PhilR
Studio Scapegoat
The drummer in a local glam rock band was a classic exemplar of this. He used to go on and on about how he likes drums to sound and how he was going to sit on our shoulders making sure he got the best drum sound possible etc etc....
He turned up with some unbelievable piece of shit setup made of 2 entry-level Chinese firewood kits with identical tom sizes. I ended up persuading him to use only 3 rack toms, as I could tune the 2 12" toms to sound okay with descending pitches but there was no way I could do anything with all 4. The two kits didn't even use the same fucking mounting system so he would have been forced to have the toms running 12"-13"-12"-13"-16"-16".
All his cymbals were cheap as dirt brass crap, most with cracks in them. Both kicks had the stock heads and sounded utterly shit no matter how I tuned them. Oh yeah, and he is probably the worst drummer I've ever heard in my entire life. Seriously, all he ever played was 4/4 stock rock beats but he had the worst timekeeping I've ever heard. And couldn't even play a simple AC/DC rhythm without sounding like he was playing the snare with his balls and hitting the cymbals with his face.
The raw recorded sound was akin to a pile of broken glass, boxes of nails and assorted plastic buckets being pounded by a retarded chimpanzee armed with ping-pong bats. And he didn't even play the second kick. Not ONCE.
I should say I've encountered any number of clueless in-screaming vocalists, bassists that didn't even understand why you would ever need to change bass strings and guitar players that thought intonation was some kind of crazy science. But slating drummers is just much more fun. And I am a drummer.
He turned up with some unbelievable piece of shit setup made of 2 entry-level Chinese firewood kits with identical tom sizes. I ended up persuading him to use only 3 rack toms, as I could tune the 2 12" toms to sound okay with descending pitches but there was no way I could do anything with all 4. The two kits didn't even use the same fucking mounting system so he would have been forced to have the toms running 12"-13"-12"-13"-16"-16".
All his cymbals were cheap as dirt brass crap, most with cracks in them. Both kicks had the stock heads and sounded utterly shit no matter how I tuned them. Oh yeah, and he is probably the worst drummer I've ever heard in my entire life. Seriously, all he ever played was 4/4 stock rock beats but he had the worst timekeeping I've ever heard. And couldn't even play a simple AC/DC rhythm without sounding like he was playing the snare with his balls and hitting the cymbals with his face.
The raw recorded sound was akin to a pile of broken glass, boxes of nails and assorted plastic buckets being pounded by a retarded chimpanzee armed with ping-pong bats. And he didn't even play the second kick. Not ONCE.
I should say I've encountered any number of clueless in-screaming vocalists, bassists that didn't even understand why you would ever need to change bass strings and guitar players that thought intonation was some kind of crazy science. But slating drummers is just much more fun. And I am a drummer.