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A hard hitting drummer hitting an acoustic kit is plenty loud enough in a pub.
I made mine, this was before they got into Thomann at much better prices (they used to be £300+!!), they sell the hinge section in Studio Spares 1.5m lengths(IIRC) and I bought 6mm perspex online. I then had to route a v-groove for the hinge to lock into.
and don't mic the drummer in a pub- unless he's got a jazz kit any you wanna play rock, maybe mic the kick.... maybe.
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he plays quieter if I do
if I don't he beats the shit out of it and hurts himself in the process
it seems counter intuitive but it works
Drummers generally have to learn to better balance their playing.
I've played bass in a band with drums, keys, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, sax and percussion. Excellent dynamics, dialogue etc. Played in a similar band that was just a nightmare or volume and mixed frequencies. I used to get complaints about the bass volume-even when I turned my bass volume knob off. The keyboard player was using a 500w combo and too much left hand.
I've played in a six-piece band with electric and acoustic guitars, bass, keyboards, drums, percussion and five vocalists (I was the only non-singer) and the mix was always fine. And in a five-piece with two guitars, bass, drums and two vocalists that was terrible. The difference was that in the second band, the rhythm guitarist and the drummer both thought that 'dynamics' meant playing as loud as possible all the time…
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