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2Box Drumit 5 MIII rack

Started by Murgen, October 27, 2012, 11:38:58 AM

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Murgen

I bought Boekhour's MkI rack and used components to upgrade my MkII rack to MkIII!  :rock:


Untitled by murgentemplar, on Flickr

With 4 Gibraltar clamps I added a front and a side tube to my rack. I use the front bar to fixate the bass-drum and I use the sidebar as second bar to mount the module. This way I make room for an extra tom.


Untitled by murgentemplar, on Flickr

With an extra front-bar it is very easy to fixate the bass-drum. I use a Gibraltar multi-clamp and the rod from a bass-drum cowbell mount from Pearl.


Untitled by murgentemplar, on Flickr

The rod ends in a foot with rubber to protect the bass-drum hoop and I removed the rest.


Untitled by murgentemplar, on Flickr

The result is a bass-drum safely secured and very stable. The extra bars add strength to the rack. All together I paid 105 EURO for 5 clamps and the costs for the second hand MkI rack from Boekhour (thanx, bro for the fast delivery). The rod was in my drum-cabin since 2004.


More info and pic's on request.
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2Box Drumit 5 Mk2 since 2012

boekhour

I + II = III!

Murgen, you're welcome! Good thing I didn't bring those tubes to the scrapyard ;-), when antohter person can be made happy with it. The combination of the two racks (extra horizental bar) makes it sturdier I think.

Looks very nice. Well done, my friend!


Murgen

Thank you, and I have enough tubes or another MkIII.  ;)
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2Box Drumit 5 Mk2 since 2012

tower of p

hey murgan,

the idea with the extra tube for the bassdrum is very good. you write that you have a tube (big one) left? would you sell it? (are you even close...? I´m located in germany)

what hihatstand do you use, btw? mine is with legs, being always in the way...

cheers,
lutz

Murgen

Quote from: tower of p on October 28, 2012, 07:51:28 PM
hey murgan,

the idea with the extra tube for the bassdrum is very good. you write that you have a tube (big one) left? would you sell it? (are you even close...? I´m located in germany)

what hihatstand do you use, btw? mine is with legs, being always in the way...

cheers,
lutz

I live in the Netherlands. I can send it to you if you make up for the send-costs. The hihat standard is a Drumcraft  H8.0 without legs. Weird enough it is not showing on their website but it is for sale in any drumstore selling Drumcraft. Alternative is a Gibraltar without legs.
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2Box Drumit 5 Mk2 since 2012

tower of p

Quote from: Murgen on October 28, 2012, 08:00:35 PM
I live in the Netherlands. I can send it to you if you make up for the send-costs. The hihat standard is a Drumcraft  H8.0 without legs. Weird enough it is not showing on their website but it is for sale in any drumstore selling Drumcraft. Alternative is a Gibraltar without legs.

Thanks Murgan! I sent you a PM...

tower of p

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Hey fellow 2boxers,

thanks to Murgen, I have a modified rack now, too. I used 1 long tube from an MK-1-Rack (which I got from Murgen for very small money, thanks once more!!) and installed it between the other long tubes on the front of the rack, in order to fasten the top of my bassdrum-pad. 

I must say, it really makes my doublebass-playing feel much better and a lot more like I´m used to from my accoustic-kit. The bassdrum-pad can't swing backwards anymore when hit, as it did before.

To attach the additional tube to the rack I used 2 of these:
http://www.thomann.de/de/dixon_verbindungsstueck.htm
Those Dixon-clamps fit very well for our racktubes.

In addition, I installed one of these clamps:
http://www.thomann.de/de/dixon_rackklammer.htm
and parts of this cowbell-holder (the bar with that thing fixed to it, which fits exactly to grab the bd-pad-ring):
http://www.thomann.de/de/pearl_75h_bass_drum_cowbell_halter.htm
this fixes the upper side of the bd-pad to the tube.

All in all it´s just like Murgan installed his additional tube.

One problem I got was that there was a lot of crosstalking from the hihat when playing the bassdrum. I could extensively solve that by adjusting the hihat-option "crosstalk" in the brain to "high".

2 pictures (couldn´t figure out how to make them shown right here...sorry):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hu2aaiotjucwh46/20121116_154834.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fs5ks0xyjzhm48i/20121116_154908.jpg


Murgen

Yay! Nice! And you are right, the feel of the kick improves a lot!
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2Box Drumit 5 Mk2 since 2012


rythm

Sorry, forgot to ask about the clamp for the cowbell holder, could it be this:

http://www.thomann.de/se/gibraltar_sc_grsraa_ratchet_arm_clamp.htm

Murgen

Hi Rythm, I will check the items:

This is the right cowbell holder!
http://www.thomann.de/nl/pearl_75h_bass_drum_cowbell_halter.htm

Here is the multiclamp to hold the cowbell holder in place.
http://www.thomann.de/nl/gibraltar_gprmc_multi_rack_klammer.htm

This is the rackclamp to mount the extra tube to the rack (not 100% sure but as long as you can connect tubes it should work).
http://www.thomann.de/nl/gibraltar_grsra_rackrohr_klammer.htm

Better picture show it is the right clamp.



Good luck!
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2Box Drumit 5 Mk2 since 2012

edtc


roel

Some nice Idea's in this topic, I have also have enough tubes to make my rack more stable.
So soon i will post some pictures here about my MK3 Extreme Drumrack.

Murgen

I bought my clamps at my local drumshop and the cowbell mount was gathering dust. Not much choice there, anyway, any simular clamp will do and it works.
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2Box Drumit 5 Mk2 since 2012

rythm