what frequency does a bass drum play at?

[sobe3yourself. 10+ year member]

ie 60hz?

ive looked it up online, but cant seem to find the answer.

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[stanky1219]

depends on the tuning of the drum. yes drums can be tuned. listen to a beatles or zeppelin bass drum kick , then listen to a slayer or metallica bass drum kick.

 

[FlexnInLa 10+ year member]

ie 60hz?ive looked it up online, but cant seem to find the answer.

Depends on the drummer. Everybody tunes differently. But believe it or not you will hear kick from aound 40hz up to 7khz or so. This comes from somebody who has recorded drums. Your sub isn't going to cover the entire frequency that a kick drum hits as a general rule. The higher end of a kick drum is usually eq'd down in a mix so it doesn't walk all over the bass guitar, etc.

 

[FlexnInLa 10+ year member]

depends on the tuning of the drum. yes drums can be tuned. listen to a beatles or zeppelin bass drum kick , then listen to a slayer or metallica bass drum kick.

This is actually a really good answer without an answer... basically every drummer tunes their kick differently. Yes, drums are tuned, to a note if you actually know how to tune them.

 

[AllenH427 10+ year member]

Ive noticed that in some cruddy records. Granted I like the way Threat Signal sounds, you can hear the kick out of your tweeters and sometimes it muddies up things a little.

 

[FlexnInLa 10+ year member]

Ive noticed that in some cruddy records. Granted I like the way Threat Signal sounds, you can hear the kick out of your tweeters and sometimes it muddies up things a little.

When you get into metal with uber fast double bass, it's a triggered bass sound off of the kick head, and it's going to generally cover a really wide frequency range for punch. You aren't listening to an acoustic bass drum here... it's a triggered "bass drum sound." When you reach a certain speed playing double bass drum it would be just a low rumble if you didn't trigger. I don't know what the bpm or hz would be, but my son playing around 140bpm double bass is just a rumble on accoustic drums.

It's not really a "cruddy" recording... when you reach a certain speed you have to trigger a "kick" sound or all you would hear is a rumble. Most black/death/whateverfast metal bands drummers trigger off their kick because they play double bass so fast that individual notes wouldn't be distinguishable otherwise.

A few years ago most of them were triggering their snares too... but that seems to have ended for the most part.

My son is 15 by the way, and yes I'm proud. He can drum along to Dimmu Borgir, Children of Bodom, whatever, with no issues at all. That's my boy!

 

[FlexnInLa 10+ year member]

Ive noticed that in some cruddy records. Granted I like the way Threat Signal sounds, you can hear the kick out of your tweeters and sometimes it muddies up things a little.

Sick drummer by the way.

Sick song in general, suprised I haven't heard them before. I'll turn my son on to them this weekend. Thanks for the intro to a kickass band!

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

Wow, that kick drum was insanely annoying...along with the rest of the song, but to each his own, I guess.

 

[FlexnInLa 10+ year member]

Wow, that kick drum was insanely annoying...along with the rest of the song, but to each his own, I guess.

Exactly, to each his own. That drummer is the equivalent of an olympic athelete... might be fun as hell to watch but 99 percent of the world can't do it and could care less about doing it. My son, in his defense, can actually play pretty much anything, but his preference is double bass stuff with a non-straight pattern. In the drummer world, that makes him an olympic athelete. His heros are Neil Peart from Rush and Carter Beauford from Dave Matthews Band... so yeah he can play music. Proud to say I'm his only teacher too... I said here are drum sticks... here is a drum pad... go to town... he was about 2 1/2 years old. The rest... he has just figured out on his own lol.

The best feeling I've had in my life is jamming on bass while my son drums. Father and son, best friends, complete musical connection, I can look at him and know what he is going to do, I can move my head and he knows what I am going to do, something not many musicians will ever experience. He grew up listening to me and watching me play. I really don't expect anybody to understand, but it is amazing.

 

[old_greg 10+ year member]

Threat signal is like getting a gay black midget to blow a fat milky load in your ear. I cant ****ing stand that sad excuse for metal. Terrible terrible. Vocals sound like a cat with a dick being rammed into it. Guitar is so sloppy its aggravating the pubes off my balls. Now im sitting in a room with *** in my ear a cat with a gaping *** and hairless balls. Thank you

 

[AllenH427 10+ year member]

Exactly, to each his own. That drummer is the equivalent of an olympic athelete... might be fun as hell to watch but 99 percent of the world can't do it and could care less about doing it. My son, in his defense, can actually play pretty much anything, but his preference is double bass stuff with a non-straight pattern. In the drummer world, that makes him an olympic athelete. His heros are Neil Peart from Rush and Carter Beauford from Dave Matthews Band... so yeah he can play music. Proud to say I'm his only teacher too... I said here are drum sticks... here is a drum pad... go to town... he was about 2 1/2 years old. The rest... he has just figured out on his own lol.The best feeling I've had in my life is jamming on bass while my son drums. Father and son, best friends, complete musical connection, I can look at him and know what he is going to do, I can move my head and he knows what I am going to do, something not many musicians will ever experience. He grew up listening to me and watching me play. I really don't expect anybody to understand, but it is amazing.

My dad has been playing guitar for over 30 years. He always wanted me to play drums, as well as I wanted to, but I just never got around to getting a set. Thats good to hear.

And greg, once you be breakin 150 wit yo nukkas in philly, den we can talk.

 

[FlexnInLa 10+ year member]

Threat signal is like getting a gay black midget to blow a fat milky load in your ear. I cant ****ing stand that sad excuse for metal. Terrible terrible. Vocals sound like a cat with a dick being rammed into it. Guitar is so sloppy its aggravating the pubes off my balls. Now im sitting in a room with *** in my ear a cat with a gaping *** and hairless balls. Thank you

I had actually never heard them and liked that song. I'm sure my son will dig the sycopated double bass. I've probably been PLAYING metal longer than you have been alive, not that that matters lol. What bands are you into? My old *** likes ******* Silience, shit like that, etc. when I'm not bump bumping.

 

[old_greg 10+ year member]

I could really care less how long any of you have played or existed with metal. Congrats on being older than me. That doesnt mean shit. God to say threat signal has talent is a slap to the face of any professionally trained metal band like Dream Theatre for an example.

 

[FlexnInLa 10+ year member]

My dad has been playing guitar for over 30 years. He always wanted me to play drums, as well as I wanted to, but I just never got around to getting a set. Thats good to hear. And greg, once you be breakin 150 wit yo nukkas in philly, den we can talk.

You really should pick up drums or bass and play with your dad. There is some kind of genetic connection when you play music that can't compare to playing music with anybody else. I have been in TIGHT bands, but nothing like dropping a groove with my son. I can look at him and tilt my head, and he just knows where I'm going. Playing music has really been a bond between me and my son for shit... 13 years now I guess lol. As soon as I got him that drum pad, if I was playing, so was he.

I'm an old man like your dad... I've played guitar and bass for hmmm... I guess 25 years or so? I drum too but my son embarasses me so I stay away from them lol.

As a cool side note I almost made it playing music, several major labels wanted to sign the band I was in. Personal GREED among the band members, all of us, destroyed the chance that we had. If anybody wants to hear a song off our demo just PM me. I could probably go to jail for distributing the MP3 though lol, every member of the band lawyered up and thought they were going to be millionaires, me included lol.

 

[FlexnInLa 10+ year member]

I could really care less how long any of you have played or existed with metal. Congrats on being older than me. That doesnt mean shit. God to say threat signal has talent is a slap to the face of any professionally trained metal band like Dream Theatre for an example.

I would bet you my balls I'd outplay you on guitar, bass, or drums...

I respect Dream Theatre as musicians, but they don't create music that is listenable... at least to me.

Listen to a Dave Matthews Band cut, try to play what Carter plays on drums. Yeah, simple pop band compared to Dream Theatre right? When you get it down in about 6 years... even if you can just get down what he plays on the hihats, come talk to me.

It's easy to talk about fusion bands and say oh they are wonderful, oh my, goodness... but what SONGS have they played? I can jack my guitar off? That was a big hit! I can jack my bass off? The hook in that song was rediculous! Oh and yes, the last hit they've have, I can jack myself off while I play my 80 piece drum kit. My kid can likely play that.

To me, it's just oh look at what I can do! My son can do that. Set my son behing a 30 piece drum kit with 40 cymbals and he could likely play it. If you aren't a guitar or bass player I can probably blow your mind too. But in the end it's about making music. Dream Theatre, or no other fusion band has never done it for me. Frank Gambale has come the closest... I thought he sucked but I kinda learned how to sweep from him many, many years ago. He did a thing in Guitar World back in the 80's about sweep picking and over about 5 years I kinda got that shit down lol.