I Bought an 18" Floor Tom
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Welp, I snagged up this old krusty floor tom from a viewer and gave it some tlc. I always envied those with a 1 up 2 down set up, but all the kits Ive come across are usually just 1 up 1 down or 2 up 1 down. So when I had the chance to grab this 18" for the Superstar I couldn't pass it up!
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22" Bass drum.
rdavidr 16 inch floor Tom
20x22 bass
24” bass
Well ply I have a 25ply snare and it's 7 inches deep
I am totally blind, and I play drums. And I love, listening to your channel you do an excellent job on your videos.
Can I ask how you wrote this?
Either someone helped or it was the speech feature, no idea what it’s called
ZandaPanda They also have been making braille keyboards forever.
ZandaPanda thank you to the people that were pointing out about the Braille keyboards for blind people, but I use voiceover which is a screen reader on my iPhone.
@@brendancifone6569 wait
I've replaced my 16" Floor Tom with an 18" Floor Tom even when I'm playing a 4-piece live! Welcome to the 18" Floor Tom cult!
I recently bought my first kit. 22BD 14snare 13 and 18 inch toms haha. Pretty huge difference in tone between the 13 and 18 of course but i like it
my ideal kit is a 10 inch rack, 12 inch rack, 16 inch floor and an 18 inch floor
@@IKEddie That’s a standard set up
@@jd0879 It was a standard set back in the 70s into the 80s. Most of the post 2000 kits however don't even offer an 18 floor tom in their series. Instead they consider an 18 drum a bass drum, lame.
@@DG-sf9ei I mean marching bass drums go all the way down to 14" lol
So rad. How many kits do you have now? Maybe a collection video should be dropped....
marc richards 100% agreed
@@yolanc3876 Seconded!
yolan c thirded!
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LOL I played a 16" and 18" floor for 45 years...decided to make a change. Now I use an 18" and a 20" floor! Yup!
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wow! I can only think of one drummer who used a 20 and that's bohnam, i think a few photos show what look like a 20 vista, though those photos also can look a bit compressed sometimes, making the drums look bigger
What brand of drums make 20 inch floor tom? I'm fairly new to drums and have never seen one yet. I see in old tama catalog that they did make them at one point.
@@bradmitchell863 hello Brad. Well...they went away for a very long time..(and still aren't popular). Slingerland and Ludwig use to make them in the 60's and 70's..even into the early 80's..but that was rare. Mine are custom built Ludwig drums by Billy Baker in Nashville who did all the current kits for Kiss drummer Eric Singer.
@@pjones8404 i was thinking if it ever came down to it i could modify a bass drum maybe? but then wouyld it have too thick of ply to be a tom?
Dave: This drum is gonna need some work
Me: Finally, a real christmas miracle
Dude UPS has been sucking lately. A guy I know ordered a BBQ to his home in Arkansas and UPS shipped it to California, marked it as delivered, and left it. Done. The manufacturers had to ship a second one. I recently ordered something that was shipped to within 40 miles of my house to the local distribution center, then 1.5 hours farther away, then back to the local center, then 3 hours the other way to another state, then back to the center where it sat for 2 day before going out for delivery. It was 3 days late because of the detours plus the 2 days of just sitting. I ordered a cymbal a few weeks ago and it similarly went past my house twice, 6 hours one way, then 7.5 hours back the other before finally coming here. UPS again.
yep same here
Im in Pittsburgh, i had i think it was AMS ship from Jersey it went to Louisville,ky then to Youngstown, oh to New Stanton,PA (local distribution center) ALL THE WAY TO Charlotte, NC. They put it on a plane to New York. There must have been an accident from new York to wherever bc the tracking stopped there and i got a refund.
Have a zildjian a custom crash in transit right now through USPS, wish me luck...its already late
😂 i had a similar experience with trailer tires this summer. then when i found out it was delivered to east japip and notified to me as "successful" through amazon, i told them to cancel the order, went with a different seller; the new tires showed up a day or two later, had them installed, and the _other tires were sitting on my parch when i got back from work that night_ 😂😂 on top of that, i went through a whole ordeal returning the tires ( i'm pretty sure i'd already gotten my refund on them, but wanted to be done with them ) 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏻♂️🤣
As someone who used to work for UPS, be easy on ‘em. This is peak season. So many packages come through between Halloween and President’s Day that shit jams up every few minutes. Not to mention, the massive amount of new hires (aka: people who barely know what they’re doing) they bring on board just to keep up with the influx of packages. I remember being so flustered one year during the holidays, I whacked my head on a steel beam while rushing around. I was so concerned with my output, I didn’t even notice the blood gushing out until a couple coworkers freaked out. Another year, a driver and I delivered misloads (packages that got put on the wrong truck) until 11PM on Christmas Eve. Everybody wants the packages to get where they need to be, even if only so there’s less work to do. Hope things go better for you in the future.
I'm not going to lie. I found it satisfying to watch the drum cleaning montage section of this video :D
That 18" sounds amazing! Now what your kit needs is a 24" or 26" kick drum.
yup!
John McNally Why? Just because there's an 18 doesn't mean you have to Bonham the kick. Next you'll tell him he needs to replace his rack tom w a 14. Smh.
@@Timbales1979 Because most shells packs that come with a 13" rack tom and 18" floor tom also have a 24" kick drum?
..in addition to this amazing kit what about an 24" big apple ride, a 22" dark china and some big and low sounding hats and crash
John McNally Ridiculous. That doesn't explain why he NEEDS a 24 or 26.
I can't wrap my head around people letting instruments getting like this. Great job on the restoration. Very nice.
David. I bought two drum sets for $25 😂
I mean, that 5 lick at the end is pretty cool.
5 lick ???
@@andreasbreitwieser1449 At 8:28 he starts playing a R-R-- five pattern in the left hand, on top of the RRRK.
Dude your kit sounds unbelievable.
Yo you should put an emad on that
Agree lol
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@@Thompsongs whoosh
LOL
Keep them coming, merry christmas
2011 MCM lick sounds good on that drum!
Congrats on the 18! I used to have a massive Blue/Olive Ludwig set. It came with two 24'' kicks, 14 and 15'' toms, with an 18 and 20'' floor toms in thermogloss finish. It was an absolute monster! Happy Holidays!!!
My current kit is my second kit, (my first one was literally trash) and I was honestly astounded when I found that you couldn’t get a kit with 14 and 18 inch toms on Sweetwater for less than $4,000, so I pieced it together myself for around half that. 14 inch snare, 10, 12, 14, 16, and 18 inch toms, and a 24 inch kick.
I'm in the process of refurbishing a beat up old 18" floor tom and adding it to my kit. Since the wraps I know to buy would have to have a seem I chose to paint it 8 coats and lacquer it and polyurethane it on the inside. This sturdied up the old 5 ply shell and made it pretty solid and shiny black like the rest of my kit. New hardware is from Ebay, still trying to win the auction for the very nice pearl lugs. It was also missing a hoop so I bought that outright from Gibraltar, not interested in buying a used and warped hoop. Still need a head for the top (next paycheck) and new hardware for the legs. (rusted) I learned a lot about restoring old drums by watching your videos and thanks to you I'll be adding a thunderous floor tom at a fraction of the actual cost. Love the videos, don't ever stop.
I own three different vintage Tama Superstar kits in Super Maple finish:
1). A 1977 18/12/14 bop kit with sound rings and matching snare.
2). A early 1980s 18/12/14 bop kit without sound rings and matching snare.
3). A early 1978 20/12/14 Jazz kit with sound rings.
What are sound rings? Are they Like reinforcement rings ?
@@harryevans1117 Yes, my early Tama shells look inside very much like the later L.A. Camco shells however they are not made from maple wood.
Mah boi is back!!!
David...can you suggest me ways to practice without drums?i don't have a kit....or a practice pad😅
I've been playing drums for 3yrs now....thanks mate..
If you dont have the space nor the spare cash, there are still some things you could do.
Some cities have fellow practice spaces, and if there are non around, you could make some friends with a kit you could practice with. I would however recomend a pad for everyone.
Mah man! Thanks mate.....the thing i dont have is space like u said.....i do have a friend who has a kit but he lives far away.....but mate....thanks for the acknowledgement...
@@Hematoph i dint get the "practice spaces part"
@@aarushs9201 As a student myself, I also dont have enough space. My drums are at my parents house 2 hours away, therefore, I looked for and found a public practice space. Its in a container, and is rarely used. I bring my own cymbals and accsessories. Its good to become as immersed in your local music-community as you can. Some will let you borrow stuff, and you'll be the first to know when someone is selling something.
@@aarushs9201 The 80/20 Drummer has a good video that explaines it.
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Tip from a soundengineer, the "tail" of the floortom sound you said you don't want, that's what a tom makes a good tom. Compare it to the snare. Without the tail, you won't hear the snare rattle, only the attack of the stick. A ringing is something that makes the floortom beautiful, don't take it away
It may sound beautiful and unique, but it sticks out and is hard to listen to on an actual track. One of the hardest things about tuning a kit is finding something that sounds good with everybody else, and those overtones are going to sound good only with very specific styles.
till the bass player plays the same note as the resonant frequency and all hell breaks lose
Just a friendly suggestion; try tuning the 18 reso head the same tuning as the batter for that rumble but longer decay. Tune the 16 slightly higher with the reso slightly looser than the batter so that it doesn't have so much sustain. It may eliminate some of that ringing you're hearing out of the 16. I usually tune my drums so that the reso is slightly lower than the batter so they don't ring as long. Some small moon gel on that 16 may keep it from ringing as well without sacrificing the sustain. Properly placed moon gel can give a drum a deeper seeming sound. Cheers
You should put an Emad on it.
Stole my comment!
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@@Thompsongs I'm just doing what he asked me to do.
You have one of the best sets that I have ever heard, and I’m a Gretsch person.
What does it mean to be a Gretsch person besides liking Gretsch?
Frank Reynald Gole Cruz it means being biased
I'm a, mix-it-all-up-till-it-sounds-dope man m'sself... like that Cadillac Johnny Cash built smuggling Parts out over 12 years at the auto plant.
@@Cracktaculus that's what I'm looking for. Thanks
Frank Reynald Gole Cruz as a guitarist and former drummer, it’s crazy to hear about how people can be diehard “Gretsch people” in drums just as they can be in guitars!
Channeling your inner Bonham! Congrats! I own a set of 1986 TAMA Superstars with 16 & 18 FTs.
Using double ply heads top and bottom makes a HUGE difference. I like EVANS hydraulics on top, and any type of self-damped head on the bottom. Diecast batter hoops also makes a huge difference. Results in a thick, fat, meaty low fundamental with reduced high harmonics + controlled decay. Hope this helps you. Happy Holidays 2019 to all!!
Those floor toms sound incredible. So punchy and dead sounding. Bigger is better when it comes to drums. That’s why I swear by my 13 x 7 snare and never use crash cymbals smaller than 18”. Wish I had those big boy toms 😭 can’t get enough of that dark sound.
ive always had a thing for two proper floor toms, not for playing i never ever played a drumset that had this but the estetics is just there.
buy some MOTHERS MAG WHEEL polish to clean up and polish all of the rim and chrome - it works GREAT ! then apply some car wax to the chrome to help it shine and protect it !
I've watched this video way more times than one person probably should, but mainly because an 18" floor tom was the one drum I wanted on my Rockstar kit from the 1990s. Also the rebuild montage from 4:21 to 5:38 is really good piece of video!
Those edits of the drum were clean
I have Ludwig CM 16” and 18” floor toms and ran into the same problem as you as far as having difficulty getting the two sounding good together. I want my 16” low enough to sound like a floor tom, but the 18” not so low as to have a papery sound. I tune my drums a little higher than most anyway, so after some experimentation and listening back on recordings, I came up with a great interval and tuning between the two. I am a tuning geek so I documented what the tunings are. No muffling. 16” has a clear emp on top, tuned to 130 hz (C), clear ambassador on the bottom, tuned to 146 hz (D). 18” same heads, 100 hz (G -G#) top, 116 hz (A-A#) on the bottom. The fundamental pitch of the 16” is a D#, 18” is a B. That’s a major third interval. They sound huge and are distinct from each other in the mix. This tuning works great for me, hope this helps.
When you strike the drum, do the two notes form a proto-chord? Does this tuning affect the keys of the songs you can play on?
Brian Hotaling I don’t know what a “proto chord” is, but the tuning does not affect anything in any song.
I’m so much of a tuning geek that I watched and analyzed a plethora of videos, listening for the fundamental pitches of the floor toms, and talked to other pros about where their floor toms are tuned to. For example, if you watch any videos from the drum center of Portsmouth, you’ll see that they tune and document the tuning of some 16” floor toms in kits they’ve demo’d very low. An important thing to note is that if the 16” floor tom is the only floor, most drummers nowadays tune it very low, around an A to a B on the top head. I find that if you have an 18” as well, to get a nice interval between the two, the 18” would be tuned too low if the 16” is tuned very low. So with a 16” and 18”, you pretty much have to take the 16” up just a little in order for the 18” to have punch and presence without sounding thin and papery. Anything below 96 Hz on the top head of an 18” floor tom sounds too floppy and papery to my ears. I find it also helps to have the bottom head tuned a little higher ( 1/2 step to a minor third) to help give the larger toms some tone and presence, especially the 18”.
@@ccdrums1290 Chords are based on triads, so a "diad" would be a proto-chord.
Brian Hotaling oh ok gotcha. Well, I’ve been playing them tuned in different ways, along with other kits I’ve had with 14” and 16” floors and the pitches they produce never interfered with any recordings or live performances that I’m aware of.
Like if you think Dave should decorate his kit like Christmas
(Inspired by Real Drum app)
You should consider putting an EMAD on that thing. Think it would get rid of all that low rumble noise.
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Some one HAD to to it !
Beautiful kit man. Love TAMA. Love 18’s. Love the natural wood look.
Your floor Tom is bigger than my 18”x14” bass drum
By 4 inches?
not BANGERTV yeah
That 18" would sound nice with an EMAD. Just a little suggestion :)
Super cool vid as all of yours are! This sounds like every 18" I've ever played outside of one DW Collector's Cherry. That one did not have the excessive SPLAT/THUD attack or the annoying mid range overtones. It resonated very pleasantly like any other tom. I think this drum would benefit from different heads and a different mic. I would recommend either a smooth white finish or suede finish Remo OR a frosted Evans head. Finding an actual tom head rather than a bass head might be challenging in those finishes. I find that these finishes deliver a controlled, "round" attack, that might reduce the SPLAT/THUD. You might want to try an Emperor on the bottom as the drum may want to resonate lower than an Ambassador can. Changing the bottom head might help a lot more than changing the top. For mic, I'd recommend a D6. You also might want to try a D112 positioned on the bottom head. Have fun with it and please post another video to show it off once you get it sounding great.
what are your thoughts on Tama Silverstar?
That’s a nice groove
I have a 1967 Ludwig Hollywood set...added a 16 × 16 Gretch (in addition to the Ludwig 16 x 16), and added an 18 × 20 Slingerland . The Hollywood is gold sparkle, and the 2 additions are COW . I play old Super (early Paiste) cymbals exclusively, and use nylon tip 2B sticks...7 cymbals + high hats . Took a while to dial everything in with tone rings etc, but the set has an ungodly bottom end ! Btw, I'm 73 and refuse to grow up !
Needs a china right between the floor toms to complete the 90’s drummer dream set
jonathan brilliant I had one set up, but it blocked the shot haha
rdavidr maybe a ribbon crasher next time
Late to the party here (3 years after the original post), but great job on finding and restoring the FT. I have a Pearl Masters BRX (birch) kit in Vintage Sunburst and was seeking a 16" FT to accompany my 14" FT. It took 5 long, patient years for one to pop up and I grabbed it. Like you, I like my floors to be deep and trying to get the tuning to my liking. Props!
01:30 does he really say I don't have a 18" a-hole..?
8 hole.
Dinand Claessens EIGHT- hole as is eight lug holes
8 hole
Lmfao
An 18 inch floor tom is a must and so rare these days. I’ve had one for 30 years and will never part with it. Another gem for rock is a 24 inch bass drum. I’ve just bought a couple of them too! 👍 Enjoy!
I have two 18" 80s era superstars. The reason being the kit was a bequeathment from the drummer in my father's band and he had cut the shells in half. Part of me wishes they could be restored but I'm happy to be a part of their history.
Now that's a drum kit. Welcome to the club. Two floor tom's is of paramount importance. To me anyway..........and yes, tune it up. That's the key........... Welcome.
Try a thicker bottom head on the reso. I did that w/ my 18” and it helped quite a bit. Maybe another black dot on the reso may do it as well.
Killer kit David.
maybe try bringing up the reso slightly along with the batter
I know a guy who runs a hydraulic as a reso head on his 18" superstar. Sounds great mic'd.
I've been thinking of doing that with my floor toms. Maybe Evans G14, so it's single ply, but still the thickness of a G2.
Thompsongs Let me know how that works for you. (G14 on reso). I did G12 clear as reso w/ EMAD batters on 16” & 18” wood hooped floor toms. Killer!
Thanks,
Jason
@@jasonfoster9153 that sounds like a good recipe. What I want to try is this: 16" and 18" floor toms with thick 3mm hoops, clear G14s on the resonant side and clear EC2 heads on the batter side.
14x10, 15x12, 16x16, 18x16, 26x14 all 1971 3 ply Ludwigs. Plus a 6.5x14 supraphonic.
I use coated Emperor on batter and coated ambassador on reso sides.
Bass has a fibreskin front and Evans EQ3 batter. For muffling, I poke cotton balls through the air hole. They free float on the reso head. Add more or less as needed.
You should put an EMAD on that thing. 😉
I kid… I KID!
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14x26 Kick, 16", 18" and 20" floor toms, 22" Gong drum. Love the thunder.
Little Music City Mystique reference at 6:51? I was on that rack line!
Whoa sick dude. Is that part from disciples??
@@bungus9302 Mantra - 2011
@@blakelankford6930 Onye be hittin' that trampoline hard
Was about to comment that hahaha!
I have 16” 18” 20” superstar floor toms and 6” 8” 13” 14” 15” toms and two 24” tama superstar bass drums Put together so that 24x31 long . I use remo abony pin stripe on the toms and aquarian super kick 11 on both sides of my bass drum and the bass drum have no pillow just the head muffels . I tune all my toms to the timbra of the shells with a tad higher bottom for pitch , it takes awhile with tuning this way . My drums are mic with 4 big 18” sub cabinets so they sound amazing big deep an all around musical drum set . My second And third kits are ludwig classics thats a different storie for another time .
I also have an 18" floor tom
Nice...very nice...enjoy your rebuilds & refurbishing of drums , beautiful kit...
The biggest drum on my kit is the bass drum
Same here!
Usually is...
Damn that kit is sexy
Could you do some research on how to reduce the volume of the snare drum? today we have all these wonderful less volume cymbals, soft kick beaters and so on, but there is no normal way how to make the sound of a snare drum, for example, twice as quiet? moongels, rings, etc., do not significantly solve the problem! I found this video "Low volume snare | quiter snare drum" and it really works !!! could you dive into this more detail? I use the sabian quiettone pad on top of the snare drum and this gives the result, but rimshots are not well. I was thinking about trying a rubber gasket between the shelve, head and the top rim. or maybe ontop of the rimI believe that a solution exists !!! Support this post, all concerned about the problem of snare loudness
The music @ 4:22 is the piece “Spinning Wheel” in case you were wondering
thank you
Spinning Wheel its song or a band and wich is the song ? :D
Drummerr 95 it’s the song. There’s a version by Maynard Ferguson that’s really good
I have a 14" and 16" floor toms. I use Evans black chrome heads, they pretty low sounding.
I bought an 18” after this video...turns out my wife didn’t even notice...
*Please take note gents...
yup, dave's slowing turning into john bonham.
Gino Tuano this is not a bad thing
@@SwordCymbal79 yah it isn't haha
Damn, sounds super.... Did you use compression and high pass filter ? or it was natural ?
Sounds like either a bitcrusher plugin or some type of audio sampling mismatch error.
18" is my biggest tom. I have a 14" snare, 13" tom, 16" floor tom, 18" floor tom, and a 24" bass drum. Probably just like the set up you have here. It's the Ludwig 110th anniversary wood-hooped mahogany set. It's so warm and smooth. Thanks for showing all the little cleaning tricks on this. They are crazy helpful!
KevinOnTheDrums his kit has a 22” kick
@@unrep2859 Thanks!
You have a 14" snare and a second 18"?
@@The_Other_Ghost Where did I say that?
@@kevinonthedrums7495 "18" is my biggest tom. I have a 14" snare"
Aluminum foil works great, dip the foil in coca cola to remove rust spots. I'm a automotive detailer and alot of the tricks I've learned can be used on drums. Another good cheat on painted surfaces or wraps. If you have a spot that is coming off but you need to really put some elbow grease into it. Try using soapy water and a dryer sheet before using a solvent. We use this to remove bugs, tar, and sap. I keep a spray bottle with water and two dryer sheets in it. I use it as a presoak, then I rinse grab a few sheets and my bottle scrub all the heavy bug areas, and then I wash. I was skeptical at first, but once I added it to my routine I found it can save me half-hour to an hour per detail.
the "wooooaaauuwww" sound is generally referred to as pitch bend, and it has to do with the relationship between the better and reaso heads.
Also, you should put an EMAD on this thing
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batter* reso*
So I'm currently building my own kit and thanks to your tips of hardware restoration and eBay I have saved a huge amount of money. Thanks!
REVIEW THOSE EARTHWORKS MICS!! And great video as always
They didn't blend that much, you can still distinctly tell theyre different drums
I've always loved natural grain and lacquer finishes. Great job bringing that old beast back to life. For years, I played a 14" floor tom with my fusion size kit (20" kick, 8", 10", 12" toms and 14" floor) but am happy to now have a kit with a 16".
It really hurts my soul to see a kit in such bad shape. The repairs went really good though.
Hey man got a question for you what do you use to clean and polish your Drums I am going buying a old kit that I am going to restore?
Yes! Finally! A drummer that not only demonstrates drumming skills by utilizing usage of two floor toms but also showing polishing part to respect maintenance!
Always love watching you sprucing up old, less-than-loved drums! Great job, sounds beefy! Merry Christmas!
Great set! To this day, those old '80s birch Superstars are some of the best sounding drums. Honestly, regarding floor toms, I have found the most versatile size to be the 14". It just seems to sound good tuned way down low or cranked up tighter. 16's and 18's for me have always been kind of a one trick pony in that they prefer only to be tuned very low. But with a 14", I can tune it just as low and still get a nice tone out of it. Just my opinion. Drum on!
It's therapeutic watching your drum resto time lapses. thanks for sharing. Merry Christmas Dave!
can you do a video when you try wish drum stuff and ofcourse good video
Change the drum heads ambassador or emperor make those sound greater
I recently bought an 18” floor tom to add to my kit, and what I found worked best was tuning it quite differently from my 16” floor tom. I tune using a tune-bot to the following frequencies:
16” batter: 95Hz
16” reso: 150Hz
18” batter: 65Hz
18” reso: 85Hz
You’ll notice that the interval between the heads is quite different, which makes for more contrast between the drums. The resultant pitches of the drums are about a fourth apart. That’s how I’ve found to maximize the contrast between the drums without either becoming “flabby” or “muddy.”
InfinityEnterprises I have to tune my Tama B/B 16” very similar if I set up in my living room. Top head is around 95 hz with the bottom head either around 90 or even 85 hz and tuned up just a Touch If I want a higher tuning. It seems certain drums can be VERY sensitive to slight changes and bottom head sometimes even need to be either equal or even LOWER than the batter heads. I have an 8” tom that will tune normally with Coated Emperors with the reso head several steps up but with a Clear Emperor the resonant head needs to be much closer to the batter head. I thought it was bad heads as it was choking to the point of sounding like garbage with Brahp brahp sound. Bringing both heads down to just above finger tight and the heads actually started to resonate and not cancel each other out.
i have a tama kit and my biggest tomtom is 18inch floor tom and i just wanted to say how much you inspire me to go and play so thank you so much and have a good christmas 😁
It's perfectly match for your size.
That groove would cut through a big rock mix well. Those heads cut!
Probably one of the best drum kits ever!! Beautiful!! My advice for that tuning problem on the 16" is to fix the bearing edges. Do it on all the drums actually. I've hade them redone on all my old Tamas (Granstar, Superstar, Artstar II, Crestar) and they're a lot more easy to tune now! Didn't maken them sharp like on modern drums though. Kept 'em round like the original, but much smoother and even. Also, try coated Emperors on them... ;)
And thank's for very inspiring videos!!!
Super beefy!
Thoroughly enjoyed this video. I am constantly changing and redoing drums as well. BTW, biggest drum I own / play is my 26"x20" kick. Love it with the Emad batter and resonant heads. Take care. \,,/
You should get a tama rockstar drum set
I really don't know how to play drums, but I can't keep a rhythm forever.
My wife "forbid" me to buy drums, so I kicked her out ... bought an Acura TL, a GSXR 750 and a set of Yamaha stage custom drums, and then added a few pieces to them just to have more to hit .. remember, I cannot play drums.
I bought double kick pedals, upgraded the hi hata to A Custom 15 inch, changed all the batter heads to Evans 360 EC2's with damping rings, then bought a triple roto tom set up. The 2 latest things I just bought about a week ago was a brand new Stage Custom 18" floor tom and a brand new Yamaha stage custom steel snare 6.5 inch by 14 with upgraded wires.
So the setup is 22" kick, 12" and 13": rack toms, 16" and 18" floor toms, cow bell, hi hat tamborine, one expensive 22" HHX ride cymbal, A Custom 10" spash and the other 4 cymbals are junk B8's.
I swear I keep making purchaes to upgrade the drum kit not because I'm getting so good at playing, it's just because nobody is "forbiding" me anymore ... hehe
I'm in the process now of hooking up a big screen TV with a computer hooked up to it so that I can play youtube videos and watch as I learn.
Just for fun, I picked up a complete PA system with powered Yourville 300 watt speakers on stands, a Yorkville 400 watt subwoofer, a Mackie Pro 12 mixer and just because it has drum effects built into it, I also got a Pioneer SSB 2 DJ turntable setup...I'm certianly no DJ at 63 years but the effects are cool, plus for shits and giggles, I picked up some second hand microphones and now I have the drums miked up for more kick out of the drums.
I'm really like the low end sound of drums, so everything is tuned low, but not tuned properly, I just saw a video where the guy said turn them finger tight and then give them another turn ... and that's what I did....again... I don't know jack shit on how to tune drums.
Isn't it nice how much you can enjoy life and how much time you have without a demanding nagging wife? You can have hobbies, and toys, and live the life that makes you happy.
@@VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM In defense of women in general, not all women are hard on the head, it's just the fact that the ones that really do know how to make it work ... are happily married.
Sometimes at work when we are all crowded around the main gate, waiting for the electronic timer to open it, one of the guys will say to me " Why are you in such a good mood?", and I like to say back " When you leave this gate right now and get in your car and drive up to the road, you HAVE to turn left every day ...when I get there, I can turn left, or right"
Just yesterday, I went out and picked up a DENON AV that cost as much as a second hand motorcycle, but my God, the sound coming out of this thing is amazing. I knew was DTS was, it's built into my car, but I never heard of ATMOS, it's like there is a globe of sound around me, it's not just over to the left, but it's over to the left and UP a little bit, then another sound comes from the right, but it's the LOWER right, not just right .. ATMOS is the new concept and it's great. . . if she was still here, that money would have been put into a poker machine over the course of a weekend and then I would have to listen to the non-stop depression filled, self sorrow chat all the way back home...now I play Lynard Skynard " FreeBird"
How much these drum cost they are good :)
Looks and sounds gorgeous. Love this kit. Thanks for your vids, great stuff. Merry Christmas to you and yours from Lisbon, Portugal.
I turned my 18” floor Tom into a kick drum some years ago. My Soundman always preferred it to the 22” one. It’s got a beautiful tight sound to it. Thanks for sharing man. Your collection is pretty awesome.
Another great video...i have trouble sometimes tuning my 16 nevermind a 18 floor...it goes wonk after stuck slightly..so i tightened up the batter..now it has more attack & less after wonk..however it booms too much on initial strike..hard to find the happy medium..even with moongel..it helps but i dont like drowning drum in tune reducers..should be able to tune it to sound wanted...thanks for another knowledgeable drum video..✔✔✔✔😬🎵🎵✔✔✔✔
I really felt that odly shaped box 😂
I love my 18" Tom to pieces. Sounds like a Taiko drum with the way I have it tuned. Also makes 'hot for teacher' sound amazing
Where do you buy your drum wraps?
For some reason, it sounds like your drum mics are off in this vid.
I have a 20" WMP slingerland from the 50s. Haven't used it in a while but it sounds great with my oversized kit.
McM Mantra at 6:53
Just got out of the studio. We used a tunebot to get the drums sounding great. You should give it a shot if you are worried about tuning the toms up too high. It made them sound huge!
I just bought a tubebot....hoping this does the job
Ey boy I wanna see you play a 7 piece kit
Would be nice
I think he said in an old vid that he used to have a massive kit playing with a metal band when he was younger, 7 or 8 piece kit pis 2 bass drums and something along the lines that he's way happier with the small kits now
@@jasonjarnet8141 ok thx boi
10,12,14,16,18 BUT a 20 inch kick. 🤣
Can you make a video about all the drum stuff you own?
I plan on it one day...
I love floor Toms.