DrumDoug
Senior Member
I've always had trouble hearing my bass drum in live situations, but lately it seems to be getting worse. I have acoustic gigs where I am playing as softly as I can with my hands, but as soon as the bass player comes in, my bass drum disappears. I had a gig yesterday where I was playing very softly with my hands but no matter how hard I hit my bass drum, I couldn't hear it. A different bass player sat in on a couple of songs and afterwards the regular bass player said that my bass drum sounded great and he could feel it across the room.
Different gig with different band that night, where my kick is micked, and I have a QSC K12 for a monitor and I have the bass drum turned up as loud as it will go in the monitor, and play with a wood beater with two beater weights attached. The singer was complaining that the kick was the loudest thing on stage, but as usual, as soon as the bass player comes in, I can't hear it.
I did an online search for low frequency hearing loss but didn't find much. A couple diseases that I don't think I have. The only one that seemed likely, was a study that said some people suffer low frequency hearing loss after spinal anesthesia. I did have that last year when I had knee surgery. I guess I need to talk to my doctor. Has anyone else had this problem? Anything you can do about it?
Different gig with different band that night, where my kick is micked, and I have a QSC K12 for a monitor and I have the bass drum turned up as loud as it will go in the monitor, and play with a wood beater with two beater weights attached. The singer was complaining that the kick was the loudest thing on stage, but as usual, as soon as the bass player comes in, I can't hear it.
I did an online search for low frequency hearing loss but didn't find much. A couple diseases that I don't think I have. The only one that seemed likely, was a study that said some people suffer low frequency hearing loss after spinal anesthesia. I did have that last year when I had knee surgery. I guess I need to talk to my doctor. Has anyone else had this problem? Anything you can do about it?