Videoblog: Drum Shield
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3/16″ Clear Plexiglas
90 degree brackets: http://www.abctarget.com/product1~P~P174.htm
Total Cost: $240
3/16″ Clear Plexiglas
90 degree brackets: http://www.abctarget.com/product1~P~P174.htm
Total Cost: $240
And I have to give props to Chris Briley because he’s the one who handed it down to me.
Thanks for sharing this. Should have seen this before dropping several Benjamins on the ones we got. I’m going to love your videos…can learn so much easier when you can see what you are talking about. Appreicate the time and effort.
By the way, we may be adopting the digital grand in a shell soon. Thanks for the tip off to that as well.
where did you purchase your sheets of plexiglass?
Local plastics supplier. Check Google for your area or Yahoo Local looking for plastics/plexiglass. Much cheaper to find it locally because its not practical to ship a 7ft x 5ft package.
Man…I’d love to know where I could get that much plexiglass for $240. I got a quote from a local glass company for a 7×5′ front piece and 2 4×5′ side pieces and it was $470 plus tax (cut to those sizes).
Thanks for the video. I came across that blog post on the Northpoint tech site about this design and we’re contemplating it for our church
How is it dealing with the sound bouncing back off the plexi behind the kit? I see you’re not using any type of baffling in front – does it not seem to matter?
Believe it or not we took our drum shield down and it was the best decision we ever made. One of the issues that we found with the Venue is the preamps are so clean that we were getting all of the comb filtering and phase artifacts from the shield in our main mix (SM81′s on hat and ride, KM184′s for overheads). Couldn’t figure out what the problem was until we took the shield down.
Our drummer has to be much more disciplined, but it made him a better player too. I know that Stagl has a large enough stage to pull it off, and it looks like you do to Tim. Give it a try during rehearsal one day and see what you think.
Good thoughts. We certainly go back and forth on whether to use a shield or not. The biggest challenge that we have is 8 different drummers playing on our stage a month (each weekend or midweek has a different band) and needing a consistent mix at FOH for broadcast. No shield usually means putting less of the kit in the house, which translates to weak drums on the recordings. The only times we have significant artifacts in the mix that I would blame in part on the shield are when we put a large screen directly behind the kit. As long as we don’t do that, you’re right that the stage is big enough to not do too much damage.
The dreaded stage wide hard surface back drop during set change week. Believe me, I feel your pain (or headache, take your pick). We only have 2 drummers and we had the long talk of “If you DON’T control yourself, the shield WILL go back up!” They don’t like the shield so everything has worked out so far.