Ringo-I don't see your point at all - unless your kick has the appropriate bracket, how are you supposed to put the ride where your 2nd rack-tom would go without a boom?I'm a happy boom-stand user.I'm interested in your answer though.*edit*My advice would be Yamaha. Yamaha would actually be my answe...

danielruder wrote:Adam I wrote:My advice would be Yamaha. Yamaha would actually be my answer for 75% of 'what should I buy' questions, other than snares.Adam I, I'll pose the same question to you: could you elaborate on this? I've recording a bunch of Yamaha kits, but mostly for jazz, world, and oth...

dontfeartheringo wrote:Adam-my opinions on this are largely shaped by the fact that I am a very heavy hitter and having a ride cymbal way out there hanging over the kick usually, in my case, results in the stand giving up the ghost and rolling over, dumping the cymbal on top of the bass drum.Your mi...

I see a boom, no?

Do people still use those cloth dampers that you stretch across the resonant head? I ask only because that's what I use, and then only because there happened to be one knocking about in my bass drum...Anyway, I quite like it - it seems somewhere between nothing in the kick and a pillow.

I found/find rudiments to be pretty much the best thing to practise for improving your overall playing, but then I like practising them which I believe makes me a pervert.Get a silent drum pad thingy. Also, being able to vary limb dynamics independently so that you can produce loud snare hits (for e...

I really, really, really want a new recording PC. Mine is causing me to seriously consider murder.It's served me well over the last 100 years, but now it's completely fucked. I've been trying to get ONE SINGLE TRACK finished for a compilation for 10 DAYS now. I get half way through a take of drums a...

Early 70s Slingerland, early 70s/late 60s Zildjian ride, the rest boring. The keyboard isn't for PRF posting, it's for behind-kit DAW-control.

Thanks, there is some interesting stuff here. I shall further tinker with pedal and guitar...

Guitar question:One of my guitars has a dead spot. Not the fretting type of dead spot, but the sustainless type that one more usually finds on a bass. I've not encountered one on a guitar before and I don't know if there's anything I can do about it. I tried a Fatfinger, but that just moved the dead...