I put a small hand towel in the bass drum to give it just a bit of a deeper tone. I folded it in thirds and I let it touch the bottom of both heads. I haven't tried a Super Kick on the bass drum yet. I'm going to do that in the near future. I was also thinking of trying Hydraulic heads. Do you have a sound sample of them on the kit?Hi Bobdadruma
By the way I palced Evan Hydraulic heads on the toms and a large towel in the bass drum. Denis
I played my big Gretsch kit for years without bottom heads on the rack toms. I used Evans Hydraulic heads on the Gretsch rack toms. I added the reso heads to my Gretsch kit a few years ago. Thats when I stopped using them. They were deep sounding and I liked them. I may use them again on The Rhythm Traveler. The sound of the Traveler's toms is good to me. They are sort of like wooden timbales with a pretty good tone. The oil heads may bring a bit more from them. I'll wait until I hear the festivals video recording before I make my decision.Hi
Sorry, I don't have a sound sample. I found the hydraulic heads gave some depth to the tone on the toms. Denis
I made some improvements to the Traveler!I tried the rhythm traveler at my school and it sounded god awful. I don't know how you got yours to sound good. My music teacher said she tunes them often and I even tried tuning the bass and it just resonates for HOURS and connstantly slides forward
Thanks Denis! I've seen folks on You Tube doing that. One of them may have been you. I like the small tom! It has balls for a little guy! Im gonna keep it. It's the "Little Tom That Could!" Its my favorite part of the kit!Hi
Nice job. By the way I use this kit with one rack tom and one floor tom. I removed the small tom. Denis
You are correct Grunt. I loosened the snares since I recorded the sample. Im gonna try some Remo heads on the snare next. I'll post audio samples when I do. This has been a low budget challenge and Im still experimenting.Love the portability and the bass and toms sound great but the snare sounds as if the snares are too tight and choking.
The snare has some limitations. It sounds good at low volume but I can't get a killer crack from it at high levels. The rim shots come out good!Hi
I could never get the snare to sound good so I use one of my high end snare drums with the kit. Denis
Hey Bob,
How quiet are the mesh heads that kit comes with? I was looking at that kit for practice as well as for its mobility.
I was in a drum forum recently on another site that was dedicated to electro kits and many drummers have done some great conversions to Traveler kits. I think that they look better than electronic drums.Wouldn't it be cool to trigger the whole kit and turn it into a acoustic looking electric kit? Just a thought, it would in the end be cheaper wouldn't it?
Wouldn't it be cool to trigger the whole kit and turn it into a acoustic looking electric kit? Just a thought, it would in the end be cheaper wouldn't it?
What don't you like about the kick spurs? I think that they are really functional and cool looking. They are easy to set up also.you can't fully nest em (and it's not by much, the hoops just barely don't fit - so even if you move to rim mounting you are just shy of fully nesting)
but you can turn two of them bottom to bottom and get em to receive one another
If you run the kick as a single head, like in an e-drum situation, or if you just like that sound) then you've got some more options
I kind of wish they would
1) just off it as a shell pack
2) rework the kick spurs
3) fully "russian doll" nesting would be cool, but that would probably require a bit of work like non-standard HW or more staggered sizes like 10-13-16
What don't you like about the kick spurs? I think that they are really functional and cool looking. They are easy to set up also.