How to convert from stands to a rack w/ Russ Miller

DW rack/hardware artist Russ Miller, gives a very informative and unique approach to converting your drum set-up from standard cymbal and tom stands, to the DW9000 series rack. How to layout, order, organize, setup and even mark for tear down are covered. Also, some great A/B demos of the sonic advantages of using a rack and other DW accessories are included. For more information on the DW9000 Series Rack please visit: www.dwdrums.com...
For more information on Russ Miller visit:
www.russmiller.com
Russ Miller is internationally known as one of the top drummers of today. As a Multi-Platinum recording artist, he has played on multiple Grammy® award winning recordings with combined sales of over 26 million copies. His musical versatility has led him to work with an incredible list of over 50 international artists from legends like Ray Charles, The Fifth Dimension, Natalie Cole, Tina Turner & Bobby Caldwell through modern stars, Nelly Furtado, The Psychedelic Furs, Hilary Duff, Steve Perry, Andrea Bocelli, Daniel Bedingfield and Meredith Brooks. As a star of the Los Angeles studio scene, the Modern Drummer Magazine Readers Poll has repeatedly voted Russ in the top 5 Studio Drummers in the world, including the 2015 Poll, where he was voted the #3 Session drummer. He has performed on more than 400 albums (including many #1 Billboard hits like Nelly Furtado's "Whoa Nelly" and Hilary Duff's "Metamorphosis"). Russ has also recorded for many T.V. shows and over 60 international movies (such as #1 box office titles like "Chicken Little", "Fracture", "Storks", "Resident Evil Apocalypse", "Percy Jackson" and the "Boondock Saints" series of movies, just to name a few). Along with his many sideman recording credits, he has been a staple on T.V. “house bands”. Such as “American Idol”, for all of their “Mentoring Sessions”. Russ also has four critically acclaimed solo albums, Cymbalism, Arrival, the Arrival Live concert DVD/CD and his latest "Chegada3" with the Arrival Trio. In addition, Russ performs educational clinics throughout the world for Mapex Drums, Zildjian, Remo, Vic Firth, DW racks and hardware, Zoom AV products, Porter & Davies Tactile monitoring, Hercules stands, May E/A Mics, Prologix, SKB cases, Arrel Audio Electronics, Puresound Snares, Cympad, Switchkick and Meinl music instruments, for which he maintains product endorsement relationships and multiple signature instruments. In October of 2014, Russ was awarded an “Honorary PHD” for “ sustained lifetime accomplishments that have benefited Drumming artistry and the Global Drumming community”, from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, in Shanghai, China. He is an official “Guest Professor” at the Shanghai Conservatory, the Beijing Music Academy and also has authored two books: The Drum Set Crash Course and Transitions. Along with his three videos, "Arrival-Behind The Glass" from Hudson Music, The Drum Set Crash Course and The Drum Set Crash Course Tuning Edition from Alfred Publications, Russ is a 7-time Modern Drummer readers poll winner. His solo projects were also voted the #1 educational books and videos in the world (2001-2004).

[@jong2340]

He says he’ll show how to List the clamps and fixing you’d need.......it seems the answer was to make a list of the clamps and fixings you’d need.....Genius

[@jamesnoblitt8127]

Great information. Thanks!

[@stephan-by8lt]

Very impressive setup and helpful video! Thanks a lot! 🙂

[@sticks4drums]

Very surprised to see you not promoting the new Saturn V mounts after you were so keen on them in the beginning.

[@aweblancodrumtube1146]

Very helpful and informative

[@joshcampbell7957]

I have a basic set up with a starter rack of the dw 9000 rack my kit is up in 20 down in 10 and i set it up and tear down by my self i am ordering more clamps to get my last couple cymbals on the rack

[@JETFILMCHANNEL]

Great video. And great idea for the snare mount.

[@edisonluisbonini7472]

Que bateria lindissima,cor mais bonita que eu ja vi

[@anthonyn1312]

Remember step by step!

[@rglickdrums]

Dw makes the best hardware

[@scotturban54]

Cool video

[@Roberto_Zaffaroni]

Sticks4drums, the new Saturnv mounts are really good looking and sounding mounts. They are based on suspension concept like rims but the difference is that here there is a 'rubber feet' that touch the shell. This, like other similar system, inhibit a little the 'floating effect' of rims system, bringing a slightlly more controlled resonance . Also important is the size of hole grommets that as to be larger than the suspension screw to assure the yoke. I personally have played for years a drumset using rims so i prefer that type of system. On the other hand you have to dampening in most of case when the resonance is exaggerated..The saturn v is more focused and controlled sounding set and need no much time to spend to miking it. This is my personal point of view

[@olebull9714]

During the day, do you work as a scaffolder?

[@insertmetalusernamehere]

Man, I guess I'm going to have to get a rack if I'm going to get all my toms up. I have to buy a rack plus and extra piece since I have double bass drums.

[@Roberto_Zaffaroni]

Hello, I would like to know how mounting the rims sistem on toms.. need a one more lug with screw on every tom right?

[@RussMillerDrums]

lunaticwarrior1 Hey! Uploading some more videos and saw this question. Yes, I replaced one Saturn with a "mount lug", one of the ones with the threads at the bottom for the mount screws. Then, the mount screws fit perfectly through the "RIMS" band mounts. You need three mount positions for the Gauger bands and four of them for the "generic" RIMS bands. Seriously is a completely different instrument using the band style mounts. New Mapex mounts are coming soon btw! Thanks for watching! Russ

[@Roberto_Zaffaroni]

Thank you so much! I always used rims system on my drums and noticed that the Saturn v could benefit a lot adopting this concept. I hope with new relases mounts and Mapex support i can further improve my set up! Sorry for my english and my nickname..i'm italian, don't know my nick was inconvenient. .:) i'm good guy!

[@anthonyn1312]

@@RussMillerDrums What is DW(drum workshop) lifter?

[@anguse2068]

"You're going to need memory locks for anything that could potentially slip". Or you could just buy a Pearl (square tubed) rack ;-)

[@christielhaver]

Agreed

[@arandommaggot4963]

Heck yea! Pearl for life!

[@Lakk6Metal]

I said in the beginning, PEARL RACK for me or just stands. I rig a lot and seen round tubes been damaged because of tightening here and there. I love my Pearl rack :)

[@ericstearns170]

Except for 2 things. The Pearl system is made of inferior aluminum that is prone to depressing and bending. 2. It's made by Pearl. (yuck)

[@anguse2068]

I have owned 4 different iterations of the Pearl rack over the years. Yes there can be VERY SLIGHT marks left in the aluminium tubing - visible if you reposition clamps - but it really is minor and cosmetic. But overall the Pearl rack is 100% dependable. I’m not saying that with any sense of brand loyalty - I have owned various brands of kit. And I’ll even admit that traditional stands are probably a cooler look. BUT for reliable, flexible and robust mounting nothing beats the Pearl racks in my opinion. And setup is so fast and precisely repeatable - I love that every tom and cymbal ends up EXACTLY the same relative positions every time and with no messing around trying to fit tripod bases around other stands or spurs and no trying to balance the load of toms mounted of cymbal stands. Finally, on anything above a small kit it’s probably less weight to lug than all those individual tripod stands.

[@sandrobch]

What tom mount system is that?

[@lefthook4878]

Looks like a Starcast mount system from Tama. The drums, at least the one bass said Mapex on it, which is a subsidiary of Tama. I wasn't sure about the drums themselves, wondering if a DW rack system is only suitable for DW drums, or if you could use it to mount any drums. Still not sure honestly

[@Slicklickz]

@@lefthook4878 Almost all rack systems use 1.5" tubing and components are all interchangable even between different manufacturers.

[@PeartDisicple481]

Who is the Ohio Players song

[@paulrox177]

This drum rack must have costed you like a $1000. i got lucky because some guy off craigslist sold me two "main package" set ups for $200. i still cant believe that

[@TempoDrift1480]

That's close to a $7000 rack. You figure every piece of that rack is no less than 60 bucks a piece.

[@lefthook4878]

Does this rack only mount DW drums?

[@TotalEvo7]

No, you can mount any drumset you want, as demonstrated here, Mapex Drums with a DW Rack.

[@anthonyn1312]

​@@TotalEvo7 Or even Spaun drums!

[@TotalEvo7]

@@anthonyn1312 Exactly

[@huarachudo47]

And now you need extra hour to mount your set up.

[@Lakk6Metal]

:) PEARL RACK for me Dude :)

[@AP02112]

Prototype Saturn Evolution tom mounts. Horrendous

[@jackwilczynski6957]

Memory locks are useless if you are smart and use a pearl icon rack

[@Slicklickz]

Meh.I'm not a big fan of propritary hardware systems.Pearl said the same thing about the square 80 series racks and look where they ended up.Also,the Icon rectangular sections are only the upper horizontal ones,the verticals are still 1.5" round tubing,and the bases use square tubing.So 3 different types of tubing on one rack.No thanks.