New Song – Pillow Talk

[Glennbo]

This one is actually using my acoustic cocktail drum kit, but I thought I’d share it with you guys anyway.

I decided to drop a DW bass drum pillow into my cocktail kick drum, and it sounds a lot more like a normal kick now.

You can see the pillow in the pic of the cocktail kit here as well as hear a test of it in my latest bit,

“Pillow Talk” at:

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=403575&songID=9664473

Glennbo
http://www.soundclick.com/Glennbo

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[Scott]

Hey, sir!
Thanks for letting us hear the tune …. nice pillow pic!
🙂

Scott

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[Glennbo]

ORIGINAL: WaterBoy

Hey, sir!
Thanks for letting us hear the tune …. nice pillow pic!
🙂

Scott

Thanks Scott!

I had read online of a few people who dropped regular bass drum pillows into their vertical cocktail bass drums, and decided to try it on mine.  I had previously used 3″ felt strips under the heads, but still didn’t like the boominess I was getting.  After putting the DW pillow in the drum, it now has a focused sound that is pretty similar to my live acoustic kick.

Edit: For anyone who might be interested, here’s a pic of the whole mic setup I used for the drums on this song.  There’s a Sennheiser MD421 on the kick beater side, a Shure SM58 on the snare (using a side boom), and a Rode NT1 as the overhead.

http://members.cox.net/glennbopix/3Mics.jpg

Glennbo
http://www.soundclick.com/Glennbo

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