This clip marks my twelve month progress playing drums. I am self taught. The audio in this clip is directly out of my Roland TD20 and TD12 V drums modules into my Sony DV deck. The keyboard solo was added afterwards in Protools. The sounds of this kit are from one of my custom programmed kits and can be downloaded from my forum on my website at www.superpuss.com.au The cage is my own design and consists of parts from two Roland MDS-3C racks and some black aluminium square tubing cut to size. I have done a DIY electronic conversion to my Rototoms using DIY mesh heads and have built an electronic pitch control for them. The two little white drums to the right are percussion triggers built from plumbing parts, self adhesive felt and a mouse mat. They are connected to a Roland TMC-6 expander which is connected to my TD20. The three eight inch mesh head toms are my new DIY 8 x 4's with Roland mesh heads and my own DIY electronics. I will be adding five more of these very soon. The floor tom is also my own design, converted from a Pearl 13 inch fitted with a TAMA mesh head. Same with my gong which is also my own design and has a TAMA 22 inch mesh head. The China, left crash and middle splash are all from Kit Toys and respond extremely well.

Practicing Hey Baby

This clip marks my eleven month progress playing drums. So far, I am self taught.

The audio in this clip is directly out of my Roland TD12 V drums module into my Sony DV deck with no external processing.
The sounds of this kit are from one of my custom programmed kits optimised for use with brushes (notice the snare sweep sound) and can be downloaded from my forum on my website at SuperPuss.com.au
The cage is my own design and consists of parts from two Roland MDS-3C racks and some black aluminium square tubing cut to size.
I have done a DIY electronic conversion to my Rototoms which will be updated soon with Pintech mesh heads. The four little white drums to the right are percussion triggers built from plumbing parts, self adhesive felt and a mouse mat. They are connected to a Roland TMC-6 expander which is connected to my TD12.
My PD8 toms are soon to be replaced with eight new 8 x 4 inch toms with Roland mesh heads and my own DIY electronics.
The China, left crash and middle splash are all from Kit Toys and respond extremely well.

This clip marks my eleven month progress playing drums. So far, I am self taught. The audio in this clip is directly out of my Roland TD12 V drums module into my Sony DV deck with no external processing. The sounds of this kit are from one of my custom programmed kits and can be downloaded from my forum on my website at www.superpuss.com.au The cage is my own design and consists of parts from two Roland MDS-3C racks and some black aluminium square tubing cut to size. I have done a DIY electronic conversion to my Rototoms which will be updated soon with Pintech mesh heads. The four little white drums to the right are percussion triggers built from plumbing parts, self adhesive felt and a mouse mat. They are connected to a Roland TMC-6 expander which is connected to my TD12. My PD8 toms are soon to be replaced with eight new 8 x 4 inch toms with Roland mesh heads and my own DIY electronics. The China, left crash and middle splash are all from Kit Toys and respond extremely well.

Controlling my Roland TD12 V Drums module from my Roland System 700 and System 100 analog sequencers. The control voltage outputs from my sequencers are fed directly into the trigger inputs on my TD12. All output voltages are 0 - 2 vdc, including the hihat foot controller signal. The snare and crash signals are going to the rim and edge inputs respectively. As you can see, this works remarkably well with no modifications to any of the instruments. My Yamaha SY77 is being used as a master clock for the sequencers. Audio was directly out of the TD12 into my camera and video was edited using Adobe Premiere.

This clip is a demonstration of acoustic stick noise and trigger response of my new Kit Toys Splash and China cymbals. As you'll see, they are similar in stick noise to Roland cymbals but they are MUCH more linear in response compared to my CY8's. My CY12 R/C has had the bell fix mod and the bell can now be played with dynamics even with fingertips!!

RMC Audio checks out the newly announced Roland TDW-20 Expansion Board for the TD-20 drum module

RMC Audio takes a look at the new JUNO-STAGE synthesizer from Roland featuring some great playing by Ed Diaz. This was filmed at Summer NAMM 2008 in Nashville, TN. This synth only weighs 22 lbs!