EMC, i wanted to know that your YT channel is making our school bands better with the useful content you make. I thank you for the content, music, improve, your hidden youtube channel’s rip off friday night funkin’ gaming, and your positive attitude in the videos!
Wow this is actually exactly what I need today. I have been fixing up all our drums since they got pretty messed up during the hurricane. Currently working on our basses, and this is literally exactly what I was doing. This video is a pretty helpful guide for people who have never done this before. But now I’m curious about that mapex…
@INFINITE REPTILES 🦎🦎🐍🐍🐢🐢🐊🐊 Ida, our school is destroyed from it and we are going half and half at another school. So I go to school at 12:30 and get home at 5:30 now
@@beaumartin366 Oh god! My school was heavily affected by Ida but we were only out for a week and a half and back on normal schedule. Hopefully it gets better soon, sorry to hear that it's so bad. I assume you live closer to Laplace/NOLA or maybe even further south. Those places were destroyed
@@TheLil3K oh yeah… im down in montegut and bourg. And the school we have to go to now is in grey, which is sorta around the Houma area. So thats an hour + long bus ride t get to school every morning. Places down here had it pretty bad but everyone is slowly cleaning stuff up. Everyone helps everyone out and we are making progress
@@beaumartin366 I'm the assistant director of bands at Tulane, I also marched with EMC, shoot me a DM and let me know if there's anything we can do to help y'all. We have plenty of spare parts for Yamaha drums on hand and materials/experience to do plenty of what Eric describes in this video.
@@AndrewSzypula woah thats awesome. While our actual new Pearl championship drums were stuck in our broken school, Nichols gave us their entire old line of old pearls. Now, they are NOT the best drums, like the tenors don’t even have spocks, but it got us through football season, and our actual drums should be ready for parade season. Thank you for offering, that’s very kind of ya. My tenor drum and a snare harness went missing, and it’s pretty much assumed that my drum got stolen, so we ordered a new one that should come in in a few months. Covered by the insurance. If you are wondering I go to south terrebonne, if you know that school, and the school itself is destroyed. Like the whole roof came off. Along with Ellender. So we are platooning to HL Bougious for the time being. Just went to marching showcase yesterday to watch all the band’s performances. Sadly south terrebonne snd ellender were the only schools unable to perform a show, but next year we should be super prepared. But I have been servicing all the rusted hardware and making sure we get the right replacement parts. Our drums look good now after I cleaned and polished them and my instructor Josh is gunna help me tune them with new heads when we need them. He has perfect pitch so I like just letting him do it lol. If we happen to need anything in a pinch, I might reach out to you later. Thanks!
Takes me back to my high school drumline days. I was quad section leader / drumming mechanic lol. The drums we had were really old and sounded so terrible. I'd taken so many drums home to fix. The bass drums were so bad that they were beyond repair (wraps were toast, lugs were pitted from lack of using covers, hoops were chewed up and warped as were the shells so tuning them was impossible.) They were basically firewood and scrap metal lol.
When I got into high school drum I was half way privileged. Lol. We had the Ludwig mirror gold finish marching drums from the 80s Santa Clara vanguard. They were in decent condition. I'm not sure how many of each type of drum we had. When cleaned, reheaded, and tuned up... holy smokes those drums were cool!
Tried to pull out an 18” bass from the old discard pile (middle school) so my high school line could run 5 bass. Put fresh heads on and tuned it up. It sounded fine but the counter hoop would actually slip off the flesh hoop partially and the thing would drop like an octave. Definitely out of round on the hoop or the drum or both. We are going to put it back in the pile and run 4 bass next season. Not worth the hassle/risk.
Remo Powermax heads are great. I have them too (in black/Ebony) on my own bass drums , but because I use low tuning I had to add extra muffling along the edges of the shell to get a more controlled and less ringy sound.
Video 2 of Loopy Grandma asking Lil' Peanut to play Wipe Out by the Ventures!!! Must be dressed as a Surfer Dude with appropriate special effects! ... I know you are very creative, so I expect something EPIC!
So glad that you are going to the gym, even if you are sweaty and disgusting! or sweaty and nasty , or sweaty as usual. The best thing is every time you come home, there's a package outside your front door!
I personally would’ve taken the approach of rust treating that rusty hardware with WD-40 and dry lubricant. Rdavidr has a video on it. Love the vid though!!!!
ok i’m sorry… but.. this is the first video of EMC i have seen in a long long time and… i legit didn’t recognize his for the first few minutes of the video😂
I also have 5 2005 Carbonply bass drums and 1 set of quints from the Santa Clara Vanguard when Jeff Fiedler was CEO back in 2011. I wish we could meet up and drum together.
Our drums were from like 1991 until we upgraded to Mapex this year. Except for me who was lucky in 2023 indoor to get the 2016 tenors since the set before it weren’t round anymore
Loved the video and editing! I'm sure you'll get plenty of use from these drums and it'll be completely worth the effort! I'm looking forward to more videos~!
Grease the washers and head of the tension rods, so it cranks up easier, and cuts down squeaky noises. And wax the bearing edges so the head crank up without pulling a head. Don't forget to re tighten up the lug casting bolts. And use car wax on everything to shine up the drums up and slow down rusting.. Advice for other drum lines working their drums.
Video number 2 of commenting of every single that emc does until he does this idea you should make a marching snare practice pad with a real drum head and add a snare sound to give it some realism
Yeaaaaahhh… not a super big fan of the felt-holding inner rings. I’ve yet to see them stay in. Thoughts on muffling inside the heads vs. visible muffling around the rims with AC weather seal foam strips?
Christ it's just like my high school when we went from Remo Powermax2s to Evans MX2s and I absolutely hated them. They didn't sound nearly as good and we had constant muffling issues. I eventually said screw it and put the muffle rings from the powermaxes into the Evans heads and they sounded much better and solved the muffling problems. I restored my bottom bass for senior year before her retirement. She is a Yamaha 8128 and hands down, the old 8100s with their heavier hoops and twelve lugs sound much better than the current ten lugged 8300s in my opinion.
After our drumline director had left, I more or less became the drumline maintenance man, by choice, and I took great pride in my bass. She was tuned to a nice and beefy Bb. I hadn't actually tuned the others to specific pitches but they still sounded great all together.
Marched mapex in college & love the sound of their shells. Such a crisp crack on their snares. In high school we used metal rims on our basses. Any preference on rims?
My school has these 3 extra marching snares me an my friends asked are Director if we could take them home he said yes they got two nice ones and I got the 37 year old one that has a hole in the bottom head
8:34
You're welcome.
Gotta lube up today and change some tenor heads woo
pss ts buh buh kuh buh ts ka btsy ka
Thank you, I needed this.
NO EMC IT'S NNN
😂😂😂😂
EMC, i wanted to know that your YT channel is making our school bands better with the useful content you make. I thank you for the content, music, improve, your hidden youtube channel’s rip off friday night funkin’ gaming, and your positive attitude in the videos!
Wow this is actually exactly what I need today. I have been fixing up all our drums since they got pretty messed up during the hurricane.
Currently working on our basses, and this is literally exactly what I was doing. This video is a pretty helpful guide for people who have never done this before.
But now I’m curious about that mapex…
@INFINITE REPTILES 🦎🦎🐍🐍🐢🐢🐊🐊 Ida, our school is destroyed from it and we are going half and half at another school. So I go to school at 12:30 and get home at 5:30 now
@@beaumartin366 Oh god! My school was heavily affected by Ida but we were only out for a week and a half and back on normal schedule. Hopefully it gets better soon, sorry to hear that it's so bad. I assume you live closer to Laplace/NOLA or maybe even further south. Those places were destroyed
@@TheLil3K oh yeah… im down in montegut and bourg. And the school we have to go to now is in grey, which is sorta around the Houma area. So thats an hour + long bus ride t get to school every morning. Places down here had it pretty bad but everyone is slowly cleaning stuff up. Everyone helps everyone out and we are making progress
@@beaumartin366 I'm the assistant director of bands at Tulane, I also marched with EMC, shoot me a DM and let me know if there's anything we can do to help y'all. We have plenty of spare parts for Yamaha drums on hand and materials/experience to do plenty of what Eric describes in this video.
@@AndrewSzypula woah thats awesome. While our actual new Pearl championship drums were stuck in our broken school, Nichols gave us their entire old line of old pearls. Now, they are NOT the best drums, like the tenors don’t even have spocks, but it got us through football season, and our actual drums should be ready for parade season. Thank you for offering, that’s very kind of ya.
My tenor drum and a snare harness went missing, and it’s pretty much assumed that my drum got stolen, so we ordered a new one that should come in in a few months. Covered by the insurance.
If you are wondering I go to south terrebonne, if you know that school, and the school itself is destroyed. Like the whole roof came off. Along with Ellender. So we are platooning to HL Bougious for the time being. Just went to marching showcase yesterday to watch all the band’s performances. Sadly south terrebonne snd ellender were the only schools unable to perform a show, but next year we should be super prepared.
But I have been servicing all the rusted hardware and making sure we get the right replacement parts. Our drums look good now after I cleaned and polished them and my instructor Josh is gunna help me tune them with new heads when we need them. He has perfect pitch so I like just letting him do it lol.
If we happen to need anything in a pinch, I might reach out to you later. Thanks!
hi i love you
You're the first comment. So I heart you back.
@@EMCproductions keep grinding man❤️ AND LUBE UP
I love you too Jack
@@bigberd3680 thanks man
This is so sweet 🥲
Takes me back to my high school drumline days. I was quad section leader / drumming mechanic lol. The drums we had were really old and sounded so terrible. I'd taken so many drums home to fix. The bass drums were so bad that they were beyond repair (wraps were toast, lugs were pitted from lack of using covers, hoops were chewed up and warped as were the shells so tuning them was impossible.) They were basically firewood and scrap metal lol.
How much did you get for the scrap metal?
That’s why you get fiberglass ones.
When I got into high school drum I was half way privileged. Lol. We had the Ludwig mirror gold finish marching drums from the 80s Santa Clara vanguard. They were in decent condition. I'm not sure how many of each type of drum we had. When cleaned, reheaded, and tuned up... holy smokes those drums were cool!
Quality of this video is SO GOOD , the editing everything about it! youre doing awesome
Go to the end of November and then get it trimmed/cleaned up, but you should definitely keep it 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
Tried to pull out an 18” bass from the old discard pile (middle school) so my high school line could run 5 bass. Put fresh heads on and tuned it up. It sounded fine but the counter hoop would actually slip off the flesh hoop partially and the thing would drop like an octave. Definitely out of round on the hoop or the drum or both. We are going to put it back in the pile and run 4 bass next season. Not worth the hassle/risk.
Internal muffling on basses is just fancy. Back in the 90s we would literally buy weatherstripping foam and attach it around the rim. 🤣
Remo Powermax heads are great. I have them too (in black/Ebony) on my own bass drums , but because I use low tuning I had to add extra muffling along the edges of the shell to get a more controlled and less ringy sound.
shock twist ending. The Xymox stuff was inside of the 18" drum.
No... it was shipped to the barracks and returned to sender...
@@G60syncro bruhhhhhh what the hell
Video 2 of Loopy Grandma asking Lil' Peanut to play Wipe Out by the Ventures!!! Must be dressed as a Surfer Dude with appropriate special effects! ... I know you are very creative, so I expect something EPIC!
SECOND!
Yo, I gotta say your work ethic is incredible. You make me feel lazy lol. Keep up the great work !
Man these look EXACTLY like they might be our old set from 2008 Blue Knights!!!
Video 2 of commenting until EMC makes a front ensemble out of spocks
A 4 octave marimba made out of spocks, my god that would be expensive
drumset & concert bass included
@@onelessowl and timpani
Battery FE would be crazy
I’ve tried this with a crappy low end field drum. Now it sounds like a field drum, but newer.
Nice job Marine, wish I were close enough to lend you a hand in refurbishing your bass drums. BTW…I enjoy my Mapex Snare Drum. Sgt Mateo, Ret
Could you do a future video comparing white bass drum heads vs black bass drum head? Maybe even the clear ones if you really wanted too
10:37 from the lil preview screen in FCPX, that Mapex snare gon look hella sick
So glad that you are going to the gym, even if you are sweaty and disgusting! or sweaty and nasty , or sweaty as usual. The best thing is every time you come home, there's a package outside your front door!
Very informative for a low brass player. Thanks!
Also informative for a woodwind like me :)
9:44 nice of the Eric clones to show up to help with tuning
I personally would’ve taken the approach of rust treating that rusty hardware with WD-40 and dry lubricant. Rdavidr has a video on it. Love the vid though!!!!
I’m happily watching this during class :)
that one fast bit sounds a little like victor wooten's classical thump :D
ok i’m sorry… but.. this is the first video of EMC i have seen in a long long time and… i legit didn’t recognize his for the first few minutes of the video😂
You should make one for tenors, I just found some old pearl tenors I wanna make right again!!
I also have 5 2005 Carbonply bass drums and 1 set of quints from the Santa Clara Vanguard when Jeff Fiedler was CEO back in 2011. I wish we could meet up and drum together.
Civilian and now nasty AF. Love it!
Sometimes I watch your videos just to hear you say "good morning" then i watch the rest of it the next day when Im sober.
Semper Fidelis bro, beard is coming togeather lol slow but surely lol
Your editing and camera skills have majorly improved over these past couple years, keep up the good work!
This would've been a great collab with rdavidr! Guy would've cleaned off all the gunk from those lugs haha
EMC should start his own indoor drumline or something. Yes I do know that he has his charactes but I mean with other people.
He volunteers part time for an indoor drum line in Israel.
Awesome video! I agree popping bubble wrap is very satisfying.
Our drums were from like 1991 until we upgraded to Mapex this year. Except for me who was lucky in 2023 indoor to get the 2016 tenors since the set before it weren’t round anymore
This guy is awesome 😂 love to relate in marching
Your hard work absolutely paid off! You’re the pro!!
I like your Package....
Especially the Zildjian A’s
After one week binge watching, Subbed.
I want to come to clean that yard 😂
Loved the video and editing! I'm sure you'll get plenty of use from these drums and it'll be completely worth the effort! I'm looking forward to more videos~!
EMC joining the mapex marching snare fam. #hype
Drummer and drumsmith extraordinaire!
Lets go im boutta do this shit with my whole schools drumline.
Grease the washers and head of the tension rods, so it cranks up easier, and cuts down squeaky noises. And wax the bearing edges so the head crank up without pulling a head. Don't forget to re tighten up the lug casting bolts. And use car wax on everything to shine up the drums up and slow down rusting.. Advice for other drum lines working their drums.
YES! Wax those edges!
Would love to see how you muffled the drums & how much you used in each drum to create that perfect sound!
good morning, thank you for showing us your big package and how to properly use lube.
Favorite bass drum cadence....next to Cavalier's IOWA.
My school just recently got those pearl drums used and looks exactly like ours
you can use Ospho for rust. I use it on car part rust. May work good on drum hardware
Video number 2 of commenting of every single that emc does until he does this idea you should make a marching snare practice pad with a real drum head and add a snare sound to give it some realism
Doesn't everyone love old rusty hardware? The squeaks, creaks, and leaks as you try to work on it is quite trademark...
but then lube was created.
10:36 you can see the snare drum in top left corner if you zoom in
ok the slo-mo lube shots had me cackling!
Yeaaaaahhh… not a super big fan of the felt-holding inner rings. I’ve yet to see them stay in.
Thoughts on muffling inside the heads vs. visible muffling around the rims with AC weather seal foam strips?
I love the quality of this video. It was very well made. Thank you for this great vid
Hey Eric cool video. My brother has that same lineup of bass drums. Pearl carbonply.
0:12, I'm tryna figure out how to make that BEARD GO AWAY 😂
One of the rims on the bass 1 at my school and is just taped back together
This was pretty satisfying to me ngl, thanks :)
Video 2 of commenting until EMC makes a marching drum that includes snare drum, some tenors, a bass (or multiple), and multiple cymbals.
I almost had a heart attack lol
10:37 lol we can see the snare drum in your editing window
You look like my second band director with the beard
Christ it's just like my high school when we went from Remo Powermax2s to Evans MX2s and I absolutely hated them. They didn't sound nearly as good and we had constant muffling issues. I eventually said screw it and put the muffle rings from the powermaxes into the Evans heads and they sounded much better and solved the muffling problems.
I restored my bottom bass for senior year before her retirement. She is a Yamaha 8128 and hands down, the old 8100s with their heavier hoops and twelve lugs sound much better than the current ten lugged 8300s in my opinion.
After our drumline director had left, I more or less became the drumline maintenance man, by choice, and I took great pride in my bass. She was tuned to a nice and beefy Bb. I hadn't actually tuned the others to specific pitches but they still sounded great all together.
Someone needs to do a ten-hour version of white boy smooth
I love unboxings and reviewings
your videos are the coolest est est est videos
gOOD mORNING
My grammer good
Awesome and funny. Glad you're back making the hilarious stuff again. Cheers!
Very good, thank you EMC
These spoiled kids and their bass stands, we would’ve never lost a rubber stopper 🥺
Because you balanced your bass on a trash can??
@@samsignorelli wobbly two chair method until everyone just resigned themselves to always wearing the drum
Eric entering his rdavidr period
EMC: Have a good morning
Me who is watching this at 12:23AM:
10:36 I can see the drum in the top left
Marched mapex in college & love the sound of their shells. Such a crisp crack on their snares.
In high school we used metal rims on our basses. Any preference on rims?
We use the edge of the of the stick holder which is medal. Eats the mallet up much more but it’s a lot cheaper to replace a mallet then a whole rim.
@@jackargie1092 my hs used the horrible white plastic stick holders.
Emc drum restore videos are awesome
Truly beautiful
Is my school the only place to call mallet racks “claws?”
Video 2 of commenting until Eric creates a drum kit/ percussion set entirety from glass. (Yes, that includes the heads)
Lol I haven’t watched your videos in a long time so when I saw your beard like that I was worried for your health.
Holy the beard caught me off guard
First hour gang also nice idea with No Shave November
Aye my school has the same exact drums, the carbon ply shells are so sexy
My school uses remo 3 ply drumhead and one of our players put a big ass dent in it somehow
10:36
I was spoiled by the media viewer in the top left! lol
Make the Drums Great Again!
rdavidr Jr. in the making.
Hype for that Mapex snare!
The version with your shoes on was better. Ha ha
Video 2 of commenting until EMC releases the full Otama Spiritual show
EMC, try hinding that snare better. We can see it in the panels on the top left corner while you are in your video editing software.
Have you ever done any percussion work in an orchestral setting or considered it? Do you have any ideas to make a video about orchestral percussion?
He’s said he did orchestral drumming in college. He complained that it was boring because he’d play like one note or so for the whole piece.
My school has these 3 extra marching snares me an my friends asked are Director if we could take them home he said yes they got two nice ones and I got the 37 year old one that has a hole in the bottom head
A little TLC and ALOT of money 🤑 😂
Beard and hair are looking good.
rip white boy smooth background cadence
;-;
Have you seen the patriots play though? I heard they were insane! Would be an insane collab if he played with patriots.
My man really bought a full set of pearl carbon cores
You need to get the much larger bass drum =)
You should make a snare and tenor to match.
you should do a review on the Tru Tuner Rapid Tuner!
Nice beard m'dude