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Blue Oyster Cult opening for Uriah Heep. Very bad night for UH as their guitar player had broken his arm and BOC had a stage show that Kiss at...

I love my Catalina Maples. In my opinion, they are great drums for a great price. My kit is a 6 Piece with a 22" kick. I never have played A...

My brother wants to get a new acoustic kit. Hasn't had one in a long while. Budget is tight so it's between Catalina Club Jazz and Catalina Maple....

I don't even like talking about shingles because it sounds so gross but today my girlfriend and I went to go get the shot to help prevent the...

yeah I've done a bunch of hole cutting. i found 1" holes and around 6 or 8 was the best.

To answer your other questions, the “trashy” sound is a result of overtones. Typically, the thicker a cymbal is, the dryer the sound, so a thinner...

I did it a couple years ago with excellent results. Here’s a link to the thread; ...

17" Armand Sound Lab Prototype Crash for me.

Very nice! Are those demon drives I see?

New heads and adjusted more to my liking:

Thanks for clarifying your choices! I’ll look into the Sabian wires for a few of my 14” snares. I’m really liking the sound from a 13” snare. I used...

Thanks for posting the video bongos! Very informative!

Thanks for your thoughts!

oh yes MANY of them I have never changed. But some come with such crappy wires or I've broken several over the years that I have changed out many...

David Bowie and Mott the Hoople 1972 Tower Theater.

Hi, all links seem broken. Have these all been taken down?

HAHA I was expecting you to say something like that :rofl2:

I have PureSound on 1 of my snares. I've picked up a set of adjustable snare wires that give you a allan wrench to adjust them. I think I'm going...

Black Flag with Henry Rollins, early/mid 80's, in a small club. What a wild and crazy show. The whole place was jumping around and bouncing off the...

These guys did a pretty comprehensive test of differnt snare wires. They also have other great content on the channel.

Back in the early 90's I rented out myself (sound man) and my P. A. to bands passing through my area. Head East was one of them. It was cool to get...

Sorry I didn’t see this sooner! They’re doing good for me. They tame the heads good. Gets rid of some ring. Honestly I forgot I still had them on...

I like the Sabian Hybrids ( the one in the middle ) I put one one my Drum Craft 14X6 birch and I like it a lot, that was about 3yrs. ago. Until now...

I didn’t know Sabian made snare wires. Interesting. I just use your standard Gibraltar wires held using the plastic strips.