I think that chain mail cymbal will also come in handy if you're ever in a flood of arrows. You know, it moves with you while you storm the castle, etc.
To answer the perfect pitch question, the notes in order on that one cymbal, from largest to smallest, are E, Eb, D, F#, D, F, F#, F, and Bb. I was surprised that the notes weren’t progressively higher. Probably just how the overtones interacted with each other.
The chainmail hi-hat is pretty bad ass. Sure you could achieve a similar sound through effects, but it's a crunchy and mean sound ready to go. The heat shrink on the hat clutch was such a good idea, never even considered that for different hat stacks.
@@jonathantitterington6221 fr that’s kinda what I was getting at I forget which mini clip game it was but they only had one punch/gunshot sound it sounded like that
Most digital effects are based on real analogue techniques and processes so I'd say it's the other way! The analogue vs digital debate get's way overplayed though IMO, if a piece of equipment or a plugin motivates and assists you in being creative then it's a good thing regardless!
The chain mailed cymbal might make for an interesting stack. Remember a couple years ago when everyone was obsessed with stacking every combination of cymbals?
And now everyone is seemingly obsessed with playing two rack toms - but having the smaller one on the right. . . . Now you've read this you'll see it everywhere.
The floor tom with the toy on it was my favourite one. I think I'm going to buy a pin toy so I can try this out. Great video David! Always love watching everything you make
The pin toy on the tom sounds really good; would make for a great lo-fi hip hop kit and it's one I'd love to try for myself. That was by far the best hack imo. The chain mail high hat top was pretty decent too. The timpani floor tom was interesting, but it seems pretty impractical.
Imagine getting to hangout with rdavidr for a day and trying out all his crazy creations from over the years and getting to mess with his plethora of cool drum toys. Sounds like a dream come true!
I bought one of those metal pin toy things just for drums, after seeing your vid. It has potential. The pins are a bit sharp, so I'm a bit concerned at scratching rims and scoring/cutting drum heads, but there are ways around that. Definitely an interesting sound to experiment with.
it's cool to see such a range of attempts at making new drum and percussion sounds! I gotta say the most interesting one was the pin toy setup, but the first one with the roto-tom head was also pretty cool...the others were not so good
I love this channel. I'm barely a drummer (I'm a guitar player who "plays drums"). The only kit I currently have access to is an electric kit. I know nothing about wood working or metal working. But I am still glued to these videos, because I love the way you look at music juuuust a little bit differently with most of the projects you do.
Most of these are really good, the chainmaille hi-hat thingy...not so much. I remember when Remo just sold the bottoms of roto toms as Spoxes. Terry Bozzio was a big endorser (he may have even been behind them); love that someone decided to bring that concept back a bit.
First time seeing one of your videos, this is great man - really appreciate the work you put into it! Subscribed That last one reminds me of the talking drums from West Africa
I feel like one of the reasons the weird bell-cut cymbal wasn’t great was because a cluster crash has really focused hammering in a few places around the cymbal. A more traditional cymbal I think would have been better
You crushed the ending, excellent beat you had going with the stop/start video. Wish you did more of that! Love your videos, very entertaining. Thank you.
rototom frames on their own are called spoxe and at one point in the 90s they sold em seprately for this exact reason. they sound great as a pair on a hihat stand.
Fun Fact: The 19" front wheel (aluminum) from an early 80's Kawasaki 1100 sounds pretty close to the intro bell in Hell's Bells. Perhaps a bit more high pitched, but... pretty close. Without a tire of course... Discovered this when changing brake rotors and fixing a flat tire on my trusty old iron horse.
The timpani has potential. I used to blow in to the air hole on my floor Tom while playing it and it sounded really cool. The hi hat stand seems to have the opposite affect as it’s pulling the head down instead of pushing it up.
hey rdavidr, you really know your stuff! you've got lots of tools and I'm not really sure which tools I need to work on my drums myself. I'd love to be able to mod around like you do. would you tell us what all workshop tools we need to be able to do what you do? i'm not very handy haha
The important question is what mods you want to do. I would recommend a 20v cordless drill, Dremel rotary tool, clamps/vise, and don't forget safety goggles. The angle grinder is a very powerful tool and more dangerous, so I went with a rotary tool for cutting cymbals and would recommend the same. Make sure to watch safety videos
The way that hi hat was used reminded me of when i was a kid, didn't have a drum, so i took a metal filter from a sewer. (which was a circle full of holes) and then i added a bunch of metal links for each hole. It sounded pretty alright.
Which was your favorite?? I love them all, but that pin toy on the floor tom is money 👌
The home-made spaghetti-o tension rod washers was visually appealing.
I want to put the pin toy on a snom.
What are the hihats
The pin toy on tom reminds me of a cheap 90's midi hand clap sound in the best kind of nostalgic way
I'm gonna have to make the horror sound FX one
I think that chain mail cymbal will also come in handy if you're ever in a flood of arrows. You know, it moves with you while you storm the castle, etc.
Im working on a full body suit made of zbts at the moment for that exact occasion actually.
Not sure if ZBT's will work.... try the Meinl HCS. 🤣
"Have fun storming the castle!" -Miracle Max
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@@adderon I think we're on to something here...
To answer the perfect pitch question, the notes in order on that one cymbal, from largest to smallest, are E, Eb, D, F#, D, F, F#, F, and Bb. I was surprised that the notes weren’t progressively higher. Probably just how the overtones interacted with each other.
As someone with perfect pitch, this is correct
I hear some pitch diference when he puts tapes on it
@@gabococaXD yeah, for sure. I only really listened for the first round pitches
Personally I would have said ; E, Eb, D, F#, D, ! E !, F#, F, and Bb. Resonance in D
@@eiwdice I got similar notes
The chainmail hi-hat is pretty bad ass. Sure you could achieve a similar sound through effects, but it's a crunchy and mean sound ready to go. The heat shrink on the hat clutch was such a good idea, never even considered that for different hat stacks.
The metal pin toy floor Tom lowkey would be a great sound to use in acoustic rap drum beats could be used almost as a gun shot effect as well
Gives me space ghosts purp production style vibes
Sounds kinda like old school video game punching sound effects
@@jonathantitterington6221 fr that’s kinda what I was getting at I forget which mini clip game it was but they only had one punch/gunshot sound it sounded like that
Completely analogue sound hacks that are giving digital effects some competition. Nice.
Analog sfx will prosper they are 110% better then digital
Most digital effects are based on real analogue techniques and processes so I'd say it's the other way! The analogue vs digital debate get's way overplayed though IMO, if a piece of equipment or a plugin motivates and assists you in being creative then it's a good thing regardless!
@@jackoff6746 nothing is as versatile as digital 🤷🏻♂️
The chain mailed cymbal might make for an interesting stack. Remember a couple years ago when everyone was obsessed with stacking every combination of cymbals?
Looks like a good way to ruin a perfectly good expensive cymbal 🤷♂️
Stacks 4 lyfe 😂
And now everyone is seemingly obsessed with playing two rack toms - but having the smaller one on the right. . . . Now you've read this you'll see it everywhere.
Yep and that was the birth of the manbun.
@@TempoDrift1480 You're confusing correlation with causation 😂
I like the pin toy on the tom. Very interesting and cool sound to it. Almost like a thump and clap. Keep up the awesome work! 🤘🏻
It sounds like a gunshot
I thought it sounded like a electric snare from the 80’s.
The chopped up cymbal bell thing would actually be sick for multi-percussion setups
Also it would a nice dark/ritual ambient material
The horror sound effects cymbal segment was killer 👍🏻
The floor tom with the toy on it was my favourite one. I think I'm going to buy a pin toy so I can try this out. Great video David! Always love watching everything you make
The pin toy on the tom sounds really good; would make for a great lo-fi hip hop kit and it's one I'd love to try for myself. That was by far the best hack imo. The chain mail high hat top was pretty decent too. The timpani floor tom was interesting, but it seems pretty impractical.
Why do I find myself always watching your videos on the toilet? Ever since you played drums in Casey's bathroom, man.
The floor tom snare thing was legit. A sample of that would be awesome. Second is the floor tom tabla
That pin toy sound is amazing, like an emulation of a crowd of people clapping together. A clap version of a marching machine!
Imagine getting to hangout with rdavidr for a day and trying out all his crazy creations from over the years and getting to mess with his plethora of cool drum toys. Sounds like a dream come true!
The collaboration beat at the end was beautiful.
Loved the “hihat floor Tom” and “pin drop Tom”
The drum processing on this sounds amazing! You gotta do a video on how you processed the drums on this video!
Man, appreciate the production value here bro. Lots of time and effort put into that and it shows with quality. Thank you!
The content on this channel never fails to amaze!!!
“Slipknot mask vibes” cracked me up. 😂
That pin toy on the floor Tom sounds like a super low snare drum. I loved it. The delay effect was cool too.
I bought one of those metal pin toy things just for drums, after seeing your vid. It has potential. The pins are a bit sharp, so I'm a bit concerned at scratching rims and scoring/cutting drum heads, but there are ways around that. Definitely an interesting sound to experiment with.
it's cool to see such a range of attempts at making new drum and percussion sounds! I gotta say the most interesting one was the pin toy setup, but the first one with the roto-tom head was also pretty cool...the others were not so good
This is one of the most fun videos that I have watched. The hand-pin thing was my favorite.
I love this channel. I'm barely a drummer (I'm a guitar player who "plays drums"). The only kit I currently have access to is an electric kit. I know nothing about wood working or metal working. But I am still glued to these videos, because I love the way you look at music juuuust a little bit differently with most of the projects you do.
That “tom snare” sounds like the gated drums of the 80s. Pretty cool.
Most of these are really good, the chainmaille hi-hat thingy...not so much. I remember when Remo just sold the bottoms of roto toms as Spoxes. Terry Bozzio was a big endorser (he may have even been behind them); love that someone decided to bring that concept back a bit.
That outro combining all the sounds was fire!
First time seeing one of your videos, this is great man - really appreciate the work you put into it! Subscribed
That last one reminds me of the talking drums from West Africa
This is the greatest video ever made. No hyperbole.
How does David not have like 2M subscribers? Such great videos man! Please never stop! Best drum channel on RUclips!
I feel like one of the reasons the weird bell-cut cymbal wasn’t great was because a cluster crash has really focused hammering in a few places around the cymbal. A more traditional cymbal I think would have been better
I liked it - kind of a tongue drum effect. I wonder how it'd do on a Paiste or similar more uniform pressed cymbal.
The pin toy hack sounds like a digital drum from the 80's- pretty cool
The bit at the end with the rhythm that sounds very techno like ... can be a good sample for a banger
Just wondering if a smaller roto-tom frame would work better or differently. More space to hit the head.
I've done that with an 8" roto tom frame...also used the black part of the frame as part of a cymbal stack.
yeah a smaller one def would be easier to hit the snare. I was just scared of it bouncing around too much
The bit at the end with everything all together was actually quite cool.
that roto tom frame trick sounds like it would be perfect for breakcore
You went so hard making that shattered cymbal. Pretty satisfying to see, awesome video
Studio looking hella fresh
ayyye thanks 👌
“Slipknot mask vibes” 😆 take my like, you silly drummer.
A “hack” video where everything is legitimately cool? Unheard of. Keep it up!!
Ironically only the cymbal was hacked. Everything else was a tip or hint or trick.
My heart kinda sank watching that beautiful K cymbal get cut and drilled.
The pins one was actually really cool. It's like someone made a 90's 808 clap into a drum head.
that ending 🤣 EVERYTHING TOGETHER IS ALWAYS MORE BETTER
Your drum videos never cease to entertain me!
The end was the best. And the sliced up cymbal really nailed the creepy vibes.
"Then I read the directions...." LMAO!! Love that tom snare thingie way most yes double good...
You crushed the ending, excellent beat you had going with the stop/start video. Wish you did more of that! Love your videos, very entertaining. Thank you.
The roto tom frame on the snare was pretty nuts, great old school hip hop vibe
Best drumming channel ever!!! I love your videos bro!
That floor Tom thing with the little metal sticks is actually pretty amazing.
YO that floor tom with the pin toy sounds ridiculously amazing
The tunable floor tom is actually pretty cool. I'd enjoy having one of those.
Your emjmod cymbal honestly sounded like hitting a wrought iron fence with a stick. Honestly funny.
im so happy i found this channel even tho i hardly know anything about drums
rototom frames on their own are called spoxe and at one point in the 90s they sold em seprately for this exact reason. they sound great as a pair on a hihat stand.
Yup. Totally remember that
the chair attacking the floor tom was my favorite!
Dude your drumming ist always so tasteful. Your grooves give me Benny Greb vibes
I liked how the pin one didn’t only sound cool, but also looked cool
The pin toy sounded AWESOME!!!
Oh man that floor tom pin toy combo is so cool.
pin toy beat was super sick, what a neat snare effect!
Rototom frame on the snare goes super hard. Straight hip hop snare
The thing with the roto-tom frame and the pin-toy sound like the kind of noises you get from 1980s' sound chips.
That outro beat was dope. Tribal AF. Thank you
that rototom frame thing would be really fitting in some industrial stuff
I liked the pins for the snare effect, that was my favorite
its very rare to add a new subscriber, even rarer on the first vid i see of them. excellent job mate.
I have a idea for the next video play a drum kit with only bass drums
The modificated cluster crash sounds like something Neil Peart would have in his 70's drum set.
Awesome video! Loved all of them, especially the roto tom one!
The floor tom-pani is pretty brilliant, manufacturers really ought to get in on that.
I vibe so hard anytime I hear a chainmail cymbal!
Fun Fact: The 19" front wheel (aluminum) from an early 80's Kawasaki 1100 sounds pretty close to the intro bell in Hell's Bells. Perhaps a bit more high pitched, but... pretty close.
Without a tire of course...
Discovered this when changing brake rotors and fixing a flat tire on my trusty old iron horse.
Haha! That modded cymbal with the different bell pitches gave me a Nutcracker vibe. Awesome 😎
A lot of fun ideas. The franken cymbal has a nice Tim Burton feel. Old blues players got away with a rolled up newspaper and a box or a counter.
That first try with the roto frame on the snare and reverb mic had a great sneaker pimps vibe. 1:55
that pin toy on the floor tom sounded sick!!
the chain mail cymbal one was amazing. the pin toy on the tom was also nice but can get tiring fast. but a sweet accent sound.
The pin toy as a snare is genius.
Great finish to the video. I love the chain mail cymbals.
The timpani has potential. I used to blow in to the air hole on my floor Tom while playing it and it sounded really cool. The hi hat stand seems to have the opposite affect as it’s pulling the head down instead of pushing it up.
The pin tom sounds like a cross between NES-style pitched noise and gated reverb snares from the 80s.
That ending jam was cool af
That pin thing on the floor tom is waaaay cool. Very unique.
the drum mixing on this vid is lit
That roto Tom bracket is the perfect sound for Cory Wongs new song Smokeshow
The hi hat has a "chug a lug, come-along" sound. Kind of nifty.
I could not stop grinning during that garbage sounding K bell thing. Thanks for doing this. Highly entertaining.
13:10 is the soundtrack to my nightmares. Lol.
Rhythmic angle grinding on the chain mail cymbal. Slick.
Love the stapled up Frankencymbal.
1.45 - I have perfect pitch. Those notes were my favourite; H, I, J, K. Makes for a great PRO PEVEL chord progression as well!!
legit real actual rdavidr content! crazy
The "bell plate cymbal thing" is really cool imo
The pin toy sounds badass😳💯
Epic upload...I can only imagine the time it took to finish this one...nice work!
hey rdavidr, you really know your stuff! you've got lots of tools and I'm not really sure which tools I need to work on my drums myself. I'd love to be able to mod around like you do. would you tell us what all workshop tools we need to be able to do what you do? i'm not very handy haha
The important question is what mods you want to do. I would recommend a 20v cordless drill, Dremel rotary tool, clamps/vise, and don't forget safety goggles. The angle grinder is a very powerful tool and more dangerous, so I went with a rotary tool for cutting cymbals and would recommend the same. Make sure to watch safety videos
@@presterjack9764 this is very correct. Angle grinders are NOTOROUSLY deadly.
@@aTF2player angle grinders are arguably the most dangerous tool in everyone's shop.
@@Lucidbkeoeither that or a router in my opinion. Both can and will change your pronouns to was/were in the blink of an eye
@@aTF2player not gonna lie, made me laugh
The way that hi hat was used reminded me of when i was a kid, didn't have a drum, so i took a metal filter from a sewer. (which was a circle full of holes) and then i added a bunch of metal links for each hole. It sounded pretty alright.