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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...

hey! I have an older yamaha recording custom (pre-Yess) and although I've adjusted them multiple times, I've never been happy with the mounted tom heights- they are always too high. I think this is partly due to the depth of the toms- 10" for the larger. I think that I also like to sit a...

here's my deal....i took lessons for several months, trying to stick it out, but it just wasn't working for me. This dude really wanted me to just learn songs and picked ones that I didn't care for. I dropped that weeks ago and have been improving more rapidly since. Question is should I find...

who here uses multiple stick types while playing? Who is loyal to a single stick? I find myself wanting to switch up a lot- promark 5B, 747B super rock to 5A and even 7A. Is this a bad habit? Will it hurt my body or my technique?

hey, thanks for any help anyone can give..... I have a DAW with a good computer (w/ Sonar), a M-Audio 2496 soundcard and a PreSonus BlueTube with 2 channels in. I am a musician first and only know enough about recording to get me by. The problem is that 2 channels are not enough. I do 2...

hey- it's your favorite new novice...... I'm getting kick-back in my lessons regarding how I hold my sticks- not necessarily "grip" (i.e. german, traditional, etc.), but what my hands are doing while playing. My instructor wants my fingers to act on the stick as if it is a lever- minimizing...