DrumFuckery No.275 Pt 1, Premier 14"x10" High Tension marching snare drum, adapting for Signia kit
If you already know about marching snare drums this will be of little interest to you. For me, and probably some of you, this is fairly new territory. Also, as may will notice, I have no experience in pipe or brass band drumming : - )
Part 2 of this is now up: • DrumFuckery no.275, Part 2 - Premier ... (2-minute version)
Full 6-minute version - • DrumFuckery no.275, Part 2 - Premier ...
This is my first play on this Premier marching drum, which I bought 2nd hand online recently when the price dropped enough to make it a viable experiment: I want to find out what it's like to use such a specialised drum on a kit as a main or second snare drum - specifically, on my early 1990s piano-black Premier Signia kit which it is a good match to.
Right now the drum is far more highly tensioned than I'm used to, so it feels like playing on a slab of marble, but I wanted to make this video as a record of the way the drum was set up when I received it, before I start messing with it. (Don't worry, I won't do anything that can't be put back exactly how it was.) I'll change the batter head, and I'm also considering removing the top snare mechanism, if it's not too hard to do. This might improve the resonance of the drum and make it sound more like a conventional deep snare drum.
I think it's an HTS 800 model, though the ones I can see online are 12" deep rather than 10". See https://www.premier-percussion.com/pr... There's a later model with an actual snare throw lever, which might have been useful but I'm unlikely to find one for anything close to what this drum cost me.
The snare drum weighs 6.4kg without the snare guards on (~another 100g) so I'll probably never gig it. It'll just sit at home as a bit of a novelty and a talking point, and it'll come in handy if I want to annoy the neighbours. It's pretty damn loud - on a par with my Pearl Chad Smith LTD Signature, which has a 3mm segmented brass & stainless steel 6.5"-deep shell.
In Part 2 of this video I'll try playing it on my Signia kit, and compare it to the 5" maple-shell snare that came with the kit, and maybe also with the Chad Smith LTD.
Sound recording: I'm running a snare mic (SM58) into the back of an older model Tascam field recorder. There's an SM57 high up, which was supposed to pick up my voice but isn't.That's mainly being picked up on a small condenser mic connected to the DSLR camera. Obviously some issues to iron out here.
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