Another bass drum trigger question...

[Genius Gone Insane]

My drummer plays a lot of double kick (metal!) but has only one bass drum...this makes it difficult to trigger well because you get just one trigger signal so you can't really have a different sound between the left and right kick. Is there a good way around this?

 

[daemon097]

I've had pretty good luck with 1 kick drum using the ddrum transducer as well as triggering using drumagog...

But more importantly - you want the kicks to sound different?

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

yeah just slightly to make it sound as little like a drum machine as possible.

 

[Kevin Kitchel]

You might have to muffle the kick drum with a pillow on the inside, and some crap on the outside like a moving blanket over the shell to kill the resonance. Then just trigger it per usual.

 

[dbrax]

honestly, you dont need a different sound between the two hits on a kick. i get better luck myself by recording a kit w/ only one kick. to each his own though. d. braxton henry

 

[carcrash club]

Thats the beauty of drumagog, since it randomely uses up to 6 (i think?) different samples. That way every hit is varied and you dont get that machine gun triggering. I normally spend a couple hours randomely detuning kick and snare samples by between 10 and 20 cents, so everything sounds a little more natural. It would rule if drumagog went PT, it would save so much time.

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

yeah that's the whole thing I want to avoid--the machine gun sound!