Still have some kit dynamics and other things to sort out with the kit, but its coming along. A few screw ups here and there, but I'm too lazy to go back and re-record the whole song.
Great drumming, dude! I love this song ending... Remember me some Yes songs... it evolves from a chaotic arrangement to a very elegant melody, and the drum evolution in each phrase is awesome, you did capture it very well! Congrats
You can add 4 more dual zone pads or you can split the inputs and have 8 single zone pads. You can split the other inputs as well, so you have upwards of 3 or so pads that can go on to one TD-30 module.
I use nylon, but that's because I use nylon on my acoustic kit. The electric kit doesn't care if you use wood or nylon tip sticks. It plays the same either way. The only thing you don't want to use on mesh heads are metal brushes and felt beaters.
Forget the brain sounds. Get Superior drummer V2 by Toontracks and you can record like or better than a real acoustic kit. I have a 25kvs and it sounds amazing. I'm not the drummer though (I'm the guitarist). Still I do the mix downs and I just hook the midi up. Can mix each drum and map rims and edit, its pretty tip top. I don't know why more people don't consider saving the aggravation of micing when there is software out there that just puts even the brains to shame. IMO. by the way thanks for the tip on the drum splitters guys!!!! We were just trying to figure that out!!!
Its a TD-30KV kit with 4 additional PD-85's and a Yamaha PCY-135 crash. I have 3 splashes I am going to be adding to the kit soon, but I need to get some splitters to add them to the setup. It should alleviate the need to use my rims as splashes. Thanks for watching.
Actually the snare and the smaller high toms that you are using sound great, same with the cymbals they sound pretty good... but I don't know with those rack toms.. they sounded a bit fake in the TD-20, and I feel that still the case in the TD-30 ..
Well, they are still a work in progress. I didn't have any compression, EQ, or ambiance in this mix. I'm still trying to get a better understanding of how all that works so there is still more to do to tweak the sounds. I did however start to get a better sound out of the quarter toms the other day. I reworked their tuning and added in a bit of compression and ambiance. They are starting to come to life. Maybe I can get those toms sounding a bit better and put up a new video.
Do you mean, "How can I make the sound good?" Well, the sounds are a bit thin in this recording because there weren't any EQ or compression settings used on any of the instruments. If I tweak these settings for each individual instrument they will come to life. If you check out my other videos I have the full gamut of settings made on those kits. They are a lot more full in their sound compared to this video.
The quarter toms are still a work in progress. I'm not sold on their sound just yet either and am still making tweaks to get them to sound correct. Apparently, that is still a downfall to any Roland module. As for the rack toms, that's just how Portnoy's toms sound for this album. All the sounds were set up to mimic how his kit sounded on the album. Are they a great sound? Well, that's subjective. But that's how they sound. Its certainly not a fault of the TD-30.
I never said this was my best playing. Its just a video I made quickly and was too lazy to edit out the mistakes. If that makes me a hack in the eyes of people who sit around and play video games all day Im fine with that. Xaninha123, maybe if you turned off the video games, got off the couch, and got a job you could afford nice things too. The world is not what sucks. Its just you. No offence.
Hey man, great playing! But I just wanted to point out one thing. I've noticed that when you rest your foot on the slave pedal that you're burying its beater into the bassdrum head. It's a bad habit and if you were playing a real kick it would cause issues for you sound-wise. Just food for thought :).
It's only a bad habit if it's unintentional. It is also a technique to change the sound of the Kick depending on what you're doing. So I would learn to do it both ways and be conscious of it.
***** If you bury the beater it mutes the bassdrum and modifies the pitch slightly, hence why Sean mentioned it's a technique used to change the sound slightly. If you are relying on your feet being planted for balance, that's something you should work on fixing. You should be able to freely move both legs without relying on one or the other for balance. You should also be relaxing your foot after the bassdrum is struck, and this will then bring the beater back naturally.
