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Resizing works great! (in my opinion)... And I forgot... I dont know pearl, but can do a few basic things in PHP and of course can help with images, css html... So if you need any help, just mention it and you got it

WOW!!! - It looks VERY promising!!

Using javascript is exactly the way I wanted it to be done! - Fundamentally I think it is very close to be ready, although it is only my opinion...

Some thoughts:

What about :

Resizing drums by dragging the corners of the image on stage??
Rotating images on stage?

Saving user drum setup?
Recalling user Drum setup?
Multiple drum setups per user?

What do you think??

Very interesting! - Keep us in touch, and thanks a lot for trying to dig it out!

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Did you try special-ordering the part from Premier??

Ditto!

Count me in on that "just one drummer's opinion"! - So now its NOT just One, but TWO drummers opinions !

And for some reason I believe lots of others will join you... US on that one!!!

Do you mean the profile pic (the one on the left to your post) or the drum setup page?

That is a pretty serious statement there...

To tell you the truth, I don't know, just try it and we will see...

That is some great drum/drummers statistics!

Thanks a lot!

Happy Thanksgiving To Everyone!!

I'll be a bit more laconic if you don't mind...

Remo Power Stroke 3 on the outside and Evans EQ2 on the beater side is my favorite combo...

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Cheers

No, I am right handed, and yes, the right hat is my primary...

Cheers.

  Welcome back!!

With Gunnar's permission, I will paste his latest email to me hope this will clear the air at least a bit:

A bit out of subject here, but Thank you, I take it as a compliment 

I will email him the link to this thread tonight... Perhaps he will consider reading it...

I did, and frankly I still can not understand what went wrong...

In any case from the discussion with Gunnar (aka patafla) I started to get the feeling that one of my replies has actually offended him, and because I highly and equally value all the members of Drum Solo Artist, I decided to restrict my self from "jumping in to every conversation", so from now on I will enter a discussion only if a discussion requires moderation, or someone asks a question that is directed specifically to me.

I am sorry, but I had to take some steps to ensure something like this does not happen again....

Cheers.

Well as I see Gunnar decided to cancel his account, so in order to make it less confusing to other users, I will go on and remove the links pointing to the article entitled "Heel Toe single stroke rolls" as the article does not exist anymore...

Gunnar, if you are reading this, you were a valuable part of this community and I am sorry to see you go...

Hmm... For some reason the article was removed from the wiki section... Do you want me to check the server logs and to restore it? Or in case you have removed it yourself, do you want me to remove all the links pointing to it from other pages on DSA ?

Definitely! - Personally I am more than convinced (and it is actually already proven by history) that in the end of the day, guys like Ken who actually build their sound the conventional way will rock a lot harder than anyone with the standard sound!

In my opinion ROCK is ALL about Breaking All The Rules! - And there is Nothing "standard" about that!!

That is a great attitude Ken, but I believe we have successfully entered the era of recording in this industry where the industry... I quote one of the producers I have worked with:

The industry requires the standard sound.

What ever that means I dont know, but my impression of that term is compressing the hell out of the real drum sound, than quantizing the real notes so that they would sound like a drum machine (or even replacing them altogether with MIDI and re-triggering the MIDI with some samples from a "standard sounding" sample library, etc, etc, etc, etc...

End result : You get the standard sound! - You will sound JUST LIKE ANY OTHER GUY OUT THERE, - cause they also used the same methods and samples so after the quantizing the "sounds" coming out of your drumming are practically the same!

They say the "standard sound" not only makes the life of the mixing engineer better, but also helps big time later on with the mastering process... - I guess they have the "standard presets" ready for such albums, so the whole mastering process is a snap!

In my opinion, the only thing that is missing from that picture is the drum machine that can automatically guess the most standard sounding drum parts for the material required!

This way the recording companies would be able to save some recording time and money by not requiring the drummers to be present for the album recording altogether!!


I recall (and I dont want to disclose any names here, you can google them up if you desire) but the producer of the Untouchables by Korn has successfully made the "Complete Final Mixdown" of the entire album in less than 30 minutes! (for those who dont know the album length is well over an hour!) - Believe it or not, it is up to you!!! But I guess there was quite a bit of "Standard Sound" going on there, and perhaps... Standard Mix Down that didn't even require the producer to even listen to the whole thing???

So getting back to the subject... In my opinion ANY devises like the Duallist drum pedals is nothing compared to what is going on behind the scenes in this industry, and the only concern there is, is how the drummer him/her self feel about using those devises!

Sure... I'll try to do that tonight...

And concerning the question, I never said I have the knowledge of a pro engineer, but from the methods you have mentioned, I can not think about anything else... - I think you covered them all...

Well unless you would consider a multi-mic setup as "another method", than you can try combination (mix) of mics in the front (beater side) and back side of the bass drum.

But in my experience that method, proved to be one of the most impractical ones for live gigs...

Adding an extra mic + cable + mix channel is simply not worth it, cause almost the same effect can be achieved simply by matching the sound coming from a single mic by adjusting the channels EQ and compression...

Lets see what others will add...

PS: do you have any particular problem with your bass drum sound or you just want to hear other opinions?

What about triggers? - Are you ruling them out?

Just wanted to confirm the question...

Thanks