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Title: Fear the awesomity of my new drumset.
Post by: ProphetHobo on 09 Apr 2006, 12:56: http://cgi.ebay.com/Voodoo-8pc-Double-Bass-drum-kit-w-sabian-cymbals-REMO_W0QQitemZ7404965085QQcategoryZ38097QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Mmmmm, I can smell the double bass already.
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Post by: Fen on 09 Apr 2006, 13:09: too many drums for my taste. i like to keep it simple.
awesome though
(will never understand the need for double bass. ok, i get a double pedal. but a double bass just makes everything so confusing)
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Post by: Kai on 09 Apr 2006, 13:54: Simply: So you can say you have double bass. Also, if you have four feet, get two double pedals and PLAY EVEN BETTER
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Post by: ProphetHobo on 09 Apr 2006, 15:06: Quote from: Kai
Simply: So you can say you have double bass. Also, if you have four feet, get two double pedals and PLAY EVEN BETTER

Yeah, it's mostly that. But you can tune them differently for different sound, too, much like you have several toms for different sounds. I've never actually played a double bass, so it's going to be a bitch to get used to having the two basses and the hi hats, but it's pretty cool nonetheless.
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Post by: Bastardous Bassist on 09 Apr 2006, 17:57: Quote from: Kai
Simply: So you can say you have double bass. Also, if you have four feet, get two double pedals and PLAY EVEN BETTER

Or you can use two of these:
(http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/5/6/6/257566.jpg)
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Post by: Kai on 09 Apr 2006, 18:27: Two of those ON EACH BASS DRUM. AND THEN YOU'RE LIKE, A DRUMMING OCTOPUS
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Post by: ProphetHobo on 09 Apr 2006, 20:47: I get the feeling that you're insulting me.

I also get the feeling that it won't help if I say that pedal is badass and I want one.

v_v
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Post by: Kai on 09 Apr 2006, 20:53: More of I'd totally buy two bass drums and two of those things for each bass drum and rock the fuck out.
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Post by: Trollstormur on 09 Apr 2006, 21:16: duh. two bass druids = more toms without a rack mount.

good luck transporting it D:
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Post by: Bastardous Bassist on 09 Apr 2006, 21:49: It all depends on the car he has, and what's a bass druid? The drummer in my high school metal band had a five piece Yammaha Stage Custom with SKB hard cases, and he was barely able to fit it in his Camaro.
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Post by: Trollstormur on 09 Apr 2006, 23:03: hahaha oooops.

this is what happens when you post about drums when playing WoW.
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Post by: beat mouse on 10 Apr 2006, 03:44: also, with two seperate kick drums, you're getting full(er) vibrations from each hit. with two pedals on one drum, the skin is only fluctuating about halfway back before another head hits it, giving it a weaker THUMP. Two kicks > one.
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Post by: ProphetHobo on 10 Apr 2006, 07:42: I'm not transporting it myself, it's in Colorado I believe. And I live in New York.

Pile 120 on top of that 650 for shipping. And I'll most likely not bring it out of my house, I still have my abused as hell five piece with the cymbals more warped than a My Chemical Romance fan's perception of good music for "jam sessions".

And for the record, I know nothing about the hardware of instruments. I know you pluck 'em, blow 'em, or hit 'em, and they make nice sounds. So a lot of this, woosh, right over my head.
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Post by: Kai on 10 Apr 2006, 14:38: Quote from: ProphetHobo
with the cymbals more warped than a My Chemical Romance fan's perception of good music for "jam sessions".

I just had an image of one of those kids trying to jam out with the nerdy musician kids who have an irrational love of Phish.
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Post by: ProphetHobo on 10 Apr 2006, 18:35: Quote from: Kai
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with the cymbals more warped than a My Chemical Romance fan's perception of good music for "jam sessions".

I just had an image of one of those kids trying to jam out with the nerdy musician kids who have an irrational love of Phish.

Poor guy. It'll go away soon enough.
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Post by: E. Spaceman on 10 Apr 2006, 22:03: Quote from: Fen

(will never understand the need for double bass. ok, i get a double pedal. but a double bass just makes everything so confusing)

Dude, more than one Bass is über krieg.
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Post by: Trollstormur on 10 Apr 2006, 23:22: my reasoning for not getting a second bass drum: getting them both to the identical frequency would be annoying as hell.
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Post by: McTaggart on 11 Apr 2006, 07:35: I know nothing about drums, but how awesome is it when a band is rocking the fuck out and a cymbal just cracks and shards go flying everywhere.
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Post by: SpacemanSpiff on 11 Apr 2006, 09:54: Depends. If the band isn't very successful, not so much. Cymbals are disturbingly expensive. I know because I managed to break two of mine so far.

Also: That drumkit looks pretty porno. Not exactly my style (I prefer a double pedal and only two toms, but that's down to personal preference really) but I bet it's a hell of a lot of fun to play.
However, I don't know the company, so how does the kit sound? Also, you might want to look into upgrading the pedals, they seem rather cheap and having good pedals is so much of an improvement you wouldn't believe it.

Fen: If you want to play rolls on your bass drum, you lose attack with a single bass drum, a double bass gives you a "fuller" sound then.
But, as Trollsturmor said, it's a bitch to set up, it takes up an obscene amount of space and I find it harder to set up the kit so it matches the player than a double pedal.
But you do get like +1000 80s style points.
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Post by: Bastardous Bassist on 11 Apr 2006, 09:55: Quote from: Trollstormur
my reasoning for not getting a second bass drum: getting them both to the identical frequency would be annoying as hell.

This is completely true. That's why you trigger you kit! Who cares what the actual drums sound like?
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Post by: Oli on 11 Apr 2006, 10:12: I'm a one bass + One pedal man.

It serves my purposes well.

But B8 Cymbals are a decent buy (they came with your kit, I got mine seperate (ride crash + Hi-hats) and it cost me £99)

Just make sure if you play gigs you use the double bass + the extra toms a fair bit. There is nothing sillier than a drummer that has a huge set-up and doesn't use it.
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Post by: ProphetHobo on 11 Apr 2006, 10:38: Gigs? That would imply that we're a serious band. It's mostly for fun/boredom killing. We don't have any serious songs, we really just kind of play for the sake of playing.

I'm not sure how it sounds yet, I will keep you updated as soon as it arrives and I get everything set up.

Oh man, I've never had a cymbal shatter, but it sounds fucking cool looking... for the second before you realise you have to buy a new one. My old ones are WaAaaAaAaarped. It looks like a very strong, likely bald man grabbed them and just started bending.... terrible.
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Post by: Trollstormur on 11 Apr 2006, 11:32: Quote from: Bastardous Bassist
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my reasoning for not getting a second bass drum: getting them both to the identical frequency would be annoying as hell.

This is completely true. That's why you trigger you kit! Who cares what the actual drums sound like?

ewwwww EWWWWW

how dare you, sir?
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Post by: KharBevNor on 11 Apr 2006, 11:42: I'm with the trollish one here.

Rule of rock #1: Drum triggers only work if you're Duran Duran
Rule of rock #2: Don't be Duran Duran
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Post by: Oli on 11 Apr 2006, 12:38: THAT SIR is getting sigged!
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Post by: Bastardous Bassist on 11 Apr 2006, 13:03: Technical death metal band Modulus (http://www.modulusmusic.net/) triggers his kicks, and they are bad ass. Though, that might have something to do with the fact that they're inhumanly fast and never in 4/4.
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Post by: SpacemanSpiff on 11 Apr 2006, 14:07: So they're the Duran Duran of technical death metal.
As a drummer, I have to agree: Do not ever trigger your drums.
Unless maybe it's an additional electronic effect, such as the one Brian of Lightning Bolt uses. But that doesn't sound like a drum and you can still hear the original bass drum.
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Post by: Bastardous Bassist on 11 Apr 2006, 14:21: Quote from: SpacemanSpiff
So they're the Duran Duran of technical death metal.

I think my brain is gone. I tried imagining Duran Duran with anything approximating talent.

There are definitely cases, such as playing shows with shitty sound people and shitty mics, when I would be pissed off if the drummer used what the sound person tried to get off of his/her kit. Trust me, triggering is much better than some of the stuff I've heard come from mics on an acoustic.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 11 Apr 2006, 16:44: Yeah, but, you're all playing through bust-up old Marshall practice amps running off one generator in the middle of a forest to twenty drunken guys throwing bibles onto a bonfire, so you don't want the drums to stand out.

Or is that just me?
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Post by: Bastardous Bassist on 11 Apr 2006, 18:57: Point taken, sir.
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Post by: BeoPuppy on 12 Apr 2006, 10:32: Quote from: KharBevNor
I'm with the trollish one here.

Rule of rock #1: Drum triggers only work if you're Duran Duran
Rule of rock #2: Don't be Duran Duran

... COME ON!

'Girls On Film'? Brilliant video. Be Duran Duran.
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Post by: lb969 on 12 Apr 2006, 21:16: I want THESE (http://www.monolithdrums.com/stargate.html)

(http://www.monolithdrums.com/new/stargate%20blue.jpg)

Too bad, they are hella expensive.
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Post by: ProphetHobo on 12 Apr 2006, 21:19: Quote from: lb969
I want THESE (http://www.monolithdrums.com/stargate.html)

(http://www.monolithdrums.com/new/stargate%20blue.jpg)

Too bad, they are hella expensive.

That looks absopositively delicious.

I want a set of Sonor's X-Rays, but they cost about a grand per drum. It's insane.
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Post by: BeoPuppy on 13 Apr 2006, 09:56: You'll so be like Lane on The Gilmore Girls.

And this is a good thing.
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Post by: strawberry_gashes on 25 Apr 2006, 17:34: Oh my (non-existent) god.
That is a beautiful drumset.
I want it if you dont.
(Says the girl who just got a drum set of a similar color... oh well.)

Double bass is amaaazing. (Oh, and the pedal posted awhile ago is pretty!!)
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Post by: casull on 25 Apr 2006, 21:23: I was all for big sets for a while. Then I heard Paul Thompson and Jason Finn play, and that was that. They're nice for certain kinds of music, but seriously, talent and innovation goes so much farther than a big set.
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Post by: Trollstormur on 25 Apr 2006, 21:36: the point of a big set isn't to innovate, it's to have fun fucking around on! SERIOUSLY.
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Post by: Snail of Doom on 25 Apr 2006, 22:30: This thread has prompted me to make a "Post About/Post Pictures of your drum kit" thread

Don't worry, I'll check for another thread of this sort first