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?
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drum vibration while playing bass
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Better snares wont do it as much. The drummer could try setting up his snare better. Some snare wires are made to avoid this.
Try compressing the snare. I have found the best way to do this is run over it with a steamroller.
on a scale of annoying noises.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€
Sam
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€
Sam
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...
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...
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.
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.
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Ha-ha! May have to use this as my sig.
But seriously....nothing you can really do in a confined rehearsal space.
Riis
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.
Replace the drummer with a machine. The machines keep a beat and won't take yer beer or drink yer women!
Dude...physics.
Bass makes sound waves - moving the air.
Air strikes snare drum head, moving the wires on the head.
Quod est demonstratum.
Bass makes sound waves - moving the air.
Air strikes snare drum head, moving the wires on the head.
Quod est demonstratum.
