Continuing with the home studio project. The basement started with a bunch of junk all over the ceiling in the basement. More lights than I would think necessary, and the majority of those are he unpleasant florescent lights. The cobwebs and dust did not come through in the photos, but I spent a fair amount Read More …
Tag: drum room
Drum Room Project :: Do some testing
Now it is time to do some testing. Here are various photos of how the drum room looks now. As this evolves I will add more photos to this page. Back to the Drum Room Project Table of Contents.
Drum Room Project :: Found Stuff
This page is the collection of found stuff. This is usually from the alleys around my home. Back to the Drum Room Project Table of Contents.
Drum Room Project :: Hang some foam
Various foam pictures. I packed this stuff everywhere. 2 Full walls of these, and another fair chunk on the ceiling after hanging curtains and some other rugs and blankets. Back to the Drum Room Project Table of Contents.
Drum Room Project :: Cleaning the floor a bit
A quick post this time. Just a small post on the floor, so you can see how it started. There are some new rugs now, by the time this post comes out, so I will add those as I get them up. I have been busy working on other parts of the family basement. Non-music Read More …
Drum Room Project :: Make a new ceiling
I know the curtains post, came before this one. Things are all jumbled up right now. I need a better media organization system, than the current one. Anyway this post highlights the building the ceiling portion of this task. This was all basically from found lumber. The sheets of plywood came from a friend who no Read More …
Drum Room Project :: Hang Some Curtains
Drums can be quite loud, especially when you have a spouse, children, and various animals in your house as well. The dog is not fond of the drum set at all. My thinking, as flawed as it may be, is that it will take many layers of objects and surfaces, along with types and angles in Read More …
Notes :: Tune the Drums
When you are tuning drums make sure that you do cross tension. Meaning that you start with the lug nut furthest across from you give it a 1/2 a turn, then go across from that do half a turn, across from that half a turn. It ends up being a star pattern on the drums.. Read More …
Drum Room Project :: Cleaning my new Drums
So as I mentioned in a previous post, that I traded an old drum set for an old AC window unit that I no longer needed. The drums had been living in a closet for some time, and were very rusty. Very Rusty. Before they get played or even setup a thorough cleaning was in Read More …