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  • I love triggered bass drum. Regular bass drum sounds like crap for metal. It needs that punch and clarity of a trigger mixed in to sound the best.

  • i can go faster on my cheapass Gibraltar 3000 Series Double Pedal with out triggs and i can still hear it lol

  • does x3 pedal have the trigger box built on to it?

  • do amps make you play guitar faster? no!

    same thing with drum triggers ya retards!

  • @halabinono

    who said they do?

  • I'm trying to make our drummer use triggers.

    He's got them at home but says he doesn't like the sound.

    He claims it sounds like plastic. I think it sounds awesome.

    Anyone knows how to convince him? (he's a very experienced drummer so not easily convinced)

  • @DCkevantnet make him play at 250 bpm on the double bass drums and ask him how clear it sounds. after it sounds like crap.. tell him triggers make each hit sound more defined and it would be easier for you to play along to

  • @DCkevantnet

    I have to agree with your drummer, they sound like crap.

    If you cant here the bass drum then your not hitting it hard enough.

  • @DCkevantnet All drummers that play rock and metal should be triggering the kick if they can afford it. The drums sound wimpy without that tight kick.

  • 3 different shellcolors?

  • THAT KIT IS EPIC DUDE

  • Oh and also, what ride cymbal is that? I love how it sounds.

  • TO SOLVE ALL THIS BULL CRAP ABOUT TRIGGERS. SHUT THE HELL UP. TRIGGERS ON A BASS DRUM IS LIKE AN AMP IS WITH A GUITAR. NOW SHUT UP.

  • My band is recording at a studio that uses triggers on the drums (I don't like to use triggers in any other situation, but im not exactly good enough to say i don't need them for the fast kicks to be heard) and, like most double pedalists on youtube including this guy, i have a habit of burying the beater into the kick head when doing double kicks or single kicks with the main pedal. my drum teacher said doing this with triggers will cause double triggering my mistake..will it?

  • They only help make things sound clearer. In a venue with horrible accoustics triggers make a huge difference and add clarity. If you suck and can't play on time with triggers everyone will know so if anything they force you to be better.

  • CAN PLEASE SOMEONE CAN TELL WHAT THE F**K IS TRIGGERS?

  • @thedrumsking235997 clips on to your drum and sends the vibration into a recording device

    thus u have sound

  • @thedrumsking235997 triggers are little cheating units which help in getting your bass heard when you try and play faster but use more energy in doing that then in the power of the stroke. in other words... when you try and play faster more energy is used in that then in the power of the stroke and triggers help with the "power" and get the stroke heard!

  • people get confused with triggers, they dont make you go faster. People even equipt them to snares and toms

  • triggers dont make you go faster, they just make it so that on every hit, u get a consistent sound

  • @metaldrummer4444 Right on dude..explanation explained no questions needed whutsoever..

    its weird why people just don't goggle it or read the description on whut it does and how it works..meh

  • did u know that if u can play 200 bpm u can play 300 with triggers -_-

  • @Superchocolatedonut do you know what a trigger is? It doesn't have anything to do with the pedals. I have triggers myself and they don't even make contact with the pedal. Some triggers do have contact with the pedals but they don't affect the speed. Seriously. Read about it or even better... TRY ONE! Then you'll see that it does not affect the speed.

    If you don't believe me, watch this! He describes exactly what triggers are.

    /watch?v=p4NQO5gofrg

  • @Metalobsession94 dude i was being sarcasting lol :)

  • @Superchocolatedonut Trolololololololololololololol­ololololololololololololololol­ololololololololololololololol­ololololololololololololololol­ololololololololololololololol­ololololololololololololololol­ololololololololololololololol­ololololololololololololololol­ololololololololololololololol­ololololololololololololololol­ololololololololololololololol­ololololololololololololololol­ololololololololololololololol­ololololololololololololololol­ololololololololololololololol­olololololololololololol no.

  • @Superchocolatedonut Did you know, that if you can troll on one vid, you can troll to an another one?

  • @mummeliini123 lol i was being sarcastic -_-

  • DUDE YOUR TECHNIQUE IS SICK

    DON'T LISTEN TO THE TRIGGER TROLLS

    Might wanna work on your groove though.

  • @deathdrummer9000 that's bullshit, and you know it!

  • @vestvik95 Oh yea, I don't think he's hitting very hard.... sorry, SWIM was on speed....

  • I HATE kids with AXIS pedals who think they are COOL because they have

    TRIGGERS and GOOD PEDALS!

  • @vestvik95

    Are you dumb or what?

    AXIS Pedals are one of most fastest pedals you can use.

    And triggers don't make you cool, cuz, lets ask someone who listens dude who plays with triggers, and then without triggers, will he say that triggers now made him cooler? No, triggers help you to clear your sound when you playing at fast speed, around 200 bpm. And still, when im using Pearl Deamon drive im now cool? No i dont think so, it just helps you to play more faster and many more thinkgs...

  • @TuneWorld Chill...

    Im only saying that this dude dont need axis and triggers. I mean, I can play double bass in 250 BPM with my pearl eliminators, and I can hear all the strokes.

    Also, I checked out your channel, and... I didnt see any double pedal playing there, so I assume that you have no idea what you are talking about

  • @vestvik95

    I haven't made any videos of me playing double pedals cuz my camera sucks.

    So that means, I have idea what Im talking about!

  • triggers are usefull with ankle motion

  • you probably get this a lot... but you're really good at drums

  • Triggers dont make you go faster, but with them you dont hafta worry about your volume, allowing you to take smaller strokes, playing your strokes faster, but having the illusion your actually playing faster, since it is just louder

  • love all the mismatched drums

  • Triggers don't make you go faster...practice does. Triggers make practice more audible.

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  • what drumming has become....

    the greatest drummers of all time used an over head, and a kick mic and that's IT.

  • @BouvrieMax the greatest of all time are dead according to some. According to others only the greats survive. Its all subjective, however one thing is certain the dawn of triggers has come. Especially in metal playing.

  • triggers or not , you hit way too soft , try hitting harder, i can go really fast with shitty pedals and hit hard at the same time , dont need triggers :D

  • you should probably play your double kick with a more open stroke so that you can get more power and speed.

  • drummers like tim yeung,george kollias,hellhammer have reached a double bass speed that without triggers there are zero dynamics...

  • he hits the bass drum so light that without the triggers you couldnt hear shit. But i guess thats really the point of triggers.

  • Some sick skill you have there man

  • fuck u are good!

  • how do u like the axis's does ur head has to be really tight to play them fast and what spring tension are u running? do u have to adjust alot of settings and do they break?

  • tune that fuckin bass way the the fuck down

  • @chrismahaffey6666

    hes using triggers. so he doesnt want to hear the acoustic sound. he wants to be able to play faster and one of the ways to do that is to tighten the bass batter head

  • cool vid man

  • haha wow they r fighting about whos better at drums. i think the guy in the vid is great

  • youtube fight fail below

  • ur barely hitting the bass drum head during ur fast double bass playing..I HATE TRIGGERS!!

  • LMAO @ the "cheating " comments

  • my bass drum sounds better than that and i don't even use triggeres

  • great blasts. :D

    get more clean though.

  • Tapping, thats why is cheating.

    Trigger make little girls like this one sound powerful, that's cheating.

  • If your doing fast ass bass blasts with your feet they help the sound because your not going to be hitting the the bass head at the same strength and power with every hit, so you just made yourself sound like an un-educated little girl. Pretty much all of the faster drummers in the entire world use drum triggers....

  • @CaptainHowdySH Yes, I know that most of faster drummers use trigger, little girl.

    Learn how to read! This guys is tapping, and gets a great sounds. and THAT'S cheating, not using the trigger, fucking little kid.

    I think triggers are great, but they don't fool anyone except fat nerds like yourself.

  • @Tiritor Yes because im totally not a drummer and im a fat little kid...yippie :]

  • @CaptainHowdySH Good for you.

  • @CaptainHowdySH Oh yeah, I saw some of your videos.

    You're not fat, and you're REALLY not a drummer......at least not a good one. Sry to have to tell you this. =/

  • @Tiritor You can say whatever you feel about my drumming, i dont really give a fuck, because ive only been playing for 5 months, and im actually writing music, im Better than you will ever be because i dont try to discourage people when they are doing something they love. So when you do what im doing talk to me, because we play shows all the time, we have material and an ep. And it seems like you just have the internet to sit on your ass and talk shit. What a life :]

  • @CaptainHowdySH Really? So you're a big drummer with a huge band and u fucking rule? I'm really impressed. (not really)

    Just write "carro bomba" on Youtube and look for the band.

    So yeah, after that I just gotta say: good luck with your "drumming" and your "music writting"

    And when you do what i'm doing, talk to me.....maybe in 5 years, k? =)

  • @CaptainHowdySH Almost forgot...... yeah, I'm the drummer ;)

  • Good drumming. I tell everyone that thinks triggers is cheating that its not because I learned how to play chosen legacy and songs of that speed before i could aford triggers so i had to learn to play with power not tap. playing lighter and going fast is actually harder

  • I could tell you were just foolin around on the kit...essentially your thrash chops are well intact, kudos to you. Lets keep Thrash Drumming going for all eternity! THRASH DRUMMERS UNITE!

  • I still heavily believe in while you play the blasts that you are getting a full return on the beater and heavy hits not little taps... that takes, some, not all... of the difficulty out... still have to play that fast but... still drumming is about preference... and this is mine...

  • all triggers do is read the movement of the head of the drum and sends to a midi controller which produces a sound, could be a cow mooing... doesn't matter. But when you play really really fast double bass blasts the attack gets lost. Trigger allows the same volume sound to leave every-time so it makes it clearer. It doesn't produce multiple hits.... you could if you want too but thats not what this is....

  • Thats their purpose... but alot of the time, the drummer plays really fast, but in reality, is hardly even tapping the bass drum, which also lets you play faster, longer

  • they dont help you play faster really, all they do is help some drums be heard better. some people use them on their bass drums because they are so muted and can't be heard otherwise.

  • @betterthanbarker then they should use a mic

  • @Dr8co1 If you try both a mic and a trigger, you'll see that the trigger works better. It delivers a good punch and cuts through overtones.

  • @betterthanbarker it sounds like you're hitting hard plastic, it's a horrible sound. mics give a more natural bass drum sound.

  • @Dr8co1 It sounds bad if you're using a bad module. Some genres, such as industrial and cetain types of metal. For playing live shows it works better too.

  • @betterthanbarker And yet you can hear everyone else in the world's bass drum.

  • @Paitsch you fuckin dumbass. every singe professional out there uses them.

  • @skermisher95 Genius. I guess when you say every professional, you mean everyone that you listen to. With triggers, a lot of guys use them so they don't have to hit the drum hard or evenly to get a decent sound. Learn your facts, you profane hothead.

  • @Paitsch Dude, go to a metal show with technichal double bass paterns with drummers that aren't using triggers and you won't be able to the drumline. Triggers give it a punch and make it sound almost robotic, which is sometimes what you need in that genre. A good drummer that is familiar with triggers will always be able to tell if a person is "cheating" or not.

  • @betterthanbarker triggers are only good if you put them on a good sound. if you put them on a shitty sound, they sound... well... shitty.

  • @betterthanbarker arent they for sound replacing thou too?

  • @JakeTheDrummer18 You can use them that way, but if you don't want a drum sound you would most likely go straight to an electric drumset. Using triggers is all about the mix of acoustics and synthetics.

  • @betterthanbarker It's just an amp for the drums! :D

  • oh silly weak minded boy. triggers dont make you go faster

  • ..they make shit more pronunciated

  • tell that to the dude who doesnt know :p

  • @im1just1here1 jeah they dont make you faster but plz hear.They make you SOUND faster.

    greetings.

  • @indafindatwo yea cause the sound is more defined i agree

  • @im1just1here1 well if you think about it they could make it seem faster cause you are really making it easier to do really light fast taps which will still register as a full bass drum hit..which without the triggers would sound like shit? so it kind of can. you are still going the same speed but those light hits would actually sound like something

  • @im1just1here1 So a device used to basically make a sampled sound emit from an acoustic kit doesn't have the abilty to make you go faster? Hmm. the sample will play the exact same note regardless of pressure and tension everytime if you set it that way. So, a baby could touch and an adult could kick the fuck out of it and it would produce the same note, therfore with the right pedal settings, greater speeds could be attained, less effort, same sound.

    I'm not trying to be a dick, just my logic.

  • @llxBRADxll Was going to explain this, glad you did first. Seriously people, look at Derek Roddy's videos, all of his lessons are about building endurance. Triggers make it so you don't need as much endurance, not bashing them, just saying.

  • @Reilloc13 Yeah, the way I see it... speed gets you anttention, but it ain't shit if you can't play on time or pull out a groove. I've only been playing three years, and got my first shitty double pedal a year ago, I kick hard, I don't try to show off insane speed, a trained monkey can do that. Yeah, I was looking for someone on here to explain it, and I didn't see anything haha

  • @im1just1here1 Yeah man, that's the truth alright. But some people turn 'em up so they're way more sensitive, which means they can play way lighter and still be heard, thus becoming "faster" in a sense. When they're up too much though the bass drum sounds like shit.

  • not the best chops I've ever seen but still cool

  • not bad i like his tecnique. appears to be heel up with one foot and heel down with the other. i cant do heel down to save my life...its like re learning al over again. although i should practice it for the strengh.

  • how does a trigger work?

  • It works like an electric drum set. They catch the vibration produced when you hit your snare, tom, bass drum (whatever you have triggered) and send it to an electronic module. The sound comes cleaner and louder (not just louder but in an equal sound), which means it often sounds better (not always).

    It just modifies the sound, it certainly does not help you to get any faster or whatever.

  • ok you stupid fucks, do u think if people used mikes or the bass u could hear it live? fuck no!

  • @shanonlucasfan chris adler doesnt use triggers, and you can hear his kicks

  • @UKrocketeer i beleive that's coz he uses Shure SM91's in his kicks, those mikes are made for giving a punch without having to trigger so you can still play dynamically :)

  • I'm not a drummer(Guitarist) but i hate the idea of triggers. Such a lazy way to go fast...

  • @IIThesaviour triggers dont make you go fast dumbass...they give the drum a different sound

  • @matthew3279. Some of the more extreme metal bands (Ones doing songs at well over 200 bpm) use triggers because they can be programmed to make every hit of the drum in question equal in sound. So basically you can hit the bass drum as light as you want and it'll sound like its full pelt. This can add a good 20-30 bpm to your playing. I do recognise triggers can also be used for stylistic reasons or if you have a pants kit, but a lot of bands use them for solely this reason.

  • @IIThesaviour ok sorry for calling you a dumbass... :)

  • you still are a dumbass....they are professional drummers for a reason..they don't need to "cheat"...

  • estas bn cabron para la bateria

  • How do ppl not understand what a trigger is?

    The massive give away that is slapping them in the face is the name and even then instead of looking stupid on youtube asking for, god sake google it at least

  • Duh its says so in the title.

  • nvm i know what they are

  • yeah i want to know what a trigger is and what it does to your pedal I'm confused about triggers

  • learn to play doubles with 1 foot

  • what exactly what is a trigger

  • a trigger is a thing which converts a a drum beat either into a midi signal or an arcoustic click which can be replaced via vst in recording software. triggers a usually used if the drummer can't play the kicks with the same volume.

    sorry for my english!

  • w.e who cares to me lars is a shit drummer anyways

  • dude, i know for a fact that lars used triggers on AJFA album...there is absolutely no way that you can have your bass drum sound like he had his wihout triggers

  • I guess they just edited it alot though.

  • he didnt use triggers

  • He didn't actually use triggers, it's just a really clicky sound achieved by head tuning micing and EQ'ing. If you listen to the insane double kick passage in dyers eve it gets quieter, so it couldn't be triggers. Plus watch some jason bittner vids, he gets a really clicky sound without triggers (:

  • it gets quieter bcause he recorded the sound with the cam and amped the module so you can still hear the actual bassdrum. But yeah hes using trigs .. lol read the inscription.

  • i really think lars used triggers cause the kicks just sound to perfect everytime, idk thats what i think

  • Best lars' sound is from Master of puppets and Black album. St.Anger sounds terrible.

  • jeez your set sounds amazing. im so jealous, my set is shit

  • NO !!!

    idiot!!

    lars ulrich never triggered his drums and will never do it!!! he loves the original sound of a drum kit and not an electronic one!!! he said it for a thousand times !!!

  • lars does trigger his kit fool

  • IDIOT !!! LARS DOESNT TRIGGER HIS DRUMS YOU FAG .... you dont know anything about him .... look at all making of from metallica... i have several videos and dvds that shows how a tech is trying to find the perfect sound for lars ... his whole kit is recorded with mics ... there are so many vids that shows that -.-

  • no lars doesn't trigger his kit. he just has alot and i mean ALOT of power. that's why the sound is so good.

  • Most of his kit is triggered, but not to sample sounds. When playing live, these triggers go to a "noise gate" which prevents the microphones from picking up the "ambient" noise the concert (guitar, vocals, bass, CROWD) and only allows the sound of the hits to be heard. In concert, the kicks are very pronounced because of these.

  • no usen esas mamadas!! mejor sin trucos, o no pueden?!??! ;D

  • im so confused as to what a trigger is actually, ive heard all this stuff about pros using triggers, and saying things like using triggers is cheating, can someone please explain this to me?

  • well if someone told you that its chaeting they dont know what their talking about. triggers bassically just make it a shitload louder thats all you nee d to know thats all they do.

  • a trigger is like having the combo of a Acoustic bass and electric bass it makes it so when u HIT your bass it is conectted to a eltric drum machine so i Puts the "electric" thou the mic but u have the Acoustic sound there

  • triggers aren't cheating. they pretty much give you a more defined sound...usually drummers use them on the kick drums.

  • i didnt finish watching the video before i commented... just felt i should add...

    i just jizzed in my pants

  • O_O

    oh man, dude you are amazing!

    pleaseeee tell me how you practiced to get there with the double bass. ive had my pedal for about 2 months and am not exactly sure on what i should be doing. any help would be GREATLY fuxin appreciated

  • practice things that have to do with double bass to a click...things like singles, (doubles if you really want to), 4 stroke ruffs, groupings of 2 32nd notes and 2 16th notes (if you've ever heard the song Bleed by Meshuggah, you know what I'm talking about). IF you have axis, you should get to a comfortable speed in no time. They are the fastest pedals ever.

  • yu kit is fxkin the sex

  • nice

  • poopie

  • or does it come with Axis pedals?

  • how much are triggers and where can i get'em what brand would be best?

  • hold on im confused about the axis pedals...

    what the difference of the axis AL-2 longboards and the X-L2 longboards? and which is better?

  • al2's have the variable drive lever and are better

  • if i had to get guess the xl will be longer footboard

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  • what are triggers?

  • I'm not a drum pro but I do know that they are used sometimes just to amplify but also to change the sound a bit, some people really like the sound while others don't. I personally dont' care for the sound much but whatever, look back down on these comments and this guy had a better response but basically what I said should be right.

  • I'm not exactly sure, since I started drums a few days ago but I think they are sensors you put on the rim of your drums and it detects when the head is struck and it's suppose to make your playing sound cleaner.

  • it doesn't make it sound "cleaner", it simply triggers a sample when the head is struck. If anything, using triggers will make sloppy playing more obvious.

  • It makes the sound cleaner, if you have a bad sound tech trying to mic your bass drum.

    But you have to play well to use them, if you play sloppy, it shows bigtime.

  • niice

  • nice one footed blasts!

  • axis = heaven!

  • why is everyone so jealous over this guy? cool down and stop with the petty pointless pondering insults... poop.

  • OMG! OMG! OMG!!!!

  • If anything, triggers allow for more of a chance to be inaccurate and to fuck up on double bass rhythms. When you have triggers, everyone hears the mistakes, and everyone will judge because of that. Without triggers, its just a dampened sound, and nobody can pick out small flaws. Especially when playing faster paced music. So.... Triggers are actually better for precision and the like.

  • Yeah but only if you suck at Double bass Haha

  • wat are triggers? i know its a stupid question ive just never learned that.

  • triggers are electronic sensors used to detect a stroke on a drum, in this case the bass drum, and play a prerecorded sample. triggers are used on the bass drum to produce clearer notes at high speeds because a natural bass sound will "blur" together making it hard to hear the individual notes.

  • No is you listen to his interview dip-shit!, he said he has foot problems and and he kept breaking normal pedals cos he was getting to fast, plus he cat do his heel tricks without em!, thats differnt to what i said he is no poser, the kidsthat use em are cos ey just wanna look good, Adler uses em for a reason!. so fuck you!!

  • u fukin bonehead,so ur saying chris adler is a poser,,why don t u take a long walk off a short pier,do everyone a favor and just die,,ooohohohhohhooo,,look at me,,i play iron cobra's ,,i'm way to cool,,fuck off idiot

  • Good. Anyway I still think (comparing to older videos) that your feet are too high on the pedal.

    By playing with your toes at the bottom of the pedal you will need less force to hit the drum. Added to that, if the beater are not so near, you will get much more power! But using triggers makes no velocity differences, only rhythmically.

    I think that the best angle (when no foot on the pedal of course) is 45° between the drum head and the beater.

  • My advise as drummer would be to not to use triggers for practicing accuracy & power. More than that, never use triggers would be the perfect thing!

    Isn't that a Pearl Vision drumset with Concord Fade ? (tom, tom, floortom & bassdrum)

  • this guy is even better than lars ulrich