A few weeks back, I cleaned my room, clearing unwanted things, vacuumed and put on the carpet. So its a new look for my room. After having so much space in the room, I cramped it up with the drums. And suddenly I am craving for more spaces for my room!!! Now I can either sit on the stool to play drums or lying on the bed playing with my N-Gage. How sad!!!
After a week or two, the drums on the first placement really giving me a headache. It is because my leg always end up stuck in the bass drum's leg, floor tom's leg and the boom stand's leg. It really annoys me, and I am thinking of changing the placement of the drums. By removing all the drums outside my room, I am placing the drums virtually imagining the drums to be place here and there and after a while, I make a decision-to put the drums facing the wall.
Now I can walk freely without stucking my leg to the drums anymore!
the room before setting up
the new placement
Wondering whats inside the rack and floor tom? Its actually a DIY internal muffling system. Done by my drum teacher Mr Zafran, its basically using old newspaper to absorb the sound and resonance from the drums. Sounds? Like hitting a box. Personally, I really dont like to play on this "box". The feel just aint there. When I'm playing through a records, I just cant play like I normally play with the "real" thing. When I do simple rolling, I cant do it properly as the bounce of the stick just didnt matched what I used to. I really have this "feel" thing. I remembered when I'm with my previous band, playing in an acoustic set for a competition. The drums provided is out of tune and the cymbals had crack and I cant concentrate on my playing at all. I kept doing mistakes and keep hitting the hoops as I really not enjoy playing at all. So for me, the feel is important and the feel come from a nicely tuned drums. I dont care wheter its a Forum or a Masters but the owner must knew how to tune the drums properly so that you wont hearing a "China Made" drums from a Reference. So I was thinking to change the heads of the toms and getting the bottom hoop for my floor tom.
Next post, "The EC2".
