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It is great to have a huge 20 piece drum kit wrapped around you entirely as you channel your inner Neil Peart (RIP). However, most of us do not have roadies and big trailers to haul that kind of behemoth set! In my long career as a musician, (don’t ask how long… never too old …
Read More “The Pearl Rhythm Traveler Drum Set – Showing The Big Boys How It’s done!”
My son came home from school with his buddies the other day, walked up to me and said, “Hey – play us some of those multi tracks!” I knew just what he meant. I have a number of recorded multi-track versions of some awesome Classic Rock hits. They’re amazing to listen to… Especially the drums! …
Read More “Drum Overhead Mic Placement – Snatchin’ Skins From All Angles!”
Hal Blaine. If you’re a drummer, chances are you know that name very well. There’s not many people on the planet that have played drums on 150 number one hits… but Hal did! And the snare drum he used on more of them than any other?? The Ludwig Supraphonic! Hal was specifically amodel 400 chrome-on-brass …
Read More “The Ludwig Supraphonic – A Super Snare Beyond Compare!”
Above my Pearl drum kit in my studio hangs a massive poster of Earth, Wind & Fire. It came folded up inside the LP record “All ‘N’ All” when you bought it in the 70s. Around the sides of the poster also hang my favorite EWF records – the ones that I’ve listened to countless …
Read More “What Is A Kalimba? – Hypnotic Tones, Tines & Tines Again!”
From the time man first picked up a rock, or a tusk, or a piece of wood… … and hit a log, or threw it at a boulder, or clicked any of those things together… … there has been music. Nuts in an animal skin; bones against a cave wall; seeds shaken in a gourd… …
Read More “The Percussion Instruments List – Once Upon A Log… !”
This week, my wife and I were watching a great cooking show called ” Salt Fat Acid Heat”. It documents the travels of Samin Nosrat through Italy, Japan, Mexico and America as she explores the myriad of ways these four attributes are used in cooking. Seeing the seemingly endless ways you can cook any given …
Read More “Tama “Tension Watch” Review – Precise Measurements For Your Cookbook Of Tone!”
I’ve got to confess right up front… there are some audio intricacies I still don’t feel I’ve mastered. Doesn’t matter how many decades you work with music gear… there’s always something else to learn; somewhere else to grow; some new facet of our industry and our performance methodology that we can conquer. This week… it’s the …