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Aha..! I finally understand the [i]true [/i]benefit of having stereo monitoring o/ps..! Cheers.

[quote name='Mornats' timestamp='1464033399' post='3056003'] I think this thread is just you and me encouraging each other to buy more VSTs! I can't wait to team up Solo Strings with Storm Choir and Session Strings Pro. [/quote] ... and I'd ask you both to stop it, but have equally often 'busted the bank' on one or other of your recommendations..! I avidly consume the 'freebies', then wonder how the heck I'm ever going to compose even one tenth of what it would take to use 'em all. It certainly entices one into considering going the Lottery route; I could never in another lifetime earn enough to grab all of these beautiful shiny baubles and gadgets. Does that stop me trying, though..? Does it heck..!

[quote name='Mornats' timestamp='1464028800' post='3055938'] Cool actually for the same price there's a 10 channel Allen and Heath Zed10 (not a Z-R though which I guess makes a difference). [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/allenheath_zed10.htm."]http://www.thomann.d...eath_zed10.htm.[/url] Worth looking into! [/quote] Working link... [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/allenheath_zed10.htm"]Allen & Heath Zed-10 ...[/url]

[quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1464024450' post='3055857']...the adjacent greenhouse (on concrete) that might make a wonderful site for an isolation booth...... [/quote] As long as you're not playing Stones numbers.

Good evening, Tom, and ... [sharedmedia=core:attachments:167528] ... to the forum. Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

[quote name='Andyjr1515' timestamp='1464010729' post='3055711']... I've cancelled some things tomorrow to try to get the remaining bodywork stuff done. I have to start finishing by Wednesday at the very latest! [/quote] Despite the obvious foot-tapping from many following this fascinating topic, it would be more than horrendous to have a tiny slip-up at this late stage, just to get it to the Bash on time. Better a week late than a daft blunder (yes, we've all been there, and too often for some..!). You're the Boss, of course, but please, please, don't rush this. Besides, it'll give us all a few more days of blissful suspense and eager eye-balling. Take the time for a cuppa or three now and again (or more, if the bladder can stand it...).

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1463995741' post='3055553'] Ba dap bap - gish [/quote] [sharedmedia=core:attachments:189271]

[quote name='Geek99' timestamp='1463988393' post='3055468']...and small children... [/quote] Looks like you already have all the equipment needed for relicing..! ... (Don't ask me how I know this. )

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1464003293' post='3055639'] How do you do that? [/quote] http://youtu.be/mwjIdD0gbQ4

[quote name='Zenitram' timestamp='1463996803' post='3055570'] I thought you meant the nice sound you get when laying the stick on the skin and tapping the beat on the rim. Used in quieter passages usually. Is that also a rimshot? I'm a drummer so I should know these things, but I don't. I don't think I've ever hit a rimshot as described in the original post. [/quote] You're thinking of 'cross-sticking' (although other terms are sometimes used, including, wrongly, 'rim-shot'...). Both techniques are effective; all the more so for their rarity. As usual, it's a question of dynamics. 'Variety is the spice of life' and all that, what..?

Sad, isn't it..? Some 'bassists' slap, too. It stems from the same glands, I reckon.

No bad, or poor, drummer becomes good overnight. It's in the nature of the instrument, maybe more than some others. It's a long, arduous and for quite a while, unrewarding path. The sooner one treads it, the sooner one progresses, but the road is long. Some pick it up sooner than others, of course, but the number of 'natural' drummers is homeopathically low.

[quote name='Geek99' timestamp='1463923691' post='3054981']... He reckons a month or so [/quote] That seems about right; burying it simply [i]overnight [/i]in the garden is not long enough.

Mine's a Hofner.

[i]I [/i]can play a solo flawlessly; by definition, there's no-one around to keep time with. Keeping a solo in time is not that easy. An exercise, to illustrate..? Listen to the original 'Take Five', with Joe Morello on drums. Count, mentally, the 5/4 before he starts the solo, and keep the count going as he plays. You'll find that, throughout, he's spot on, and comes back in exactly 'on the beat'. Impressive stuff.

[quote name='cameltoe' timestamp='1463867924' post='3054693']... (Hopefully the BOOM TACK makes sense! ) [/quote] So he's a [i]jazz [/i]drummer, then..?

Humble apologies, [i]mea culpa[/i]. I'd put it down to old age, but I've always been scatterbrained, so...

It's a shame, but HJ is right ^ . A drummer (or any other musician, really...) trying to play above their level of competence cannot be reigned in on the spot. They have to go back to their rudiments and get them down 'pat' first, and gradually hone their skills. You put up and shut up, or walk, unfortunately. If these really are buddies, recording the session and performing a 'post mortem' is a good way forward, at least to get the problem recognised as such. There is no rapid cure, though, so the repertoire that they're bashing out with such enthusiasm will take a hit. Will they support playing 4/4 to a metronome for a few weeks..? Maybe, maybe not. Are there no drum teachers in the vicinity..?