Download Tuesday
My back is feeling much better than it did on the weekend. However, my seasonal allergies are killing me. It's making me miserable.
I didn't get any downloads this week. There aren't any new songs that appeal to me. Next week, Pearl Jam's Ten album gets re-released so everybody knows what next week's download selections will be. I'm looking to get maybe 3 or 4 new songs next week.
New cymbals arrived in the mail yesterday. I have a new pair of Pintech TC 10" cymbals that a lot of people on the Rock Band forums recommended. The new cymbals are much better and are doing what I hoped they would do. Scoring is way up with these cymbals because they work. No more double hits or crosstalk or hits that don't register. It's really easy to get a long streak going. I also don't have to spend any time tuning these cymbals. Tuning seemed like a big waste of time and in the end, the old stock cymbals still very unreliable. Stock cymbals were simply pieces of junk. I'm satisfied. The only drawbacks that I notice is that they spin easily, so they have to be tightened down very securely and I probably should have bought larger sized cymbals. They don't seem to be as robust as my Roland CY-5 or the stock cymbals for that matter, but if they work, that 's all that counts. Other than that, they seem okay. If I didn't get any more upgrades for this drum kit, it would be okay for SoCal picnic and everybody would have a good time with it without getting too frustrated. But, I've got a few more upgrades that I want to get. Only one more component needs to be mail-ordered. The rest can be bought locally. I hope to finish this thing in 2-3 weeks and after that will be a massive amount of testing and reconfiguring.
I didn't get any downloads this week. There aren't any new songs that appeal to me. Next week, Pearl Jam's Ten album gets re-released so everybody knows what next week's download selections will be. I'm looking to get maybe 3 or 4 new songs next week.
New cymbals arrived in the mail yesterday. I have a new pair of Pintech TC 10" cymbals that a lot of people on the Rock Band forums recommended. The new cymbals are much better and are doing what I hoped they would do. Scoring is way up with these cymbals because they work. No more double hits or crosstalk or hits that don't register. It's really easy to get a long streak going. I also don't have to spend any time tuning these cymbals. Tuning seemed like a big waste of time and in the end, the old stock cymbals still very unreliable. Stock cymbals were simply pieces of junk. I'm satisfied. The only drawbacks that I notice is that they spin easily, so they have to be tightened down very securely and I probably should have bought larger sized cymbals. They don't seem to be as robust as my Roland CY-5 or the stock cymbals for that matter, but if they work, that 's all that counts. Other than that, they seem okay. If I didn't get any more upgrades for this drum kit, it would be okay for SoCal picnic and everybody would have a good time with it without getting too frustrated. But, I've got a few more upgrades that I want to get. Only one more component needs to be mail-ordered. The rest can be bought locally. I hope to finish this thing in 2-3 weeks and after that will be a massive amount of testing and reconfiguring.