ah yes, different gear got different sound, if your case is like hydrofly's you need loads of EQ etc.
MWWBoy : triggering is like.. err.. imagine you know how live drums situation the snare mic doesn't ONLY pickup the snare? but pick up the kick/toms/hihat(especially). so this is called "mic bleed" , and most of the time live engineers use microphones that "noise gate" well and run gaters on the signal. to cut down on the bleed. in case you don't know what I mean what gate is -
tst = hihat
tak = snare
...= silence
live : tsttst-tak-tsttsttst-tak
gated : ...st-TAK!-ts.....st-TAK! (usually gates have compressors, so they increase the attack / ratio whatever to make the snare LOUDER and auto-fade off the hihat.)
so now, on triggers, sometimes if the song has alot of "ghost notes" which will screwup the "gate" or the guy simply just want pure snare sound no mic bleed. and rely on triggers. so when you mount triggers on the snare (for e.g)
trigger > the piezo-whatever thing picks up the vibration/hit on the snare > to a sound module (that generates whatever snare sound you want)
again :
(TUNK! = professionally recorded killer snare/killer mic/killer studio/killer mixing whatever-snare.wav)
live : tsttst-tak-tsttsttst-tak
trigger : ........-TUNK!.....-TUNK!...
sorry if i look dumb trying to explain this to you in laymans' terms. I don't know the theory on it , I just "see and understand the logic" of how it works. basically like how a guitar amp to a D.I line6 pod xt pro. this is like a real drumset to a "D.I" drums. it's electronic "drumsound" but using a real drumset.
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ryuxdragonx : trecool rocks. he's got the same birthday as I am hah. anyway your case, your guitarist is probably playing too soft, if no matter how your band members have brought down their volumes and you're hitting softer to a stage it feels unnatural. try this : take toilet paper, fold it into a square, paste it (like a big PLUS sign) on the cymbals with scotch tape (use the type that's easy to peel since you're at a jam studio) hopefully it'll dampen the loud cymbal ring. try even sticking on the part where you hit! then at least if the jam studio owner kaobeh ask why you stick crap on his cymbals, say you're a hard hitting drummer or the guitars cannot hear. so dampen then no need to blast the guitar amp, later spoil his amp he need to maintain. surely you can afford scotchtape + chunks of toilet paper right?
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