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With my drums, this has the added advantage optimal badge placement for audience viewing.
I feel bad that my tom badges face me because they were designed to be mounted on a Set-O-Matic post and I use a Super Set-O-Matic. But the added flexibility overrides my compulsion in this instance.
+1With my drums, this has the added advantage optimal badge placement for audience viewing.I feel bad that my tom badges face me because they were designed to be mounted on a Set-O-Matic post and I use a Super Set-O-Matic. But the added flexibility overrides my compulsion in this instance.
My strainer is at around the 8 o'clock position,but I line up the head logo with the strainer.Its a visual cue for me,and the strainer winds up in the same place all the time.
I also mix brands,and models of cymbals,as long as they sound good together.:p
Steve B
I commonly place the snare batter head logo in the lower left corner - so I can use it to place my stick tip when doing a cross stick (is that what it is called? - you know what I am talking about - can't think right now for some reason). Some people call it a rim shot, but that is not called a rim shot as we all know what a rim shot is.
Oh goodness - too much of the wacky tobaccy years ago!
John
This thread is too funny, I didn't realize how common these thing were.
[/quote]When I used to play out I always marked the stands and tom mounts for placement with a sharpie. This got me close with minor adjustments.[/QUOTE]
I used to do that too!!! I even did a vertical line at times to line things up just right. Worked great - in that they eventually wore off so you didn't have to worry about marking up your stands to the point that it was an appearance issue - no permanent 'damage' so to speak.
But again - works GREAT - highly recommend that to giggers.
John
Mixing brands and models of cymbals?!?!??!?!?
You can't do that - who do you think you are!!!! ...and you can't mix your B8s and your B20s!!!!!
(Now I'm just being silly - but understand it is not common to mix the B8 and B20s.)
John
Guess I'll put my bucks worth of cents in here... heh heh, get it? cents?
A hmmm... never mind...
Anyway, I always tilt the snare toward the smaller (left) rack tom (right handed), with the strainer at three o'clock.
I normally put the head logo above the muffler, so I can find it on stage. I don't really worry about where the badge is. I figure if somebody wants to know what kind of kit it is, they'll either know by looking at the lugs, or ask.
Aaagh... I have OCD?!! Help2I agonize over which way to put the logos, T screws on cymbal stands (facing right, left, etc). I'm obsessed!As to the head logos, I normally look them up in vintage catalogs to see how they were installed at the factory. It's usually over the badge/air vent.You know what drives me nuts? When I see the snare-side head logo directly underneath the snare wires!
How can you drum for fun, with all that emphasis on aesthetics? (Kidding.) Like mentioned above, I like my batter and reso logos at 12 o'clock, strainer on my right and all badges to the outside, of course. Don't want anyone mistaking what drums they're seeing. Funny topic, but hardly OCD. Passionate!!
B
Ludwig drums come from the factory with the badges and drumhead logos aligned.
I think it's good to be OCD when setting up my drums. I've been playing for 50 years and when something is a little off, it's obvious.
As to marking hardware for set up, that is the norm in touring situations. In a lot of cases, colored electrical tape gets used to denote which stand is which, to recall specific heights and alignments, and how it gets positioned when deployed. In some cases, each stand will be a different color.
I have toured a lot of "festival" situations where one drum tech will handle multiple kits. At that point he will have stage hands assemble hardware out of the case following his instructions. Each kit will have it's own rolling riser and color code. Once stands are assembled he simply tells stage hands that the red stands go to this riser, blue to this, yellow to this etc. From there it is a simple matter to correctly place everything and replicate each drummer's preferred set up. The techs that do this are very good and very OCD when it comes to prepping this stuff and dealing with the drums on a day to day basis. In a lot of cases, they are far more detailed than the drummer for which they are working.
My son and I just spent 5 hours at the warehouse yesterday de-prepping several kits from one of these types of tours. One of his jobs was stripping tape off of hardware, using Goo-Gone to remove tape residue and then cleaning with Windex. After that he cleaned all the cymbals. Special thanks to George Lawrence for unknowingly letting me borrow a cymbal display for my son to use after cleaning. Very handy I must say.
