| Basic Drum Set [message #64833] |
Tue, 23 November 2010 08:25  |
Scoot
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Registered: November 2010
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My son is in Jr. High and plays percussion. He's joined the jazz band and is learning to play a drum set at school, but at home he only has a snare drum.
I'd love to get him a drum set for home, but he seems to think he needs every single drum and cymbal ever made.
What basics should we get for a decent, but not elaborate, drum set?
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| Re: Basic Drum Set [message #65532 is a reply to message #64833] |
Mon, 03 January 2011 15:09  |
Adveser
Messages: 434
Registered: July 2009
Location: USA
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Any time. Glad to hear everything worked out and everyone is happy.
Now, at least, After he gets the Ride cymbal (which makes three of the distinct sounds on a record, btw) it is pretty much all fluff after that adding more. I like a smaller and crisper Crash, called a splash cymbal, so that would be the next thing to go after and you can pretty much call it a day on the kit being complete until he's old enough and has his own style where other things are added for stylistic/personal reasons.
Good job getting this stuff to him early. Who knows, if he is exceptionally good at drums, you don't want him getting the gear late and living with you trying to make it because things were delayed unnecessarily. After about 5 years of seriously committing yourself to music does one know if they have the goods or not and if they do, they aren't going to quit under any circumstances. Usually those uncompromising people make it in the end.
That may all be frivolous info, but there it is.
http://adveser.webs.com/
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| Re: Basic Drum Set [message #65567 is a reply to message #64833] |
Tue, 04 January 2011 21:41 |
Adveser
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Registered: July 2009
Location: USA
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I don't believe so, not without seriously isolating and miking the drums. They make things called noise gates that will turn off the microphone unless the sound reaches a certain limit. (usually have the effect of having to hit specific drums to turn "their" mic on. That is totally outside of your scope I would imagine. At this point you are running into really advanced stuff like Miking drums, tuning them perfectly, isolating them, programing noise gates, equalizing each mic so that two mics aren't amplifying the same signal, ect.
The good news is your idea of noise damping is no where near as hard as it sounds. literally anything that creates a non-straight line will do.
You can probably use a uni-directional mic or two and wrap something non-porous around the sides of the mic(s) to prevent bleeding from the sides. That is about the only cheap way to get it done, I'm afraid.
http://adveser.webs.com/
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