Kelly wrote:
Got everything in but this god blasted 12.
Sheesh I hate 12 toms.
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Kelly, I wonder if your 12 aversion is due to the lower power needed to fire that puppy into distortion mode. If what you are not liking about it is that the sound overwhelms the rest of the kit, a gentler sticking may be in order. I've been working on that quite a bit, because the 12 makes great sounds and has a great variety of tonal shifts, but is easily over played to the point where the tonal characteristics get lost in one great midrange wooooooorm. My previous style of beat and conquer, did not ask for much finesse, because banging away on 14 Sig with pinstripes allowed me a kind of freedom to get away with murder. But what I could not get was that careening sound that only a 12 will offer.
I suspect that a 10 does not have the volumetrics, if you will, to produce that kind of sonic overload. I can't say for sure because I don't use the 10 in the lineup. And the 14... I can whack away at the 14 Designer with impunity if not with great joy. But the 12 will bite back, creating a midrange rumble that is capable of obliterating the coherence of the rest of the kit.
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