On drums...

Nice.

I give you solid science , and you embrace the larouche theory where there is no evidence that models with self-removing badges are superior sounding to models that retain their badges, and, even if it were true, it is not clear that superiority is attributable to the absence of badges, or, to red sparkle paint, with a black base .

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Cliff

River City Trio

What if we did all have the same opinions?

No evidence? After a ramping up of posts procaliming how the ones with the self-removing badges are the best ones out there he then tries to sell them? You call that no evidence?

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Gregory

Just wrote a long post on tunings there and lost it all yet AGAIN!!!

I give up!

Must start using your technique of writing it in a program and copying and pasting later Cliff.

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Ron

Incrediby frustrating, eh?

Took me a few of those to fully adapt an alternate strategy.

The only good news is that the next attempt usually comes our more compact and concise.

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Cliff

River City Trio

What if we did all have the same opinions?

and here is proof..........Liked that tuning Greg with the batter slightly higher than reso..............Not totally sold on it yet though......

All the rest was rambling nonsense!

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Ron

On a side note - that ALWAYS happens to me with long emails. Sure, there's something in the Draft folder, but not all of it.

It's best to write it as a document, or even in Notepad, and then copy it all...


Fiberskyn - I haven't tested that in reality. That sort of head never hit the market here.
Marta has them on the bongos - and they sound very warm and articulate greatly. But, they also wear down more easily than regular bongo heads (made of skin).
I guess with drums, they wear out very quick....

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Goki - short from Goran

Let the good drums roll!!!

The more I play with it, the better I like it. The tone has plenty of attack combined with fullness. Worked out a riff that centers on the 12, not something I would have done before setting it up this way. It loves being whacked, and the rimshots really zing!

Goki, I am no longer using the Fiberskyn on this drum, which rendered too mute a tone in the kit, but now have an Evans G1 clear batter with Ebony reso. I have had a Fiberskyn on the batter side of my Gretsch snare for about two years, and it has not worn out. I've recently noticed that brush response is becoming a little soft, but the overall tone is still great. Can't say how well it would last on a drum used harder, but I'm very happy with it.

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Gregory