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hey! I've recently bought my first set of double bass pedals- yamaha DFP9310. I love the feel of the pedals but I don't like what it's done to my kit set-up. I've been told my normal kit is set up very tightly and when I inserted the pedals I found that I had to "push out" my snare and...

i've been burned on this road once before. It cost a ton for me to take lessons and last time the guy just wanted me to play with songs for him for 3 months. I didn't learn much. I'm thinking about this new guy who is big into rudiments and reading music. His background is drum corps/jazz...

hey, my buds and I are trying to put together reasonable recordings of our practice sessions. These will only be used by us to keep record of what we're doing (we improv alot). We have a fourtrack (cassette) and would like to couple that to a mixer (8 channel?). what I imagine doing is a...

i know this is all stupid but how do you manage to double bass while playing on a closed hat? is there a way to set it closed and pedal to open? set me straight on double pass pedal + hi-hat technique. and do i need to buy a new hi-hat stand if i go to double bass? i currently have older dw...

are there tricks to monitor myself if I'm playing and recording drums? I'll have 4-5 mics to deal with through separate channels and I'm pretty much on my own. should I mostly just rely on mixdown/eq?

hey! i have a pre-yess recording custom kit. A new yess tom wouldn't work with my hardware, right? are there reasons not to mix? ......and only somewhat unrelated- do the yess toms sound 'better'?

hey! I've searched the forum for info on this unit and there's not much there! This sort of all-in-one fits my needs well and is comparable to the aardvark q10 and motu 896 (firewire). I run xp. Any feedback on the dsp3000? How are the converters/pre-amps? I can't even find any reviews on...

anyone? anyone? good? preamps? likes/dislikes?

I now have 2 hard drives for separating my audio files. Question is- should the recording software (sonar 2.1) be on the OS drive or audio file drive? does it matter?

I run sonar 2.0 on XP and I'm looking to upgrade my soundcard from 2 channels (audiophile 2496) to 8 or so. I don't have a mixer but am trying to decide now whether to dump all my cash into a soundcard or split it between the card and mixer. My question is- how many of you who have a lot of...

hey! I'm nearing the end of round one with my home recording set-up and I have a specific question about a soundcard decision. first, here's my daw: p4 2.2 1024 mb ddr 20g maxtor ata133 7200 60g " " matrox g450 16mb XP Sonar 2.0 Right now I have an audiophile 2496 and a...

hey dudes I just bought a demo rocktron prophesy unit for $100! This unit is going for $1400 at musicians friend today! Anybody out there like it?

.....my teacher was asking me what kind of music i'd been listening to. I guess he was trying to figure out styles i was into so that he could pick a song for me to learn. i say 'i've been listening to queens of the stone age a ton' and he rolls his eyes and doesn't say a damn thing. then he...

I been noticing as I've been practicing/playing lately that my foot technique is most lacking. I need more speed, better timing and more independence. I only play a single pedal currently. Does anyone have some tricks or know of a great book/video to help out? I've been playing for 6 mo...

hey, I'm looking into buying a new pair of overheads at no more than $300/pr. As I've read elsewhere, I want to try to drop them below cymbal level, to the drummer's elbow or tom level to enhance drum sound and deemphasize cymbal sound. I'll also have a dedicated snare/hi-hat mic and kick...