Floor Tom Hack for Basketball Tone | Season Three, Episode 12
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- There’s nothing more frustrating than getting some fresh heads on a drum, tuning them up, achieving a great feel, and then realizing that the tone is horrendous. Maybe you’ve just encountered that “basketbally” tone for the first time. Maybe you’ve been struggling with it endlessly for years. Either way, you’ll probably be happy to know that we’ve got a VERY interesting hack for you and we’re demonstrating it today!
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Bass drum: AKG D112 (at mic port) + KAM R3 Ribbon microphone ~8” away from reso
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Production: Ben O'Brien Smith @ Cadence Independent Media
Floor Tom: Pearl Masters Custom Extra Maple 16x13”
Batter: Evans EC2S Clear
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Wasn’t expecting the sandbag falling through the floor tom, that killed me 😂
This was a frustration of mine for about 10 years. I just chalked it up to maybe my shells sucked (at the beginning I was playing some poplar shells), but then I got the same thing from a pretty high end floor tom recently and decided to just search for a solution. Lo and behold, you guys have a video on it that came in clutch (as you have many times before!). I JUST did it, and the basketball ping is GONE! My goodness. YEARS of frustration, eradicated in a matter of minutes! You guys are a true blessing to the drum community! I know I've said it before, but THANK YOU!
This is like the drum world's Mythbusters.
Love it!
After some investigating I'm pretty sure the basketball ping comes from sound bouncing around the inside of the shell. If you have a pingy drum, and you take one or both heads off the drum, stick your hand inside the shell and snap your fingers you can hear it. To me it sounds really similar to clapping your hands in an empty room with bare walls. So this fix makes perfect sense.
I had this problem with a floor tom and it had nothing to do with tuning. In fact I took the top head off and when I hit the side of the drum I heard the ping. It was an acoustic issue.
This hack also works if you just use double sided tape on the inside of the shell (no hanging like a curtain). It's basically like putting up auralex on the walls to get rid of high pitched ring in a room.
Since I've done this my floor tom has been a joy to tune. Also using the cotton ball hack but using cotton rounds so they lay flat. They jump up when you hit the drum and fall flat in the bottom head. Like a really gentle gate. Loving it!
What specific tape have you used for this?
Wow the cloth really brings out the note of the drum when it's being played with the rest of the kit.
made my floor tom a concert tom and the sounds i hated at gone
That was pretty surprisingly good. It had a pretty good sound to start with, I think, but the cloth really shaped the sound in a great way. Also, the Supe sounds great with that UV1.
My favorite tone out of my 16 and 18 Floor Toms are Remo Powerstroke 4 Batters and Remo Powerstroke 3 Reso. Those extra built in muffle rings give a huge sound.
I want to try this with some felt, and use it for bass drums as well.Whoever thought of this, and the mounting is genius!! Thanks guys :D
Keep an eye out for a bass drum episode in the next couple weeks!
I once experimented with felt strips on my floor Tom. After time and time again adjusting it, I wondered how it would react to just dangling from the bearing edges and then down into the drum. It worked perfectly for that drum and I kept it like that for a long time.
Genius. I have a mahogany kit with an 18” floor and this seems like a perfect fix for the over tones. 🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼
I agree! My floor toms are part mahogany and it fixed a lot! 👍
Thanks guys!
This is so freaking cool! Thank you guys for sharing this. I'm sure I'll be able to pull this trick out.
man.. the quality and information in this channel is just outstanding. keep it up!
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@@SoundsLikeADrum definitely!😄
I agree! Such an awesome community!
Interesting. The tuning of the two with/without is different. This is clear in the louder comparisons at the end. I wonder if that was the actual lug tension not being matched or acoustically, the "size of the room" inside the drum being divided into two chambers, so to speak? The "with fabric" version is higher in pitch. Acoustically, perhaps this is the high frequency dampening the towel does inside the drum chamber. This may affect harmonics and change how much we hear the fundamental pitch versus the harmonics, if at the same lug tension. You'd think the fundamental would be the more dominant sound with the towel, but who knows? I love exploring hacks like this and your channel makes it less work for me! Rad videos, guys.
I noticed the pitch difference, too and assume, it comes from the batter head being tuned slightly higher than in the first example. I don't think this has something to do with the air chamber being divided into two halves, since the heads are the tone-giving components and their tension is crucial.
Flo Core Tuning is very likely the thing. I’ve seen freaky things happen with acoustics, though, so I’d be curious to have Sounds Like a Drum chime in on whether they verified the tuning or not. It seems like a No.
I found for my taste I use two ply heads top and bottom of my floor toms. This gives the ability to tune the bottom head up a bit more than the top so the drum will project without having the basketball type sound. Works for me no matter what tom size. I do use clear heads top and bottom, I prefer them over coated heads.
Good stuff! We often tune resos higher than the batter for more modern sounds and then the opposite for more jazz stylings. Haven’t ever felt like two-ply reso heads were a requirement (or a fix) for tuning the reso higher but that’s excellent that you’ve found something that works for you- that’s what counts! Cheers! -Ben
Sounds Like A Drum Yeah it definitely gives a really deep thuddy sound a ton of resonance, which is exactly the sound I’m after. I just find that with the heads the same thickness top and bottom there is a naturally lower fundamental, and you can get a nice feel on the batter without tuning it too high. If it sounds rad it sounds rad right? Thanks for all you guys do on the channel. Ive learned a ton from you guys!
Just found you guys yesterday and already have a new technique to try. Thank you!
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WOW.. could hear that.. Thanks for the tip!
Interesting! It sounds like the fabric was also shortening the sustain as well. I have a 14" tom which has a ridiculous sustain (like a note on a bass guitar), so I may try this out on it.
Also, different types of fabrics will yield different results.
Great job, guys!
Makes a lot of sense- inhibiting air flow will prevent the heads from continuing to move. BTW, if you're looking for a less obtrusive means of controlling floor tom sustain: czcams.com/video/nKsV501prgw/video.html
In a situation like you explained, I have placed a Half inch foam on the inside of the drum that touches the batter head.
Shout out to anyone else who thought of "Everything Sucks" by Reel Big Fish when the floor tom was being sound checked.
Hi, love your videos! one thing really bugs me though, and it's consistent through all the videos i've watched: I always find myself turning up the volume quite a bit when you play the drum, to hear properly every small detail. Then when the speech mic is back on it's extremely loud and I have to reach for the volume knob super quick. Maybe you can try to even the mics a little better.
Thank you, you're doing a great job either way !
Hi Eyal! Thanks for the kind words. You may have noticed the callout that we don't compress our drum audio. As a result, the dynamic range is far greater and more natural. Believe it or not, the drum demos are actually peaking 6dB higher than the narrative on average. If you're listening in a quiet environment on good speakers or with a pair of headphones, this is actually quite listenable. We've opted not to lower the narrative portions significantly beyond their current levels. Unfortunately this is all symptomatic of the "loudness wars" that we've been subjected to by over-compressed musical recordings. Having listened to this episode on a variety of audio playback systems, I can assert that the presentation is as we intend. Thanks for watching!
Sounds Like A Drum I kinda agree with Eya that it can be painful when you have volume up for the drums and then your voice comes in. And it’s not like you’re yelling. It wouldn’t be that much of an extra step to slightly lower the talking portions. I think it’s good advice but its your gig . 🤷♂️
I had overtones with an 18" floor tom, couldn't get rid of them for anything till i ported the bottom head. Sounded great after.
Jim Gordon has pictures of what appears to be a 14" mounted tom with a port cut in the bottom head. Perhaps he had the same issue. Careful if you start hearing things though. Just sayin.
love this one! hadn't heard of this variation of cutting the flow of air inside the drum like this
I needed this!
The air space inside the drum is where most of the elasticity and hence tone lives. The air mass / air spring is what makes a drum work. They don't work in a vacuum.
Certainly- and it seems that, primarily with larger drums, the waves that exist inside the drum create an odd build up of frequencies that results in the basketball tone so anything that breaks up the cylindrical symmetry helps to mitigate the issue to varying degrees. Would also be fun to experiment with shell port sizes to see if that has any (positive) effect. -Ben
@@SoundsLikeADrum thinking in more detail about this, the "basketball" resonance may well be a higher frequency lensed reflection happening parallel to the skin, rather than the typical air spring effect which is investigated and visualized using speckle pattern interferometry in this fascinating research paper: asa.scitation.org/doi/10.1121/1.4831235
Full PDF:
www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=viennatalk2015.mdw.ac.at/proceedings/ViennaTalk2015_submission_43.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiBoeegzfjqAhVBXxoKHTt3AtsQFjABegQIBBAB&usg=AOvVaw2HEbyuE04XIotFc_yujmgJ&cshid=1596237135823
Placing the T shirt or absorber as a curtain may well remove the side-to-side high frequency reflections while not impacting the main modal resonance of the coupled drum heads and air column.
Wrapping the interior of the drum skin with foam rubber would deliver a resonance-destroying level of damping. Standing waves and resonance require a reflective surface or hard boundary.
I had my headphones on. I didn't know the video was starting. Volume was on high. Your introduction scared the sht out of me. "HI! THIS IS!"
Best practice for headphones: ALWAYS check the volume before putting them on. Gotta protect your hearing.
Great idea never thought of it. I’d love to hear how a bass drum would react without pillows or or muffling. With the fabric to my ears it gave a deeper tone. Try it on a bass.
Knowing that someone would ask for this, we filmed that for an upcoming episode as well!
I learned that from a studio engineer once. Just a touch of something absorptive in an empty kick kills that ping. Small piece of foam. I have a small scrap of sheepskin in there. I like a basically empty kick with an EMAD head, and that little thing is just the finishing touch!
Has worked great on unmuffled bass drum. Use thin stretchy fleece, i mount it one set of lugs off (corkscrewed slightly) on opposite side. Nice that it can't move too.
Oh and I really like the the sandbag idea, no bass creep even on you name it.
Here's the episode: czcams.com/video/mWekstZjfRQ/video.html
I fixed my floor tom and mounted toms with a 2 inch piece of clear two sided gel tape on the resonant head with hydraulic batter heads sounds great !
Incredible tip!
Liked for attempted sandbag in the drum 1:29
Brilliant!
A good trick that I have used is hanging a sandbag on one of the legs of the floor tom, so the strap of the sandbag is resting on the floor tom leg mount.
My favorite topic from sounds like a drum! Nifty hacking exploration! I wonder, did you notice any benefit to sympathetic ringing? Particularly from the kick? Hard to tell from the video! Keep up the great work cheers… Keith
Glad you enjoyed it! There was a minimal amount of difference in sympathetic resonance but not enough (in my opinion) to do this just for that purpose. -Ben
Every one of your videos are killer. Been following since your first video, and I'm so glad to see you still putting out amazing content. Thanks for the wisdom!
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I like this idea and pretty much all your content. I fail to see, however, how finding a t-shirt, cutting it up, taking a head off, removing several lugs, hanging said t-shirt whilst reapplying the aforementioned lugs, replacing the head and retuning it could ever be quicker than applying the tuning change you referenced in the video.
Oh it’s not quicker by any means, this is more of a thing to do as a longer term fix if that component of the sound is bothering you or for situations where tuning isn’t getting you what you need 👍🏻 -Cody
@@SoundsLikeADrum @Sounds Like A Drum thanks for the quick response. i was watching around 5:16 "i have a problem and i need to fix it immediately. there is a place for this." not trying to be too nit picky. i think this is literally the only time (after dozens of vids) that i have had any issue with any content here. you guys are well-spoken and, in my opinion, relevant.
for most applications i would actually prefer the original sound but this is still a really cool hack that i'd love to try
Sounds pretty good to me, but I don't think I'd mess with it. Thanks and Blessings!
I’ve been gaff taping a felt strip, with slack, to the inside of one of my floor tom shells for a few years now. Tried hours of tuning and multiple heads over some years. Still bball-y. Adding the felt strip completely stopped it and the drum sounds great. But ya, just one of my drums. Must be something in the construction.
What are the dimensions, make/model?
And when you say felt strip... is it close to gauze material?
Super Glued - it was a leftover Gibraltar felt strip I had laying around, so the material is just felt. I think the issue is with reflection within the shell so I assume any type of material would work!
I decided to try out Aquarian 7mm single ply Hi-Frequency coated batter heads, and with moongels on them my drums sound better than ever before. I'm waiting to see how they hold up over time though.
I usually put a little pillow stuffing in my floor Toms, but this is great too !
I'm gonna try that!
Atm I use a few cotton balls 👍
+soundslikeadrum *I never would have thought of the fabric-curtain trick, as I'm after the livest tone possible from my rig.* Turns out, the riser in the Byron (CA, USA) Shops' rehearsal studio kills the floor toms no matter what heads I use on the TAMA®/Hoshino® IPB 14A and IMB 16A (currently EVANS®/D'Addario® EC2S frost top/clear bottom, both tuned to the shell's Helmholtz frequency).
friend of mine used pinstripe heads top and bottom (the double skin stuff) , sounded the same but without muffling , if they still had this baseball sound we tightened two lugs across a liiiitle tighter ) you probably can do the same thing by sticking some foam damping sheets along the inside of the shell wall (might help against contactnoises when miking the toms from inside the shells too)
a soundtechnician / drummer i talked with actually put a footpump in the airhole of his floortom with a half rubber ball shaped footpump (been looking for a photo but it seems there not made no more ) , that alowed his to raise the pressure inside the floortom and the tone while drumming on it , i can immagine that sounded funny and might be sumting to use for house music where you ramp up the tone of the beat towards the cressent / finale
I will try to do it with my 16" floor tom.
im gonna try this
That's a really crazy thing. I've never seen anyone do that. Considering you could fix the sound of the drum with tuning or some external muffling, it does seem a bit extreme to take a head off and put a curtain inside the drum. But it certainly is a dramatic difference. I'm not sure that the drum sounded better though. It definitely still had the annoying pitch-bendiness but with less sustain and less mids it was less prominent.
Definitely an excellent hack if you're going for that ultra-low floor tom sound that so many djent/prog/metal players are into right now, which depends on tuning the reso higher with the batter SUPER low. Even still, there are some drums where that tone is so pronounced and painful with a more straight ahead tuning and it just can't quite be mitigated through tuning alone.
This also teaches us all something about the physics of these drums (even if we already knew it- demonstration certainly solidifies that knowledge) and issues with acoustics. Cheers! -Ben
My mapex saturn 16x16 is doing this heavily. even without reso head. Very high short flutter ping. I taped an old sock inside the tom and it was gone. Although it sounds muffled and not that open and big. Which is good for recording but not for playing in my opinion
Yep- it’s all about the drum dimensions. Definitely worth experimenting with different options inside the drum to help mitigate the issue.
During the performance, no fabric sounded good. That’s a nice test kit though!
The amount of cloth will change the dynamics.
I actually like the way his tom sounds without the cloth more! But I also like that acoustic drums can sound different when played at different levels. Maybe the cloth makes it sound like hitting an old e-drum kit that sounds the same at different levels? hmmm
I wonder if you could get this effect by gluing a 3 or 4 inch strip of the spiky acoustic foam around the inside of the drum. I'm kinda curious to try it.
I would bet that anything breaking up the reflective surface inside would make a difference. We prefer not to adhere anything to the shell if we can help it but it’s not like it would ruin the drum (just be careful with your choice of adhesives). Let us know how it works out! -Ben
I like what the fabric did, but maybe it was a bit too much? I’d try cutting holes in it to reduce the surface area by about half.
Would definitely be interesting to try a bunch of variables with regards to the internal setup. I'd be curious to see if mounting half of the material closer to the batter side vs. reso side would make a difference as well. Maybe some further experiments to delve into. We're going to start doing more of these on our Patreon, by the way. -Ben
2:30 me actually enjoying the basketbally tone, and also distracted, singing faith no more to myself.
Would love to see you try the same with a bass drum. Great video as always.
Coming soon!
Yes, swinging a cord between tension rod bolts at ten & two o'clock & hanging a tee shirt over the internal "washing line" would tamper with the kickdrum sound in interesting ways by waving in the drum's internal "breeze" & the difference between ported & not would be interesting.
Have you tried drilling holes in the drum skin ? Approximately one inch from the rim with one drill hole for each tension rod on both top and bottom skins (while the skins are still tensioned on the drum).I have experimented on snares ,toms and bass drums with interesting results using either 1/32nd ,1/16th or 1/8th drill bits.Would love to see your results in a video .
The drum sounds good
I didn't like the fabric I thought the brightness was almost completely removed. Thanks for sharing.
Thas awesome!!
Got linked to a vid of Cody playing in a band. Sounded great! Would love to see you guys put some of these sounds into a live playing context. How you think about Tom sustain and cymbal tones/use depending on what else is happening in the music etc etc.. that kind of thing. Great content as always
Unfortunately there's not a lot of live performance happening right now but we hope to be able to incorporate some of those practical application demos in the future. Cheers! -Ben
I love your channel and your hacks and tips. Just a pitty I play edrums!
Thanks for the kind words! Hopefully in the future we will grow to cover even wider ranging topics. Cheers! -Ben
How do I tune my drums to sound more like Matt Sorum circa 1993? I'm rocking a 2019 Samsonite Black Label Cosmolite 3.0 Carbon Fiber 7pc. kit. Any help you can give will be much appreciated because these things have WAY TOO MUCH TONE. Thanks!
What would happen if you were to put another inside of the kick drum? Like in the middle of the drum. Also what would it sound like with a port hole?
Stay tuned for that episode in the next couple weeks!
could someone point me in the direction of where Cody solves this via tuning? I have a floor tom giving me this basket ball grief - great vid guys. thank you
That’s more dependent on your drum and drumhead choice. It’s all about batter vs. reso interval given the depth of the drum and mass of the heads.
Isn’t the drum you are playing a rack Tom in the floor Tom position? What if it were an actual floor Tom with legs?
Yes, technically speaking. But it’s more about the dimensions rather than the mounting method when it comes to this acoustic phenomenon.
I wonder what would happen if you attached the t-shirt between lugs on the side? In other words, not stretched across, but along one side/wall of the drum.
Cotton balls work too.
I allwAys wonderd what would happen if we put a tiny little rock ring.. or a tiny hole in that matter in the reso head from a floortom. Just like we could have a hole in the fronthead of our kickdrum.
Would that be a good way to get ridd of overtomen/boxiness sounds?
It's pretty minimal (the effect) on a floor tom until you get to about 3/4" inch.
Sounds Like A Drum i think you are right about the effect when the hole is to tiny.
SEMI-RELATED Question: I am wondering if there are any techniques similar to this (or different) that could make the use of internal mic's (MAY™ mic'ing system) more usable and less artificial sounding. My suspicion is "no"... but worth asking. If enough people have an interest, maybe it'd be worth exploring. I was one who-in the mid '90s-had blindly invested into the MAY™ mic'ing system for my large kit... and was immediately disappointed that I drilled into all my shells just to have my drums sound like I was mic'ing the inside of a gym dodge-ball. Over the years, I tried *MANY* tricks with various EQ and phase, but even as "good" as I could get it... it was immediatley dwarfed by A/B'ing it with a simple external mic' with no EQ or tricks. Do you think there's any way to mic' the inside of a drum and not have it sound like the inside of a drum...? :D Love the channel... keep 'em coming.
Hey Scott! The internal mic setup is a tough one, particularly when you're using full resonant heads. We've yet to try it but I wonder if a strip of foam running between a set of top and bottom lugs would be enough to help disrupt the internal symmetry in such a way that would help mitigate this issue. We've yet to hear of anything that's built around the MAY system though.
Thanks for the kind words! Cheers! -Ben
@@SoundsLikeADrum Maybe I need to host a sister channel: "Sounds Like (the inside of) a Drum" - :D
Hey Scott F.
Read the question you had on getting a better sound with inside drum micing.
In the most extreme cases, I have had to literally place half inch foam inside the drum and let it lightly touch the batter head.
Too much pressure may sound over muffled yet not enough can give you a vibrating buzz. So look for the happy medium. You may also use moon gel if gel is new and clean.
Good luck and remember when it comes to muffling drums "no muffled too tough".
It would be a good idea to make this to the air toms?
In Eric Valentines drum tuning video, he mentions he puts a paper towel along the inside of the drum, covering at least half of it which achieves a similar anti-basketball effect
hey.. how about doing this in a bass drum .. have 2 flaps hanging from the logs at like the 11 an 1:00 positions . mixed WITH the foil trick? getting crazy but why not right?
Stay tuned for Ep. 14 next week 😉 We'll see about comparing different hacks like this and potentially combining them in a future video or two.
@@SoundsLikeADrum nifty
What sort of sandbag are you using?
Check out Eric Valentine's video on drum tuning. He has a similar(ish) thing going on. Around the 30 minute mark - czcams.com/video/I6_7aw5UUeA/video.html
Your hair looks good today B^)
@Sounds Like A Drum How do you guys get your drums to sound so controlled without any muffling? Whenever I take the muffling off my kit, it just rings for days. Is it just how you have it mic'd or is it really the tuning of it?
Hey! Yep it’s just tuning. Some drums make this easier than others but these are pretty middle of the road as far as that goes. -Cody
It's actually an acoustic phenomenon, not a tuning one.
Essentially it's flutter echo. It's the same thing that happens when you clap your hands in an empty room. The sound reflects off of the surfaces at different times.
Yes and no (and tuning affects the acoustics too!). Some of it also has to do with the tension of the reso head. Some of this can be mitigated through tuning but, particularly in a square sized floor tom (16x16” for example) there’s only so much that can be done.
Well it looks like I'll be placing a basketball inside my floor tom.
😂
How's this compare to hanging something like a stick bag on the outside of the drum?
Completely different. A stick bag (or any weight) outside the drum will reduce resonance but doesn't impact the way that air moves inside the drum, which is the culprit of the "basketbally" tone. -Ben
Hey ! wait! I got a ...... sounds like Alice In Chains
I better get a new phone and play this video again. I was not able to hear much of a difference between the first setup and the second with my Zte Android. Untill then I will try some headphones.
Gotta use headphones. A phone speaker won’t convey the sound even close to accurately.
@@SoundsLikeADrum Cool, thanks. I hope to do that tonight. Do you use that method of muffling. I usually place 1/2" foam inside that lightly touches the batter head with one moon gel.
@@sigsliecker5932 This is our first time experimenting with this particular method so we haven't employed it regularly yet but it's definitely going to see some use for ultra low tunings (especially with square dimensioned floor toms). -Ben
@@SoundsLikeADrum I have had some very loud and annoying overtones and rings.
In these extreme cases I have had to place a thin piece of foam inside the drum.
In the more annoying cases I will push the foam up against the batter head. If it is still ringing I will use a bigger piece that touches both heads.
So far I have been able to get a satisfactory result using foam muffled heads. My experience with muffling technics has been achieved in one or two attempts. Now I feel that no muffling too tough.
Have you ever tried just dropping maybe five cotton balls in the drum? Take some cotton balls and making them flat and drop them in and put the head back on.
Different effect- more of a gating response for sustain: czcams.com/video/L8um1r5-YEc/video.html
I feel like the sound is too round for me. A few pieces of cotton on the bottom head and a piece of moongel on top is my go to. Also, a barrel tip
Nothing wrong with mixing hacks and switching up sticks! Too much sustain for you?
Sounds Like A Drum I like short floor tom sustain yeah, with a nice punch from the stick
Uh, First
Love the videos BTW
Walnut Whip ❤
I just use hydraulic heads to get the same effect but to be honest I thought the floor tom sounded fine as it was
It certainly wasn't as bad as some (especially 16x16" drums!) but that tone can be rough when you get into recording scenarios.
Interesting hack! Not very practical, though and definitely not something I would consider to be doing 'on the fly', when in the studio, much less live. Also, I think the tuning in the second example is slightly higher. I appreciate your efforts, nonetheless!
Actually, it's quite practical and the studio is exactly the place where I'd imagine doing it. Only took a few minutes to put together.
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I've tried maxipads down the side of a floor tom once. I don't remember it doing much. This idea is less messy.
I would’ve thought that the maxi pads would absorb more mess.
The basket ball effect is caused by, as we like to say down south, "you ain't holden' yur' mouth right." meaning:
OMG the problem is astronominal!!! oh well crack one open for me and play on. (I placed a black pillow under the drum on the floor. some help)
It also took the tempo down in about 5 bpm. awesome!
Just kidding :D
I have a pearl forum damn it sound like shit lol
The voice level is TOO loud compared to the drums!
They’re actually playing out at a similar volume but the drums aren’t compressed at all. The alternative is the voice is super soft and you have to crank your audio. Pretty easy to just adjust the volume, don’t you think? Also, with headphones on, works just fine.
Oh yeah?! Just in the headphones it beat the ears.
Interesting but no
No fabric sounds great from the recording. Not sure how real life presence is. Did not care for the fabric sound as much.
*1:28** timeframe*
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
This was clickbait
You guys need do film more stuff not just the camera on you, it gets boaring fast
Sorry to hear that you’re getting bored. We choose not to get too caught up with b-roll throughout as it’s easy to end up getting distracted by visuals and failing to retain what’s being said. Is there something specific you want to see more of?
I really hate when the 90% of the video is just the guy talking, we want to listen drums not you talking
Hey there! This series isn't about just playing and demoing drums- it's about providing context and actionable insight related to drums and drumming. We do have extended demo performances where you get to hear a myriad of tunings and grooves without any narrative at all on our Patreon: sladl.ink/Patreon
Thanks for the tip. I have a 14x14 FT that was doing this. This hack fixed the FT when it was being stuck but for some reason the kick was still causing a resonance from the FT that was nearly the same thing. I fixed that with a EQ Notch filter at 75.370 Hz on the FT. It didn't seem to really effect the FT tone when being struck in a noticeable way. Thanks!