Gear Video – Setup 2021
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Here’s a full and very detailed discussion on my current setup. I touch on the hi-hat position and the pros & cons, how I mount the hats, the tom positions, cymbal angles, pedals and more.
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Looks and sounds so great Louie. It’s great to see you always exploring different setups.
Just wondered if you find the hat positioning makes a cross-stick difficult at all?
Thanks, Dave. Glad you liked the vid. I knew there was going to be something I forgot!!! Cross-stick – well, I do have to move the stick a bit further towards me and be concentrating so as not to hit the hats, but overall it’s fine…just an adjustment that’s all.
Louie
You make a really good point in the video about those adjustments being tiny compared to the sort of compromise we all make every day with right hand over left. I do miss some of your left hand hi hat work in fills though!! Perhaps an X hat half-open on the left somewhere?!?
Yes – an x-hat works if I need it…not quite the same but it works.
Hey Louie! First of all GREAT sound! Every time you change something your sound is getting better!! About the setup, why not use a secondary hi-hat with remote on a traditional setup if your only issue appears to be the crossover?
Thanks! Always working on the sound…never satisfied!
Regarding the hi-hat setup – the crossing wasn’t the only issue. I was incredibly bored of playing a traditional setup and bored of hearing/seeing everyone else play it, too. Plus, it only works for me if the hats on the right are nice and close – if they were shoved over to the right somewhere, they’d be too far away and it wouldn’t be as comfortable. I could use a traditional hi-hat in addition to having the remote hats where they are now, (I actually used that idea for a while about 15 years ago) but it’s not necessary for most things and I don’t want to rely on having to hat TWO hi-hat stands.
Thanks!
Louie
I see.. well is nice to see something different anyway and your approach seems promising!