Steve Maxwell Vintage Drums - Webisode #2 (Bearing Edges and Fiesta Pearl) - 3/6/11
Вставка
- Опубліковано 6 бер 2011
- www.maxwelldrums.com/ Steve Maxwell's new web series takes you behind the scenes at the hippest drum shop in New York. With interviews, special performances, and updates on the coolest gear in town, you can't afford to miss it! With Steve Maxwell, Jess Birch, Deric Dickens, Hayden Hawkins, and Jeremy Yaddaw.
Specially featured on episode #2: Steve Maxwell with new stuff from Gretsch, and "What's the Deal with Bearing Edges?" with Willie Martinez
All interviews and footage are property of Steve Maxwell © 2011
holy sticks Batman! That's MY Yamaha Dave Weckl Signature (now profoundly modified) snare drum Willie's working on on that sanding table!!! That freaked me out! Glad to be doing biz with you guys, great shop, great guys. -GREG BURROWS
Great video. All of the content was interesting. The insight into bearing edges from my perspective (a guy who is afraid of tools), very cool. And it was great to see the Mardi Gras and Fiesta pearl finishes. Love it. I look forward to a visit to the shop sometime. Thanks for posting this video.
Excellent..... What more can I say!!!
@Hammerofthegods86 I'm guessing this was filmed with a DSLR. Autofocus is loud as hell and gets picked up by the integrated mic.
That lens sound is trippy af
Great video, I would love to see a close up of the bearing edge after Willie was finished hand filing and sanding the outer edge.
I'm confused now. I read a master of bearing edges saying that round edges gives us less attack and more sustain due to the fact that the drumhead has more contact to the shell, consequently tranferring more energy to the wood and that is a K factor to the sustain aspect. Sharper edges have less contact to the drumhead and that would decrease the energy transfered to the shell, leading to less sustain because the wood wouldn't be as much excited
I love the concept of round bearing edges trimming off unwanted overtones and generating more of a woody sound!
From the little i know... vintage 50s & 60s drums with reinforcement rings have a combined edge thickness (shell + ring) of 0.3 - 0.5 inches. This thickness allows for a large rounded edge radius and therefore more head to shell contact.
Consider a modern ply shell without re-rings that is not extra thin, but medium-thin to med-thick 0.2 - 0.3 inches (5.0 - 7.6 mm)... Knowing the rounded edge radius will be smaller with slightly reduced head to shell contact than drums with re-rings... will these smaller rounded bearing edges still control the overtones & warm up the sound without reinforcement rings?
Does a snare drum with rounded edges truly lack any of the positive qualities associated with angled edge snare drums?
WILLIE is my dude !
manual focus pleaseeeeee !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whoever is playing the drum demo's on the website sounds pretty good...name please?
Awesome video. Do you fix bearing edges on drums at your Chicago location?
John Robinson Hi John. We don’t do edge work in the IL store. We generally refer people to Joe Marquarte. His business is hit drum.com. He is in Sugar Grove and does great work.
Thanks !
@Hammerofthegods86 ah the perils of autofocus
IMO people who re-cut or even just sand a good old vintage bearing edge should be institutionalized.
Changing the subject, wish I could afford a Ludwig Legacy Downbeat specially wrapped in your new Mardi Gras... (like better the older original Mardi Gras, chips are a little bit denser, still your example is just lovely!)
Me too bro.
Old edges are some and some. Some tune up just fine some you look at and can tell they were made on a Friday! I have a radio king from the 30's that's immaculate and a cheap Premier from the 60's, the edges are very odd. Human error plays a huge part in those old drums.
The scratching noise is driving me nuts. I expect nothing less than top shelf professionalism from Steve. That's why we love ya buddy. Sorry but get rid of this camera man or your pre production guy.
So interesting video as much as terribly annoying buzz noise continuously everywhere
That autofocus or whatever is making that sound is annoying