Members soul-x Posted October 10, 2007 Members Share Posted October 10, 2007 I am a bassist, who just joined a great project. The problem is their rehearsal space is an acoustic mess -- tiny with low, hard ceilings. They Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Thingfish Posted October 10, 2007 Members Share Posted October 10, 2007 The cymbals aren't the problem. Earplugs and/or smaller sticks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soul-x Posted October 10, 2007 Author Members Share Posted October 10, 2007 The cymbals aren't the problem.Earplugs and/or smaller sticks. He uses 7A's. He's not a really basher, but neither does he have a whole lot of finesse. Earplugs are currently in effect. The consensus is that it still would be nice to cleanup the acoustic slop a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members turdadactyl Posted October 10, 2007 Members Share Posted October 10, 2007 My first suggestion would be to get some acoustic tiles or egg crate or something of the sort. That should suck up some high end and make it cut a little less on the ol' ear drums. As far as replacing cymbals, if you have money to do it, I'd suggest the Zildjian A Custom Fast Crash. The speed of the decay on them is amazing. I suspect that would cut down on some of the harmonics in the room and may hurt your ears a little less. They ain't cheap though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members D Carroll Posted October 10, 2007 Members Share Posted October 10, 2007 look into the all desputied 14'' crash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soul-x Posted October 10, 2007 Author Members Share Posted October 10, 2007 My first suggestion would be to get some acoustic tiles or egg crate or something of the sort. That should suck up some high end and make it cut a little less on the ol' ear drums. The room definitely needs treatment. But it's so small there's only so much that can be done. The ceiling is a bare sheetrock surface, right above head level. If I straighten my natural slouch to stand in a way that would make Mom proud, I hit my head. There's not even room for tile up there. As far as replacing cymbals, if you have money to do it, I'd suggest the Zildjian A Custom Fast Crash. Thanks. I'll definitely check one out. Any lower budget suggestions? This is mostly just for this space. I'll be keeping my current pies for when I'm not stuck in a hobbit dwelling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soul-x Posted October 10, 2007 Author Members Share Posted October 10, 2007 look into the all desputied 14'' crash. Yeah -- that's what I was thinking. Some sort of thin 14. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members theDan Posted October 11, 2007 Members Share Posted October 11, 2007 dude to be quite honest, 16" is pretty small, i personally wouldnt go any smaller, Id consider using rods instead of sticks either that or start foaming/egg crates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jeff Graw Posted October 11, 2007 Members Share Posted October 11, 2007 Zildjian A Custom fast crashes aren't very loud and sound fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members manoeuver Posted October 11, 2007 Members Share Posted October 11, 2007 get cracked or broken cymbals from Ebay. very cheap. much quieter than whole cymbals. you can tape them up to tame them more without feeling guilty, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jamsession Posted October 11, 2007 Members Share Posted October 11, 2007 I've to a 15" A Custom fast crash. Not too loud. Sweet tone. It is one of my favorites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members drumr08 Posted October 11, 2007 Members Share Posted October 11, 2007 Id consider using rods instead of sticks either that or start foaming/egg crates this is probably the best idea i could sugest, rods wont solve the entire problem but i think a combination of rods and earplugs would help alot or what i used to do untill i insulated my drumroom was, i put moongel pads on my cymbals, there ment for the toms essentially but on the cymbals they absorb some of the ring and its not so hard on the ears, but you do loose a little quality too other than that, i would find another place to practice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Thingfish Posted October 11, 2007 Members Share Posted October 11, 2007 get cracked or broken cymbals from Ebay. very cheap. much quieter than whole cymbals. you can tape them up to tame them more without feeling guilty, too. I approve of this post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soul-x Posted October 11, 2007 Author Members Share Posted October 11, 2007 It appears from the responses that I will look at the A Custom Fast Crash. I'm also gonna experiment with dampening the cymbals. But that tends to make these particular ones really clangy. I've got some rods, but the drummer didn't really seem too interested in that route We really need a new spot. This room is probably 8 or 9 foot square with 6' ceilings. When I think about that in terms of cubic volume, it's roughly the same size as my standard little slide-door bedroom closet with full height ceilings. I definitely wouldn't put a rock band in my closet. My ears are probably never more than 24" from a crash and a couple inches from the highly reflective ceiling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted October 12, 2007 Members Share Posted October 12, 2007 Have him omit crashes and work on tightening up the parts in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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