There is nothing more frustrating for your fans – and potential new ones – than hearing out of control stage volume emanating from drummers and guitarists that totally screws up a mix, and vice versa with musicians on stage unable to hear each other. And what about your neighbors who don’t want to hear your band blaring until 10 p.m. at night? These are a few of the reasons why Gibraltar Hardware has created all new Drum and Amplifier Sound Shields.
Gibraltar Hardware knows full well that sound attenuation is deserving of as much consideration and respect as your string and stick selections. More and more guitarists are using sound shields – even Joe Walsh – to control volume, limit feedback, and increase micing quality to accentuate the natural sound of their amplifiers. Drummers have been driving sound shield innovation for many years.
With four panels, the 24-inch (#GAS-2X4) or 36-inch (#GAS-3X3) high by 6-foot-wide amp shields situated in front of guitar amps are hardly noticeable from the crowd. For drummers, the five 5-1/2-foot by 2-foot panels (#GDS-5) require no assembly and fit together with flexible hinges that run the length of the connection, making sound dampening, setup and tear down a breeze. Gibraltar Drum and Guitar shields also have two end panels that feature mouse holes at their bases, so it’s easy to run cables for mikes or e-drums through the shield.
These shields are rising in popularity not only at gigs where sound quality definitely needs to be controlled – like in many boomy church settings – but a growing number of clubs are demanding more control beyond the sound engineer’s capabilities as well – not to mention sound studios that don’t have the luxury of a separately enclosed drum kit space for recording. The beauty playing drums live with our drum shield is you can flip it around behind your kit to project your sound more, especially at outdoor venues where you might not be totally miced, or feedback problems are ever present.
Mic and feedback isolation are the key points of using the shields. It’s difficult to stop the drums from projecting out into the front vocal mics or feeding back from their own mics, unless you own top notch golden sound gear that can isolate all the instruments and uses proper limiting/gates to get desired results. The Gibraltar Drum and Guitar shields take the physical and monetary expense of that sound gear investment out of the equation and deliver both a better on-stage volume and fan listening experience.
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In this video we are starting with the basic rack structure for a two tiered keyboard set up and from there you can build custom keyboard stands to suit your style. With our hardware you can customize to fit any style or set up you’re looking for. The rack is very sturdy offering maximum stability while still being extremely light weight. It also makes those fast stage changes easier as it’s quick to set up and break down as it’s just three parts.
Plus there are many accessories you can use to add a laptop, a mic or another rack for additional keyboards.
With Gibraltar Hardware you can build custom and portable DJ racks to fit any set up. Here is the basic building block with a simple out of the box package from Gibraltar. From this starting point, if you can imagine it you can customize it and build your rack set up with style.
The drum set up photos include (in order) drummer Aquilles Preister from Brazil. The first Gibraltar rack created for the RCI Starfire Drum Kit 2009 and John Otto’s monster drum kit.
The music for the video is titled FTTKTBB and was created by LA based artist JLabs. This breakbeat track is 137 bpm and produced in Ableton Live.
JLabs has played several notable venues and festivals including: Vanguard, King King, PEX Summer Festival, Burning Man, Elysium Festival, Boogaloo Mountain Jam, Dialect Gallery at Lightning in A Bottle, Cinespace, Supperclub and Area 33.
Here is additional information for JLabs:
http://soundcloud.com/jlabs
http://facebook.com/jlabs
http://thegoodvibe.la
http://facebook.com/thegoodvibe
Here is the parts list for the basic DJ Rack.
Part # Description
1X GMPR GIB MULTI PURPOSE POWER RACK
3X SC-GEMC Electronic Mounting Arms w/ clamps pair
1X SC-EA100 Extension Arm
1X SC-GMBA Short Mic Boom Arm
1X GEMS-TTOP Top section of GEMS stand
This is part 2 demonstrating Gibraltar’s new rolling frame for Drum Corps. In this video we show how to set up a 1st tier and 2nd tier rack and how you can customize the design to fit your needs.
Gibraltar’s modular rack design works perfectly for Drum Corps multi-instrument stations giving unlimited mounting options.
A nine-inch regulation locking caster is mounted directly to the rack, making the entire station mobile. Rack stations break down small for storage, and with all Gibraltar mounting accessory options, your set-up can change as needed.
Gibraltar’s Brent Barnett, all 200 lbs, performs pull ups on a Gibraltar rack and tom mount to prove that using memory locks correctly will prevent your toms from slipping. Brent demo’s how to use memory locks, in this case a combo of slip on and hinged, to prevent any movement on the bar or the clamp.
Pretty much this ends the discussion on slippage… unless your toms are over 200 lbs!
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