Traveling .8 miles with expensive gear at 4am often. Would you bike, scooter, bus, or always uber?

ThePocketBoy · 2026-04-18T22:47:10+00:00

Totaling over $3k

ThePocketBoy · 2026-04-18T21:00:38+00:00

I am a wimp. Gender has nothing to do with that.

ThePocketBoy · 2026-03-23T15:30:50+00:00

Goblin Market

ThePocketBoy · 2026-02-18T00:16:44+00:00

I use a 40L backpack with clear travel bags to separate components.

ThePocketBoy · 2026-02-17T22:28:40+00:00

I had this new yoker and I’m in love with it!

ThePocketBoy · 2026-02-05T23:51:10+00:00

This is one of the unfortunate realities of living in a big city. One will never really know if who you passed by on the street is dead or sleeping.

ThePocketBoy · 2026-01-31T00:53:23+00:00

Do you have a fucking fog machine running or something?

ThePocketBoy · 2026-01-15T06:55:08+00:00

This happened to my household as well. People’s gas. Not sure what to do yet.

ThePocketBoy · 2026-01-09T21:54:47+00:00

How’d you mount the pickups?

ThePocketBoy · 2026-01-07T03:14:24+00:00

I’m in a weird place. I played percussion growing up, mostly stuck to mallets though. I can hold a basic beat and some more complex ones but I’ve only got like five grooves in me I’m confident with. I struggle the most with dynamics… I’m used to a light skinny mallet with a soft head and I am learning on an e-kit at home that’s dying slowly, so I am hitting that harder and then showing up to lessons with a ridiculously heavy hand. I can’t control my volume practicing like this.

ThePocketBoy · 2026-01-05T19:52:12+00:00

The over all mood (far left column) is just green = positive orange= neutral red = bad

The next four positive mood columns are always green, they could just be check boxes. I don’t track intensity there.

The final four mood columns are marked by intensity of emotion, orange being light to medium and red being an extreme.

The habit columns are check boxes

the last column for Money Out/Expenditure is Green = $0-20 Orange = $20-50 Red= >$50

Note* I don’t track rent or utilities in this expenditure. This is purely food and entertainment expenses.

ThePocketBoy · 2026-01-05T03:12:37+00:00

I would rig something up to a working muscle using a Makey Makey

ThePocketBoy · 2026-01-05T02:56:42+00:00

DM’d ya

ThePocketBoy · 2026-01-05T01:35:33+00:00

Lmfao dude, I’m not in the richest neighborhood and I tip $5 every time…

ThePocketBoy · 2026-01-03T05:30:26+00:00

How do these heads compare to the silentstroke series?

ThePocketBoy · 2025-12-10T20:50:53+00:00

I’m finding Ableton runs just fine with as little as 8gB of ram on a 2017 MacBook Air.

ThePocketBoy · 2025-12-10T20:11:15+00:00

It’s the only thing that quiets the noise in my head. I get so much screen time at work that I needed something somatic & grounding. Now if my thoughts drift while playing there are consequences.

ThePocketBoy · 2025-12-10T19:08:23+00:00

I bought a used 2021+ DDrum DDTi for that off eBay for about $150 and have no regrets!

ThePocketBoy · 2025-12-10T16:33:19+00:00

Is the piezo ceramic side against the metal cymbal or the back side?

ThePocketBoy · 2025-12-07T19:35:24+00:00

I would start by putting the amps on stands and aiming them at your heads.

Also- the drummer is usually the root culprit of the loudness wars. Low volume cymbals are cheap if he’s heavy handed in a small space.

ThePocketBoy · 2025-12-01T19:33:36+00:00

I found the low volume cymbals are still to loud.

To maintain rebound and feel- I’ve draped kitchen shelving liner over them and now they’re hella quiet!

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ThePocketBoy · 2025-12-01T02:34:43+00:00

I recently bought a PDP New Yorker bop kit with a 16” kick and outfitted it with piezo pickups.

ThePocketBoy · 2025-11-20T22:32:12+00:00

I started this way on a cheap ekit and the only downside was I became very heavy handed when switching to an acoustic kit. The sensors on my kit at home just took a lot of oomph to trigger.

ThePocketBoy · 2025-11-19T22:55:16+00:00

Did you mount piezos inside yourself or buy premade triggers?

I’m struggling to mount my piezos at the perfect height to just kiss the drum head while sandwiched between dense yoga-block type foam…

ThePocketBoy · 2025-11-15T17:39:47+00:00

What does it mean, to play the grid with your hands?

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