These gizmos look like a clever solution to the problem of rehearsal noise.
http://www.jamhub.com (http://www.jamhub.com)
If the drummer's using edrums then only the vocaler needs to 'keep it down'.
Sounds a bit sticky...
That's assuming the drummist can afford decent eDrums, of course.
My electronic kit is way too small to do most proggy stuff - I'm trying to learn Loser's Day Parade on it and it's taking a lot of imagination vis-a-vis pretending to be hitting one of 5 cymbals when there's only 2, getting a half-open hi-hat sound, imagining 2 more toms...
Also, singing quietly is a very different style and allows a much smaller vocal range than belting it out.
Pretty though.
I designed and started building something similar for The Garden of Edam a few years ago to use as personal in-ear monitor mix stations, all chained together with multicore. It started to get too expensive though. And ground loops were a bugger.
Incidentally, am I the only one to have read that as "Jem Hub"?
Now, that would be an interesting product...
Quote from: "RacingHippo"Incidentally, am I the only one to have read that as "Jem Hub"?
Now, that would be an interesting product...
I guess we know that the casing would be Frost*erisk shaped! :D
RacingHippo, sounds like you're after a kit like that nice Mr Harrison's one, from Porcupine Tree:
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Hmm... lemme see what I can cobble together...
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Ta-da!!!
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Not bad RH - but you've a while to go before you beat Mike Portnoy :twisted:
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No, I don't know why he needs 2 drum stools either!
The thing that impresses me most about that pic of Mike Portnoy's kit: how the hell does he sit on 2 stools at the same time? Does he have a particularly large bottom? Steatopygyia?
(@RH - you need to be looking up more optimistically, otherwise not bad!)
Portnoy's kit is just sick.
Portnoy's drums is like a jazz-kit in comparison to Terry's Kit
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and just one stool!! :D
Ah well.
I believe that Mr Portnoy (with whom I share a birthday, incidentally*) subscribes to the same theory as me: the more things you have to hit, the less likely you are to miss.
It's just that he has significantly more money than me.
And space.
* So there's an interesting factoid you can quote at dinner parties (well, proggy ones anyway) - Mike Portnoy's birthday is the same as Hitler's.
HAHAHAHAHA
that seriously made me laugh out loud. it looks like a cartoon or something.
Anyway..(ontopic) We did a lot of rehearsing like that , but than on a less expensive and less advanced apparatus (Behringer headphone amplifier) behind me.
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Quote from: "RacingHippo"[...]pretending to be hitting one of 5 cymbals when there's only 2[...]
That's what attracted me to my e-kit. Picked it up second hand to keep costs down, and it has 2 cymbals with it, and the input for a third should I buy it. Each cymbal has a sensor at the rim and one for the bell, so you can assign different sounds to each sensor.
So for now I have a ride/china on the right and a crash/china on the left, and hihats/crash. :D
I've been setting up splashes and chinas on the rims of the Toms....it makes for some "interesting" effects when I knob-up the fills, sometimes it can sound almost deliberate! ;)
Quote from: "Pedro"....it makes for some "interesting" effects when I knob-up the fills...
:shock: :shock: :shock:
There are times when I wish I didn't have such a visual imagination. That has conjured up some EXTREMELY disturbing images which I'd prefer to expunge immediately.
Quote from: "catherine"Quote from: "Pedro"....it makes for some "interesting" effects when I knob-up the fills...
:shock: :shock: :shock:
There are times when I wish I didn't have such a visual imagination. That has conjured up some EXTREMELY disturbing images which I'd prefer to expunge immediately.
...and yet
splashes on the rims of Toms had no effect on you? ....until now maybe? :twisted: :twisted:
Uuurgh, thanks Pedro. :shock:
I can just imagine the BBC documentary, with David Attenborough-style voice-over:
"And, continuing with our primitive musicians, here we see Pedro, drumming. He has to do this with the curtains drawn, as otherwise the neighbours complain. Note that his unusual technique is very, er, physical - he doesn't use a pair of sticks in his hands like a normal drummer would, but instead relies on what he describes as 'knobbing up' the fills. See him wince with pain as he splashes on the rims of Toms... he prefers to play using this method with his rubber-clad electronic kit, as the metal rims on his "proper" kit don't half sting if you catch them wrong..."
:shock:
*checks curtains
LOL!!
I found a time laps video of Terry's kit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxe-SWxDEcw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxe-SWxDEcw)