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Bazz

Too many adverts:up:

Too much puritanical teacup misanthropia and not enough scream ruddy bor3!

How dare you take dimmu album titles in vain, curse you, and your teacup!! BTW I take that as a big compliment!!

Impakt is definitely the main song that we recorded (IMHO).

Yeah, the other 2 are shite;-)

Great gig last night, thanks to everyone that came along

Highlight had to be Element for me, sounded really tight

Awesome man, thanks for a good night, really enjoyed this one!!

Having been a big fan for some many years now, I was gutted to hear the preview on the bands myspace page. Any other fans out there disgusted with the P1SS poor offerring from one of Norways finest? Wont be liestening any more, shocking, even embarrassing tunage it must be said. The fact gateways is the best tune doesnt leave you installed with hope 2/10.

Will have to change my avatar to boot!

Too many comments here consumed with brandings, It doesnt matter who made it, its what sounds right to you. I've played a 200 quid drum kit that sounded better than a 3K kit, the names shall remain hidden. Brandings themselves are worth nothing. Head choice, dampening effects all play the crucial part in the drums overall sound. To me having to put moon gel pads on drums means the drums acoustic sound is crap, or youve gone for the wrong head chioce / tuning. I had the mapex Orion Maple custom which is the nicest sounding kit Ive owned, and the pearl Session Elite the nicest Ive played., not the high end of the market but somewhere above the midrange. At the end of the day, having really expensive great sounding drums doesnt mean you can do them justice.

Rock Factory, guitars amplifiers PA microphones drums.

Here ya go, I feel the best place Ive ever been to for drum stuff (sorry Jimmer)!!

The Rock Factory in Castleford Yorkshire, where i got most of my stuff from, huge selction of drum equipment, cymbals, percussion, drums etc hardware, everything, and cheaper than most.

Depends what you really want from a drum, no-one can advise you on whats best as it really comes down to personal preference, I've been playing for 18 years and have yet to find a snare that I would be truely happy with. I've had, pearl, mapex, Tama, DW, the lot!! Although Sleishmann do some really nice bit as do Orange, but imho, very very overpriced like DW and Brady.

Alot of choice comes into what suits the style of music you play but not really at the same time, I play pretty heavy fast stuff, but dont like steel / brass snares as they ring too much for me, I prefer the sound of a snappy wooden snare. Something pretty shallow usually does the job.

i gave you a smile xD

thanks man, surely there have been better grunge bands in aberdeen

Not really, most people grew out of the grunge phase over ten years ago:up:

Ha! Chris and myself are into two completely two different aspects of drumming and to an extent different styles.

No point getting the handbags out.

I love Mike Portnoy as much as I love Fenriz.

Yeah, couldnt agree more, I wasnt actually getting the handbags out here, it is true what bazz says though, its only as good as the listener.

Everyone likes their own thing and eveybody should respect that

I take "slow caz" with a pinch of salt:up:

Well if your going to play fast, you might as well sound good doing it, thats my motto!

James let me listen to the tracks and sounds really good for you guys.

Not saying as an insult in anyway shape or form.

Personal jibes with processed drum sounds. Enough of that though.

Too much Slipknot for my liking in one of the songs hehe.

Cool wee Nile reference aswell which is always welcomed!

Tonys vocals are grrrrreat!

To be honest, theres actually not an awful lot of intervention with the drum sound, its just a problem where I play hard with slow parts and very lightly with faster parts so a little work was needed, there's the problem in using an iron cobra which cannot accurately do speeds over a certain limit as the pedal doesnt come back quick enough. But yeah, I did think that the second track born erased has an old slipknot feel and a joey sounding drum sound, which to me is an insult as I dont rate Joey jordison, but hey its a sound I like, but everyone has there own preferences in terms of what they like.

Bought the triggers a wee while agoto try out but never seem to use them.

What you are getting - 1 Ddrum Pro bassdrum trigger

3 Ddrum tom triggers

No snare trigger as I accidentally broke it

1 Alesis DM5 multichannel drum brain

All necessary cabling to connect everything together

I'm not looking at ripping you off folks, its all in working order, so I'm looking for about 300 for the lot. this stuff is still going for a fortune on ebay etc, and costs the earth new. So if interested let me know and I'm sure we can come to an arrangement.

Chris (Bostaph)

Aye, bands members only, unless you have your own transport!! Scorge you mink:up:

maybe this is a solution.

Ready made band. you, the bassist and us.

Let me know if you fancy a jam.

Send me a pm with details mate, always up for a jam, just to keep my drumming flowing. Dont get as much practice as Id like having to let my kit go a couple of years ago!

TBH I'm actually not looking at starting another band, i'm looking at joining something that only requires a drummer, all the other members are in place.

Thanks

Send me a PM mate, this is something i've thought of countless times in the past - not a graded drummer, but can read drum music and have been playing for 16 years.

Whilst Element arent too busy on the gigging/practicing ring just now due to various personal commitments I'm looking for some other interest, not as a stop gap, but something else permanent to keep the energy flowing.

All styles considered but preferably metal.

Send me a PM if interested - this is a serious post.

This isn't really a good idea. That song is single-handedly responsible for E106 being regarded as a joke band for the past few years. I've lost count of how many people have said that to me. Don't go back...

Thats good from the platinum edition Andrew W.K paid in full fanclub member, love you really!

I have owned this pedal for several months but never use it as I dont like the feel compared to my Cobra.

I'm looking for 225 o.n.o to take away.

Excellent condition - as good as new, very little usage. Let me know if your interested drummers out there!

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For sale is my beloved Axis A Longboards Double pedal in a lovely shade of silver.

I've only owned it for 6-7 weeks and in that time played it for less than an hour. But after the brief use i have had of it I would conclude i really dont like the action of it at all!

I'm gonna be sticking with the cobra until I can find a newer more suitable pedal, it all comes down to my drumming style not clicking with it! Didnt expect to be able to use the pedal but I thought i'd give it a try anyway.

If your interested I will let it go pretty much brand new for the lowly sum of 350o.n.o

If you know these pedals you will also know they go for considerably more than this and also there is no UK distributor as yet so pretty awkward to get hold of from the states - I had to pay almost 200 in import tax and duty so you will have saved yourself a fortune!

Go on make yourself a happy wee drummer for crimbo and buy the speed pedal of choice.

PM me if serious only!

15/10/07

our peformance last night could have been better, but having only practiced twice in six months i think we held it together pretty well. our signature 'tightness' (no gay jokes please) was a litttle rocky at best but over all i dont think it affected the performance.

it was a change for us being the least heavy band on the line up but that just gave us the incentive to rock that much harder. (my neck and arms still hurt) even our usually timid singer was giving it 'what for' which was great to see. we should have practiced A LOT more than we did but, lesson learned.

element 106 delivered a blinding set even after being one guitar down for soundcheck which cant have been easy as james and hog have this balance that seriously affects the sound if one or the other is missing.

one thing i will say that i always think to myself after an element gig is that chris (drums) never seems to enjoy himself behind the drum kit. dont get me wrong, i love what he plays but let your hair down man! have fun with it.

How would you know LOL:up:, i'm having a whale of at time!! But not really I played shite and look too serious because i've got Sciataca, so my legs are usually very sore - hopefully should be better by tommorow! ROCK ON!!!!!!

other than that i'd say pretty flawless. the new songs are great and the new bass lines add a lot to the sound.

unfortunately i only caught malera's soun check but if that was anything to go by then malera could quickly become one of my favourite aberdeen bands by far. I'll definately be around to hear them headline on sunday so i'll write a bit about them once i've heard them properly.

if anyone else has anything to add (that was there!) i'd appreciate it.

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Very terrible.

SHITE shite shite

It'll mainly be up to the vocalist as to what pitch they're happy with

Seasons in the abyss? - SHITE