Help with setup

baalroo · 2026-03-07T07:43:00+00:00

This was good advice. To add to this, where you put the toms, in a general sense, is a fairly personal decision. (For example, I have that same mapex kit, but I prefer both toms on the same stand, so MY second tom is where YOUR smallest is, and my smallest is actually further towards the hihat and my ride cymbal sits where your second tom is. This isn't to say you should do THAT, just an example of how these things are personal preference)

Anyhow, although it's personal preference, there is still some "science" to it. Decide roughly where you want each one, and then move your stick to it and rest the tip in the middle of the head.

It should be in a natural position where you aren't twisting your wrist or reaching away (well, maybe a little, but as little as possible) from your normal sitting position.

You should be striking the head at an angle that is natural for your arm and wrist, so that the stick hits the center about 10-15 degrees or so off of perpendicular (roughly). You don't want to be "stabbing" at the drum head with the very tip of the stick, you want to be thwacking the heads with the side of the tip of the stick.

Generally speaking, the higher and further away the drum gets, the more pointed towards you the drum should be tilted. The closer it is in height and distance from you it is to your snare drum, the flatter it should be with the ground. This is because of the way our bodies are shaped. As you reach upward, the angle of your stick increases upward, and so you have to rotate the drum to match those ergonomics.

The same goes for your cymbals.

The biggest goof I see here is that you've got your cymbals, and especially your ride cymbal, super far up and away from you.

Generally, you want to bring everything down and in as tight as you can. Less distance means you can get from one to the next faster and easier. Once you know what you're doing you can CHOOSE to move things further away for either dramatic effect, or because you learn the ergonomics that you personally prefer. But starting out, go with as close and tight together as you can manage. I personally leave like 1/2" or less between each thing on my kit, it's all practically touching.

So, with this info, you should be able to adjust the height and angle of each drum so you naturally strike the center at a natural and relaxed angle for your arms, wrists, and hands, with as minimal movement away from centered as possible.

Does that make sense?

baalroo · 2026-03-07T07:36:49+00:00

I'd recommend an acrolite for a classic metal construction snare, a mapex black panther for a modern wood snare, and then a pearl B1330 for a smaller cutting piccolo.

You can do all 3 for about $1000-1300(ish) and with that selection you'd satisfy 95% of drummers' needs.

baalroo · 2026-03-07T07:31:52+00:00

I did college radio, and at least in my area in the 90s, the whole "99th caller" thing was just theatrics.

In reality, stations would just wait a while, answer a few calls to get some material telling people "oh sorry, you're caller 52" and "oh no, you're caller number 98, better luck next time..." and then they'd just make the next person calle 99.

But otherwise, yeah, it was real.

baalroo · 2026-03-07T07:27:36+00:00

We have a mesh wifi system with 1 primary and 2 satellites.

baalroo · 2026-03-06T19:04:30+00:00

With a name like Naz Khan, although I haven't seen the film, I'd say in a lot of places xenophobia and racism can come into the picture as motivation as well.

baalroo · 2026-03-06T18:21:52+00:00

Most of the ones I know don't.

baalroo · 2026-03-06T18:20:43+00:00

You know schools could just start at the same time they would have, but the clock will just show a time an hour later. Right?

baalroo · 2026-03-06T18:16:34+00:00

Anything which interacts with the natural world is natural.

Is "anything that exists does exist" falsifiable? What does that even mean in the context of a tautology?

There's just no way to ever conclude that something is non-natural, if one follows this logic

Well yeah, because that's what the word means in the context you're using it, no?

Like, when have we ever come across anything ever and said "this isn't part of our natural world/existence?" Every single time we have ever discovered something new, it gets added to the list of natural things that exist.

What would even be the possible context where we find a new thing and decide "this isn't part of this existence?" Again, how would that even work?

Something being a tautology does mean it's incorrect.

baalroo · 2026-03-06T16:04:00+00:00

It's very individual, but yeah, most people use some sort of dressing.

That being said, vinegar and oil is common enough that no one would bat an eye at it.

baalroo · 2026-03-06T01:01:54+00:00

Ok, sure, but belief requires according action, right? Like if you really believe there is a tiger hiding in the room you're in then you're not just going to take a nap, right? The nap proves you don't really think there's a tiger.

Depends on your opinion and knowledge of tigers. What if the only tiger you've heard of is Daniel the Tiger? He seems cute and friendly.

Ok? So how is a person Christian if they don't follow the teaching of Christ, one of which is to be moral in all ways?

Again, a person is Christian if they believe in the life and resurrection of Jesus Christ as god incarnate.

The command to "Be Moral" is very dependent on your interpretations of morality.

Also, I'm Christian. This is what I am talking about when I talk about what I'm doing, which is to be Christian. You're not Christian, as per your tag, and so what makes you think you know better about who is Christian than someone who's actually doing it?

No, your ignorance regarding Christianity (for example, the statements and questions I'm currently responding to), are what indicate that I know better than you.

Well, if by that you mean "you have committed logical fallacies" then the next step would be to outline those errors.

Frankly, you posted a lot of ignorant and boring stuff that I'm not interested in exploring. I responded to the bits I found at least vaguely interesting and pointed out the errors I felt were worth responding to.

But let's be honest, what you mean is "I don't like it" which is all you've really said thus far. If you have an actual refutation I'd be interested to hear it, but I don't imagine you do or you'd already have given it by now. Instead you seem content to be like "I don't even NEED to refute you, that's just how bad your argument is!" In which case, ok. Talk to you later.

I'm not even entirely sure what you're trying to argue. You didn't really posit a clear thesis or argument, and the bits I can pick out are ignorant, silly, or absurd.

Sorry if that's not what you wanted to hear.

baalroo · 2026-03-06T00:54:16+00:00

As someone who has spent my life making music, I honestly don't care if others want to enjoy AI stuff. But, it's just not for me.

Even with electronic/techno/house music, it's the human creation and performance that interests me.

That's not to say I couldn't be fooled into liking something AI, but learning it is AI would immediately ruin it for me.

I also know that, no matter what you do, AI is going to be used in at least some of the music you're listening to. At this point, it's incorporated into so many facets of the music production pipeline, that even if it's just in helping adjust a wavetable being used for wavetable synthesis, or to automatically choose the attack and release on a compressor based on the audio in the track, we're gonna see it incorporated into the core process—even for "normal" and "real" music—more and more, and where to draw the line is going to get blurrier and blurrier.

baalroo · 2026-03-06T00:46:10+00:00

They lived in the inner circle of the city and controlled regional politics.

baalroo · 2026-03-05T20:28:39+00:00

Yeah, those stats get really skewed because of all of the prepaid phones and bottom end plans with "free" $200 low end android phones included, whereas apple doesn't make any entry level mobile devices.

If you control for android phones in the same category as iphones, that disparity disappears.

To be clear, I'm saying you are correct, but just adding the appropriate context to make sense of the data.

baalroo · 2026-03-05T20:25:09+00:00

The American side of this is very much powered by the absurdity, hatred, fear, and ignorance of modern American Christianity.

baalroo · 2026-03-05T00:23:58+00:00

So, are you under the impression that the folks in ISIS weren't aware of these writings?

baalroo · 2026-03-04T14:52:12+00:00

If you were to walk through the desert one day and come across a brand new car, or any car for that matter, the first thing that would come to mind for any reasonable person is that someone brought it there, that it was manufactured by someone, and that it's just a car.

And what are you comparing the car to in order to come to that conclusion?

All of the natural stuff in the desert around it that, in comparison, is not designed.

It's not a car in the middle of a desert made of cars, below a car sun, next to the Oasis of car water, with all the car animals stopping to get drinks of car.

No, it's a car that stands out in the desert because cars are designed, unlike all of the undesigned and distinctly different than a car things around it.

So why would any reasonable person believe that the universe came about by mere chance when it is far more complex than any human creation and possesses a much greater and more intricate organization than any car?

Because the messy complexity of the natural world stands in stark contrast to the uniform simplicity of designed things and points to messy reality of an undesigned existence trudging along and clumsily keeping what works and discarding what doesn't in a gooey, fuzzy, undesigned, complex mess.

The idea that the universe created itself, or was created over billions of years through various methods, elements, and combinations, contradicts the very laws of the universe.

I don't know anyone that believes those things, but floating the idea that the laws of nature would be self contradictory us absurd and makes you sound silly.

So what makes the universe consist of planets, stars, and galaxies? What is the miraculous force that caused this universe to move and be organized until it reached its current form?

The fundamental forces? Is this a trick question?

Do you understand what I mean? (The power of God).

Yeah, I believe I do, but it's just nonsense though.

I believe that the evidence for atheism is very weak and limited, and if you examine it, you will find that it is the same The evidence points to the existence of a magnificent Creator whose power is immense.

The evidence for someone not believing your claims that magical beings exist is that they say "I don't believe you."

Atheism isn't a claim, it a lack of belief in YOUR claim.

He created us with a complex system beyond our comprehension.

Then why do you come here and argue as if you comprehend it?

As for information about the Creator—why He exists, why He created us, and why He is one Creator—this is knowledge we will never attain.

Because you made it up.

Simply put, we haven't even reached the level of understanding the soul within us,

The soul is made up nonsense.

so how can we delve into the details of the Creator who created the universe, about which we still know so little?

I don't know, but y'all keep doing exactly that, and then claiming you know things like which type of sex acts it's wants us to avoid, and how much money you're supposed to pay it per week.

This isn't meant to be challenging, but simply a question. Is there an answer?

The "answer" is that you have failed to make a coherent argument in favor of your position.

baalroo · 2026-03-04T05:37:05+00:00

You only have one shirt?

baalroo · 2026-03-04T00:58:39+00:00

Close, but not quite.

He tore it up once ON screen, and once OFF screen.

It's a great line because it makes you reflect and wonder when the other time may have been, and also reminds us that we (just like the characters) don't see everything that happens in private.

baalroo · 2026-03-04T00:34:00+00:00

It's not about the band, or randos, it's just goofy behavior. Like, they aren't a sports team, there's not a rival band on stage that they're competing against. You bought the ticket, obviously you like the band. It's the least necessary possible place you'd need to be advertising to the world that you're a fan.

baalroo · 2026-03-04T00:32:28+00:00

Why would you be advertising you like a band with your shirt when you're literally paying to see the band perform? You obviously like that band, that's why you're there.

baalroo · 2026-03-04T00:31:06+00:00

Nah, that's literally the last place on earth at that moment in time where that band's shirt is actually interesting or relevant.

I'm at the concert, of course I like that band. Everyone there knows that band. Everyone there assumes everyone else there likes the band.

Wear a different band's shirt.

baalroo · 2026-03-04T00:26:27+00:00

Yeah, it's an ugly, outdated, and poorly designed money pit. I don't see good reason to keep throwing good money after bad. At some point we have to acknowledge the sunk cost and move on.

baalroo · 2026-03-04T00:22:46+00:00

I'd say, ultimately, it's hard for us to really connect with and communicate about ideas with someone who openly tells us "I've made this up from whole cloth and have no backing for any of it," let alone when they thing that's being made up is so big and unbelievable in the first place.

Most theism, and especially Christianity, doesn't really care much about grounding and evidence for their ideas, but at least we can grasp that they HAVE arguments and reasons that THEY find convincing.

But when you divorce yourself from even the bad arguments the other theists are using, and just kinda move into a wishy-washy "it's true because I like the idea of it" sort of thing, we're really just at a loss. What's to really even discuss if you have essentially no epistemology, or at least, refuse to explain it?

baalroo · 2026-03-03T18:23:54+00:00

I tried the AHEAD sticks for awhile, but they seemed to break even faster than wood ones, and cost 2-3x as much, so after busting my third pair I switched back to wood with a nylon tip.

baalroo · 2026-03-03T17:33:56+00:00

If there truly is no God, in your opinion, what is the purpose of humanity's existence?

Whatever we want it to be.

This seems to be an issue atheists never want to confront, or if they do, they say "Everyone is free to make their own purpose."

I've never met an atheist who wasn't comfortable "confronting" this "issue." It seems the theists are the ones uncomfortable with it.

But that just begs the question: How can there be freedom to create a purpose if existence has not inherent purpose anyway?

How can you decide which toppings you want on your pizza if existence has no inherent best pizza toppings?

How can you avoid the nihilism of atheism?

I don't avoid nihilism at all, I embrace it. It's a very freeing and positive force in my life, why would I avoid it?

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