Plug and play drums!!

[Lotus]

heres an article about a new nanotech drum miking technology...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4637203.stm

 

[White_Rabbit]

Very interesting, I've always wanted a way to be able to "amp" my drums up so that I could say... easily apply distortion or delay effects without having to go through the process of micing, recording, processing, etc. Can't wait to see how the technology develops.

 

[boose44]

Interesting idea -- treating the Kit like an electric guitar. One thing the article didn't mention is the pre-amps that come with the transducers.

B-band is offering this as a drum system on their web site
http://www.b-band.com/drum-systems/

The snare pre-amp looks interesting as it includes not only a jack for a external mic (negating the concerns in the article about picking up snare strands), but a cross-over as well. Looks pricey.

One has to wonder how much the total price of a complete system is going to be and how it's going to compare to miking up a full kit now. I guess you'd still want to run some overheads, though, wouldn't you?

-bruce

 

[ecktronic]

I guess you'd still want to run some overheads, though, wouldn't you?

-bruce

Yeah and a mic at the bottom of the snare to get snare rattle prob.

There is another thread about this. Link below
http://www.homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=162406

 

[Nick The Man]

wow those look really cool i can't wait to see how those do on the market


and how much they cost

 

[mixsit]

Ok. But why the heck would micing the shell be more natural than the sound of the whole drum?

"Microphones take the sound from the air," says Heikki Raisanen, CEO of B-band. "The pickups take the sound directly from the body of the drum, solving the problem of leakage from the other drums.

"The sound is more natural than that obtained using microphones."

 

[Wireneck]

I may be way off base but I can't see this being an end all solution for micing. If its only picking up the vibrations from the shell, how useful could it possibly be in situations where you only want the sound of the stick attack against the head? I suppose it could open up alot of new doors for triggering more effectively. I am interested in hearing more on this new technology.

 

[Tim Brown]

I may be way off base but I can't see this being an end all solution for micing. If its only picking up the vibrations from the shell, how useful could it possibly be in situations where you only want the sound of the stick attack against the head? I suppose it could open up alot of new doors for triggering more effectively. I am interested in hearing more on this new technology.

That's not exactly what it does. It's similar to a PZM microphone or a "boundary" microphone, and the boundary's "limit" is the drum itself.

It's pretty expensive, somebody told me it's almost $300 per drum, but that will come down because they won't sell that many at that price.



Tim