Not seen the video as I’m at work, but these drums are amazing. I’ve seen a few people with them over the years at various festivals. I play the djembe and they make a great melodic accompliment over the top. They’re quite expensive though. They also look like flying saucers.
The bit I enjoyed the most was spotting that this guy genuinely has egg boxes stuck to his wall!!!
It is very common DIY way of dumping the practice rooms walls, at least in my country.
I’ve never heard of this instrument though, are they called Hang Drums??
Yes, that is real name. People are also making it DIY way out of gas tanks. Sounds close but not the same. I believe proper tuning is not an easy task. I`ve seen how professionals doing it with pan drum.
I wanted to make one myself, but in my country we use different kind of gas tank. Its diameter is smaller and it has stand welded onto bottom. At first I thought it can be made out of barbecue top part as hang drum reminded me alot of it but Im not sure. Maybe is just important that individual cutout pieces are right size.
I wonder how many people that advocate the use of egg boxes actually have any scientific reasoning for doing so?? I don’t want to sound presumptuous, but the one thing I did learn in my Music Tech degree, was that egg boxes really, really suck for any sort of sound damping or diffusion. Their coefficient of absorption is too low to be an insulator, and the’re not dense enough to diffuse anything but the highest of high frequencies.
That said, they are probably better than nothing at all on a plastered wall, but even a thin carpet would be a lot better.
That said, they are probably better than nothing at all on a plastered wall, but even a thin carpet would be a lot better.
just enough so you don`t get annoying reverb.
That said, they are probably better than nothing at all on a plastered wall, but even a thin carpet would be a lot better.
Exactly. If you are teenager practicing in some atomic shelter or basement what else is better for the price. Sure, carpets are lot better but how many egg boxes you can actually buy for 1 square meter of carpet? Probably enough to dump whole practice room. That is the point. I dont say Manu Delago is some poor teenager that cannot afford real practice room, but reason why people are using these egg boxes is obvious. And, you dont need Music Tech degree to figure it out.
My point was that they provide so little damping, it’s not really worth the effort of gluing them to the damn walls!! Any thin cardboard will provide the same level of damping if fixed to the wall with a small airgap of say 25mm. Even then, the damping will only really be apparent for frequencies of above 10kHz.