I'm glad u brought this up because vibrato and glissandos on traditionally stiff instruments is one of my favorite parts of physical modeling synthesis. Dramatic bends on bells are so strange and it's great to see one of my favorite digital techniques realized in physical space.
Wade whenever he send us into Boring Time: "I'm so sorry guys, it stinks, but I have to give context!" Me when we get sent to Boring Time:" OH FINALLY, MY FAVORITE PART"
Not a percussionist (unless you count my car's steering wheel), but your floppy cymbal sounds like it's trying to do a drunk impression of a thundsrstorm. "Hehehehe guys! Listen! PSHHHHHwubwubwublubwub! Hehehehe nailed it!"
If you've got the time for it I would love a "Complete Dingus's Guide to Drum Bits" video series, explaining the differences between the drum and cymbal types, what it means for something to sound "dry" or "dark". I've heard a good amount of the terms before and sort of know what they mean from context but having a proper explanation would be great. If you've already done this in earlier videos just call me a dingus and that I smell worse than Frank.
there's only one of those that I really know of off the top of my head, that being there's a vid on him going over Dryness in his earliest cymbal vid on here, but I know there's a few videos of him going over a few other cymbal quirks, namely material differences like he did in this video, or size difference. I still would love a long form "what does it mean when he says this" video just for the education alone though
Clicked on this random recommendation because I wanted to watch a cymbal review. Stuck around to see how far the crazy antics were going and got pleasantly surprised.
If only Wade knew I would pay actual money for weekly dedicated Boring Time. I love learning from this Dingus. He inspired me to become a drummer (I've been a guitarist for 15 years), and his passion is infectious. I've been trying to collect broken cymbals to repair cause of him lol
oh god i LOOOOOOOVED Hammerax. when I used to play drums I saw the Meanie (a gong shaped like a long face) in the drum store I went to while taking lessons and I was infatuated with the company. They made the coolest cymbals ever, they were almost like art objects. Once I bought a cymbal that had bumps on the top you could roll your stick over, and it had a really cool effect. I played that cymbal like it was a gift from the heavens, but unfortunately it cracked easily so it didn't take long for the sound to be completely ruined :( They also had a line of little stacker/effects cymbals, and for many years I had an 11" Chisel sitting on my kit until the day I stopped playing. It's got to be the thing that's been on my drum kit the longest, or maybe it's my rototoms, I dunno. Hammerax was a great company, they made some amazing cymbals, then disappeared off the face of the earth. And that's a real damn shame.
a cymbal that wobbly sounding would kill in psych music and super woozy jazz, but i’m honestly struggling to think of another use case where i wouldn’t prefer a more “rigid” disc for lack of a better term
As an American, I really appreciated the conversion to hamburgers, I knew exactly how much of a truck bed would be filled by 2.46 McDonalds cheeseburgers. This then allowed me to convert space used in truck bed, to 9 MM. bullets, of which there is an approximate difference of 2; between the two cymbals of course.
One thing I love doing on servers with people in other countries is unironically working out how much an average bald eagle wingspan is, or 1/49th of a football field is, and use those, pretending those are the actual American units of measurement. The weird part is, I've fooled more than one person with that!
No matter how many times I was assured this thing was floppy, I still recoiled when its true power was revealed. Feels perfect for Tame Impala/Connan Mockasin style psych rock. It sounds drunk.
I love most everything that was made by Hammerax, such unique cymbals and instruments - shame they went under (at least... I think they did..? Cant find much info on it, but production seems to have died down), all these are like unobtanium now (and I can't afford one...)
I could see the wobble after you attached it, but I bet the “motion extraction” technique Posy outlined would be useful going in the future :) it just involves duping and inverting the video, just like a phase inversion subtraction in audio. Then you also offset it by like. 1-50 frames and it highlights all the motion within the offset time frame 😊
Hi Dank, I have to say your powers and amazing vibes have genuinely inspired me to pick up two sticks again, and while my kit is long gone,(and was always bad😂) I still have sticks and a practice pad and poor innocent objects around the house to hit and I put on a favorite drum track(Fool in the Rain in this case) and boy I felt the thing thank you😭 never stop smashing things
Hammerax cymbals were always on my short list of cymbals I had to have, but I’ve never had the money or the opportunity to buy one. I loved the boomywang, and I can get a similar sound out of .020” blue tempered shim stock. The bash is the one cymbal they had that boggled my mind. Check out Andrew McCauley. He had an album where he made some really non traditional beats using the hammerax stuff called, “your brain on drums.”
1:45 Were there multiple dinguses worried about the apparent lack of sleeve in the last video, or was it just me? Either way, I'm sorry I doubted you and I will wear my dingus badge with pride
I can think of so many places where this would be really useful. I love thin cymbals despite not owning any (Im broke and my drums are all 20 years old and been in a shed for like 10 of those years) because of their darker sound. The dark cymbal sound fits so well with heavier styles of music that are slow and need that low, droning kinda sound.
I appreciate you putting the weight to measurements us Americans understand. For miscellaneous foreign audiences I have found that the 22" Hammerax Liquicy Ride weighs 0.00166 Toyota Corollas (DX 1997).
you can literally hear the modulation of the tone as it flops! i've never seen a cymbal that captured that effect before. it really does sound like someone playing a saw or sheet metal
New(ish) subscriber here. Can you explain why I hardly ever hear individual cymbal hits in modern music? It's usually just a SHHHHHHH sound. Every time I've recorded I hear every cymbal hit on every beat and it gets old after a while.
Thats a regular A Custom Crash, there is also an A Custom Medium Crash but thats not one of them. The regular A Custom is a thin weight rather than a medium weight. Awesome video btw! Did not expect it to be that floppy whatsoever lmfao
I remember watching this stream (even tho it was recent) and it was the only one that I watched the whole thing Also the one with the watch sounded suspiciously like a rickroll
That tom part you just pulled out of nowhere at 8:36 was siiiiiiiick, trying to do left hand accents on the beat in a pattern like that kicks my ass lol
I'm kinda new to drums but I didn't know that Constantinople Rides were jazz rides! Jimmy Chamberlin from The Smashing Pumpkins used one during Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness! I guess it makes sense considering he is also a jazz drummer.
