I'm off to uni next year, and unfortunately can't take my beloved kit with me.
I've been looking at mesh-head kits and electronic kits and can't seem to find anything decent for a reasonable price. I've decided to use an old kit (the CB I first started with) that isn't really worth anything to make my own compact, electronic kit.
The plan is to take off all the various lugs, cut the shells down to a much smaller depth, reattach the lugs, put mesh heads on the kit and then use drum triggers.
I was just wondering if anyone had any experience with this, and what people thought of how the sound would be affected by the decrease in the depth of the drums?
I'll probably only have batter heads on the toms, with a reso on the bass and snare only.
Thanks a lot, and if you have any other ideas for a small, cheap, traveling kit let me know!
I've been looking at mesh-head kits and electronic kits and can't seem to find anything decent for a reasonable price. I've decided to use an old kit (the CB I first started with) that isn't really worth anything to make my own compact, electronic kit.
The plan is to take off all the various lugs, cut the shells down to a much smaller depth, reattach the lugs, put mesh heads on the kit and then use drum triggers.
I was just wondering if anyone had any experience with this, and what people thought of how the sound would be affected by the decrease in the depth of the drums?
I'll probably only have batter heads on the toms, with a reso on the bass and snare only.
Thanks a lot, and if you have any other ideas for a small, cheap, traveling kit let me know!
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