jeff5xo said:
As always Tim, thanks a bunch. I'll give it a try. Another question, does speaker size matter? Can I use a 4x12 cab, or do I need to use an individual speaker? What's the placement? Drummers resonant head is on, 8" hole in front, 3 moving blankets over bass drum and 5 gallon bucket forming a tunnel. How far away does "speaker mic" go. Where is it aimed? (or at least what's a good starting point?
Eraos, thanks for the reply. I clicked on the link and the link worked, but the link on the link didn't work.............if that makes sense! Anyway thanks again for trying to help me out!
If you wanted to, you could get a new 5 gallon bucket, and cut a decent sided hole in it - and mount the speaker to the bottom of the bucket.
Or.... you can try this, place the speaker cone down in the bottom of the 5 gallon bucket (whiile it's sitting upright on the fllor) and mark the holes to mount it, and just mount it face down in the 5 gallon bucket.
In theory that will work, and you won't have to reverse the polarity of it.
I haven't tried this, I'm just thinking stream of though consciousness about this. I have my speakers mounted to PVC frames that I made.
The placement is all going to be up to you - generally you want it fairly close to the kick - the farther away you go with it, the more other stuff you might pick up because you'll need to raise the gain.
If you go here:
http://www.myspace.com/buckskincondom
listen to that song with headphones on, and you'll hear what a kick drum with a speaker on it sounds like - keep in mind that is a 28" Kick drum, so it will go really low - and that one was tuned up a bit, normally I played them all the way detuned - I was trying to build up the strength in my legs by playing with the heads totally loose...plus it feels really good to really lay the mallet into the loose head of a kick drum. LOL
There's screw ups galore in that, since it was just a running tape of bandpractice, but you can get an idea of what the "speaker mic" will do.
I don't know if a 4x12" will work.
I've seen guys use little 12" single extension cabinets for this, and I've seen people literally mount the speaker to the kick drum - they used short Bungee cords to mount/suspend a 6.5" speaker to the front of a kick drum - they just hooked the bungee cords (those little short ones) to the speaker mounting holes, and then the other ends to the Tension Rods of the kick drum.
Tim