The floppiest cymbal ever made.

[@aimeefarmer2705]

its the cymbal version of wobbling a laminated sheet of paper!

[@arcaears]

Just a little round thunder sheet

[@blujay9191]

@@arcaears .. My thoughts too.

[@Novel_Poe]

Or wood as I found

[@TheOriginalGabberjaw]

And you can hear that plastic sheet shpund all the way while you play on it.

[@aimeefarmer2705]

@@arcaears omg you're so right!

[@XogoWasTaken]

7:05 I love that you can *hear* the wobble. It's background hiss isn't just a hiss, you can hear the wave travelling across it.

[@Friendly_Neighborhood_Dozer]

Before that point, I already thought "this thing sounds like someone turned a thunderstorm into a cymbal"

[@pudnik2410]

It kind of sounds like it has a "Wah-wah" effect

[@arcaears]

It's like a regular cymbal got routed through a phaser

[@pr.dr.nachtigaller5154]

I hear the sound of a shell in mario kart

[@blakksheep736]

wowowowowowowowowo

[@Cariboogie]

I read the title. I was still unprepared for this degree of flopiness.

[@notomovestoomuch]

Not even 10 seconds in and Frank's already given someone an existential crisis

[@GavinoGotIt]

Fax 😂😂

[@slightlyevolved]

That's not a cymbal, that's someone flopping around some thin sheet metal to make thunder noises for a school play.....

[@bobhadp]

LoL😂😂😂😂

[@just_limerence]

Wade whenever he send us into Boring Time: "I'm so sorry guys, it stinks, but I have to give context!" Me when we get sent to Boring Time:" OH FINALLY, MY FAVORITE PART"

[@DanteTorn]

Same.

[@Blankult]

He sounds like the kind of guy to say "i'm so quirky! lol" to the most normal things

[@machinegunlament]

I want an entire channel of boring time

[@ferretyluv]

Yeah, me too! I love the boring stuff! More boring time, please!

[@SissypheanCatboy]

@@Blankult tf are you yammering about?

[@Koisheep]

ONly on the drum thing we use both traffic signs and pancakes as cymbals

[@FearThePegasus]

The cymbal equivalent of the Skullcandy Crushers. Is it practical? No. Is it a ton of fun? Yes.

[@dissatisfiedgamer7436]

fucking cymbal came with cave reverb pre-installed

[@aguy-beats]

😂 lol thats so true tho

[@R.J._Lewis]

Not a percussionist (unless you count my car's steering wheel), but your floppy cymbal sounds like it's trying to do a drunk impression of a thundsrstorm. "Hehehehe guys! Listen! PSHHHHHwubwubwublubwub! Hehehehe nailed it!"

[@andrea_frm_dubt8977]

Yup. My cat hates thunderstorms, he really isn’t enjoying this video.

[@Crafterchen2]

😂

[@CobraDBlade]

If you've got the time for it I would love a "Complete Dingus's Guide to Drum Bits" video series, explaining the differences between the drum and cymbal types, what it means for something to sound "dry" or "dark". I've heard a good amount of the terms before and sort of know what they mean from context but having a proper explanation would be great. If you've already done this in earlier videos just call me a dingus and that I smell worse than Frank.

[@MBVid1]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYLIgnpsi6qVgc0

[@That_Emi_]

there's only one of those that I really know of off the top of my head, that being there's a vid on him going over Dryness in his earliest cymbal vid on here, but I know there's a few videos of him going over a few other cymbal quirks, namely material differences like he did in this video, or size difference. I still would love a long form "what does it mean when he says this" video just for the education alone though

[@NEEDbacon]

YESSS, give us all the boring bits in a one stop shop so we know what you're talking about the rest of the time.

[@xandersthoughts]

Hammerax makes some WEIRD cymbals. Which means lots of fun. I’m guessing Frank says nothing.

[@BJsTrashChannel]

Good job Frank.

[@vanderhoofenzhein]

Clicked on this random recommendation because I wanted to watch a cymbal review. Stuck around to see how far the crazy antics were going and got pleasantly surprised.

[@Mini_Celeste]

If you've never watched Wade's other channels (Dankpods, Garbage Time, Hello I'm Gaming!, Dankmus) then well, you're in for a treat!

[@baabaabaa-El]

Do you own a Daihatsu...dya want one!!?!!

[@selfsatisfiedred]

Never in my life have I heard vibrato on a non digital percussion instrument Edit: I forgot the vibraphone exists but still Double edit: turns out a vibraphone is technically tremolo

[@alanduncan1980]

Ever hear of a vibraphone?

[@nickbarrow2805]

The vibraphone has motors to turn vibrato on or off. You’re right, this is one of the only unassisted vibratos I’ve heard on a percussion instrument.

[@Chris-mc2dt]

Flexatone

[@danw9403]

@@nickbarrow2805 You can get vibrato on a glockenspiel or triangle by waving

[@ascetix444]

I'm glad u brought this up because vibrato and glissandos on traditionally stiff instruments is one of my favorite parts of physical modeling synthesis. Dramatic bends on bells are so strange and it's great to see one of my favorite digital techniques realized in physical space.

[@TheAwey21]

DUDE IT'S NOT BORING I LIKE TO LEAAAARN STUFF

[@matthew_ferguson]

You can literally hear the 26" paper thin crash literally goes BONK when you hit the bell. lol

[@cabnbeeschurgr]

The fact that you can *hear* the wobbles is so funny

[@quartzofcourse]

Sound is just wobbly air

[@amoreuxzero]

that Frank Time screen is one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen

[@shiningarmor2838]

I miss Hammerax, for the longest time I wanted to get one of those giant boomywangs of theirs but I never had the money.

[@kronolul2490]

Thank you for giving us Americans proper unit conversion we can understand

[@NEEDbacon]

Unironically I could understand what he meant.

[@graniteoverworld8955]

If only Wade knew I would pay actual money for weekly dedicated Boring Time. I love learning from this Dingus. He inspired me to become a drummer (I've been a guitarist for 15 years), and his passion is infectious. I've been trying to collect broken cymbals to repair cause of him lol

[@cappo_nz]

These are all cuts from his stream on Floatplane, you can watch regular extra length stuff there

[@twint9]

oh god i LOOOOOOOVED Hammerax. when I used to play drums I saw the Meanie (a gong shaped like a long face) in the drum store I went to while taking lessons and I was infatuated with the company. They made the coolest cymbals ever, they were almost like art objects. Once I bought a cymbal that had bumps on the top you could roll your stick over, and it had a really cool effect. I played that cymbal like it was a gift from the heavens, but unfortunately it cracked easily so it didn't take long for the sound to be completely ruined :( They also had a line of little stacker/effects cymbals, and for many years I had an 11" Chisel sitting on my kit until the day I stopped playing. It's got to be the thing that's been on my drum kit the longest, or maybe it's my rototoms, I dunno. Hammerax was a great company, they made some amazing cymbals, then disappeared off the face of the earth. And that's a real damn shame.

[@MichaelMarucci]

Hahaha you can literally the wobblewobblewobble, I can't unhear it no matter what music it's being played with. The wobble layer is always there.

[@5oclock_Charlie]

These videos are such chaos yet little Pockets of knowledge. I LOVE IT!

[@The_random_transbian]

That symbal looks like the equivalent to playing a very stiff sheet of aluminium foil and I love it.

[@1Milo37]

Some say, it's still wobbling to this day.

[@KeegoTheWise]

a cymbal that wobbly sounding would kill in psych music and super woozy jazz, but i’m honestly struggling to think of another use case where i wouldn’t prefer a more “rigid” disc for lack of a better term

[@davegrimes3385]

How do you know there's a drummer at the front door? The knocking gets faster and they don't know when to come in.

[@HylianShieldmaiden]

His jiggling is almost hypnotic. Yes. It's like a lava lamp.

[@RocketboyX]

It has its own tape delay echo built in.

[@aaronfontaine6961]

Poor zildjian sign...

[@ToasterTheLad]

it looks like it's made out of rubber, I let out a belly laugh seeing it be hit

[@senthemink]

I really like the way it sounds. Not for gigs, but I could see that shining in some shoegazey stuff with the volume turned up digitally

[@NickkAtNyte]

The cymbal does the ~~~~~~~~

[@Capin91]

Hi Dank, I have to say your powers and amazing vibes have genuinely inspired me to pick up two sticks again, and while my kit is long gone,(and was always bad😂) I still have sticks and a practice pad and poor innocent objects around the house to hit and I put on a favorite drum track(Fool in the Rain in this case) and boy I felt the thing thank you😭 never stop smashing things

[@illuminate4]

I can't wait for when Wayne gets around to sampling and publishing all these super unique drums and cymbals

[@NebulaClad]

No matter how many times I was assured this thing was floppy, I still recoiled when its true power was revealed. Feels perfect for Tame Impala/Connan Mockasin style psych rock. It sounds drunk.

[@isaactown2677]

I love how Wade’s incorporated The Drum Thing into the floatplane streams. I do hope he keeps going with the other style of videos they’re also fun

[@sphelx]

You are such an absolute joy to watch mate.

[@Gunbudder]

you can literally hear the modulation of the tone as it flops! i've never seen a cymbal that captured that effect before. it really does sound like someone playing a saw or sheet metal

[@JSterling812]

That 26 bell has a thunkiness to it that is very unique, I think it'd work

[@user-ii8rq8zo2o]

4:28 I really wanna see 2 of those in a set of hi hats 😂

[@baorozzo]

I have an Hammerax, a 24” flat ride! Love it, but hard to use because it sounds like a white background noise.

[@admhavc5487]

More cymbal talk lets goooo

[@keksiman7203]

Never cared about drum stuff or cymbals. Still don't but you can make this so interesting it's wild 😂

[@trashaccount3642]

this is by far my favorite cymbal uve shown me. the reverb of it is so fun

[@DaisyHead666]

I can think of so many places where this would be really useful. I love thin cymbals despite not owning any (Im broke and my drums are all 20 years old and been in a shed for like 10 of those years) because of their darker sound. The dark cymbal sound fits so well with heavier styles of music that are slow and need that low, droning kinda sound.

[@mikefancy2466]

The only thing washier to the ears is listening to a garden hose

[@MetalLegacy34]

That tom part you just pulled out of nowhere at 8:36 was siiiiiiiick, trying to do left hand accents on the beat in a pattern like that kicks my ass lol

[@djDTOUR]

Hammerax cymbals were always on my short list of cymbals I had to have, but I’ve never had the money or the opportunity to buy one. I loved the boomywang, and I can get a similar sound out of .020” blue tempered shim stock. The bash is the one cymbal they had that boggled my mind. Check out Andrew McCauley. He had an album where he made some really non traditional beats using the hammerax stuff called, “your brain on drums.”

[@joetrollson]

Easily my most re-watched video in the whole Dankverse. Freakin' awesome.

[@StookyBill]

thank you for never editing out frank time, thats the mark of quality.

[@kaitlyn__L]

I could see the wobble after you attached it, but I bet the “motion extraction” technique Posy outlined would be useful going in the future :) it just involves duping and inverting the video, just like a phase inversion subtraction in audio. Then you also offset it by like. 1-50 frames and it highlights all the motion within the offset time frame 😊

[@MetalGearMk2]

The liquid cymbal accompanys smooth songs so well. That watery sounding effect after the hit is so relaxing

[@PlebPhurgusson]

Gorgeous! Must be perfect for SFX 😮

[@nram3930]

I love most everything that was made by Hammerax, such unique cymbals and instruments - shame they went under (at least... I think they did..? Cant find much info on it, but production seems to have died down), all these are like unobtanium now (and I can't afford one...)

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

Pat Mastelotto probably has all of them at this point.

[@Quandaledingle-ge6tc]

As an American, I really appreciated the conversion to hamburgers, I knew exactly how much of a truck bed would be filled by 2.46 McDonalds cheeseburgers. This then allowed me to convert space used in truck bed, to 9 MM. bullets, of which there is an approximate difference of 2; between the two cymbals of course.

[@anidiot4702]

this is the dumbest comment ive ever read and i love it

[@SheepUndefined]

One thing I love doing on servers with people in other countries is unironically working out how much an average bald eagle wingspan is, or 1/49th of a football field is, and use those, pretending those are the actual American units of measurement. The weird part is, I've fooled more than one person with that!

[@ImAFutureGuitarHero]

It sounds like if you combined a cymbal with a rotary speaker

[@pibyte]

I know nothing about drums - but thanks to your videos - everytime I hear music now I can't help but be extra aware of the cymbals and how they sound. Crazy.

[@Elena-c5c]

Wow, what a beautiful cymbal. I love how the wobble adds to the noise of it giving a background frequency. Really comes alive in those quieter songs

[@CantankerousDave]

Thanks for including the US units of measurement.

[@zecchouband]

I love it SOOOO much. Never did I think that a single cymbal would make me want to pick up the drums.

[@jakewestbrook3214]

quietness aside, this is definitely one of the coolest sounding discs you've shown so far

[@xhq82395]

That 26" crash is such a vibe. I'd kill to hear some ambient music with that.

[@inventorsyndrome8894]

I actually kinda like this cymbol - scratch that - I love it - the 26 inch paper thin ride

[@tkmusic6376]

that crash of doom actually works surprisingly well in a jazz context

[@Seffyr]

Surely something this wobbly deserves a good ol' "Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport"

[@notsogoodbassplayer]

I love how the wobble is creating a rhythm of its own from the reverberation, really cool

[@andimcc6131]

It sounds like a low bitrate mp3… it is somehow reproducing mp3 artifacts acoustically. Amazing

[@asura_dayooo]

ngl. the first groove with the floppy boi was heaps groovy. really gives it like a phasing dj scratch-like effect

[@ChaosPootato]

It's quite cool. Especially in the parts where you can hear the wobble sound, it's very unique

[@reverendray3036]

The moment where the song unexpectedly switches gets the most Garbage Network kinda reaction we could’ve hoped for.

[@confusedcryptid]

I'm kinda new to drums but I didn't know that Constantinople Rides were jazz rides! Jimmy Chamberlin from The Smashing Pumpkins used one during Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness! I guess it makes sense considering he is also a jazz drummer.

[@bentilley5412]

Cosy chaos. Also, stuff that wobbly doesn't usually work that good. Kudos to the big floppy pancake.

[@Cosmo3038]

You have been the thing that has got me back into my drumming

[@david-gabrielpop5344]

Can we just appreciate what a good drums player Jake is? Those drum noises!

[@vinish8311]

I really like the new format, Wade!

[@tubee1811]

Floppy time

[@YetAnotherGeorgeth]

“Oooh yeah, look at that floppy cymbal fly!”

[@LongPeter]

It’s a cymbal with wow and flutter.

[@tylerscott9329]

I love the Wash this liquidity cymbal makes for softer music, would be great for smaller venues too.

[@xreasezanmoody7633]

Those cymbal tosses caused me immeasurable physical and spiritual pain😢!

[@galactic-hamster7043]

DAMN NEW DRUM THING I was just rewatching all your old ones lessgo

[@PhillipSlaymaker-n1p]

Cool demonstration neighbor the floppy's symbals action I'm waiting to hear after you assemble the rivets action sizzling on the flopping. Cool. 🥁👍😎

[@joecooltasker]

Legend has it, it's still wobbling to this day

[@xyanide1986]

I picked up a floppy flopper just last Saturday! 2nd hand istanbul trash hit 22", love the sound of that thing. Masterwork makes some great stuff too, pretty affordable.

[@Wampa842]

Mate, you have no idea how much I'd want to watch a three-hour-long video essay on the metallurgy of music.

[@SGresponse]

On the second jazz song, I swear, I could HEAR THE WOBBLE. AWESOME.

[@DavidStachura-t5u]

This is quality content wade you are the best!

[@Dispozer]

It’s called “liquicy ride” because it looks like you’re drumming a plate made of water

[@eclairwolf]

can't believe they managed to capture the look of a guy getting slapped in the face in extreme slowmo as a cymbal

[@eclairwolf]

jello-ass cymbal i love it

[@kittycatcrunchie]

It actually sounds so good wth, I honestly think it did better than the Zildjian at the jazz

[@reggiesicle]

That thing sounds awesome, the extra wobble after the hit adds a great effect

[@aaronsudasna]

The hammeraxe sounds great, it sounds like it is riveted. The masterworks cymbal sounds great too

[@BJsTrashChannel]

A good sounding cymbal? Finally!

[@oddsocks]

I like how when the song started playing he looked like a grandad trying to comprehend his grandsons music

[@yippeeclawyay2591]

This is literally one of my highschool's rides, crazy fun to use

[@Brannington]

rest in peace, John Bonham. you would've loved the 26" Hammerax Liquicy Ride

[@TheLifeOfJavi]

This is the kind of chaotic energy that gives me life.

[@drake7709]

All three rides when he played the jazz sounded life changing 😩