Only Admins can see this message.
Data Transition still in progress. Some functionality may be limited until the process is complete.
Processing Attachment, Gallery - 183.17328%

My gigging kit

Posts: 5176 Threads: 188

Hi. A photographer came in and used my kit as her guinea pig the other night. I thought I'd share this one with you:

The kit is a 1975 Rogers 14" tom for a bass drum and a 12" tom attached to it via the genius design of the Memri-Loc hardware. The bass drum sits in a cradle that I made for it. The snare drum is a WorldMax Black Hawg...yeah, yeah, I know it's a Chinese-made drum, but hey it was a gift. I usually use a 1984 Acrolite, but on this night, I was trying something different....OKAY?! x-mas3 The floor tom is a King 13" tom from a Bopcat kit made by Buzz King (some of you may remember the Bopcat kit ads).

The cymbals are: a set of "Vintage Avedis & Cie hi-hats, an old Avedis 18" hand-held crash cymbal that I got from an old school -niiiiice cymbal! The Flat Top ride is a 20" Avedis "brilliant" finish and the one closest to you is a Ufip 17" "swish", I guess you'd call it -it has a flange on the edge.

The bass pedal is a DW5000 Turbo from 1985. The hi-hat stand is a Japanese-made Tama stand. The ride cymbal is on a grabber arm and the Ufip is on a stand that came with the Bopcat kit's hardware package. Everything is situated on a rubber bar mat that I must have gotten at one of the bars I worked over the years...can't remember which one, exactly...Burger Kin:confused: Roc-N-Soc Nitro throne...

"God is dead." -Nietzsche

"Nietzsche is dead." -God
Posted on 14 years ago
#1
Posts: 5176 Threads: 188

ummm........

1 attachment
FUKUNWUKIT.jpg
97.7 kB
"God is dead." -Nietzsche

"Nietzsche is dead." -God
Posted on 14 years ago
#2
Posts: 6288 Threads: 375

Cool little set-up.....!!

Kevin
Posted on 14 years ago
#3
Posts: 341 Threads: 99

like what? a 14'' bass drum, why? where have i been, i thought 18'' was about it?

Posted on 14 years ago
#4
Posts: 941 Threads: 51

Nice little kit there- what made you go to a 14"BD? I like the ideas and the set but with all the other pieces being relatively normal sizes and a large snare drum- certainly not space or weight seems a consideration- as the other pieces of the kit wouldn't be considered especially portable. I have played a 14" Bd myself live- I was working on a kit that telescoped all into one carrying bag. Ultimately, I found the bass drum smaller than an 18" interfered with the bass players sound spectrum and if not carefully tuned made the bass sound flat. Now I have reverted back to 18"s,20"s and 22"s even steering away from most 16"s. I have one dedicated 16" BD conversion- a Mapex Saturn that gives a fulfilling tone.

Would like to hear your thoughts about using the 14" and how you tune it - the response you get from it etc.. thanks

For info. & live schedule:
www.EricWiegmanndrums.com
*Odery Drums Japan endorser/ representative
*Japan Distributor of Vruk DrumMaster pedals
*D'Addario Japan Evans/Promark/Puresound
*Amedia Cymbals Japan

It's the journey not the destination.
Posted on 14 years ago
#5
Posts: 5550 Threads: 576

thats cool, see that is playing to your own beat how does that 14 sound ?

April 2nd 1969 scarfed pink champagne holly wood and 65/66 downbeat snare, and , supra same year very minty kit old pies
66/67 downbeat with canister
Super 400 small round knob
1967 super classic obp





once the brass ceases to glitter, and the drum looses its luster, and the stage remains dark, all you have left is the timbre of family.
Posted on 14 years ago
#6
Posts: 5176 Threads: 188

Thanks for the comments!

Yes, the 14" bass drum gets a lot of comments. It sounds fine. I will say that it's not very versatile, but it does what it needs to do for this gig. I have it tensioned VERY low (about as low as a 14" tom tom can go without "flapping".

The really cool thing is that it's a one-load-in/one-load-out kit and I can get it all onto a small folding cart Ruxxack(sp?) I should take a picture of that just to show you how it packs up.

I have used my Jazzette , Downbeat and a variety of other setups for the gig, but this is the one that I keep coming back to.

"God is dead." -Nietzsche

"Nietzsche is dead." -God
Posted on 14 years ago
#7
Posts: 107 Threads: 19

Inviting kit. Looks like fun. You play conventional left grip? Did you take a bite out of the that crash on the left?Excited

Player54
Posted on 14 years ago
#8
Posts: 5176 Threads: 188

I mix matched grip and trad grip but the tilt of the snare drum is obviously more suited for traditional grip.

Yes, that "bite" was when we were trapped in a snowstorm and we didn't think we were going to make it.....x-mas3

"God is dead." -Nietzsche

"Nietzsche is dead." -God
Posted on 14 years ago
#9
Posts: 12 Threads: 4

My bass is a 22, so I would love to have a smaller one just for experience!

Posted on 14 years ago
#10
  • Share
  • Report
Action Another action
Something else here