"Give you a couple how do you dos" I love Mike's personality. I've only listened to maybe 3 Dream Theatre songs in my life, but I've watched dozens of videos of the band members and they're all just such great guys.
I fell in love with Mike when I first saw him in DT drummer audition. From that time on I can't get enough of watching his interviews. Such a nice guy, a real gentleman, very friendly and first class professional!!! Forgot to mention that I actually listened maybe one DT song in my life)) And Mike had better haircut before DT IMHO
just surfin you tube and came across this video. have no idea who he is but he seems like a genuine person and mad coool. happy and positive is a great way to go through life
Super happy I saw this video. Just saw Dream Theatre in Orlando a 2 days ago. ( What a show!!) Mike’s performance was a huge waaaaooowwww. I was unable to tell if he is a left or a right handed drummer and finally I get a clarification on his kit. Keep rockin’
I love that we drummers constantly steal shit from each other and we are actually happy about it lol I am sure Steve feels honored to have his licks stolen from him by Mike and vice versa :) Amazing drums set for an AMAZING drummer!
His snare has sounded terrible on all the DT records he has been on. I've seen him talk about his preferred snare sound many times and it isn't even close to all the sounds they come up with for the records. Makes me wonder if Portnoy always produced because people wanted him to tune his drums like shit haha
danlc95 The drum sound itself was good on ADToE, but the way it was mixed and mastered was garbage. It sounds like a demo at times and the drums are mixed lower on that album than any other DT album to the point that the snare drum, the most important part of any drum set, can barely be heard at times. I’m still waiting for MM to get a good drum sound on a DT studio effort (his drums sounded fantastic on the BtFW live album/dvd) because an incredible drummer like Mangini deserves to be heard in all of his glory.
it's nice to know that he switched from the Reference kit to a Masterworks kit. I think the Masterworks is Pearl's best sounding kit, and probably one of the best sounding drum kits out there. Definitely one of my top 3 faves.
Mike's humility: "This kit was conceived before it was able to be played." It's time to drive that Zamboni: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V0m7G_HJD10.html
I'm using a real matching courp fiberskin white Remo snare drum Head on my regular main snare and it brings me back to the marching band style of playing in the football field and it doesn't need much micng period
I want a Mangini style kit It would be setup different to fit more toms by haveing the toms more outward Goring in the same ambidextrous setup 6 8 10 12 13 14 15 16 18 20 22 Inch toms And 24 inch kicks No rocket toms The whole idea is to be able to play toms melodically like tenor drums It’s a prototype I am making with litteraly every drum I own
It's hard not to like Mangini. About signaling for monitor adjustment, it's kinda simple for that vocally or hand signals. I used to work as soundman for a live band club. I would tell the musicians just point your finger at any one then point up or down = he wanted the guy volume up or down in his monitor mix. Near proximity just vocally say thing like: guitar UP, Key Down, bass UP, vocal UP (or down) Whatever he wants. Of course UP or DOWN doesn't mean jump the volume several notches and blow the eardrums LOL
The idea was to stop drum sounds from bleeding into vocal mic, but it could backfire as it could make the same drum sound wave bounces back to the mic again at high volume. I hate it
because 'octobans' is a Tama trademark name I think..every other company that makes those style of drums has to call them something else...ie rocket toms by Pearl...Ludwig makes them and calls them something other than octobans etc...
If you are right handed..........or playing the drums.............normal drumming........."right" handed..............and you learn to do it and the with your "left" all that..................i "think".............you can play ANYTHING "then".......!!! Legs-hands staff o mean......!!!
