Dr Tony Balls wrote: Tue Nov 15, 2022 11:33 am

dontfeartheringo wrote: Tue Nov 15, 2022 11:15 am Gear I hate? Thumper Thrones. For drummers who are using In-Ear Monitors but want kick feedback, the thumper throne is a piston in a drum seat kicks when the beater hits the kick drum, providing haptic feedback of the kick drum, since IEMs don't have much bass response.

Do you really need haptic feedback on something you just did by moving your leg and foot against a pedal/beater/head combination? Seems like you can feel that just fine.

Buddy, I have been SCREAMED AT because the Thumper wasn't functioning *perfectly.*

I'm not gonna name any names, but some drummers don't hear so good. Remember not to crank those IEMs, kids. Once the little hairs die, they're not coming back.

Dr Tony Balls wrote: Tue Nov 15, 2022 11:33 am

dontfeartheringo wrote: Tue Nov 15, 2022 11:15 am Gear I hate? Thumper Thrones. For drummers who are using In-Ear Monitors but want kick feedback, the thumper throne is a piston in a drum seat kicks when the beater hits the kick drum, providing haptic feedback of the kick drum, since IEMs don't have much bass response.

Do you really need haptic feedback on something you just did by moving your leg and foot against a pedal/beater/head combination? Seems like you can feel that just fine.

I've gone as far as to request no kick in the monitors as an obnoxious click/boom in my ear is NOT how I'm used to hearing or feeling drums. But I also don't play larger rooms like that very often.

Oh, heck- I just realized I have some waffles:

DW hardware is pretty great. Being on tour with all DW stuff has made me realize that a lot of things I have found annoying in the past are actually useful features if you're in a big tour "throw and go" situation.

These plastic handle thingys?
It used to drive me INSANE how I'd get a snare basket to almost exactly the right place and the sticky-outy part would be bashing into the snare stand. Turns out, I am the dummy, and that button allows you to reposition the plastic handle so you can get a little extra oomph on it.

Also, this thing:

(The thing that's sticking out from the side and is adjustable with a drum key) Another "set it and forget it" feature of DW stands is this Techlock thing. It's basically a memory lock for things that are adjustable in more than one axis. When I started working for Culture Club, the percussionist said to me "My cymbals ALWAYS fall over halfway through the show." I checked and there were no memory locks on his stands and the Techlocks weren't tight. (Some drum techs just don't know, I guess.) I tightened everything up. Cymbals never fell over again.

For all of the cork-sniffing dumbassery of the DW drums themselves, their hardware (some of it based on Camco designs, which were based on innovations created by George Way, who was an absolute lunatic genius) (George Way invented the bent floor tom leg and the threaded screw height-adjustable drum throne!) is made to go on the road. DW hardware has the best memory locks, so everything is repeatable without guesswork. When you're setting up a kit night-after-night, this is the stuff that makes life easier.

The DW 5000 bass drum pedal is pretty much the standard kick drum pedal and EVERY SINGLE PIECE can be bought individually, so repairing a pedal is a snap. I even converted one to strap-drive:



The DW9000 kick drum pedal is the most over-engineered and insanely dependable and adjustable kick drum pedal out there.

I'm still an Iron Cobra ( \m/ \m/ ) guy, but I have a Camco pedal and two DW pedals that go to gigs where I'm not trying to make the front row feel the breeze from the kick drum on their faces.

I get why LA Doodz who play in the great big bands end up defaulting to DW. It's mostly made for show days.

dontfeartheringo wrote: Tue Nov 15, 2022 12:25 pm Oh, heck- I just realized I have some waffles:

DW hardware is pretty great. Being on tour with all DW stuff has made me realize that a lot of things I have found annoying in the past are actually useful features if you're in a big tour "throw and go" situation.

These plastic handle thingys?

I hate those plastic handle thingys because they break, and/or the plastic teeth inside get stripped, BECAUSE THEY"RE FUCKING PLASTIC TEETH.

jirbling rake wrote: Fri Nov 04, 2022 7:47 pm

These Ibanez basses. Hate the headstock, hate the tuners. It looks like someone started to melt a plastic model of a Fender Precision and was inspired to make this monstrosity. Often seen in the hands of terrible bands. I get it, it's cheap, a starter bass for people, but I hate it.

This was indeed my friend's first bass. Short scale, active pickups, loose strings. Sounded absolutely awful in the very best way through one of those Danelectro overdrive pedals.

Procrastinating Friday BUMP.

I like a dry, smokey ride cymbal as much as anyone else, but could do without seeing another 24"+, flopping dirt and rust covered hubcap thing that sounds exactly how you think it would. It's become the shiplap of drum sets.

The fucking G string

andyman wrote: Fri Jul 28, 2023 10:42 am The fucking G string

Going out of tune? If so...try a Fender or other such guitar where the strings come straight out of the nut without a lateral angle.

Dr Tony Balls wrote: Fri Jul 28, 2023 11:27 am

andyman wrote: Fri Jul 28, 2023 10:42 am The fucking G string

Going out of tune? If so...try a Fender or other such guitar where the strings come straight out of the nut without a lateral angle.

oh that G string...

thecr4ne wrote: Fri Jul 28, 2023 1:02 pm

Dr Tony Balls wrote: Fri Jul 28, 2023 11:27 am

andyman wrote: Fri Jul 28, 2023 10:42 am The fucking G string

Going out of tune? If so...try a Fender or other such guitar where the strings come straight out of the nut without a lateral angle.

oh that G string...

It wasn’t until early adulthood that I learned that the Cat Stevens song is called “Peace Train.” I’d thought it was about playing a simple song on the B string. (You can tell how closely I’d listened to it.)