jam session 30th june 2008

Good job guys. Wanna thank Avery Khoo for coming down, made an excellent roadie/sound guy. We got one song up on myspace (http://www.myspace.com/weareunband). It's an instrumental cover of "Afterglow" by Finding Michelle, thanks to them for the song. It really doesn't follow the song much, just slightly. A few mistakes here and there, but we were messing around quite a bit and yup for a first it's definitely not bad in my opinion :). Please go listen and give your feedback

Right

Right well Un-band heralds a new era.

My taste in drum "gear"

Playing battle of the bands on facebook has inspired me to write a bit about my taste in drum stuff. Well my set up is really simple, I use a cheap(well not that cheap, but some weird taiwan brand) set, it's maple wood. 14" wood snare, 16" floor tom, and I think a 12 and 13 rack tom. So my set up is a very standard jazz kinda set up, I use only the 12" and 16" toms. Now comes the expensive-r part.

Cymbals:
Started out with cheapo Paiste 101s. For people with a real tight budget I actually think the ride's not too bad for ... anything but crashing. Quite dark sound, but that's probably just because its lousy and has no tone so it sounds flat and dry.

I've got a 16" Avedis Fast Crash, wouldn't recommend that to anybody. Regret getting it kinda. It's only really nice for malleting, you get this really grand big sound that you wouldn't expect from a fast crash.
Next up are my 14" A Custom Projection Hats. Very "chicky", with a large bell. Loud. Not recommended for home sets, but I think they're pretty good for rock/heavier genres when gigging.
And my prized possession, a 20" K Custom Medium Ride which I only purchased a few months back. It's a rather versatile ride, but more towards the jazz side. Does not complement my hats at all. The ride sounds either awesome or aweful, depending on the song. But the bell is very nice.

Pedals:
I use Pearl Eliminators, the P-2002Cs. Err I'm not very good at double pedalling though. They're nice pedals, smooth and they look good too. Preferred them to the iron cobras (Tama). Durability wise it's been reviewed pretty well, not too pricey either.

Sticks:
Ah a drummer's arsenal of woody things. I have not found a pair of nylon tipped sticks that I like. I mainly switch between Vater Manhatten 7As and Zildjian Jazz woodtips. Err also have got a pair of zildjian horacio "el negro" hernandez sticks. Those are really thin. Can't remember what the other pair is, some artist series as well. Bascially I like 7A-ish sized sticks. Oh I've also got the cool Hard Rock Cafe Chicago sticks that Chin bought me but I can't bear to trash them so I'll keep em nice and un used.
Mallets are double sided (other end have wood tips), ZIldjian John Riley's I think.
Promark brushes, hot rods. Regarding rods, I recommend Cool Rods (Promark) or Vic Firth Rutes which I used to have...it's just a matter of getting the right size.

And that sums up my drum gear. peace.

Artist of the Day

Today's artist of the day (not that there is a regular artist of the day or anything) is Mute Math. This song's called typical.



For the sake of the more ignorant people such as myself, the band basically recorded the music video backwards (singing, playing everything backwards). Then when they broadcast the music video they play it backwards from backwards which means its normal in sound but the video is actually backwards. If you understood that good job :). But of course they play the proper audio track over the recorded video which explains the flawless audio, but most of the video coincides.

Not to be outdone

I will not fail to mesmerize you with my pro guitar skillz.

That is, if you can actually hear me when we jam.

Dagon - The Sixteenth Coming

The grandly imperialistic person has arrived. free up the keyboards. i'm about to wank my piano.

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