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Post by brikelly on Jan 28, 2004 5:40:05 GMT
I got my Yamaha direct-drive double pedal today - it's like night and day compared to my crappy Premier! I would thoroughly recommend it to anyone out there...the construction and materials are excellent, and its design is simplicity itself.
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Post by 2 on Jan 28, 2004 6:07:02 GMT
i just wanted to throw my 2 cents in with regards to damons sticks. yeah, they're big-ass vic firth's like those "747 rock" sticks or something. he plays with the butt-ends and takes off the plastic tips.
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Post by frozin on Feb 1, 2004 3:09:46 GMT
he uses the promark dc-10's, they don't have a tip however they taper a little bit. he holds them backwards and they are about the size of a 2b stick, 747's are more on the medium size, which is what I use sometimes.
damon plays the tama iron cobra double pedals and i borrowed a pair from my buddy today, amazingly I liked them alot compared to my axis pedals. I might even get rid of them now!
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Post by brikelly on Feb 2, 2004 16:14:37 GMT
Not to be a whore for Yamaha, but my double bass playing has improved more in the last week since buying the Flying Dragon pedal than it did in the two years that I've had my Premier. A seriously nice piece of equipment that's well worth trying out...
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Post by noahchicago on Feb 3, 2004 3:14:04 GMT
I have this awesome "problem" where I just buy drums that sound good. I have no issues with playing a mis-matched kit. Right now I'm using a 22" DW kick, 12" and 16" pearl masters studio (the birch ones) toms, and an old ludwig 18" with either a 6.5 by 14" Mapex phosphor bronze or Pearl Steve Ferrone signature snare. I love being able to add and subtract drums, cymbals and cymbal sizes depending on whatever I've been listening to and thinking about. Tonight at practice I'll use an old Ludwig 8" by 14" maple snare because I've been lisening to the Melvins H.A.T. album and I'm loving that deep woody trashy snare sound. Motherfuckin drum party!
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Post by Rocco on Feb 23, 2004 23:27:24 GMT
Hey, I've got a few Cex offerings - Get Your Badass On, Oops I Did It Again and Starship Galactica. I've heard Tall Dark and Handcuffed but, I dunno, it wasn't really my thing. I'm extremely picky about hiphop... I have yet to hear Maryland Mansions but I'm pretty curious about it.
I'm into some other Tigerbeat6 stuff, too -- ElCo, Pimmon, etc.
Sorry this post wasn't about drumming.
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Post by 2 on Mar 9, 2004 2:39:25 GMT
okay, im a nerd. my name's rudi and i live in albuquerque, new mexico. im from new jersey where i played in a band called VON. i also play guitar, bass and make electronic music. im currently playing in 2 bands. "Paul Middleton and the other guy" and "Blood Dumpster". aside from DC, i am obsessed with the music of Squarepusher and Sly and the Family Stone. i was gonna quit drums but i heard "what burns.." and "fresh" by sly stone. i play a 5 piece premier kit. 12, 14, 16 inch toms. coated heads except for bass drum which alternates between evans EQ2 and aquarians. aside from one new crash, my cymbals are all very heavy loud zildjians. 15" HH, 18" "A" projection crash, 20" crash/ride, 22" ride, and some big 24" zildjian china. i use the DW 2000 double bass pedal but i dont really like it. it's too clumsy and needs adjustment often. but it doesn't break or anything. i guess damon uses the tama iron cobra which i've played but didnt like. it felt cheap and flimy so so i went for the heaviest one i could find. i have a couple snares, one is an early 70's premier, very shallow from a jazz set and my new premier snare that came with the set.
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Post by brikelly on Mar 16, 2004 16:38:43 GMT
he uses the promark dc-10's, they don't have a tip however they taper a little bit. he holds them backwards and they are about the size of a 2b stick, 747's are more on the medium size, which is what I use sometimes. I picked up a pair of pro-mark dc-10s yesterday and tried them out. They are tree-trunks, and since I normally play 5As, I wasn't accustomed to the serious weight and bashed my right thumb during a particularly heated drum roll :-( It's probably a sign that I should stay away from them...
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Post by 2 on Mar 17, 2004 1:19:44 GMT
it's also a matter of what you're used to. if you practice with tree trunks and build up your wrist strength, you'll tear it up with the lighter sticks. but i guess generally, it depends on how hard you want to hit your drums and cymbals. subtle finesse vs. raw visceral impact.
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Post by polyrhythm on May 3, 2004 18:30:32 GMT
frozin, those are badass kits you have.
right now i play a DW kit in tobacco satin oil. its like a 22x18, 10x7, 14x11 small toms, but they sound amazing.
i have a pearl sensitone classic brass snare. i use zidjian cymbals 18" k custom dark crash 17" A custom projection crash, 20" a custom projection ride, and A custom/z dyno hats for tuning..i've found that certain heads sound better on certain drums than others. also i dont think that tuning should be a science like most say it is. how you hit the drums is more important. i've heard drummers play my kit and the drums sound amazing, and some play and they dont sound as good. my technique for tuning is usually me just putting the ead on, tensioning it evenly, playing the kit and tweaking the tuning until it all sounds good to me.
i'm not one to learn bands' song exactly. with don cab's stuff, i just pick up various licks from listening a lot, or if i want to learn them exactly i repeat the part over and over until i get it. basically i guess i learn stuff from osmosis.
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Post by dalyzach on May 6, 2004 6:09:33 GMT
I very nearly bought a used set of three RotoToms a couple days ago. RotoToms are so stupid and hilarious, they're such a late-70s / early-80s throwback; basically an inexpensive way to add more "drums" to your kit, without having to bother with things like shells and resonant heads.
Damon did some cool stuff with them on "2" though, so I'm going to go back and listen to that album again and maybe I'll end up buying them after all!
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Post by ShawnPhase on May 7, 2004 7:45:10 GMT
whats so stupid about rototoms? i used them on the grandizer stuff, you can hear it at my webpage in the link i guess under my name or something...
sebastian from trans am has nothing but rototoms now, he's got 4 rototoms, the biggest being probably 15''? they so und sick, as you can hear on liberation.
phase
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Post by dalyzach on May 7, 2004 15:14:18 GMT
Shawn, I have a pretty perverted sense of musical aesthetics in which "stupid" can almost be taken as a compliment ;D , which is why I was even considering buying a set of RotoToms in the first place. I'm visualizing a kit with 8" and 10" RotoToms, 12" rack tom and 16" floor. Hmmm... Right now I'm looking at a Remo catalog from 1994 that lists RotoToms in all even-numbered sizes between 6" and 18", plus "Tympani RotoToms" and a "RotoTom Marching Harness." I should check out that TransAm record too, for research purposes.
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Post by ICEMAN on May 7, 2004 20:51:40 GMT
So because some dude from Trans Am uses them they are cool? I don't understand the fascination with Trans Am. I like the first album and the 3rd one but I don't care for their 80's sounding stuff. Please don't harass me about saying this because this is just my opinion.
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Post by Aria on May 10, 2004 12:41:09 GMT
Hey ICEMAN, no harrassment, but a recommendation: I really like their latest album. I, too, am quite put off with what I consider to be joke albums. Liberation sounds like the old days, in my opinion.
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