Iristone

Totally agree. Great if you can swing awesome mics but if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.

We used to have a saying in the studio that I worked in: the best mic is the one you’ve actually got. In other words, you can’t use a...

Depending on how you differentiate between compression and limiting … A mic’ed bass drum has an incredible amount of peak to average...

Given that you don't have a sound engineer, mic up and run into whatever you are using as a PA now. Let the bassist handle the...

Zildjian earth ride, unusual combination of very dark and dry but also very bright and cutting all without the trash. Only makes three...

It's actually a stack. The bottom is a 19" Zildjian Turbine prototype, topped with what looks like a 12" Spiral Stacker. I think they...

Or you can join the open-handed crew and play your high-hat with your left hand and your snare with your right.

no they're not the Gretsch diecast. 302 are a steel double-flange replica of 50s Stick Chopper flanged hoop

Somewhere in the quiver is a 20” medium light Traditional, a 21” Masters Dry and a 22“ 602 ME. None are remotely alike.

There is no contradiction. All that was stated is that a 20 does not sound like a 22. No qualifiers were given other than they dont...

It tends to be personal preference and not really factual. Having sampled hundreds of drums in recording studios, I find Ludwig bass...

In closing, I’d like to say to all my friends here, old and new, near and far, that my 20” Tama Starclassic Birch bass drum sounds...

I love this post! When people come on here agonizing about choices, my position is almost always "Don't worry about it." I have...

I’ll take it one further. Your 22 doesn’t sound like all the other 22s, and some 20s might sound more like your 22 than different 22s.

I’d have to say that a 20” sounds a lot more like a 22” than an 18” sounds like a 20”. I’ve always thought there was some weird...