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Because I had them. :p They were just for looks. I actually had a set of Octobans as well to go over top of the toms. These got replaced with a bunch of 6" Chrome rototoms to match the kit, and I just tuned them extremely low. Tim

Oh man, if you guys want a laugh - look at this picture. It's a screen capture of a video I found yesterday of me playing in 1985! I was 17. Here's my "Van Halen" kit. :p It was a Chrome metal over Maple Slingerland kit with 6 mounted toms (8",10",12",13",14",15"), 3 floor toms (16",18", &...

Wait, let me get this straight. You want to record a banjo? On purpose? BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D Okay, now that I have that out of my system....sorry it couldn't be helped, my brother has a banjo - a really nice one actually, and of course the first...

I don't know what it costs, but have you seen the AKG D110? It's a lower priced kick mic that AKG evidently now makes - I saw it at Musicians Friend's website, but I didn't pay attention to the price. I was looking for price on a D3800 for a friend of mine. Tim

I believe you do have to include the basket as part of the measurement. So if it's a 3" wooden snare, and the basket is 1 inch extra in depth, they probably sell it as a 4" deep drum. I have an 8"x14" brass Free floating snare by Pearl, but I don't think the metal shell is actually 8" deep - I...

Spoken like a true Scot! :p Hahahaha My family's Scottish - so trust me, it's a trait. I start shit I never finish all the time. :D Tim

Yes, you can chain them together via the Firewire ports on the back it says it on the specs at Mackie's website. http://www.mackie.com/products/1200f/splash.html I'm reading reviews about the 1200F right now. This looks like the route I'm going to go. I just want to know if the unit will work...

It kjust looks like he has a black ring of plastic on top of a White coated head. A lot of drummers make "Zer-O" rings themselves by cutting the ring out of a drumhead. Tim

You could take the snare apart, and sand the shell with an electric hand sander, and once you have the shell sanded - and we are talking a project that would take at least a week - you are going to have to completely scratch the entire surface in order to have the coating stick. Then you would...

Change to a felt mallet. :p Don't point it at the beater, that only increases the attack being picked up - which is exactly what you are evidently trying to have less of - so aim it at the shell rather than the center. If you make a heavy duty kick drum tunnel, it will contain the low end...

Yeah,. you could have gotten a piece of wood veneer and glued it to the outside of the shell, but it would have cost a heck of a lot more than $30! Tim

Okay thanks! I was told that those were TDIF inputs - so that's what threw me off. What sucks is I have Tascam DA38's - but if I use them to go into anything - it's 16-bit, and I want to go 24-bit. They aren't bad machines, but the difference between 16-bit and 24-bit is night and day from...

Ddrum wins hands down for drumsound and Trigger to MIDI Conversion, with the Roland upper level Vdrum units coming in at a close second. You can pick up a used ddrum 2 online for about $450 or so. ddrum3 is a waste of time - it's a great unit, but you can't get replacement parts for it - the...

Yep, the CS1000's are good mic's. Here is the thing - when you were first buying gear - you couldn't get into a pro quality recording system for $2,000. Right now at Musician's friend, you can get a package deal for $800 that is a Presonus Firepod, a pair of Fostex near-field powered...

I use an 8x14" Brass Free floating shell made by Pearl - I'll guarantee you it has more natural ping than the drum you have. So how do I tame it? Not with one of those things! :eek: :p I use a Remo Clear Pinstripe on the top and an Aquarian #HPSN14 which is a "High Performance Snare Side"...

You're dead on - one of my friends just won some kind of contest using a Boss BR-8 and a guitar. The label said it sounded so good that they want to master it and release it. That said, if you have $1,000 to spend, and by waiting a few months you can save anouther $1,000 so you can step up to a...

Ah ha, somebody didn't like my answer and gave me a negative rep. :D Hey man, my theory is "Buy Once, Cry once". Why waste money on a mediocre setup when you can go directly to 24-bit 96kz recording for around $2K if you have a computer you can already use. $2,000 isn't crap to spend on gear...

Why in heavens name would you want an internal muffler?!?!?! When I Was growing up - all drums had them in them, and you know what we called them? Extra crap to rattle and make noise! I must have removed a thousand of those things from drum sets. I even had one set that had them on both the...

Okay, first you need to establish what you intend to record on. If you intend to record on a Computer, you need to keep a few things in mind. #1. Obviously, You need to be bale to have the computer in the same place you intend to record.... so that rules out using most family/home computers...

I wasn't sure where this should go, but I figured this is as good as any. Why do companies feel the need to try to make "Swiss Army Knife" products? What am I talking about? Specifically, Analog to Digital Firewire Interfaces. The only one on the market that really seems to make much sense to...