raising 18" bass drum

does anybody know what i can buy to raise my 18" bass drum so that the pedal will fit properly. e.g the ones that yamaha fit to their 18's. i cant seem to find much on the net.

thanks.

Try looking in the interstate music drum catalog. They had two or three devices listed in the latest issue.

Here's one of them:

http://www.interstatemusic.com/webap...cat=2&prevcat=

ok now im mad!

found a shop that had a small fitting to raise the hoop, but then i checked my spurs and they were at full length already....with the front hoop only 1/2 and inch of the ground! what a stupid design fault from premier. they just put the same spurs on all drums. my 18" bass is unplayable if u put my DW9000 on it. this is so annoying.

so i guess the alternative is to try and get longer spurs?? anyone know where to start. im pretty sure premier dont make any. and if i were to raise the back hoop up a good 3 or 4 inches then the front spurs would need to be pretty damn long. weckl does this with his yamaha drum.

any ideas. (i have a gig on fri that i need the 18" bass for!!! [img]mad.gif[/img] )

I think you can buy some kind of cradle-type thing that is designed to hold small bass drums and conga drums so you can play they with a bass pedal (so I assume it would eliminate the need for spurs), I'm not sure who makes it though but I'm swear I've seen the drummer for Soulive use it on a djembe. I expect it would be quite pricey though.

dude,

i'd check andy vermiglio's link. unfortunately, i've had the same expreience with my 18" gretsch. i believe andy's suggestion is the best way to go.

indeed. i just bought the DW riser. my local dealer could get it delivered overnight and as i have a gig on friday eve, i thought i'd go for it. i must be nuts. cost me ?100 and i just earnt that from a gig this week and was on my way to the bank to pay it in to SAVE some money....man.....drummers eh!!?? [img]graemlins/sure.gif[/img]

louie,

it was a great purchase. there was only one other viable option IMO, and that would've been the d'amico version. that thing's like twice as much (not to mention twice as heavy!). i think dw did a great job in that they streamlined it, making it much more trans-portaffordable (is that a word?) [img]smile.gif[/img]

Yeah, I DEF hear ya on that one, LP.

Would'vre been cheaper to make your own cradle-device, but you prob didn't have the time to plan, design, figure measurements, allow for BD pedal, shop, & construct...I've seen these cradles at the local drum shop...a little pricey, when you can build your own for FAR less. ;c)

Similarly, in my own last stint, I had to design & build my own portable, 'collapsable' rollable drum riser, as i was playing shows & state fairs, & we often had very little time to get our gear on/off the stages, before, after, & in-between shows [even in the instances when there was stagehand/crew help]...when I first signed on w this particular act, I went on the first 2 month tour back in the mid-90's & was pulling my hair out every time I had to take my kit to & from the stage plot every time we shared the stage w another act [with inter-twined, "staggered showtimes"]. Drums were in a slightly diff position each time to boot, even w memory lock type applications. NTM mics & cables, & DI-box/strip-snake placement. & more often than not, those promoters & some of the so-called stage managers had NO clue as to the musicians' logistical & timing nightmare in thes types of situations. Sometimes it was smooth-sailing; others, a real cornfusion-cluster-fudge. A REAL P.I.T.A. [img]eek.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/grrr.gif[/img] But I must've saved at least 4 or 500$ easily, buildg my own riser.

I saw Jim Christie [drummer who used to play w country star Dwight Yoakim] use his own 'homemade' version of that type of cradle-thing on a FT [that he used for a BD], for an "unplugged" type thing he did w a band/project called Pete Anderson & "Gun Dog." [Don't let the country thing fool ya. Jim is a great jazz-fusion drummer, first. Gun Dog was like Zappa meets blues/r&b meets bluegrass/country meets folk & rock. [*whew*] I was actually surprised. Great band live. Nice kicks/hits, & clever breaks & rests w accent hits. The studio CDs don't do them justice; they were a hot band, live...sounded really cool.

[But I digress.]

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ July 21, 2004 02:43 PM: Message edited by: FuseU1 ]</font>

Oh yeah, just realised what I described was in Andy's link [img]redface.gif[/img]