Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

I have a couple reviews in the works! It's been a while and hope to get them out soon!

Fat Cat Snare Wires

I had a set of these lying around my shop for a couple years and finally decided to put them on a 12” snare I had just built for fun. 

 

Fat Cat Snare wires have a unique from other snare wires because they have a dual adjustability. First you can adjust them regularly with the tightening and loosening the strainer, but they also have a screw adjustment on the snare itself that can adjust the inner wires independently.  This allows for some serious sensitivity!

After I put them on the drum I messed with the tension, I tightened the strainer and loosened the adjustment screw and got some cool sounds, loosened the tension and tightened the screw and got more sounds. There’s a lot you can do with these wires, it’s nice to have more sounds.  The only drawback is that the adjustment screw causes the snare wires to extend past the hoop so when you set the drum down you get the wobble…other than that, these are pretty good and unique snare wires!

Until next time!   

Premiere Gemini 241 Bass Drum Pedal

This is a bass drum pedal that is not only a rare collector’s item but it’s just a plainly odd pedal. I actually own one that I purchased off ebay 6 or 7 years ago.  I’m not sure which pedal came out first, the Gemini 241 or the Dualist, The Gemini made its NAMM debut in 1998 and didn’t really do much after that.  This is basically a single pedal that has two beaters and is supposed to allow you to play double bass patterns with one foot…let’s explore.

This is a pretty sturdy pedal. Well built and solid. The way it operates is one beater is controlled by the foot board like a regular bass drum pedal and then the other beater is controlled with a heel operated pedal.  So basically, you have to rock your foot to get a double bass effect out of the pedal.  For players who play heel down, this isn’t too much of a problem but for those who play heel up, I can see a problem with trying to use the heel. Never mind you’re going to have to learn to rick your foot in a perfect rhythm to get a good sounding double bass pattern going.

The footboard flips up to allow access to mount the pedal to the hoop which is kind of cool. Once on the hoop, it’s kind of difficult to get the double bass going…at least for a sustainable amount of time. Triplets are a real pain in the butt to accomplish as well.

As a “double bass playing” single pedal, it fails. It’s just too difficult to get it going. For a neat collector’s item, win.

I like to refer to this pedal as the 241….A Bass Oddity.

Sorry peeps, I’m not giving this one away! I did see there’s one on ebay right now though! 

Until next review…

New winner of the 22" Gothic Radius!

Congrats to Kevin Carmen! You've been selected as the winner of the 22" Gothic radius!

Winner?

OK, so the winner of the 22" Gothic Radius has not claimed his prize. I'm going to give him a little more time, if I don't hear from him by next Friday, another winner will be selected.

Winner of the 22" Factory Metal Percussion Gothic Radius!

Congrats to Tony Bruno! You won!

email me your shipping address at timekeep69@aol.com and I'll get it out to you!

PJ

Factory Metal Percussion 22" Gothic Radius Giveaway

OK, I just went to select the winner of the Gothic radius when I noticed that I accidently put July 1st as the deadline instead on August 1st...no wonder there were only 7 entries.

So here's what I'm going to do, I'm going to extend the deadline by 1 week. Today is August 1st, the drawing will be held on August 8th, so go to Factory Metals Facebook and post!

PJ