What’s your logic behind the choice?
I was thinking along the same lines. In a perfect world, we would have all developed our sticking to be perfectly ambidextrous, but since I'm not perfect, I thought maybe having the lower pitch tom on the off side. But, only having 14 and 16 at the moment, I don't want to leave my 14 as the primary.The 18" goes left of hats for faux double kick stuff, the 16" in the 'usual' position and the 14" last because I don't really like 14" floor toms (unless I'm playing a bop kit) but, it could be used to end a fill or mix in a fill, with the 16".
32 notes are easy with the 'faux kick' FT, three 16ths on the real kick answered on the FT with left hand.
my mixer and click GUIs are on my phone, which is already high hat mounted, so no real worries there.I can't really have anything by my hi hat - the computer and mixing board iPad is in that position. I tried having a second snare over there and that didn't work either.
I really like the Bonham aesthetic of one up and two down though - even if I have no need for the second floor tom. It just makes the kit look balanced to me. Again, I just play stuff like “Mustang Sally”, so I have no use for “modern” set-ups allowing me to do more than my one-beat fillsI was thinking along the same lines. In a perfect world, we would have all developed our sticking to be perfectly ambidextrous, but since I'm not perfect, I thought maybe having the lower pitch tom on the off side. But, only having 14 and 16 at the moment, I don't want to leave my 14 as the primary.
It's interesting to see what other people do with their own particular situations.
And like Bo, I've got my electronics to consider. But I've got the fabrication ability to deal with that. I can probably work out something to fly that stuff off a floor tom leg. It could also probably just as easily sit on the floor. My physical mixer is basically just to blend monitor feed with click.
my mixer and click GUIs are on my phone, which is already high hat mounted, so no real worries there.
I've experimented with the side snare in the past as well, and I never really cared much for it.
I did have a project a few years back that made a lot of use of tom grooves, and off side tom was cool for that. I'm now doing something where that's called for again, but I'm thinking larger toms... and I've never particular liked having two floor toms next to each other.
Mixer on your phone??!?my mixer and click GUIs are on my phone, which is already high hat mounted, so no real worries there
I can assure you that the judgement of any party outside of myself is not under any kind of situation.Not every drumming-related decision requires a logical foundation. Place your toms however you wish. If anyone asks you to defend your setup, try saying, "Just because." The person will either be supportive or peevish. In the first case, you've made a friend. In the second, you're dealing with someone whose opinion is of no value to begin with. No matter what, keep on drumming.
I'm either running a Beringer x air app or using the html GUI from a soundcraft UI mixer in the situations where I'm doing phone control. More often than not it's still hand signs to the guy at the desk using analog controls.Mixer on your phone??!?
In my experience phones are terrible at mixing, as in there are no apps (that I've found) to blend different sound outputs...
What are you using? What's the phone side of the setup?
Thanks....downloading as we speakI'm either running a Beringer x air app or using the html GUI from a soundcraft UI mixer in the situations where I'm doing phone control. More often than not it's still hand signs to the guy at the desk using analog controls.