For all the viewers, he did this while under the weather! He cancelled the stream for that day and made a video as "compensation", that's dedication if I've ever seen it!
He REALLY likes cymbals. And they're probably the most individually interesting thing on the kit, toms, snares, and bass drums can be really cool, but in general it's just very minor differences between mid-tier and high tier kits that only really start to matter when your listening for those differences. He's shown you can make complete crap drums work, but crap cymbals just don't, they really have to be a competently made piece of engineering for them to sound any good.
if anyone's wondering, an easy way to stop a crack from spreading on literally anything is to drill a big honkin hole centered right at the end of that crack, so the drill is taking half crack and half healthy material. That should give it enough relief to keep it in one piece until you get to removing the entire damaged bit.
@@kharmachaos667I just put Scotch tape over the cracks 12 years ago and it blocks the glare. No leaks and no real blind spots as the crack started just below my line of sight. I used to go past gravel trucks all the time on a 2 lane highway and back then, the replacement seemed a bit expensive.
These cybals are like a good friend group of pensioners. Sure they might be in their eighties, worn by life, but when they come to hang out together they still somehow have a blast
This is amazing. Cymbals must be the only musical instrument that still has value and is perfectly playable even if it breaks. Drums are incredible, man.
Not really, Willie Nelsons acoustic guitar has a giant hole right next the sound hole and Jimi Hendrix burned his guitar on stage and played it after, really a lot of the time when an instrument gets damaged its just a scar that adds to its aesthetic that's the cool thing about instruments
In high school I had a Paiste beginner cymbal, which went completely dead when a crack appeared at the edge. We just grabbed a hacksaw and sawed it off flat. I didn't even know that was a thing people did, it just seemed to me that it would work, and it did!
right, i loan my drums out to a friend in the 1970s. and he cracked my 18 inch paiste formula 602. instead of paying for it, he took it to t he high school machine shop and drilled a hole right above the crack. the cymbal sounded dead and i was out of 90 buck for that cymbal. 90 buck was a lot of money in 1973, just saying. the moral of the story is, never loan out anything that is dear to you. just grow some and say no. if he is offended, then he was never your friend in the first place.
@@jodyguilbeaux8225 Oh yeah, I'm heartless when it comes to loaning stuff. Either it comes back ruined, or I never get it back. I've even lost stuff in other people's divorces! "Can I borrow this CD?" "No, but I'll make you a copy." Thank god everyone hates CDs now and they've stopped asking.
@@The_Bird_Bird_Harder You mean how did I lose stuff in someone else's divorce? Simple: I loan a guy some stuff, he gets divorced, his wife gets half his stuff, the stuff I loaned him is mixed in with his stuff: GONE.
If there’s anything I’ve learned from this channel it’s that cymbal sound really is largely determined by what it’s made of over shape. Quasimodo had a full amputation and he’s still killin it
Oh absolutely, they still have a gorgeous voice. If I had the money to buy my own drums I'd totally see if I could get some nice classic cymbals that've been beaten to shit both for the character and to save money haha
As a semi-professional death metal drummer, my god, these videos are always extremely helpful, and I very much have confidence I will use everything I learn from your videos in my everyday drumming career. Sincerely, thank you. :3
I love hearing this "if it sounds good, it is good" attitude, because I have this bass effect where even though there's zero definition to the tone, rhythm or anything, it's still the coolest thing ever and I love it. And remembering sometimes that that's what's important is a big deal.
You thoroughly inspired me. I found a nicely repaired 1977 18” 2002 and purchased it for less than $100. It sounds so great the repair adds some individuality for sure!
i also wanted to say i look forward to your new videos on the car channel. im an aspiring mechanic and its fun to watch the authentic aussie way to work on cars
your collection of weird cymbals is truly amazing. the super dry bonk, the egg, the steel cymbals, the printed ones, the road signs, now these broken ones.
About a year ago I dug out some cracked cymbals and "restored" them. A 16" Crash turned out to become a 10" Splash. And I started stacking and cutting all of them. And that's how I got to add at least 2 new cymbals to my kit. Plus my bandmates love the sound of them as well.
100%. Vulfpeck are very technical and precise and don't tend to go heavy on the drums so if you like that sort of thing, it's super weird to go back to. Back Pocket is still a jam though.
In hindsight it makes total sense. Vulfpeck is incredible. Joe dart plays the bass lines I've heard in my head forever. Like Juan aldrante[?] From Mars volta. I digress this was a great vid.
Great choice of background music btw. It's a march called "Alte Kameraden". As a german guy with an interest in traditional march music, I can say that it's one of the best there is.
I'm glad to see you praise broken cymbals, the majority of cymbals on my kit are broken and restored, because why toss them out when you can just slice a piece off and keep going :)!
i’ve only discovered this man in like November but I’ve watched just about all his videos across all his channels i wish when i get an actual job/bank account I would 100% invest in his patreon and drum streams. keep going man you’re awesome.
For steel race car panels, I'd drill a 5mm hole about 8-10mm ahead of the visible end of the crack. the crack will exist beyond its visible end and you want to stop it in its tracks, and give it a nice radius to spread the stress out. let it make its own way to the hole dont drill too close.
I use a dremel to cut the crack out, and then use a bench grinder to grind it smooth. Or you can use a file and sandpaper if you don't have a grinder. Lots of youtube videos on the subject.
@@rubikmonat6589 Yeah, pretty common thing in sheet metal. I've heard airplane mechanics do similar things. The key is to get rid of that high stress point.
these videos keep confirming that any slab of bronze in roughly circle shape sounds great! maybe it's cuz I'm not a drummer, but all those cymbals sounded perfectly fine, good even
I tricked my boss into letting me work 2nd shift in the machine shop, so sometimes I do fun things with my dead cymbals. Wet grinders are great for getting those cracks out, and then you can hit it with a pencil grinder and finish it up on the buffing wheel or use a cratex buffing wheel on the pencil grinder for small holes. I've also experimented a little with rehammering and turning thicker cymbals down on the lathe.
this brought back memories... trying to save a marching band crash cymbal by drilling ahead of the crack. problem is that it's like cancer. you can't see the little tendrils reaching out into the good meat....shit kept cracking despite our surgical intervention 😢 thx chief!❤
Dude I love your content and sense of humor. Everything you pop up on my recommended I click it and I don't know drums at all. But I know it's always gonna be a banger
I had an 18” Zil China gifted to me by a friend with about an 8” crack right down the crown edge of the bow. I LOVED this thing because it was legitimately ADJUSTABLE. The crack ran along the crown and didn’t lead from the edge, so I could actually bend the cymbal at the crack. If one edge was leading over the other, I’d get a beautiful open tone out of it, if I flipped the edge under, it would sound extra trashy, almost like a China with rivets. Unfortunately I lost it along with the rest of my drum equipment (and everything else I owned) in fire just over a year ago, December 2022. Still rebuilding, slowly but surely. Man I loved that stupid China though haha 😂
I actually like the sound of damaged cymbals in a lot of cases. They fall off in really unique ways. Providing you stop the crack and properly cut the cracking portion out.
i didnt even knew this was from dank pod's many channels but I somehow felt pure energy from the thumbnail alone and instinctively clicked because of it
Honestly if I got these instead of some normal budget cymbals I'd be extremely happy. The tone is excellent with these. Reminds me of an old Gibson that I bought that's had obvious neck repair. Made people not wanna touch it, but it was 600 dollars so I grabbed that shit instantly. It's one of my favorite guitars. Pickups sound fucking excellent in the thing.
Hey thanks for the content man, you wouldn't happen to know Peter Banks would you? He was my drum teacher and mentor for many years, based in Adelaide. He does gigs and stuff so figured you may have seen him about.
I play crash cymbals on a drumline, and the senior who taught me when I joined broke two two cymbals over his 3 seasons on the line. One fascinating thing about marching crashes is that when they are worn and close to cracking, they’ll start to invert when struck too hard. When a crack would appear, he’d keep playing them until it didn’t sound good, then he broke the cracked portion off and declared them dead. He then used the two broken cymbals to display pictures on at his grad party 😂
I have never played the drums, and probably never will, but I can tell you the best way to stop a crack, drill a hole at either end (or the end if it goes off the edge I guess) and make sure the hole hits the end of the crack, but don't be afraid to take some material out past the end of the crack too, incase there is some cracking there you can't see. Smooth, roung holes and edges are harder for cracks to form. Cut out the rest of the crack and sand/file the edges rounded and smooth. I know from welding cast iron, you get a crack, carefully drill the ends of the crack, grind out a bit of the crack and weld up the whole thing. Nothing like not doing the prep work and suddenly a crack appears eminating from your weld.
been repairing cracked cymbals for ages, my favorite way to do it is a drill press with a hole saw bit made for tiles. basically you can't "cut" holes, you have to "sand" or "wear" the hole/cut the lines. one studio record my old drummer used crack repaired crashes and ride. middle/throat cracks carefully repaired so as not to lose any edge wash/etc. like reilley's are the absolute best, it basically just changes the length of the note on an already very heavy/short noted part of the cymbal anyway.
Watching this video reminded me of when I attempted to play the drum set in high school. As a percussionist, I figured I’d be pretty good at it since I’m quite well versed in most of the other percussion instruments. I ended up discovering that I’m not very good at it, which was definitely a humbling moment for my slightly arrogant self! 😅 Whenever I see people on the internet play the drum set with such ease and skill, I’m always amazed at the level of dedication they have. I’m glad you’re having fun with this cool combination of instruments. You play very well! It’s super cool to see!
Try adding pop rivets to the China, I reckon it adds a really nice shimmer and a little extra decay. Great video, I was actually just looking at an Avedis A custom crash that has a tiny crack on the edge and wondered if it would be worth buying just to fix it. I have another of the same and having two would be great.
That's super cool. I sometimes keep broken goods, but I never find a use of them as I replace them. But sometimes, it makes want to touch the old things I used to have fan with.
My local drum shop sells top of the line cymbals with factory crack repairs for $75 a piece. So far I have bought, a 18in zildjian K dark medium thin crash, a 17in Sabian HHX crash, and a 18in Sabian AAX raw bell medium crash.
I've had, and still have, a bunch of pro level cymbals that have been repaired (and I've had a bunch of pro level cymbals that I've tossed out before we knew how to repair them like we do now!) including a 90's era 16" K Dark crash with a big swoopy cut, a 17" Sabian AA Medium Thin crash, also with a big swoopy cut, both of which must have had between a quarter and a third of their total area gone, but still sounded great. I've got an 80's era Zildjian A Medium crash with a little triangle cut that sounds like nothing's changed, and an 18" A China Boy with a radial crack in one of the grooves that I did a slot cut on, and it sounds great! Just as China-ry as it was before, but a bit more trashy (and I think louder too). I wish I could have saved my 17" Z Custom Medium crash, that I drilled to stop a crack and it didn't work so I drilled it twice more (when the crack tree-branched off) and eventually it just lost a chunk that fell off. I loved that cymbal.
I had the 21” Sweet Ride for several years. Fell in love with it’s bell. When you introduced it to the video, I thought to myself “please go for the bell when you play”. And you did. And it sounded just how I remember it did. One of the most satisfying bell sounds of all the rides I ever heard or played. Also, bonus points for jamming to the all time hit Dagothwave by young scrolls. First discovering your channel, gonna go check your catalogue! Cheers
If there’s anything I learned from watching these videos it’s that the most horribly fucked up cymbals still make some proper good sound when using them👌🏻😄
can i drum? no have i ever drummed? not really will i probably ever drum? no have i spent like three hours being fascinated about learning about drums and especially cymbals and now understand how and why they sound different? absolutely. lol ♥
I dragged a stack of my cracked Cymbals out for many years by cutting them with a milling machine and coolant rather than grinding them out. I think grinding them heats them up and doesn't leave the cymbal with a perfect edge so they just crack more and more. I consider myself lucky I have access to a milling machine!
I cut about 1/3 off a cheap crash after it split -- thin enough to use decent metal shears for the job then a sanding disc on my drill to tidy it up. I'm convinced it sounds better now than before!
Not a drummer, but a saxophonist here. My parents had just bought me a pretty expensive tenor sax and Day 4 of owning it I dropped the bottom curve of the sax right on the tile floor in my old band room. I was crushed... until I noticed the lower end suddenly came out better with a fancy little dent that I only had to hide from my parents lmao
“It turns your depression into an activity!” has such coy delivery for such a macabre line and I love it
He's great, ain't he.
For all the viewers, he did this while under the weather! He cancelled the stream for that day and made a video as "compensation", that's dedication if I've ever seen it!
Man do i love wade. He's just so nice and hard working and funny and charming and gosh do i just love this man.
absolute legend
I know why I subbed to his patreon over a year ago. Have to agree with @aquabery : I just love this man.
@@Motti22 Basically the same, I have an uncontrollable desire just to support this man.
@RandomPerson295 Hello mr. Touhou. Found you
I like how this channel is called 'The Drum Thing' yet is mostly about cymbals
I've said this before. It's about 75% cymbals.
Even the profile pic is a cymbal
He REALLY likes cymbals. And they're probably the most individually interesting thing on the kit, toms, snares, and bass drums can be really cool, but in general it's just very minor differences between mid-tier and high tier kits that only really start to matter when your listening for those differences. He's shown you can make complete crap drums work, but crap cymbals just don't, they really have to be a competently made piece of engineering for them to sound any good.
@@toilet_cleaner_man Probably true. But hey, this man got me interested in trying out playing the drums. I just don't know where or how to start
@@frtzkng I'd guess the first thing is to get some drums, or just various surfaces you can arrange to hit with drum sticks.
I have never and won't ever play the drums. But I'll know what cymbals to buy my drummer friends.
You can win any drummers friendship with a nice ride cymbal.
Same tho
I see this as an absolute win
stop sign right? XD
Broken?
if anyone's wondering, an easy way to stop a crack from spreading on literally anything is to drill a big honkin hole centered right at the end of that crack, so the drill is taking half crack and half healthy material. That should give it enough relief to keep it in one piece until you get to removing the entire damaged bit.
Brb trying this on my windshield
@@kharmachaos667lol
@@kharmachaos667I just put Scotch tape over the cracks 12 years ago and it blocks the glare. No leaks and no real blind spots as the crack started just below my line of sight. I used to go past gravel trucks all the time on a 2 lane highway and back then, the replacement seemed a bit expensive.
It's called "drill stopping" or "stop drilling" when done on aircraft wings (I know I'm a year late to this)
These cybals are like a good friend group of pensioners. Sure they might be in their eighties, worn by life, but when they come to hang out together they still somehow have a blast
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This is amazing. Cymbals must be the only musical instrument that still has value and is perfectly playable even if it breaks. Drums are incredible, man.
Not really, Willie Nelsons acoustic guitar has a giant hole right next the sound hole and Jimi Hendrix burned his guitar on stage and played it after, really a lot of the time when an instrument gets damaged its just a scar that adds to its aesthetic that's the cool thing about instruments
In high school I had a Paiste beginner cymbal, which went completely dead when a crack appeared at the edge. We just grabbed a hacksaw and sawed it off flat. I didn't even know that was a thing people did, it just seemed to me that it would work, and it did!
right, i loan my drums out to a friend in the 1970s. and he cracked my 18 inch paiste formula 602. instead of paying for it, he took it to t he high school machine shop and drilled a hole right above the crack. the cymbal sounded dead and i was out of 90 buck for that cymbal. 90 buck was a lot of money in 1973, just saying. the moral of the story is, never loan out anything that is dear to you. just grow some and say no. if he is offended, then he was never your friend in the first place.
@@jodyguilbeaux8225 Oh yeah, I'm heartless when it comes to loaning stuff. Either it comes back ruined, or I never get it back. I've even lost stuff in other people's divorces! "Can I borrow this CD?" "No, but I'll make you a copy." Thank god everyone hates CDs now and they've stopped asking.
@@gram440a By god, how does that happen!
@@The_Bird_Bird_Harder You mean how did I lose stuff in someone else's divorce? Simple: I loan a guy some stuff, he gets divorced, his wife gets half his stuff, the stuff I loaned him is mixed in with his stuff: GONE.
If there’s anything I’ve learned from this channel it’s that cymbal sound really is largely determined by what it’s made of over shape. Quasimodo had a full amputation and he’s still killin it
This is the literal definition of "if it's broken, but it works, it's not broken"
Maybe it’s because I’m a guitarist, but these damaged cymbals still sound excellent. Who cares what an instrument looks like? It’s about sound❤
And it's about the material than the shape
I'm a drummer and they still sound good xD
multi instrumentalist but mostly drummer here, they di sound good
Oh absolutely, they still have a gorgeous voice. If I had the money to buy my own drums I'd totally see if I could get some nice classic cymbals that've been beaten to shit both for the character and to save money haha
If trigger still has its sound then its fine.
As a semi-professional death metal drummer, my god, these videos are always extremely helpful, and I very much have confidence I will use everything I learn from your videos in my everyday drumming career. Sincerely, thank you. :3
Haha death metal goes b̶̺͉̝̞̀̆̔̿̊̈̄͝r̷͇̠̦̻̪̹̹͕͐̈́̉ṙ̸̡̧̢̹̼̖̠̭͔͖̫̯̣̙̺̐͂͗͋r̸̻̲̱͓̜̖̙̣̞͒͗̋̓̋̐̔̕r̴̛̞̤̝͌͑͜͝r̷̠̰̲͌̈̆͑͂̐̈́̏̄͒͘r̸̖̓̓r̷̞̝̟̅ṛ̵̛̳͔̘̥̻̹̒͂̓́͌̍͒͂͊̚͘͝
@@cromulence heheeeeee, funny demonic screaming music drumns go "KAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAK*Crash*KAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKA*CRASH**CRASH*"
>death metal
> :3
Makes sense to me
death metal :3
@@Chesburger death metal :3
I love hearing this "if it sounds good, it is good" attitude, because I have this bass effect where even though there's zero definition to the tone, rhythm or anything, it's still the coolest thing ever and I love it. And remembering sometimes that that's what's important is a big deal.
You thoroughly inspired me. I found a nicely repaired 1977 18” 2002 and purchased it for less than $100. It sounds so great the repair adds some individuality for sure!
For how thrashed some of those cymbals are, they sound hella good! I was genuinely surprised at Quasimodo there.
being from memphis, i can’t help but feel special when you show clips from the drum shop in my city :)
i also wanted to say i look forward to your new videos on the car channel. im an aspiring mechanic and its fun to watch the authentic aussie way to work on cars
your collection of weird cymbals is truly amazing.
the super dry bonk, the egg, the steel cymbals, the printed ones, the road signs, now these broken ones.
About a year ago I dug out some cracked cymbals and "restored" them. A 16" Crash turned out to become a 10" Splash. And I started stacking and cutting all of them. And that's how I got to add at least 2 new cymbals to my kit.
Plus my bandmates love the sound of them as well.
Broken or not, it sounds beautiful in Wade's drumset.
Wade playing vulfpeck is a crossover I wasn’t ready for
Improving vulfpeck.
Wade introduced me to them; when I added funky duck to my Spotify I realised that I missed his drumming dearly on the track.
100%. Vulfpeck are very technical and precise and don't tend to go heavy on the drums so if you like that sort of thing, it's super weird to go back to. Back Pocket is still a jam though.
Wade (as DankPods) has comented on Funky Duck's video here on TH-cam and has reached near 1K likes.
Forget Vulfpeck. How bout that Young Scrolls crossover?
In hindsight it makes total sense. Vulfpeck is incredible. Joe dart plays the bass lines I've heard in my head forever. Like Juan aldrante[?] From Mars volta. I digress this was a great vid.
i honestly love the sound of damageed cymbals that have been repaired properly. so unique
Great choice of background music btw. It's a march called "Alte Kameraden". As a german guy with an interest in traditional march music, I can say that it's one of the best there is.
And Quasimodo is surely an old comrade
I just spent 30 mins trying to remember the song and as soon as i find it i find your comment lmao
I'm glad to see you praise broken cymbals, the majority of cymbals on my kit are broken and restored, because why toss them out when you can just slice a piece off and keep going :)!
i’ve only discovered this man in like November but I’ve watched just about all his videos across all his channels
i wish when i get an actual job/bank account I would 100% invest in his patreon and drum streams. keep going man you’re awesome.
Would be great to get a demonstration video on how to properly fix a cracked cymbal. How to round out the edges and everything.
For steel race car panels, I'd drill a 5mm hole about 8-10mm ahead of the visible end of the crack. the crack will exist beyond its visible end and you want to stop it in its tracks, and give it a nice radius to spread the stress out. let it make its own way to the hole dont drill too close.
I use a dremel to cut the crack out, and then use a bench grinder to grind it smooth. Or you can use a file and sandpaper if you don't have a grinder. Lots of youtube videos on the subject.
@@rubikmonat6589 Yeah, pretty common thing in sheet metal. I've heard airplane mechanics do similar things. The key is to get rid of that high stress point.
these videos keep confirming that any slab of bronze in roughly circle shape sounds great!
maybe it's cuz I'm not a drummer, but all those cymbals sounded perfectly fine, good even
Shout out to every single southern church that has a entire set of broken cymbals
I tricked my boss into letting me work 2nd shift in the machine shop, so sometimes I do fun things with my dead cymbals. Wet grinders are great for getting those cracks out, and then you can hit it with a pencil grinder and finish it up on the buffing wheel or use a cratex buffing wheel on the pencil grinder for small holes. I've also experimented a little with rehammering and turning thicker cymbals down on the lathe.
this brought back memories... trying to save a marching band crash cymbal by drilling ahead of the crack.
problem is that it's like cancer. you can't see the little tendrils reaching out into the good meat....shit kept cracking despite our surgical intervention 😢
thx chief!❤
Thank you so much for playing some young scrolls, the like four seconds that you played just made me smile from ear to ear I’m not even kidding
Dude I love your content and sense of humor. Everything you pop up on my recommended I click it and I don't know drums at all. But I know it's always gonna be a banger
also thanks for covering funky duck with that cool cymbal
They sound fantastic, especially the Paiste! I’m not a drummer, but I grew up in the ‘80s, and love the way Paiste cymbals sound.
This is like acoustic guitars. The holes and cracks add character! 😂
I wasn't really expecting DAGOTHWAVE in a video, but now I can die happy.
Those brass boys didn't sound half-bad, all considered.
I had an 18” Zil China gifted to me by a friend with about an 8” crack right down the crown edge of the bow.
I LOVED this thing because it was legitimately ADJUSTABLE.
The crack ran along the crown and didn’t lead from the edge, so I could actually bend the cymbal at the crack.
If one edge was leading over the other, I’d get a beautiful open tone out of it, if I flipped the edge under, it would sound extra trashy, almost like a China with rivets.
Unfortunately I lost it along with the rest of my drum equipment (and everything else I owned) in fire just over a year ago, December 2022.
Still rebuilding, slowly but surely.
Man I loved that stupid China though haha 😂
I actually like the sound of damaged cymbals in a lot of cases. They fall off in really unique ways. Providing you stop the crack and properly cut the cracking portion out.
0:02 - 0:10 0:16 - 0:27 the song that plays faintly in these 2 intervals is a song called "Alte Kameraden".
thanks
i didnt even knew this was from dank pod's many channels but I somehow felt pure energy from the thumbnail alone and instinctively clicked because of it
Symbols: “I’m a god. How can you kill a god? Shame on you sweet Dankevar.”
Wow. You are the first person in the wild I've seen that uses Floatplane. That's actually sick! Great to see it being used!
I would love to see a video of you attempting to *correctly* fix some of these symbals! Would be much fun to learn about the process and such!
Honestly if I got these instead of some normal budget cymbals I'd be extremely happy. The tone is excellent with these. Reminds me of an old Gibson that I bought that's had obvious neck repair. Made people not wanna touch it, but it was 600 dollars so I grabbed that shit instantly. It's one of my favorite guitars. Pickups sound fucking excellent in the thing.
I really enjoy how unlike a lot of others you always show that you don’t need the most expensive or best stuff inorder to play.
"If it sounds good it is good" what a legend of a quote. Amen to that bro
I really needed to hear that last bit
"If it sounds good, it's good"
Cheers from a bass player in Florida
Hey thanks for the content man, you wouldn't happen to know Peter Banks would you?
He was my drum teacher and mentor for many years, based in Adelaide. He does gigs and stuff so figured you may have seen him about.
We need answers
I play crash cymbals on a drumline, and the senior who taught me when I joined broke two two cymbals over his 3 seasons on the line. One fascinating thing about marching crashes is that when they are worn and close to cracking, they’ll start to invert when struck too hard. When a crack would appear, he’d keep playing them until it didn’t sound good, then he broke the cracked portion off and declared them dead. He then used the two broken cymbals to display pictures on at his grad party 😂
I have never played the drums, and probably never will, but I can tell you the best way to stop a crack, drill a hole at either end (or the end if it goes off the edge I guess) and make sure the hole hits the end of the crack, but don't be afraid to take some material out past the end of the crack too, incase there is some cracking there you can't see. Smooth, roung holes and edges are harder for cracks to form. Cut out the rest of the crack and sand/file the edges rounded and smooth. I know from welding cast iron, you get a crack, carefully drill the ends of the crack, grind out a bit of the crack and weld up the whole thing. Nothing like not doing the prep work and suddenly a crack appears eminating from your weld.
I will always be in love with the sound of your toms, mate
been repairing cracked cymbals for ages, my favorite way to do it is a drill press with a hole saw bit made for tiles. basically you can't "cut" holes, you have to "sand" or "wear" the hole/cut the lines. one studio record my old drummer used crack repaired crashes and ride.
middle/throat cracks carefully repaired so as not to lose any edge wash/etc. like reilley's are the absolute best, it basically just changes the length of the note on an already very heavy/short noted part of the cymbal anyway.
I'd never heard of drum streams before this, now i want to go watch your stream in the background while i draw. thanks youtube reccomendations!
Watching this video reminded me of when I attempted to play the drum set in high school. As a percussionist, I figured I’d be pretty good at it since I’m quite well versed in most of the other percussion instruments. I ended up discovering that I’m not very good at it, which was definitely a humbling moment for my slightly arrogant self! 😅
Whenever I see people on the internet play the drum set with such ease and skill, I’m always amazed at the level of dedication they have. I’m glad you’re having fun with this cool combination of instruments. You play very well! It’s super cool to see!
Drumming to Dagothwave is such a cromulent choice
Try adding pop rivets to the China, I reckon it adds a really nice shimmer and a little extra decay. Great video, I was actually just looking at an Avedis A custom crash that has a tiny crack on the edge and wondered if it would be worth buying just to fix it. I have another of the same and having two would be great.
You have inspired me to start creating my own music in garage band on my 5th gen ipad, ive made about 12 different songs now
As someone watching this on a whim with no prior interest, this is just about the most entertaining a video like this could possibly be for me
Best I can tell, the rule of thumb with repairing cracks is you need a nice smooth radius about 6mm or more instead of hard edges on the cuts.
Getting broken cyms instead of beginner cymbals is actually a really good idea, good tip
That's super cool. I sometimes keep broken goods, but I never find a use of them as I replace them. But sometimes, it makes want to touch the old things I used to have fan with.
My dad still uses the marching cymbal he stole from his high school as a ride lol
My local drum shop sells top of the line cymbals with factory crack repairs for $75 a piece. So far I have bought, a 18in zildjian K dark medium thin crash, a 17in Sabian HHX crash, and a 18in Sabian AAX raw bell medium crash.
I've had, and still have, a bunch of pro level cymbals that have been repaired (and I've had a bunch of pro level cymbals that I've tossed out before we knew how to repair them like we do now!) including a 90's era 16" K Dark crash with a big swoopy cut, a 17" Sabian AA Medium Thin crash, also with a big swoopy cut, both of which must have had between a quarter and a third of their total area gone, but still sounded great. I've got an 80's era Zildjian A Medium crash with a little triangle cut that sounds like nothing's changed, and an 18" A China Boy with a radial crack in one of the grooves that I did a slot cut on, and it sounds great! Just as China-ry as it was before, but a bit more trashy (and I think louder too). I wish I could have saved my 17" Z Custom Medium crash, that I drilled to stop a crack and it didn't work so I drilled it twice more (when the crack tree-branched off) and eventually it just lost a chunk that fell off. I loved that cymbal.
3:56 I thought it was going to be a drum version of Scarlet Fire
It's like I'm getting advice how to build my kit in real time, thank you.
I had a crack in my ride cymbal that slowly tore its way across the whole cymbal, best sounding china cymbal iv ever had
Love hearing Vulfpeck in here. Thanks for the video!
"if it sounds good, it is good" thank you for this wisdom c:
Honestly there sound fantastic
You have the ability of making me watch videos about stuff I don't really care and that is beautiful
This just proves that the sound you make is based upon your skill not just the instrument. Though instruments can really be helpful as well.
Phil me crackin
You can’t hide, DankPods
i am fascinated by your stream set up, looks so fun!
1:21 did NOT expect Wade to bust out a Vulfpeck tune, this guy is incredible!
Sounds pretty good !
You're such a good drummer, that you can make actual trash sound awesome. Its nice to watch someone who is a master of their craft.
I love how his stream is just slowly going through all the windows versions...
Obsessed w this man’s streaming setup
I had the 21” Sweet Ride for several years. Fell in love with it’s bell. When you introduced it to the video, I thought to myself “please go for the bell when you play”. And you did. And it sounded just how I remember it did. One of the most satisfying bell sounds of all the rides I ever heard or played.
Also, bonus points for jamming to the all time hit Dagothwave by young scrolls. First discovering your channel, gonna go check your catalogue! Cheers
Thank you for all the wonderful content ❤️ it makes my day everytime I see a new upload!
If there’s anything I learned from watching these videos it’s that the most horribly fucked up cymbals still make some proper good sound when using them👌🏻😄
Okay but real talk? Thanks to this video I just realised I _love_ the sound of brass cymbals.
The *tonk* at the beginning sold me on this video.
can i drum? no
have i ever drummed? not really
will i probably ever drum? no
have i spent like three hours being fascinated about learning about drums and especially cymbals and now understand how and why they sound different? absolutely. lol ♥
I dragged a stack of my cracked Cymbals out for many years by cutting them with a milling machine and coolant rather than grinding them out. I think grinding them heats them up and doesn't leave the cymbal with a perfect edge so they just crack more and more. I consider myself lucky I have access to a milling machine!
Somehow, I've managed to find both of your channels, completely unrelated, like a year apart. That's how you know it's good content.
Just stumbled upon your channel, and I'm already learning some neat stuff. My mom's a drummer, so this is pretty cool
I cut about 1/3 off a cheap crash after it split -- thin enough to use decent metal shears for the job then a sanding disc on my drill to tidy it up.
I'm convinced it sounds better now than before!
That ride has a beautiful tone
i love your ealy 2000´s aestetic
my grandpa use to give me crap for buying pants with holes in them. I wonder what he'd say about this
never watching this before but I automatically knew it was dank pods
Not a drummer, but a saxophonist here. My parents had just bought me a pretty expensive tenor sax and Day 4 of owning it I dropped the bottom curve of the sax right on the tile floor in my old band room. I was crushed... until I noticed the lower end suddenly came out better with a fancy little dent that I only had to hide from my parents lmao
5:26 *Linus' headbutts in like JOHN CENA* AND THIS IS A SEGWAY TO OUR SPONSOR!
Wade: NO LINUS GET OUT OF HERE!!!!
Wade talks about all these legends he looks up too, but he himself is a legend in his own right.
I LIKED THEM - sounded complex and nice
"Oh no! My cymbal has begun to crack!"
*Starts taping the crack*
oh my god how did i randomly stumble onto dankpods without stumbling onto dankpods