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Again easy to solve with a mic in the room and a small mixer.

Our drummer is quite pleased with the Vic Firths. Those alpines look fairly compact, maybe too small for old man ears. Interested in your findings! There's also a lot of over-ear protection available for the shooting/hunting stuff. No telling how they affect music quality. "that wouldn't work for me as we don't mic up the drums or mic/DI the bass)." One overhead mic in the room would do the trick, across from the drummer not over their cymbals.

As is blues. If your chair has four legs then everything with four legs is a chair? Metal is metal, tea is tea. Tomato ketchup is technically a smoothie.

I said that got close, referring to the image posted. It also gets a lot wrong. Pantera is groove metal, Motley crue is hair metal or glam, etc etc. They're as different as disco and funk.

Whatever makes you happy. Wrong and happy.

I would happily argue the labels of many of these bands at length, but this looks fairly accurate. @Barking Spiders immediately at the start.

If by 'rock music' you mean anything with a guitar, ok. But it isn't. Metal is not rock. Stoner, Sludge, Doom and Hardcore are variants of Metal. (there's also hardcore House which is electronic dance music)

Alicia Keys - Fallin' Not disco but soul in 6/8

Curious how you get on, I've been contemplating a similar setup lately.

All that Mojo! It must play like I can't believe it's not butter.

There's the band name!

How much for the beard?

I'd call thomann. They have an astounding range.

The signal will be divided over two outputs on the splitter so each amp gets less gain into the input. Only a problem if you switch between using one and using both which will be much louder. Room acoustics change by having more objects in, no different than having guitar rigs and such in the rehearsal space. Possibly a factor when recording something delicate. Otherwise I wouldn't worry about it.

Idiot Error just so happens to be my middle name!

That is very cool 😎

I'd call the shop to make arrangements and ask all questions. Maybe negotiate a slightly longer trial period even. Or make a trip out of it, book a b&b and see the sights? Granted this adds to the cost of the thing.

The terms are perhaps best separated by drum kick mixing like here https://www.crate.fm/tutorials/mastering-the-art-of-kick-drum-production-a-complete-guide-for-music-producers "Creating a good kick drum is not just about the 'thump' or 'boom' " And later "The rapid downward pitch envelope makes that satisfying punch" So thumping subs have a lot of boom (or even whoomp) and they are punchy if they react fast or 'tight' .

Well this is going all over the place, as expected. For Loudness in hifi (not car stereo, which copied home hifi) see Fletcher-Munson. Thump is in the sub 100Hz, punch is as described by Mykesbass, they are not the same.

Maruszczyk Jake are excellent. VanderEnd DeGier Maybe even go as far as to try a Spector, like the NS Pulse?

Thump is the whoomp from cheap oversized subs in cheaper smal cars driven by baseballcapped chavs. Nothing to do with good bass cabs.

I would love to see the research on this! Could you help me with a link?

I'm sorry but that's incorrect. High energy spikes cause damage, prolonged exposure to fatigue from sound pressure does at lease the same if not more. Kick drum is as bad as cymbals, the sub boom at gigs and festivals is an absolute hearing wrecker.

The arrangement is identical to the 810 so they'll suffer from the same, but now you're suddenly pitting them against different configurations that imo don't serve the same purpose or crowd. If one would compare apples to apples then have a look at the glorious SWR Henry the 8x8.