 seconds of seeing it. As a party trick its gets old pretty fast thoug. And given the amount of Smirnoff I ususally have in me it's probably wrong alot of the time.
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Hahahahah thread < you
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I never said he had to respect it, I said he's a fuckwit for not. It's irreplaceble. You don't set fire to a Stradivarius unless you're too ignorant to know what you're playing or too stupid to care. Same thing here.
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It pisses me off every time Muse destroys a drum kit, but the Starclassics are cool because they're mass-produced. This is the troupe towelling a kit of extremely rare and desirable Peavy Radial Pros. Is there no respect?
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Thanks very much, I'm considering breaking them up into two parts each and adding a little of the original audio.
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Mass Music is probably the best for prices, however their international customer relations teh utter suck. I say use West Coast Drum Centre and get them to price match Mass Music.
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Fair enough, the video description said look out for the mistake so I thought that might have been it.
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Neither. I don't update the Muse Wiki anymore so it's probably got old stuff on it, Zildjian was never correct and he changes his setup almost nightly. If you post a picture I can tell you what cymbals they are though. EDIT: At Wembley he used the 14" K Custom Special Dry hats (constantly since Absolution, he must really like em), 18" K Custom Fast crash on the right, 19" A Custom crash on the left, what appears to be some model of 22" A Custom ride, an 18" FX Oriental China "Trash" (also quite a fixture, since Hullabaloo), 8" Avedis splash and 11" FX Oriental "Trash" Splash. The Gretsch kit had the 14" KC SD hats and 18" KC fast crash on the right, but with a 19" K crash on the left and I'm still undecided about the ride. The lathing patterns look very A Custom-ish (if somewhat subdued) but it also has an extremely high profile, suggesting that it may be a brilliant finish Avedis. The bell shape will be the decider, so I'll brb. DOUBLE EDIT: It's an A Custom. The wide blade lathing grooves differentiate it from the Avedises, and the only A model to be offered in brilliant nowadays is the Sweet Ride so since it has a flanged edge this cymbal is not one of those. It's interesting to note that he used Pearl hardware on the Gretsch kit and Tama hardware on the Tama kit. The Gretsch was probably an antique given the shape of the badge and the direct shell mount. It had a 20" bass, probably 13" and 16" toms with the matching 14x5.5" snare and was finished in champagne sparkle wrap.
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Nope. That drum has generic Tama lugs, Tama snare straps, a Tama MUS80B butt end, die-cast hoops, a non beaded shell and a pearlescent matt black finish, all of which differentiate it from a BB. And every other Tama snare currently available to the public, too. EDIT: ADAM, I was watching your TIRO video, the mistake, was it at 1:37? Anyway even if that's not it the beat you're playing in that section is not what it should be: Ki||xx-x|----|xx-x|----|xx-x|----|xx-x|xx-x|| Sn||--F-|--F-|--F-|--F-|--F-|--F-|--F-|--F-|| T2||xx--|----|xx--|----|xx--|----|xx--|xx--|| T3||xx--|----|xx--|----|xx--|----|xx--|xx--|| HH||pppp|pppp|pppp|pppp|pppp|pppp|pppp|pppp|| Ki||xx-x|----|xx-x|----|xx-x|----|xx-x|xx-x|| Sn||--x-|--x-|--x-|--x-|--x-|--x-|--F-|--F-|| T3||RR--|----|RR--|----|RR--|----|RR--|RR--|| RC||L-R-|R-R-|L-R-|R-R-|L-R-|R-R-|L-R-|L-R-|| HH||pppp|pppp|pppp|pppp|pppp|pppp|pppp|pppp|| You can see it on the Making of Absolution DVD. The stupid colours are necessary since the code tags no longer work.
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Wow. I honestly have no idea what that snare drum is. It's definitely a Tama but not any model currently available to the public. It's something new... a Dom Howard Signature, perhaps?
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Yeah I didn't think it was pockmarked enough to be a KC med, without knowing the context I'd say that it looks like an A Custom. EDIT: Maybe even a brilliant finish Avedis. I've no clue.
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He can't do that! Tama won't be happy. It's not even like he's using a shared kit and there's no time to set up the Tamas, like Portnoy using Jeff Campitelli's DWs and Paistes on the G3 DVD. Even then he had to put a message in the credit explaining that he exclusivly uses Tama and Sabian. 18" K Custom Fast crash, 19" K Dark crash (can't tell whether thin/med thin) and...................... 22" K Custom medium ride, I think.
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Tama started making the Mirages cos Portnoy wanted one. I think probably Dom's following here.