Darren Andrews ‘Ordinary Angel’


I recorded along to an old Hue and Cry Midi File called Ordinary Angel. The kit being used is a Sonor Jungle Kit (8″ rack tom,10″ rack tom,14″ floor tom,16″ kick drum) in white Sparkle. The room I recorded in is my tiny practice room 8′x6′x6′. The cymbals are a mish mash of Paiste Sound formula 13′ Hi Hats, 16″ Zildjian Rock Crash, 20″ Heavy K Ride, Sabian HHX cymbal which was heavily cracked so my dad (DIY Genius) chopped the crack out of it and then decided to drill it. The Snare is a Pearl MLX Soprano 12×7″ hence it’s cut and high pitch. The mic’s are Audix D6 on the kick drum, 2x Shure SM57’s on the snare, Sennheisser 604’s on the toms, Rhode NT1’s as OH’s. I also use a Sennheisser 614 on the hats but run out of inputs on the Motu 8pre. Also using a laptop with Cubase SX3 as midi Sequencer. The midi file was put thru Roland Hypercanvas. The laptop thankfully did not clap out on me. Considering it’s a Centrino CPU with only a 1 gig of ram, it did very well for this purpose. I purposely lifted the drums in this recording as it was a drum video I mixed it very drum heavy so this is not how I would mix generally speaking. Also added extra reverb to the snare as it sounded too flat through laptop speakers. For further info contact me at cyberdaz@hotmail.com or www.myspace.com/cyberdaz. Anyway have a listen!

Soultone cymbals – Punky covering MJ’s wanna be startin’ somethin’


PunKy’s cymbal set up: 13″ Extreme Hats 16″, 17″, 19″ Gospel Crashes 10″, 12″ Extreme Splashes 21″ Extreme Ride 19″ FXO B6

Ion Drumrocker Walkthrough


This is my walkthrough of the new Drumrocker, made by Ion Audio, for Rockband 2. Sorry the video gets kind of dark. I was using a camera instead of a camcorder. But its good enough. You get the idea. If I missed anything or you want to see something else, leave a comment and I’ll throw up another vid. The lag is actually my terrible calibration settings. I like to hit the pads early, so I have the sound delayed. I’m weird like that. I should have the third cymbal and second kick pedal around mid-January hopefully, so look for a new video in February.

SABIAN APX – We Break Sound Barriers


APX is the new professional cymbal series from award-winning sound innovators SABIAN. Featuring a ‘High-Decibel’ design that delivers a super-bright, intensely-loud, robust and focused response with extreme cutting power, APX can be heard in any style of music, though SABIAN’s Product Specialist Mark Love notes, “Its ideal for cutting through the raging guitars, heavy riffing and high-powered output of hard rock and heavy metal bands.” Top drummers already playing APX include Ray Luzier (Korn), Neil Sanderson (Three Days Grace), George Kollias (Nile), John Kelly (Type-O Negative), and Rich Beddoe (Finger Eleven).

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