Same to you! Say hello to your lovely crew. I have a feeling we are going to run into each other soon!

dontfeartheringo wrote:etch wrote:The drum: early 70's Krupa COB Slingerland 8 lug snare drum These are seriously underrated drums.I'm pretty sure you're the one that told me about it! I at least followed all of your other advice. I like it a lot, and it does seem to like a lower tuning, I'm probabl...

Every drum is different of course but I've had good results by tuning my snare drum pretty low.The drum: early 70's Krupa COB Slingerland 8 lug snare drum with Zoomatic strainer.Snares: Puresound.Heads: Ambassador on the snare side and Emperor or Ambassador on the batter.When I first acquired the dr...

Facundo wrote:Ground rod (many buildings don't have).I had to do this once to get rid of hum. I ran some bare copper wire to the ground underneath the house and built a little junction box for the TT wire to connect to inside.

I used it like a star ground, anything needing a ground went to the little terminal strip that I made. So, directly from the TT, I connected the wire to the strip. I can't remember what else I grounded to it but it's a good way to determine and eliminate ground loops. I took some 16 gauge copper I h...

biscuitdough wrote:Do you have dimmer switches or fluorescent lights?I just found a thread on a TT forum that mentioned dimmers as a hum cause.

mookie1010 wrote:Well, I only have one dimmer in the house, so I should be able to make sure I isolated that properly in testing. Do you mean to plug the ground lift adapter into the socket and grounded to the mounting screw?I have actually never used the little mounting screw thing but, plug it in ...

Happy Birthday, Liz!!!

FM LBX: I have a Lenco idler arm, grommets, and wheel if you need one, I'll send it right out! Check your PM's.

It's a long shot but was wondering if anyone would be interested in a date in Columbus, GA on Dec. 9th. Columbus is 100 miles south of Atlanta and about 150 (or so?) from Athens.The club is called Soho and has a nice stage, a built-in crowd, and good sound.