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Rick and others- I've tried a few things with my acoustic setup that you might like to try: A really neat effect I first heard out of Stanton Moore (drummer for galactic, and solo artist (who uses a boomerang live by the way)) who got it from someone who I can't remember. Get a piece of plastic flexible tubing and fit it airtight into a drum. Then play the drum while blowing/sucking into the tube. You can get a really cool realtime pitch shift by altering the pressure in the drum. This seems to work best on my floor tom. One of these days I'm going to try rigging up a footpedal/piston arrangement to control the pressure in the drum. I have also heard Stanton playing with toilet brushes, which is a really cool effect that I haven't tried yet. Also I was experimenting with placing splash cymbals on my drums and playing them. If the drum is tuned just right for the cymbal, you can get some really cool sympathetic vibrations with incredible sustain. I've had the best luck putting the cymbal upside down and holding the center of it on the drum with one hand. Of course by pushing it down harder, you can change the pitch of the drum to match the cymbal. Play either the drum or the cymbal. Try a cross-stick rimshot on your floor tom. Now move the stick closer or futher from the rim to change the pitch of the rimshot. This is a neat one! I've also had luck doing this on some of my snares. If you tighten the heck out of the snares you can get a cool effect by engaging the snare lever just as you hit the drum. Kind of a pitch bend at the end of the hit as the snares engage the bottom head and bring its pitch up. You can get a buzzing sound out of your drum by loosely dangling one stick perpendicular to the head right in the center of the drum. then hit the drum. This one takes some practice... Also try rubber bouncy balls scraped on the heads of your drums. I once saw Tuttie Heath play with mallets with bouncy balls on the ends and he did this really cool scraping/bouncing sound on the toms which had a very wierd effect. I've never been able to replicate his sounds, but I've come up with some good ones. I'd love to hear about other effects from other people! bye- Jon _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com