Recent content by tilinmyowngrave

Definately look into Gavin harrison. His DVDs and books are awesome, as well as his playing with Porcupine Tree.

its funny... yesterday my friend and I tuned the school drum set, which was a stage custom. My suggestion: Coated Remo Ambassadors, and clear remo ambassadors as resonants.

Birch will sound punchier and more aggressive, maple will still project just fine, but will be warmer and have a longer sustain. I think the Pro M (as well as the force 3005, which are made by sonor in the same factory as the Pro M), are great drums. I would recommend it... and you can also try...

Mapex Phosphor Bronze. Nuff sed.

If you can get a Yamaha Oak, I would get that... its an amazing drum set.

The EC2's would have more tone. I would chose them.

Vater Josh Freese Sigs.

...wow... you have the ocheltree snare? and what sonor do you have? Thats so cool... I'm guessing you have been playing for a while.

What you aren't getting is that they arent hand made. they buy the shells from keller.... a 10 ply keller shell costs $45, and two put together (into 20 ply) costs about $100. And maybe at MOST $250 in hardware... so at most, that snare can be made for about $350... and maybe at most $100 for...

If I were you: A) Frisbie time B) Smash it up. Drill holes into the pieces... and you geta wind chime. C) Put it over another cymbal (preferably a china) to get a short, trashy accent. Or you could just drill out the crack.

There is no reason to spend so much money on keller shells. Its utter bullshit. I can order a 1 1/2 thick snare drum made of bubinga segmented shell, for about half the cost of that snare.

I've heard it a bit differently... I heard they buy their blanks from China, but do the finishing and hammering... the working of the cymbal is done by them... But the bronze is Chinese... basically a cheaper grade of zildjian/sabian alloy. I'm not 100% sure how true that is, but then again...

I recently had surgery, so for the past 2 weeks, I haven't been able to practice very much... o well. Got the stitches out wednesday, hopefully monday will be a good day for practice.

I dont think those would be a good idea.

Hit and release... heel down... mmm.