Bass Drum Beater Roundup - 43 Beaters Reviewed!
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- Опубліковано 1 кві 2018
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We tested 43 different models (forty-three!) to help you get a better sense of what some of these kickers can do. Obviously, we won’t be able to convey exactly how the units featured in this article will impact your bass drum’s bottom line, but we hope this information will help you make some more informed shopping decisions.
For Christ sake your a major drum magazine, next time tune the kick drum!
Regardless of the beater, this bass drum sounds dead and flat
robinsd4 certainly cuts down on the time that it takes to watch video though. Too much resonation would drag out the video. Their are so many variables here also:
size of the kick
the material the kick drum is made of the heads
the room
the player
the tension on the pedal
the muffling
The tension on the head (s)
Its practically impossible to emulate a sound that is exact to the one you personally play or are most familiar in. Only by you experimenting will you truly know whats up.
True
But it sounds dead and flat...
all sound the same
Its better for a true representation of what the beater sounds like rather than drowning it in eq and compression
j rock way too much muffling. The heads don’t resonate at all. Most of the beaters sound the same. How can you test a fluffy beater on a drum so muffled? You need jazz type tuning to appreciate such a beater. I’m not talking about eq and compression, just natural resonance of the bass drum.
I like the part where the terribly tuned bass drum goes, "bap...BAP...ba-ba-ba-BAP"
I had no Idea of how many shapes and sizes of beaters out there. Thanks for showing !
thanks for this extensive comparison! I like wood beaters, they help to cut through the mix. But i love the sound of those huge fluffy balls! Still talking about drums!
They all sound the same in the end and are hard to compare when you bury the beater 😧
Imho those were the best.
Ahead - Pro Kick Much Wave 2:55 - the brightest
Tama - Speed kick Bob's Two way 4:21 - lightly dampen
Tama - Soft Sound 3:49 - the most quiet
Vic Firth - VicKick VKB4 Cajon 4:40 - universal
Skate wheels do magic as a beater or you can use Danmar UFO skate beater :)
Damm straight! I used an old Oj's Slime ball on 3 different albums. I ended up getting a current World Industry's wheel and giving it to the engineer here in San Diego.
I think what people aren’t talking about enough is that it’s a feel thing, when we use sticks we adjust or grips over time and we try different sticks with different weights, balances and thicknesses, it’s the same thing with a beater, it just effects our foot speed, fluidity, technique and feel
Thumbs up just for all the work you put in to test and record 43 bass drum beaters.
Thanks! Glad you appreciate it!
My favorite, though not by much, is the second side they use of the Mach Wave beater starting around 2:56. Has a good focus to the attack...still, I think it'd be more objective if they did the recordings with a more distantly-placed microphone. That way you'd get the full sound rather than just the attack.
bap....ba-ba-ba-bap....
ドッ ドッ！ ドドドドッ！
😅😅😅😅
I don’t know why but this made me chuckle like a 10 year old Chinese girl.
It was so adorable.
@@CipherSerpico me too
ba.....bap....bababaBAP...
this had me cracking up throughout the whole vid, good job!
kudos to this drummer!!!!!great control
How far did your drum move by the end of the comparison? Watching it move messes with my OCD!
Got through the first five, no way I can listen to that rhythm 43 times.
Good reference. Thank you.
Lowboy standard right side forward sounds solid !
ほとんどの動画がクローズ奏法ばかりで それしか出来ないんやろうなぁ～と思ってたところ この動画を拝見致しました 大変参考になりました！
That was fantastic thank you!
3 minutes in..... OK. THAT BEAT IS SCARING ME NOW.
That's eight minutes of my life I'll never get back.
Which ones felt better. Did some allow for quicker rebound than others?
this is a cool video! tnx!
This comparison was very useful, it shows that you have 20+ models of beaters that have pretty much the same sound. Doesn’t matter that much the model, the kick sound would be 98% like the other model.
This was a good exercise. The fluffy ones sound the same and the felt ones sound the same and the hard ones sound the same.
That was pretty much my take too.
Yep. It says you only have 3 beater sounds to choose from. Beyond that it's just about your prefered weight. So... Resist the salesmen.
boring indeed
maybe if your bass drum was tune right it would sound good!
@@josteinv.jordet257 This tuning is wrong
If you listen closely the kick actually has a nice ring to it, i think it's just the mics
Damn. That drum kit in the intro sound bad ass!
Seriously. Bright, ringy - people don't really tune kits like that anymore. I love it.
Hopefully there was a mic inside the drum and not just a 57 hovering on the beater side at the hoop. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that technique. Also, love the Gibraltar Tide Pod at the end.
Not uncommon at all.
good lord...learn how to tune a bass drum!
probably stuffed with blankets.
lol, tuning is personnal. he have probably tuned it the way you don't like....
@@rickabick1982 although your right the only thing is that when demonstrate and item like beaters you gotta tune it to where you can tell the difference eaiser between the models cuz in this vid since the head is flat most of the beaters sound the same due to the batter side being so loose and dead. If your going to demonstrate and compare tune it to whats best for the video
Wanna our holes in your bass drum... Wood dammar beaters!!!
@@rickabick1982 Tuned that low, all the beaters are going to sound the same - which is exactly what we have in this video. Tuning up the batter would have made all the difference.
awesome testing, though you realize that most of the hard beats are distorted on the pre amp right? would love to hear all thos kicks with a condenser mic on the room, wich isnt saturated.
Not to even try an Axis wrecking ball beater is a big mistake. Those beaters hit very hard and with the Axis pedal are super fast.
i like gibralter wood naturql one.
I have tried danmar axis tama ic pearl quad trick and finally found my lifetime winner dw sm110
Damm where did you get all of them beaters from? All the money u spent on all them beaters . You could of bought a decent pair of shoes . Ha ha
They were most likely provided by the manufacturers, as it is a Drum magazine.
That's no longer a bass drum. All the resonance has been damped away. No wonder all these beaters sound so similar. And why are the claws not in line with the lugs?
bass drums should have almost no resonance. i think that drum sounds great.
@@oatjohnsonmeal3292 bass drums "should" be whatever the player wants. There's no rule written in stone that a bass drum shouldn't resonate. Maybe your bass drum doesn't, but others' may.
@@oatjohnsonmeal3292 Oh god, you can't be serious 🤣🤣 splat... splat...
@@allrequiredfields I am.
@@oatjohnsonmeal3292 a drum ain't nothing but a resonance chamber. The bigger the drum, the bigger the resonance. If you don't want resonance you could swap the bass drum for a cardboard and save some money...🤷🏻♂️
Interesting video
Now that ios a good drum player, he doesn't a double pedal to play fast. But the other metal guys eth double bass drums are still cool too.
IDK if you are just using an SM-57 at the batter side (I hope not). But from the way this video sounds , it makes it sound like all beaters are the same , and that you should just go out and buy the cheapest one you can find. Which isn't accurate because different beaters "do" make a difference (along with heads , tuning , bass drum size , etc.) Interesting video though.
Thanks for watching. It was also miked on the resonant side. You're right, beaters definitely do make a difference in sound, and also affect how you play.
I hope you saved all your receipts !
Any hammer type of beater seems to deliver more a punch compared to a rounded felt tip
I'd like to hear this agin but with a little more tension on the kick
So what ive gathered most of them sounded the same.... Like all the hard wood beaters sounded the same, all the felt beaters sounded the same.... So brands for beaters don't mean shit, is what I'm taking away from this...
From experience I've learned that many brands cheap out on the shaft material. Which is why I normal go with dw beaters. Has little to do with sound and everything to do with durability. I'm sure pearl and Tama beaters are probably equally durable. With that said, with the difference in tonality between a fleece Beater and a felt Beater, I think everyone ought to own at least one of each.
Help me guys, what's better bet single-chain drive and direct drive??? pls also suggest the cheapest but durable brand
They should have explained that the idea behind this demonstration is how the beaters affect play. Not what the drum sounds like. Short of attaching the pedal to a sheet of ply wood, this is the most logical way to do it. But I guess it's too hard for some folks to resist expressing their expertise because, well, we all knew this, Right?
He saved on tennis to buy this amount of beaters.
It would have been a much more musical approach if you didn't choke the last note of ever four strokes. What would have been more effective would have been, one open tone, one closed tone (burying the beater) and four rapid open tones.
Nevertheless thanks for the upload and production.. Much appreciated..
Good suggestion for the next one. Thanks for watching!
Hola!! Alguien me podría decir de que esta hecho el maso que sale en el minuto 3:23?? Gracias!!!
i use pearl quad beater. flat plastic side.
All these negative comments. Can't make everyone happy. Kick drum sounds fine to me. Don't like rock? Make your own demo of beaters. Whiny cry babies.. Nice demo dude.
Was pleasantly surprised with Gibraltar g class.
It’s really hard to hear any difference when you have your bass drum that dampened
Your bass drum is slipping do u have a roller??
Lo más lindo es el augero de la zapatilla
To anyone finds this useful... go buy a guitar.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
No I don’t think I will
That first soft beat for each demonstration irritated me every time. I don’t know why though 😂😂😂
ASMR of Drummers
Who on earth would use the pointy end ?
It's not the beaters or Famous brand drums,it's the Guy or Girl ,in Spanish ( es El MONO quien la toca)
For fuck's sake, tuned this low everything is going to sound the same.
When professional drum channels are posting stuff tuned this poorly, I begin to understand why every drummer I meet has such terrible, generic sounds.
Fascinating...
muito bom
WHAT ARE THOSE !!??
Great comparison
Thanks!
Omg Hiiii
Really ?
Could you compare the sound of electronic pads. Analyzing noise reduction.
What is that double 'box' sound everytime? Override?
Or is that the sm57? Personally i never mic a batterside, only e901, d6 and subkickspeaker.
Interesting.
What? No skate wheel?
*dun dUN DUNDUNDUNDUN*
Was that a bass drum? Sounded like a fucking closet door. Tune your drum and learn how to mic it!
Hey Billy we are going to have you record a you tube video for us on bass drum beaters so please make sure you wear nice shoes !
Imagine coming to a drum video and caring about nice shoes.
You change the beater but you have to change your shoe! ;)
Marco Pisaneschi shut up
I see the shoes, this guy can play skateboard cool!
How about you tune the drum first
Didn't see a Slug beater...
Good
80th 8ï
oh gourd. way too many. especially the "soft" want soft? learn to play softer... just maybe you''ll acquire better technique
All sound the same. Which makes sense since they're just roughly the same sized objects hitting the same sized drum. Only thing that would make a noticeable different sound would be adjusting the size of the surface area of the object hitting the drum. So your standard beater..... then one about the size of a mallet...... then one the size of a drum stick, etc. Changing the shape of an object but keeping it roughly the same size (read as sq. inch surface area hitting the drum) will make little to no difference....... as evidenced here.
Holy shoe 👀
Nice ....
Acho q o cara precisa e de um tênis novo 😁
kkkk
mucha diferencia no hay
And where is the reviews?
And i thought i can't tune
sure they all sound the same but the problem with this video, the guy did fine. but it’s about the FEEL of the pedal and you can’t really feel what this guy does
Yo like tune your bass drum. Sounds like someone wrapped a trash can with clear film
They sound exactly the same.
Steven 2gen fr
Oh I’m sorry I don’t recall this video title being “different kick drums”
@@Dizzydawne Yes, you're right. But material, shape, and size all should affect how the kick drum sounds. In this demo, everything sounds the exact same, where plastic should have more punch than felt, and a fluffy one would have more tone. They all sound the exact same. I feel with a different tuning this could have been a better demo.
Mint Mint Man, you're a special kind of fucking stupid.
boom... Boom... B-B-B-BOOM
mad man
Screw it it all sounds the same even with the bass out of tune. Ill just use whatever comes with the demon drive double pedals from pearl lol, when I can afford to get drums and stuff like that
Is 3:50..
ahaha you forgot my dad
isn't just the tuning is also the bass drum head.
That actually sounds horrible
To a non-drummer’s ears, they all sound the same. But to us, they sound orgasmic
Luke Wickman 4:05
Is it just me or is this guy’s time inconsistent?
The difference (if any) is negligible........
cool thanks ;) but change your shoes guy ;)
Safer
Lyrics: Bump, bump, bubububump...
$100 says whoever that is plays in a church band.
Boom......boom.....boom.boom.boom.boom!