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Can I get some more Kick and Rack!?!?

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Hi everyone, is this just me being pedantic? Does this bug anyone else?

I don’t have a drum rack on my vintage drum sets and therefore I’m pretty sure I don’t have a “rack tom” or a “rack 1 & rack 2”. I have one mounted tom and one floor tom. Also I have never kicked a drum in my life so why would I have a “kick drum” in my set? I have a bass drum that I would never dream of kicking. It’s just too nice looking and I think it sounds much better when I play it using the bass drum pedal, at least for the type of music I play. It’s always the sound guys or the geetarists who have me confused. Actually I find it funny.

Posted on 16 years ago
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From Josh

Hi everyone, is this just me being pedantic? Does this bug anyone else? I don’t have a drum rack on my vintage drum sets and therefore I’m pretty sure I don’t have a “rack tom” or a “rack 1 & rack 2”. I have one mounted tom and one floor tom. Also I have never kicked a drum in my life so why would I have a “kick drum” in my set? I have a bass drum that I would never dream of kicking. It’s just too nice looking and I think it sounds much better when I play it using the bass drum pedal, at least for the type of music I play. It’s always the sound guys or the geetarists who have me confused. Actually I find it funny.

I think "Kick" refers to the foot and legs motion to the pedal if your a rawker. I play flat footed so Im a "bass drum" guy myself. "Rack tom", hmmmmmmm? sounds torturous.

Posted on 16 years ago
#2
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I think rack may refer back to the old days when trap kits had a rolling rack with all kinds of goodies clamped to it, including tom tom's of some sort.

Kick drum is easier to say than drum-which-is-struck-by-a-foot-driven-pedal. :)

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Posted on 16 years ago
#3
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Big Daddy is right. The kick drum, as I've always known it when being mic'ed up, is a very old and pretty much now an industry standard name for the bass drum. The rack tom, well I found that varies greatly depending on the sound engineer. I do remember in the 80's when buying new drums and such, even in the catalogs, ride toms were called rack toms. What Big Daddy had described as the toms being mounted on the racks back in the trap kit days is probably the true origin of the term rack tom, since alot of percussion items were on a rack back then.

Posted on 16 years ago
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I answered this in the video section...

David

Posted on 16 years ago
#5
Posts: 109 Threads: 17

I have a set of Pearl Powershifter Eliminator double pedals for sale!! Seeing as how I actually CAN kick my bass drum, I won't be needing them anymore!! Great stuff Webmaster!!!

Posted on 16 years ago
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