Davesparks

[HappyHippyDad]

He hasn't been around for a while which is highly irregular.

I hope all is well with him. I like his blunt, intelligent, helpful replies.

 

[gazdkw82]

Serious question, what doed a drum technecian do?

Ensure drums are usable, skins in good condition and tuned correctly. This can vary depending on the type of music. This could involve percussion and any other percussive instruments.

Mic drums up and mix through house PA.

Usually a drum tech merges into a sound guy too. Mixing and recording the all instruments and shows.

 

[pc1966]

Exactly. Many bands have electronic drum machine(s) in addition to both electronic and skin-style drums to be mic'ed up for live play. And some of those drum machines can get/sent triggers to other instruments (keyboards, etc), to sync play sequences, etc.

 

[Rockingit]

Serious question, what doed a drum technecian do?

A drum tech is an experienced part of a stage team, often themselves a multi-skilled musician. Apart from the physical stuff like being able to 'tip' (empty) and 'get-out' (repack) a 40' artic in about half an hour whilst directing 20 local crew they've not met before and who may not have English as a first language, at 8am, they have a personal knowledge of how the performer plays, the position of the equipment and so forth. They will then tune the drumskins (yep, they actually get tuned) and often will play them immitating the style of the performer so that the sound engineer has the basis of a sound check before the band have even arrived. That's the old school stuff, new stage technology often involves what we call click tracks (so that's basically something that only the drummer will hear in order to keep various tempo's to a certain time-line to match with things like the timing of video clips (if your music is set to a clip on a big screen behind you, you can't see it.... pretty poor if you finish the live track a few seconds out of synch!) and then off of that are things like midi-triggers which send digital signals to other instruments, electronic/synth drum pads etc. And they do that until 2am the next morning, wake up often in a different country, and do it again.

Wait, what? You thought it was Phil Collins in that Gorilla suit???

 

[pc1966]

Wait, what? You thought it was Phil Collins in that Gorilla suit???

LOL!

My mate is much as you say: was a drummer in a band called Rig a long time ago (musically good, but no mainstream success), then helped record/produce a lot of Manchester stuff, last I saw him he was just beck fron supporting a tour by the Libertines in the east.

 

[Zerax]

Wait, what? You thought it was Phil Collins in that Gorilla suit???

Who's Phil Collins ??

 

[telectrix]

Joan Collins younger sister, before the facelift and hair transplant.

 

[Midwest]

Who's Phil Collins ??

He's the ---- who took Peter Gabriel's place.

 

[Rockingit]

He's the ---- who took Peter Gabriel's place.

I've worked with him - a very misunderstood character but in my book he's OK.

 

[HappyHippyDad]

Well, no sign of him.
I won't guess as to the reason he left, I shall just wish him well as I liked him.

 

[7029 dave]

Anybody manage to get hold of him. Hope he's well.
He was an asset to this forum.

 

[marconi]

Any chance of the EF staff inviting Davesparks back? I liked his pithy contributions, knowledge and top flight workmanship.

 

[westward10]

He is about and does log on but he is just not posting.

 

[marconi]

westward10 - VMT

 

[pirate]

I miss him too...his insults were classic!
Hope he's well, and will rejoin us.

 

[Mikegh]

If he's like me he's probably ----ed off with the amount of advertising on this site now.

I've had a look again after a week away only to find it even worse than before, it's hard to differentiate between posts and adverts now.