Tim Brown
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I was sitting outside a few minutes ago thinking about some recording I was doing in 1986, and then it hit me - what is the most rigged thing you've ever done?
Drummers are notorious for rigging hardware pieces together - after all - it's sort of like a big erector set - a lot of different brands are all the same diameter, so it's easy to create some gigantic freaky hardware pieces.
I've even seen a drummer who made a Rack out of PVC pipe. It was funny, but you know what - the thing actually worked. (He didn't use rack clamps - the rack was in pieces or sections that were permanently glued together, and he had made cymbal arms using pieces of PVC and made a "cymbal post" by simply drilling through a Cap, and putting a bolt through it. He said he got the idea from Martin Chambers of the Pretenders who had an all white rack, and had powder coated the entire sonor 5 piece drumkit white.)
In the spring of 1986 my band (well what was left of it - the rhythm guitarist moved to Alabama, and the bass player - my younger brother - quit. That left the lead singer/keyboard player, the lead guitarist, and myself) was doing some songs for a local filmmaker. He was making a film about Vampires and wanted some Hard Rock songs for it - eventually he abandoned the project, but we were in a rush to get these songs demo-ed for him.
(I've still got the tape here somewhere and when I find it, I'm going to put at least put one of the songs online.)
We were recording them at my singer's house in their family room (all wood with a huge stone fireplace - the room sounded awesome for recording in - plus there was a giant stairwell just outside the doorway to the family room.
During the middle of the recording - my kick drum pedal's pedalboard snapped in half.
What was I to do?!?!
Think think think, how could we finish this recording in time?
Luckily, Glen's dad had a wood shop in the garage.
So I went out in the garage and made a heel-plate and pedalboard out of a piece of 3/4" cabinet grade plywood scrap he had there, and used a hinge (the same exact kind that is on a DW pedal) that he had laying around.
I played on that pedal for several months while I tried finding something to replace my old faithful, but now Frankenstein-ish, Slingerland Tempo King pedal.
That was when I first made the switch to chain drive pedals...I never did like the feel of them, having started with a leather strap, they just didn't feel right to me.
So, what kind of hardware rigging have you done?
Tim
Drummers are notorious for rigging hardware pieces together - after all - it's sort of like a big erector set - a lot of different brands are all the same diameter, so it's easy to create some gigantic freaky hardware pieces.
I've even seen a drummer who made a Rack out of PVC pipe. It was funny, but you know what - the thing actually worked. (He didn't use rack clamps - the rack was in pieces or sections that were permanently glued together, and he had made cymbal arms using pieces of PVC and made a "cymbal post" by simply drilling through a Cap, and putting a bolt through it. He said he got the idea from Martin Chambers of the Pretenders who had an all white rack, and had powder coated the entire sonor 5 piece drumkit white.)
In the spring of 1986 my band (well what was left of it - the rhythm guitarist moved to Alabama, and the bass player - my younger brother - quit. That left the lead singer/keyboard player, the lead guitarist, and myself) was doing some songs for a local filmmaker. He was making a film about Vampires and wanted some Hard Rock songs for it - eventually he abandoned the project, but we were in a rush to get these songs demo-ed for him.
(I've still got the tape here somewhere and when I find it, I'm going to put at least put one of the songs online.)
We were recording them at my singer's house in their family room (all wood with a huge stone fireplace - the room sounded awesome for recording in - plus there was a giant stairwell just outside the doorway to the family room.
During the middle of the recording - my kick drum pedal's pedalboard snapped in half.
What was I to do?!?!
Think think think, how could we finish this recording in time?
Luckily, Glen's dad had a wood shop in the garage.
So I went out in the garage and made a heel-plate and pedalboard out of a piece of 3/4" cabinet grade plywood scrap he had there, and used a hinge (the same exact kind that is on a DW pedal) that he had laying around.
I played on that pedal for several months while I tried finding something to replace my old faithful, but now Frankenstein-ish, Slingerland Tempo King pedal.
That was when I first made the switch to chain drive pedals...I never did like the feel of them, having started with a leather strap, they just didn't feel right to me.
So, what kind of hardware rigging have you done?
Tim