drumbandit
Silver Member
Ask again nicely, and if they refuse go in and lay the biggest one out. They'll turn down.
Tom
Tom
haha thats great, excessive swearing might be a problem for the younger people though.
Black metal, superblack metal... and lounge. Ha I loved that.
Don't forget Vegetarian Progressive Grindcore!
I dunno. My guitarist is a tone nazi and he isn't confortable with his overdrive/ distortion/ crunch unless his amp is turned up to at least "3" (he has a line 6 bogner designed 100 w tube head driving a 4x12 mesa with 75w speakers)...
Note my previous post. 20-40w is plenty to hang with a drummer, more than that is a carry-over from the days before effective PA systems, or for guys who want to play dead clean.
Hi I run a working cover band and rent a monthly rehearsal space for our practices I also use it for my own drumset workouts. These rooms are 10' x 20' and have the usual amout of sound bleed from other bands which is no big deal until the death metal band shows up. It's pretty obvious the drummer is micing both bass drums and running them through one or more sub woofers with the rest of the band turning up their volume to keep up. It's so loud the floor literally shakes when they are playing which leads to my rehearsals being cut short because we can't hear ourselves think. I've asked the band if they could turn down but pretty much get the response just deal with it, no co-opeation from the studio manager either all he cares about is that everyone pays their rent.
I just want to know is it really necessary for death metal drummers and bands to rehearse at this kind of volume? Maybe there is something I'm missing here, I had to leave my last rehearsal space because of a different death metal band doing the same thing, now it looks like I have to look for something else again.
Anyone else had this problem??
George Kolias once said if you don't use triggers in death metal you can't play cause no one can hear you and the bass drum plays a huge part in providing time for guitar players
With all due respect to George, I would have to disagree with him on that one. Maybe if he replaced the words "Death Metal" with "when playing around 280 bpm", I would agree, but great Death Metal drumming doesn't have to be all about how fast you can move your feet. Death Metal can be groovy too I've always thought a lot of Death Metal drummers use double bass like a crutch.
Agreed. My first thought was Don Tardy of Obituary, who isn't the fastest, but is a really groovy, solid player, and doesn't use triggers.