I got a Yamaha EAD 10 recently— a popular interface/recording device for making drum cover videos. It’s suddenly clear why there has been such a proliferation of those videos— there’s infrastructure for it now. You can really do it with just the EAD 10, a phone and phone app, and a drum set.
It’s pretty cool, getting a reasonably decent recorded sound from the drums with just a little unit that clips on to the bass drum hoop. It has a lot of audio effects and triggering capability, which aren’t of much interest to me. I’ll do a more detailed post on it soon.
I may as well share some videos I’ve made while figuring out the device, and my set up— like this one, playing along with a loop sampled from the intro of Herbie Hancock’s Watermelon Man, from Headhunters:
The first part is drums and loop, at 4:50 you hear it again with the drums soloed.
Here’s another one of me playing with a longer sampled section of Tunji, from the John Coltrane album Coltrane. Drums are soloed after 5:18.
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