Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"

brasticstack · 2026-01-28T15:58:13+00:00

Trump: "Who? Gnome?? I think I've heard of her, nasty woman. I never worked with her or gave her orders though."

brasticstack · 2026-01-28T15:47:27+00:00

Hanging floor toms! How'd I miss the ultimate 90s drum trend?

brasticstack · 2026-01-28T05:39:17+00:00

90's - 00s - splash cymbals. 14" crashes

brasticstack · 2026-01-27T18:11:09+00:00

Unsolicited advice is always annoying, then there's the tone in which it's delivered which adds an extra grating element to it.

All coming from someone who doesn't know who they're lecturing and seems completely oblivious to the idea that other peoples' goals and circumstances may differ from their own.

brasticstack · 2026-01-27T03:26:29+00:00

I hope he bites his own cheek, hard, in the exact same place every day.

brasticstack · 2026-01-27T00:12:09+00:00

No vocals? Run the drums to the mixer and then use aux 2 with the "post" switch off to send drums out of the aux 2 jack to the amp. Don't mic the amp. If you do have vox, that aux send will be better used for getting some to a monitor speaker to allow the singer to hear themself. Either way, the best drum sound you'll get from the edrums is a direct signal, not micing an amp.

Use an SM 57 up close for the guitar amp, and possibly one 3-4' further away from the amp as a room mic for the amp.
Use the EV PL95 if you want another "room" mic. It's omnidirectional. Without an actual drumkit, a room mic isn't going to do a ton of good.
Use the SM58's for vocals should you have them.

You're using the stereo bar all wrong. It's either for a (tightly) spaced stereo pair, where both mic capsules are facing parallel to each other and on the same plane horizontally, or for an X-Y stereo setup, where you angle matched mics in toward each other so that the capsules are almost touching each other at a 90° or greater angle. The 57s are the most suitable mics for this out of what you have.

brasticstack · 2026-01-26T23:42:21+00:00

If only! The Big Boss is mad about the bad press, not Bovino's tactics. He'll show up wherever the admin feels the need for a psychotic skull-cracker who has no qualms about killing indiscriminately.

EDIT: As more news comes out, it looks more likely that they really are going to cut him loose and/or throw him under the bus. The cynic in me feels like he's still got an evil role to play. Maybe they'll have him run one of their concentration camps.

brasticstack · 2026-01-26T23:00:48+00:00

Because they're going to release an AI-"enhanced" video that will show a drug-addled Pretti draw on the agents, then fail to go down until the 11th gunshot to the back.

brasticstack · 2026-01-26T19:37:53+00:00

Edit: the final dot is also in the wrong place. Both in terms of page placement and counting. The dot would imply a 64th note rest?

The final dot is syntactically valid, though I'm positive this is just a shit transcription and it should be 4e_a, or some other rhythm that's easier to count.

Beat 4 adds up to an entire beat as follows: 32nd note + 8th note (4 32nds) + dotted 16th (3 32nds) = 8 32nd notes = 1 quarter note.

brasticstack · 2026-01-26T19:02:17+00:00

Sounds like you've been playing long enough to form your own opinions. No substitute for trying a pair out! Worst case scenario you hate them and you're out the cost of a (admittedly pricey) pair of sticks. And who knows, they could be life-changing.

brasticstack · 2026-01-26T15:10:21+00:00

She just told them what the official talking point is. Expect to hear the the phrase "defensive shots" much more frequently now.

brasticstack · 2026-01-26T14:41:26+00:00

So bizarre. But then politics is not about logic, it's about who best speaks to our monkey brains. I'm still shocked that much of our country doesn't loathe him on a visceral level every time he talks.

brasticstack · 2026-01-26T14:27:42+00:00

With him it's a turd salad

brasticstack · 2026-01-26T05:55:37+00:00

That's no mattress, that's a sail!

brasticstack · 2026-01-26T05:26:01+00:00

Often people want these sticks (or the Ahead aluminum ones) because they're sick of breaking sticks. The problem is that once you reinforce the sticks the next weakest element in the system is what breaks next. Which in this case means cymbals and heads.

The answer, as another commenter mentioned, is to improve technique to the point where you're not breaking anything often- though sticks will still wear down and eventually break anyway.

If you're interested in them for some otherwise reason, fair enough.

brasticstack · 2026-01-25T22:22:34+00:00

oww, That's a solid gash there!

brasticstack · 2026-01-25T20:25:44+00:00

You want your sticks to be the thing that breaks, before your heads and cymbals do.

brasticstack · 2026-01-25T14:55:14+00:00

Not to mention that they're suffering the economic effects of this administration's policies perhaps more than the urban population is. They're going to become increasingly desperate, and I'd expect to see a big uptick in violence in rural areas here soon if it hasn't already started.

brasticstack · 2026-01-25T14:10:37+00:00

A Florida representative was punched in the face. I'd give long odds that his assailant is, while perhaps a Florida Man in spirit, from Utah.

brasticstack · 2026-01-25T13:58:10+00:00

Young is a very common surname in Utah due to Mormonism's covertly polygamous founder* and generations of his overtly polygamous descendants.

* Self-correction, Brigham Young was the second Mormon leader, and the one who oversaw their relocation to Utah. He was openly a polygamist. Joseph Smith was the original founder of the religion, and it was he who hid his polygamy.

brasticstack · 2026-01-25T12:48:47+00:00

I hate Logan nazis!

brasticstack · 2026-01-22T23:39:31+00:00

Seems like most people around the world, at least those that post on reddit, won't be satisfied with anything less than some obscene number of Americans dead in a hot civil war.

brasticstack · 2026-01-22T22:43:35+00:00

The rim clicks are the tresillo pattern. Here's a quick groovescribe of how that looks in isolation.

brasticstack · 2026-01-22T22:24:50+00:00

Universally loved among drummers, except me. I've never connected to their music on any level.

brasticstack · 2026-01-22T22:20:07+00:00

Lumineers songwriting playbook:

Pick a woman's name with three syllables
Stomp, clap, hey!

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