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2004-09-08 by Frank & Susan Malinowski
My son is in the first year of marching band drum line. He has had a DTXpress for over a year now.He loves both activities, it would be neat if there were some way to carry the DTX and the Peavey amp. Anyway I am wondering if there is a way to set up or use a subset of the DTX to practice for drum line. Any ideas?
2004-09-08 by oldguydrummer
--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, Frank & Susan Malinowski <yakers@e...> wrote: > My son is in the first year of marching band drum line. He has had a > DTXpress for over a year now.He loves both activities, it would be neat > if there were some way to carry the DTX and the Peavey amp. Anyway I am > wondering if there is a way to set up or use a subset of the DTX to > practice for drum line. Any ideas? It's late, it's been a long weekend so the brain isn't functioning on all it's gears...so this sounds like a fun question to go after. They make a portable battery that can run a laptop computer. Since the Dtx module on uses about 5watts it should work fine. Or use one of those fold-out solar photovoltaic cells. Anyway make a backpack for the portable battery, and invertor (if necessary), the dtx module. Then make a frame with a strap for holding the drum pad. Plug drum pad into module and for silent practicing, simply use headphones and off you go. You could also make a DIY pad with an mesh head and trigger that would give a better approximation of a acoustic drum that he normally would carry around. If you had a couple of battery powered portable speakers that you use with a computer setup, just add them to the backpack, then you could add sound for everyone to enjoy. OGD
2004-09-08 by Stuart McConaghy
I believe May had an electronic multi-pad marching carrier at one point, I'll be damned if I can remember the URL, though... On Tuesday, September 7, 2004, at 10:29 PM, oldguydrummer wrote: > --- In DTXpress@...m, Frank & Susan Malinowski > <yakers@e...> wrote: > > My son is in the first year of marching band drum line. He has had > a > > DTXpress for over a year now.He loves both activities, it would be > neat > > if there were some way to carry the DTX and the Peavey amp. Anyway > I am > > wondering if there is a way to set up or use a subset of the DTX to > > practice for drum line. Any ideas? > > It's late, it's been a long weekend so the brain isn't functioning on > all it's gears...so this sounds like a fun question to go after. > > They make a portable battery that can run a laptop computer. Since > the Dtx module on uses about 5watts it should work fine. Or use one > of those fold-out solar photovoltaic cells. Anyway make a backpack > for the portable battery, and invertor (if necessary), the dtx > module. Then make a frame with a strap for holding the drum pad. Plug > drum pad into module and for silent practicing, simply use headphones > and off you go. > > You could also make a DIY pad with an mesh head and trigger that > would give a better approximation of a acoustic drum that he normally > would carry around. > > If you had a couple of battery powered portable speakers that you use > with a computer setup, just add them to the backpack, then you could > add sound for everyone to enjoy. > > OGD > > > > Community email addresses: > Post message: DTXpress@yahoogroups.com > Subscribe: DTXpress-subscribe@yahoogroups.com > Unsubscribe: DTXpress-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > List owner: DTXpress-owner@yahoogroups.com > > Shortcut URL to this page: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DTXpress > > Alternate DTXpress site: > http://www.dtxpressions.com > > <image.tiff> > > <image.tiff> > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > • To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DTXpress/ > > • To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > DTXpress-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > • Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. > > Stuart McConaghy "My ambition is to make music so uncompromising that I will have no audience left" - David Bowie
2004-09-08 by Stephanie Ellison
My son is in the first year of marching band drum line. He has had a DTXpress for over a year now.He loves both activities, it would be neat if there were some way to carry the DTX and the Peavey amp. Anyway I am wondering if there is a way to set up or use a subset of the DTX to practice for drum line. Any ideas? How big is that amp? It's very important to know how big that is, as I may have an iddea for you. I played the snare line the first two years in high school, and then switched from that to bass guitar, which I was more interested in at the time. I played a Fender Jazz Bass and went through this 800-watt stack that was around 5 feet tall. It had a cabinet with 12- or 15-inch speakers with an amp head on top. For marching in parades or on the field, it had to be mounted on a three-wheel dolly with inflatable tires that allowed the amp to recline back so to lessen the danger of falling over. It also had a DC converter rack and a car battery rack for that equipment. It also took a big guy to push the amp around and keep up with my marching or movement in formations on the field. I'm not sure what you mean by using the subset of the brain for drum line practice. What exactly is needed? Community email addresses: Post message: DTXpress@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: DTXpress-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: DTXpress-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com List owner: DTXpress-owner@yahoogroups.com Shortcut URL to this page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DTXpress Alternate DTXpress site: http://www.dtxpressions.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT --------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DTXpress/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DTXpress-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ===== Stephanie Ellison AKA Deaf Drummer deafdrummer.org
2004-09-08 by Brian LaRue
--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, Stuart McConaghy <stuart@s...> wrote: > I believe May had an electronic multi-pad marching carrier at one > point, I'll be damned if I can remember the URL, though... There was a wireless midi unit by a guy out in CA.....Matt something.....He Built a run of these things called a walkabout. It was kind of like a mounted KAT pad that you could roam with. It had mounts for cymbals (normally VisuLites were used) and a Module.........I've never personally seen one, but I know Matt and have read all of the paper work. It was a cool idea. Another way to use a pad or two in a marching set up is to plug the module in somewhere on the edge of the field and use a wireless guitar transmitter. You can plug the base unit into the mod and the wireless pack into the drum. It will allow you to walk around up to the limits set by the wireless transmitter....... Later all..... Brian
2004-09-08 by Vernon Graner
Frank & Susan Malinowski said: >I am wondering if there is a way to set up or use a subset > of the DTX to practice for drum line. Any ideas? Back in the days of yore... :) I used to be in marching band, and on some songs we marched an electric Bass Guitar. The way we did that was to have a golf cart with the bass amp in theback and a 12volt to 110 volt power inverter like this: <http://www.mpja.com/directview.asp?product=12824+PS> The bass player would march along side the golf cart and the golf cart was driven by a guy in full uniform right behind the drum line. :) You could do the same thing with a DTXpress I guess, but when you think about the number of things that could go wrong (lots!), and the advantage you would get (not much really) I don't think I'd reccomend this. Frankly a round wood shell and a batter head produces one heck of a lot of DB without the need for all the extra electronics. It also can shrug off a drenching rain.. the DTxpress... mmmm not so much.. Also if your gear gets damaged on the field, I doubt the band dept. will feel great about buying you a new e-kit.. Edrums are great for a number of tricky situations, for example: -Playing where acoustic drums would create unwanted sound (Practice late at night, in a residentail area, with a sleeping baby or maybe if you're not really that good and you don't want everyone to hear all the flubs! :D -Playing with a group that requires the drum volume level to be tightly controlled (VERY small venue, types of music that require soft drums like soft acoustic guitar or choral vocals in a church) -Playing special effects (timbales, tympani, tubular bells, one-hit repeating riff beats etc.) -Playing very differnt drum kits for different songs w/o having to own/use them (like small light jazz kit, then a heavy rock kit, then a latin percussion kit) -Recording drum parts in a small studio w/o having to go to the trouble of micing a kit (mixer and lots of mics and lots of "tuning" time to get it to sound right) plus the "bleed" an acoustic set would have over other acoustic instruments. Anyway, thats just my $0.02 worth... :) Vern -- Vern Graner CNE/CNA/SSE | "If the network is down, then you're Senior Systems Engineer | obviously incompetent so why are we Texas Information Services | paying you? Of course, if the network http://www.txis.com | is up, then we obviously don't need Austin Office 512 328-8947 | you, so why are we paying you?" \ufffdVLG
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