Garvin
Pioneer Member
Must be something in the water indeed... Well, this isn't nearly as cool looking as DMC's Tiki-Kit, but I did just buy myself a new Trixon Cocktail kit. I posted a couple of videos on youtube, and I wanted to offer a bit of my own insight into playing one of these things, as well as a little about the recording process I used. I've reviewed the kit in another forum, but I'll cut and paste that in later.
Playing a cocktail kit is different. Being a jazz-minded player (in my mind anyway) has led me to relying heavily on the hihat for phrasing and just for general continuity of sound. Comoping on a cocktail kit just isn't the same without the hihat pedal. Also, the articulation of the bass is definitely different. Soft and subtle doubles are there, but not natural (yet). There is a bit of a difference in the layout and movement around the toms as well as they tend to lay flat on the same level. Some kits are configured differently but in my observation, traditional "cocktail kits" tend to be configured the way you see in the video.
For the videos, I used 3 different tracks. An audio track of the play along, a mic input (AKG-C1000S) for the drums, and the video track. I spliced all 3 together in imovie and am pleased with the results. It gives a cleaner recording sound than if I just played the audio through a speaker and used the onboard mic from the camera.
I'm fairly happy with the sound. Again, I'll post my review shortly. But for now, here are the videos.
Jazz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MekCIe7NS-Y
Funk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEVFs4JAA3I&feature=related
Playing a cocktail kit is different. Being a jazz-minded player (in my mind anyway) has led me to relying heavily on the hihat for phrasing and just for general continuity of sound. Comoping on a cocktail kit just isn't the same without the hihat pedal. Also, the articulation of the bass is definitely different. Soft and subtle doubles are there, but not natural (yet). There is a bit of a difference in the layout and movement around the toms as well as they tend to lay flat on the same level. Some kits are configured differently but in my observation, traditional "cocktail kits" tend to be configured the way you see in the video.
For the videos, I used 3 different tracks. An audio track of the play along, a mic input (AKG-C1000S) for the drums, and the video track. I spliced all 3 together in imovie and am pleased with the results. It gives a cleaner recording sound than if I just played the audio through a speaker and used the onboard mic from the camera.
I'm fairly happy with the sound. Again, I'll post my review shortly. But for now, here are the videos.
Jazz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MekCIe7NS-Y
Funk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEVFs4JAA3I&feature=related