What is your unstoppable, unbeatable, go-to piece of equipment?

Bozozoid said:
This isn't a this is a good jazz ride.. or these are great rock hats. This is thee thread where come hell or high water it will be hard to convince you that your thoughts on what? is unbeatable. Equiptment from A to Z. What gives you tunnel vision. Things can change but right now I've yet to play a pedal that has topped my Tama flexiglide. I hope this goes around the galaxy on YOUR unstoppable..unbeatable go to piece of equiptment. One more thing..all the talk and discussion on earth can't convince me that Sonor phonics are not thee best sounding kits I've ever heard..end of story. What will never change YOUR mind. 😃.
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Paiste Rude cymbals are good for Metal, they are NOT good for Jazz.
Direct drive pedals are better for most things.
It is how you tune your drums what makes them sound good, not the brand or high price.
Nobody needs to hit the drums that hard, you can play them at full volume with a lot less effort.
Drum rack for me all the way. I had stands for many years, wind or stupid bandmates kept toppling them and damaging my cymbals.
Electronic drums are drums just like electric guitars are guitars.
Jazz or blues is not the be all end all when it comes to learning to play drums.
You don't need rudiments to learn how to play drums.
GetAgrippa said:
This is the thread where come hell or high water it will be hard to convince Me that it's all in the head. Though admittedly you strike the head to produce the initial sound. I think the 80% number , I've read, is likely just made up.
It's all in the head is all in your head.

That's number one.
Number 2. No one really wants more cowbell-it's a myth.

Number 3: And don't forget no one really likes a tambourine-mainly because people just use them to look busy. But really it's just annoying.

There I said it.
Don't bother trying to convince me otherwise. I've got three tambourines (one attaches to hats) and use none of them. I do use cowbell on occasion. But we should ban tambourines because they jingle. Jingle goes with bells and Christmas and that's a religious holiday, and we can't talk about religious relics. No Mr Tambourine man.
"
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you"
Yeah screw that crap. Someone start jingling that tambourine before my Morning Coffee it's on. Jingle jangle morning you're kidding me.
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They say that Stradivarious violins are impossible to copy because even if you took one apart, and made an exact copy (using a scanning machine and a CNC machine to copy all the pieces to perfection. It will still not sound like the original ones because of the wood used (which is supposed to now be extint). So while a lot of a drum tone may come from the head, a lot also comes from the thickness (how many ply) or what tuning system is used. See the video below:

 
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Yes the heads move the air meaning they initially make the sound. What I've never heard said after that is how the shell shapes and alters the sound after the head initiates the sound.

That deserves to be appended to the "heads make the sound" statement because it's a fact.

Even a concert tom sounds different than the same sized rototom. Shells mold the sound.
 
Larry said:
Yes the heads move the air meaning they initially make the sound. What I've never heard said after that is how the shell shapes and alters the sound after the head initiates the sound.

That deserves to be appended to the "heads make the sound" statement because it's a fact.

Even a concert tom sounds different than the same sized rototom. Shells mold the sound.
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Also that argument can be supported with the traps drums where very thin toms sound very similar to regular toms but look more similar to roto toms....
 
Hopefully I remain open to challenging my own preconceptions up till the day i die...otherwise creativity will escape me.

Test, formulate, conclude...repeat

More real world ideas hold me rigid...don't hurt others for example...but when it comes to art...stagnation generates itself then it spreads...ya gotta flex.
 
Larry said:
Yes the heads move the air meaning they initially make the sound. What I've never heard said after that is how the shell shapes and alters the sound after the head initiates the sound.

That deserves to be appended to the "heads make the sound" statement because it's a fact.

Even a concert tom sounds different than the same sized rototom. Shells mold the sound.
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You could even go so far to say it colours the sound ? Influences ? flavours? projects? enhances? nup!
 
Considering I’ve tried six DW Collectors kit, but always end up falling back or forward to a 1975 or later Ludwig kit must say something about the Ludwigs. And it’s not that I think they’re perfect, but the exact opposite. I can get them to sound good, but it takes some time and a lot of tweaking.

I must inherently think kits that tune up perfectly out of the box are flawed. So I like taking time with my vintage Ludwigs (and Rogers too) to make them sound good. Maybe I’m a closet piano tuner (you know how it takes those guys a lot of time to tune one?). But that’s my tunnel vision. I’ll get a perfect kit, but then immediately miss having a Ludwig from the era when I was a kid poring through my 1975-1980 catalogs.
 
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The Tama Star Cast mounting system is the best design for mounted toms. Everything else is a compromise.

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mikyok said:
I'm tempted to get a good 60s/70s pair of 14s, the good ones just have that magic about them.
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Yes, I agree. I could never find the “perfect” pair, so I bought 10 pairs of them, mixed and matched them, and kept a pair that really shined above the rest. Still have ‘em and use ‘em. I’m playing them tonight, in fact! 😄
 
GetAgrippa said:
This is the thread where come hell or high water it will be hard to convince Me that it's all in the head. Though admittedly you strike the head to produce the initial sound. I think the 80% number , I've read, is likely just made up.
It's all in the head is all in your head.

That's number one.
Number 2. No one really wants more cowbell-it's a myth.

Number 3: And don't forget no one really likes a tambourine-mainly because people just use them to look busy. But really it's just annoying.

There I said it.
Don't bother trying to convince me otherwise. I've got three tambourines (one attaches to hats) and use none of them. I do use cowbell on occasion. But we should ban tambourines because they jingle. Jingle goes with bells and Christmas and that's a religious holiday, and we can't talk about religious relics. No Mr Tambourine man.
"
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you"
Yeah screw that crap. Someone start jingling that tambourine before my Morning Coffee it's on. Jingle jangle morning you're kidding me.
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#2 is it for me....and you will never ever convince me that that skit is funny and anything other than pure cringe

what else:
you will never convince me.....

that any key is sadder than D minor

that big drum kits are inferior to small

that busy is inferior to "money beat"

that success is defined by monetary sales

that jazz is a higher art form than any other

that hot weather is better than cold

that getting drunk/high/altering my brain with substances is a worthy endeavor

that the Toronto Maple Leafs will win a Stanley Cup in my lifetime
 
I'm trying to adapt to a Pearl Demonator after using Tama Iron Cobras, DW 5000.
The long board and different timing are challenging me.
 
I went back to the Iron Cobra with regular boards for last night's gig and struggled. That was a surprise. It already took more effort than I remembered and multiple strikes were no longer automatic for me. Doubles throughout La Grange are not possible but with the Demonator boards they're pretty fluid.

But my Tama short board trained foot angle is constantly striking the Pearl long board pivot point at my heel and the timing of the action is different enough to cause some problems with quad type stuff coming out the way I'm used to.

I'm going to keep going at the Pearl Demonator long board pedal since it seems that the adaptation is well under way. Kinda concerned about having short board obstacles later.
 
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