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hi-hat tricks
AlanK:
Hey everyone! Just curious if anyone else has every tried or thought of this. I was messing with my acoustic set's hi-hat a week or so ago, wanted to angle the bottom cymbal up a bit from the front. Then a few days later I was on my DM10X and thought I'd try the same thing there.
Spun the collar around 180deg, gave the thumb screw a couple turns to angle the front just ever so slightly up.. sometimes I get klutzy and my right stick ends up in between the hats as I'm playing, esp if my timing's a bit off doing some barking or something. Will attach a couple pics.
Here's what I found out.. now it could be my imagination, or a hope based placebo effect, could even have been the drugs, but I feel like I've improved my hi-hat experience! It "seems" like its a bit quieter (and I've got the good or at least slightly more rubbery crash as the top hat instead of the crap that came with the Pro-X hat). Secondly, I don't get my stick stuck in the gap as often. Thirdly, I seem to feel like the chicking / foot stomping works better (less air resistance from the two hats being flat).
Finally, it just feels like I'm getting better calibration. Now, I'm using Addictive Drums so things are a bit different in sound and feel for me anyways, but I swear I was getting much smoother gradations of openness and the response just seemed a good amount better than previously.
But again, it may have just been my personal bias from the excitement of the new setup, hoping it would improve things somehow.. in any case, it feels to me like it did improve my sound, the action, and my enjoyment all with just a few turns of the angle adjustment knob.
Hope some of you try it out and see if it does anything, and let me/us all know what you think. It could all be just my imagination...
AlanK:
So nobody had a chance to read/weigh in on my revelation?? ???
lol oh well, I'm liking the new setup anyways.. seems better somehow.. probably a placebo effect
orion32:
Hi Alan, I'm curious if you felt or noticed that in the "semi-open" position you got better results?
I'm also trying to picture how you got your stick caught in between the hats....LOL.
I sometimes get lazy and I'll catch the underside of the hat, never in between
AlanK:
hi Orion, yes, I think I'm getting better response in the open/partly open phases, I don't know if it's the angle helping but it could quite be
the other thing I've been contemplating and working on, is just trying to work on my left foot.. because of electronics and the triggers, there's so little room for movement, ie. if you're playing with the hats slightly opened, you've got to be so so focused on keeping your foot at the exact same place (easier to do, for me, in heel down playing). As you're hitting the hats it's so easy for the motion of your body to make your foot rise up a bit or drop by a fraction, and I think the system picks that up so it gives a closed hat sound or a fully open sound if my foot moves. But if I can really try to hold my foot in place, I can get consistent partial open variations.. acoustic hi-hat playing is so much more forgiving with minor play (movement) in your foot position.. move a fraction up or down and it's hard to hear a difference but with the ekit you do
well, that's my theory and I'm stickin' to it but I think the slight angle on the hats helps with how it reacts, plus I really think it helps accentuate my chicks and barks as well
orion32:
I'll have to give that a try when I can. My hihat pro is in the band room and at home I just use the stock DM10 pedal/single HH. I'm really not a big fan of the pro.
My problem is that I just started drumming less than 2 years ago and when I'm trying to work on getting different sounds out of the HH I can't tell if my technique is improving or not which is a bit frustrating
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