drum solo - soundchecking the amber acrylics

[DrummingNonStop]

Acrylic drums always sound incredible.

[kungmat]

camera compression adding to the awesomeness! i love playing in large halls :)

[XxMAXYPADxX]

What are the exact sizes? Depth and dimension :)

[drummingsoldier87]

NOICE!!!

[XxDRUMMERKIDxX96]

these drums sound killer :D

[stephengoold]

hey all... you know, my "tuning philosophy" is to just take each drum as its own entity and figure out what it wants. These drums, because they're so big, seem to sound best when tunes loosely with a lot of spank... meaning, clear heads and heavy hitting. Coated heads and a more delicate and approach don't work as well on these shells.

[stephengoold]

@stephengoold wow. spelling and grammatical errors abound. "tunes" = tuned... then delete the "and" before "approach"

[krinkmop]

So fucking rad. This just added like an inch to my acrylic drum boner.

[acrowe7]

Sik!!

[akiller123345]

thts a wierd looking kitchen

[Rockinnsk8inallday]

An old vintage like kit with the modern sound

[philgecko]

how deep is your rack tom !

[TheBlinkdisasters]

explain your tuning for the toms please? sounds so fat and bubbly, a great but different tone!

[ndw9311]

@TheBlinkdisasters Basically, at least in my experience (I play a DW Collectors with very low tuned toms), you wanna just have them tuned as loose as possible without actually having them not on.

[xalevedi]

Lol it sounds like a dead cat.

[hodis795]

that was fuckin amazing. that was fuckin amazing.that was fuckin amazingthat was fuckin amazingthat was fuckin amazing.that was fuckin amazing.that was fuckin amazing.that was fuckin amazing.

[sinmerchant]

The kit sounds great! Fantastic drumming, too.

[kkirstianTetra]

i love the single pedal footwork man!

[mrozzy1231]

Bonzo would be proud

[louis595]

wo nice drumming man, it actually sounds like a machine gun! haha, keep it up :)

[MonsterEatingBoy]

toms sound like jesus

[JacobZaringRulz]

Ludwig?

[screenscanner]

man it would be nice to be that good!

[thrillionaire]

SORRY!...I meant WITH MICS TOO...Not Without....

[thrillionaire]

AWESOME WORK, Man!.....Great Sounding Kit!...I have a 1978 Vistalite Black Kit which I use in a KISS Tribute Band...They sound pretty darn similar when I sound check without Mics too!..LOL

[Diatonic5th]

Nice playing! I like the big punchy sound of that kit... you only need a couple of mics for kit like that.

[amatrob]

woo! drums sound good but I think it's the drummer! ill...

[tprice01]

Very nice, Nice kit , Nice sound, Nice playing. You do deserve that kit.

[AmitKanfi]

damn thats a whole lot of floor tom right there

[basje224]

i would've gone for a 26'' kick instead of a 24'' because of the huge 20'' floor tom you have

[TheBandElysium]

dude it looks like you need a new head for the floor tom

[zoner12311]

if there were to be one word i could say about those drums the word would be horsepower.

[ThePutasfever]

I'm selling a drumkit like this one,... same colour, same config... allso some hardware... (26''kick)

[brentmann]

BIG DRUMS YES! Sound great. I used to have a 18 & 20" floors with an old Artstar kit! Everyone seems to use smaller drums these days-but your kit is killer!

[stones441]

Jon Bonam set

[discohunter12]

that sounds too much like a wet fart at 0:40

[tcbetka]

Stephen...my first post was directed @TheMingDynasty, not you. Sorry for the confusion.

I think the drum sounded great, as did you.

[beedeetripo]

excellent work my friend!! greetings and respwct from Holland,Bram

[iluvceb]

your heads look like jello lol

[buddyrichjunier]

they sound alot like 70s ludwig vistalites they sound great to win tuned right the only thing they miss is warmth they have every thing else a drummer needs

[stilettoghettoband]

Love the sound of those vistas in a gym. You must have had so much fun. Not sure about the pinstripes on those thought. Kinda kills the tone.

[Mp5Drummer]

I don't think I'm ever gonna get tired of hearing flams on acrylic toms, SO SICK!

[cjguth3]

Great playing man. But what kind of kit is that? like, what company? I really really love them. they look cool but sound AMAZING

[MyFatherLoves]

@cjguth3 Risen drums!



[ambientgreg]

GLU GADUH GLUGADUH....YESS!!!!!

[MrBluntsworth420]

Nice playing man, those drums look and sound great!

[Charlestonthedrummer]

he has dents in his floor tom because he hits too hard

[weareewancameron]

that big floor tom sounds SO gnar.

[LukeMilkson]

Uhhh the tuning sounds perfect to me dude, plus in general acrylics have a way different sound than wood and then take in consideration of all the different heads you can choose from. Nice playing..

[AlecBFlores]

awesome drums, of course also the drumming :)) what are those hihats???

[drummer4life2014]

how do you tune drums to get that really fat tone?

[flx0011]

Errr.... is there enough awesome left in the kit for the gig now?..... .....Well yeah of course!!

[tomatobrown]

vespers in the gym

[108OneOhEight]

they actually call themselves the jeremy sanoski band? wow.

[brandondrum27]

Excellent Chops! Love the kit too

[8iamretarded8]

great abilities but 2 identical sounding floor toms??

[TheJohnMayor]

@8iamretarded8 Just realize that the camera isn't an ideal recording device for sound. You probably can't hear the differences because cameras don't handle low tones and punchy hits of sound well.

[8iamretarded8]

@TheJohnMayor yep agreed camera mics almost always make drums sound like complete & utter shite! ; )

[8iamretarded8]

2 identical sounding floor toms??

[paul8620]

fuckin sick man

[KYOOBED]

WOAH! very shallow kick!

[tiekoe]

By god, those are some fat ass sounding drums :P

[chasaegodwin]

@stephengoold im lovin it! I love the new glow kit of yours, do you have any live videos of it?? Is tht a 20' floor tom??

[stephengoold]

@chasaegodwin hey chase... thanks dude. sorry for not responding sooner... I'm not on here very often. yep, 20" floor. not too many vids of the glow kit yet but I'm sure they'll surface sometime.

[shaffalo]

@stephengoold what's the depth on the bass, looks like 14 is it any shallower than that?

by the way AWESOME playing.

[screamoc1]

daaayyyym

[lanice77]

sound good

[TheMingDynasty]

"and you are?" Hmm!! I wonder who doesn't know who he is talking too!

[willkarling]

Fat tones like I like!!!! don't tune them!!!!!

great demo!

[EvanDotMac]

wow, those drums are huge! and so is my heartbeat from that fantastic solo :P

[drumsandivory]

hey love your stuff!! how much did your drums cost? I'd really like to get really big size acrylic drums when i have the money. could risen drums make me a 15" or a 20" tom to match with a vistalite set???

[TheMingDynasty]

By the way, some of my reaction may be to the gymnasium which is a pain to begin with. But either way, you are not only a great drummer but a class act. It was a pleasure meeting you through this exchange.

Eric

[TheMingDynasty]

By the way, some of my reaction may be to the gymnasium which is a pain to begin with. But either way, you are not only a great drummer but a class act. It was a pleasure meeting you through this exchange.

Eric

[TheMingDynasty]

Sorry if that comment came across harsh. I mean it, you are a great player and those drums are nice.

Bonham's trick was to tune the batter head low and resonator head a 3rd higher.

This enabled him to get that low attack without the pitch bottoming out. His goal was to have a rock attack but a melodic jazz tone.

Don't let the nature of your drumming scare you away from a melodic tone, you hit hard and with the lower batter head it will be dark and warm.

[TheMingDynasty]

Tune them my man, you are doing a lot of great stuff and you obviously listen to Bonham. So learn how to tune the drums.

[stephengoold]

@TheMingDynasty thanks for your encouragement. do you think maybe you and I just approach tuning differently? the producers I work for always want deep and fat tones, and I know bonham went for the higher and tighter thing - on toms at least.

[superchanneljim]

@stephengoold dude they sound nice n fat WTF is that guy talking about "tune them"? I have some RCI actylic drums right now and still going through heads to find out the right ones. Have evens g2's on top.

[houseofweirdos]

@stephengoold Heres what ive learned from Bonzo man. The Reso heads are tuned WAY the hell up. and the rest is up to you with the top head, but the reso really help the attack and power of the BOOM, so thats what i do with my tuning. But GREAT job man! awesome playing

[BLITZKRIEGBOP84]

@stephengoold I AGREE..I TEND TO FAVOR THE HIGHER TUNINGS AS WELL BUT THIS IS YOUR PREFERENCE..AND BESIDES..THE DRUMS DO SOUND REALLY GREAT!!

[tcbetka]

@stephengoold What's wrong with the tuning? I think they sound fine, and I've been tuning drums over well over 30 years. There's more than one way to tune a drum, friend. They sound just fine through my Sony MDR 7506 studio headphones. Sure the pitches are low--but they are huge drums, with Pinstripe heads.

The drums are obviously in-tune with each other, and the drummer did a very nice job playing them. What more do you want?

[drummingtothesky]

@stephengoold How did you tune the drums??? The heads look really low.

[RajDrummer1]

@stephengoold they sound great, its the sound i like too

[superchanneljim]

@stephengoold yeah it's a matter of tuning preference. These drums sound dope. I endorse RCI Acrylic drums myself and I go for the fat tones as well. Has nothing to do with "tune em my man" That guy who made that comment is a bit ignorant or biased to a certain drum tone.

[drumzac]

@TheMingDynasty

They are tuned just fine. You obviously have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

[UnluckilyEnlightened]

@TheMingDynasty Wow what a intelligent thing to say...Not for 1:the kit sounds amazing,I know the tones Steve Want's and 2: You even know who he is? hahaha You're telling a professional,talented studio/live drummer to "Learn how to tune Drums" and you are???

[chasemi97]

is that a 20in floor tom, i have a risen but wow sounds great Im wanting my next kit from keith to be an acrylic i think

[ChroniclesOfSpring]

i used to tune my drum like that. loose and full of juice. i recently started the bonzo approach. high and tight. have you tried tuning like a big band?? you definitely have the huge sizes to do it.

[TheBlinkisback09]

love the toms!

[usnavy102902]

Sounds solid coming from a video camera, in a high school gym. Kick drum sounds incredible.

[lordieuan777]

Those drums sound completely dead... just like a wet flap sound... Acrylics can be so much more powerful than that.

[zonkabe]

woaaa nice friggin sound! what kind of sticks are those? they look super long...or is it his grip?

[Hooray4drums]

Those are some large drumz :P.

[portlandplaceNL]

sounds sooo sick i love the slap of acrylics

[banditboy6666]

fucking killer

[plusbonquetoi]

is this that john bonham ludwig reissue or whatever?

[AAMetalXJON]

Are you using powerstrokes on the toms?

[AldridgeHalenFreak]

Dude!!!

Wear "Hearing Protection" For me the Hearing Protection also helps me hear the drums in a nice way. Co Mon man... "Your Ears mate!

If you damage your ears all the way you will most likely loose some of your abilities too.

[scouserEFC81]

haha "i cant hear anything" yeah my ears are fuked from playin for years. worst part was, cos i was so loud i had to have the guitar and bass amps right behind me. Been playin electric kit now for the last three years, set up the acoustic kit again, played it for about 2min and my ears were destroyed.

[strappinggermanlad]

seriously get something to stuff into your ear... I take them out for live shows but I ALWAYS wear them when practicing... I probably would be half-deaf by now otherwise

[FantaPureDEATH]

Ear protection duh

[oxouk]

I just built an acrylic kit using RCI shells. The shells alone ( 10, 12, 14, 14 snare and 22 kick) were $1200 and thats with bearing edges cut only. The acrylic bass drum hoops were an additional $300.00.I drilled the shells to Pearl Masters specs. If you have the holes drilled for you, you'll end up spending quite a bit more. My kit is all clear. Looks and sounds killer!

[kungmat]

@oxouk

VIDEO, I demand it!

sounds awesome! :D

[BillyTalentRocks2010]

hey i am gonna build a drum kit and im thinking of doing acrylic, is it alright for the studio or too loud?

[oxouk]

My acrylics are not loud at all. They have a sound unlike birch or maple of course, but a lot of pro studios are useing sound replacement so it's not really an issue. However if i were to buy a kit for the studio it would be birch.

[BillyTalentRocks2010]

Oh ok well this would be a kit for studio and gigging, but i have a little studio in my basement, so I can't do much sound replacement. Also, do acrylic snares sound good? I haven't seen a lot of people actually use acrylic snares

[oxouk]

I'm using a clear evans G2 on top of my acrylic snare and a Evans 300 on the bottom. My soundman says it sounds great and he doesn't have to EQ it at all. The outside edge of the top head doesn't sound as good as maple or birch though. Click on my user name to watch a video of me playing my acrylic kit. Keep in mind though the internal mic on the camera isn't that great.

[BillyTalentRocks2010]

wow those sound really good. thanks for the help

[Debonardo]

@BillyTalentRocks2010 Acrylic Drums are always nice if their miced right but you cant take there raw sound from the studio there too open. Thats why bonham played them live, bigger more open for theaters and especially outdoors they sound amazing ive heard them. But nonetheless acrylic drums really give you a bang for your buck if there handled right.

[stagecustomfan]

wow...big floor tom :L

[Shantiseeker]

its just a 16 by 16 floor tom its not huge

[stagecustomfan]

@Shantiseeker i think its because its quite a small bass drum so it looks big :)

[BillyTalentRocks2010]

actually it's a 16x18 and a 16x20 it's on craigslist in minneapolis

[eckordia]

You deserve those drums.

[ChrisRocks25]

what snare are you using? its sounds ear piercing

[thetroytownsley]

Risen Drums son!!!! Keith and those cats at RD are amazing and make incredible drums!!! oh and your crazy good!!!!!

[mattisnotuncool]

those sound fucking great!

[anarcy7777u]

Iv noticed that some acrilic kits sound really warm, but others really ringing and lively.

[Kuschyy]

0:16 :D ! !

[TurboSiri]

sweet chops!!

[mariorossipuzza]

oh my god! sounds like you have 3 bass drums, not 2 floor toms and a bass drum!

is the bass drum 14x24?

[guitarshredda2]

how much did you pay for this set?

im thinkin of gettin an acrylic set but so far the only ones I've come across so expensive

Thanks and awesome playing!!!

[gbdrumer]

its for sale on the risen drums website for $2200

[lordieuan777]

@guitarshredda2 You pretty much are never going to find a cheap acrylic drum set, unless you get lucky on eBay. The material is more expensive and much harder to form than wood, and trickier to work with.

High material costs + lots of labor + niche market = bank breaker

Peace drums made an acrylic kit, I don't know whether they still do or not. It was a Bonham config, 1 up 2 down with a big bass but the drums were smaller. sounded good though, and the cheapest new acrylic drums I've ever seen.

[xXBmWGtR3Xx]

Rci Makes Good arcrillic Drums that Are A lot Chaeper than the ludwig vistalites i really want to get the atomic bomb snare that proably there most expensive single drum unless you are getting custom drums fro mthem

[lordieuan777]

@xXBmWGtR3Xx No way are RCI's cheaper than Vistalites, I just did their "kit builder" thing to compare and RCI was A LOT more than the Ludwig with the same configuration.

You do have much more choice with RCI, and I would probably trust them more than I would trust Ludwig these days. They've really gone downhill since the 80s.

That's Ludwigs new "thing", they're high end stuff is actually quite cheap compared to competitor products.

[lordieuan777]

@Acrylicdrums Do you mean "built" or "bought". They are very different things. Building your own set of Acrylics with RCI shells would be cheaper than a set of Ludwigs, but buying fully assembled straight from RCI is much more expensive, from what I've seen of online prices.

[omgdiddles]

SO happy I have Ludwig 1974's

[JamesTheWench]

your expressions are AMAZING :3

[stephengoold]

thanks for the kind words everyone.

[xShrimpenx]

what is the depth on the 15" tom and 20" floor tom?

[stephengoold]

15 is 11 deep, and both the 18 and 20 floors are 16 deep.

[wiirluvenit]

Love the sound of your floors what do you have for resos and what kind of tuning

[stephengoold]

thanks man. the resos are both clear emperors, tuned nice and loose.

[julioalex922]

im planning on buying an acrylic set....will u say its a good idea?

[stephengoold]

acrylic is awesome. different sound from wood for sure, but great. not better, not worse... just different.

[julioalex922]

cool..thanx man..now i just need money jeje

[squatchmaster5000]

those sounds great, so punchy and fat low end sound its my fav sound to get from drums.

[Zildjian128]

sick linear patterns! great drumming! awesome kit!

[crazychickendrummer2]

what snare is that? it looks like my black magic 100th anniersory snare!

[stephengoold]

Risen Drums... 6.5x14 black brass w/ tube lugs.

[edgarthejedi]

KILLER kit mang!

[howardspring1989]

im sooo impressed with your druming dude! lush sounding set!!! great playing dude kep it going!:)

[Azicpok1]

geez you hit hard

[RyanPaulandTHEARDENT]

I like how Senoski is just laying out his pedals as if there were nothing going on behind him... aloof. I dig.

[Oceansandblue]

These drums...sound Fantastic, props to you man, Great drumming too!

[MrPinewood]

i wish my floor tom sounded like that

[shraunbone]

Very nice.

[upchurchfan1]

sounds good dude.who made them?

[Localdrummerweb]

Risen Drums in MN

[d15er]

beautiful drums

[juancotua2]

Very nice! How do you tune your acrylic drums? it sounds veery good!

[stephengoold]

hey man... just tuning them real low. the big dimensions need low pitches to make them really sing.

[AIONISMO]

That's weird... i tune them really high O_o

[haproductions01]

thats best sound ive ever heard from an unmiced kick drum

[jaykeldb15]

what size is the snare

[stephengoold]

It's a 6.5x14 black brass.

[jaykeldb15]

thanks

[Gabbazeebutt]

It's a nice kit I have really enjoyed playing it...

Although I don't think I make it sound as good not by a long shot.

your awesome steve

peace,

matt

[DylanK811]

dang! huge drums!! i like it!! but ur kick!! its so...small and thin. theres not much depth. and i kno bonham had a shallow one too but it was still 26" in diameter

[duckattak]

nice single foot work

[elb2392]

Got it, but also, how do you get such speed at :39 on your bass? What tips can you give me for that?

Thanks

-Eric

[stephengoold]

Eric...

I think the speed maybe comes from lots of single-technique practice. Meaning, I don't spend a lot of time worrying about "flipping" my foot or whatever you want to call the double-technique. I'm not talking about double-pedal, I'm talking about double hits on a single pedal. Anyway, I don't do that crap. It's useful sometimes, but I mainly just work on single hits - hits that have an up and a down movement in my ankle/leg. I work a lot on strengthening that part of my kick.

[stephengoold]

Eric,

Not much of a technique thing in this video. That drum is huge, and the room we were in was huge, and the rest of the sound is the killer compression from the camera. Compression is the main reason drums sound big in a studio too. The trick is to make sure you back off the cymbals a little so they don't bury the drums, then the compression is able to pull out all kinds of extra tone from the kick/snare.

[elb2392]

I was wondering what technique you use for your bassdrum...it sounds amazing, and I would love to learn how to do it! Message me back please!

-Eric

[stephengoold]

cymbals:

14" Zildjian New Beat hats

21" Zildjian Sweet Ride

18" Sabian AAXplosion crash (rack tom)

20" Paiste Traditional medium thin ride

[ohhshizzitsmatt]

sweet vid man. what kind of cymbals u usin there?

[TheJohnMayor]

This is friggen awesome Steve. Are you gonna use this set-up for the BMB too?

[benji0001]

0_o

[falen6969]

18 and 20 floor toms kill the 16 and 18's nice setup dude!!!

[joeysonson]

holy crap "jizz in my pants"......