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  • February 1, 2009 at 3:54 pm #77670
    Fender&EHX4ever
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    [img]http://i14.ebayimg.com/03/i/001/2f/1a/2d8a_1.JPG[/img]

    I just won this on eBay recently, but I don’t have it in hand yet.

    Question: does anyone know if a reasonable kick drum sound can be produced with this?
    I know it will do toms, but I really want a decent electro-kick sound. I plan to use this, my Crash Pad, and my Instant Replay to make a 3 piece electro-kit. I figure, worse comes to worse, I can feed it into an Octave Multiplexer to get some low end oomph!

    February 1, 2009 at 5:34 pm #92420
    DiscoFreq
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    Nice, sounds a bit like what I’m doing sometimes (drum-synths + effects) :D

    An octaver is nice to make short noises, but it’s too slow to give a realistic drum sound.

    February 1, 2009 at 5:50 pm #92421
    Fender&EHX4ever
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    Nice, sounds a bit like what I’m doing sometimes (drum-synths + effects) :D

    An octaver is nice to make short noises, but it’s too slow to give a realistic drum sound.

    Good point.

    I’ll probably use the boxes as triggers with a real kit, so I can get that electro-organic hybrid thing going – so the Sonic Boomer would just augment a real kick drum, or a floor tom for a kind of Velvet Underground/Maureen Tucker style kit.

    My dream is to have my wife play the drums and sing harmony with me while I play guitar, and have an electro-rock duo :D

    February 2, 2009 at 1:15 pm #92456
    The EH Man
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    You may need to get a Rolling Thunder to produce a really good kick drum effect.

    February 2, 2009 at 2:23 pm #92457
    Fender&EHX4ever
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    You may need to get a Rolling Thunder to produce a really good kick drum effect.

    I was afraid you were going to say that :(

    I don’t think I’ve ever seen the Rolling Thunder on eBay.

    February 2, 2009 at 2:34 pm #92458
    DiscoFreq
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    There was only 1 on eBay last year ($152.5)

    February 2, 2009 at 6:59 pm #92470
    Fender&EHX4ever
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    Quote:
    There was only 1 on eBay last year ($152.5)

    Thanks, DiscoFreq. That’s a good reference point if I’m ever lucky enough to see one again. I see the Clap Track quite often, and I would love to pick up one of those as well. Hell, I might as well pick up a Space Drum and a Panic Button too and have the complete set.

    February 2, 2009 at 7:12 pm #92472
    DiscoFreq
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    I just received a Space Drum a few weeks ago. I didn’t have a lot of time to play with it, but it sounds nice. It doesn’t work in the “short” setting, but that’s probably easy to fix.

    February 2, 2009 at 8:15 pm #92479
    Fender&EHX4ever
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    I just received a Space Drum a few weeks ago. I didn’t have a lot of time to play with it, but it sounds nice. It doesn’t work in the “short” setting, but that’s probably easy to fix.

    Nice :thumb: I bet it sounds great with a delay.

    February 2, 2009 at 8:42 pm #92480
    DiscoFreq
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    I should try that ;)

    I can’t do that with the EH, but most of my drum synths end up in my modular:
    http://discofreq.muziq.be/modular/

    (I found several other DS-7’s and DS-8’s and some Russian drumsynths since I took those pictures ;))

    February 19, 2009 at 4:38 pm #93600
    Stephengiles
    Member

    There is scope for the Spacedrum control voltage to drive the Microsynth sweep filter, think about it EH!!

    February 20, 2009 at 3:56 am #93645
    danieldanger
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    how was this on ebay recently and i didnt see it.

    ::shakes fist::

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