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Brand new here, so thought I should introduce myself...
I never really considered myself a drummer. I was a frontman and guitar player in a variety of 80's hair bands. Toured the eastern US and Canada right thru the 80's when there were big rock clubs everywhere. In the early 90's I retired and started doing a lot of live sound work, mixing everything from local bands in small clubs to big national shows for 10's of thousands of people. In the mid 90's I built my recording studio and bought my first drum kit.
Working with drum sounds, both live and in the studio, is one of my favorite things in this world. I went thru some fairly cheap kits and finally realized that I enjoyed playing drums enough that I should get a kit that I really like to play. I put together a beautiful DW kit and have played and recorded it for years.
Earlier this year I moved from the bitter cold of northern new england to the 'burbs of Nasville. I used to have a separate space for my studio, but now it's in a spare room in the house. It's a good room, I'm not complaining. But it's not isolated from the rest of the house very well, and I have two young children, so I decided that it was time to make the move to a V-kit. I basically traded my DW kit for a new TD-30k kit.
I'm not entirely new to V-Drums. I have a good friend who had a TD-20 kit for a long time. And another friend owns a music store where I have spent many hours over the last 10 years playing the demo kits.
I have two specific intentions for my new kit. I plan to work on dialing in the most realistic sounds I can get to use for recording. I'll probably start with some VEX kits - love what those guys are doing! - and run the individual instruments out to separate tracks. I'm hoping I can approximate the pleasure of mixing a set of drum tracks the way I did with my DW kit. I do realize that it won't be the same, but I have high hopes that it'll be satisfying. I'm sure I will post my trials and tribulations here...
I also intend to find a bunch of sans-drums tracks, plug in my headphones and practice, practice, practice.
And I'll be trolling these forums for tips and tidbits and whatnot.
I never really considered myself a drummer. I was a frontman and guitar player in a variety of 80's hair bands. Toured the eastern US and Canada right thru the 80's when there were big rock clubs everywhere. In the early 90's I retired and started doing a lot of live sound work, mixing everything from local bands in small clubs to big national shows for 10's of thousands of people. In the mid 90's I built my recording studio and bought my first drum kit.
Working with drum sounds, both live and in the studio, is one of my favorite things in this world. I went thru some fairly cheap kits and finally realized that I enjoyed playing drums enough that I should get a kit that I really like to play. I put together a beautiful DW kit and have played and recorded it for years.
Earlier this year I moved from the bitter cold of northern new england to the 'burbs of Nasville. I used to have a separate space for my studio, but now it's in a spare room in the house. It's a good room, I'm not complaining. But it's not isolated from the rest of the house very well, and I have two young children, so I decided that it was time to make the move to a V-kit. I basically traded my DW kit for a new TD-30k kit.
I'm not entirely new to V-Drums. I have a good friend who had a TD-20 kit for a long time. And another friend owns a music store where I have spent many hours over the last 10 years playing the demo kits.
I have two specific intentions for my new kit. I plan to work on dialing in the most realistic sounds I can get to use for recording. I'll probably start with some VEX kits - love what those guys are doing! - and run the individual instruments out to separate tracks. I'm hoping I can approximate the pleasure of mixing a set of drum tracks the way I did with my DW kit. I do realize that it won't be the same, but I have high hopes that it'll be satisfying. I'm sure I will post my trials and tribulations here...
I also intend to find a bunch of sans-drums tracks, plug in my headphones and practice, practice, practice.
And I'll be trolling these forums for tips and tidbits and whatnot.
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