Wood is an orthotropic material. It has three mutually perpendicular axes: longitudinal, radial and tangential. This makes wood (depending on the cellular structure of the various kinds) incredibly strong and resilient. Wood is awesome.
When it comes to acoustic performance the quality of sound is dependent on three things:
1) Density
2) Young's Modulus
3) Loss Coefficient
These three determine:
1) The speed of the sound within the material (drummers call the audible experience of this phenomenon sustain and decay).
2) Eigenfrequencies (drummers call this the note of the drum; as when the shell of a drum is struck).
3) Intensity of radiated sound (drummers call this projection).
Each type of wood used in drum construction presents differences in these qualities: Maple, birch, oak, bubinga, etc. Hickory, oak and maple are common woods used for stick design.
For example, birch tends to be more dense than maple, and has a faster speed within the material, this gives birch drums a fast, warm attack, with a quick decay. Studio engineers love birch drums because the sound is what they call controllable: no need for gating on toms and kicks because the drums do not ring out as much as a maple kit might. Look at some studio picks, see all that duct tape and / or towels on the drum kit? Maple.
19 August 2015
28 July 2015
The End of Soundcloud (as a viable music platform for independent artists)
Well, Soundcloud is going under.
More on the end of Soundcloud. The major labels have tactically bankrupted them by forcing them into court, and now the service is going to subscription payments. This is because the majors accused the company of hosting "pirated" music. But most of the artists I know of on SC are making original music and were just looking for a forum to share it with the world.
The Major labels really are scum.
Looks like Bandcamp or some kind of We Transfer (https://www.wetransfer.com/) thing will have to be my new tactic.
Soundcloud News update: as of January 2016. It's nice to be wrong sometimes.
Soundcloud News update: as of January 2016. It's nice to be wrong sometimes.
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