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15$ well spent... I am completely amazed. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152593393892442&set=vb.7489112441&type=2&theater

Such a nice analogy. ;)

As you may have guessed, I'm not talking about chicken drumsticks, but broken and worn out hickory sticks that I have been collecting for unknown reasons. As you may know, drum sticks burn very well, I assume this is due to some sort of lacquer's being quite flammable. For this reason, I had the...

I know it's a technique thing, because my right hand stick stays just fine but the left hand stick keeps sliding forward, especially when practicing doubles strokes, which causes me to pinch the stick between the index the finger and the thumb. Not good. So does anyone use the Vic grip sticks...

Today I tried chinas and compared with my 19" AAXtreme chinese which is slightly too powerful and bright, what I'm looking for is something more gentle, and darker, with lot's of wash and long sustain. Something big and thin I guess. 20" Paragon - KLANG! Thumbs down 20" Paragon diamond back -...

This is my point of view... sort of. :p Really hard to piece pictures together like this. Cymbals 8" HH splash 14" Xs20 medium hats 19" HHX extreme crash 21" Vault Jack DeJohnette 3 point ride 17" HH thin crash 19" AAX extreme chinese I guess I'll be replacing the chinese eventually, it's...

Adjust the damn throne height! I've been fiddeling back and forth for months now with tuning of the bass drum, spring tension, beater height... Everything! Yet my pedal has felt very heavy to play, while not producing desired power in the strokes. I can't believe I have overlooked the importance...

Has anyone else tried this practice pad? Playing 16th singles with what I'd call average power measured around 80db with my android app. How could anyone possibly stand the noise that this pad makes? I don't wanna have to use ear protection while practicing... I guess I'm looking for...

Yep, lying there on the reso head, all dead. A few ones still alive are flying around the edges underneath the batter head, desperately seeking a way out. After a quick search with google, I think they may be some sort of Drosophilidae, the size seems quite right at least, but I'm no...

...there is no way I can maintain that power with every stroke, so I am in search of a more easily responsive bass drum. I am currently using a Remo powerstroke 4, 2 ply head with a sound control ring, so it's a heavy head. So, is it a 1 ply head that I should be using? Remo ps3 perhaps, or...

I'm about to set up a stack of a china and a crash but I was wondering about the durability, are they more likely to break since they aren't vibrating freely? The way you play them should have some impact on this matter, I'm thinking that striking along the bow of the top cymbal with the...

How this tom has been sounding so great is beyond me, just watch this. As you can see, the rim of the drum head is already touching the mounts, and the drum isn't even tuned. These Sonors really don't like Remo, some of you may have seen my posts about the 12" tom being abnormaly large...

I have played this rudiment for a long time, but only leading with the left hand which feels totally natural. But lately I've noticed that a flam between a tom and a snare sounds a lot more articulate when playing the tom first, since the snare has a lot more attack than a tom. So I've been...

I made a thread some time ago about my 12" tom not sounding good, and as I measured it today, I found that it is 1mm out of round on both sides. Measured from lug to lug, two sides were 30.2cm, and one side 30.3cm. On the top two sides were 30.3cm and one side 30.4cm. I tried four different Remo...

Hello Some time ago I bought a clear emperor for my 8" tom which I to some extent had to force down on the bearing edge. Was thinking about returning the head at first, but tried tuning anyway and it turned out fine. But! Five minutes ago I opened a pack with a clear ambassador for my 12" tom...

Hey there. As you may have noticed, there is a sticky for tom tuning, as well as one for snare and one for bassdrum in the Drum Gear -> Drums section. But many threads about tuning are getting posted in the General Discussion forum (I just posted in one of them), and I don't know about the rest...

Im really intersted in these two, the only problem being I have nowhere near where I live to try them out in person. What I'm looking for is exactly what I've read about these cymbals, powerful, trashy and raw. If anyone has tried this cymbal, does this video...

For a while now my kick has been exciting toms and snare. The snare is not really a problem, it's a minor buzz just like when playing the toms but it's never really audible when playing normally. The toms on the other hand is the problem here, as playing the kick results in a range of frequncies...

Hey Is the bass drum supposed to rest on its legs? I need the legs to have at least some weight on them to keep the BD from moving forward but having the drum lifted by the legs must put great pressure on the mounts, am I right? How do people generally set up their BD? Help me!

I'm ready to change my BD head now, and add a patch as well. My question is, should I let the head stretch for a while and get properly seated before adding the patch? For instance, if I'd stick it onto the head before mounting and tuning it would probably rip right off after playing for a...