dxtrinc
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Hey guys
I was recently borrowing a friend of mines kit. My friends a custom builder and this kit was basically a gretsch knock-off ie: 30 degree bearing edges, insanely heavy hardware and fully hand finished on the inside.
I had it all tuned up with new heads and sounding pristine (even the guitarists made a comment about how good they sounded). When it came up to sound check the sound engineer loved the kick and the snare, (i had brought out my vintage 402 so there's no way he wouldn't) but hated my toms.
He kept telling me they was this annoying ring coming from the drums. I couldn't figure out what he meant. They were almost flawlessly tuned and there was no nasty overtones or anything that i could hear. I even had one of the guys sit behind and just hit the drums. After him complaining for a few minutes and me trying to tune out the issue i realized "the annoying ring" was the tone of the drum. I do not cover up my heads or tape or put rings on my toms. I've up until this point never needed to. So i looked up and said "oh you mean how the drums supposed to sound? with a note like an instrument? like the tone?" and i kid you not guys he looked straight at me and said "ya thats it! can you get rid of that or something?"
Hope you guys enjoyed that as much as i did. You guys got any stories like this?
dxtr
I was recently borrowing a friend of mines kit. My friends a custom builder and this kit was basically a gretsch knock-off ie: 30 degree bearing edges, insanely heavy hardware and fully hand finished on the inside.
I had it all tuned up with new heads and sounding pristine (even the guitarists made a comment about how good they sounded). When it came up to sound check the sound engineer loved the kick and the snare, (i had brought out my vintage 402 so there's no way he wouldn't) but hated my toms.
He kept telling me they was this annoying ring coming from the drums. I couldn't figure out what he meant. They were almost flawlessly tuned and there was no nasty overtones or anything that i could hear. I even had one of the guys sit behind and just hit the drums. After him complaining for a few minutes and me trying to tune out the issue i realized "the annoying ring" was the tone of the drum. I do not cover up my heads or tape or put rings on my toms. I've up until this point never needed to. So i looked up and said "oh you mean how the drums supposed to sound? with a note like an instrument? like the tone?" and i kid you not guys he looked straight at me and said "ya thats it! can you get rid of that or something?"
Hope you guys enjoyed that as much as i did. You guys got any stories like this?
dxtr