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    Post your hardware modifications! If you have an extra piece of hardware laying around, you might as well do something with it! This thread is dedicated to all of your homemade hardware or modifications!

    I had an extra tom arm that was not in use. I had an extra splash and made a cymbal mount. I took 2 boom arm memory locks, 2 felts, and a rubber sleeve.


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    What's a hardware conversion?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Russ View Post
    What's a hardware conversion?
    For example, A 3 leg hi hat stand converted into a 2 leg.
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    3 leg hi hat stand converted into x-hat:








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    Quote Originally Posted by late8 View Post
    3 leg hi hat stand converted into x-hat:







    Smart! Very cool
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    Quote Originally Posted by FlyByNight View Post
    Smart! Very cool
    Thanks Mike!

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    Well, I took an old cymbal stacker and added it to a jaw mount (those things that normally mount cowbells, blocks, etc onto drum rims) so now I can mount another cymbal stack. Now I have one on either side of my snare, 8" on the left and 11" on the right.

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    I like it. Clears up a lot of space on the floor and gets the hats nice and stable. Racks for the win.
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    When the tilter end broke off one of my long Tama boom arms...



    I filed and rounded off the end nice and smooth....



    clamped a modified Ludwig Modular tom tilter onto the Modular tom mount that I've fitted on one of two Rogers bass drums that I own. Onto that tom arm tilter I've connected an old swivel-type Tama clamp, with the boom arm rod clamped in its jaws. This now allowed me to place four Tama Compact Clamps with cymbal arms on them, as shown...



    ...which in turn how I can now place my four Paiste Cup Chimes over my rack toms.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drumbledore View Post
    When the tilter end broke off one of my long Tama boom arms...



    I filed and rounded off the end nice and smooth....



    clamped a modified Ludwig Modular tom tilter onto the Modular tom mount that I've fitted on one of two Rogers bass drums that I own. Onto that tom arm tilter I've connected an old swivel-type Tama clamp, with the boom arm rod clamped in its jaws. This now allowed me to place four Tama Compact Clamps with cymbal arms on them, as shown...



    ...which in turn how I can now place my four Paiste Cup Chimes over my rack toms.

    Very nice!
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    That is awesome, Drumbledore! I love the sound of cup chimes and was always curious to see different ways people mounted several of them.

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    How they mount up over the rack toms...

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    Thanks guys. Here's an electronic percussion rig with a Roland HDP-10 Handsonic (for all manner of hand drum sounds) together with an old Roland SPD-S pad that I borrowed from a drummer mate, which I programmed a timbale set-up into. The rack parts came from a spare Alesis DM5 rack and some Gibraltar parts that I had hanging around the place, to which I clamped the SPD-S, a Yamaha MG82CX mixer (this has built in effects), and a Gibraltar mini hold-all tray for any shakers, scrapers and so on. To this I velcroed all the connecting leads, and there are foot pedals underneath for triggering things like low drums, cowbells, shaker sounds, etc. Nice and compact, and because all the leads are there, you just have to put the rack down, take the various devices out of their cases, plug in all your power packs, and that's that. The rack is really the DIY heart of it all.





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    Loving the splash row! Great thinking. That's a lot of splashes!
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    Nice I was thinking of making a thread like this too.

    I have a bunch of DIY stuff, but I'll start with just a two.

    First off a small X-hat which I made to clamp on a custom china cymbal arm. I cut some felt for the bottom cymbal to sit on and use a normal hi-hat clutch for the top.


    Here is the china arm I made you can see how the X-hat is mounted. I had a double tom stand and only one floor tom so I made use of the extra L-Rod Tom Arm to clamp the china arm to.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Shamani View Post
    Nice I was thinking of making a thread like this too.

    I have a bunch of DIY stuff, but I'll start with just a two.

    First off a small X-hat which I made to clamp on a custom china cymbal arm. I cut some felt for the bottom cymbal to sit on and use a normal hi-hat clutch for the top.


    Here is the china arm I made you can see how the X-hat is mounted. I had a double tom stand and only one floor tom so I made use of the extra L-Rod Tom Arm to clamp the china arm to.

    Looks funky! Great job!
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    How they mount up over the rack toms...


    I have to ask: Whats with all the black (tape??) - Im just curious???
    Yamaha Oak Custom 22x17 with Brass Kick Port, Brass Hoop Claws,10-12-14 racks, 16 Floor and all toms have Brass Hoops and a Tama Starclassic Bubinga Elite 14x6.5 snare in Quilted Mocha Burst and Black Nickel hardware. All hi-end Zildjian Cymbals - K Dark Thin crashes & splashes, a Zildjian A crash & a Meinl 16" crash, Avedis Zildjian 1964 ride, K Custom hats plus New Beat hats on Closed X-Hat.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Warren Wright View Post
    I have to ask: Whats with all the black (tape??) - Im just curious???
    I believe it's for muffling.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FlyByNight View Post
    Looks funky! Great job!
    What brand of drums are those?? Your DIY skills are quite impressive~!
    Yamaha Oak Custom 22x17 with Brass Kick Port, Brass Hoop Claws,10-12-14 racks, 16 Floor and all toms have Brass Hoops and a Tama Starclassic Bubinga Elite 14x6.5 snare in Quilted Mocha Burst and Black Nickel hardware. All hi-end Zildjian Cymbals - K Dark Thin crashes & splashes, a Zildjian A crash & a Meinl 16" crash, Avedis Zildjian 1964 ride, K Custom hats plus New Beat hats on Closed X-Hat.


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    Quote Originally Posted by FlyByNight View Post
    I believe it's for muffling.

    I thought that might be the case - Ive seen drummers who mic their kits tape em up like this so they dont have any sustain to deal with when mixing thru the board so thats probably the case here.
    Yamaha Oak Custom 22x17 with Brass Kick Port, Brass Hoop Claws,10-12-14 racks, 16 Floor and all toms have Brass Hoops and a Tama Starclassic Bubinga Elite 14x6.5 snare in Quilted Mocha Burst and Black Nickel hardware. All hi-end Zildjian Cymbals - K Dark Thin crashes & splashes, a Zildjian A crash & a Meinl 16" crash, Avedis Zildjian 1964 ride, K Custom hats plus New Beat hats on Closed X-Hat.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Warren Wright View Post
    I have to ask: Whats with all the black (tape??) - Im just curious???
    Quote Originally Posted by FlyByNight View Post
    I believe it's for muffling.
    Yep, muffling. The drums were taken out of their cases a few days after I'd done some recording with them (with way fewer cymbals). I've a mate who has a project studio in the inner city and every now and then I get called to lay drum tracks, percussion and so on. Pete loves the sound of the kit, my kick especially, but some days even with fine tuning, you will get those days where the tom ring will just have that little bit of annoying ring that the mics will pick up. I often use a clip-on muffle on the snare when the situation calls for it. I just didn't bother to remove the gaff tape when doing a number of mock up kit configurations when I did a series of photos, as the kit was going to be used in a couple of days by another drummer we know (a good mate of mine, else I'd be saying no way) for a session at Pete's studio, so the tuning and muffling would be already there and the sound would be what's needed. Saves everyone time and money when the drums are sounding right for the room. They've a nice rounded sound, and that's what matters to me....looks are a secondary consideration in this case.
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    An upside down Pearl tambourine holder, cymbal arm, little wood and spray paint = an Ipad holder.

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    And scooter handlebars for tom (I forgot the name of these kind of drums) holders to the drum rack.



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    FlyByNight did ya ever see my cool bell cymbal I call "The Dogs Dish"?




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    Quote Originally Posted by Ray on the Drums View Post
    FlyByNight did ya ever see my cool bell cymbal I call "The Dogs Dish"?



    Love it!! Where'd you get the idea?
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