Heard any good local music lately ?

Hawk · Post by **Hawk** » Sunday Feb 19, 2012

I stopped in to see Artifact last night. Great fun music from Beatles to Moody Blues and originals. Catch them at Fat Daddy's.

Then stopped in to see A.X.E.. More great fun. Incredibly tight rock that makes you bounce in your seat (If you're not already on the dance floor).

If you haven't seen these two local acts you're missing some good local talent.

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AllHolLowsEVe · Post by **AllHolLowsEVe** » Sunday Feb 19, 2012

I caught Artifact about a month or two ago. Their cover of Lucky Man by Emerson Lake and Palmer was incredible.

CCdrums · Post by **CCdrums** » Sunday Feb 19, 2012

Thanks Bill! It was good to see you. I'm glad you guys enjoyed the music and had a good time!

Hawk · Post by **Hawk** » Sunday Feb 19, 2012

CCdrums wrote:Thanks Bill! It was good to see you. I'm glad you guys enjoyed the music and had a good time!

I really liked the sound of your drums ! Rick did an excellent job with the PA.

Thanks for showing me your snare. At a quick glance it looked like it had a really tight grain. The brass hoops, allowing some nice musical overtones coupled with the open tuning sounded great out front. Sometimes when I leave a snare that open I lose clean articulation, but out front, that snare was articulate and delivered a very solid back beat, which seemed to be the heart of A.X.E..

I forgot to look, what heads did you have on it ?

Lately I've been focusing on a more dry sound in search of good articulation, so I've switched from Coated Ambassador to Coated Emperor for the batter on a few of my snares. I don't like moon gel or other muffling on the heads.

As an experiment I put an aluminum bearing edge on the batter side of a snare drum, then put on a Remo (marching) Kevlar head. I usually take that snare for jams because it's practically bullet proof

. It'd dry, but it allows me to loosen up the snare wires and still get good articulation.

Sorry...I just get carried away about snare drums...

CCdrums · Post by **CCdrums** » Sunday Feb 19, 2012

Hey Bill, I get carried away on snare drums and all things drums too!

Thank you for the compliment on my drum sound. I work very hard at it, so I'm glad it's coming across well. To answer your questions...

The snare did have a really tight grain, that's one of the attributes of the legacy wood (the wood submereged in the great lakes for hundreds of years). Because of the intense pressure and extreme cold in the deep water, the wood was preserved in the condition it was in hundreds of years ago. It's sonic qualities are unmatched in today's wood and the tonality is just incredible. The drum is very articulate and sensitive, and doesn't choke when I lay into it. I love it. Right now, I have a coated Evans G2 on top (same as a coated emperor) over a hazy ambassador snare head. Sometimes I run a coated CS reverse black dot, but the coated G2 or coated emperor sounds great and they're durable. Puresound 20 strand snare wires with the bottom head cranked up very tight and the top at a medium tension. I don't use any muffling of any kind on my snare or toms. Can't stand it.

That aluminum bearing edged snare sounds interesting, I'll have to check that out sometime. Is it kind of like a DW edge snare, theirs with the bearing edges being brass and the body maple? I had one of those and was disappointed in its sound. It lacked character and didn't have that "pop" I like so much in a snare. My Joyful Noise maple snare you heard last night blows the edge away IMO. Anyway, good talking drums with you. That's a topic I'll never get tired of!