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02-23-2009, 12:37 PM
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ok so I play bass in a rock band and we practice in a really small room and every time I play there is this annoying vibration sound created by the drums, I think the snare. I asked my friend which has more experience in bands and he says you cant remove these vibrations. Is there any way of cancelling this unwanted noise? |
02-23-2009, 12:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Cottage Grove, St. Paul suburb | | | Other than flippinng the the switch that moves the snares off the drum head, no. |
02-23-2009, 12:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Poughkeepsie, NY/Boston, MA | | | Better snares wont do it as much. The drummer could try setting up his snare better. Some snare wires are made to avoid this. |
02-23-2009, 12:46 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Tampa, Florida | | | Try compressing the snare. I have found the best way to do this is run over it with a steamroller.
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02-23-2009, 12:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Toronto Canada | | Its not as bad as Microphone squeal  on a scale of annoying noises.
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02-23-2009, 12:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Finland (Northern Europe) | | | Hi.
Don't know how much better the snares have to be to avoid it, never seen/heard one. But about 1000€ ones have been the "best" that I've worked with.
Tuning, snare mat material and mat width can change the symphatetic resonance frequency, but the rattle is always there.
With something like jazz I could see that as a problem, but with rock, never.
If there's a bass passage without drums (snare), the drummer just have to mute the snare, nothing too magical about it.
Just my 0.02€
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02-23-2009, 12:54 PM
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02-23-2009, 12:58 PM
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Endorsing Artist : Genz Benz | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Chicago - LA | | | Cruel answer: Just put up with it.
Honest answer: Put up with it and just play dude.
Reality based answer: This is one thing to NOT gripe about in the course of being a musician. Trust me, youll have plenty of life ahead of you to gripe about more meaningful stuff.
Other suggestions will alter the "sound" of the snare and now you and the drummer dont like eachother anymore...
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02-23-2009, 01:01 PM
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Originally Posted by freakyfrog  ok so I play bass in a rock band and we practice in a really small room and every time I play there is this annoying vibration sound created by the drums, I think the snare. I asked my friend which has more experience in bands and he says you cant remove these vibrations. Is there any way of cancelling this unwanted noise? | You'll get used to it, it isn't as as annoying as having ear piercing feedback coming out of a fullstack right next to your head. 
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02-23-2009, 01:03 PM
| | | | this happens with my band 2, just have to deal with it im affraid.
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02-23-2009, 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by freakyfrog ok so I play bass in a rock band and we practice in a really small room and every time I play there is this annoying vibration sound created by the drums, I think the snare. I asked my friend which has more experience in bands and he says you cant remove these vibrations. Is there any way of cancelling this unwanted noise? | In a small room, it's almost impossible to avoid.
You get what's call a standing wave (low frequency reflections due to exact right angles of walls)... and it's especially bad if the note is clost to the pitch of the drum.
In a larger physical space, the problem is far less noticeable. |
02-23-2009, 01:05 PM
|  | Eat at Joe's | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: J-Actionville, NC | | | Flip the switch when the drummer isn't playing. If he is, you won't hear it anyway.
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02-23-2009, 01:05 PM
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02-23-2009, 01:17 PM
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Originally Posted by danomite64 Try compressing the snare. I have found the best way to do this is run over it with a steamroller. | Ha-ha! May have to use this as my sig.
But seriously....nothing you can really do in a confined rehearsal space.
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02-23-2009, 01:29 PM
|  | Quatre-cordes | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: New Orleans, LA /El Paso TX | | | tape a full pack of cigarettes or something similar on the skin of the snare drum, the pack must be able to bounce on and off the drum surface while being attached to it, so it is basically a mute device until the drummer hits the snare drum. |
02-23-2009, 01:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Stow, Oh | | | Replace the drummer with a machine. The machines keep a beat and won't take yer beer or drink yer women!
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02-23-2009, 02:04 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Just kick his snare over next time you're practicing. |
02-23-2009, 02:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Baryonyx Just kick his snare over next time you're practicing. | punk rock!
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02-23-2009, 03:11 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | Dude...physics.
Bass makes sound waves - moving the air.
Air strikes snare drum head, moving the wires on the head.
Quod est demonstratum.
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