Making Old Drums Sound/Look Like New Drums

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[@EMCproductions]

8:34 You're welcome.

[@beaumartin366]

Gotta lube up today and change some tenor heads woo

[@marcelszekowski315]

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[@sterlingsmith8307]

Thank you, I needed this.

[@falsehoods8074]

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[@drummerjason]

😂😂😂😂

[@NapleStar]

EMC, i wanted to know that your YT channel is making our school bands better with the useful content you make. I thank you for the content, music, improve, your hidden youtube channel’s rip off friday night funkin’ gaming, and your positive attitude in the videos!

[@jackpazdernik]

hi i love you

[@EMCproductions]

You're the first comment. So I heart you back.

[@jackpazdernik]

@@EMCproductions keep grinding man❤️ AND LUBE UP

[@bigberd3680]

I love you too Jack

[@jackpazdernik]

@@bigberd3680 thanks man

[@J80.]

This is so sweet 🥲

[@beaumartin366]

Wow this is actually exactly what I need today. I have been fixing up all our drums since they got pretty messed up during the hurricane. Currently working on our basses, and this is literally exactly what I was doing. This video is a pretty helpful guide for people who have never done this before. But now I’m curious about that mapex…

[@beaumartin366]

@INFINITE REPTILES 🦎🦎🐍🐍🐢🐢🐊🐊 Ida, our school is destroyed from it and we are going half and half at another school. So I go to school at 12:30 and get home at 5:30 now

[@TheLil3K]

@@beaumartin366 Oh god! My school was heavily affected by Ida but we were only out for a week and a half and back on normal schedule. Hopefully it gets better soon, sorry to hear that it's so bad. I assume you live closer to Laplace/NOLA or maybe even further south. Those places were destroyed

[@beaumartin366]

@@TheLil3K oh yeah… im down in montegut and bourg. And the school we have to go to now is in grey, which is sorta around the Houma area. So thats an hour + long bus ride t get to school every morning. Places down here had it pretty bad but everyone is slowly cleaning stuff up. Everyone helps everyone out and we are making progress

[@AndrewSzypula]

@@beaumartin366 I'm the assistant director of bands at Tulane, I also marched with EMC, shoot me a DM and let me know if there's anything we can do to help y'all. We have plenty of spare parts for Yamaha drums on hand and materials/experience to do plenty of what Eric describes in this video.

[@beaumartin366]

@@AndrewSzypula woah thats awesome. While our actual new Pearl championship drums were stuck in our broken school, Nichols gave us their entire old line of old pearls. Now, they are NOT the best drums, like the tenors don’t even have spocks, but it got us through football season, and our actual drums should be ready for parade season. Thank you for offering, that’s very kind of ya. My tenor drum and a snare harness went missing, and it’s pretty much assumed that my drum got stolen, so we ordered a new one that should come in in a few months. Covered by the insurance. If you are wondering I go to south terrebonne, if you know that school, and the school itself is destroyed. Like the whole roof came off. Along with Ellender. So we are platooning to HL Bougious for the time being. Just went to marching showcase yesterday to watch all the band’s performances. Sadly south terrebonne snd ellender were the only schools unable to perform a show, but next year we should be super prepared. But I have been servicing all the rusted hardware and making sure we get the right replacement parts. Our drums look good now after I cleaned and polished them and my instructor Josh is gunna help me tune them with new heads when we need them. He has perfect pitch so I like just letting him do it lol. If we happen to need anything in a pinch, I might reach out to you later. Thanks!

[@LOGs502]

Takes me back to my high school drumline days. I was quad section leader / drumming mechanic lol. The drums we had were really old and sounded so terrible. I'd taken so many drums home to fix. The bass drums were so bad that they were beyond repair (wraps were toast, lugs were pitted from lack of using covers, hoops were chewed up and warped as were the shells so tuning them was impossible.) They were basically firewood and scrap metal lol.

[@ferretyluv]

How much did you get for the scrap metal?

[@kishascape]

That’s why you get fiberglass ones.

[@frankspikes7858]

When I got into high school drum I was half way privileged. Lol. We had the Ludwig mirror gold finish marching drums from the 80s Santa Clara vanguard. They were in decent condition. I'm not sure how many of each type of drum we had. When cleaned, reheaded, and tuned up... holy smokes those drums were cool!

[@ScottBaietti]

shock twist ending. The Xymox stuff was inside of the 18" drum.

[@G60syncro]

No... it was shipped to the barracks and returned to sender...

[@gavin_bigred]

@@G60syncro bruhhhhhh what the hell

[@micahtld]

Quality of this video is SO GOOD , the editing everything about it! youre doing awesome

[@TylerDunphy]

I’ve tried this with a crappy low end field drum. Now it sounds like a field drum, but newer.

[@RedDogMamaHD]

Video 2 of Loopy Grandma asking Lil' Peanut to play Wipe Out by the Ventures!!! Must be dressed as a Surfer Dude with appropriate special effects! ... I know you are very creative, so I expect something EPIC!

[@ferretyluv]

SECOND!

[@brendenwilliams6000]

Go to the end of November and then get it trimmed/cleaned up, but you should definitely keep it 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼

[@marcuswoodard7494]

Yo, I gotta say your work ethic is incredible. You make me feel lazy lol. Keep up the great work !

[@marktegrotenhuis]

Remo Powermax heads are great. I have them too (in black/Ebony) on my own bass drums , but because I use low tuning I had to add extra muffling along the edges of the shell to get a more controlled and less ringy sound.

[@CasondraM]

Loved the video and editing! I'm sure you'll get plenty of use from these drums and it'll be completely worth the effort! I'm looking forward to more videos~!

[@RyanAlexanderBloom]

Tried to pull out an 18” bass from the old discard pile (middle school) so my high school line could run 5 bass. Put fresh heads on and tuned it up. It sounded fine but the counter hoop would actually slip off the flesh hoop partially and the thing would drop like an octave. Definitely out of round on the hoop or the drum or both. We are going to put it back in the pile and run 4 bass next season. Not worth the hassle/risk.

[@glitzelph7050]

Your editing and camera skills have majorly improved over these past couple years, keep up the good work!

[@gianbailey969]

Video 2 of commenting until EMC makes a front ensemble out of spocks

[@simon_ferreira]

A 4 octave marimba made out of spocks, my god that would be expensive

[@onelessowl]

drumset & concert bass included

[@miless17]

@@onelessowl and timpani

[@thomashicks6750]

Your hard work absolutely paid off! You’re the pro!!

[@gavinmorey7297]

I love the quality of this video. It was very well made. Thank you for this great vid

[@RedDogMamaHD]

So glad that you are going to the gym, even if you are sweaty and disgusting! or sweaty and nasty , or sweaty as usual. The best thing is every time you come home, there's a package outside your front door!

[@Hipiam]

Awesome and funny. Glad you're back making the hilarious stuff again. Cheers!

[@jasonstahl1244]

Awesome video! I agree popping bubble wrap is very satisfying.

[@brando8174]

Very good, thank you EMC

[@SocialReject7903]

I’m happily watching this during class :)

[@jeffreymateo6200]

Nice job Marine, wish I were close enough to lend you a hand in refurbishing your bass drums. BTW…I enjoy my Mapex Snare Drum. Sgt Mateo, Ret

[@kumarvlogs837]

This guy is awesome 😂 love to relate in marching

[@jalakor]

This was pretty satisfying to me ngl, thanks :)

[@clcheatw]

Very informative for a low brass player. Thanks!

[@agastyasharma2612]

Also informative for a woodwind like me :)

[@xytkarntnua8651]

Could you do a future video comparing white bass drum heads vs black bass drum head? Maybe even the clear ones if you really wanted too

[@NkProdTV]

10:37 from the lil preview screen in FCPX, that Mapex snare gon look hella sick

[@00Kie00]

Drummer and drumsmith extraordinaire!

[@tylermoore5659]

You should make one for tenors, I just found some old pearl tenors I wanna make right again!!

[@puregreenelawncare4500]

Truly beautiful

[@elliusagi]

After one week binge watching, Subbed. I want to come to clean that yard 😂

[@jasonswayden9802]

you can use Ospho for rust. I use it on car part rust. May work good on drum hardware

[@jeffgrube9448]

Would love to see how you muffled the drums & how much you used in each drum to create that perfect sound!

[@frankspikes7858]

Hey Eric cool video. My brother has that same lineup of bass drums. Pearl carbonply.

[@dareyes3366]

Man these look EXACTLY like they might be our old set from 2008 Blue Knights!!!

[@dallasshannon4511]

Semper Fidelis bro, beard is coming togeather lol slow but surely lol

[@cloudrunner321]

EMC should start his own indoor drumline or something. Yes I do know that he has his charactes but I mean with other people.

[@ferretyluv]

He volunteers part time for an indoor drum line in Israel.

[@jonathanburg9496]

Civilian and now nasty AF. Love it!

[@sass6680]

that one fast bit sounds a little like victor wooten's classical thump :D

[@justinmcgraw7116]

My school just recently got those pearl drums used and looks exactly like ours

[@MaskTheTruth1111]

I like your Package.... Especially the Zildjian A’s

[@wyatta6528]

I personally would’ve taken the approach of rust treating that rusty hardware with WD-40 and dry lubricant. Rdavidr has a video on it. Love the vid though!!!!

[@hengruic7600]

hi :D love your videos

[@ianrose6514]

One of the rims on the bass 1 at my school and is just taped back together

[@liamgaming2504]

10:36 you can see the snare drum in top left corner if you zoom in

[@jobelthecoolkid]

Emc drum restore videos are awesome

[@michaelwemhoff7577]

I love unboxings and reviewings your videos are the coolest est est est videos gOOD mORNING My grammer good

[@leshaunx]

good morning, thank you for showing us your big package and how to properly use lube.

[@darthvader9969]

9:44 nice of the Eric clones to show up to help with tuning

[@greatballzoffire]

Reminds me of back in the day when wed have breakdown day. God I miss that bassline.

[@drumcorps0junkie]

I also have 5 2005 Carbonply bass drums and 1 set of quints from the Santa Clara Vanguard when Jeff Fiedler was CEO back in 2011. I wish we could meet up and drum together.

[@davidbruner2695]

Favorite bass drum cadence....next to Cavalier's IOWA.

[@michellepalmer6381]

ok the slo-mo lube shots had me cackling!

[@un3pical]

Sometimes I watch your videos just to hear you say "good morning" then i watch the rest of it the next day when Im sober.

[@samuelharmoko250]

Our drums were from like 1991 until we upgraded to Mapex this year. Except for me who was lucky in 2023 indoor to get the 2016 tenors since the set before it weren’t round anymore

[@terrance7300]

This would've been a great collab with rdavidr! Guy would've cleaned off all the gunk from those lugs haha

[@USMCBugleBoy]

Good morning! ☀️

[@dominicperna8048]

ok i’m sorry… but.. this is the first video of EMC i have seen in a long long time and… i legit didn’t recognize his for the first few minutes of the video😂

[@Luke_Cullen]

Aye my school has the same exact drums, the carbon ply shells are so sexy

[@cam0227]

My school uses remo 3 ply drumhead and one of our players put a big ass dent in it somehow

[@L0CV5T]

Lets go im boutta do this shit with my whole schools drumline.

[@tsreeves.percussion1933]

Hype for that Mapex snare!

[@AtomousDrumsOfficial]

EMC joining the mapex marching snare fam. #hype

[@heggotheeggo1674]

Your amazing

[@WIP3002]

you should do a review on the Tru Tuner Rapid Tuner!

[@broken_sticks1880]

Video number 2 of commenting of every single that emc does until he does this idea you should make a marching snare practice pad with a real drum head and add a snare sound to give it some realism

[@vicentehizon6202]

Magnifico

[@carsonmills3695]

Good video

[@riotingryan4195]

First hour gang also nice idea with No Shave November

[@jamesrocha1510]

You look like my second band director with the beard

[@NATcha94]

These spoiled kids and their bass stands, we would’ve never lost a rubber stopper 🥺

[@samsignorelli]

Because you balanced your bass on a trash can??

[@NATcha94]

@@samsignorelli wobbly two chair method until everyone just resigned themselves to always wearing the drum

[@Crispy_22]

Nice beard m'dude

[@Shortround8apieSkitsandMore]

Hey emc I have a question. How much of the muffling strips do you suggest putting in the heads for outdoor playing?

[@IceBass29]

Yeaaaaahhh… not a super big fan of the felt-holding inner rings. I’ve yet to see them stay in. Thoughts on muffling inside the heads vs. visible muffling around the rims with AC weather seal foam strips?

[@insertchannelnamehere632]

I almost had a heart attack lol

[@ZCDRUMZ]

You should make a snare and tenor to match.

[@radicaliti4181]

EMC: Have a good morning Me who is watching this at 12:23AM:

[@duccay3886]

Have you seen the patriots play though? I heard they were insane! Would be an insane collab if he played with patriots.

[@016_]

0:12, I'm tryna figure out how to make that BEARD GO AWAY 😂

[@Drootookuulfoskuul]

Someone needs to do a ten-hour version of white boy smooth

[@dano5649]

Lol I haven’t watched your videos in a long time so when I saw your beard like that I was worried for your health.

[@BudderBoyz]

10:37 lol we can see the snare drum in your editing window

[@ChurchOfTheHolyMho]

Bass 4? (second lowest) had both nice resonance and attack clarity after the new heads / muting / tuning. at least to my non-drumline ears.

[@wulicny]

BTW, nice spinning wheel in the shot at 2:19. Creating your own yarn for an afghan?

[@tylermoore5659]

Holy the beard caught me off guard

[@MikeS-ur2ql]

Marched mapex in college & love the sound of their shells. Such a crisp crack on their snares. In high school we used metal rims on our basses. Any preference on rims?

[@jackargie1092]

We use the edge of the of the stick holder which is medal. Eats the mallet up much more but it’s a lot cheaper to replace a mallet then a whole rim.

[@MikeS-ur2ql]

@@jackargie1092 my hs used the horrible white plastic stick holders.

[@Harry-cz1tv]

Hey where can you get those clicker/mallet holder combo?

[@floatdude]

Grease the washers and head of the tension rods, so it cranks up easier, and cuts down squeaky noises. And wax the bearing edges so the head crank up without pulling a head. Don't forget to re tighten up the lug casting bolts. And use car wax on everything to shine up the drums up and slow down rusting.. Advice for other drum lines working their drums.

[@IceBass29]

YES! Wax those edges!

[@milojohnson3057]

Eric entering his rdavidr period

[@4cylwes]

What's with the fire ass back tracks for the montages?

[@thIDthIRreenactor]

EMC, my school has early 2000s Yamaha field customs, and our snares like to de tune a lot (once snares are set after a few weeks the snare will deepen and turn into a tom sound) is it the tightness of our heads or are the drums just getting old

[@mbrenneman0411]

you should do a reaction video to the kyoto tachibana SHS marching band

[@thearsonistlink]

Doesn't everyone love old rusty hardware? The squeaks, creaks, and leaks as you try to work on it is quite trademark... but then lube was created.

[@ethansmusic9898]

Make the Drums Great Again!

[@rykr9275]

10:36 I was spoiled by the media viewer in the top left! lol

[@Scrappy-gm9tc]

Did you by chance get these from Lafayette high in Louisiana?

[@madisont3123]

Have you ever done any percussion work in an orchestral setting or considered it? Do you have any ideas to make a video about orchestral percussion?

[@ferretyluv]

He’s said he did orchestral drumming in college. He complained that it was boring because he’d play like one note or so for the whole piece.

[@gdadhd4775]

Preparing the rdavidr cosplay

[@drumsandmusic1980]

rdavidr Jr. in the making.