Can I use Drumagog for live shows

[Jammer429]

I have drumagog and I would like to use it as a live setting does anyone know how I can do that

[donkeystyle]

your best bet would probably be to use triggers and also make sure to set the latency to 4ms or less. You should practice playing with it before the show so that you can learn how to play in a way to get the least amount of missed and misfired hits possible.

Drumagog takes some tweaking to get it to trigger correctly which isn't a big deal when you're dealing with a recording that plays back the exact same way every time, but in a live situation it's going to be tough. Not impossible I'm sure. I have heard of people doing it, but I can't imagine that it was ideal.

It would probably be best to use triggers and a decent drum module instead.

[Farview]

Triggers would be the key to getting it to trigger well. There will be way too much bleed from the stage coming into the mics to get decent triggering.

It would be easier to get triggers and a drum module that will allow you to load your own sounds. That way you can use the samples from Drumagog that you like.

[DAS19]

It is the cheapest way to go though and I could see why someone would want to try it or use it over buying the triggers and then a module. You might be able to do it effectively. You just have to set up the out of your daw to the house mixer. Its not hard but youll have to fool with it to get them to trigger as you want.

Ps it will probably b e more effective on the kick drum considering all the leakage from amps and other things on the snare mic but theres only one way to find out.

Dave

[Farview]

Not to mention the fact that everything would be different from show to show. One nasty reflection will ruin your day.

[petermiller]

Originally Posted by Jammer429

I have drumagog and I would like to use it as a live setting does anyone know how I can do that

I would first off look at the reason you want to trigger in the first place, I mean tuning them and micing them propperly would be the most ideal approach. Secondly how much do you play live because I wouldn't trust the mixed results you would get on a day to day basis and the overall reliability of that approach meaning if you depend on that as your sound what do you have to fall back on? I agree the beat way to do this is get a module and triggers or use the mics as triggers. Its really not that expensive unless you have like a 39 piece drumset or something. I have been triggering drums live scince the 80's using just the mics on stage, you can get accurate triggering if you know what frequencies the drums produce individually and run them through a direct out of the channel on the mixer througha parametric or graphic eq to isolate a triggering frequency unique to each drum, then bring them back on channels seperate from the ones used for the mics and blend them together or use only the triggered sound. And to answer the rebuttles about how to get the snare to trigger accurately well lets just say chances are if you are triggering the snare in the first place you are probably not covering material with a lot of nuance and dynamics in the first place so I wouldnt really worry bout that except no false triggering and that it triggers at the appropriate velocities. Besides Ive never heard any module that can deliver an amazingly accurate press roll anyway.