Fiberskyns on the North kit, Drum Dial tuner vs. online app, and 7/4!
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- Опубликовано: 25 окт 2024
- I replaced all the North kit''s tom heads with Remo Fiberskyns, compare the Drum Dial digital tuner with a free, online drum tuner app, and explain why you should count out loud. Take a listen!
They sound good to me. I hope you had a Merry Christmas. Thanks for sharing
Thanks! I like the way they sound for certain types of music, and I think the Fiberskyns sound better than the CS heads I was using, even though the CS heads looked cooler...:) Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you as well, and thanks for watching!
Sounds good ,but the best concert tom kit is still Phil Collins Gretsch kit on In the air tonight. (imho). But I might be biased having a vintage Gretsch kit with Remo FA Fiberskyn's tuned medium high for jazz. I find you cant tune too high with them or they start to choke. Interesting seeing and hearing the North drums.
New heads are always exciting! Great stuff, man!
Thank you! I'm going to get all new Fiberskyns for my sewer pipe kit, too. Eventually I'll replace the sonor heads, but I'm not sure if I'll use Fiberskyns or pinstripes. Thank you for watching!
Does seem to give those toms more depth; there's a real "fullness" of sound as opposed to the CS Dot heads. Be interesting to hear a Fibreskyn 3 on the kick. Quite good in terms of sound quality!
I'm debating ordering Fiberskyn bass drum heads, too. They're a bit pricey, but I think you're right in thinking they might improve the sound of the bass drums. Thanks for watching!
@@christhedrummerkimball Thank you for the response. It's a pleasure hearing those drums, really enjoy your playing.
@@t_bone12571 :)
You've got a huge kit. I'm kinda jealous.
Don't be jealous--it took me years to accumulate all the pieces, and with patience you can gradually get what you want, too. I wish I could have gotten it back in the 70's but I had no money back then. I had to work a long time to be able to justify spending the money on this kind of drum kit. The problem is, now I have the kit I always wanted, I'm old! :) Thanks for watching!
May I ask what kind of China that is to your left? Looks like a China Boy High but I could be wrong, I love it
Right you are! It's a China boy high, and I really like the sound.
Finally!!! Someone who understands the physics and knows that drums are not fixed-pitched instruments!! That being said, I have never liked the sound of North drums.
They definitely seem to be a "love-it-or-hate-it proposition! Thanks for watching, I appreciate it.
I've never heard a set of these drums that I think sound good. Those Ziljians are spectacular, though!
Thanks for watching! I've always loved Zildjians.
HUGH fan of fiberskins. I admit, those North drums look cool with those heads on. I like fiberskins because of the more controlled ring and warmer sound.
Exactly! Thanks for watching, I appreciate it.
Cool video! I loved getting to hear you jam out! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I loved your comment about your mics from 1970! haha A lot of people would pay more for that! What mics did you use out of curiosity? Your drums sound great! Massive kit! haha
Thanks for watching, and your comment, I appreciate it! The mics are electret cardioid which was pretty advanced back in '78. They are Superscope EC-9P. Here is a review I found from someone online: independentaudio.blogspot.com/2012/08/microphone-review-superscope-ec-9p.html
My pleasure! Thanks for the info!
@@carldacious Anytime!
ive heard mixed reviews about the drum dial, i dunno where your located but im from ontario canada so my go to shop is a local chain called steves music (1 shop in ottawa toronto and montreal) but yeah if it doesnt get it exact and you cant tune i reccommend the tune bot 2.0
It turns out my ears are as good or better than the tuners I tried! :) Thanks for watching!
You guys all have more patience than me. I hardly every change my drum heads but when I do I just finger tighten each tension rod for starters then just give one turn with the drum key on each just going in order clockwise around. From there I just true each lug by ear trying to get them all as close to the same pitch as I can. I have one of those drum dials and never got it to work. Also I noticed you just put it on the drum head even though the drum head is not flat; it's at a slant so you are not going to get an accurate reading. I normal drum you would put the drum on as flat a surface as possible but you can't do that with North drums for obvious reasons so IDK how you can even be using a drum dial on this kit.
Thank you for watching, and for your comment, I appreciate it. The drum dial reads the tympanic pressure of the head, so as long as the angle of the drum isn't too severe, the sensor rod will still measure the head's pressure fairly well. That said, I am in the process of selling the drum dial because I have more luck and more accuracy tuning drums exactly the way you do. My ear is better than the drum dial, but I'm glad I tried it because now I know that for sure!
@@christhedrummerkimball Chris I have over 20 drum sets (long story). I saw your video on buying the two pulse drum sets but I lost track of how much you spent and how much you sold them for etc....even though you even typed it out on a sheet of paper. You are waayyy more organized than me; I'm more of a player.....that said how often do you sell stuff like that and where have you found is most successful? I need to organize some of my stuff and sell some to create some space. Most of what I have is really good stuff I don't want to part with but I need to and I do have a couple of more intermediate kits I bought for the sole purpose of selling. I bought the equivalent of three kits last year for $300 that included two CB kits and a Tama Rock Start kit. Sold one of the CB kits to a student but I am down to one student now and he already has a kit. Also you said you taught before. I'm a professional player and teacher and have the perfect place to teach in my finished basement with three full sets set up; even more than 6 feet apart for social distancing so need your advice on both fronts; finding students and finding buyers for all this extra drum stuff. Thanks!
@@spercoco You sound like someone it would be fun to meet! If you're ever near Tacoma, WA look me up. As far as the kits I buy and sell, unless you get a killer deal (as you did with those three kits for $300) there's almost no way you'll make money on used drums set. By the time you add missing parts the cost goes way beyond what the market will bear. Someone once told me the two things you can buy really cheaply because people buy them with good intentions then give up when they find out there's effort involved are 1) exercise equipment and 2) drum sets! I try to break even buy picking up inexpensive kits with extra stuff included so I can sell the extra stuff and not be underwater when I fix up and sell the kit. I make money from this RUclips channel (although not much) so all I do is try to break even when I sell the kits--the main thing for me is the making of the video and publishing it. For example, with that Pulse kit I was able to sell extra toms, etc. which came with the two kits I combined so my net cost for the final kit was only $379, which I what I sold it for. You can watch the entire two-part video to see how it all came together, and you'll see the amount of work I put in, all for free just because it's fun and kind of relaxing for me to do it. As far as students, the thing I would do is see if any local music stores have what back in my day used to be notice boards (now I'm sure it's all electronic) on which you can put ads for your teaching. Also, you can advertise all over social media--Facebook, drum forums, etc. Check around and find out what the going rate is for private teaching and decide if you want to teach 1/2 hour or hour lessons. I taught drum lessons beginning at my age 14 (my mom used to have to drive me to and from the lessons I'd teach!) until my own sons got to be about 4 and 6 when I was in my mid-thirties. At that point I thought it was more important to be spending time with my own kids. I did it as a side gig and the most students I had was 16 at 1/2 hour each per week. It made pretty good money at the time, but if the students hadn't practiced for that week the lesson was an exercise in painful drudgery...:) I wrote a blog about one such lesson--you might enjoy reading it: christhedrummerkimball.medium.com/the-day-the-teacher-yelled-at-his-student-cd701d06a9b6
@@christhedrummerkimball Hey Chris. Most of the sets I own were because I would just see a great deal and think it would be such a shame to NOT buy that kit and put it to some use either just playing for fun or taking out on gigs. Almost half my kits were obtained from a guy who is now a good friend who just has this urge to go out and buy a particular kind of set and he does what you do; make them look pristine, put all new heads on them, plays them once or twice then goes to his second obsession of wanting to purge himself of any "junk". His loss in $$ ends up being my gain but it's not like I ever talked him into selling any of his kits; on the contrary he has always given me first dibs after he realizes I am a non BS buyer who doesn't have to hear the drums or even see them all set up and I pay in cash. The last two purchases he brought the stuff to me! And then of course we play for a while together and trade some ideas back and fourth. When I saw you purchase that first Pulse kit for just $60 I said no way you won't turn around and make a big profit. I don't know much about Pulse other than they are a beginner kit but still 60 bucks....so not sure what happened there. I don't think I ever sold a kit for less than what I bought them for and this goes way back to when I was about 15 and I'm 60 now. OK maybe once; bought a brand new set of custom made drums from Eames and played them on many gigs for a few years then did put them on consignment at a music store for less than what I must have paid for them. The guy who custom makes them makes the shells and I purchased the hardware (hoops, lugs and mounts) separately and had him put it altogether. And yes I know all about students not practicing. I've actually been teaching since about 1979 off and on. Taught in about 10 different music stores through out the years and bought the house I grew up in around 2008 and figured it is an ideal place to teach (there's no place like home); don't have to compete with the guitar or piano lesson going on in the room next door and can play on rel drums as opposed to electronics or worse still a practice pad set! I used to advertise using craigslist but now that's out I just have no place to advertise. Here is a link to my business: facebook.com/search/top/?q=percoco%27s%20percussion%20studio&__epa__=SEARCH_BOX&__eps__=comet.post It's just a facebook page but after I initially set it up I didn't really do much with it. I need to make some videos like yourself but maybe more on the instructional end. To me teaching is the easy part and the business end is the part I never get the ball rolling on. Same as the playing for me vs what you call "relaxing" which is working on the actual kits. I saw you took brand new black dot heads off your North kit and I cringed lol. I have to wear something out to the point it is long past over due for replacement. You are more like my friend Tom who sold me a lot of those kits. What did you do with the heads you took off Tom?; oh I just tossed them....WUTTTT?? What can I say; I'm beyond frugal. He sold me 21 Remo drums once. 18 of them were mint condition with silver sparkle. He sold them to me for less than it cost him to have that wrap put on (he had to pay to ship them to Precision Drum Co. in NY, pay for them to be wrapped AND THEN FOR SHIPPING BACK TO HIM; about 3 grand altogether and sold me all 21 drums for $2,000 I believe. OK same offer if you ever come close to Boston. I'm in Watertown, Ma. and would love to have ya over.
@@spercoco Your friend sounds like a good guy to know! I am pretty frugal, too, and keep all the heads I take off the drums. What I use them for is to replace heads that are no good on the other sets I buy to fix up and sell. In fact, all the heads but one on the Pulse kit were heads I had left over from the North kit!
Hai ragione, scusa il mio pessimo ed 'equivoco' inglese!!! E' possibile ascoltare la differenza fra i due set? Studiare così anche le rispettive accordatura. E complimenti: per me e' la Ferrari delle batterie. Grazie, ciao
No Problem! I ran your comment through Google Translate, and I think I know what you're asking. The two different sets are played on a few of my videos, so if you compare the last one I posted (Fiberskyns on the North kit) with the "Frankenstein drum cover" video I did, you'll hear the Sonor kit and the North Kit. If you're asking just about the different heads, I did a video of my North floor tom comparing the CS head with the Fiberskyn head. Thanks again for watching and for your comment!
Hah sick video dude
Thank you! The more of these videos I do the more fun it is. Thanks for watching!
wow, great playing dude
Thank you for the kind words! I love to play, but I have to tell you, when I see some of the other drum videos on RUclips, it's pretty humbling. There are so many phenomenal drummers out there it's unbelievable. The thing that amazes me most is how young some of them are. I think as long as we can inspire each other, the more drum videos the better! Thanks for watching!
@@christhedrummerkimball yeah, drumeo made a video abut people that feel that suck at drums when their watch other great drummers but what we have to do is get inspired by them
@@tea2920 Exactly! Someone once said it is very dangerous to compare ourselves to others; we'll either end up being proud or jealous!
whats the NOrth drumkit sizes
I have two each of 6", 8", 10" and 12" toms, and 14" and 16" floor toms. The snare is a 14 x 6.5 Pearl, and the bass drums are 22"
North Drums are awesome... Toured with them in the mid 80"s - received a custom set from MTI... Note - You have severely diminished the value of your kit by mounting the toms on the Kik's.. The Kik's and not meant to handle the weight and vastly effects the performance... Very sad to see...
Thanks for watching! The bass drums had the tom mounts on them when I bought them, so I just made them a little bit newer and better. But the holes were already there.